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A strong match for readers who enjoy historical Western fiction with frontier adventures, complex characters, and intersecting stories of love, loss, and revenge.
The Last Crossing
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction · Western
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An award-winning bestseller called “A feast of a book” by Annie Proulx in The Globe and Mail, The Last Crossing follows English brothers Charles and Addington Gaunt as they search for their missing missionary brother in the late nineteenth-century American West. Guided by Jerry Potts, their expedition grows to include a journalist, a saloonkeeper, a Civil War veteran, and a young woman seeking revenge. A strong match for readers who enjoy historical Western fiction with frontier adventures, complex characters, and intersecting stories of love, loss, and revenge.
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Journey from Victorian England to the whiskey trading posts of the Old West in this epic award-winning bestseller from the author of The Englishman's Boy.
In the late nineteenth century, Englishmen Charles and Addington Gaunt are sent by their father to find their brother Simon, a missionary who has gone missing in the wilds of the American West. In the outreaches of the Montana frontier, the brothers hire a guide—a half Blackfoot, half Scot named Jerry Potts—to lead them further north into the area where Simon was last seen. As the party heads out, it grows to include a journalist, a saloonkeeper, a Civil War veteran in search of love, and a young woman bent on revenge.
There's no telling what awaits them . . .
"One of North America's best writers . . . A feast of a book." —Annie Proulx, The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
"Stuffed with enough goodies to keep us entertained for days." —The New York Times Book Review
"Quest and revenge, love and loss converge before the novel's satisfying final twist." —The Boston Globe
"The quality of its plotting, vivid characterizations and descriptions and dark humor place it firmly in the company of the likes of Larry McMurtry and Cormac McCarthy." —St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Ideal for readers who enjoy heartfelt contemporary fiction with imaginative storytelling, unusual friendships, and bittersweet choices.
Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
Fantasy · Literary Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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Budo has been eight-year-old Max Delaney’s imaginary friend for more than five years, but he knows his existence depends on Max continuing to believe in him. When a woman from Max’s school kidnaps the boy, Budo joins forces with other imaginary friends to rescue him, even if saving Max means disappearing forever. Ideal for readers who enjoy heartfelt contemporary fiction with imaginative storytelling, unusual friendships, and bittersweet choices.
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Imaginary friend Budo narrates this heartwarming story of love, loyalty, and the power of the imagination—the perfect read for anyone who has ever had a friend . . . real or otherwise
Budo is lucky as imaginary friends go. He's been alive for more than five years, which is positively ancient in the world of imaginary friends. But Budo feels his age, and thinks constantly of the day when eight-year-old Max Delaney will stop believing in him. When that happens, Budo will disappear.
Max is different from other children. Some people say that he has Asperger's Syndrome, but most just say he's "on the spectrum." None of this matters to Budo, who loves Max and is charged with protecting him from the class bully, from awkward situations in the cafeteria, and even in the bathroom stalls. But he can't protect Max from Mrs. Patterson, the woman who works with Max in the Learning Center and who believes that she alone is qualified to care for this young boy.
When Mrs. Patterson does the unthinkable and kidnaps Max, it is up to Budo and a team of imaginary friends to save him—and Budo must ultimately decide which is more important: Max's happiness or Budo's very existence.
Narrated by Budo, a character with a unique ability to have a foot in many worlds—imaginary, real, child, and adult— Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend touches on the truths of life, love, and friendship as it races to a heartwarming . . . and heartbreaking conclusion.
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A strong match for readers drawn to historical fiction about wartime espionage, family loyalties, and the consequences of difficult choices.
