NYT - Paperback Nonfiction | Uintah County Library

1) 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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#1 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 287 week(s).

2) Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

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Grann, David

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#2 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 164 week(s).

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Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.

3) The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

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Obama, Michelle

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#3 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER • In an inspiring follow-up to her acclaimed memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today’s highly uncertain world.

There may be no tidy solutions or pithy answers to life’s big challenges, but Michelle Obama believes that we can all...

4) Think again: the power of knowing what you don't know

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Grant, Adam

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#4 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 17 week(s).

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"The bestselling author of Give and Take and Originals examines the critical art of rethinking: learning to question your beliefs and to know what you don't know, which can position you for success at work and happiness at home. The difficulty of rethinking our assumptions is surprisingly common--maybe even fundamentally human. Our ways of thinking become habits that we don't bother to question, and mental laziness leads us to prefer the ease of old...

5) Thinking, fast and slow

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Kahneman, Daniel

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#5 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 401 week(s).

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In this work the author, a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his seminal work in psychology that challenged the rational model of judgment and decision making, has brought together his many years of research and thinking in one book. He explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. He exposes the extraordinary capabilities,...

6) Braiding sweetgrass: indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants

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Kimmerer, Robin Wall,author

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#6 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 210 week(s).

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"An inspired weaving of indigenous knowledge, plant science, and personal narrative from a distinguished professor of science and a Native American whose previous book, Gathering Moss, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders,...

7) The boys in the boat: nine Americans and their epic quest for gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

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Brown, Daniel

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#7 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 163 week(s).

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Traces the story of an American rowing team from the University of Washington that defeated elite rivals at Hitler's 1936 Berlin Olympics, sharing the experiences of their enigmatic coach, a visionary boat builder, and a homeless teen rower.

8) Poverty, by America

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Desmond, Matthew

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#8 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 4 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) All about love: new visions

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Hooks, Bell

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#13 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. Last week it was ranked 11. It has been on the list for 124 week(s).

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Presenting radical new ways to think about love, the author examines the role of love in our personal and professional lives and how it can be used to end struggles between individuals, communities, and societies.

10) The hundred years' war on Palestine: a history of settler colonialism and resistance, 1917-2017

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Khalidi, Rashid

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#14 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. Last week it was ranked 13. It has been on the list for 29 week(s).

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"A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would not easily accept their own displacement. He warned of the...

11) Talking to strangers: what we should know about the people we don't know

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Gladwell, Malcolm

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#15 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. It has been on the list for 109 week(s).

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Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers and why they often go wrong—now with a new afterword by the author.
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