How is it that another month come and gone? I don’t know about you, but this year seems to be flying by! Once again we had another fantastic month of new books and even with that, I was able to sneak in a few of my own plus 1 backlist book. And I participated in quite a few buddy reads / book club discussions again…I really am enjoying these…
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Title: The Next Wife Author: Kaira Rouda Published: May 2021, Thomas & Mercer Format: ARC Paperback, 312 pages Source: Publisher via MB Communications Summary: There is no limit to the lies, suspicion, and secrets that can poison the perfect marriage in this twisting novel of suspense by USA Today bestselling author Kaira Rouda.Kate Nelson had it all. A flourishing company founded with her husband, John; a happy marriage; and…
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Title: Good Neighbors Author: Sarah Langan Published: February 2021, Atria Books Format: Hardcover, 304 pages Source: Publisher Summary: Celeste Ng’s enthralling dissection of suburbia meets Shirley Jackson’s creeping dread in this propulsive literary noir, when a sudden tragedy exposes the depths of deception and damage in a Long Island suburb—pitting neighbor against neighbor and putting one family in terrible danger.Welcome to Maple Street, a picture-perfect slice of suburban…
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Title: Sunflower Sisters Author: Martha Hall Kelly Series: Lilac Girls, #3 Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld, Shayna Small, Jenna Lamia, Cassandra Campbell, Martha Hall Kelly Published: March 2021, Random House Audio / Ballantine Books Length: 17 hours 50 minutes / 528 pages Source: Audio via library / Print via Publisher Summary: Martha Hall Kelly’s million-copy best seller Lilac Girls introduced listeners to Caroline Ferriday. Now, in Sunflower Sisters, Kelly tells the…
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Title: Flesh and Blood Author: Caroline Mitchell Series: DI Amy Winters, #4 Narrator: Elizabeth Knowelden Published: April 2021, Brilliance Audio Length: 9 hours 11 minutes Source: Publisher Summary: A string of suicides. A community in terror. And a chilling conspiracy only DI Amy Winter can crack. A wave of apparent suicides hits a string of seaside resorts, but when a police officer is named as the latest to die,…
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Title: Leonora in the Morning Light Author: Michaela Carter Published: April 2021, Avid Reader Press Format: ARC Paperback, 416 pages Source: Publisher Summary: For fans of Amy Bloom’s White Houses and Colm Tóibín’s The Master, a page-turning novel about Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington and the art, drama, and romance that defined her coming-of-age during World War II.1940. A train carrying exiled German prisoners from a labor camp arrives in…
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Title: Reunion Beach: Stories Inspired by Dorothea Benton Frank Author: Elin Hilderbran, Adriana Trigiani, Patti Callahan, Mary Alice Monroe & more Published: April 2021, William Morrow Format: Hardcover, 416 pages Source: Publisher Summary: In this warm and moving anthology, a group of bestselling authors and writers pay tribute to legendary, larger-than-life New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank and her literary legacy.Inspired by the title Dorothea Benton Frank planned for…
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Title: Mother May I Author: Joshilyn Jackson Published: April 2021, William Morrow Format: ARC Paperback, 336 pages Source: Publisher Summary: Revenge doesn’t wait for permission. Growing up poor in rural Georgia, Bree Cabbat was warned by her single mother that the world was a dark and scary place. Bree rejected her mother’s fearful outlook, and life has proved her right. Having married into a family with wealth, power,…
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Title: Sleeping Dogs Lie Author: Samantha Downing Series: Audible Original Stories Narrator: Melanie Nicholls-King, Lindsey Dorcus Published: April 2021, Audible Originals Length: 2 hours 8 minutes Source: Personal copy Summary: From the internationally best-selling author of My Lovely Wife and He Started It comes a twisted, entertaining novella about a dog walker swept into a criminal investigation when her client winds up dead. Shelby works as a dog…
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Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for The Funny Thing About Norman Foreman by Julietta Henderson – I have an excerpt for you to read thanks to MIRA. Title: The Funny Thing About Norman Foreman Author: Julietta Henderson Published: April 2021, MIRA Format: Hardcover, 400 pages Summary: A triumphant and touching debut about the unlikeliest superstar you’ll ever meet.Twelve-year-old Norman Foreman and…
