NYT - Audio Nonfiction | Pueblo City-County Library

1) Becoming

Author

Obama, Michelle

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#3 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2020-03-15. Last week it was ranked 3.

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"This volume for young people is an honest and fascinating account of Michelle Obama's life led by example. She shares her views on how all young people can help themselves as well as help others, no matter their status in life. She asks readers to realize that no one is perfect, and that the process of becoming is what matters, as finding yourself is ever evolving. In telling her story with boldness, she asks young readers: Who are you, and what...

2) Born a crime: stories from a South African childhood

Author

Noah, Trevor

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#4 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2020-03-15. Last week it was ranked 9.

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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...

3) Catch and kill: lies, spies, and a conspiracy to protect predators

Author

Farrow, Ronan

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#9 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2020-03-15. Last week it was ranked 6.

4) Educated: a memoir

Author

Westover, Tara

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#5 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2020-03-15. Last week it was ranked 4.

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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. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the...

5) Empire of the summer moon: Quanah Parker and the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history

Author

Gwynne, S. C

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#14 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2020-03-15. Last week it was ranked 14.

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-- *A -- The war with the Comanches lasted four decades, in effect holding up the development of the new American nation. Gwynne’s exhilarating account delivers a sweeping narrative that encompasses Spanish colonialism, the Civil War, the destruction of the buffalo herds, and the arrival of the railroads, and the amazing story of Cynthia Ann Parker and her son Quanah—a historical feast for anyone interested in how the United States came into...

6) Extreme ownership: how U.S. Navy SEALs lead and win

Author

Willink, Jocko

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#7 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2020-03-15. Last week it was ranked 7.

7) Open book

Author

Simpson, Jessica

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#1 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2020-03-15.

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The #1 New York Times Bestseller

Jessica reveals for the first time her inner monologue and most intimate struggles. Guided by the journals she's kept since age fifteen, and brimming with her unique humor and down-to-earth humanity, Open Book is as inspiring as it is entertaining.

This was supposed to be a very different book. Five years ago, Jessica Simpson was approached to write a motivational guide

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8) Outliers: The Story of Success

Author

Gladwell, Malcolm

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#10 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2020-03-15. Last week it was ranked 11.

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There is a story that is usually told about extremely successful people, a story that focuses on intelligence and ambition. Gladwell argues that the true story of success is very different, and that if we want to understand how some people thrive, we should spend more time looking around them-at such things as their family, their birthplace, or even their birth date. And in revealing that hidden logic, Gladwell presents a fascinating and provocative...

9) Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Author

Harari, Yuval Noah

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#8 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2020-03-15. Last week it was ranked 10.

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eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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New York Times Bestseller

A Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg

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

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10) The splendid and the vile: a saga of Churchill, family, and defiance during the blitz

Author

Larson, Erik

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#12 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2020-03-15.

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"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000...