The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive Book 1)

By Brandon Sanderson / Genre: Epic, Fantasy / Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (2,495 reviews)

In The Way of Kings, #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson introduces readers to the fascinating world of Roshar, a world of stone and storms. It has been centuries since the fall of the Knights Radiant, but their mystical swords and armor remain, transforming ordinary men into near-invincible warriors. Men trade kingdoms for them. Wars are fought for them and won by them. One such war rages on the Shattered Plains where Kaladin, son of a surgeon, has been reduced to slavery, and Dalinar, commander of the armies, is plagued by dreams of ancient times, doubting his own sanity. Across the ocean, Shallan, a naïve but brave and brilliant young woman, plans a daring theft to save her impoverished noble house from ruin. The result of over ten years of planning, writing, and world-building, The Way of Kings is Book 1 of The Stormlight Archive, an epic fantasy masterpiece in the making.

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Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II

By Mitchell Zuckoff / Genre: Australia & Oceania, History / Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars (846 reviews)

“A lost world, man-eating tribesmen, lush andimpenetrable jungles, stranded American fliers (one of them a dame withgreat gams, for heaven’s sake), a startling rescue mission. . . . This is atrue story made in heaven for a writer as talented as Mitchell Zuckoff. Whew—what an utterly compelling and deeplysatisfying read!” —Simon Winchester, author of Atlantic
 
Award-winning former Boston Globe reporter Mitchell Zuckoffunleashes the exhilarating, untold story of an extraordinary World War IIrescue mission, where a plane crash in the South Pacific plunged a trio of U.S.military personnel into a land that time forgot. Fans of Hampton Sides’ Ghost Soldiers, Marcus Luttrell’s Lone Survivor, and David Grann’s The Lost Cityof Z will be captivated by Zuckoff’s masterfullyrecounted, all-true story of danger, daring, determination, and discovery injungle-clad New Guinea during the final days of WWII.

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Pretty Little Liars

By Sara Shepard / Genre: Romantic, Mysteries & Thrillers, Teen & Young Adult / Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (581 reviews)

I’m still here. And I know everything. –A The first book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that inspired the hit ABC Family TV show Pretty Little Liars.In ultra-trendy Rosewood, Pennsylvania, four beautiful girls are hiding very ugly secrets. High school juniors Spencer, Hanna, Aria and Emily have grown apart since their best friend Alison DiLaurentis went missing three years ago. But now someone is sending them anonymous notes, threatening to reveal their darkest secrets. There’s only one person who knows that much about them, but Ali’s gone…isn’t she?Full of unexpected twists and shocking revelations, this series opener that inspired the hit TV show is the perfect beginning for fans.

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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

By Julia Alvarez / Genre: Literary, Contemporary Fiction / Rating: 3.7 out of 5 stars (197 reviews)

The Garcías—Dr. Carlos (Papi), his wife Laura (Mami), and their four daughters, Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofía—belong to the uppermost echelon of Spanish Caribbean society, descended from the conquistadores. Their family compound adjoins the palacio of the dictator’s daughter. So when Dr. García’s part in a coup attempt is discovered, the family must flee.

They arrive in New York City in 1960 to a life far removed from their existence in the Dominican Republic. Papi has to find new patients in the Bronx. Mami, far from the compound and the family retainers, must find herself. Meanwhile, the girls try to lose themselves—by forgetting their Spanish, by straightening their hair and wearing fringed bell bottoms. For them, it is at once liberating and excruciating being caught between the old world and the new, trying to live up to their father’s version of honor while accommodating the expectations of their American boyfriends. Acclaimed writer Julia Alvarez’s brilliant and buoyant first novel sets the García girls free to tell their most intimate stories about how they came to be at home—and not at home—in America.

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The Moldy Dead (The Legend of ZERO)

By Sara King / Genre: Military, Science Fiction / Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (99 reviews)

The Moldy Dead is one of the powerful and poignant “Creation Myth” stories for Sara King’s overwhelmingly popular Legend of ZERO series. It is the history of Congress’ First Contact with the sentient species known as the Geuji, and the unspeakable tragedy that befell their entire species in the early history of Congress. It’s a SHORT story, approx 8,000 words, and is touted by many to be one of King’s best short works. A must-read for fans of the ZERO series!

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Witch to Choose (Heart of a Witch Book 1)

By H.T. Night / Genre: Witches & Wizards, Paranormal, Romance / Rating: 3.3 out of 5 stars (81 reviews)

Witch to Choose book 1 in the ‘Heart of a Witch series.

