November 2020 list by Donalee Jacobs
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Answers in the Form of Questions
by Claire McNear
What is the smartest, most celebrated game show of all time? In this insider's guide, discover the rich history of Jeopardy! â the beloved game show that has shaped our culture and entertained audiences for years.
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Believe In People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World
by Charles Koch
Two of America's most successful entrepreneurs identify the societally imposed barriers that compromise success, explaining how today's leaders and companies can promote unprecedented levels of achievement by empowering, supporting and providing opportunities to everyday workers.
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The Best of Me
by David Sedaris
From a spectacular career spanning almost three decades, these stories have become modern classics and are now for the first time collected in one volume. The collection will also feature an introduction by the author; a never-before-collected story, "Unbuttoned"; and a new interview with David Sedaris.
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The Book Collectors
by Delphine Minoui
An extraordinary account of a band of young men in a besieged Syrian suburb who find books in the rubble and create a secret library.
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The Cancer Code
by Jason Fung
Dr. Jason Fung returns with a biography of cancer in which he offers a radical new paradigm for understanding cancer and issues a call to action for reducing risk moving forward.
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Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics
by Dolly Parton
For the first time ever, legendary singer-songwriter Dolly Parton brings you behind the lyrics of 175 of her songs to reveal the personal stories and vibrant memories that have inspired sixty years of songwriting. This rich collection offers an intimate, exclusive look at the colorful life, prolific career, and rags-to-rhinestones journey of one of the most revered entertainers of our time.
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Empty Out the Negative
by Joel Osteen
It's easy to go through life holding on to things that are weighing you down. Guilt. Resentment. Doubt. Worry. The problem is when you allow these things in, they're taking up space for the good things that should be there. Imagine your life is like a container. You were created to be filled with joy, peace, confidence, creativity.
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Forgiving What You Can't Forget
by Lysa TerKeurst
Lysa TerKeurst helps readers address how to stop suffering from what others have done to them while exploring what forgiveness is, what it isn't, and how to deal with difficult relationships.
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Fossil Men
by Kermit Pattison
Profiling remarkable contributing scientists from Tim White to Owen Lovejoy, a behind-the-scenes account of the 1994 discovery of Ardipithecus ramidus, a 4.4 million-year-old early human, explains how her fossil remains inform current understandings about human evolution.
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I'll Be Seeing You
by Elizabeth Berg
The New York Times bestselling author, in this moving memoir, shares her experiences caring for her parents in their final years, charting the passage from the anguish of loss to the understanding that even in the most fractious of times, love can heal.
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Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind
by Peter Godfrey-Smith
Combining vivid animal encounters with philosophical reflections and the latest news from biology, Metazoa reveals that even in our high-tech, AI-driven times, there is no understanding our minds without understanding nerves, muscles, and active bodies. The story that results is as rich and vibrant as life itself.
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No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality
by Michael J. Fox
The award-winning actor shares personal stories and observations about illness and health, aging, the strength of family and friends, and how our perceptions about time affect the way we approach mortality.
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One Life
by Megan Rapinoe
The Olympic gold medalist and two-time Women's World Cup champion describes her childhood in a conservative California town, her athletic achievements and her public advocacy of civil rights and urgently needed social change.
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The Practice: Shipping Creative Work
by Seth Godin
From the bestselling author of Linchpin, Tribes, and The Dip comes an elegant little book that will inspire artists, writers, and entrepreneurs to stretch and commit to putting their best work out into the world. Creative work doesn't come with a guarantee. But there is a pattern to who succeeds and who doesn't. And engaging in the consistent practice of its pursuit is the best way forward.
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This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing
by Jacqueline Winspear
In this deeply personal portrayal of a post-War England we rarely see, the best-selling author reflects on her childhood in the English countryside, of working class indomitability and family secrets, of artistic inspiration and the price of memory.
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Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man
by Emmanuel Acho
Acho takes on all the questions, large and small, insensitive and taboo, many white Americans are afraid to askâyet which all Americans need the answers to, now more than ever. Acho explains the vital core of such fraught concepts as white privilege, cultural appropriation, and "reverse racism."
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We Gather Together
by Denise Kiernan
A narrative account of the life and achievements of 19th-century magazine publisher Sarah Hale explores her cultural influence, advocacy of women's education and 36-year campaign to establish a national day of thanks.
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