Cindy Beall and her husband, Chris, walked through infidelity and found healing through Christ. Today, they minister at Life.Church in Oklahoma. A speaker, mentor, and author, Cindy serves on Life.Church's Leading and Loving It team, which ministers to pastors' wives and women in ministry. Visit her at cindybeall.com.

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Jo Beall is a British economist and academic, specializing in development studies, economic development, and economic history.

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Melba Patillo Beals earned a bachelor's degree from San Franciso State University and a graduate degree from Columbia University and worked as a reporter for NBC. Warriors Don't Cry was an ALA Notable Book for 1995 and won the 1995 Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award.

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Alex Beam is a columnist for the Boston Globe and a former Moscow correspondent. He is the author of two novels, Fellow Travelers and The Americans are Coming!, as well as three works of nonfiction: American Crucifixion; Gracefully Insane; and A Great Idea at the Time, the latter two both New York Times Notable Books.

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Cris Beam is the author of several award-winning books, including To The End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care and Transparent: Love, Family and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers. Her journalism has been featured in several national magazines and on public radio.

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Elizabeth Bear was the recipient of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2005. She has won two Hugo Awards for her short fiction, a Sturgeon Award, and the Locus Award for Best First Novel. Her books include the acclaimed Eternal Sky series and Edda of Burdens series.

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Vanessa Bear, BA(Hons), PGCE, MBACP, lives in the Lake District, United Kingdom. She integrates psychotherapeutic counselling with yoga, mindfulness, art, and nature-connection.

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Amy Bearce is the author of the World of Aluvia series, an upper-middle grade fantasy series that bridges the gap between middle grade and young adult books. Visit her at amybearce.com.

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Amanda Beard is a seven-time Olympic medalist. She lives in Tucson, Arizona, with her husband, the photographer Sacha Brown, and her son, Blaise.

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Mary Beard is a professor of classics at Cambridge University and the author of the bestselling SPQR, Women & Power, and the National Book Critics Circle Award–nominated Confronting the Classics. A popular blogger and television personality, Beard is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books.

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Kim Bearden is the cofounder, executive director, and language arts teacher at the Ron Clark Academy, an internationally renowned middle school and educator training facility. She resides in Atlanta with her husband, Scotty, and daughter, Madison.

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Maddalena Bearzi is president and cofounder of Ocean Conservation Society. She holds a PhD in biology and a postdoctorate from UCLA, and she has been involved in studying marine mammals, with a conservation bias, since 1990.

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