At thirty, Sahara is in a rut. She’s not dating anyone, her job is stressful and she’s not having very much fun, either.

All that is about to change when she meets three people.

The first is Paris, a real-life witch who wants to be Sahara’s mentor and friend. The next two are both men. Gorgeous men. Each of whom just might just be the man of her dreams.

Like they say: when it rains, it pours.

Now, as Sahara finds herself challenged by the very magic she’s just learning to embrace, a mysterious and dangerous force threatens her. Soon, it becomes clear that there’s only one way to deal with the escalating danger. Sahara is about to discover that she’s a lot more powerful than she ever dreamed possible.

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Eternity: An Inspirational Romance Novel (The Friendship Series, Book 1)

By Staci Stallings / Genre: Romance, Religious & Inspirational Fiction / Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars (37 reviews)

Aaron Foster thought he had the perfect life until his fiancee walked out of their apartment and then back in again with his new roommate. In desperation Aaron and his best friend, Harmony Jordan, devise The Plan to save Drew’s heart from getting shattered, but when The Plan succeeds beyond their wildest expectation, it could spell heartache for them all.

Harmony Jordan has loved Aaron Foster since the first minute he rescued her from a literal computer crash. The only problem is, Aaron only sees her as a friend. Trying to be content to be the person Aaron goes to when life crashes around him, Harmony puts her heart on the line for him to help him rescue his in-for-real-trouble new roommate. However, she never expected the roommate to fall for her, or for her to fall for him. Now what?

“Eternity,” a gem among Contemporary Romance novels, proves romances can be melded with inspirational books to produce something truly amazing and unexpected. Delving into and through the subject most contemporary romance books are predicated upon—free and easy sex, “Eternity” shows that romance novels don’t have to have characters hopping into bed to be romantic, fun, and entertaining. Further, it seeks to dispel the myth that all romantic relationships must start and end in the bedroom. As romance books go, it has all the romance in a clean, inspirational read that any lover of romance novels will appreciate.

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A Love Surrendered (Winds of Change Book #3): A Novel

By Julie Lessman / Genre: Romance, Religious & Inspirational Fiction / Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (175 reviews)

Orphaned in Iowa, Annie Kennedy moves to Boston to stay with her spinster aunt. She longs for romance to fill the void left by her parents’ death. But when she falls hard for Steven O’Connor, the man who broke an engagement to her sister, Annie is worried. Will he break her heart too when he discovers who she really is?

With heart-pounding romance, intense family drama, and emotional twists and turns, A Love Surrendered is everything Julie Lessman’s many fans have been waiting for.

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Beautiful and Broken

By Sara Hubbard / Genre: Women’s Fiction, Contemporary Fiction / Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (26 reviews)

Molly’s a hot mess and her life is falling apart.

Just when she thinks she’s about to get her happily ever after, her sister steps in to have an affair with her fiancé on her wedding day. Determined to bring Molly out of her funk, her friends take her out for a night on the town, only for her to go home with a professional boxer who pops in and out of her life when she least expects it. Her mother tries to push her back into the arms of her cheating ex, but forgiving Jason is the hardest thing Molly will ever have to do. And even if she can forgive him, does her happily ever after include her ex-fiance, or the charming boxer with a shady past?

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The Britannia Conspiracy

By Peter Middleton / Genre: British, Horror / Rating: 4.9 out of 5 stars (28 reviews)

Legions of Roman soldiers, dead for nearly 2,000 years, rise from their graves, under London’s streets, with an insatiable desire for vengeance, and a ravenous thirst for human blood.

When conventional weapons fail to destroy them, the nation’s only hope lies with a few seemingly ordinary men and women who are willing to risk their lives in a battle against the living and the dead. They have just hours to find out why the Romans have returned and recover the one relic that can send this invincible army back to hell. If they fail, they will be the last heroes Britain will ever have, because the nation’s proud history will come to a devastating and cataclysmic end.

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The Noru: Blue Rose (The Noru Series, Book 1)

By Lola StVil / Genre: Paranormal & Urban, Fantasy, Teen & Young Adult / Rating: 4.9 out of 5 stars (71 reviews)

“After speaking to the other angels on the team, I hang up my cell and sigh. No one’s heard from Aaden in months. This bothers me not only as the leader but as his girl–well if I was his girl–which I’m not. 
Great. Now on top of being grounded, I’m sitting here acting girly and needy. Argh!!!

