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In Manson, journalist Jeff Guinn traces the full arc of Charles Manson’s life, from a violent childhood to the 1969 Tate LaBianca murders that shocked the world.
Manson
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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In Manson, journalist Jeff Guinn traces the full arc of Charles Manson’s life, from a violent childhood to the 1969 Tate LaBianca murders that shocked the world. Drawing on new interviews and unreleased material, Guinn places Manson within the chaos of the late sixties, revealing how manipulation, ambition, and ideology turned influence into mass murder. A New York Times bestseller praised by Ann Rule.
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The New York Times bestselling, authoritative account of the life of Charles Manson, filled with surprising new information and previously unpublished photographs: “A riveting, almost Dickensian narrative…four stars” (People).
More than forty years ago Charles Manson and his mostly female commune killed nine people during thin 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders, among them the pregnant actress Sharon Tate. It was the culmination of a criminal career that author Jeff Guinn traces back to Manson’s childhood. Guinn interviewed Manson’s sister and cousin, neither of whom had ever previously cooperated with an author. Childhood friends, cellmates, and even some members of the Manson family have provided new information about Manson’s life. Guinn has made discoveries about the night of the Tate murders, answering unresolved questions, such as why one person near the scene of the crime was spared.
Manson puts the killer in the context of the turbulent late sixties, an era of race riots and street protests when authority in all its forms was under siege. Guinn shows us how Manson created and refined his message to fit the times, persuading confused young women (and a few men) that he had the solutions to their problems. At the same time he used them to pursue his long-standing musical ambitions. His frustrated ambitions, combined with his bizarre race-war obsession, would have lethal consequences.
Guinn’s book is a “tour de force of a biography…Manson stands as a definitive work: important for students of criminology, human behavior, popular culture, music, psychopathology, and sociopathology…and compulsively readable” (Ann Rule, The New York Times Book Review).
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This memoir fits readers who want intimate reflections on loss, heritage, and love.
Crying in H Mart
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Crying in H Mart traces grief through food, memory, and the complicated bond between a daughter and the mother she loses too soon. Michelle Zauner writes about growing up Korean American, feeling distance from parts of her identity, and returning to language, taste, and family history after her mother’s terminal diagnosis. This memoir fits readers who want intimate reflections on loss, heritage, and love.
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the indie rock sensation known as Japanese Breakfast, an unforgettable memoir about family, food, grief, love, and growing up Korean American—“in losing her mother and cooking to bring her back to life, Zauner became herself” (NPR). • CELEBRATING OVER ONE YEAR ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST
In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother's particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother's tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food.
As she grew up, moving to the East Coast for college, finding work in the restaurant industry, and performing gigs with her fledgling band--and meeting the man who would become her husband--her Koreanness began to feel ever more distant, even as she found the life she wanted to live. It was her mother's diagnosis of terminal cancer, when Michelle was twenty-five, that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her.
Vivacious and plainspoken, lyrical and honest, Zauner's voice is as radiantly alive on the page as it is onstage. Rich with intimate anecdotes that will resonate widely, and complete with family photos, Crying in H Mart is a book to cherish, share, and reread.
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Pete Hamill traces his life from a Brooklyn childhood steeped in the rituals of drinking through decades in journalism where alcohol shaped celebration, grief, and identity.
A Drinking Life
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Pete Hamill traces his life from a Brooklyn childhood steeped in the rituals of drinking through decades in journalism where alcohol shaped celebration, grief, and identity. As he confronts how it clouded his work and relationships, he chooses sobriety and clarity. A Drinking Life is a candid, atmospheric memoir of manhood, memory, and an America now vanished.
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"A vivid report of a journey to the edge of self-destruction," the national bestselling memoir from the acclaimed New York City journalist (New York Times).
As a child during the Depression and World War II, Pete Hamill learned early that drinking was an essential part of being a man, inseparable from the rituals of celebration, mourning, friendship, romance, and religion. Only later did he discover its ability to destroy any writer's most valuable tools: clarity, consciousness, memory.
In A Drinking Life, Hamill explains how alcohol slowly became a part of his life, and how he ultimately left it behind. Along the way, he summons the mood of an America that is gone forever, with the bittersweet fondness of a lifelong New Yorker.
