Jodie LynnZdrok holds two MAs in European history and an MBA. In addition to being an author, she's a marketing professional, a freelancer, and an unapologetic Boston sports fan. She enjoys traveling, being a foodie, doing sprint triathlons, and enabling cats. Spectacle is her debut.

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Sergey Zaytsev is the author of more than fifteen books in different genres. His series include the Specialist, the Indestructible, and Universe ICS.

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Cynthia Zayn is a public school teacher who has taught many grades from preschool to first-year college students in the United States and abroad. A graduate of Warner Southern College, she lives in the Atlanta, Georgia, area and is the mother of three teenaged children.

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Claudia Zayfert, PhD, a clinical psychologist, is an internationally renowned expert in cognitive-behavioral therapy who has worked with trauma survivors for over twenty years.

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Robin Zasio, Psy.D., LCSW, is the host of Animal Planet's series My Extreme Animal Phobia and a featured doctor on the Emmy Award–winning hit A&E series Hoarders.

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Dana Zartner is a professor in the International Studies Department and adjunct professor at the School of Law at the University of San Francisco. She is also the author of Courts, Codes, and Custom: Legal Tradition and State Policy Toward International Human Rights and Environmental Law.

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Lindy Zart is the USA Today bestselling author of several books, including Safe and Sound, Dating Husbands, and Lily. Lindy lives in Wisconsin. Visit her at lindyzart.com.

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Cynthia Zarin is the award-winning author of five books of poetry, including Orbit and The Ada Poems, as well as five books for children and two essay collections, Two Cities and An Enlarged Heart: A Personal History. A longtime contributor to the New Yorker, she teaches at Yale University and lives in New York City.

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Julien Zarifian is professor in US history and civilization at the University of Poitiers, France, and fellow at the Institut Universitaire de France. He is the author of two books in French and has published dozens of academic articles in journals, such as Society and European Journal of American Studies.

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Robert Zaretsky's books include Boswell's Enlightenment, A Life Worth Living, Catherine & Diderot, and The Subversive Simone Weil. A columnist for the Jewish Daily Forward, he is also a frequent contributor to the New York Times, the Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, the Times Literary Supplement, and Slate.

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José Luis Zárate Herrera is one of the most recognized and respected Mexican writers within the science fiction genre, although he has also developed literary works in other genres. His work includes The Route of Ice and Salt.

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Juan C. Zarate is the global comanaging partner and chief strategy officer of K2 Intelligence Financial Integrity Network. He also is chairman and cofounder of the Center on Economic and Financial Power at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

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