November 2019 list by Donalee Jacobs
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Everything is Figureoutable
by Marie Forleo
The award-winning star of MarieTV and host of “The Marie Forleo Podcast” outlines a simple mindset that significantly increases the odds of pursuing goals successfully, sharing advice on how to manage self-doubt, haters and making high-risk decisions.
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The Fall of Richard Nixon: A Reporter Remembers Watergate
by Tom Brokaw
The Presidential Medal of Freedom-winning former NBC host and author of the best-selling The Greatest Generation draws on his experiences as a young White House correspondent to recount the endgames of the Watergate scandal and the Nixon presidency.
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Grit & Grace: Train the Mind, Train the Body, Own Your Life
by Tim McGraw
For the first time ever, the Grammy Award-winning music superstar and actor shares his transformation story along with encouragement, practical advice and mental approach together with exercise tips to help readers become healthy, strong and fit in mind and body.
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The Harder You Work, the Luckier You Get
by Joe Ricketts
The founder of TD Ameritrade shares the inside story of his rise from a working-class Nebraska prairie youth to a Wall Street billionaire, discussing the challenges, mistakes and sacrifices his family endured along the way.
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In Plain Sight: The Kaufman County Prosecutor Murders
by Kathryn Casey
On a cold January morning, Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse was executed in broad daylight. That was just the beginning. The crimes covered front pages around the world, many saying the killer placed a target square on the back of law enforcement. Throughout the spring of 2013, the killer sowed terror through a small Texas town, and a quest for vengeance turned to deadly obsession. His intention? To keep killing, until someone found a way to stop him.
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The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs
by Tristan Gooley
Based on the author's outdoor experiences, he presents a compendium of information and forecasting details that can be gathered from observations about plants, animals, landscapes, buildings, clouds, stars, sun, and the moon.
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Manhunters: How We Took Down Pablo Escobar
by Steve Murphy
A memoir by the legendary DEA agents who inspired the hit series, Narcos, describes the challenges and innovative strategies that marked their Colombian-U.S. task force’s successful 18-month manhunt for narco-terrorist Pablo Escobar.
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Outward Bound Lessons to Live a Life of Leadership
by Mark Michaux Brown
This is the first book to describe in detail the principles of Outward Bound, told through the stories of former instructors and graduates who show how to apply them to create healthier, more effective teams, organizations and communities.
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Renia's Diary
by Renia Spiegel
This English-language translation of teen holocaust victim Renia Spiegel’s secret journal chronicles her witness to the Nazi invasion of Poland, her Jewish family’s forced relocation to the Przemsyl ghetto and her attempt to go into hiding.
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She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman
by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Explores the complexities and achievements of iconic abolitionist Harriet Tubman, combining rare commentary with new and public-domain photographs to offering modern insights into Tubman’s role in the Civil War, suffrage and emancipation.
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