NYT - Audio Nonfiction | Jackson Public Library

1) I'm glad my mom died

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McCurdy, Jennette

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#1 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2024-04-14.

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"A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor--including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother--and how she retook control of her life."--Amazon.

2) Outlive: the science & art of longevity

Author

Attia, Peter

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#2 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2024-04-14.

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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,...

3) The house of hidden meanings: a memoir

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RuPaul

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#5 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2024-04-14.

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From an international drag superstar and pop culture icon comes his most revealing and personal work to date-a deeply intimate memoir of growing up black, poor and queer in a broken home and discovering the power of performance, found family and self-acceptance.

4) 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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#6 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2024-04-14.

5) Greenlights

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McConaughey, Matthew

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#7 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2024-04-14.

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"Drawing on the Academy Award-winning actor's journals and diaries from the last 40 years, this book presents a uniquely McConaughey approach to achieving success and satisfaction." -- Provided by publisher.

6) Sapiens: a brief history of humankind

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Harari, Yuval N

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#9 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2024-04-14.

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"From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution--a #1 international bestseller--that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human." One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one--homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us? Most...

7) Elon Musk

Author

Isaacson, Walter

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#10 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2024-04-14.

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"From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era--a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter"--

8) The woman in me

Author

Spears, Britney

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#11 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2024-04-14.

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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...

9) Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

Author

Willink, Jocko

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#12 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2024-04-14.

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An updated edition of the blockbuster bestselling leadership book that took America and the world by storm, two U.S. Navy SEAL officers who led the most highly decorated special operations unit of the Iraq War demonstrate how to apply powerful leadership principles from the battlefield to business and life.
Sent to the most violent battlefield in Iraq, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin's SEAL task unit faced a seemingly impossible mission:

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

Author

Grann, David

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#13 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2024-04-14.

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Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history. --Publisher

11) Spare

Author

Harry

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#14 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2024-04-14.

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"It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow -- and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling -- and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last. With its raw, unflinching honesty, SPARE is a landmark publication...