In this episode, Abbe, despite being late to the game, raves about Tara Westover's memoir, Educated.

Then, she chats and laughs with author Delia Owens about her novel, Where the Crawdads Sing, elephant behavior, and what it was like to meet fellow southern gal, Reese Witherspoon. She even shares what books she loves reading and re-reading and why she resists having Where the Crawdads Sing classified as historical fiction.

Finally, in a moving conversation, Abbe gets personal with psychic medium and author, Laura Lynne Jackson, about her most recent work, Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe and messages we receive from loved ones on the other side.

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