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Art - Design - History
The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects
In a dazzling fusion of Quentin Fiore’s bold and inventive graphic design and Marshall McLuhan’s unique insight into technology, advertising and mass-media, The Medium is the Massage is a unique study of human communication in the twentieth century, published in Penguin Modern Classics Marshall McLuhan is the man who predicted the all-pervasive rise of modern […]
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Philosophy
The Need for Roots
A new translation of Simone Weil’s best-known work: a political, philosophical and spiritual treatise on what human life could be What do humans require to be truly nourished? Simone Weil, one of the foremost philosophers of the last century, envisaged us all as being bound by unconditional, eternal obligations towards every other human being. In […]
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Classics - Thriller & Crime
The Night of the Hunter (Penguin Modern Classics – Crime & Espionage)
Penguin Books is reviving the iconic Penguin Modern Classics ‘Crime and Espionage’ series, first published 75 years ago. Featuring John le Carré, Georges Simenon, Josephine Tey, Edogawa Rampo and more, these iconic paperbacks celebrate the
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
The Paper Palace
Before anyone else is awake, on a perfect August morning, Elle Bishop heads out for a swim in the glorious freshwater pond below ‘The Paper Palace’ — the gently decaying summer camp in the back woods of Cape Cod where her family has spent every summer for generations. As she passes the house, Elle glances […]
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Fiction
The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories: From Hans Christian Andersen to Angela Carter
The perfect gift this Christmas season: a generous selection of some of the greatest festive stories of all time This is a collection of the most magical, moving, chilling and surprising Christmas stories from around the world, taking us from frozen Nordic woods to glittering Paris, a New York speakeasy to an English country house, […]
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Classics - Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 1
A major celebration of the French short story, spanning three centuries ‘Beautiful and deep … a sumptuous treat for any book lover’ The Independent ‘Food for short story lovers everywhere’ Irish Times *A major celebration of the French short story and Spectator Book of the Year* The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an […]
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Classics - Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 2
A major celebration of the French short story, spanning three centuries ‘Beautiful and deep … a sumptuous treat for any book lover’ The Independent ‘Food for short story lovers everywhere’ Irish Times *A major celebration of the French short story and Spectator Book of the Year* The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an […]
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
The Swimmers
The swimmers are unknown to one another except through their private routines (slow lane, medium lane, fast lane) and the solace each takes in their morning or afternoon laps. But when a crack appears at
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction - Thriller & Crime
The Things We Do To Our Friends
‘Satisfyingly dark, cleverly plotted and pleasingly Donna Tarttish’ Emma Flint, Little Deaths ‘Seamlessly blends Gone Girl and Promising Young Woman. Smart, sophisticated, seductive‘ S J Watson, Before I Go To Sleep ‘A deeply compelling story of friendships turned rotten’ Rosemary Hennigan, The Truth Will Out *A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller* *One of Cosmopolitan’s Best […]
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
The Twilight World
The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier who defended a small island in the Philippines for twenty-nine years after the end of World War II. In 1997, Werner Herzog was in Tokyo to direct an opera. His hosts asked him, Whom would you […]
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Thriller & Crime
The Whistling
When Elspeth arrives on a remote Scottish island to become nanny to a young child, she hopes to bond with her. Until she learns that, for reasons no one will explain, Mary has not spoken for months
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
To the Lighthouse
A must-have new edition of Virginia Woolf’s masterpiece, featuring a cover illustrated by Alison Bechdel, The New York Times bestselling author of Fun Home, and a new foreword by Patricia Lockwood. To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family, the Ramseys, whose annual summer holiday in Scotland falls under the shadow of war, […]
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Fiction - Thriller & Crime
Tokyo Express
‘Tokyo Express is an irresistible Hitchcockian gem: a fiendishly-plotted crime novel told in crisp, elegant prose’ Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train ‘A classic of postwar Japanese crime fiction’ Financial Times ‘It was a puzzle with no solution. But he did not lose heart.’ In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies […]
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Fiction
Tokyo Express (Penguin Modern Classics)
A perfectly plotted, cosy detective story from Seicho Matsumoto, Japan’s master of mystery
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Classics - Science fiction
Trafalgar (Penguin Science Fiction)
Part pulp adventure, part otherworldly meditation, this is the story of Trafalgar Medrano: intergalactic trader and lover of bitter coffee and black cigarettes. In the bars and cafés of Rosario, Argentina, he recounts
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
Transcendent Kingdom
