New York Times Nonfiction Bestsellers
Week of April 10th (list limited to titles available at the library)
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Beautiful Things
The lawyer and artist, who is the son of the current president, details tragedies within his family and his path to sobriety.
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The Light Of Days
How Jewish women in Poland turned Jewish youth groups into resistance cells to fight the Nazis and helped build systems of underground bunkers.
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The Code Breaker
How the Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues invented CRISPR, a tool that can edit DNA.
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Greenlights
The Academy Award-winning actor shares snippets from the diaries he kept over the last 35 years.
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Caste
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines aspects of caste systems across civilizations and reveals a rigid hierarchy in America today.
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This Is The Fire
The CNN host looks at the impact of racism on his life and prescribes ways to address systemic flaws in America.
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Think Again
An examination of the cognitive skills of rethinking and unlearning that could be used to adapt to a rapidly changing world.
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A Promised Land
In the first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama offers personal reflections on his formative years and pivotal moments through his first term.
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The Sum Of Us
The chair of the board of the racial justice organization Color of Change analyzes the impact of racism on the economy.