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FREE eBOOK BLOCK #1 – {05-16-2013}
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When You Were Older by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Literary, Self-Help, Relationships, Health Fitness & Dieting, Literary Fiction
“ A fantastic read which will have people talking about it for many weeks and months to come.” -Sarah of Sarah’s Book Reviews
“My favourite novel yet by this author!” -Lindsay of The Little Reader Library.
Russell Ammiano works on the 104th floor of the World Trade Center. On the morning of September 11, 2001, the phone rings while Rusty is rushing to work. The news is devastating: Rusty’s mother has died of a stroke, leaving his brain-damaged older brother Ben alone. This news also saves Rusty’s life. He’s still at home when two planes hit the World Trade Center–and only one of his friends and colleagues survives. In a single day, the life Rusty built in New York crumbles to the ground.
Rusty returns to his tiny hometown and the brother he was more than happy to leave behind. Ben hasn’t changed a bit, but the town has. Tensions are running high in the wake of the terrorist attack, while Rusty struggles to put the the past behind him and care for the exasperating brother he loves. He finds refuge drinking coffee in the early morning with beautiful Egyptian-American Anat in her father’s bakery.
Rusty is beginning to get his life back…until one awful night threatens to take it all away again.
By the bestselling author of DON’T LET ME GO, WHEN I FOUND YOU, SECOND HAND HEART, and PAY IT FORWARD, WHEN YOU WERE OLDER is the poignant, uplifting, and thought-provoking story of two very different brothers who try to build a new life together, against the backdrop of an uncertain and uneasy time in our shared history.
“…and the award for the amount of humanity woven into a book goes to Catherine Ryan Hyde.” -Ivana of Willing to See Less
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Arthritis Relief Smoothies — Quick and Easy Delicious Smoothies for Arthritis Relief (Arthritis Diet) (Arthritis Relief Series) by Julie Virtue
Genre(s): Cookbooks Food & Wine, Drinks & Beverages, Smoothies, Special Diet, Healthy
D o your joints have chronic pain and feel inflamed? Does it hurt so bad that it affects the quality of your life? You’re about to take the first step of finding a solution to your joint pain. Did you know that choosing the right arthritis diet one of the best ways to help relieve your arthritis pain? Inflammatory foods are the cause of many diseases and conditions.
Your pain doesn’t have to be a problem forever! With the “Arthritis Relief Smoothies” you’ll find easy to make, healthy, delicious smoothie recipes to prevent and relieve arthritis. Find the arthritis cure with fresh smoothies as an excellent source of vitamins and minerals available in natural fruits and vegetables. What’s good with these smoothies is that the nutrients need not come from unnatural or processed sources but only from the natural sources–fruits. In this book you will discover:
• How to make quick and easy delicious smoothies for your body with anti-inflammatory foods.
• Learn which foods reduce inflammation and which foods make inflammation worse.
• The best super fruits that can serve as anti-inflammatory agents.
• Remove certain “trigger” foods from your life and see results in days.
• The best foods and supplements rich in natural inflammation-fighting agents.
• The top 10 benefits of smoothies and making your body healthy with energy.
You have the power to have tasty drinks even in the presence of arthritis. There is a natural solution, a healthy arthritis diet that enables you to enjoy everyday-eating and help improve your arthritis. Live life free of arthritis and enjoy the easy to make, delicious smoothie recipes in “Arthritis Relief Smoothies”.
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Take Back Tomorrow by Richard Levesque
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction, Time Travel
“ Raymond Chandler meets Robert Heinlein in this fun and inventive crossover SF novel from Richard Levesque.”–J. Orr, Amazon Reviews
What if all you had to do to make your dreams come true was violate the laws of the universe?
That’s not just a philosophical question Eddie Royce has to answer. It’s a choice he has to make when the most famous science fiction writer of the 1930s goes missing and his unscrupulous publisher becomes convinced that Eddie knows all of the older writer’s secrets–not just the secret of where he’s gone, but the secret of how he’s traveled in time.
