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A strong fit for readers who like Appalachian fiction, memoir-style novels, family trauma, women’s resilience, and faith-centered healing.
Where the Mountains Whisper
Literary Fiction · Teen + Young Adult
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A #1 Best Seller in Teen & Young Adult Cultural Heritage Biography eBooks, Where the Mountains Whisper follows Flora’s life in the backwoods of Eastern Kentucky as she grows up amid poverty, addiction, family betrayal, faith, and a mother’s fierce love, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 1,000 Amazon reviewers. A strong fit for readers who like Appalachian fiction, memoir-style novels, family trauma, women’s resilience, and faith-centered healing.
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Who says you can't write the ending of your own story? Based on events experienced by the author, a Southern Fiction writer.
Frequently appearing alongside Nicholas Sparks and Kristin Hannah in Small Town Fiction on Amazon.
Where the Mountains Whisper is a gripping, heartfelt memoir-style novel about what it means to survive, to remember, and to rise.
Set in the backwoods of Eastern Kentucky, Flora's story unfolds in a world where poverty is familiar, addiction is inherited, and silence is often the only language spoken. Her childhood is marked by her daddy's drinking, her mama's quiet grit, and a family betrayal too painful to name. But even in the darkest holler, there are flickers of light—laughter on the porch, faith that refuses to die, and a mother's fierce love that teaches Flora how to fight back.
As she grows, Flora carries the weight of her past into adulthood, wrestling with trauma, faith, and the kind of heartbreak that don't heal easy. But this ain't just a story of survival—it's a story of reckonin', of healing, and of finding your voice after years of bein' told to hush.
Written by Jenny Cafaro—award-winning Appalachian author and daughter of the mountains—this novel blends raw honesty with lyrical beauty. Her lived experience brings truth to every page, honoring the women who keep showin' up, even when the world gives them every reason not to.
For readers who love Nicholas Sparks and Kristin Hannah—this one goes deeper, into the soul of Appalachia, where trauma and tenderness live side by side, and hope can still be found in the most unlikely hollers.
Where the Mountains Whisper is a powerful tribute to faith, forgiveness, and the strength of women who refuse to stay buried.
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A thoughtful fit for readers who like literary fiction about faith, marriage, friendship, family, and social change.
The Dearly Beloved
Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick called “one of my favorites ever” by Jenna Bush Hager, The Dearly Beloved traces two married couples whose lives become entangled when their husbands are hired as copastors at a New York City congregation in the 1960s, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 5,700 Amazon reviewers. A thoughtful fit for readers who like literary fiction about faith, marriage, friendship, family, and social change.
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A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick
“This gentle, gorgeously written book may be one of my favorites ever.” —Jenna Bush Hager
This “moving portrait of love and friendship set against a backdrop of social change” (The New York Times Book Review) traces two married couples whose lives become entangled when the husbands become copastors at a famed New York city congregation in the 1960s.
Charles and Lily, James and Nan. They meet in Greenwich Village in 1963 when Charles and James are jointly hired to steward the historic Third Presbyterian Church through turbulent times. Their personal differences however, threaten to tear them apart.
Charles is destined to succeed his father as an esteemed professor of history at Harvard, until an unorthodox lecture about faith leads him to ministry. How then, can he fall in love with Lily—fiercely intellectual, elegantly stern—after she tells him with certainty that she will never believe in God? And yet, how can he not?
James, the youngest son in a hardscrabble Chicago family, spent much of his youth angry at his alcoholic father and avoiding his anxious mother. Nan grew up in Mississippi, the devout and beloved daughter of a minister and a debutante. James’s escape from his desperate circumstances leads him to Nan and, despite his skepticism of hope in all its forms, her gentle, constant faith changes the course of his life.
Against the backdrop of turbulent changes facing the city and the church’s congregation, The Dearly Beloved offers a poignant meditation on faith and reason, marriage and children, forgiveness and commitment, and the ways we find meaning in our lives.