"Magnificent. A Drinking Life is about growing up and growing old, working and trying to work, within the culture of drink." —Boston Globe
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After aging out of the system, Adira builds a life through nursing—until a job loss sends her to Oman, where she’s enchanted by the landscape and its people.
Pearl of Arabia
Biographical Fiction · Historical Fiction
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After aging out of the system, Adira builds a life through nursing—until a job loss sends her to Oman, where she’s enchanted by the landscape and its people. But as the sultan’s health falters and rivals vie for power, she discovers her own past is woven into the nation’s fate. To stop its collapse, Adira must uncover the truth before time runs out.
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The captivating saga of an American nurse uncovering her mysterious past in a land far away.
As an orphan who aged out of the system, Adira beat the odds, earning a nursing degree and finding a job at the California hospital that once saved her life. After being forced out, she turns to an enticing position in the Middle East.
Enchanted by the turquoise sea, towering mountains, and golden sands, Adira falls in love with the culture and welcoming people of Oman. But beneath the surface, the nation’s fabric is being torn apart. And she is one of the threads.
In a race against time and the men scheming for the throne of a dying sultan, only Adira can stop the Pearl of Arabia from collapse.
* 2023 American Book Fest Best Book Awards finalist
* 2023 Wishing Shelf Book Awards finalist
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Some landscapes shape identity as powerfully as family or language.
Fifty Miles from Tomorrow
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Some landscapes shape identity as powerfully as family or language. Raised on the tundra north of the Arctic Circle, William L. Iggiagruk Hensley recounts a childhood rooted in Iñupiaq tradition and a life devoted to protecting Native Alaskan land. As personal memory widens into political awakening, this memoir traces resilience, cultural survival, and the long fight to secure a future shaped by those who belong to it.
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Nunavut tigummiun!
Hold on to the land!
It was just fifty years ago that the territory of Alaska officially became the state of Alaska. But no matter who has staked their claim to the land, it has always had a way of enveloping souls in its vast, icy embrace.
For William L. Iggiagruk Hensley, Alaska has been his home, his identity, and his cause. Born on the shores of Kotzebue Sound, twenty-nine miles north of the Arctic Circle, he was raised to live the traditional, seminomadic life that his Iñupiaq ancestors had lived for thousands of years. It was a life of cold and of constant effort, but Hensley's people also reaped the bounty that nature provided.
In Fifty Miles from Tomorrow, Hensley offers us the rare chance to immerse ourselves in a firsthand account of growing up Native Alaskan. There have been books written about Alaska, but they've been written by Outsiders, settlers. Hensley's memoir of life on the tundra offers an entirely new perspective, and his stories are captivating, as is his account of his devotion to the Alaska Native land claims movement.
As a young man, Hensley was sent by missionaries to the Lower Forty-eight so he could pursue an education. While studying there, he discovered that the land Native Alaskans had occupied and, to all intents and purposes, owned for millennia was being snatched away from them. Hensley decided to fight back.
In 1971, after years of Hensley's tireless lobbying, the United States government set aside 44 million acres and nearly $1 billion for use by Alaska's native peoples. Unlike their relatives to the south, the Alaskan peoples would be able to take charge of their economic and political destiny.
The landmark decision did not come overnight and was certainly not the making of any one person. But it was Hensley who gave voice to the cause and made it real. Fifty Miles from Tomorrow is not only the memoir of one man; it is also a fascinating testament to the resilience of the Alaskan ilitqusiat, the Alaskan spirit.
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Fleeing danger in Canada, Jeremy Mercer arrives in Paris broke and adrift, only to find refuge in the legendary Shakespeare & Co.
Time Was Soft There
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Fleeing danger in Canada, Jeremy Mercer arrives in Paris broke and adrift, only to find refuge in the legendary Shakespeare & Co. bookstore. Living among its eccentric residents and working beside its enigmatic owner, he discovers friendship, purpose, and the remnants of bohemian Paris. A warm, witty memoir of literary sanctuary and unexpected belonging on the Left Bank.
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"Some bookstores are filled with stories both inside and outside the bindings. These are places of sanctuary, even redemption---and Jeremy Mercer has found both amid the stacks of Shakespeare & Co."
---Paul Collins, author of Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books
In a small square on the left bank of the Seine, the door to a green-fronted bookshop beckoned. . . .
