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#1 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2024-04-14.
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Milton Public Library - Adult Biography
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18 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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8 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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"Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother’s dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called 'calorie restriction,' eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, 'Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn’t tint hers?'...
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#2 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2024-04-14.
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6 copies, 84 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 39 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 39 people are on the wait list.
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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.
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#3 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2024-04-14.
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"From the author of Irreversible Damage, an investigation into a mental health industry that is harming, not healing, American children In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous generations. Youth suicide rates are climbing, antidepressant prescriptions for children are common, and the proliferation of mental health diagnoses has not helped the staggering number of kids who are lonely, lost,...
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#4 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2024-04-14.
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1 copy, 29 people are on the wait list.
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"Part memoir, part history, Burn Book is a necessary chronicle of tech's most powerful players. This is the inside story we've all been waiting for about modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world."--Amazon.
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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.
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#6 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2024-04-14.
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7 copies, 59 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 23 people are on the wait list.
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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.
7) Greenlights
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#7 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2024-04-14.
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Milton Public Library - Adult Biography
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3 copies, 37 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 20 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 20 people are on the wait list.
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"I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to...
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#8 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2024-04-14.
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3 copies, 66 people are on the wait list.
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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...
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#9 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2024-04-14.
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1 copy, 12 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 12 people are on the wait list.
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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...
10) Elon Musk
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#10 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2024-04-14.
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Milton Public Library - New Materials Area
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"When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh. He was in the hospital for a week. But the physical scars were minor compared to the emotional ones inflicted by his father, an engineer, rogue, and charismatic fantasist.
His father’s impact on his psyche would linger. He developed into a tough yet vulnerable...
11) The woman in me
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#11 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2024-04-14.
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Milton Public Library - New Materials Area
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7 copies, 145 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 67 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 67 people are on the wait list.
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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...
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#12 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2024-04-14.
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2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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Jocko Willink and Leif Babin served together in SEAL Task Unit Bruiser, the most highly decorated Special Operations unit from the war in Iraq. Through difficult months of sustained combat, Jocko, Leif and their SEAL brothers learned that leadership -- at every level -- is the most important thing on the battlefield. They started Echelon Front to teach these same leadership principles to companies across industries throughout the business world that...
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#13 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2024-04-14.
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9 copies, 68 people are on the wait list.
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8 copies, 43 people are on the wait list.
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8 copies, 43 people are on the wait list.
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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
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,...
14) Spare
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#14 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2024-04-14.
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10 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 10 people are on the wait list.
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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 Princess Diana was laid to rest, billions wondered what Prince William and Prince Harry must be thinking and feeling—and how their lives would play out from that point on.
For Harry, this is that story at last.
Before losing his mother, twelve-year-old Prince Harry...