Erin Sears Basile, or "Sears kid number five," as she will joke about, has experienced first-hand the magical benefits of a happy, healthy household. Growing up in the fun and sometimes crazy Sears home with seven siblings has taught her a lot about the importance of family values, and leading a life of service.

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Nora Raleigh Baskin is the ALA Schneider Family Book Award–winning author of Anything But Typical. She was chosen as a Publishers Weekly Flying Start for her novel What Every Girl (Except Me) Knows, and has since written a number of novels for middle graders and teens, including The Truth About My Bat Mitzvah.

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Celina Baljeet Basra is a writer and cultural worker based in Berlin. She is a founder of the Department of Love, a curatorial collective. Happy is her first novel.

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Elizabeth Bass lives on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. She is the author of many smartly written works of romance and women's fiction, including Summer Days, Life Is Sweet, and Wherever Grace Is Needed. As Liz Ireland, she is the author of Mrs. Claus and the Santaland Slayings and Mrs. Claus and the Halloween Homicide.

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Diana Butler Bass is the author of many books, including Christianity After Religion, Christianity for the Rest of Us, and A People's History of Christianity. She holds a PhD in religious studies from Duke University, has taught at the college and graduate level, and is currently an independent scholar.

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S. Jonathan Bass is a professor at Alabama's Samford University and the author of Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Martin Luther King, Jr., Eight White Religious Leaders, and the "Letter from Birmingham Jail." He lives in Birmingham, Alabama.

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Jefferson Bass is the writing team of Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson. Dr. Bass, a world-renowned forensic anthropologist, founded the University of Tennessee's Anthropology Research Facility—the Body Farm. Jon Jefferson is a veteran journalist, writer, and documentary filmmaker.

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Omar Bassal, CFA, is the founder and managing director of Shukr Investments. Bassal holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation, an MBA with honors from the Wharton School of Business, and has been investing since 1994.

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Giorgio Bassani (1916–2000) was a renowned Italian author, editor, and critic. Though born in Bologna, he spent his youth in Ferrara. After a brief imprisonment for anti-Fascist activities, he moved first to Florence, then to Rome, where he remained for the rest of his life.

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Dani S. Bassett is J. Peter Skirkanich Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania. They are the author of more than 300 scientific research articles in neuroscience, physics, network science, and complex systems science.

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James C. Bassett is the author of Living Real and coeditor of the anthology Zombiesque.

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Marie Bassette has been writing and telling stories since she was old enough to fathom it. You can also find her taking orders from her cat, getting dangerously competitive at digital word games, and saying "ow!" or "sorry!" because she once again got lost in thought and forgot the dimensions of her physical existence.

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