Screw this! I start to head downstairs to plead my case to my parents again, when something out the window catches my eye. I lean in closer to get a good look. What I see astounds me: soundlessly and without hesitation, the humans line up and jump off the roof one at a time…”

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Beneath Montana’s Sky: A Montana Sky Novella (Montana Sky Series)

By Debra Holland / Genre: Westerns, Romance / Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (72 reviews)

Plain and timid, debutante Pamela Burke-Smythe is a wallflower at the high society Boston balls she attends, overlooked by possible suitors. One-by-one, her friends become engaged, and Pamela resigns herself as to life as a spinster.

When rancher John Carter becomes guardian to his orphaned godson, Nick, nothing he does seems to help the grieving, angry boy. At his wit’s end, he believes that a wife might help draw Nick out, and lonely himself, John’s been thinking along the matrimonial lines for a while anyway. But small Sweetwater Springs, Montana, has no suitable candidates. He decides to visit his great-aunt Hester in Boston and bring back a wife who is kind and compassionate, can be a mother figure to Nick, and who can adapt to the hard life on the ranch.

Hester plays matchmaker for John, introducing him to Pamela. John responds to Pamela’s kind heart and believes he’s found the ideal woman. But Pamela never thought to marry a stranger and leave Boston, and her family and friends are against the idea. She musters all her meager courage to defy her loved ones and seize her only chance at marriage.

After a whirlwind courtship, the couple marries and travels west. Pamela discovers a run-down ranch house, a bunch of unruly cowboys, a sullen boy, and a different way of life. Can their new marriage survive the challenge?

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From Darkness

By D R Gordon / Genre: Dark Fantasy, Horror / Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (53 reviews)

An Elizabethan age girl is pursued by a mysterious suitor.

Deep in the backwoods a pair of hunters become the hunted.

The great dreamer travels through the void searching for his final resting place.

A group of revellers head to the ultimate club, but, what is the door charge?

D R Gordon’s Debut horror collection “From Darkness” is filled with monsters. Monsters of the flesh and the mind. You will find ghosts, demons, and gods of old within these pages; a myriad of fiends born from Darkness. In the tradition of the grandfathers of short horror fiction Poe, Lovecraft, Blackwood and Le Fanu D R provides snapshots of the human mind at its most fiendish, its most terrified, its darkest.

His sharp style takes us from a fifteenth century village, as a witch hunter comes to town, to the grimy back-streets of modern cities, where ladies of the night ply their wares, with the skill and ease of an accomplished wordsmith.

Beware those who enter the world of D R Gordon, you will not come out the same.

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Ripple: A Dolphin Love Story

By Tui Allen / Genre: Metaphysical / Rating: 4.9 out of 5 stars (52 reviews)

Twenty million years ago, powers of the universe allow an ancient spirit one final chance to achieve a mysterious intellectual purpose, by incarnating it as a dolphin on the planet Azure (Earth.) The spirit is born as Ripple, a vulnerable female with a seeming tendency to insanity. She falls for the scarred fighter-dolphin Cosmo and love inspires her to achieve her purpose. But before she can communicate her discovery, she must overcome terrific odds among the terrors and tragedies of the ancient oceans. If she can succeed, the universe will change forever, and allow dolphins to profoundly affect the yet-to-evolve human race.

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Erra’s Throne: Column One (Erra’s Throne, Tablet One Book 1)

By James Carmichael / Genre: Fantasy & Magic, Science Fiction, Fantasy & Scary Stories, Children’s eBooks / Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars (35 reviews)

It all started when Emmy Kim murdered her Raid Leader, which sounds pretty bad if you don’t know it happened in a video game. Now, she’s been booted from the elite raiding guild it took her months to get into. Somebody YouTubed a clip of the whole thing, making Emmy and Fehns, her beloved level 80 Ranger, internet-meme laughingstocks. Meanwhile, her parents are cracking down, dragging her out of video-game fantasy worlds and into college-friendly extracurriculars in the so-called “real” one.

Nah, Sophomore year isn’t starting well at all.

And that’s before an ancient Babylonian god starts trying to kill the whole world and Emmy realizes that she and Fehns, together, are all that stand in its way.

Erra’s Throne is a novel in five parts about a kid who has to save humanity by being really, really good at video games. It’s also about family, loyalty, high school, and Kit Kats.

Game on.

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Lady Bess

By Claudy Conn / Genre: British & Irish, Drama & Plays / Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars (267 reviews)

Bess Saunders has fallen in love. He is big, he is charmingly masculine, and his Scottish accent sends her reeling with very unmaiden-like desires.

