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Hardcover Nonfiction

Week of March 31, 1991

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IRON JOHN
Robert Bly
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IRON JOHN

by Robert Bly · Addison-Wesley

11 wks at #1 · 19 on list

On the role of the male mentor, the author seeks to discover the truths about masculinity that gets beyond the stereotypes of our popular culture.

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YOU'LL NEVER EAT LUNCH IN THIS TOWN AGAIN
Julia Phillips
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YOU'LL NEVER EAT LUNCH IN THIS TOWN AGAIN

by Julia Phillips · Random House

1 wks on list

The first woman producer to win a Best Picture Academy Award describes her rise in the motion picture industry and reveals behind-the-scenes gossip about some of Hollywood's hottest stars. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND
Deborah Tannen
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YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND

by Deborah Tannen · Morrow

34 wks on list

Debra Tannen’s You Just Don’t Understand draws upon groundbreaking research by an acclaimed sociolinguist to show that women and men live in different worlds, made of different words. Using lively and entertaining examples of real conversations, Tannen shows why women and men can walk away from the same conversation with completely different impressions of what was said. With a rare combination of scientific insight and delightful writing, Tannen brings gender differences to students in an entertaining and accessible format. A classic in the field of interpersonal relations, this book will forever change the way students think about—and approach—conversations. “[A] refreshing and readable account of the complexities of communication between men and women.”—The New York Times Book Review

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THE PRIZE
Daniel Yergin
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THE PRIZE

by Daniel Yergin · Simon & Schuster

9 wks on list

Hailed by "The New York Times" as "a book that must be read to understand the first thing about the role of oil in modern history," Yergin's bestselling Pulitzer Prize-winner was made into an exciting eight-part miniseries that aired on PBS. 32 pages of photos.

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THE CIVIL WAR
Geoffrey C. Ward with Ric Burns and Ken Burns
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THE CIVIL WAR

by Geoffrey C. Ward with Ric Burns and Ken Burns · Knopf

25 wks on list

Combining video and audio from Ken Burns’s beloved film with animated maps and hundreds of images—rare photographs as well as paintings, lithographs, and maps in full color—this deluxe eBook brings the Civil War to life in a new way. The acclaimed, best-selling companion volume to the celebrated PBS series—the highest-rated series in the history of public television—has now been enhanced to create one of the richest eBook experiences available today. This edition includes: • Nearly an hour of video and audio from the original film. We get wonderful footage re-creating what life was like during the war, Shelby Foote’s peerless storytelling and analysis, and informed commentary from other prominent historians. • Completely new and original animated maps of the three days at Gettysburg that make it easier than ever to follow this legendary and complicated battle. • Hundreds of illustrations carefully placed to maximize the reading experience without impeding the narrative flow of the text. As we mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, this deluxe eBook allows us to better understand and appreciate the greatest challenge our nation has ever faced.

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RIDERS ON THE STORM
John Densmore
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RIDERS ON THE STORM

by John Densmore · Delacorte Press

2 wks on list

“This book is the real story.”—Robby Krieger “[John] Densmore's is the first Doors biography that feels like it was written for the right reasons, and it is easily the most informed account of the Doors' brief but brilliant life as a group. . . . Densmore is a fluent, articulate writer who both comprehends the Doors' unearthly power and is on familiar terms with their antecdedents in literature, theater, and myth.”—Rolling Stone “Well-written and touching . . . tells it all and tells it honestly.”—The New York Times Book Review “John Densmore's Riders of the Storm is as good an account of the history of the Doors as has been printed to date.”—USA Today “Riders on the Storm is very enjoyable, especially its homespun and self-experienced insights. John Densmore is a survivor and a seeker.”—Oliver Stone

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THE SPIRITUAL LIFE OF CHILDREN
Robert Coles
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THE SPIRITUAL LIFE OF CHILDREN

by Robert Coles · Davison/Houghton Mifflin

11 wks on list

For 30 years Robert Coles has been talking and listening to children all over the world and recording their responses to crises, to hardship and sorrow and to moral and political pressure. In this one of eight volumes in his Pulitzer Prize-winning series, Children of Crisis, he speaks to and for the religious and spiritual lives of children, conveying their views of salvation and righteousness, their experience of God and their ways of understanding the ultimate meaning of their own lives.

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DARKNESS VISIBLE
William Styron
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DARKNESS VISIBLE

by William Styron · Random House

23 wks on list

A dazzlingly dark novel by the Nobel Laureate. At the height of the London blitz, a naked child steps out of an all-consuming fire. Miraculously saved yet hideously scarred, tormented at school and at work, Matty becomes a wanderer, a seeker after some unknown redemption. Two more lost children await him: twins as exquisite as they are loveless. Toni dabbles in political violence, Sophy in sexual tyranny. As Golding weaves their destinies together, as he draws them toward a final conflagration, his book lights up both the inner and outer darknesses of our time.

Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.