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#1 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2021-01-31. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 9 week(s).
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"In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency--a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil"--
2) Greenlights
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#2 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2021-01-31. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 13 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"--
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#3 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2021-01-31. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 24 week(s).
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""As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and which do not." In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched...
4) Untamed
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#4 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2021-01-31. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 45 week(s).
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"There is a voice of longing inside every woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good mothers, daughters, partners, employees, citizens, and friends. We believe all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed, and underwhelmed. We look at our lives, relationships, and world, and wonder: Wasn't it all supposed to be more beautiful than this? We quickly silence that question, telling ourselves to...
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#5 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2021-01-31. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).
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"In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders guides the reader through seven classic Russian short stories he's been teaching for twenty years as a professor in the prestigious Syracuse University graduate MFA creative writing program. Paired with stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, these essays are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it's more relevant than ever in these turbulent times. Saunders approaches...
6) Becoming
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#6 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2021-01-31. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 101 week(s).
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2021 Crown trade pbk. ed.
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It's Here
Overton High - Teen Biography
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In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America, she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private. A deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily...
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#7 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2021-01-31. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).
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"Americans have disabled the government's ability to solve even basic problems, making us vulnerable to the most dangerous demagogue ever to pretend to the White House. Kurt Andersen shows how the masterminds of the economic right rode an unprecedented wave of nostalgia by dressing up their harsh new rich-get-richer system in patriotic old-time drag, making it their mission to take over the government for their purposes alone and convincing the country...
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#8 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2021-01-31. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 38 week(s).
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""The only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it -- and then dismantle it." Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America -- but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist society might look like, and how we can play an...
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#9 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2021-01-31. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).
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Writer and performer on Late Night with Seth Meyers Amber Ruffin writes with her sister Lacey Lamar with humor and heart to share absurd anecdotes about everyday experiences of racism. Now a writer and performer on Late Night with Seth Meyers and host of The Amber Ruffin Show, Amber Ruffin lives in New York, where she is no one's First Black Friend and everyone is, as she puts it, "stark raving normal." But Amber's sister Lacey? She's still living...
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#10 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2021-01-31. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 12 week(s).
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"No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how resilient your genes are, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you're not breathing properly. There is nothing more essential to our health and wellbeing than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat 25,000 times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. Science journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure...
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#11 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2021-01-31. Last week it was ranked 12. It has been on the list for 16 week(s).
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First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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"Longtime Jeopardy! host and television icon Alex Trebek reflects on his life and career"--Dust jacket.
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#12 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2021-01-31. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 6 week(s).
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Emmanuel Acho believes the only way to cure our nation's oldest disease--racism--starts with a profound, revolutionary idea: actually talking to one another. No, seriously. Until it gets uncomfortable...and then some. In Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man, Acho connects his own experience with race and racism--including his majority-white prep school education juxtaposed with his time in majority-black NFL locker rooms--with the lessons...
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#14 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2021-01-31. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).
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"James Comey, former FBI Director and New York Times bestselling author of A Higher Loyalty, uses his long career in federal law enforcement to explore issues of justice and fairness in the US justice system. James Comey might best be known as the FBI director that Donald Trump fired in 2017, but he's had a long, varied career in the law and justice system. He knows better than most just what a force for good the US justice system can be, and how...
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#15 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2021-01-31. Last week it was ranked 11. It has been on the list for 134 week(s).
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"Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure...