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Memoir
12 Birds to Save Your Life: Nature’s Lessons in Happiness
A lyrical and life-affirming book that teaches us as much about birds as it does ourselves – a balm for the soul’ Raynor Winn, author of The Salt Path ‘Totally absorbing and completely engaging on so many levels… Charlie has opened my eyes to the constant joy of the sights and sounds of the birds […]
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Art - Climate - Environment
140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth
Artists are uniquely situated to present new ideas about how we are living, the materials that make up our lives and how we can begin to work together to tackle the most urgent crisis of our time. Featuring Ed Ruscha’s memorial plaques to trees that didn’t make it, Judy Chicago’s urge to make a mark […]
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Photography
1964: Eyes of the Storm
Photographs and Reflections by Paul McCartney ‘Millions of eyes were suddenly upon us, creating a picture I will never forget for the rest of my life.’ In 2020, an extraordinary trove of nearly a thousand photographs taken by Paul McCartney on a 35mm camera was re-discovered in his archive. They intimately record the months towards […]
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
A Bright Ray of Darkness
‘Riveting work’ Patti Smith ‘Vivid . . . it communicates a real power’ Sunday Times ‘A wild ride of a book’ Metro Actor William Harding has been caught cheating on his rock star wife and the press have descended upon him. Amid the headlines and worldwide disdain towards him, he takes on the part in […]
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
A Calling for Charlie Barnes
From the Booker-shortlisted author of To Rise Again at a Decent Hour comes a novel about fathers, sons, thwarted dreams and confronting the reality of who we really are Charlie Barnes is a mid-century man devoted to his newspaper and his landline. But Charlie is about to get dragged into our troubled age by his […]
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Food & Drink - Non Fiction
A Half Baked Idea
Olivia Potts’ mother died when she just twenty-five. Stricken with grief, she did something life changing and rather ridiculous: she gave up a high-flying legal career to study at the notoriously difficult Le Cordon Bleu
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Memoir - Politics
A Promised Land
A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, […]
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Classics - Thriller & Crime
A Rage in Harlem (Penguin Modern Classics)
‘The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler’ Sunday Times Jackson’s woman has found him a foolproof way to make money – a technique for turning ten dollar bills into hundreds. But when the scheme somehow fails, Jackson is left broke, wanted by the police and desperately racing to get back both his […]
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Fiction
A Room of One’s Own (Penguin Modern Classics)
‘But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction – what has that got to do with a room of one’s own?’ A Room of One’s Own grew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been invited to give at Girton College, Cambridge in 1928 and became a landmark work […]
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
Amazing Grace Adams
A book that will resonate with anyone who has felt they are spinning more than their fair share of plates, this debut from Fran Littlewood will be devoured by those women who have been tempted to give it all up for a moment’s peace
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Food & Drink
An A-Z of Pasta: Stories, Shapes, Sauces, Recipes
This is the story of pasta. In it, Guardian columnist and award-winning food writer Rachel Roddy condenses everything she has learned about Italy’s favourite food in a practical, easy-to-use and mouth-watering collection of 100 essential pasta and pasta sauce recipes. Along with the recipes are short essays that weave together the history, culture and the […]
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
Another Life
Nick and Anna are young. They meet at a cinema, both working summer jobs. They’ve lived different lives. Carry secret hurts. But they’re drawn together by something neither understands.
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
Ask Again, Yes
A story of love and redemption, faith and forgiveness, Ask Again, Yes reveals the way childhood memories change when viewed from the distance of adulthood – villains lose their menace, and those who appeared innocent seem less so.
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
August Blue
‘If she was my double and I was hers, was it true that she was knowing, I was unknowing, she was sane, I was crazy, she was wise, I was foolish? That summer, the air was electric between us as we transmitted our feelings to each other across three countries.’ Elsa M. Anderson is a […]
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Graphic Novels
Bad Island
‘Bad Island is an extraordinary, unsettling document: a silent species-history in eighty frames, a mute future archive.I can imagine it discovered in the remnants of a civilisation; a set of runes found amid the ruins. Stark in its lines and dark in its vision, Bad Island reads you more than you read it’ Robert Macfarlane […]
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Philosophy - Psychology - Self-Help & Personal Development
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
In 12 Rules for Life, acclaimed public thinker and clinical psychologist Jordan B. Peterson offered an antidote to the chaos in our lives: eternal truths applied to modern anxieties. His insights have helped millions of readers and resonated powerfully around the world. Now in this much-anticipated sequel, Peterson goes further, showing that part of life’s […]
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Comics
Black Panther: 3 (Penguin Classics Marvel Collection)
It is impossible to imagine American popular culture without Marvel Comics. For decades, Marvel has published groundbreaking visual narratives that sustain attention on multiple levels: as metaphors for the experience of difference and otherness; as meditations on the fluid nature of identity; and as high-water marks in the artistic tradition of American cartooning, to name […]
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Comics
Black Panther: 3 (Penguin Classics Marvel Collection)
It is impossible to imagine American popular culture without Marvel Comics. For decades, Marvel has published groundbreaking visual narratives that sustain attention on multiple levels: as metaphors for the experience of difference and otherness; as meditations on the fluid nature of identity; and as high-water marks in the artistic tradition of American cartooning, to name […]
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Biography - Graphic Novels - Memoir
Breakdowns
The creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus explores the comics form…and how it formed him! **In a new flexibound format with an updated afterword** This book opens with Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!, creating vignettes of the people, events, and comics that shaped Art Spiegelman. It traces the artist’s evolution from a MAD-comics obsessed boy […]
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction - Thriller & Crime
Bullet That Missed
Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club are concerned. A decade-old cold case leads them to a local news legend and a murder with no body and no answers.
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
Bunny
The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
Burnt Sugar
Sharp as a blade and compulsively readable, Burnt Sugar slowly untangles the knot of memory and fiction that binds two women together, revealing the truth that lies beneath.
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Comics
Captain America: 2 (Penguin Classics Marvel Collection)
It is impossible to imagine American popular culture without Marvel Comics. For decades, Marvel has published groundbreaking visual narratives that sustain attention on multiple levels: as metaphors for the experience of difference and otherness; as meditations on the fluid nature of identity; and as high-water marks in the artistic tradition of American cartooning, to name […]
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Comics
Captain America: 2 (Penguin Classics Marvel Collection)
It is impossible to imagine American popular culture without Marvel Comics. For decades, Marvel has published groundbreaking visual narratives that sustain attention on multiple levels: as metaphors for the experience of difference and otherness; as meditations on the fluid nature of identity; and as high-water marks in the artistic tradition of American cartooning, to name […]
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Classics - Science fiction
Cat’s Cradle (Penguin Science Fiction)
This bitterly funny Cold War satire on the end of the world expresses our deepest fears of Armageddon, and has become a counter-culture classic.
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Essays - Memoir
Conversations on Love
‘This book might just change your life’ Sunday Times After years of feeling that love was always out of reach, journalist Natasha Lunn set out to understand how relationships work and evolve over a lifetime. She turned to authors and experts to learn about their experiences, as well as drawing on her own, asking: How […]
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Contemporary Fiction
Cursed Bread
From the Booker Prize-nominated author of The Water Cure comes a chilling new feminist fable based on the true story of an unsolved mystery… A recommended read for 2023 in The Times, Guardian, Irish Times, Scotsman, iD, Good Housekeeping, Big Issue and Our Culture ‘Sensual, luminous, transcendent. It confirms Mackintosh as one of our finest young writers’ The Bookseller If you eat […]
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Non Fiction - Society
Dear Dolly: On Love, Life and Friendship
Since early 2020, Dolly Alderton has been sharing her wisdom, warmth and wit with the countless people who have written in to her Dear Dolly agony aunt column in The Sunday Times Style. Their questions range from the painfully – and sometimes hilariously
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Food & Drink
Desi Kitchen
‘Brimming with soul, deliciousness and cultural curiosity, Sarah Woods’ Desi Kitchen is an utter delight and a total revelation. Moreish, authoritative and illuminating, it feels like a much needed celebration of both South Asian diaspora cuisine and multicultural Britain as a whole. I couldn’t get enough of it.’ JIMI FAMUREWA ‘Beautiful book, great recipes, really well written […]
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Biography
Dickens and Prince – A Particular Kind of Genius
The essential gift for lovers of Prince, of Dickens and everyone in between! In Nick Hornby’s completely joyous and original new book two great figures share the stage. Charles Dickens and Prince. Two wildly different artists who caught fire and lit up the world in ways no others could. Where did their magic come from? […]
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Business & Current Affairs - Non Fiction - Technology
Exponential: Order and Chaos in an Age of Accelerating Technology
As technology accelerates, the human mind struggles to keep up – and our companies, workplaces and democracies get left behind. This is the exponential gap.
Now, a leading technologist explores how this exponential gap is rewiring our world – and reveals how we should respond.
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Business & Current Affairs - Non Fiction
Facebook: The Inside Story
Today, Facebook is nearly unrecognizable from the simple website Zuckerberg’s first built from his dorm room in his Sophomore year. It has grown into a tech giant, the largest social media platform and
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Classics - Science fiction
Flatland (Penguin Science Fiction)
The book that influenced writers from Carl Sagan to Stephen Hawking, Flatland is set in a two-dimensional world where life exists only in lines and shapes – until one of its inhabitants, ‘A. Square’, has his perspective transformed forever. This brilliantly eccentric classic is an invitation to see beyond our own reality. ‘At once a […]
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
Fragile Monsters
In her stunning debut novel Catherine Menon traces one family’s story from 1920 to the present, unravelling a thrilling tale of love, betrayal and redemption against the backdrop of natural disasters and fallen empires.
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Fashion - Illustrations - Memoir - Photography
Fry’s Ties
Discover the tales behind the ties in Stephen Fry’s witty companion to our most distinguished accessory, the perfect gift for the tie-wearer in your life. ‘A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life’ Oscar Wilde ‘What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?’ ‘There is no time, sir, at which ties […]
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
Ghosts
Nina Dean has arrived at her early thirties as a successful food writer with loving friends and family, plus a new home and neighbourhood. When she meets Max, a beguiling romantic hero who tells her on date one that he’s going to marry her, it feels like all is going to plan. A new relationship […]
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
Great Circle
From the night she is rescued as a baby out of the flames of a sinking ship; to the day she joins a pair of daredevil pilots looping and diving over the rugged forests of her childhood, to the thrill of flying Spitfires during the war, the life of Marian Graves has always been marked by a lust for freedom and danger.
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
Greek Lessons
In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woman, for day by day he is losing his sight.
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Non Fiction
How to be Well Read: A guide to 500 great novels and a handful of literary curiosities
Ranging all the way from Aaron’s Rod to Zuleika Dobson, via The Devil Rides Out and Middlemarch, literary connoisseur and sleuth John Sutherland offers his very personal guide to the most rewarding, most remarkable and, on occasion, most shamelessly enjoyable works of fiction ever written. He brilliantly captures the flavour of each work and assesses […]
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Food & Drink - Non Fiction - Society
How to Feed a Dictator
What was Pol Pot eating while two million Cambodians were dying of hunger? Did Idi Amin really eat human flesh? And why was Fidel Castro obsessed with one particular cow? Traveling across four continents, from the ruins of Iraq to the savannahs of Kenya, Witold Szablowski tracked down the personal chefs of five dictators known […]
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Art - Essays
I Paint What I Want to See
Illuminating reflections on painting and drawing from one of the most revered artists of the twentieth century. ‘Thank God for yellow ochre, cadmium red medium, and permanent green light’ How does a painter see the world? Philip Guston, one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, spoke about art with unparalleled candour and […]
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
Intimations: Six Essays
Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of lockdown, by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time
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Climate - Contemporary Fiction - Environment - Fiction
Island of Missing Trees
A rich, magical novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World – now a top ten Sunday Times bestsellerIt is 1974 on the island of Cyprus
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Politics - Society
It’s OK to be Angry About Capitalism
‘Bernie Sanders has changed US politics forever’ Owen Jones. It’s OK to be angry about capitalism. It’s OK to want something better. Bernie Sanders takes on the 1% and speaks blunt truths about a system that is fuelled by uncontrolled greed, and rigged against ordinary people. Where a handful of oligarchs have never had it […]
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Biography - Memoir - Music
Lives of Brian
‘It wasn’t me. I didn’t do it. And I’ll never do it again!’ says Brian Johnson of The Lives of Brian. That AC/DC’s legendary front man got to do it all is one of the most cheering and entertaining stories in rock ‘n’roll history. The son of a British army sergeant-major and Italian mother, Brian […]
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Biography - Essays - Memoir - Self-Help & Personal Development
Manifesto
‘This honest, engaging memoir shares such gems . . . the perfect read for anyone who dreams big’ The Times and Sunday Times, Books of the Year The powerful, urgent memoir and manifesto on never giving up from Booker prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine Evaristo In 2019, Bernardine Evaristo became the first black woman to win the Booker Prize since its inception […]
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
Marilou is Everywhere