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Title: Last Call Author: Elon Green Narrator: David Pittu Published: March 2021, Macmillan Audio Length: 8 hours 11 minutes Source: Publisher Summary: The gripping true story, told here for the first time, of the Last Call Killer and the gay community of New York City that he preyed upon.The Townhouse Bar, midtown, July 1992: The piano player seems to know every song ever written, the crowd belts out the…
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Title: The Sanatorium Author: Sarah Pearse Published: Feburary 2021, Pamela Dorman Books Format: Hardcover, 400 pages Source: Personal copy Summary: You won’t want to leave. . . until you can’t.Half-hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. Long plagued by troubling rumors, the former abandoned sanatorium has since been renovated into a five-star minimalist hotel. An imposing, isolated getaway spot…
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Title: The Light Through the Leaves Author: Glendy Vanderah Narrator: Susannah Jones Published: Brilliance Audio / Lake Union Publishing Length: 14 hours 14 minutes / 464 pages Source: Audio via Brilliance Publishing / Print via Amazon Publishing Summary: Go on a powerful journey of forgiveness and healing with The Light Through the Leaves, a transcendent novel of love, loss, and self-discovery by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of…
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Title: The Last Night in London Author: Karen White Published: April 2021, Berkley Books Format: Hardcover, 480 pages Source: Publisher via UplitReads Summary: New York Times bestselling author Karen White weaves a story of friendship past and present, love, and betrayal that moves between war-torn London during the Blitz and the present day. A captivating story of friendship, love and betrayal – and finding hope in the darkness of…
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Title: The Perfect Daughter Author: D.J. Palmer Published: April 2021, St. Martin’s Press Format: ARC Paperback, 384 pages Source: Publisher Summary: The Perfect Daughter is a thriller that explores the truth or lies behind a teenage girl’s multiple personality disorder, from D.J. Palmer, the author of The New Husband.Grace never dreamt she’d visit her teenaged daughter Penny in the locked ward of a decaying state psychiatric hospital, charged with…
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Title: The Boy in the Headlights Author: Samuel Bjork Series: Holger Munch & Mia Kruger, #3 Published: October 2019, Corgi Format: Paperback, 384 pages Source: Personal copy Summary: The bestselling series, a former Richard and Judy bookclub pick, returns with another chilling case.Munch and Krüger. An unexpected pairing. A brilliant team. Winter 19996 An old man is driving home when his headlights catch an animal on the empty road up…
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Title: Under the Southern Sky Author: Kristy Woodson Harvey Published: April 2021, Gallery Books Format: ARC Paperback, 400 pages Source: Author Summary: Two childhood friends discover that love—and family—can be found in unconventional ways in this timely, moving novel from the USA TODAY bestselling author of the “beautifully Southern, evocative Peachtree Bluff series” (Kristin Harmel, internationally bestselling author of The Winemaker’s Wife). Recently separated Amelia Buxton, a dedicated journalist,…
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Title: Northern Spy Author: Flynn Berry Published: April 2021, Viking Books Format: Hardcover, 288 pages Source: Personal copy Summary: The acclaimed author of Under the Harrow and A Double Life returns with her most thrilling novel to date: the story of two sisters who become entangled with the IRA. A producer at the Belfast bureau of the BBC, Tessa is at work one day when the news…
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Title: No Pain, No Gaines Author: Chip Gaines Narrator: Chip Gaines Published: March 2021, Thomas Nelson Length: 5 hours 43 minutes Source: Publisher via TLC Booktours Summary: No Pain, No Gaines is a by-the-bootstraps manual for building a network of people you can count on. Fair warning: Building it will be painful, but what you’ll gain is something strong, something reliable, and something that can change the world. Spoiler alert number…
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Title: Into the Black Nowhere Author: Meg Gardiner Series: UNSUB, #2 Published: January 2018, Dutton Format: Hardcover, 368 pages Source: Personal copy Summary: Inspired by real-life serial killer Ted Bundy, an exhilarating thriller in which FBI profiler Caitlin Hendrix faces off against a charming, merciless serial killerIn southern Texas, on Saturday nights, women are disappearing. One vanishes from a movie theater. Another is ripped from her car at a…
