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1) The house of my mother: a daughter's quest for freedom

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#1 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-03-23. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 8 week(s).

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"Shari Franke's childhood was a constant battle for survival. Her mother, Ruby Franke, enforced a severe moral code while maintaining a façade of a picture-perfect family for their wildly popular YouTube channel 8 Passengers, which documented the day-to-day life of raising six children for a staggering 2.5 million subscribers. But a darker truth lurked beneath the surface--Ruby's wholesome online persona masked a more tyrannical parenting style than...

2) The tears of things: prophetic wisdom for an age of outrage

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Rohr, Richard

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#2 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-03-23. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"How do we live compassionately in a time of violence and despair? What can we do with our private disappointments and the anger we feel over an unjust world? In his most personal book yet, Richard Rohr turns to the writings of the Jewish prophets, showing how some of the lesser-read books of the Bible offer us a path forward today. The prophets' writings echo the spectrum of human development. Beneath their initial fervor and their forceful words,...

3) On tyranny: twenty lessons from the twentieth century

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Snyder, Timothy

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#3 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-03-23. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 41 week(s).

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In previous books, Holocaust historian Timothy Snyder dissected the events and values that enabled the rise of Hitler and Stalin and the execution of their catastrophic policies. With Twenty Lessons, Snyder draws from the darkest hours of the twentieth century to provide hope for the twenty-first. As he writes, "Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism and communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn...

4) The body keeps the score: brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma

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Van der Kolk, Bessel A

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#4 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-03-23. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 233 week(s).

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An expert on traumatic stress outlines an approach to healing, explaining how traumatic stress affects brain processes and how to use innovative treatments to reactivate the mind's abilities to trust, engage others, and experience pleasure. --Publisher's description.

5) The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness

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Haidt, Jonathan

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#5 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-03-23. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 50 week(s).

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"After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children...

6) The Wager: a tale of shipwreck, mutiny, and murder

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Grann, David

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#6 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-03-23. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 68 week(s).

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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z, a mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's...

7) I'll have what she's having

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Handler, Chelsea

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#7 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-03-23. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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"At ten years old, Chelsea opened a lemonade stand and realized she'd make more money if the drinks were spiked. So she added vodka to her recipe and used her earnings to upgrade herself to first-class on a family vacation-leaving her parents and siblings in coach. At nineteen, she moved to Los Angeles and got fired from her temp job when she admitted she didn't know how to transfer calls. She played pickleball with the scions of an American dynasty....

8) Poverty, by America

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Desmond, Matthew

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#8 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-03-23. It has been on the list for 7 week(s).

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"The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and...

9) The technological republic: hard power, soft belief, and the future of the West

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Karp, Alexander C

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#9 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-03-23. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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"A sweeping indictment of Silicon Valley, showing how the West has slid into a culture of complacency, even as we enter a new era of mounting global threats"-- Provided by publisher.

10) The last manager: how Earl Weaver tricked, tormented, and reinvented baseball

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Miller, John W

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#10 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-03-23. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"The first major biography of legendary Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver, The Last Manager is a wild, thrilling, and hilarious ride with baseball's most underappreciated genius, and one of its greatest characters"-- Provided by publisher. The first major biography of legendary Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver--who has been described as "the Copernicus of baseball" and "the grandfather of the modern game"-- The Last Manager is a wild, thrilling,...

11) The Art of the Snl Portrait

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Matthews, Mary Ellen

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#11 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-03-23. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

12) Hillbilly elegy: a memoir of a family and culture in crisis

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Vance, J. D

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#12 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-03-23. Last week it was ranked 12. It has been on the list for 117 week(s).

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"Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis--that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J.D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you...

13) Say Everything: A Memoir

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Skye, Ione

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#13 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-03-23. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

14) Greenlights

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McConaughey, Matthew

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#14 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-03-23. It has been on the list for 84 week(s).

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"Drawing on the Academy Award-winning actor's journals and diaries from the last 40 years, this book presents a uniquely McConaughey approach to achieving success and satisfaction"-- Provided by publisher. "I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five." McConaughey sat down with those diaries. He found lessons he learned and forgot,...

15) Outlive: the science & art of longevity

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Attia, Peter

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#15 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-03-23. Last week it was ranked 13. It has been on the list for 87 week(s).

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"Wouldn't you like to live longer? And better? In this operating manual for longevity, Dr. Peter Attia draws on the latest science to deliver innovative nutritional interventions, techniques for optimizing exercise and sleep, and tools for addressing emotional and mental health. For all its successes, mainstream medicine has failed to make much progress against the diseases of aging that kill most people: heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease,...