NYT - Hardcover Nonfiction | Prescott Public Library

1) The situation room: the inside story of presidents in crisis

Author

Stephanopoulos, George

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#1 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-06-02. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years host of This Week and Good Morning America, recounts never-before-told crises that decided the course of history, from the place 12 presidents made their highest-pressure decisions: the White House Situation Room. No room better defines American power and its role in the world than the White House Situation Room. And yet, none is more shrouded in secrecy...

2) The demon of unrest: a saga of hubris, heartbreak, and heroism at the dawn of the Civil War

Author

Larson, Erik

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#2 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-06-02. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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"On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter. ...[An] account of the chaotic...

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

Author

Haidt, Jonathan

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#3 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-06-02. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 8 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...

4) You never know: a memoir

Author

Selleck, Tom

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#4 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-06-02. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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An American icon and famed actor brings us on his uncharted but serendipitous journey to the top in Hollywood, clearing up misconceptions; sharing dozens of never-before-told stories from both his personal and professional lives; and offering a truly fresh perspective on a changing industry and a changing world.

5) Rebel girl: my life as a feminist punk

Author

Hanna, Kathleen

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#5 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-06-02. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre. Hey girlfriend I got a proposition, goes something like this: Dare ya to do what you want. Kathleen Hanna's rallying cry to feminists echoed far and wide through the punk scene of the '90s and beyond. Her band Bikini Kill embodies this iconic time, and today her personal yet feminist lyrics on anthems like "Rebel Girl" and "Double Dare Ya"...

6) An unfinished love story: a personal history of the 1960s

Author

Goodwin, Doris Kearns

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#6 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-06-02. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 5 week(s).

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian reflects on her 42-year marriage with Dick Goodwin, one the shining stars of John F. Kennedy's New Frontier and the journey of going through the letters, diaries, documents and memorabilia he saved over the years.

7) The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation

Author

Hanson, Victor Davis

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#7 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-06-02. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

8) Down with the system: a memoir (of sorts)

Author

Tankian, Serj

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#8 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-06-02. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"An exhilarating, thoughtful, and beautifully written memoir by musician, songwriter, and lead singer-lyricist of Grammy award-winning metal band, System Of A Down, Serj Tankian"--

9) I'm glad my mom died

Author

McCurdy, Jennette

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#9 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-06-02. Last week it was ranked 14. It has been on the list for 84 week(s).

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"Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother's dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called "calorie restriction," eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, "Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn't tint hers?"...

10) Outlive: the science & art of longevity

Author

Attia, Peter

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#11 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-06-02. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 60 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,...

11) Fire in the Hole!: The Untold Story of My Traumatic Life and Explosive Success

Author

Parsons, Bob/ Morton, Laura (CON)

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#12 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-06-02. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

12) Challenger: a true story of heroism and disaster on the edge of space

Author

Higginbotham, Adam

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#14 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-06-02. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on fascinating new archival research and in-depth reporting-a riveting history that reads like a thriller"--

13) Quanta and fields: the biggest ideas in the universe

Author

Carroll, Sean M

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#15 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-06-02. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"In the second book of this already internationally acclaimed series, Sean Carroll, the most trusted explainer of the most mind-boggling concepts, digs deep into matter itself. What is the universe made of? In his quest to redefine the "popular" treatment of the biggest ideas in the universe, Sean Carroll is creating a profoundly new approach to physics and math as reviewer after reviewer has attested. Adventuring in the math of fields, he now intrepidly...