With gangsters on his tail and his meager savings in hand, crime reporter Jeremy Mercer fled Canada in 1999 and ended up in Paris. Broke and almost homeless, he found himself invited to a tea party amongst the riffraff of the timeless Left Bank fantasy known as Shakespeare & Co. In its present incarnation, Shakespeare & Co. has become a destination for writers and readers the world over, trying to reclaim the lost world of literary Paris in the 1920s. Having been inspired by Sylvia Beach's original store, the present owner, George Whitman, invites writers who are down and out in Paris to live and dream amid the bookshelves in return for work. Jeremy Mercer tumbled into this literary rabbit hole and found a life of camaraderie with the other eccentric residents, and became, for a time, George Whitman's confidante and right-hand man.
Time Was Soft There is one of the great stories of bohemian Paris and recalls the work of many writers who were bewitched by the City of Light in their youth. Jeremy's comrades include Simon, the eccentric British poet who refuses to give up his bed in the antiquarian book room, beautiful blonde Pia, who contributes the elegant spirit of Parisian couture to the store, the handsome American Kurt, who flirts with beautiful women looking for copies of Tropic of Cancer, and George himself, the man who holds the key to it all. As Time Was Soft There winds in and around the streets of Paris, the staff fall in and out of love, straighten bookshelves, host tea parties, drink in the more down-at-the-heels cafés, sell a few books, and help George find a way to keep his endangered bookstore open. Spend a few days with Jeremy Mercer at 37 Rue de la Bucherie, and discover the bohemian world of Paris that still bustles in the shadow of Notre Dame.
"Jeremy Mercer has captured Shakespeare & Co. and its complicated owner, George Whitman, with remarkable insight. Time Was Soft There is a charming memoir about living in Whitman's Shakespeare & Co. and the strange, broken, lost, and occasionally talented, eccentrics and residents of this Tumblewood Hotel."
---Noel Riley Fitch, author of Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties & Thirties
"There does seem to be something about the odd ducks that work at bookstores. Jeremy Mercer has captured the story of a wonderful, unique store that could only be born out of a love for books and the written word."
--- Liz Schlegel, the Book Revue bookshop, Huntington, New York
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In 1916, Sven Ormson abandons Stockholm for the brutal beauty of Svalbard, surviving an avalanche, disfigurement, and years of solitude in a remote Arctic fjord.
The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven
Biographies & Memoirs
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In 1916, Sven Ormson abandons Stockholm for the brutal beauty of Svalbard, surviving an avalanche, disfigurement, and years of solitude in a remote Arctic fjord. Sustained by a loyal dog, unexpected friendships, and a visitor who alters his course, Sven discovers that even the loneliest places can forge deep human bonds. A wry, moving novel celebrated for its originality and heart.
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In this "briskly entertaining" (New York Times Book Review), "transporting and wholly original" (People Magazine) novel, one man banishes himself to a solitary life in the Arctic Circle, and is saved by good friends, a loyal dog, and a surprise visit that changes everything.
In 1916, Sven Ormson leaves a restless life in Stockholm to seek adventure in Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago where darkness reigns four months of the year and he might witness the splendor of the Northern Lights one night and be attacked by a polar bear the next. But his time as a miner ends when an avalanche nearly kills him, leaving him disfigured, and Sven flees even further, to an uninhabited fjord. There, with the company of a loyal dog, he builds a hut and lives alone, testing himself against the elements.
The teachings of a Finnish fur trapper, along with encouraging letters from his family and a Scottish geologist who befriended him in the mining camp, get him through his first winter. Years into his routine isolation, the arrival of an unlikely visitor salves his loneliness, sparking a chain of surprising events that will bring Sven into a family of fellow castoffs and determine the course of the rest of his life.
Written with wry humor and in prose as breathtaking as the stark landscape it evokes, The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven is a testament to the strength of our human bonds, reminding us that even in the most inhospitable conditions on the planet, we are not beyond the reach of love.