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Title: The Lies You Told Author: Harriet Tyce Published: December 2020, Grand Central Publishing Format: Hardcover, 384 pages Source: Publisher Summary: In the playground it’s the law of the jungle But at the school gate, there are no rules at all… When Sadie Roper moves back to London, she’s determined to pick up the pieces of her shattered life. First, she needs to get her daughter settled into a…
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Title: Dark Horses Author: Susan Mihalic Narrator: Alex Allwine Published: February 2021, Simon & Schuster Audio Length: 10 hours 26 minutes Source: Publisher Summary: A darkly gripping debut novel about a teenage girl’s fierce struggle to reclaim her life from her abusive father.Fifteen-year-old equestrian prodigy Roan Montgomery has only ever known two worlds: inside the riding arena, and outside of it. Both, for as long as she can remember,…
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Title: Our Darkest Night Author: Jennifer Robson Published: January 2021, William Morrow Paperbacks Format: Paperback, 384 pages Source: Publisher Summary: To survive the Holocaust, a young Jewish woman must pose as a Christian farmer’s wife in this unforgettable novel from USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Robson—a story of terror, hope, love, and sacrifice, inspired by true events, that vividly evokes the most perilous days of World War II.It is…
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Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for Summertime Guests by Wendy Francis. Thank you Graydon House for inviting me to participate. Title: Summertime Guests Author: Wendy Francis Published: April 2021, Graydon House Format: ARC E-copy, 320 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: The Seafarer is the place to see and be seen in the summer… With its rich history and…
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Back again with my five most anticipated releases coming out this month. That’s not to say that I’m not excited about all the books that are being released this month – and there are so many books coming out this month! – but these are just the ones that really stand out in my mind for some reason – either because I have loved the author’s previous books or…
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Title: Life’s Too Short Author: Abby Jimenez Series: The Friend Zone, #3 Narrator: Christine Lakin, Zachary Webber Published: April 2021, Hachette Audio Length: 9 hours 6 minutes Source: Publisher via Libro.fm Summary: A brilliant and touching romantic comedy from the USA Today best-selling author of The Friend Zone and The Happy Ever After Playlist. When Vanessa Price quit her job to pursue her dream of traveling the globe, she…
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Title: Finding Freedom Author: Erin French Published: April 2021, Celadon Books Format: ARC E-copy, 304 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: From Erin French, owner and chef of the critically acclaimed The Lost Kitchen, a TIME world dining destination, a life-affirming memoir about survival, renewal, and finding a community to lift her upLong before The Lost Kitchen became a world dining destination with every seating filled the day the…
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Title: The Vines Author: Shelley Nolden Series: The Vines, #1 Published: March 2021, Freiling Publishing Format: ARC E-copy, 391 pages Source: Netgalley Summary: In the shadows of New York City lies forbidden North Brother Island, where the remains of a shuttered hospital hide the haunting memories of century-old quarantines and human experiments. The ruins conceal the scarred and beautiful Cora, imprisoned by contagions and the doctors who torment her.…
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Title: Lies We Bury Author: Elle Marr Narrator: Kate Rudd Published: April 2021, Brilliance Audio / Thomas & Mercer Length: 9 hours 29 minutes / 304 pages Source: Audio via Brilliance Publishing / Print – Publisher via MB Communications Summary: A novel about secrets and revenge by the number one Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Missing Sister. It’s only by confronting who she was then that she can…
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Another month come and gone, filled with more amazing books. So many new books were publishing this month that I unfortunately did not do too well with reading from my own books or getting in any backlists books but I’m ok with that. The one thing I really loved this month was all the buddy reads/book club discussions I was part of…I am really enjoying being part of these…