The Storm We Made
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Asian Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction · World War 2
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A national bestseller and Good Morning America Book Club pick, The Storm We Made is an “espionage-laden family epic” (Vanity Fair) set in Japanese-occupied Malaya. In 1945, Cecily Alcantara’s son has disappeared, her daughters face growing danger, and the secrets of her past as a spy threaten to destroy her family. As the consequences of her choices catch up with her, Cecily must find a way to protect those she loves. A strong match for readers drawn to historical fiction about wartime espionage, family loyalties, and the consequences of difficult choices.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK * LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION 2024 FIRST NOVEL PRIZE
In this “espionage-laden family epic” (Vanity Fair), an ordinary housewife becomes an unlikely spy—and her dark secrets will test even the most unbreakable ties.
Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara’s family is in terrible danger: her fifteen-year-old son, Abel, has disappeared, and her youngest daughter, Jasmin, is confined in a basement to prevent being pressed into service at the comfort stations. Her eldest daughter Jujube, who works at a tea house frequented by drunk Japanese soldiers, becomes angrier by the day.
Cecily knows two things: that this is all her fault; and that her family must never learn the truth.
A decade prior, Cecily had been desperate to be more than a housewife to a low-level bureaucrat in British-colonized Malaya. A chance meeting with the charismatic General Fujiwara lured her into a life of espionage, pursuing dreams of an “Asia for Asians.” Ten years later as the war reaches its apex, her actions have caught up with her. Now her family is on the brink of destruction—and she will do anything to save them.
Told from the perspectives of four unforgettable characters, The Storm We Made spans years of pain, triumph, and perseverance. “The tenderness in its details, the ordinary ways that these characters love and laugh in the face of the extraordinary…Chan shows us, with clarity and care, how the truest mirror comes from the intimacy of human connection” (The New York Times Book Review).
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A good pick for readers who want science-driven suspense about biotechnology and the ethical questions surrounding genetic ownership.
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Sci-Fi · Thriller · Genetic Engineering · Speculative Fiction · Techno-Thriller
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Scientists, corporations, and families become entangled in genetic engineering and disputes over who owns human DNA. A good pick for readers who want science-driven suspense about biotechnology and the ethical questions surrounding genetic ownership.
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From Michael Crichton, the #1 bestselling author of Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Strain, comes a devilishly clever, breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems, and genetic ownership shatters our assumptions.
Welcome to our genetic world.
Fast, furious, and out of control.
This is not the world of the future—it's the world right now.
Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blonds becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only four hundred genes; is that why a chimp fetus resembles a human being? And should that worry us? There's a new genetic cure for drug addiction—is it worse than the disease?
We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps, a time when it's possible to sell our eggs and sperm online for thousands of dollars and to test our spouses for genetic maladies. We live in a time when one-fifth of all our genes are owned by someone else—and an unsuspecting person and his family can be pursued cross-country because they happen to have certain valuable genes within their chromosomes....
The future is closer than you think.
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Best for readers who enjoy experimental literary fiction, speculative technology, and interconnected characters.
The Candy House
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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A New York Times bestseller, this literary novel follows tech entrepreneur Bix Bouton and the people affected by his invention, which allows users to access and share their memories. Through interconnected stories, Jennifer Egan examines privacy, identity, and human connection in a world transformed by technology. Best for readers who enjoy experimental literary fiction, speculative technology, and interconnected characters.
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
ONE OF THE TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES • ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY • SLATE • THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
Also named one of the BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by Vanity Fair, Time, NPR, The Guardian, Oprah Daily, Self, Vogue, The New Yorker, BBC, Vulture, and many more!
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From one of the most celebrated writers of our time comes an “inventive, effervescent” (Oprah Daily) speculative novel about memory, technology, privacy, and the quest for authenticity and human connection.
The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is “one of those tech demi-gods with whom we’re all on a first name basis.” Bix is forty, with four kids, restless, and desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or “externalizing” memory. Within a decade, Bix’s new technology, “Own Your Unconscious”—which allows you access to every memory you’ve ever had, and to share those memories in exchange for access others’—has seduced multitudes.
