Diana Abu-Jaber (The Language of Baklava)
Kaye Gibbons (Ellen Foster)
Elizabeth Gilbert (Last American Man)
Jeff Goodell (Big Coal)
Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees)
Tracy Kidder (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
Alex Kotlowitz (There are No Children Here)
James Howard Kunstler (Geography of Nowhere)
Dr. Paul Polak (Out of Poverty)
Dr. Christopher Phillips (Six Questions of Socrates)
David Oliver Relin (Three Cups of Tea)
Krista Tippett (Speaking of Faith, Einstein's God)
Norah Vincent (Self-Made Man)

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