Amy A. Bartol is the award-winning author of the Premonition series, which includes the novels Inescapable, Intuition, Indebted, and Incendiary. A graduate of Hillsdale College, she lives in Michigan with her husband and their two sons. Visit Amy at amyabartol.com.

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Beverly Barton (1946–2011) was known for her romantic suspense novels. She wrote over thirty contemporary romance novels and created the popular Protectors series.

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Bernadette Barton is professor of sociology and gender studies at Morehead State University, and the author of Stripped: Inside the Lives of Exotic Dancers and Pray the Gay Away: The Extraordinary Lives of Bible Belt Gays.

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Bree Barton is a writer in Los Angeles. When she's not lost in whimsy, she works as a ghostwriter and dance teacher to teen girls. She is on Instagram and YouTube as Speak Breely, where she posts funny videos of her melancholy dog. Bree is not a fan of corsets.

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Omer Bartov is Visiting Raoul Wallenberg Professor at Rutgers University, and is the author of The Eastern Front, 1941-1945.

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Roger Bartra is an emeritus researcher at the Institute for Social Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico. His books translated into English include Anthropology of the Brain; Angels in Mourning; and Blood, Ink, and Culture.

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Combining her skills as a journalist with a master's degree in physics, Marcia Bartusiak has been covering the fields of astronomy and physics for three decades. Currently a professor of the practice of the Graduate Program in Science Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she is the award-winning author of six critically acclaimed books. Visit her at marciabartusiak.com.

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Darshana M. Baruah is a foreign policy scholar with a focus on maritime security. She has spent time working on her research across think tanks in Delhi, Canberra, Tokyo, and Washington, DC. She is currently director (Geopolitics and Security) at the Australia India Institute, based in Sydney.

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Blondy Baruti is a former basketball star and an actor. He was born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, attended the University of Tulsa, and currently lives in California. Blondy has starred in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 as Huhtar, and has filmed several pilots for ABC.

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A. S. Barwich is an assistant professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University Bloomington. She has been a Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience at Columbia University's Center for Science and Society Visit her at smellosophy.com.

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Nicholas A. Basbanes is an award-winning investigative journalist and was literary editor of the Worcester Sunday Telegram. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Smithsonian. He is the author of eight books. Basbanes lives in North Grafton, Massachusetts.

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Rodrigo Basco is professor and the Sheikh Saoud bin Khalid bin Khalid Al-Qassimi Chair in Family Business at the American University of Sharjah, UAE.

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