In the world of Egan’s spectacular imagination, there are “counters” who track and exploit desires and there are “eluders,” those who understand the price of taking a bite of the Candy House. Egan introduces these characters in an astonishing array of interconnected narratives and narrative styles—from omniscient to first person plural to a duet of voices, an epistolary chapter, and a chapter of tweets. Intellectually dazzling, The Candy House is also a moving, speculative fiction testament to the tenacity and transcendence of human longing for connection, family, privacy, and love.
“A beautiful exploration of loss, memory, and history” (San Francisco Chronicle), “this is minimalist maximalism. It’s as if Egan compressed a big 19th-century novel onto a flash drive” (The New York Times).
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This will appeal to readers who enjoy contemporary family dramas built around complicated ethical dilemmas and difficult personal decisions.
My Sister’s Keeper
Literary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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A #1 New York Times bestseller called “compelling” by USA Today, this novel follows thirteen-year-old Anna Fitzgerald, who has spent her life undergoing medical procedures to help her older sister Kate battle leukemia. When Anna sues her parents for medical emancipation, her decision forces the entire family to confront difficult questions about love, responsibility, and bodily autonomy. This will appeal to readers who enjoy contemporary family dramas built around complicated ethical dilemmas and difficult personal decisions.
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
From New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult, the “compelling” (USA TODAY) novel about a girl who sues her parents for the rights to her own body. Featuring fan favorite Jesse, who appears in the upcoming novel Hollow Bones.
Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate—a life and a role that she has never challenged...until now.
Like most teenagers, Anna is beginning to question who she truly is. But unlike most teenagers, she has always been defined in terms of her sister—and so Anna makes a decision that for most would be unthinkable, a decision that will tear her family apart and have perhaps fatal consequences for the sister she loves.
“A beautiful, heartbreaking, controversial, and honest book” (Booklist, starred review) My Sister’s Keeper examines what it means to be a good parent, a good sister, a good person. Is it morally correct to do whatever it takes to save a child’s life, even if that means infringing upon the rights of another? Is it worth trying to discover who you really are, if that quest makes you like yourself less? Should you follow your own heart, or let others lead you?
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A good pick for readers who appreciate sweeping historical fiction, multigenerational stories, and richly detailed settings.
Hawaii
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Asian Fiction
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James Michener's historical saga traces the Hawaiian Islands from their geological formation through centuries of settlement and cultural change. Through generations of Polynesian settlers, missionaries, merchants, and Asian immigrants, the novel explores the people and events that shaped Hawaii's history. A good pick for readers who appreciate sweeping historical fiction, multigenerational stories, and richly detailed settings.
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Pulitzer Prize–winning author James A. Michener brings Hawaii’s epic history vividly to life in a classic saga that has captivated readers since its initial publication in 1959. As the volcanic Hawaiian Islands sprout from the ocean floor, the land remains untouched for centuries—until, little more than a thousand years ago, Polynesian seafarers make the perilous journey across the Pacific, flourishing in this tropical paradise according to their ancient traditions. Then, in the early nineteenth century, American missionaries arrive, bringing with them a new creed and a new way of life. Based on exhaustive research and told in Michener’s immersive prose, Hawaii is the story of disparate peoples struggling to keep their identity, live in harmony, and, ultimately, join together.
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This will appeal to readers who enjoy coming-of-age mysteries, family secrets, and psychological suspense.
What Kind of Paradise
Literary Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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A national bestseller called “absorbing and well-crafted” by The Washington Post, this psychological suspense novel follows Jane, a teenager raised in isolation by her father in a Montana cabin during the 1990s. When she begins questioning the life he has built for them, she discovers that much of what she believed about her family may be untrue. This will appeal to readers who enjoy coming-of-age mysteries, family secrets, and psychological suspense.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A teenage girl breaks free from her father’s world of isolation to discover that her whole life is a lie in this “absorbing and well-crafted” (The Washington Post) novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Things and Watch Me Disappear.
“A mesmerizing blend of coming-of-age and psychological suspense, set against the birth of the internet age.”—People
The first thing you have to understand is that my father was my entire world.
