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1) The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness

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#1 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-04-21. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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"From New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Coddling of the American Mind, an essential investigation into the collapse of youth mental health--and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood. After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social...

2) Age of revolutions: progress and backlash from 1600 to the present

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Zakaria, Fareed

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#2 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-04-21. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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Populist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, war, and an international system studded with catastrophic risk--the early decades of the twenty-first century may be the most revolutionary period in modern history. But it is not the first. Humans have lived, and thrived, through more than one great realignment. What are these revolutions, and how can they help us to understand our fraught world? In this major work, Fareed Zakaria...

3) The Wager: a tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder

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Grann, David

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#3 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-04-21. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 50 week(s).

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"On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as "the prize of all...

4) Never leave the dogs behind: a memoir

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Madia, Brianna

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#5 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-04-21. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"In her debut memoir, Nowhere for Very Long, Brianna Madia reflected on her life as a nomad, free to roam some of the most beautiful land in America. Now, in Never Leave the Dogs Behind, the van life adherent faces the unfathomable darkness that comes from a life blown apart, her only solace the support of her dogs"--

5) I'm glad my mom died

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McCurdy, Jennette

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#6 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-04-21. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 78 week(s).

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"Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother’s dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called 'calorie restriction,' eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, 'Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn’t tint hers?'...

6) Outlive: the science & art of longevity

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Attia, Peter

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#7 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-04-21. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 54 week(s).

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Wouldn't you like to live longer? And better? In this operating manual for longevity, Dr. Peter Attia draws on the latest science to deliver innovative nutritional interventions, techniques for optimizing exercise and sleep, and tools for addressing emotional and mental health.

7) Nuclear war: a scenario

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Jacobsen, Annie

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#10 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-04-21. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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"Every generation, a journalist has looked deep into the heart of the nuclear military establishment: the technologies, the safeguards, the plans, and the risks. These projects are vital to how we understand the world we really live in: where one nuclear missile begets one in return; where the choreography of the world's end requires massive decisions made on seconds-notice, with information that is only as good as the intelligence we have. Annie...

8) Sociopath: a memoir

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Gagne, Patric

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#11 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-04-21. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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With emotions like fear, guilt and empathy eluding her, the author, trying to replace the nothingness with something, realizes, after connecting with an old flame, if she's capable of love, it must mean she isn't a monster and sets out to prove the millions of Americans who share her diagnosis aren't all monsters either.

9) Rebel Rising: a memoir

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Wilson, Rebel

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#12 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-04-21. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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For decades, Rebel Wilson had single-mindedly focused on her career, making a name for herself through her iconic roles in Pitch Perfect, Bridesmaids, and Isn't It Romantic. Now, she's ready to chronicle the emotional and physical lessons she learned, as well as her most embarrassing experiences. A malaria-induced hallucination? An all-style martial arts fighting tournament? Junior handling at dog shows? And this was all BEFORE she moved to Hollywood!...

10) Oath and honor: a memoir and a warning

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Cheney, Liz

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#15 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-04-21. It has been on the list for 17 week(s).

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The House Republican leader who dared to take a stand against the January 6th insurrection, which she witnessed first-hand, and then helped lead the ensuing investigation, tells the story of this perilous moment in our history, the betrayal of the American people and the Constitution and the risks we still face.