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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 - 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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4 - 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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6 - The Trump Indictments: The Historic Charging Documents with Commentary
Melissa Murray - W. W. Norton & Company
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Timed to the start of the first trial in March 2024, this essential volume collects the four unprecedented indictments against Donald Trump and features extensive commentary by NYU law professors and MSNBC contributors Melissa Murray and Andrew Weissmann.In the long span of American history,... |
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8 - American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Kai Bird - Vintage Books; Reprint edition
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J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this magisterial, acclaimed... |
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9 - 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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10 - 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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12 - The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
Dave Grohl - Dey Street Books
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So, I've written a book. Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities ("It's a piece of cake! Just do 4 hours of interviews, find someone else to write it, put your face on the cover, and voila!") I have decided to write these... |
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13 - Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner - Knopf
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In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with... |
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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 - Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era
Laurence Leamer - Penguin Publishing Group
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DON'T MISS FX's FEUD: CAPOTE VS. THE SWANS - THE ORIGINAL SERIES BASED ON THE BESTSELLING BOOK - NOW AVAILABLE TO STREAM ON HULU!. New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex web of relationships and scandalous true stories behind Truman Capote's never-published... |
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