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Derek’s favorite books

Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose

Endurance by Alfred Lansing

Self-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Big Burn by Timothy Egan

Killer of Men by Christian Cameron

The Immortal Irishman by Timothy Egan

Ridgeline by Michael Punke

The Expectation Effect by David Robson

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A River Runs Thro...

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A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

by Norman Maclean

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Biography, Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Science, Self help, and Spirituality

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