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Bill Bryson

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Laura Schroff

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Elizabeth Hay

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Judith Ortiz Cofer

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Rita Dove

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20

Paula Vogel

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Christopher G. Moore

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Karen Hesse

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Mike Berenstain

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Anna Quindlen

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Linda Woolverton

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Terri McMillan

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Roland Smith

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Faye Kellerman

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Lutz Rathenow

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Steven Callahan

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Dana Stabenow

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Naomi Shihab Nye

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Steve Barnes

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Sarah Ellis

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Diana Gabaldon

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Orhan Pamuk

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Mark Fuhrman

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Tomson Highway

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Angie Sage

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Walter Isaacson

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Charlaine Harris

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Ehsan Sehgal

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Jimmy Santiago Baca

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Walter Mosley

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Johanna Lindsey

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Dean Parisot

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Don Miguel Ruiz

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