Having inherited his mother’s English home and title, Earl of Dunkirk of Scotland is considered a prize catch by the haute ton. He knows one day he will have to marry to carry on his name, but he wants a wife who ‘understands’ they will each go their own way after she gives him an heir—a marriage of convenience.

Lady Bess does not fit into those plans. How could she? She is exquisite, yes, but she is also an innocent who expects faithfulness. He won’t ruin an innocent, and yet, he can’t get her out of his head.

All this time, and right in their midst, evil hovers. Although Bess doesn’t look for it, she finds it—and Bess is not your average, simpering female. She takes on danger and mayhem like she does everything else: full throttle.

Adventure ensues as we travel with Bess through romance and the battle of her life.

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Her Sudden Groom (Groom Series Book 1)

By Rose Gordon / Genre: Regency, Historical Romance, Romance / Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars (247 reviews)

The overly scientific, always respectable, and socially awkward Alexander Banks has just been informed his name resides on a betrothal agreement right above the name of the worst chit in all of England. With a loophole that allows him to marry another without consequence before the thirtieth anniversary of his birth, he has only four weeks to find another woman and make her his wife. Being the logical scientist he is, Alex decides to take his friend’s advice and treat his quest for a bride just like a science experiment…

Caroline Sinclair is still trying to scrape her jaw off the floor after hearing her cousin, Lady Olivia’s, latest announcement when the object of their conversation, Alex Banks, Olivia’s intended, arrives for what Caroline assumes is a bout of drawing room chitchat with his betrothed. But when an experiment is mentioned, Caroline, who cannot resist a science experiment any more than she can deny her lungs air, volunteers to help before she even knows what his latest experiment is!

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Dangerous Passage (Southern Crimes Book #1): A Novel

By Lisa Harris / Genre: Romance, Religious & Inspirational Fiction / Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (81 reviews)

When two Jane Does are killed on the outskirts of Atlanta, Georgia, detective and behavioral specialist Avery North discovers they share something in common–a tattoo of a magnolia on their shoulders. Suspecting a serial killer, Avery joins forces with medical examiner Jackson Bryant to solve the crimes and prevent another murder. But it doesn’t take long for them to realize that there is much more to the case than meets the eye. As they venture deep into a sinister world of human trafficking, Avery and Jackson are taken to the very edge of their abilities–and their hearts.

Dangerous Passage exposes a fully-realized and frightening world where every layer peeled back reveals more challenges ahead. Romantic suspense fans will be hooked from the start by Lisa Harris’s first installment of the new Southern Crimes series.

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Naked Determination, 41 Stories About Overcoming Fear

By Gisela Hausmann / Genre: Adventurers & Explorers, Specific Groups, Biographies & Memoirs / Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (75 reviews)

How do you know that you can really trust yourself? What should you do when you nobody seems to understand you? What simple trick can you use to get promoted?

This most humorous life skills book addresses difficult to define topics such as

#TRUST, #ALLIANCES, #TIMING, # MONEY, #FEAR, #GUTS, #WEIGHT ISSUES, #AFFAIRS, #LOVE, #DISCIPLINE, #REJECTION, #RESPECT, #UNDERDOGS, #MOTIVATION, #OVERCOMING, #HOPE

in the most pleasant way – by featuring 41 true stories.

Reading award-winning author Gisela Hausmann’s forty-one uplifting and inspiring stories feels like a chat at fireside. The reader is not lectured but invited to laugh and find the same principles in his or her own life. 41 sticky-notes to be copied and kept at hand allow readers to make their own positives changes.

38 color pictures put proof to the stories as well as to the proposition that indeed, all of us can reach any goal we truly want to reach.

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Veiled (Veiled Series Book 1)

By S Niccum / Genre: Fantasy / Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (68 reviews)

“I have always existed, not just me but all of us, the un-embodied spirits who wait to live.”

Tess is an unborn spirit, who is about to embark on a much awaited journey into mortality to a brand new planet called Earth. She is chosen by the Eternals for an important mission, and is put under a rigorous training by a half-human, half-lion Seraph. This training exposes Tess to some of her darkest fears and insecurities. These experiences force Tess to work on her gift as a discerner of thoughts and reader of auras—thus helping her become one of Heaven’s most powerful angels. But even angels falter, and deep inside her a gnawing fear is growing. Will she meet her soul mate in life? Will their love be strong enough to overcome the forgetting effects of the Veil? And, is she prepared to take on the responsibility of keeping the most dangerous renegade and leader of the Fallen Angels at bay during mortality?