Until now, Eddie’s fooled himself into thinking he’s got the system figured out, “borrowing” plots from Shakespeare and rewriting them as space operas to make a name for himself in the pulps. But when he finds out that Chester Blackwood–his idol and inspiration–has been cheating the system in ways Eddie could never have dreamed of, the hack science fiction writer finds himself in the middle of a plot that his pulp readers would never have imagined.
Now he has to do all he can to save himself–and Blackwood’s beautiful daughter–from the powerful figures who all want Blackwood’s secret. And violating the laws of the universe might just be the least of Eddie’s problems.
“The pace of the story is quick, and the time transitions are handled well. Overall, this is a good novel, one that even readers with little interest in sci-fi might enjoy.” — Publishers Weekly.*
“Hardboiled 30′s crime thriller meets time-traveling pulp science-fiction for an original fast paced, page turner.”–S. Sager, Amazon Reviews
“It has a distinctly ‘noir’ flavor as well as an old school science fiction feel. It is fast paced and clever.”–C. Pellitteri, Amazon Reviews
“Apart from stopping to have something to eat I haven’t been able to tear myself away from this until I had finished it. This is good old time story telling that is well written, and definitely well worth reading.”–M. Bowden, Amazon UK Hall of Fame Reviewer
Richard Levesque writes novels and short stories by night and is an English professor by day. He mostly writes science fiction and paranormal fantasy blended with noir-style mystery. He is currently working on his next novel.
*This review was of the manuscript version submitted to Amazon’s Breakout Novel Awards competition in 2012.
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The Life and Prayers of Saint Patrick by Wyatt North
Genre(s): Biographies & Memoirs, Leaders & Notable People, Religious, Christian Books & Bibles, Catholicism, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity
O ne part biography, one part prayer book, The Life and Prayers of Saint Patrick is an essential for any Christian.
The Saint Patrick of his own writings and the early records of his life are not known to many. While Saint Patrick also represents shamrocks, Irish pride, and even the occasional green beer there is much of his life that is often forgotten. For instance, the original color associated with Saint Patrick’s Day was blue, and although Saint Patrick dedicated his life to spreading Christianity in Ireland, he might not have celebrated the nation, as we do on his feast day today, in his own lifetime. Ireland, for Patrick, was in many ways bittersweet.
On the other hand, it was also the nation of his spiritual awakening, which is probably a large part of why Patrick decided to make the conversion of Ireland his calling. In the English-speaking world, few saints are as well known, yet so misunderstood, as Saint Patrick. The saint himself, as he was in life, sometimes gets lost in his holiday. The seekers who want to know the real Patrick have to dig much deeper, but they will also find Patrick a more complex and rewarding acquaintance.
All books in The Life and Prayers series come complete with a Touch-or-Click Table of Contents, divided by each section.
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Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Historical, Westerns, Historical Fiction
T HE BUSHWHACKERS
Heck Martin’s motto was simple. If they left him alone, he would leave them alone.
Heck Martin was not pro-Union, like his father and brother. He had joined up with Quantrill to harass the bluebellies and other Union feds that thought they could tell others what they should be doing. But after the massacre at Lawrence, Kansas, he wanted nothing to do with Quantrill and his gang.
Thirteen other hard-bitten veterans had followed him, had joined with him, but soon grew to hate him even more than they hated Quantrill.
Then suddenly, the war is over, and Heck knows that most of his “men” would be out to kill him. But they all feared him. He was the fastest with a gun they had ever seen. Also, Heck had warned them, when he left for home, that if anyone followed him or tried to cause him or his family harm, he would kill them on sight.
Cotton Petty and the other bushwhackers had not left him alone. They had tried to kill him, and failing that, had killed two members of his family. For that he would hound them to the ends of the earth, if need be. From now on, until he was dead or they were all dead, there would be war between them.