#1 Indie Next Pick
Finalist for the Vermont Book Award
Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
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Pat Benatar traces her path from a Long Island childhood to becoming one of rock’s most groundbreaking women, reflecting on fame, creative battles, and life inside a male-dominated…
Between a Heart and a Rock Place
Biographies & Memoirs
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Pat Benatar traces her path from a Long Island childhood to becoming one of rock’s most groundbreaking women, reflecting on fame, creative battles, and life inside a male-dominated music industry. With the candor and fire that defined her sound, she recounts the making of an icon. A New York Times–bestselling memoir from Pat Benatar and Patsi Bale Cox.
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Grammy winner Pat Benatar recounts her career as a rock icon and "tells her story with heartfelt honesty" in this New York Times–bestselling memoir (Deseret News).
One of the best-selling female rock stars of all time, the incomparable Pat Benatar writes about her Long Island childhood, her experiences in the record industry, and how her generation changed music forever in this "engaging" autobiography (Slate).
The first solo female rocker ever to appear on MTV, Benatar writes with the same edge and attitude that was a hallmark of her music—from "Heartbreaker" to "Hit Me with Your Best Shot." The winner of four consecutive Grammy Awards for Best Female Rock performance, Benatar tells a fascinating, no-holds-barred story of what it was really like to be a woman in the mostly male world of hard rock in the '80s.
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When Douglas Preston moves his family to Italy, he learns their peaceful olive grove was once the site of notorious double murders.
The Monster of Florence
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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When Douglas Preston moves his family to Italy, he learns their peaceful olive grove was once the site of notorious double murders. Teaming with journalist Mario Spezi, he uncovers a chilling trail pointing to the Monster of Florence, only to become a target of the investigation himself. A gripping true-crime narrative with enduring acclaim.
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Read the true story that inspired the hit Netflix series! In the nonfiction tradition of John Berendt and Erik Larson, the author of the #1 NYT bestseller The Lost City of the Monkey God presents a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence as he seeks to uncover one of the most infamous figures in Italian history. In 2000, Douglas Preston fulfilled a dream to move his family to Italy. Then he discovered that the olive grove in front of their 14th century farmhouse had been the scene of the most infamous double-murders in Italian history, committed by a serial killer known as the Monster of Florence. Preston, intrigued, meets Italian investigative journalist Mario Spezi to learn more. This is the true story of their search for--and identification of--the man they believe committed the crimes, and their chilling interview with him. And then, in a strange twist of fate, Preston and Spezi themselves become targets of the police investigation. Preston has his phone tapped, is interrogated, and told to leave the country. Spezi fares worse: he is thrown into Italy's grim Capanne prison, accused of being the Monster of Florence himself. Like one of Preston's thrillers, The Monster of Florence, tells a remarkable and harrowing story involving murder, mutilation, and suicide-and at the center of it, Preston and Spezi, caught in a bizarre prosecutorial vendetta.
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Lyanda Lynn Haupt explores the lives of urban crows to show how wildness persists in the places we least expect.
Crow Planet
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Lyanda Lynn Haupt explores the lives of urban crows to show how wildness persists in the places we least expect. Blending personal observation with science, history, and myth, she reveals how paying attention to these intelligent birds deepens our understanding of nature—and our place within it. A lyrical, thought-provoking meditation praised for its insight and beauty.
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"If you picture Henry David Thoreau as a young mother and scientist in suburban Seattle, you can begin to imagine the literate elegance of Crow Planet." —Paul Hawken, New York Times–bestselling author
There are more crows now than ever. Their abundance is both an indicator of ecological imbalance and a generous opportunity to connect with the animal world. Crow Planet reminds us that we do not need to head to faraway places to encounter "nature." Rather, even in the suburbs and cities where we live we are surrounded by wild life such as crows, and through observing them we can enhance our appreciation of the world's natural order.
Crow Planet richly weaves Haupt's own "crow stories" as well as scientific and scholarly research and the history and mythology of crows, culminating in a book that is sure to make readers see the world around them in a very different way.
