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1 - The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel A Van der Kolk - Viking
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A pioneering researcher and one of the world's foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for healing 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;... |
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2 - On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
TIMOTHY SNYDER - Tim Duggan Books
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#1 New York Times BestsellerThe Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy... |
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4 - The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
Rick Atkinson - Henry Holt and Co.
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From the bestselling author of the Liberation Trilogy comes the extraordinary first volume of his new trilogy about the American RevolutionRick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other superb books about World War II, has long been admired for his deeply... |
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5 - The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann - Doubleday
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. With the twists and turns of a thriller Grann unearths the deeper meaning of the events on the Wager,... |
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6 - Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover - Random House
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Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Taras older... |
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8 - Born a Crime
Trevor Noah
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than one million copies sold! A “brilliant” (Lupita Nyong’o, Time), “poignant” (Entertainment Weekly), “soul-nourishing” (USA Today) memoir about coming of age during the twilight of apartheid “Noah’s... |
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9 - Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman; Amazon.com - Farrar
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In the international bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional;... |
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10 - The Glass Castle: A Memoir
Jeannette Walls - Scribner
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Now a major motion picture from Lionsgate starring Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts. MORE THAN SEVEN YEARS ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST The perennially bestselling, extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, "nothing short of spectacular" (Entertainment Weekly)... |
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11 - The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan - Knopf
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A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight, written and illustrated by the best-selling author of The Joy Luck Club * With a foreword by David Allen Sibley. "Unexpected and spectacular" - Ann Patchett, best-selling author... |
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12 - Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Angela Duckworth - Simon & Schuster
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In this must-read book for anyone striving to succeed, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth shows parents, educators, students, and business people - both seasoned and new - that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a focused persistence called "grit."Why... |
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13 - Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe
Laura Lynne Jackson - Spiegel & Grau
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A renowned psychic medium teaches us how to recognize and interpret the life-changing messages from loved ones and spirit guides on the Other Side. Laura Lynne Jackson is a psychic medium and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Light Between Us. She possesses an incredible... |
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14 - Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey - Crown
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I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud.... |
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