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1) Friends, lovers, and the big terrible thing: a memoir

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#1 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2023-12-03. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 19 week(s).

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"The beloved star of Friends takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this candid, funny, and revelatory memoir that delivers a powerful message of hope and persistence In an extraordinary story that only he could tell, Matthew Perry takes readers onto the soundstage of the most successful sitcom of all time while opening up about his private struggles with addiction. Candid, self-aware, and told with his trademark...

2) The woman in me

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Spears, Britney

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#2 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2023-12-03. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 4 week(s).

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The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice—her truth—was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey—and the strength at the core of one of the greatest...

3) My name is Barbra

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Streisand, Barbra

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#3 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2023-12-03. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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"The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertainment. She is among the handful of EGOT winners (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) and has one of the greatest and most recognizable voices in popular music. She has been nominated for a Grammy 46 times, and with Yentl she became the...

4) Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI

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Grann, David

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#5 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2023-12-03. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 103 week(s).

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In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. Her relatives were shot and poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more...

5) Tired of winning: Donald Trump and the end of the Grand Old Party

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Karl, Jonathan

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#6 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2023-12-03. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"An extraordinary view into the politics of our times, Tired of Winning explores how Donald Trump remade the Republican Party in his own image--and the wreckage he's left in his wake. Packed with new reporting, Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party tracks Trump's improbable journey from disgraced and defeated former president to the dominant force, yet again, in the Republican Party. From his exile in Mar-a-Lago, Donald...

6) Prequel: an American fight against Fascism

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Maddow, Rachel

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#8 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2023-12-03. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 5 week(s).

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A noted MSNBC anchor traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful of committed public servants and brave private citizens thwarted far-right plotters trying to steer our nation toward an alliance with the Nazis.

7) The Wager: a tale of shipwreck, mutiny, and murder

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Grann, David

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#9 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2023-12-03. Last week it was ranked 15. It has been on the list for 30 week(s).

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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z, a mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's...

8) Elon Musk

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Isaacson, Walter

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#10 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2023-12-03. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 10 week(s).

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From the author of Steve Jobs and other best-selling biographies comes an intimate story of a controversial businessman who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration and artificial intelligence.

9) The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and body in the Healing of Trauma

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Van der Kolk, Bessel A

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#11 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2023-12-03. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 169 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. --Publisher's description.

10) Teddy and Booker T: how two American icons blazed a path for racial equality

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Kilmeade, Brian

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#12 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2023-12-03. Last week it was ranked 11. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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"When President Theodore Roosevelt welcomed the country's most visible Black man, Booker T. Washington, into his circle of counselors in 1901, the two confronted a shocking and violent wave of racist outrage. In the previous decade, Jim Crow laws had legalized discrimination in the South, eroding social and economic gains for former slaves. Lynching was on the rise, and Black Americans faced new barriers to voting. Slavery had been abolished, but...

11) Being Henry: the Fonz . . . and beyond

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Winkler, Henry

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#13 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2023-12-03. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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"From Emmy-award winning actor, author, comedian, producer, and director Henry Winkler, a deeply thoughtful memoir of the lifelong effects of stardom and the struggle to become whole. Henry Winkler, launched into prominence as "The Fonz" in the beloved Happy Days, has transcended the role that made him who he is. Brilliant, funny, and widely-regarded as the nicest man in Hollywood (though he would be the first to tell you that it's simply not the...

12) Unwoke: how to defeat cultural Marxism in America

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Cruz, Ted

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#14 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2023-12-03. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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"The Democratic Party is now controlled by Cultural Marxists. So are our universities and public schools, the media, Big Tech, and Big Business. Corporations push transgenderism down their customers' throats. Banks punish gun shops. Hollywood insults our religious beliefs and grooms our children. The big investment companies use our retirement savings to promote leftist causes. And the Biden administration has turned our military into an indoctrination...

13) Outlive: the science & art of longevity

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Attia, Peter

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#15 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2023-12-03. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 34 week(s).

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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, and type 2 diabetes. Too often, it intervenes...