Follow Heck Martin as he tracks the deadly bushwhackers, across the 1865 wild west landscape of Missouri, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. Heck’s tracking skills are put to the test in a deadly game of cat and mouse, sprinkled with Comanches, wild west women, mountain men and plenty of gunfights, horses and cold blooded killers. He also has to avoid the bluebellies who are hunting him, as well as a bounty put on his head by Quantrill, for what Heck had done during the war.
More old West gunfighting stories by Van Holt:
- Curly Bill and Ringo
- The Last of the Fighting Farrells
- Dynamite Riders: 9/11 in the Old West
- Hellbound Express
- Wild Desert Rose
- Rubeck’s Raiders
- The Fortune Hunters
- Blood in the Hills
- The Man Called Bowdry
- The Stranger from Hell
- The Vultures
- Hunt the Killers Down
- So Long, Stranger
- Six-Gun Solution
Coming soon by Van Holt:
- The Bounty Hunters
- Riding for Revenge
- Dead Man’s Trail
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FREE eBOOK BLOCK #1 – {03-21-2013}
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The Flight Griffin by C.M. Gray
Genre(s): Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy & Magic, Literature & Fiction, Fantasy, Epic, Teens
L iving in their old boat ‘The Griffin’ five young characters become the unlikely heroes at the end of time when a burglary sets them on the path to finish the ‘Last great Spell’ – a spell to stop the balance of the World tipping into Chaos…
They become the Magician, Thief, Priest and Fighter when a magical book guides them upon a quest that pits them against magic, demons and ‘The Hawk,’ an evil hunter of men.
Join a race against time to find three crystal skulls that must be brought together, while all the forces of Chaos try everything to stop them!
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The Flight of the Griffin was chosen as one of the 21 ‘Longlist’ finalists in the 2013 Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition.
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Radar Love (Ultimate Hustle) by Jason Z. Christie
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Chick-Lit, Contemporary Women, Romance, Contemporary Fiction
W hen part-time construction worker and full-time hustler Chris Turner meets the girl of his dreams in a Dairy Queen drive-through, he induces her to climb out of the window and run away with him. She is Janique, and she’s everything he’s ever wanted. So begins a love affair that defies reason. Submission, piercings, and mock kidnappings are just foreplay for what’s to come.
The two hard-loving antiheroes are so in love, they’d rather rob stores and banks than spend their days apart. It’s all fun and games until they end up in connected prisons. Then it’s up to Chris to get them out again, using only brutality, heroin, and a book by Tom Robbins…
An epic love story, first in the Ultimate Hustle series. Definitely contains explicit language and situations. The sequel, Penultimate Hustle: Japan is out now…
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The Life and Prayers of Saint Lucy of Syracuse by Wyatt North
Genre(s): Biographies & Memoirs, Leaders & Notable People, Religious, Christian Books & Bibles, Catholicism, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity
O ne part biography, one part prayer book, The Life and Prayers of Saint Lucy of Syracuse is an essential book for any Christian.
For a saint about whom so very little is really known, Saint Lucy has a surprisingly impressive religious pedigree. Her relics have traveled the world. Her cult extends across oceans, and every year, large numbers of Italian-Americans travel “back home” to Sicily, a land they have primarily known through an increasingly distant heritage, to participate in the great festival there in her honor.
She is the bringer of light and lucidity, things which are in fact her namesakes as Lucy, or Lucia as she was known in Latin, itself means ‘light’. She is also the patron of the blind, and those suffering from ailments of the eye. Ailments of the throat are also one of her specialties. It would seem like Saint Lucy governs over seemingly small and unimportant aspects of life. Those who had not previously heard of her might expect her to be a small niche-saint.
