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1) My Next Breath: A Memoir

Author

Renner, Jeremy

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#2 on the Hardcover 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 Hardcover 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 Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-05-18. Last week it was ranked 5. 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) Everything is tuberculosis: the history and persistence of our deadliest infection

Author

Green, John

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#9 on the Hardcover 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...

5) The serviceberry: abundance and reciprocity in the natural world

Author

Kimmerer, Robin Wall

Series

Indigenous collection

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#14 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-05-18. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 22 week(s).

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"... A bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world"--Provided by publisher.

6) The golden road: how ancient India transformed the world

Author

Dalrymple, William

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#15 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-05-18. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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India is the forgotten heart of the ancient world. For a millennium and a half, India was a confident exporter of its diverse civilisation, creating around it a vast empire of ideas. Indian art, religions, technology, astronomy, music, dance, literature, mathematics and mythology blazed a trail across the world, along a Golden Road that stretched from the Red Sea to the Pacific. William Dalrymple draws from a lifetime of scholarship to highlight India's...