"An inspired meditation on our own place in nature . . . You will never look at crows in the same way again." —David R. Montgomery, The Washington Post
"In a lyrical narrative that blends science and conscience, Haupt mourns the encroachments of urbanization but cherishes the wildness that survives." —Liesl Schillinger, The New York Times Book Review
"With her sensitivity, careful eye, and gift for language, Haupt tells her tale beautifully, using crow study to get at a range of ever-deepening concerns about nature and our place within it, immersing us in a heady hybrid of science, history, how-to, and memoir." —Erika Schickel, Los Angeles Times
"A completely charming and informative book on the pleasures of keeping one's eyes open." —David Sedaris
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Nyle DiMarco, born into a proud multi-generational Deaf family, recounts his journey from a spirited childhood in Queens to winning major reality competitions and becoming an actor, producer,…
Deaf Utopia
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Nyle DiMarco, born into a proud multi-generational Deaf family, recounts his journey from a spirited childhood in Queens to winning major reality competitions and becoming an actor, producer, and advocate. Through personal stories and family history, he celebrates American Sign Language and the resilience of the Deaf community. A New York Times bestseller that is both memoir and cultural tribute.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE CO-DIRECTOR OF DEAF PRESIDENT NOW!
A heartfelt and inspiring memoir and celebration of Deaf culture by Nyle DiMarco. Actor, producer, two-time reality show winner, and now co-director of the acclaimed film Deaf President Now!, DiMarco both shares his own story and shines a light on the international Deaf community.
Before becoming the actor, producer, advocate, and model that people know today, Nyle DiMarco was half of a pair of Deaf twins born to a multi-generational Deaf family in Queens, New York. At the hospital one day after he was born, Nyle “failed” his first test—a hearing test—to the joy and excitement of his parents.
In this engrossing memoir, Nyle shares stories, both heartbreaking and humorous, of what it means to navigate a world built for hearing people. From growing up in a rough-and-tumble childhood in Queens with his big and loving Italian-American family to where he is now, Nyle has always been driven to explore beyond the boundaries given him. A college math major and athlete at Gallaudet—the famed university for the Deaf in Washington, DC—Nyle was drawn as a young man to acting, and dove headfirst into the reality show competitions America’s Next Top Model and Dancing with the Stars—ultimately winning both competitions.
Deaf Utopia is more than a memoir, it is a cultural anthem—a proud and defiant song of Deaf culture and a love letter to American Sign Language, Nyle’s primary language. Through his stories and those of his Deaf brothers, parents, and grandparents, Nyle opens many windows into the Deaf experience.
Deaf Utopia is intimate, suspenseful, hilarious, eye-opening, and smart—both a memoir and a celebration of what makes Deaf culture unique and beautiful.
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After years of chasing the world she once saw in National Geographic, Amanda Lindhout travels to Somalia, where she is kidnapped and held hostage for fifteen months.
A House in the Sky
Biographies & Memoirs
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After years of chasing the world she once saw in National Geographic, Amanda Lindhout travels to Somalia, where she is kidnapped and held hostage for fifteen months. Drawing on memory, resilience, and an imagined refuge she calls her “house in the sky,” she endures captivity with extraordinary courage. A powerful, bestselling memoir praised for its clarity, compassion, and emotional depth.
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“Exquisitely told…A young woman’s harrowing coming-of-age story and an extraordinary narrative of forgiveness and spiritual triumph.” —The New York Times Book Review
Amanda Lindhout’s unforgettable hostage memoir recounts her fifteen-month abduction in Somalia and her extraordinary journey toward hope and redemption in this powerful true story of survival, resilience, and forgiveness.
As a child, Amanda Lindhout escaped a violent household by paging through issues of National Geographic and imagining herself visiting its exotic locales. At the age of nineteen, working as a cocktail waitress, she began saving her tips so she could travel the globe. Aspiring to understand the world and live a significant life, she backpacked through Latin America, Laos, Bangladesh, and India, and emboldened by each adventure, went on to Sudan, Syria, and Pakistan. In war-ridden Afghanistan and Iraq she carved out a fledgling career as a television reporter. And then, in August 2008, she traveled to Somalia—“the most dangerous place on earth.” On her fourth day, she was abducted by a group of masked men along a dusty road.
Held hostage for 460 days, Amanda survives on memory—every lush detail of the world she experienced in her life before captivity—and on strategy, fortitude, and hope. When she is most desperate, she visits a house in the sky, high above the woman kept in chains, in the dark.
Vivid and suspenseful, this gripping survival memoir is “a searingly unsentimental account. Ultimately it is compassion—for her naïve younger self, for her kidnappers—that becomes the key to Lindhout’s survival” (O, The Oprah Magazine).
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