Best-Selling author, Jeff Patterson returns to Aspen's Explore Booksellers with his life-changing book, The Big Thing Effect: How To Transform Your Life Forever. The Big Thing Effect is an inspirational self-help and business guide that reads like an adventure novel.

Chuck Collins is director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. A descendant of meat packer Oscar Mayer, he gave away his inheritance at age 26. He is a founding board member of the Patriotic Millionaires and is an expert on U.S. wealth inequality and the racial wealth divide.

Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy: The Activist Who Saved Nature from the Conservationists is the award-winning biography of the woman (1877-1962) who achieved many of America’s most important conservation victories of the mid-20th century. These included the establishment of Olympic National Park and Kings Canyon National Park. Author Dyana Z. Furmansky had access to Edge’s personal papers and conducted interviews with family members and associates for her book.

Beloved author Lisa See, author of On Gold Mountain and Flower Net, spoke at Explore about her captivating and vivid new novel, Lady Tan’s Circle of Women.

Michael Findlay, author of The Value of Art and Seeing Slowly: Looking at Modern Art is an art dealer and author. He was an early presence on the New York art scene curating major exhibitions in galleries there with artists including Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Indiana, Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, and Ellsworth Kelly.

Listen in to hear Shelley Read talk about her debut novel; Go As a River is an assured and moving debut set in the stunning natural world of the Colorado mountains.

Listen in to hear what Aspen was like in the 70s and 80s as recounted by four friends who grew up there — Andy Collen, Chris Pomeroy, Dean Jackson, and Lo Semple. Andy's new book, Growing Up Aspen: Adventures of the Unsupervised is set before Prada, Gucci, and paparazzi — back when Aspen was like Mayberry in the mountains but with John Denver, Nick DeWolf, and Ted Bundy.

Long-distance swimmer Matt Moseley has swum great rivers and seas to tell stories about our rivers, lakes and oceans and bring attention to our water. His new book, Soul is Waterproof: Adventure Swimming and Stories of Water, takes the reader on long-distance swims, down rivers, across lakes, and through coral reefs. In his book, Matt passes along essential life lessons, and explains why water will be the defining issue of our times.

Explore hosted Doug Peacock, author, filmmaker, and wildlife activist. In his new book, Was It Worth It?: A Wilderness Warrior's Long Trail Home, Peacock reflects on a life lived in the wild and sojourns with his generation’s environmental leaders: Author Peter Matthiessen, Yvon Chouinard of Patagonia, Doug Tompkins of North Face.