Yet, there she is, the light that once spread across all of Europe, from Spain in the west to Turkey in the east, and from Sicily in the south to Sweden in the north. She was one of eleven female saints officially recognized in the Roman Catholic Mass as early as the year 600. She makes an appearance in some of the most famous written works of western civilization. She is honored not only in the Catholic Church, but in the Orthodox Church, the Anglican Church, and even the Lutheran Church, which is noteworthy on its own on account of the Lutheran denial of saints.
This edition has a linked Table of Contents and has been wonderfully formatted (searchable and interlinked) to work on your eBook reader.
You can purchase additional religious works directly from Wyatt North Publishing.
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Silently Screaming by D.L. Husted
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Contemporary, Literary, Contemporary Fiction, Literary Fiction
Y oung Adult Fiction – 34000 words
It’s the spring semester of their senior year at Centerville High and a place away from their current situations are what Nikki and Caroline desperately want. Senior year was supposed to be filled with excitement and careless fun, instead Caroline is pregnant and Nikki’s dealing with her mom’s reckless drug habit plus the shady associates unfortunately attached. Throughout their lives, the two friends always stuck by one another, however the year continues to produce unforeseen problems, leaving each of them deciding what kind of paths lay ahead.
…a challenging, gripping and heroin tale of two teenage girls forced to make adult choices creating a butterfly effect catapulting their lives forward.
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Reservoir Run (The Running Suspense Series) by Diane Strong
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Mystery Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers, Suspense
A lison lays unconscious in a hospital bed after a long-distance training run leaves her half-dead at the bottom of a deep ravine. While Rick is a faithful husband, Alison gave him many reasons to attempt to kill her. The question of who tried to kill Alison hangs in the air while Rick waits impatiently for her to awake and assure him he’s innocent.
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FREE KINDLE BOOK PACK #3 – {02-27-2013}
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Stepping Into More- Lessons From A Recovering Perfectionist by Rachel Karu
Genre(s): Self-Help, Happiness, Success, Advice & How-to, Health Mind & Body
L ife is meant to be lived with purpose. Before Rachel Karu could speak, she longed to be a singer and performer. But like all of us, Rachel was born with Gremlins- inner voices that hate change and demand the staus quo. These perpetual tapes clung to her mind like shackles threatening to derail her at every turning point. At the lead of Rachel’s gang was the toughest of them all: Perfectionism.
In STEPPING INTO MORE: Lessons from a Recovering Perfectionist, Rachel details her personal journey of wrangling and ultimately co-existing with her Gremilins. We are born with strengths and development areas. Our goal is to create a fulfilling life and we all need some guidance along the way.
Intended as a tool, this guide offers support as you grapple with your own Gremlins and higher self, so that you learn how to make clear, conscious choices that lead to a wonderful, expansive life. Rachel’s story and the reflective questions at the end of each chapter are designed to serve as a stepping stone for you to reconnect to and honor your passions, values, and dreams.
Puritan’s Empire by Charles Coulombe
Genre(s): Christian Books & Bibles, Catholicism, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity
A Catholic Perspective on American History.
History is the key to understanding men-whether as nations, families, or individuals. For Catholics, history has an even higher purpose beside. For them, history is the unfolding of God’s Will in time, and the attempts of men either to conform themselves to or to resist that Will. But American Catholic historians have generally refrained from exploring their own national history with these principles, preferring instead to adopt the analysis of their non-Catholic colleagues, save when looking at purely Catholic topics (and sometimes not then). It is vital then, for Catholics, especially young Catholics, to have a good and proper understanding of their country’s history. To exercise their patriotism, they must work for the conversion of the United States; to do this effectively, they must understand the forces and events which brought forth not only the religion of Americanism and the country itself, but also the sort of Catholicism which, in 300 years, failed so dismally to bring this conversion about. This book attempts to reinterpret the better known episodes of our history in accordance with the Faith, and to point up lesser-known details which will give factual proof of the truth of this reinterpretation.
