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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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3 - Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann - Doubleday
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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... |
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6 - 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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7 - Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
Dolly Alderton - Harper Perennial
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"There is no writer quite like Dolly Alderton working today and very soon the world will know it." - Lisa Taddeo, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Three Women"Dolly Alderton has always been a sparkling Roman candle of talent. She is funny, smart, and explosively engaged... |
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8 - Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
Adam Grant - Viking
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Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn, but in a rapidly changing world, there's another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn. In our daily lives, too many of us favor the comfort of conviction over the discomfort... |
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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 - Poverty, by America
Matthew Desmond - Crown
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced... |
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12 - 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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14 - Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
Malcolm Gladwell - Little, Brown and Company
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Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers--and why they often go wrong.How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville... |
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15 - All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks - Perennial
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"The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet...we would all love to 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 provacative and intensely personel, the renowned scholar, cultural... |
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