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#1 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2022-08-14. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 197 week(s).
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2014. | Viking Penguin | xvi, 443 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm | English |
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2014 | OverDrive | Gildan Media | Checked Out
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2014 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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2014 | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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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.
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#2 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2022-08-14. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 120 week(s).
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2013. | First edition. | Milkweed Editions | x, 390 pages ; 23 cm | English |
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"An inspired weaving of indigenous knowledge, plant science, and personal narrative from a distinguished professor of science and a Native American whose previous book, Gathering Moss, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders,...
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#3 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2022-08-14. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 25 week(s).
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Round Rock Public Library - Adult (2nd floor) 1 available
NF 270.092 WESTOVE 2018
Round Rock Public Library - On shelving cart 1 available
NF 270.092 WESTOVE 2018
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[2018] | First edition. | Random House | xv, 334 pages ; 25 cm | English | On Shelf
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Round Rock Public Library - Adult Audio/Video (1st floor) 1 available
CD 270.092 WESTOVE 2018
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[2018] | Unabridged. | Random House Audio | 10 audio discs (approximately 12 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Adult Audio/Video (1st floor) 1 available CD 270.092 WESTOVE 2018 |
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2018 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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2018 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2018 | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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[2018] | First large print edition. | Random House Large Print | xviii, 493 pages (large print) ; 24 cm | English |
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Round Rock Public Library - Adult Audio/Video (1st floor) 1 available
SMP 270.092 WESTOVE 2018
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[2018] | Unabridged. | Findaway World, LLC | 1 audio media player (720 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Adult Audio/Video (1st floor) 1 available SMP 270.092 WESTOVE 2018 |
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Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse....
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#4 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2022-08-14. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).
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Round Rock Public Library - On shelving cart 1 available
NF 581.6 POLLAN 2021
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2021. | Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC | 274 pages ; 25 cm | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - On shelving cart 1 available NF 581.6 POLLAN 2021 |
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"A radical challenge to how we think about drugs, and an exploration into the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants--and the equally powerful taboos ... Of all the things humans rely on plants for--sustenance, beauty, fragrance, flavor, fiber--surely the most curious is our use of them is to change consciousness: to stimulate or calm, fiddle with or completely alter, the qualities of our mental experience ... So then what is a 'drug?' And...
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#5 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2022-08-14. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 167 week(s).
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2016. | First edition. | Spiegel & Grau | x, 282 pages ; 25 cm | English |
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2016 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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2016 | Random House Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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Round Rock Public Library - Adult Audio/Video (1st floor) 1 available
SMP 927.91 NOAH, T 2018
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2018] | Unabridged. | Findaway World, LLC | 1 audio media player (approximately 9 hours) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Adult Audio/Video (1st floor) 1 available SMP 927.91 NOAH, T 2018 |
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Noah's path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother, at the time such a union was punishable by five years in prison. As he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist, his mother is determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life. With an incisive...
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#6 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2022-08-14. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 34 week(s).
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The acclaimed first volume in bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation."
"The word 'love' is most often defined as a noun, yet . . . we would all love better if we used it as a verb," writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, bell hooks (renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist) skewers our view of love as romance. In its place she offers a proactive new ethic...
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#7 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2022-08-14. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 24 week(s).
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Round Rock Public Library - On shelving cart 1 available
NF 615.7883 POLLAN 2018
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2018. | Penguin Press | xii, 465 pages ; 25 cm | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - On shelving cart 1 available NF 615.7883 POLLAN 2018 |
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CD 615.7883 POLLAN 2018
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[2018] | Unabridged. | Penguin Audio | 11 audio discs (13 hr., 36 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Adult Audio/Video (1st floor) 1 available CD 615.7883 POLLAN 2018 |
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2018 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Books on Tape | English | Checked Out
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2018 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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"When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to people suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions such as depression, addiction, and anxiety, he did not intend to write what is undoubtedly his most personal book. But upon discovering how these ... substances are improving the lives not only of the mentally ill but also of healthy people coming to grips...
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#8 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2022-08-14. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 44 week(s).
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2019. | First edition. | Little, Brown and Company | xii, 386 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm | English |
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CD 302 GLADWEL 2019
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[2019] | Unabridged. | Hachette Audio | 8 audio discs (approximately 8 hours, 30 minutes) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Adult Audio/Video (1st floor) 1 available CD 302 GLADWEL 2019 |
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2019 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Hachette Audio | English | Checked Out
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2019 | OverDrive | Little, Brown and Company | English | Checked Out
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2019 | Little, Brown and Company | English | Checked Out
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The podcast host and author explores how people interact with strangers and why these exchanges often go wrong, offering tips for more accurate and productive interactions.