Growing up in an isolated cabin in Montana in the mid-1990s, Jane knows only the world that she and her father live in: the woodstove that heats their home, the vegetable garden where they try to eke out a subsistence, the books of nineteenth-century philosophy that her father gives her to read in lieu of going to school. Her father is elusive about their pasts, giving Jane little beyond the facts that they once lived in the Bay Area and that her mother died in a car accident, the crash propelling him to move Jane off the grid to raise her in a Waldenesque utopia.
As Jane becomes a teenager she starts pushing against the boundaries of her restricted world. She begs to accompany her father on his occasional trips away from the cabin. But when Jane realizes that her devotion to her father has made her an accomplice to a horrific crime, she flees Montana to the only place she knows to look for answers about her mysterious past, and her mother’s death: San Francisco. It is a city in the midst of a seismic change, where her quest to understand herself will force her to reckon with both the possibilities and the perils of the fledgling internet, and where she will come to question everything she values.
In this sweeping, suspenseful novel from bestselling author Janelle Brown, we see a young woman on a quest to understand how we come to know ourselves. It is a bold and unforgettable story about parents and children; nature and technology; innocence and knowledge; the losses of our past and our dreams for the future.
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A moving fit for readers drawn to literary fiction about displacement, marriage, and the refugee experience.
The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Literary Fiction
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An international bestseller praised as “A beautifully crafted novel of international significance” by Heather Morris, this novel follows Syrian beekeeper Nuri and his wife, Afra, as they flee war-torn Aleppo. With Afra having lost her sight, the couple journeys through Turkey and Greece toward an uncertain future in Britain. A moving fit for readers drawn to literary fiction about displacement, marriage, and the refugee experience.
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This unforgettable novel puts human faces on the Syrian war with the immigrant story of a beekeeper, his wife, and the triumph of spirit when the world becomes unrecognizable.
“A beautifully crafted novel of international significance that has the capacity to have us open our eyes and see.”—Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz
WINNER OF THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE • FINALIST FOR THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL SIMPLE
Nuri is a beekeeper and Afra, his wife, is an artist. Mornings, Nuri rises early to hear the call to prayer before driving to his hives in the countryside. On weekends, Afra sells her colorful landscape paintings at the open-air market. They live a simple life, rich in family and friends, in the hills of the beautiful Syrian city of Aleppo—until the unthinkable happens. When all they love is destroyed by war, Nuri knows they have no choice except to leave their home. But escaping Syria will be no easy task: Afra has lost her sight, leaving Nuri to navigate her grief as well as a perilous journey through Turkey and Greece toward an uncertain future in Britain.
Nuri is sustained only by the knowledge that waiting for them is his cousin Mustafa, who has started an apiary in Yorkshire and is teaching fellow refugees beekeeping. As Nuri and Afra travel through a broken world, they must confront not only the pain of their own unspeakable loss but dangers that would overwhelm even the bravest souls. Above all, they must make the difficult journey back to each other, a path once so familiar yet rendered foreign by the heartache of displacement.
Moving, intimate, and beautifully written, The Beekeeper of Aleppo is a book for our times: a novel that at once reminds us that the most peaceful and ordinary lives can be utterly upended in unimaginable ways and brings a journey in faraway lands close to home, never to be forgotten.
Praise for The Beekeeper of Aleppo
“This book dips below the deafening headlines, and tells a true story with subtlety and power.”—Esther Freud, author of Mr. Mac and Me
“This compelling tale had me gripped with its compassion, its sensual style, and its onward and lively urge for resolution.”—Daljit Nagra, author of British Museum
“This novel speaks to so much that is happening in the world today. It’s intelligent, thoughtful, and relevant, but very importantly it is accessible. I’m recommending this book to everyone I care about.”—Benjamin Zephaniah, author of Refugee Boy
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This will appeal to readers who want contemporary literary fiction with suspense, family conflict, dark humor, and a fractured modern America.