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A good pick for readers who like action-packed crime thrillers with coastal danger, political corruption, ancient secrets, and high-stakes rescue missions.
Tomlinson’s Wake
Mystery · Indigenous Fiction
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Tomlinson's Wake sends Doc Ford to Honduras after Tomlinson’s shipwreck off the Mosquito Coast draws them into the path of a hidden twelve-year-old Mayan descendant, corrupt politicians, and a catastrophic earthquake, with a 4.1-star rating from more than 1,800 Amazon reviewers. A good pick for readers who like action-packed crime thrillers with coastal danger, political corruption, ancient secrets, and high-stakes rescue missions.
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Doc Ford returns for a perilous journey into Mesoamerica after a world-shattering earthquake threatens his family's safety—and all of their lives
In the wake of a killer hurricane, Doc Ford heads to Honduras, where his best friend, Tomlinson, crashed his beloved sailboat into a reef off the Mosquito Coast. Tomlinson swears he died in the shipwreck and was brought back to life by a runaway orphan—the direct descendant of the last king of the ancient Mayan people.
Corrupt politicians want the child out of the picture before he catalyzes a revolution among the Indigenous population. But the boy, a charismatic twelve-year-old, has gone underground with the help of Tomlinson and a network of street urchins. They're all on the run and in the crosshairs when Ford arrives and picks up his friend’s trail.
The Marina family has already suffered the death of one key member, and Ford is determined not to burden his homeless friends with yet another funeral wake. What no one is prepared for, however, is a cataclysmic earthquake that hits the area with the impact of a meteor that nearly destroyed all life on earth more than sixty million years ago.
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Best for readers who like emotional women’s fiction about friendship, trauma, justice, and loyalty under pressure.
Moment in Time
Literary Fiction · Coming of Age · Women's Fiction
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Moment in Time follows Mo and Chloe as they search for their missing roommate Hazel after an assault and a violent attack deepen the mystery, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 7,100 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like emotional women’s fiction about friendship, trauma, justice, and loyalty under pressure.
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From the bestselling author of In an Instant comes a heartrending story about the power of friendship during the most challenging moments in life.
It’s been eight years since a tragic accident changed Mo Kaminski’s and Chloe Miller’s lives forever. Now in their midtwenties, they’re sharing an apartment in San Francisco and navigating the normal challenges of early adulthood. Along with their roommate, Hazel, they are making their marks on the world—Mo revolutionizing the news with her media start-up, Hazel using her big brain to anticipate the future, and Chloe rescuing abandoned strays in the city.
But when Hazel disappears after being sexually assaulted, Mo’s and Chloe’s lives are again suddenly ripped apart. And when the perpetrator turns up drugged and beaten, the mystery of where Hazel is deepens. Intensely worried and desperate to discover the truth, they set out to find Hazel and bring her home.
Mo and Chloe are no strangers to tragedy, but this journey will test them in ways they never imagined. The stakes are high; the future uncertain; the need for justice essential.
Will their commitment to their friend bring them closer together—or ultimately drive them apart?
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Good for readers who like literary historical fiction about judgment, isolation, and contested truth.
Burial Rites
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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Burial Rites follows Agnes, a woman charged with the murder of her former master and sent to an isolated Icelandic farm to await execution. As the family forced to house her begins to listen, they discover there is more to her story than the rumors suggest, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 17,100 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like literary historical fiction about judgment, isolation, and contested truth.
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Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes—charged with the brutal murder of her former master and sent to await execution on an isolated farm.
Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution.
Horrified at the prospect of housing a convicted murderer, the family at first avoids Agnes. Only Tv=ti, a priest Agnes has mysteriously chosen to be her spiritual guardian, seeks to understand her. But as Agnes's death looms, the farmer's wife and their daughters learn there is another side to the sensational story they've heard.
Riveting and rich with lyricism, Burial Rites evokes a dramatic existence in a distant time and place, and asks the question, how can one woman hope to endure when her life depends upon the stories told by others?
Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution.
Horrified at the prospect of housing a convicted murderer, the family at first avoids Agnes. Only Tv=ti, a priest Agnes has mysteriously chosen to be her spiritual guardian, seeks to understand her. But as Agnes's death looms, the farmer's wife and their daughters learn there is another side to the sensational story they've heard.
Riveting and rich with lyricism, Burial Rites evokes a dramatic existence in a distant time and place, and asks the question, how can one woman hope to endure when her life depends upon the stories told by others?
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Good for readers who want contemporary fiction about identity, disruption, relationships, and self-reckoning.
Wish You Were Here
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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A #1 New York Times bestseller called “a powerfully evocative story of resilience and the triumph of the human spirit” by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Wish You Were Here follows Diana O’Toole as early Covid-19 signs in NYC upend her carefully planned life and strand her in the Galápagos, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 56,000 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want contemporary fiction about identity, disruption, relationships, and self-reckoning.
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Small Great Things and The Book of Two Ways comes “a powerfully evocative story of resilience and the triumph of the human spirit” (Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six)
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Diana O’Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in the cutthroat art auction world. She’s an associate specialist at Sotheby’s now, but her boss has hinted at a promotion if she can close a deal with a high-profile client. She’s not engaged just yet, but she knows her boyfriend, Finn, a surgical resident, is about to propose on their romantic getaway to the Galápagos—days before her thirtieth birthday. Right on time.
But then a virus that felt worlds away has appeared in the city, and on the eve of their departure, Finn breaks the news: It’s all hands on deck at the hospital. He has to stay behind. You should still go, he assures her, since it would be a shame for all of their nonrefundable trip to go to waste. And so, reluctantly, she goes.
Almost immediately, Diana’s dream vacation goes awry. Her luggage is lost, the Wi-Fi is nearly nonexistent, and the hotel they’d booked is shut down due to the pandemic. In fact, the whole island is now under quarantine, and she is stranded until the borders reopen. Completely isolated, she must venture beyond her comfort zone. Slowly, she carves out a connection with a local family when a teenager with a secret opens up to Diana, despite her father’s suspicion of outsiders.
In the Galápagos Islands, where Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection was formed, Diana finds herself examining her relationships, her choices, and herself—and wondering if when she goes home, she too will have evolved into someone completely different.
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For readers who like historical fiction with colonial upheaval, seafaring adventure, and sprawling ensemble casts.
Sea of Poppies
Literary Fiction · Asian Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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“A remarkably rich saga” by The Observer [London], A vivid saga of a ship's journey, the Ibis, through the Indian Ocean during the Opium Wars, with a diverse crew of sailors, stowaways, and more, creating an unlikely dynasty, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 4,500 Amazon reviewers. For readers who like historical fiction with colonial upheaval, seafaring adventure, and sprawling ensemble casts.
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The first in an epic trilogy, Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies is "a remarkably rich saga . . . which has plenty of action and adventure à la Dumas, but moments also of Tolstoyan penetration--and a drop or two of Dickensian sentiment" (The Observer [London]).
At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. Her destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean shortly before the outbreak of the Opium Wars in China. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a diverse cast of Indians and Westerners on board, from a bankrupt raja to a widowed tribeswoman, from a mulatto American freedman to a free-spirited French orphan. As their old family ties are washed away, they, like their historical counterparts, come to view themselves as jahaj-bhais, or ship-brothers. The vast sweep of this historical adventure spans the lush poppy fields of the Ganges, the rolling high seas, and the exotic backstreets of Canton.
With a panorama of characters whose diaspora encapsulates the vexed colonial history of the East itself, Sea of Poppies is "a storm-tossed adventure worthy of Sir Walter Scott" (Vogue).
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Good for readers who like historical fiction about female friendship, cultural history, family secrets, and lives shaped by war.
