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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 2025-05-25. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 342 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. 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...

2) Prequel: an American fight against Fascism

Author

Maddow, Rachel

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#2 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-05-25. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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Inspired by her research for the hit podcast Ultra, Rachel Maddow charts the rise of a wild American strain of authoritarianism that has been alive on the far-right edge of our politics for the better part of a century. Before and even after our troops had begun fighting abroad in World War II, a clandestine network flooded the country with disinformation aimed at sapping the strength of the U.S. war effort and persuading Americans that our natural...

3) On tyranny: twenty lessons from the twentieth century

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Snyder, Timothy

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#3 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-05-25. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 121 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 backyard bird chronicles

Author

Tan, Amy

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#4 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-05-25. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 49 week(s).

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"In 2016, author Amy Tan grew overwhelmed by the state of the world: Hatred and misinformation became a daily presence on social media, and the country felt more divisive than ever. In search of peace, Tan turned toward the natural world just beyond her window and, specifically, the birds flocking to the feeders in her yard. But what began as an attempt to find solace turned into something far greater--an opportunity to savor quiet moments during...

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 2025-05-25. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 265 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 Wager: a tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder

Author

Grann, David

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#6 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-05-25. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 11 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) The British are coming: the war for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777

Author

Atkinson, Rick

Series

Revolution trilogy volume 1

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#7 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-05-25. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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"Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other masterly books about World War II, has long been admired for his unparalleled ability to write deeply researched, stunningly vivid narrative history. Now he turns his attention to a new war, and in the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy he tells the story of the first twenty months of the bloody struggle to shake free of King George's shackles. From the battles...

8) Signs: the secret language of the universe

Author

Jackson, Laura Lynne

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#8 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-05-25. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 7 week(s).

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"Laura Lynne Jackson is a psychic medium and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Light Between Us. She possesses an incredible gift--the ability to communicate with loved ones who have passed, convey messages of love and healing, and impart a greater understanding of our interconnectedness. Though her abilities are exceptional, they are not unique, and that is the message at the core of this book. Understanding "the secret language of...

9) Greenlights

Author

McConaughey, Matthew

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#9 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-05-25. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 26 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.

10) Eve: how the female body drove 200 million years of human evolution

Author

Bohannon, Cat

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#10 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-05-25. Last week it was ranked 14. It has been on the list for 10 week(s).

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"In Eve, Cat Bohannon answers questions scientists should have been addressing for decades. With boundless curiosity and sharp wit, Bohannon covers the past 200 million years to explain the specific science behind the development of the female sex. Eve isnot just a sweeping revision of human history, it's an urgent and necessary corrective for a world that has focused primarily on the male body for far too long. Bohannon's findings, including everything...

11) The art thief: a true story of love, crime, and a dangerous obsession

Author

Finkel, Michael

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#12 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-05-25. Last week it was ranked 12. It has been on the list for 43 week(s).

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"For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Staephane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly ten years-in museums and cathedrals all over Europe-Breitwieser, along with his girlfriend who worked as his lookout, stole more than three hundred objects, until it all fell apart in spectacular fashion. In The Art Thief,...

12) Sociopath: a memoir

Author

Gagne, Patric

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#13 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-05-25. Last week it was ranked 13. It has been on the list for 5 week(s).

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"Patric Gagne realized she made others uncomfortable before she started kindergarten. Something about her caused people to react in a way she didn't understand. She suspected it was because she didn't feel things the way other kids did. Emotions like fear, guilt, and empathy eluded her. For the most part, she felt nothing. And she didn't like the way that "nothing" felt. She did her best to pretend she was like everyone else, but the constant pressure...

13) Four red sweaters: powerful true stories of women and the Holocaust

Author

Adlington, Lucy

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#14 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-05-25. Last week it was ranked 15. It has been on the list for 8 week(s).

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"The New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz tells the stories of four Jewish girls during the Holocaust, strangers whose lives were unknowingly linked by everyday garments, revealing how the ordinary can connect us in extraordinary ways. Jock Heidenstein, Anita Lasker, Chana Zumerkorn, and Regina Feldman all faced the Holocaust in different ways. While they did not know each other-in fact had never met-each had a red sweater...