As a child Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their journey from Ghana to Alabama, seeking escape in myths of heroism and romance. When her father and brother succumb to the hard reality
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Classics - Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
Trouble with Happiness
In these brief, acid-sharp stories of love, marriage and family from one of Denmark’s most celebrated writers, the ordinary events of everyday life – a wife anxious not to wake her husband, a little boy losing his father’s beloved knife, a woman’s obsessive longing for a yellow silk umbrella – become dark and disconcerting. Here […]
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
True Story
An inventive and breathtaking exploration of a woman finding her voice in the wake of trauma, True Story is part psychological thriller, part fever dream, and part timely comment on sexual assault, power, and the
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
Two Girls, Fat and Thin
The intense, caustically funny first novel from the bestselling author of Bad Behaviour ‘Dark, menacing and original’ Joanna Briscoe, Guardian Dorothy Never – fat – lives alone in New York, eats and works the night shift as a proofreader. Justine Shade – thin – is a freelance journalist who sleeps with unsuitable men. Both are […]
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
We Solve Murders
FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB A brand new series. An iconic new detective duo. And a puzzling new murder to solve . . . —– Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He does the odd bit of investigation work, but he prefers his familiar habits and routines: the pub quiz, his […]
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Mind - Philosophy - Psychology - Self-Help & Personal Development
When Things Don’t Go Your Way
The million-copy bestselling monk returns with this essential book of Zen wisdom for modern living From the internationally bestselling author of The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down *** What if moments of great difficulty are, in fact, opportunities for growth and self-discovery? What if they can serve as stepping stones to greater […]
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
When We Were Birds
A gorgeously immersive, mesmerising and life-affirming literary debut – a love story and a ghost story set in modern day Trinidad Darwin is a down-on-his-luck gravedigger, newly arrived in the city of Port Angeles to seek his fortune, young and beautiful and lost. Estranged from his mother, he is convinced that the father he never […]
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Classics - Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
White Fang
A spellbinding novel looking at the harshness of life in the northern wilds, through nature’s ruthless eyes. Born in the wilds of the freezing cold Yukon, White Fang – half-dog, half-wolf – is the only animal in the litter to survive. He soon learns the harsh laws of nature and of the world’s indifference, yet […]
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Literature - Non Fiction
Why We Read: 70 Writers on Non-Fiction
Why read non-fiction? Is it just to find things out? Or is it for pleasure, challenge, adventure, meaning? Here, in seventy new pieces, some of the most original writers and thinkers of our time give their answers. From Hilton Als on reading as writing’s dearest companion to Nicci Gerrard on reading for her life; from […]
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Fiction
Wife of Willesden
‘Married five times. Mother. Lover. Aunt. Friend. She plays many roles round here. And never Scared to tell the whole of her truth, whether Or not anyone wants to hear it. Wife Of Willesden: pissed enough to tell her life Story to whoever has ears and eyes . . .’ Zadie Smith’s first time writing […]
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Fashion - History
Worn: A People’s History of Clothing
‘This riveting behind-the-scenes story of the clothes on our backs is a must-read for clotheshorses everywhere’ Harper’s Bazaar ‘Extraordinary . . . fascinating . . . a wonderful way into history, quite often through the voices of people who don’t have a say in history’ Cerys Matthews Linen, Cotton, Silk, Synthetics, Wool: through the stories […]
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Fiction
Writing from Ukraine: Fiction, Poetry and Essays since 1965
A selection of fifteen of Ukraine’s most important, dynamic and entertaining contemporary writers Under USSR rule, the subject matter and style of literary expression in Ukraine was strictly controlled and censored. But once Ukraine gained independence in 1991 its literary scene flourished, as the moving and delightful poems, essays and extracts collected here show. There […]
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Non Fiction
11 Life Lessons from Nelson Mandela
Every life has the power to change the world. Ndaba Mandela was raised by his grandfather, the man known to the world as Nelson Mandela. Here Ndaba offers a rare and personal insight into the man behind the myth, sharing with us his memories – charming, intimate and sometimes surprising – to illuminate Mandela’s much-loved […]
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Psychology
12 Rules for Life Jordan B. Peterson
The #1 Sunday Times and International Bestseller from ‘the most influential public intellectual in the Western world right now’ (New York Times). What are the most valuable things that everyone should know? Acclaimed clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson has influenced the modern understanding of personality, and now he has become one of the world’s most popular […]
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Classics - Fiction
A Clockwork Orange (Critical Edition)
Fully restored edition of Anthony Burgess’ original text of A Clockwork Orange, with a glossary of the teen slang ‘Nadsat’, explanatory notes, pages from the original typescript, interviews…..