The Island of Sea Women
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Asian Fiction
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A New York Times bestseller called “A mesmerizing new historical novel” by O, The Oprah Magazine, On Korea's Jeju Island, two female divers from different backgrounds forge a friendship spanning decades, from Japanese colonialism through wars, as their bond faces cultural and political challenges, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 24,600 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like historical fiction about female friendship, cultural history, family secrets, and lives shaped by war.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“A mesmerizing new historical novel” (O, The Oprah Magazine) from Lisa See, the bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and devastating family secrets on a small Korean island.
Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends who come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village’s all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook’s mother. As the girls take up their positions as baby divers, they know they are beginning a life of excitement and responsibility—but also danger.
Despite their love for each other, Mi-ja and Young-sook find it impossible to ignore their differences. The Island of Sea Women takes place over many decades, beginning during a period of Japanese colonialism in the 1930s and 1940s, followed by World War II, the Korean War, through the era of cell phones and wet suits for the women divers. Throughout this time, the residents of Jeju find themselves caught between warring empires. Mi-ja is the daughter of a Japanese collaborator. Young-sook was born into a long line of haenyeo and will inherit her mother’s position leading the divers in their village. Little do the two friends know that forces outside their control will push their friendship to the breaking point.
“This vivid…thoughtful and empathetic” novel (The New York Times Book Review) illuminates a world turned upside down, one where the women are in charge and the men take care of the children. “A wonderful ode to a truly singular group of women” (Publishers Weekly), The Island of Sea Women is a “beautiful story…about the endurance of friendship when it’s pushed to its limits, and you…will love it” (Cosmopolitan).
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Good for readers who like literary family fiction about sisters, grudges, generational expectations, and humor.
This Is Not About Us
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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A national bestseller called “Wise, witty . . . a deliciously readable book” by The New York Times Book Review, a family saga where two sisters, Sylvia and Helen Rubinstein, stop speaking to each other over an apple cake dispute, while their children navigate life's complexities, with a 4.0-star rating from more than 2,000 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like literary family fiction about sisters, grudges, generational expectations, and humor.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A kaleidoscopic portrait of a modern American family—steadfast, complicated, begrudging, and loving—from the bestselling author of Isola
“Wise, witty . . . a deliciously readable book [about] the delicate minutiae of family life, played beautifully, boldly, brightly in a major key.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
“Goodman’s mature and deftly written book suggests that, in family as in art, there is no such thing as uncomplicated happiness.”—The Wall Street Journal
Was this just a brief skirmish, or the beginning of a thirty-year feud? In the Rubinstein family, it could go either way.
When their beloved sister passes away, Sylvia and Helen Rubinstein are unmoored. A misunderstanding about apple cake turns into a decade of stubborn silence. Busy with their own lives—divorces, dating, career setbacks, college applications, bat mitzvahs and ballet recitals—their children do not want to get involved. As for their grandchildren? Impossible.
With This Is Not About Us, master storyteller Allegra Goodman—whose prior collection was heralded as “one of the most astute and engaging books about American family life” (The Boston Globe)—returns to the form and subject that endeared her to legions of readers. Sharply observed and laced with humor, This Is Not About Us is a story of growing up and growing old, the weight of parental expectations, and the complex connection between sisters—a big-hearted book about the love that binds a family across generations.
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Good for readers who want warm contemporary fiction with second chances, Broadway dreams, and a touch of holiday magic.
The Last Phone Booth in Manhattan
Literary Fiction · Romance · RomCom · Women's Fiction
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A young woman hits rock bottom and embarks on a positively Dickensian adventure in a witty and warmhearted novel about past regrets, old loves, new beginnings, and making up for lost time, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 13,600 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want warm contemporary fiction with second chances, Broadway dreams, and a touch of holiday magic.
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When a young woman hits rock bottom, she embarks on a positively Dickensian adventure in a witty and warmhearted novel about past regrets, old loves, new beginnings, and making up for lost time.
