NYT - Hardcover Nonfiction | County of San Luis Obispo Public Libraries

1) The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

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Larson, Erik

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#1 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-05-26. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this “riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult” (Los Angeles Times).

“Perhaps no other historian has ever rendered the struggle for Sumter in such authoritative detail as Larson does here.”—The...

2) The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation

Author

Hanson, Victor Davis

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#4 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-05-26. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

3) An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

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Goodwin, Doris Kearns

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#8 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-05-26. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 4 week(s).

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#1 New York Times Bestseller
The perfect gift for Mother's Day and Father's Day!

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America's most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history. She takes you along on the emotional journey she and her husband, Richard (Dick) Goodwin embarked upon in the last years of his life.
Dick...

4) Outlive: the science & art of longevity

Author

Attia, Peter

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#10 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-05-26. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 59 week(s).

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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. For all its successes, mainstream medicine has failed to make much progress against the diseases of aging that kill most people: heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and type 2 diabetes. Too often, it intervenes...

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

Author

Grann, David

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#11 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-05-26. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 55 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...

6) For Love of Country: Leave the Democratic Party Behind

Author

Gabbard, Tulsi

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

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Tulsi Gabbard was the rising star of the Democratic Party. But the growing wokeness, racism, and intolerance were more than she could stomach, and she left. This is her story. Today's Democratic Party is controlled by an elitist cabal of warmongers driven crazy by woke ideology and anti-white animus. They are a clear and present threat to the God-given freedoms enshrined in the Constitution. A soldier, former member of Congress, and a presidential...

7) The light eaters: how the unseen world of plant intelligence offers a new understanding of life on Earth

Author

Schlanger, Zo�e

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#13 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-05-26. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"A book exploring the emerging science on plant intelligence, uncovering plants' complex and unimaginable capabilities and calling into question what we consider to be conscious agents in the natural world"--

8) I'm glad my mom died

Author

McCurdy, Jennette

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#14 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-05-26. Last week it was ranked 12. It has been on the list for 83 week(s).

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A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor--including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother--and how she retook control of her life.