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#9 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2022-08-14. Last week it was ranked 11. It has been on the list for 352 week(s).
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Round Rock Public Library - Adult (2nd floor) 1 available
NF 302 GLADWEL 2008
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2008. | First edition. | Little, Brown and Co | ix, 309 pages ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Adult (2nd floor) 1 available NF 302 GLADWEL 2008 |
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2008 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Hachette Audio | English | Checked Out
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[2011] | Unabridged. | Hachette Audio | 1 sound media player (approximately 7 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. | English |
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Identifies the qualities of successful people, posing theories about the cultural, family, and idiosyncratic factors that shape high achievers, in a resource that covers such topics as the secrets of software billionaires, why certain cultures are associated with better academic performance, and why the Beatles earned their fame.
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#10 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2022-08-14. Last week it was ranked 12. It has been on the list for 326 week(s).
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Round Rock Public Library - On shelving cart 1 available
NF 153.42 KAH
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2011. | First edition. | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 499 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - On shelving cart 1 available NF 153.42 KAH |
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[2011] | Unabridged. | Random House Audio | 16 audio discs (20 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English |
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2011 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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2011 | OverDrive | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | English | Checked Out
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In the international bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us...
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#11 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2022-08-14. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 8 week(s).
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Round Rock Public Library - Adult (2nd floor) 1 available
NF 358.414 GLADWEL 2021
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2021. | First edition. | Little, Brown and Company | xiv, 240 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Adult (2nd floor) 1 available NF 358.414 GLADWEL 2021 |
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"Malcolm Gladwell's exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war. In The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War, Malcolm Gladwell [...] weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history....
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#12 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2022-08-14. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 287 week(s).
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Round Rock Public Library - Adult (2nd floor) 1 available
NF 923.6 A STEVENS 2014
Round Rock Public Library - Adult (2nd floor) 1 available
NF 923.6 A, STEVENS 2014
Round Rock Public Library - Adult (2nd floor) 1 available
NF 923.6 STEVENSON 2014
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[2014] | First edition. | Spiegel & Grau | x, 336 pages ; 25 cm | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Adult (2nd floor) 1 available NF 923.6 A STEVENS 2014 Round Rock Public Library - Adult (2nd floor) 1 available NF 923.6 A, STEVENS 2014 Round Rock Public Library - Adult (2nd floor) 1 available NF 923.6 STEVENSON 2014 |
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2014 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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The founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama recounts his experiences as a lawyer working to assist those desperately in need, reflecting on his pursuit of the ideal of compassion in American justice.
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#13 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2022-08-14. Last week it was ranked 13. It has been on the list for 454 week(s).
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Round Rock Public Library - Adult (2nd floor) 1 available
NF 362.2923 WAL
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[2005] | Scribner | 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Adult (2nd floor) 1 available NF 362.2923 WAL |
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CD 362.2923 WAL
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[2010] | Unabridged. | Simon & Schuster | 8 audio discs (9 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Adult Audio/Video (1st floor) 1 available CD 362.2923 WAL |
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2010 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Simon & Schuster Audio | English | Checked Out
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Journalist Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary and their four children lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children's imagination, teaching them how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary painted and wrote and couldn't stand the responsibility of providing...
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#14 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2022-08-14. It has been on the list for 119 week(s).
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2018. | First Scribner trade paperback edition. | Scribner | xi, 349 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm | English |
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2016 | Unabridged. | Simon & Schuster Audio | 8 sound discs (9 hr., 22 min., 31 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English |
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2016 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Simon & Schuster Audio | English | Available Online
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In this instant New York Times bestseller, Angela Duckworth shows anyone striving to succeed that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent, but a special blend of passion and persistence she calls "grit." "Inspiration for non-geniuses everywhere" (People).
The daughter of a scientist who frequently noted her lack of "genius," Angela Duckworth is now a celebrated researcher and professor. It was her early eye-opening...
The daughter of a scientist who frequently noted her lack of "genius," Angela Duckworth is now a celebrated researcher and professor. It was her early eye-opening...
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#15 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2022-08-14. It has been on the list for 45 week(s).
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Round Rock Public Library - Adult (2nd floor) 1 available
NF 305.896 MOORE 2010
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2010. | Spiegel & Grau | xiv, 233 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Adult (2nd floor) 1 available NF 305.896 MOORE 2010 |
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Two kids with the same name were born blocks apart in the same decaying city within a few years of each other. One grew up to be a Rhodes Scholar, army officer, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison. Here is the story of two boys and the journey of a generation.