Genre(s): Humor & Entertainment, Humor, Satire, Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction
D o you ever get one of those moments when you want to lose yourself in a book that is totally magical, brimming with imagination and fantasy, and entertaining from start to finish? This book by the very talented Jonathan Gould is the very thing that delivers on all counts.
- cnkbookreviews.blogspot.com
Jonathan Gould is a master at “Adult Fables”…Turning his talents to a full length novel – Magnus Opum – Gould creates an even richer world and experience…
- reviewmybookonamazon.wordpress.com
Magnus Opum is an epic fantasy that’s slightly skewed – Tolkien with a twist.
Magnus Opum is a wonderful story – there’s no doubt about that. Magnus has a quest and he embraces it fully, it takes him to new places and he encounters new races during his adventures. However, it’s the things that Magnus learns that really make this story shine for me.
- bookbagsandcatnaps.com
It takes a quiet approach to its storytelling, but also regales the reader with a frothy sprinkling of satire and wit.
- afstewartblog.blogspot.ca
At the end of the day, the story of Magnus Mandalora of the small homely village of Lower Kertoob is fun, funny, educational, and a master work of both parody AND satire rolled into an easy-to-read family-friendly story.
- Jeremy Rodden, author of Kindle bestselling cartoon novel – Toonopolis: Gemini (Toonopolis Files, #1)
For more stories that stand out from the crowd, check out these other books by Jonathan Gould
*** Doodling: The unexpected adventures of a man who fell off the world (because it was moving too fast). Douglas Adams meets Lewis Carroll (with just a dash of Gulliver’s Travels).
*** Scribbling: More strange and unexpected adventures for Neville Lansdowne.
*** Flidderbugs: A political satire, a fable, or maybe just a funny little story about a bunch of bugs with some very peculiar obsessions.
Eyes Behind Belligerence by K.P. Kollenborn
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Historical, War, Historical Fiction
“ When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.” Culminating a bitter-sweet epic and traditional coming-of-age story, ‘Eyes Behind Belligerence’ sets precedence to fear and hatred, to families torn apart, and to the calloused response of internment camps. While two Japanese-American families endure the wake of Pearl Harbor’s wrath, each member must face the most painful question of their life: Where does their loyalty stand?
Told in five parts, this novel unravels the challenges between two unlikely Nisei friends, Jim and Russell, into adulthood during the Second World War. As restrictions are imposed, (even in the safe, rural community of Bainbridge Island,) as harassments escalate, (including the F.B.I. invading their homes and deporting their fathers to Montana for espionage trials,) the fated day arrives: evacuation of all Japanese civilians. Rounded up like cattle, tagged, they are hauled to the fringes of Death Valley: Manzanar. Together they must survive racism, gang violence, and the harsh elements of the environment. Together they must prove their loyalty, especially after a tragic riot on the eve of Pearl Harbor’s anniversary. While Russell enlists in a segregated army, becoming part of one the most decorated units in U.S. history, Jim is sent to a different camp for the “No-No” boys: those who are marked disloyal. Removed from their families, they are forced to reevaluate their identities and discover, most importantly, what it means to forgive.
Salt of the Earth by Jesse V Coffey
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Horror, Occult, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy, Paranormal
N othing like being the “new kid on the slab,” as Rip Porter quickly finds out when a robbery goes wrong. Thanks to four shots from a policeman’s gun, he wakes up in the The Final Glory Cemetery, home to an assortment of ghosts, ghouls, and poltergeists. No sooner is Rip interred than he finds his final resting place isn’t as restful as the brochures would lead him to believe, thanks to his rather different neighbors.
Meet Nattie Birnbaum, Rip’s erstwhile Guardian Angel; Gracie, the Welcome Committee of one; Chester, the checkers champ and resident in charge of the comings and goings of the dearly departed. It’s a cozy neighborhood and Rip is going to find out how he can fit in. Welcome, Rip Porter, to the first day of the rest of your death.