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Title: The Songbook of Benny Lament Author: Amy Harmon Narrator: Rob Shapiro Published: March 2021, Brilliance Audio / Lake Union Publishing Length: 14 hours 52 minutes / 448 pages Source: Audio via Brilliance Publishing / Print via Amazon Publishing Summary: From the bestselling author of What the Wind Knows and From Sand and Ash comes a powerful love story about a musical duo who put everything on the line…
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Title: Libertie Author: Kaitlyn Greenidge Published: March 2021, Algonquin Books Format: Hardcover, 336 pages Source: Publisher Summary: The critically acclaimed and Whiting Award–winning author of We Love You, Charlie Freeman returns with an unforgettable story about the meaning of freedom. Coming of age as a free-born Black girl in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, Libertie Sampson was all too aware that her purposeful mother, a practicing physician, had a vision for…
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Title: When I Ran Away Author: Ilona Bannister Published: March 2021, Doubleday Books Format: Hardcover, 336 pages Source: Publisher via Author Summary: A rich, bighearted debut that takes us from working-class Staten Island in the wake of the September 11th attacks to moneyed London a decade later, revealing a story of loss, motherhood, and love, perfect for fans of Gail Honeyman and Ann Napolitano.As the Twin Towers collapse, Gigi…
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Title: One in Three Author: Tess Stimson Published: January 2021, Avon Format: Paperback, 448 pages Source: Publisher Summary: Both of them loved him. One of them killed him . . . Louise has had to watch her husband, Andrew, start a new family in the four years since he left her. The ‘other woman’ is now his wife – but Louise isn’t ready to let Caz enjoy the life…
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Title: Watch Her Sleep Author: L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain Series: Charlotte Winters, #3 Published: March 2021, Bookouture Format: ARC E-copy, 375 pages Source: Netgalley Summary: Nestled in the autumn leaves, her hair tangled in thick brambles, the girl looks like she could be sleeping amongst the wild roses. But the trail of red across her delicate throat means this is a slumber she will never wake from… When a…
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Title: The Good Sister Author: Sally Hepworth Narrator: Barrie Kreinik Published: April 2021, Macmillan Audio / St. Martin’s Press Length: 8 hours 18 minutes / 320 pages Source: Audio – ALC via Libro.fm/Macmillan Audio / Print – ARC Paperback via St. Martin’s Press Summary: Sally Hepworth, the author of The Mother-In-Law delivers a knock-out of a novel about the lies that bind two sisters in The Good Sister. There’s…
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Title: Heartbreak Bay Author: Rachel Caine Series: Stillhouse Lake, #5 Narrator: Emily Sutton-Smith, Dan John Miller, Tovah Ott Published: March 2021, Brilliance Audio Length: 11 hours 29 minutes Source: Publisher Summary: They’re hunting a killer so silent, so invisible, that his unspeakable crimes are the only proof he exists. A car submerged in a remote pond. The bodies of two girls strapped into their seats. The mystery of their…
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Title: The Echo Wife Author: Sarah Gailey Narrator: Xe Sands Published: February 2021, Macmillan Audio Length: 8 hours 26 minutes Source: Publisher Summary: I’m embarrassed, still, by how long it took me to notice. Everything was right there in the open, right there in front of me, but it still took me so long to see the person I had married. It took me so long to hate him. Martine…
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Title: The Four Winds Author: Kristin Hannah Narrator: Julia Whelan Published: February 2021, Macmillan Audio Length: 15 hours 2 minutes Source: Publisher Summary: From the number-one best-selling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone comes a powerful American epic about love and heroism and hope, set during the Great Depression, a time when the country was in crisis and at war with itself, when millions were out…
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Title: The Betrayal Author: Terry Lynn Thomas Series: Olivia Sinclair, #1 Published: October 2020 , HQ Digital Format: ARC E-galley, 234 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: Attorney Olivia Sinclair is shocked when she receives an anonymous video showing her husband Richard sleeping with someone else. After years of handling other people’s divorces, she thought she could recognise a marriage in trouble. She angrily throws Richard out of the…
