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1) Braiding sweetgrass for young adults: indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants

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Kimmerer, Robin Wall

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#6 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-05-26. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 213 week(s).

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As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowing together to reveal what...

2) Think again: the power of knowing what you don't know

Author

Grant, Adam M

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#7 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-05-26. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 20 week(s).

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"The bestselling author of Give and Take and Originals examines the critical art of rethinking: learning to question your beliefs and to know what you don't know, which can position you for success at work and happiness at home. The difficulty of rethinking our assumptions is surprisingly common--maybe even fundamentally human. Our ways of thinking become habits that we don't bother to question, and mental laziness leads us to prefer the ease of old...

3) Crying in H Mart: a memoir

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Zauner, Michelle

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#8 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-05-26. It has been on the list for 51 week(s).

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Zauner, of indie band Japanese Breakfast, presents a memoir about growing up Korean-American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. She tells of growing up the only Asian-American kid at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother's high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother's tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond over heaping plates of food. As...

4) Poverty, by America

Author

Desmond, Matthew

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#9 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-05-26. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 7 week(s).

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Oprah Daily, Time, The Star Tribune, Vulture, The Christian Science Monitor,...

5) Thinking, Fast and Slow

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Kahneman, Daniel

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#10 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-05-26. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 404 week(s).

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The guru to the gurus at last shares his knowledge with the rest of us. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman's seminal studies in behavioral psychology, behavioral economics, and happiness studies have influenced numerous other authors, including Steven Pinker and Malcolm Gladwell. In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman at last offers his own, first book for the general public. It is a lucid and enlightening summary of his life's work. It will change...

6) Talking to strangers: what we should know about the people we don't know

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Gladwell, Malcolm

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#12 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-05-26. Last week it was ranked 14. It has been on the list for 112 week(s).

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"M alcolm 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 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 each other that...

7) The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

Author

Grohl, Dave

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#15 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-05-26. It has been on the list for 24 week(s).

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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 a piece of cake! Just do four hours of interviews, find someone else to write it, put your face on the cover, and voila!")

...

8) The backyard bird chronicles

Author

Tan, Amy

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#2 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-05-26. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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"In 2016, author Amy Tan grew overwhelmed by the state of the world: Hatred and misinformation became a daily presence on social media, and the country felt more divisive than ever. In search of peace, Tan turned toward the natural world just beyond her window and, specifically, the birds flocking to the feeders in her yard. But what began as an attempt to find solace turned into something far greater--an opportunity to savor quiet moments during...

9) The light we carry: overcoming in uncertain times

Author

Obama, Michelle

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#3 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-05-26. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 4 week(s).

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"Michelle Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress. Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter, spouse, friend, and First Lady, she shares the habits and principles she has developed to successfully...

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

Author

Grann, David

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#4 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-05-26. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 167 week(s).

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"From New Yorker staff writer David Grann, #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Lost City of Z, a twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history 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...