“Salt of the Earth” is a stand-alone novella — approximately 30,500 words and 66 pages.
The Firma Twins and the Purple Staff of Death (A Firma Twins Adventure) by D. H. Timpko
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Adventure, Paranormal
W hat would you do if you woke up to find your identical twin sister transformed into a human-size rat? What would you do if an Egyptian mummy comes to life and declares you the Chosen One who must find the Purple Staff of Death and lead a battle?
Twelve-year-old Isis Firma finds the idea of leading a battle totally illogical. But when her identical twin sister is kidnapped, she must discover the strength to rescue her sister from aliens who plan to feed on human schoolchildren.
BARGAIN KINDLE BOOK PACK #1 – {02-26-2013}
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A Different Kind of Cell: The Story of a Murderer Who Became a Monk by W. Paul Jones
Genre(s): Biographies & Memoirs, Leaders & Notable People, Religious, Specific Groups, Crime & Criminals, True Accounts, Murder & Mayhem, Christian Books & Bibles, Catholicism, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Criminology, Nonfiction, Penology
T he gripping story of one mans remarkable spiritual journey
A “most dangerous” criminal, convicted of five violent murders, Clayton Anthony Fountain was condemned in 1974 to live out his days in solitary confinement at the highest-security prison in the U.S. Without ever again emerging from his cell, however, Fountain underwent a profound spiritual transformation. Father W. Paul Jones, who served as Fountains spiritual adviser for six years until Fountain’s sudden death in 2004, shares his amazing story with candor and compassion in these pages.
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, United States, Chick-Lit, Contemporary Women, Friendship, Contemporary Fiction
A brilliant, hilarious, and touching story from the author of Conversations with the Fat Girl, Liza Palmer’s More Like Her is smart, funny, though-provoking women’s fiction in the vein of Emily Giffin, Marian Keyes, Meg Cabot, and Jane Green. More Like Her is the story of a seemingly perfect woman who’s the envy of her friends, neighbors, and co-workers…until the life of the object of their jealousy spectacularly, unexpectedly, and disastrously explodes. A novel of secrets, disappointments, false impressions–and what really goes on behind those suburban picket fences–More Like Her is ultimately about facing reality and appreciating everything that life has to offer.
Genre(s): Humor & Entertainment, Humor, Love, Sex & Marriage, Literature & Fiction, Romance, Contemporary
E mma Barton is a workaholic. Nothing is more important than becoming managing editor of the magazine she works for. And she has the perfect plan to achieve that goal. Then Guy Walker enters her office. Sexy, sweet, and super popular, the new tech guy takes the office by storm. Will he derail every strategy Emma has in place? If he discovers her secret, it could ruin Emma’s career and turn her life upside down.
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Contemporary, Mystery Thriller & Suspense, Mystery, Women Sleuths, Thrillers, Suspense, Contemporary Fiction
H ot off the publication of Bones, the winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel, Jan Burke explodes onto the suspense scene with Flight, featuring the hard-edged Detective Frank Harriman, husband of Jan’s beloved series heroine Irene Kelly. A family is found murdered. In a cruel twist, one of the Las Piernas Police Department’s own, Philip Lefebvre, is suspected of killing the only witness. When that detective disappears, a crime boss goes free. And the LPPD is forever changed. Called in to investigate the wreckage of the missing detective’s plane, Frank Harriman is given a set of cold cases that have suddenly become white hot. Detective Harriman’s conviction that the LPPD tagged the wrong murder suspect is wildly unpopular. Alone, his instincts and integrity questioned at every turn, Harriman must stop the killer before hundreds of lives, including Harriman’s own, are lost. Flight is a heart-pounding marriage of Jan Burke’s “intricate plotting” (Washington Times), “chilling suspense” (Clive Cussler), and trademark “crisp, crackling prose” (Library Journal) that will thrill newcomers and veteran Burke fans, cover to cover.






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