NYT - Paperback Nonfiction | Uintah County Library

1) On tyranny: twenty lessons from the twentieth century

Author

Snyder, Timothy

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#1 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-04-27. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 117 week(s).

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “bracing” (Vox) guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism, from “a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present” (The New York Times)
“Timothy Snyder reasons with unparalleled clarity, throwing the past and future into sharp relief. He...

2) The body keeps the score: brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma

Author

Van der Kolk, Bessel A

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#2 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-04-27. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 338 week(s).

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

Author

Grann, David

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#3 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-04-27. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 7 week(s).

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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z, a mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth 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...

4) Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

Author

Stillwell, Kevin

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#4 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-04-27. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 35 week(s).

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A journalist's twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to shocking new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this riveting reassessment of an infamous case in American history.
Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months pregnant. With no mercy and seemingly no motive, the Manson Family followed their leader's...

5) The backyard bird chronicles

Author

Tan, Amy

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#6 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-04-27. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 45 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...

6) Greenlights

Author

McConaughey, Matthew

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#7 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-04-27. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 22 week(s).

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"Drawing on the Academy Award-winning actor's journals and diaries from the last 40 years, this book presents a uniquely McConaughey approach to achieving success and satisfaction"--

7) Sociopath

Author

Gagne, Patric

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#9 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-04-27. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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An engrossing, "completely fascinating" (Cosmopolitan) memoir revealing the author's struggle to come to terms with her own sociopathy and shed light on the often maligned and misunderstood mental disorder.
Patric Gagne realized she made others uncomfortable before she started kindergarten. Something about her caused people to react in a way she didn't understand. She suspected it was because she didn't feel things the way other people...

8) Braiding sweetgrass: indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants

Author

Kimmerer, Robin Wall,author

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#10 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-04-27. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 261 week(s).

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"An inspired weaving of indigenous knowledge, plant science, and personal narrative from a distinguished professor of science and a Native American whose previous book, Gathering Moss, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. 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,...

9) Eve: how the female body drove 200 million years of human evolution

Author

Bohannon, Cat

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#12 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-04-27. It has been on the list for 6 week(s).

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"In Eve, Cat Bohannon answers questions scientists should have been addressing for decades. With boundless curiosity and sharp wit, Bohannon covers the past 200 million years to explain the specific science behind the development of the female sex. Eve is not just a sweeping revision of human history, it's an urgent and necessary corrective for a world that has focused primarily on the male body for far too long. Bohannon's findings, including everything...

10) all about love: new visions

Author

hooks, bell

Series

Love Song to the Nation

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#13 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-04-27. Last week it was ranked 15. It has been on the list for 148 week(s).

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""The word 'love' is most often defined as a noun, yet we would all love 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 provocative and intensely personal, renowned scholar, cultural critic and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a society bereft with lovelessness--not the lack of romance, but the lack of care, compassion, and unity. People are divided,...

11) Art Thief : A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

Author

Finkel, Michael

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#14 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-04-27. It has been on the list for 40 week(s).

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century • “The Art Thief, like its title character, has confidence, élan, and a great sense of timing."—The New Yorker
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Lit Hub
"Enthralling." —The Wall...

12) Ghosts of Honolulu: a Japanese spy, a Japanese American spy hunter, and the untold story of Pearl Harbor

Author

Harmon, Mark

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#15 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-04-27. It has been on the list for 28 week(s).

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The star of NCIS along with a former Special Agent share the dueling stories of the cat-and-mouse games played between a real-life Japanese American naval intelligence officer and a Japanese spy in Pearl Harbor posing as a diplomat.