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Junot Diaz

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Junot Díaz is a Dominican Republic immigrant best selling writer. He is also the creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and fiction editor at The Boston Review. He serves on the board of advisers for Freedom University, a volunteer organization in Georgia that provides post-secondary instruction to undocumented immigrants

Yuval Noah Harari

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Yuval Noah Harari is the author of  international bestsellers.  He is an Israeli historian and a professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Guardian quotes Yuval as saying..."Homo Sapiens as we know them will disappear in a century or so." Yuval also gives a free online course in English titled..."  A Brief History of Humankind ."  Over the years, more than 100,000 people throughout the world....  have already taken his course.

Winslow Eliot

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Winslow Eliot's novels have been translated into eleven languages and published in twenty countries. Through practices, meditations, and fun improvisations, the author takes you on a journey that activates the search and discovery of your soul’s purpose. She shows you  a way to breathe authenticity into every part of your daily existence by....  offering a map toward self-actualization. This is done through 22 stages of the traditional Fool’s journey, and using a wide variety of wisdom sources and practical exercises, including Sufism, Buddhism, Taoist philosophies, anthroposophy, mystical Christianity, Jungian psychology, mythology.......  and her own life experience.

Ray Bradbury

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In a career spanning more than seventy years, Ray Bradbury , who died on June 5, 2012, at the age of 91, inspired generations of readers to dream, think, and create. A prolific author of hundreds of short stories and close to fifty books, as well as numerous poems, essays, operas, plays, teleplays, and screenplays.....  Bradbury was one of the most celebrated writers of our time.! His groundbreaking works include Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles , The Illustrated Man , Dandelion Wine , and Something Wicked This Way Comes . Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel "Fahrenheit 451" is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction,  Firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never quest...

Danielle Steel

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  Danielle Steel is the fourth-best-selling fiction author of all time! It is estimated 800 million copies of her work has been sold!  I’ve written 161 books (I’m published in 69 countries and 43 languages), which seems like a lot, even to me. I publish six books a year (7 this year), and work on several at the same time. Sometimes I work on five books at the same time. It sounds crazy, but it works for me, like an artist who has several painting in progress. It’s a juggling act, but I love it. And I try to keep the books different, so I do historicals and books with contemporary themes, books that deal with problems or tragedies and what that does to people’s lives. The books are set in industries or particular settings. I learn a lot when I write them. I also write happy or fun books. Sometimes I laugh out loud when I’m writing, or cry when I’m writing a sad part. If you laugh or cry when you’re reading them, you can bet that I did too when I wrote them. I’ve also wri...