NYT - Hardcover Nonfiction | Meadville Public Library

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

Author

Grann, David

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#1 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2023-06-11. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 6 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...

2) Outlive: the science & art of longevity

Author

Attia, Peter

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#2 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2023-06-11. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 9 week(s).

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Drawing on the latest science and challenging mainstream medicine, a visionary physician and leading longevity expert presents a well-founded strategic and tactical approach to extending lifespan while also improving physical, cognitive, and emotional health.

3) I'm glad my mom died

Author

McCurdy, Jennette

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#4 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2023-06-11. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 42 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...

4) Spare

Author

Harry

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#5 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2023-06-11. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 20 week(s).

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"It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow--and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling--and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last. With its raw, unflinching honesty, Spare is a landmark publication full...

5) The light we carry : overcoming in uncertain times

Author

Obama, Michelle

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#7 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2023-06-11. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 28 week(s).

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"Mrs. 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 adapt...

6) Raw dog: the naked truth about hot dogs

Author

Loftus, Jamie

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#9 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2023-06-11. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique-comedian Jamie Loftus's debut, Raw Dog, will take you on a cross-country road trip in the summer of 2021, and reveal what the creation, culture, and class influence of hot dogs says about America now. Hot dogs. Poor people created them. Rich people found a way to charge fifteen dollars for them. They're high culture, they're low culture, they're sports food, they're kids' food, they're...

7) Look for me there: grieving my father, finding myself

Author

Russert, Luke

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#10 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2023-06-11. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 4 week(s).

8) Poverty, by America

Author

Desmond, Matthew

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#11 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2023-06-11. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 9 week(s).

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"The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and...

9) King: a life

Author

Eig, Jonathan

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#12 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2023-06-11. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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"The first full biography in decades, "King" mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge the definitive life for our times"--

10) The shadow docket: how the Supreme Court uses stealth rulings to amass power and undermine the republic

Author

Vladeck, Stephen I

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#14 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2023-06-11. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

11) Greenlights

Author

McConaughey, Matthew

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#15 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2023-06-11. Last week it was ranked 12. It has been on the list for 95 week(s).

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"I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five." McConaughey sat down with those diaries. He found lessons he learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. This book is an album, a record, a story of his life and the graces, truths, and...