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2 - The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk MD - Viking
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A pioneering researcher transforms our understanding of trauma and 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; one in three... |
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4 - The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
Dave Grohl - HarperAudio
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Read by Dave Grohl. Features excerpts from five never before heard demos performed by Dave Grohl and an original story exclusive to The Storyteller audiobook.So, I've written a book.Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities ("It's... |
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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 - 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 - 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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10 - The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present
Paul McCartney - Liveright
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Washington Post Notable Book Excerpted in The New Yorker A work of unparalleled candor and splendorous beauty, The Lyrics celebrates the creative life and the musical genius of Paul McCartney through his most meaningful songs. Finally in paperback and featuring... |
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11 - The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
Stacy Schiff - Back Bay Books
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This "glorious" revelatory biography from a Pulitzer Prize winner is about the most essential Founding Father (Ron Chernow) - the one who stood behind the change in thinking that produced the American Revolution. Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution,... |
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13 - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari - Harper
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100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations... |
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14 - Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner - Vintage
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NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * From the indie rock sensation known as Japanese Breakfast, an unforgettable memoir about family, food, grief, love, and growing up Korean American - "in losing her mother and cooking to bring her back to life, Zauner became herself" (NPR) * CELEBRATING... |
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15 - Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
Malcolm Gladwell - Back Bay Books
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- How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn't true? Talking to Strangers is a classically... |
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