Avery Lawrence thought she had it all—a charming fiancé, a Broadway-themed star-studded engagement, and a picture-perfect life. But when her fraudster of a fiancé’s true identity is exposed and he’s hauled away in handcuffs, Avery’s world comes crashing down faster than the chandelier in Phantom of the Opera. Left stranded on Christmas Day outside the federal prison without her cell phone or wallet, Avery stumbles out of the cold and into the last phone booth in Manhattan. With nothing left to lose, Avery is directed by a mysterious voice on the line to the doorstep of the college boyfriend she thought she’d moved on from over six years ago.
When a second encounter with the phone booth leads Avery to a life-changing audition for Marley Is Dead, a new musical based on Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, Avery is blown away by the striking similarities between the show and her own life. Convinced the phone booth is somehow responsible for reuniting her with “the one that got away” and reigniting her acting career, maybe she will finally have the chance to rewrite her future. But as she grapples with the ghosts of her past and the uncertainty of her present, Avery must decide whether to follow her heart or pursue her dream.
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Good for readers who want domestic thrillers about family loyalty, justice, addiction, and buried lies.
The Truth about the Devlins
Literary Fiction · Thriller · Psychological Fiction · Psychological Thriller
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A New York Times bestseller, Alcoholic investigator's lawyer brother confesses to murder, leading them into a dangerous web of deception and lethal consequences, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 7,900 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want domestic thrillers about family loyalty, justice, addiction, and buried lies.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
USA Today Bestseller
Lisa Scottoline, the #1 bestselling author of What Happened to the Bennetts, presents another pulse-pounding domestic thriller about family, justice, and the lies that tear us apart.
TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm—except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can’t get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator.
But one night, TJ’s world turns upside down after his older brother John confesses that he murdered one of their clients, an accountant he’d confronted with proof of embezzlement. It seems impossible coming from John, the firstborn son and Most Valuable Devlin.
TJ plunges into the investigation, seizing the chance to prove his worth and save his brother. But in no time, TJ and John find themselves entangled in a lethal web of deception and murder. TJ will fight to save his family, but what he learns might break them first.
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Good for readers who like emotional historical fiction about courage, sacrifice, and mothers making impossible choices.
The Twins on the Train
Historical Fiction · War Fiction · Women's Fiction · World War 2
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In 1939 Berlin, Rosa gives her newborn twins to Dora, a woman helping children escape by train to England, even though babies are not authorized to travel. The Twins on the Train is a heartbreaking World War Two historical novel about two women risking everything to protect children from war, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 2,000 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like emotional historical fiction about courage, sacrifice, and mothers making impossible choices.
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Berlin, 1939. Tears pouring down her cheeks, Rosa pushes through the crowds and thrusts the basket containing her darling newborn twins at the woman closing the door to the carriage. All she can say is please take them. Then she runs, praying the train will reach England safely…
As the smell of smoke drifts through the air, Jewish people lock their doors. They no longer feel welcome in their home city, and while some mothers hide their children, others take them, clad in dark threadbare coats, to the crowded train station and the hope of a new life.
Rosa has feared for her twins since they were born two weeks ago. As she huddles in her filthy house, crammed in with her neighbours, she sees children growing weaker. It may be too late for her and her seven-year-old daughter Therese. But can she find a way out for her precious babies?
Dora scans the desperate crowd on the platform, despairing as she knows there isn’t room for all of them on the train to England. And when a woman thrusts a basket containing newborn twins into her arms, a shiver of dread slides down her spine. Babies aren’t authorised to travel – how can she keep them hidden from the cold-eyed soldiers?
She knows this mother wants the same thing she does – safety for these innocent children. But will she be able to help this brave woman before it is too late?
An unforgettable World War Two novel about two courageous women who risked everything for the innocent victims of war. Fans of The Nightingale and The Alice Network will be utterly gripped by this unputdownable page-turner from bestselling author Suzanne Goldring.
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