So Far Gone
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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Reclusive former journalist Rhys Kinnick is forced out of his off-grid life when his daughter disappears and his grandchildren need rescuing from a dangerous militia, with a 3.9-star average from more than 32,000 Goodreads ratings. This will appeal to readers who want contemporary literary fiction with suspense, family conflict, dark humor, and a fractured modern America.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER
FINALIST FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE MARK TWAIN AMERICAN VOICE IN LITERATURE AWARD
"A warm, funny, loving novel. . . . It's an American original."—Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Tom Lake
"Searing and sublime … Walter is a slyly adept social critic, and has clearly invested his protagonist with all of the outrage and heartbreak he himself feels about the dark course our world has taken ... What gets us all through … are novels like this one.” Leigh Haber, Los Angeles Times.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins—and in the propulsive spirit of Charles Portis’ True Grit—comes a hilarious, empathetic, and brilliantly provocative adventure through life in modern America, about a reclusive journalist forced back into the world to rescue his kidnapped grandchildren.
Rhys Kinnick has gone off the grid. At Thanksgiving a few years back, a fed-up Rhys punched his conspiracy-theorist son-in-law in the mouth, chucked his smartphone out a car window and fled for a cabin in the woods, with no one around except a pack of hungry raccoons.
Now Kinnick’s old life is about to land right back on his crumbling doorstep. Can this failed husband and father, a man with no internet and a car that barely runs, reemerge into a broken world to track down his missing daughter and save his sweet, precocious grandchildren from the members of a dangerous militia?
With the help of his caustic ex-girlfriend, a bipolar retired detective, and his only friend (who happens to be furious with him), Kinnick heads off on a wild journey through cultural lunacy and the rubble of a life he thought he’d left behind. So Far Gone is a rollicking, razor-sharp, and moving road trip through a fractured nation, from a writer who has been called “a genius of the modern American moment” (Philadelphia Inquirer).
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This will appeal to readers who enjoy magical realism, bookish mysteries, and interconnected lives.
The Lost Bookshop
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Magical Realism · Women's Fiction
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A Sunday Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, this novel follows Opaline, Martha, and Henry, whose lives are connected by a vanishing bookshop in Dublin. Its mysterious shelves lead them toward discoveries about their own stories. This will appeal to readers who enjoy magical realism, bookish mysteries, and interconnected lives.
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On a quiet street in Dublin, a lost bookshop is waiting to be found…
For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives.
But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three unsuspecting strangers will discover that their own stories are every bit as extraordinary as the ones found in the pages of their beloved books. And by unlocking the secrets of the shelves, they find themselves transported to a world of wonder… where nothing is as it seems.
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A good pick for fans of irreverent comic fantasy that mixes mythology, romance, and absurd situations.
Coyote Blue
Fantasy · Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Indigenous Fiction
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Called “Downright laugh-out-loud, can't-put-the-book-down funny.” by The Philadelphia Inquirer, this novel follows insurance salesman Samuel Hunter, whose carefully invented life is disrupted by love and the arrival of the trickster god Coyote. A good pick for fans of irreverent comic fantasy that mixes mythology, romance, and absurd situations.
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From the master of subversive humor Christopher Moore comes a quirky, irreverent novel of love, myth, metaphysics, outlaw biking, angst, and outrageous redemption.
As a boy, he was Samson Hunts Alone—until a deadly misunderstanding with the law forced him to flee the Crow reservation at age fifteen. Today he is Samuel Hunter, a successful Santa Barbara insurance salesman with a Mercedes, a condo, and a hollow, invented life. Then one day, destiny offers him the dangerous gift of love—in the exquisite form of Calliope Kincaid—and a curse in the unheralded appearance of an ancient god by the name of Coyote. Coyote, the trickster, has arrived to reawaken the mystical storyteller within Sam...and to seriously screw up his existence in the process.
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