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Title: After Alice Fell Author: Kim Taylor Blakemore Published: March 2021, Lake Union Publishing Format: ARC Paperback, 288 pages Source: Author Summary: Until she discovers the truth of her sister’s death, no one will rest in peace. New Hampshire, 1865. Marion Abbott is summoned to Brawders House asylum to collect the body of her sister, Alice. She’d been found dead after falling four stories from a steep-pitched roof. Officially:…
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Title: Our Last Echoes Author: Kate Alice Marshall Published: March 2021, Viking Books for Young Readers Format: ARC E-copy, 416 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: Kara Thomas meets Twin Peaks in this supernatural thriller about one girl’s hunt for the truth about her mother’s disappearance.Sophia’s first memory is of drowning. She remembers the darkness of the water and the briny taste as it fills her throat. She remembers…
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I’m happy to be participating in the blog blitz for Are We There Yet by Kathleen West, which publishes today!!! Enjoy this spotlight and excerpt and let me know if you will be picking this one up! Title: Are We There Yet? Author: Kathleen West Published: March 2021, Berkley Books Format: Hardcover, 352 pages Summary: Among fake Instagram pages, long-buried family secrets, and the horrors of middle school, one…
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Title: The House on the Water Author: Margot Hunt Series: Audible Original Stories Narrator: Taylor Schilling Published: December 2020, Audible Originals Length: 2 hours 47 minutes Source: Personal copy Summary: From the author of Buried Deep comes brand new thriller about a summer vacation turned deadly, and a group of friends trapped together until they can determine who among them is capable of murder. Every year, Caroline Reed takes…
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Title: Sparks Like Stars Author: Nadia Hashimi Narrator: Mozhan Marno Published: March 2021, HarperAudio / William Morrow Length: 12 hours 2 minutes / 464 pages Source: Audio via Library / Print – Personal Copy Summary: An Afghan American woman returns to Kabul to learn the truth about her family and the tragedy that destroyed their lives in this brilliant and compelling novel from the best-selling author of The Pearl…
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Title: Everything After Author: Jill Santopolo Published: March 2021, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Format: Hardcover, 336 pages Source: Publisher Summary: The Light We Lost mixes with a touch of Daisy Jones and the Six in this novel of first love, passion, and the power of choice–and how we cannot escape the people we are meant to be. Two loves. Two choices. One chance to follow her dreams. Emily has come…
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Title: Killer Triggers Author: Joe Kenda Narrator: Joe Kenda Published: March 2021, Blackstone Publishing Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Source: Netgalley Summary: The most common triggers for homicide are fear, rage, revenge, money, lust, and, more rarely, sheer madness. This isn’t an exact science, of course. Any given murder can have multiple triggers. Sex and revenge seem to be common partners in crime. Rage, money, and revenge make for a…
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Title: The Lost Apothecary Author: Sarah Penner Narrator: Lorna Bennett, Lauren Anthony, Lauren Irwin Published: March 2021, Harlequin Audio / Park Row Books Length: 10 hours 18 minutes / 320 pages Source: Audio – via library / Print via Publisher/Publicist Summary: A female apothecary secretly dispenses poisons to liberate women from the men who have wronged them—setting three lives across centuries on a dangerous collision course.Rule #1: The poison must…
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Title: Undiscovered Country: A Novel Inspired by the Lives of Eleanor Roosevelt & Lorena Hickok Author: Kelly O’Connor McNees Narrator: Ann Marie Gideon Published: Audio – April 2020, HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books Print – March 2018, Pegasus Books Length: 7 hours 20 minutes / 336 pages Source: Audio via library / Print via Publisher Summary: In October 1932, at the tail end of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first…
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Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for The Jigsaw Man by Nadine Matheson. Thank you Hanover Square Press for inviting me to participate. Title: The Jigsaw Man Author: Nadine Matheson Published: March 2021, Hanover Square Press Format: ARC E-copy, 413 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery… When body parts are found on the banks…
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