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Dangerous Curves

By Pamela Britton / Genre: Romance, Contemporary Fiction / Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (39 reviews)

Special Agent Cece Blackwell is smart, savvy and knows her way around a race car. Heading up a team to investigate the murder of a NASCAR driver is right up her alley. The only problem is NASCAR star Blain Sanders, the man who requested her. Blain is well-heeled, well connected and drop-dead gorgeous—and he knew Cece when she was a drag-racing tomboy with grease under her nails. But Cece has grown up since then, in all the right places. And while catching the killer is her main objective, she’s not above making the man who ignored her as a teenager squirm a little. Two people on a surefire collision course. But Cece and Blain are about to discover that the sweetest victory does not always come from winning….

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Hale Maree (Crossed & Bared Series Book 1)

By Misty Provencher / Genre: Contemporary, Romance / Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (39 reviews)

Hale Simmons’s life is already bottoming out and she’s only eighteen. Struggling on welfare, while trying to keep her alcoholic father on track, her dreams of having a better life fade a little more each day.

But, when her dad witnesses a brutal accident at the bar one night, it changes the entire course of Hale’s future.

Thrust into an arranged marriage

with Oscar Maree, the playboy son of a wealthy man, Hale must learn to trust a

stranger to give her the life she’s always wanted.

First, Hale needs to figure out if love can ever happen by accident.

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Elevated: A YA Contemporary Romance in Verse

By Elana Johnson / Genre: Teen & Young Adult / Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (37 reviews)

Getting stuck on an elevator with your ex will really get your heart rate ELEVATED…

The last person seventeen-year-old Eleanor Livingston wants to see on the elevator—let alone get stuck with—is her ex-boyfriend Travis, the guy she’s been avoiding for five months.

Plagued with the belief that when she speaks the truth, bad things happen, Elly hasn’t told Trav anything. Not why she broke up with him and cut off all contact. Not what happened the day her father returned from his deployment to Afghanistan. And certainly not that she misses him and still thinks about him everyday.

But with nowhere to hide and Travis so close it hurts, Elly’s worried she won’t be able to contain her secrets for long. She’s terrified of finally revealing the truth, because she can’t bear to watch a tragedy befall the boy she still loves.

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Black Gold: Takhini Wolves, Book 1

By Vivian Arend / Genre: Paranormal, Romance / Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars (37 reviews)

Their wolves are howling at the moon. Their human halves are on different planets. Takhini Wolves, Book 1Lone wolf Shaun Stevens’s automatic response to the words “happily ever after”? Kill me now. Yet with all his friends settling down he’s begun to think there may actually be something to this love-and-roses crap. One thing’s for sure: his dream mate will have to out-cuss, out-spit and out-hike him. So he never expected the one to push his forever button would be a blue-blooded Southern debutante with a voice as dark and velvety as her skin. When Gemmita Jacobs steps off the plane in Whitehorse, Yukon, it’s about more than her caribou research project. It’s her declaration of independence from an overprotected upbringing. Except there’s something in the air she can’t quite define—something that unexpectedly rouses her mating instincts. Moments after their eyes lock, the deed is done—and done thoroughly. When the pheromone dust settles, though, all the reasons they don’t belong together become painfully clear. It’s enough to make a wolf learn a whole new set of cuss words…Warning: Two strong wolves getting exactly what they deserve. Includes wilderness nookie, shifters being naughty in public places, the Midnight Sun as a canopy for seduction and grizzly shifters on the loose. Oh, and don’t forget the sarcasm.

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The Year-god’s Daughter: A Saga of Ancient Greece (The Child of the Erinyes Book 1)

By Rebecca Lochlann / Genre: Sagas, Women’s Fiction / Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (30 reviews)

Book one, The Child of the Erinyes series. A new myth from Ancient Greece.

Step into the Bronze Age. . . .

Crete: A place of magic, of mystery, where violence and sacrifice meet courage and hope.

Aridela: Wrapped in legend, beloved of the people. An extraordinary woman who dances with bulls.

The north wind brings a swift ship and two brothers who plot Crete’s overthrow. Desire for this woman will propel their long rivalry into hatred so murderous it hurtles all three into an unimaginable future, and sparks the immortal rage of the Erinyes.

A woman of keen instinct and unshakeable loyalty. A proud warrior prince and his wounded half-brother. Glory, passion, treachery and conspiracy on the grandest scale.

What seems the end is only the beginning.

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