David Bessis lectured on his research in algebra, geometry, and topology at leading institutions around the world, and taught at Yale University and École normale supérieure. He lives in Paris, France.

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Evgeni Bessonov spent almost a year in training before he was sent to the Bryansk Front in July 1943 to serve as a Platoon Commander in the Soviet 4th Tank Army. He would survive the months of bitter fighting that lay ahead, including being wounded in the Battle for Berlin, to retell his experiences in Tank Rider.

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Alfred Bester's passionate novels of worldly adventure, high intellect, and tremendous verve, The Stars My Destination and the Hugo Award–winning The Demolished Man, established Bester as a science fiction grandmaster, a reputation that was ratified by the Science Fiction Writers of America. He died in 1987.

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Tamsyn Bester is the author of several novels, including Beneath Your Beautiful, Precious Consequences, and Begin Again. She is a blogger turned author who has an insatiable hunger for new adult contemporary romance novels, coffee, and chocolate.

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Alan Bestic was an Irish journalist. The author of several books, including The Importance of Being Irish, he became best known for having ghostwritten the memoir of Rudolf Vrba, who escaped from the Auschwitz concentration camp.

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Manuel Betancourt is a queer Colombian culture writer and film critic. His work has been featured in the New York Times, BuzzFeed Reader, Los Angeles Times, Film Quarterly, Los Angeles Review of Books, and GQ Style, among others.

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Theresa S. Betancourt is the inaugural Salem Professor in Global Practice at the Boston College School of Social Work and Director of the Research Program on Children and Adversity. She was an advisor for UNICEF, the International Rescue Committee, Amnesty International, the US Institute of Peace, and the WHO.

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Stephen J. Betchen maintains a full-time private practice in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, specializing in couples therapy and teaches couples therapy in the clinical doctoral program at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice.

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The Betches are the creators of the popular Web site BetchesLoveThis.com.

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Rae Beth is a hedge witch, wildwood mystic, and the author of several books, including The Hedge Witch's Way, Lamp of the Goddess, Spellcraft for Hedge Witches, and The Wiccan Way.

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Bethany-Kris is the author of many books, including the Filthy Marcellos series and the Chicago War series. She lives in a small town in Eastern Canada. Visit her at bethanykris.com.

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Betty Bethards (d. 2002) was a renowned mystic who not only shared her gifts but lived by them. An author, lecturer, and teacher, Betty was known as the "Common Sense Guru." She was the founder of the Inner Light Foundation, a nonprofit, spiritual organization.

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