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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

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 - Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

David Grann - Doubleday

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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3 - The Backyard Bird Chronicles

Amy Tan - Knopf

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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4 - Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

Robin Wall Kimmerer - Milkweed Editions

Called the work of "a mesmerizing storyteller with deep compassion and memorable prose" (Publishers Weekly) and the book that, "anyone interested in natural history, botany, protecting nature, or Native American culture will love," by Library Journal, Braiding Sweetgrass...
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5 - The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

Daniel James Brown - Penguin Audio

The #1 New York Times-bestselling story about American Olympic triumph in Nazi Germany and now the inspiration for the forthcoming PBS documentary "Boys of '36"For readers of Unbroken, out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating...
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6 - Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir

Dolly Alderton - Harper Perennial

"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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7 - The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

Michelle Obama - Crown

#1 NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER * In an inspiring follow-up to her acclaimed memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today's highly uncertain world. There may be no tidy solutions...
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8 - College Girl, Missing: The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight

Shawn Cohen - Sourcebooks

"This book is the heartbreaking story that every parent dreads ... Cohen sheds light on what really happened the night Lauren was never seen again." -- David Crow, author of The Pale-Faced LieShe visited friends. She walked to a bar. She was right there... until she was gone.College...
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9 - Educated: A Memoir

Tara Westover - Random House

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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10 - Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

Adam Grant - Viking

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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11 - Born a Crime

Trevor Noah

#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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12 - The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 19172017

Rashid Khalidi - Picador; Reprint edition

In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would not easily accept their own displacement. He warned of the perils ahead,...
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13 - Outliers: The Story of Success

Malcolm Gladwell - Back Bay Books

In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention...
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14 - The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

Erik Larson - Vintage

Erik Larson - author of #1 bestseller In the Garden of Beasts - intertwines the true tale of the 1893 World's Fair and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their death. Combining meticulous research with nail-biting storytelling, Erik Larson has crafted a narrative...
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15 - The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

Erik Larson - Crown

On Winston Churchills first day as prime minister, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons....
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