NYT - Hardcover Nonfiction | David City Hruska Library

1) The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness

Author

Haidt, Jonathan

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#6 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-05-18. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 58 week(s).

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"From New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Coddling of the American Mind, an essential investigation into the collapse of youth mental health-and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist...

2) Everything is tuberculosis: the history and persistence of our deadliest infection

Author

Green, John

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#9 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-05-18. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 7 week(s).

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Publisher Annotation: Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it. In 2019, John Green met Henry, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone while traveling with Partners in Health. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy...

3) Poets Square: a memoir in thirty cats

Author

Gustafson, Courtney

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#11 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-05-18. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"What could accidentally moving into a house with thirty feral cats teach you about going viral, surviving capitalism, and the importance of community? Kind of a lot, actually. When Courtney Gustafson moved into a rental house in the Poets Square neighborhood of Tucson, Arizona, she didn't know that the property came with thirty feral cats. Focused only on her own survival--in a new relationship, during a pandemic, with poor mental health and a job...

4) Hope: The Autobiography

Author

Francis, Pope

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#13 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-05-18. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 4 week(s).

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"Hope is the first autobiography in history ever to be published by a Pope. Written over six years, this complete autobiography starts in the early years of the twentieth century, with Pope Francis's Italian roots and his ancestors' courageous migration to Latin America, continuing through his childhood, the enthusiasms and preoccupations of his youth, his vocation, adult life, and the whole of his papacy up to the present day"-- Provided by publisher....

5) The serviceberry: abundance and reciprocity in the natural world

Author

Kimmerer, Robin Wall

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#14 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-05-18. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 22 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.