SHORTLISTED FOR THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE For fans of Where the Crawdads Sing and On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, a richly atmospheric debut about lost innocence and rural America… ‘Remarkable. This novel reads like a miracle’ NPR ‘Brimming with longing, with heartbreak’ New York Times Jude is popular, beautiful, wealthier than most in Deep […]
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Essays - Graphic Novels - History
Maus Now
It is hard to overstate Art Spiegelman’s effect on postwar American culture. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author is one of our most influential contemporary artists, and his masterpiece Maus has shaped the fields of literature, history, and art. Collecting responses to the work that confirm its unique and terrain-shifting status, Maus Now is a new collection of essays that […]
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Fashion
Mend!: A Refashioning Manual and Manifesto
For thousands of years, mending was a deep craft that has for too long been a secret history. But now it’s back, bigger and better than ever. In this book Kate Sekules introduces the art of visible mending as part of an important movement to give fashion back its soul. Part manifesto, part how-to, MEND! […]
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Memoir - Travel
Michel the Giant
A gripping account of one man’s ten year expedition from a village in West Africa to the Arctic Circle. Scorching heat, rich, fertile soil, and treacherous snakes marked the landscape in which Tété-Michel grew up in 1950s Togo, West Africa. When he discovered a book on Greenland as a teen, this distant land became an […]
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Non Fiction - Self-Help & Personal Development - Society
Misfits: A Personal Manifesto
Misfits is a triumphant call for honesty, empathy and inclusion. This timely, necessary book is a rousing coming-to-power manifesto dedicated to anyone who has ever worried about fitting in.
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Fantasy
Moon Witch, Spider King
Booker Prize-winner Marlon James once again draws on a rich tradition of African mythology and fantasy to imagine a mythic world, a lost child, a 177-year-old witch and a mystery with many answers
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Biography - Non Fiction
More Than a Woman
A decade ago, Caitlin Moran thought she had it all figured out. Her instant bestseller How to Be a Woman was a game-changing take on feminism, the patriarchy, and the general ‘hoo-ha’ of becoming a woman. Back then, she firmly believed ‘the difficult bit’ was over, and her forties were going to be a doddle. […]
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
Must I Go
Richly expansive and deeply moving, an intimate novel of secret lives and painful histories from one of the finest storytellers we have ‘This brilliant novel examines lives lived, losses accumulated, and the slipperiness of perception. Yiyun Li writes deeply, drolly, and with elegance about history, even as it’s happening. She is one of my favorite […]
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Home & Living - Interior Design
My Hygge Home
‘Comforting and cosy for the heart and soul’ Fearne Cotton ‘This book will help you make your home somewhere you feel comfortable, safe and calm’ Emma Guns A gorgeous guide to the Danish art of creating a cosy, happy home from the internationally bestselling author, Meik Wiking. Our homes should be a place of comfort, a place […]
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Graphic Novels
Mysteries of the Quantum Universe
The bestselling French graphic novel about the mind-bending world of quantum physics Take an incredible journey through the quantum universe with explorer Bob and his dog Rick, as they travel through a world of wonders, talk to Einstein about atoms, hang out with Heisenberg on Heligoland and eat crepes with Max Planck. Along the way, […]
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Art - Biography
Nat Tate: An American Artist 1928-1960
The infamous literary hoax that fooled the art world On January 8 1960, artist Nat Tate set out to burn his entire life’s work. Four days later he jumped off a Staten Island ferry, killing himself. His body was never found. When William Boyd published his biography of Abstract Expressionist Nat Tate, tributes poured in […]
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Contemporary Fiction - Poetry
Ness
Eerie, unsettling and hauntingly beautiful – a new collaboration from the bestselling creators of Holloway, Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood ‘Ness goes beyond what we expect books to do. Beyond poetry, beyond the word, beyond the bomb — it is an aftertime song’ Max Porter, Booker-longlisted author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers Somewhere […]
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
Night Train to the Stars
Japanese fairy tales – enchanting, enigmatic stories of animals, human beings and the great natural world. Dark and innocent, sublime and whimsical, Miyazawa’s stories have the ageless feel of the best fairy tales. There are animal allegories such as ‘The Ungrateful Rat’ where a rude rodent insults all the objects he meets – until he […]
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Graphic Novels - Memoir
Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Graphic Novel
The first ever graphic novel adaptation of George Orwell’s timeless dystopia. Winston Smith, an outwardly obedient citizen of Airstrip One, dreams secretly of truth and freedom – but his rebellion will come at a terrible cost. George Orwell’s dark masterpiece has enthralled readers for over seventy years. Now the dystopian world of Big Brother, telescreens, […]
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