NYT - Hardcover Nonfiction | Goleta & Santa Ynez Valley Libraries

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

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#1 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. It has been on the list for 1 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.

2) 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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#2 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 4 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, with rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rising sharply. The author lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time, and then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults....

3) Knife: meditations after an attempted murder

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Rushdie, Salman

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

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"Speaking out for the first time...about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie answers violence with art, and reminds us of the power of words to make sense of the unthinkable. Knife is a...meditation on life, loss, love, art—and finding the strength to stand up again."--publisher's website

4) Somehow: thoughts on love

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Lamott, Anne

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#5 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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""Love is our only hope," Anne Lamott writes in this perceptive new book. "It is not always the easiest choice, but it is always the right one, the noble path, the way home to safety, no matter how bleak the future looks." In Somehow: Thoughts on Love, Lamott explores the transformative power that love has in our lives: how it surprises us, forces us to confront uncomfortable truths, reminds us of our humanity, and guides us forward. "Love just won't...

5) The wide wide sea: imperial ambition, first contact and the fateful final voyage of Captain James Cook

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Sides, Hampton

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#6 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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Part high-seas adventure, part examination of the Age of Exploration, this account of Captain James Cook's last voyage in 1776 charts how his overt and covert missions came to a head on the island of Hawaii and left behind a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day.

6) I'm glad my mom died

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McCurdy, Jennette

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#9 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 80 week(s).

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A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor--including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother--and how she retook control of her life.

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

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Grann, David

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#10 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 52 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...

8) Outlive: the science & art of longevity

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Attia, Peter

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#11 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 56 week(s).

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Drawing on the latest science and challenging mainstream medicine, a visionary physician and leading longevity expert presents a well-founded strategic and tactical approach to extending lifespan while also improving physical, cognitive, and emotional health.

9) Age of revolutions: progress and backlash from 1600 to the present

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Zakaria, Fareed

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

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Populist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, war, and an international system studded with catastrophic risk—the early decades of the twenty-first century may be the most revolutionary period in modern history. But it is not the first. Humans have lived, and thrived, through more than one great realignment. What are these revolutions, and how can they help us to understand our fraught world? In this major work, Fareed...

10) There's always this year: on basketball and ascension

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Abdurraqib, Hanif

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#13 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. Last week it was ranked 13. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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"While Hanif Abdurraqib is an acclaimed author, a gifted poet, and one of our culture's most insightful music critics, he is most of all, at heart, an Ohioan. Growing up in Columbus in the '90s, Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball, one in which legends like LeBron were forged, and countless others weren't. His lifelong love of the game leads Abdurraqib into a lyrical, historical, and emotionally rich exploration of what it means to make...

11) Nuclear war: a scenario

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Jacobsen, Annie

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

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"Every generation, a journalist has looked deep into the heart of the nuclear military establishment: the technologies, the safeguards, the plans, and the risks. These projects are vital to how we understand the world we really live in: where one nuclear missile begets one in return; where the choreography of the world's end requires massive decisions made on seconds-notice, with information that is only as good as the intelligence we have. Annie...