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1. Melania
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#1 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-12-29. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 10 week(s).
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"In her memoir, Melania reflects on her Slovenian childhood, the pivotal moments that led her to the world of high fashion in Europe and New York, and the serendipitous meeting with Donald Trump, a chance encounter that forever changed the course of her life. Melania opens up about their courtship, life in the spotlight, and experiencing the joy of motherhood. She shares behind-the-scenes stories from her time in the White House, shedding light on...
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#3 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-12-29. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 11 week(s).
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"Ina Garten, the author of thirteen best-selling cookbooks, beloved Food Network personality, Instagram sensation, and the cultural icon whose face has launched a thousand memes, shares her personal story with readers hungry for a seat at her table"--
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#4 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-12-29. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 9 week(s).
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"In his first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, #1 bestselling author John Grisham and Centurion Ministries Founder Jim McCloskey share ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions. Impeccably researched and grippingly told, Framed offers an inside look at the victims of the United States criminal justice system. A fundamental principle of our legal system is a presumption of innocence, but once someone has been found guilty there...
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#6 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-12-29. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 4 week(s).
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass explains how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity and community, based on the lessons of the natural world.
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#7 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-12-29. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 14 week(s).
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"Every American president, from Washington to Biden: Their lives, policies, foibles, and legacies, assessed with clear-eyed authority and wit. Authors of the acclaimed Killing books, the #1 bestselling narrative history series in the world, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard begin a new direction with Confronting the Presidents. From Washington to Jefferson, Lincoln to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Kennedy to Nixon, Reagan to Obama and Biden, the 45 United...
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3.3 stars
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#8 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-12-29. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 24 week(s).
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"On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter. ...[An] account of the chaotic...
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5 stars
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#9 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-12-29. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 11 week(s).
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"Revisits the world of social epidemics first explored in Gladwell's 2000 book "The tipping point," this time taking a closer look at the dark side of social engineering. Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with a brand-new volume that reframes the lessons of The Tipping Point in a startling and revealing light. Why is Miami... Miami? What does the heartbreaking fate of the cheetah tell...
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#10 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-12-29. Last week it was ranked 11. It has been on the list for 10 week(s).
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Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Elvis's daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, tells her whole story for the first time in a memoir faithfully completed by her daughter, Riley Keough, after Lisa Marie's death.
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4 stars
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#11 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-12-29. It has been on the list for 68 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...
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#12 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-12-29. Last week it was ranked 13. It has been on the list for 5 week(s).
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A candid and captivating memoir from award-winning and beloved actress Kelly Bishop, spanning her six decades in show business from Broadway to Hollywood with A Chorus Line, Dirty Dancing, Gilmore Girls, and much more.--
11. Brothers
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#13 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-12-29. Last week it was ranked 14. It has been on the list for 7 week(s).
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In this intimate and open account--nothing like any rock-and-roll memoir you've ever read--Alex Van Halen shares his personal story of family, friendship, music and brotherly love in a remarkable tribute to his beloved brother and band mate. Told with acclaimed New Yorker writer Ariel Levy, Brothers is seventy-year-old drummer Alex Van Halen's love letter to his younger brother, Edward, (Maybe "Ed," but never "Eddie"), written while still mourning...
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5 stars
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#14 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-12-29. It has been on the list for 8 week(s).
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world.
“Striking original . . . A historian whose arguments operate on the scale of millennia has managed to capture the zeitgeist perfectly.”—The Economist
“This deeply important book comes at a critical time as we all think through the implications...
“Striking original . . . A historian whose arguments operate on the scale of millennia has managed to capture the zeitgeist perfectly.”—The Economist
“This deeply important book comes at a critical time as we all think through the implications...
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#15 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-12-29. Last week it was ranked 15. It has been on the list for 7 week(s).
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"From America's favorite government teacher, a heartfelt, inspiring portrait of twelve ordinary Americans whose courage formed the character of our country"--