NYT - Paperback Nonfiction | Flagstaff Public Library

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

Author

Van der Kolk, Bessel A

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#1 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2023-06-04. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 239 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-- Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged...

2) Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI

Author

Grann, David

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#2 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2023-06-04. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 116 week(s).

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In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. Her relatives were shot and poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more...

3) Quietly hostile: essays

Author

Irby, Samantha

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#3 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2023-06-04. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"Beloved writer Samantha Irby has returned to the printed page for her much-anticipated, sidesplitting fourth book following her 2020 breakout, Wow, no thank you, a Vintage Books Original. The success of Irby's career has taken her to new heights. She fields calls with job offers from Hollywood and walks the red carpet with the iconic ladies of Sex and the City. Finally, she has made it. But, behind all that new-found glam, Irby is just trying to...

4) Crying in H Mart: a memoir

Author

Zauner, Michelle

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#4 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2023-06-04. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 8 week(s).

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"From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean-American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up the...

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

Author

Kimmerer, Robin Wall

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#5 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2023-06-04. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 162 week(s).

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"As a leading researcher in the field of biology, Robin Wall Kimmerer understands the delicate state of our world. But as an active member of the Potawatomi nation, she senses and relates to the world through a way of knowing far older than any science. In Braiding Sweetgrass, she intertwines these two modes of awareness--the analytic and the emotional, the scientific and the cultural--to ultimately reveal a path toward healing the rift that grows...

6) The escape artist: the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world

Author

Freedland, Jonathan

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#6 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2023-06-04. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 4 week(s).

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"In April 1944, Rudolf Vrba became the first Jew to break out of Auschwitz--one of only four who ever pulled off that near-impossible feat. He did it to reveal the truth of the death camp to the world--and to warn the last Jews of Europe what fate awaited them at the end of the railway line. Against all odds, he and his fellow escapee, Fred Wetzler, climbed mountains, crossed rivers and narrowly missed German bullets until they had smuggled out the...

7) All about love: new visions

Author

hooks, bell

Series

Bell Hooks Love Trilogy

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#7 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2023-06-04. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 76 week(s).

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The acclaimed first volume in bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation." "The word 'love' is most often defined as a noun, yet . . . we would all love better if we used it as a verb," writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, bell hooks (renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist) skewers our view of love as romance. In its place she offers a proactive new ethic...

8) Finding me

Author

Davis, Viola

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#8 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2023-06-04. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 7 week(s).

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"In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life changing decision to stop running forever. This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New York City, and beyond. This is the path I took to finding my purpose and my strength, but also to finding my voice in a world that didn't always see me. As I wrote Finding Me, my eyes were open to the truth of how...

9) Empire of the summer moon: Quanah Parker and the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history

Author

Gwynne, S. C

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#9 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2023-06-04. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 65 week(s).

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Describes the actions of both whites and Comanches during a 40-year war over territory, in a story that begins with the kidnapping of a white girl, who grew up to marry a Comanche chief and have a son, Quanah, who became a great warrior.

10) Born a crime: stories from a South African childhood

Author

Noah, Trevor

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#10 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2023-06-04. It has been on the list for 190 week(s).

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"The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed"--Amazon.com.

11) Thinking, fast and slow

Author

Kahneman, Daniel

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#11 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2023-06-04. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 363 week(s).

12) The glass castle: a memoir

Author

Walls, Jeannette

Series

Scribner classics

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#12 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2023-06-04. Last week it was ranked 11. It has been on the list for 469 week(s).

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The author recalls her life growing up in a dysfunctional family with an alcoholic father and distant mother, and describes how she and her siblings had to fend for themselves until they finally found the resources and will to leave home.

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

Author

Gladwell, Malcolm

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#13 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2023-06-04. Last week it was ranked 13. It has been on the list for 86 week(s).

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"How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to each other that isn't true? Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits...

14) Educated: a memoir

Author

Westover, Tara

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#14 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2023-06-04. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 50 week(s).

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"Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure...

15) Grit: the power of passion and perseverance

Author

Duckworth, Angela

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#15 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2023-06-04. Last week it was ranked 12. It has been on the list for 148 week(s).

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"In this must-read book for anyone striving to succeed, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth shows parents, educators, athletes, students, and business people--both seasoned and new--that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a focused persistence called "grit." Why do some people succeed and others fail? Sharing new insights from her landmark research on grit, MacArthur "genius" Angela Duckworth explains why talent is hardly...