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1) My Next Breath: A Memoir

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Renner, Jeremy

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#2 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-05-18. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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The gripping and inspiring story of acclaimed actor Jeremy Renner's near-fatal accident, and what he learned about inner strength, endurance and hope as he overcame insurmountable odds to recover, one breath at a time.Two-time Oscar nominee Jeremy Renner was the second most googled person in 2023. and not for his impressive filmography. His searing portrayals on film ranged from an Iraq-based army bomb technician in The Hurt Locker and a Boston bank...

2) Abundance: What Progress Takes

Author

Klein, Ezra

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#5 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-05-18. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 7 week(s).

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"A terrific book...Powerful and persuasive." —Fareed Zakaria

"Spectacular...Offers a comprehensive indictment of the current problems and a clear path forward...Klein and Thompson usher in a mood shift. They inspire hope and enlarge the imagination." —David Brooks, The New York Times

From bestselling authors and journalistic titans Ezra...

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

Author

Haidt, Jonathan

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#6 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-05-18. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 58 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...

4) The body keeps the score: brain, mind, and body in the transformation of trauma

Author

Van der Kolk, Bessel A

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#9 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-05-18. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 241 week(s).

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An expert on traumatic stress outlines an approach to healing, explaining how traumatic stress affects brain processes and how to use innovative treatments to reactivate the mind's abilities to trust, engage others, and experience pleasure.

5) On tyranny: twenty lessons from the twentieth century

Author

Snyder, Timothy

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#10 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-05-18. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 49 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...

6) Everything is tuberculosis: the history and persistence of our deadliest infection

Author

Green, John

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#12 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-05-18. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 7 week(s).

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Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is seen as a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it. In 2019, author John Green met Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first...

7) Outlive: the science & art of longevity

Author

Attia, Peter

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#15 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-05-18. It has been on the list for 91 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. 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,...