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You may think that cults are bizarre groups that only strange people inhabit, but sociologist Janja Lalich says that by studying cults we can learn about our place in the world. This week join Nancy for a conversation with a cult survivor about her book, Escaping Utopia: Growing Up in a Cult, Getting Out, and Starting Over.
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Nancy and Chico Enterprise-Record columnist Dan Barnett look back at books by local writers of the past year.
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Neuroscientist and psychology professor Chantel Prat helps you better understand the brain's strengths.
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Author Jim Hasse shares a selection of connected war stories featuring his fictional alter ego "Jay Boone Hanson."
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Butte College Anthropology instructor Mike Findlay is a scholar who has contributed to research in Asian-American culture and Mesoamerican Studies. He is…
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Award-winning investigative journalist Mary Roach writes humorously about weird science. In her book Grunt, the best-selling New York Times author…
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Gayle Brandeis grew up in the Chicago area and has been writing poems and stories since she was four years old. She is the author of many titles,…
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Local researcher Maris Thompson collected stories of immigration in the German American Midwest during World War I. Award-winning NPR journalist Tom…
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Author Jackie Shannon Hollis explores the past in her memoir, This Particular Happiness: A Childless Love Story. This Particular Happiness examines…
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Emily Gallo moved to Chico, CA, and retired from teaching in 2006. She started writing screenplays and television and moved into novels. She published her…