NYT - Hardcover Nonfiction | Derry Public Library

1) Careless people: a cautionary tale of power, greed, and lost idealism

Author

Wynn-Williams, Sarah

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#1 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-03-30. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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An insider account charting one woman's career at the heart of one of the most influential companies on the planet, Careless People gives you a front-row seat to Facebook, the decisions that have shaped world events in recent decades, and the people who made them.

2) Tell : A Memoir

Author

Griffin, Amy

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#2 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-03-30. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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

Author

Haidt, Jonathan

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#3 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-03-30. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 51 week(s).

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In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the “play-based childhood” began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the “phone-based...

4) House of my mother: a daughter's quest for freedom

Author

Franke, Shari

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#4 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-03-30. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 9 week(s).

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"Shari Franke's childhood was a constant battle for survival. Her mother, Ruby Franke, enforced a severe moral code while maintaining a fȧcade of a picture-perfect family for their wildly popular YouTube channel 8 Passengers, which documented the day-to-day life of raising six children for a staggering 2.5 million subscribers. But a darker truth lurked beneath the surface--Ruby's wholesome online persona masked a more tyrannical parenting style...

5) Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses

Author

Wolf, Peter

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#5 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-03-30. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

6) Paper Doll : Notes from a Late Bloomer

Author

Mulvaney, Dylan

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#6 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-03-30. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

7) Outlive: the science & art of longevity

Author

Attia, Peter

Series

Outlive volume 0

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#7 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-03-30. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 93 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,...

8) Care and feeding: a memoir

Author

Woolever, Laurie

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#8 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-03-30. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"In this moving, hilarious, and insightful memoir, Laurie Woolever traces her path from a small-town childhood to working at revered restaurants and food publications, alternately bolstered and overshadowed by two of the most powerful men in the business. But there's more to the story than the two bold-faced names on her resume: Mario Batali and Anthony Bourdain. Behind the scenes, Laurie's life is frequently chaotic, an often pleasurable buffet...

9) I'll have what she's having

Author

Handler, Chelsea

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#10 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-03-30. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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"At ten years old, Chelsea opened a lemonade stand and realized she'd make more money if the drinks were spiked. So she added vodka to her recipe and used her earnings to upgrade herself to first-class on a family vacation-leaving her parents and siblings in coach. At nineteen, she moved to Los Angeles and got fired from her temp job when she admitted she didn't know how to transfer calls. She played pickleball with the scions of an American dynasty....

10) Murder the truth: fear, the First Amendment, and a secret campaign to protect the powerful

Author

Enrich, David

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#11 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-03-30. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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In a masterwork of investigative reporting, the New York Times business investigations editor produces an in-depth exposé of the broad campaign-orchestrated by elite Americans-to overturn 60 years of Supreme Court precedent, weaponize our speech laws and silence dissent.

11) The technological republic: hard power, soft belief, and the future of the West

Author

Karp, Alexander C

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#12 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-03-30. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 4 week(s).

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"A sweeping indictment of Silicon Valley, showing how the West has slid into a culture of complacency, even as we enter a new era of mounting global threats"-- Provided by publisher.

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

Author

Kimmerer, Robin Wall

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#13 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-03-30. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 17 week(s).

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As Indigenous scientist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from Indigenous wisdom and the plant world to reimagine what we value most? Our economy is rooted in scarcity, competition, and the hoarding of resources, and we have surrendered our values to a system that actively harms...

13) voice for the voiceless

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14) The last manager: how Earl Weaver tricked, tormented, and reinvented baseball

Author

Miller, John W

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#15 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-03-30. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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"The first major biography of legendary Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver, The Last Manager is a wild, thrilling, and hilarious ride with baseball's most underappreciated genius, and one of its greatest characters"-- Provided by publisher. The first major biography of legendary Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver--who has been described as "the Copernicus of baseball" and "the grandfather of the modern game"-- The Last Manager is a wild, thrilling,...