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Fiction
A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Essentials)
In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his….
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Fiction
A Most Wanted Man (Penguin Modern Classics)
‘One of his most enthralling creations’ -Daily Telegraph Broke and working as a tour guide in Germany, rootless Englishman Ted Mundy catches a glimpse of an old friend hiding in the shadows. A friend he thought was lost to him. A friend who took him from radical 1960s Berlin to life as a double agent. […]
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Fiction
A Moth to a Flame (Penguin European Writers)
In a working-class neighbourhood in 1940s Stockholm, a young man named Bengt falls into deep, private turmoil with the unexpected death of his mother. As he struggles to cope with her loss, his despair slowly transforms to rage when he discovers that his father had a mistress. Bengt swears revenge on behalf of his mother’s […]
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Fiction
A Perfect Spy (Penguin Modern Classics)
Set in the tragic arena of the Middle East conflict, this compelling story of love and torn loyalties plays out against the backdrop of an unwinnable war.
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Pencil Case
A Room of One’s Own Pencil Case
Keep all of your stationery together in this beautiful purple pencil case, inspired by Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own – a blazing 1929 feminist polemic, which was a powerful call for women’s financial independence and intellectual freedom. Product Information: Made from natural cotton with a nylon liner. 22mm width x 135mm height x […]
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Fiction
A Room with a View (Penguin Essentials)
Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance……
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Fiction
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian (Penguin Essentials)
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian is bestselling author Marina Lewycka’s hilarious and award winning debut novel, now available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. ‘Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcée. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into […]
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Fiction
Absolute Friends (Penguin Modern Classics)
‘One of his most enthralling creations’ -Daily Telegraph Broke and working as a tour guide in Germany, rootless Englishman Ted Mundy catches a glimpse of an old friend hiding in the shadows. A friend he thought was lost to him. A friend who took him from radical 1960s Berlin to life as a double agent. […]
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Music
Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa
An intimate conversation about music and creativity, between the internationally bestselling writer and a world-class conductor. ‘My only purpose in this book was for me, as a music lover, to have a discussion of music with the musician Seiji Ozawa that was as open and honest as possible. I simply wanted to bring out the […]
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Biography
After Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography
Kathy Acker: Rich girl, street punk, scholar, stripper, victim, media-whore … and cultural icon. The late Kathy Acker’s legend and writings are wrapped in mythologies, many of them created by her. Twenty years after her untimely death aged just 50, Acker’s legend has faded, but her writing has become clearer. A few years ago, the […]
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Fiction
Any Human Heart (Penguin Essentials)
Any Human Heart is William’s Boyd’s classic, bestselling novel, now available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, but Logan Mountstuart’s – lived from the beginning to the end of the twentieth century – contains more than its fair share of both. As a writer who finds […]
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Non Fiction
Are You Experienced? (Penguin Essentials)
The gap year classic, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time in the year of its 20th anniversary. A devastatingly funny satire on the whole idea of student travel,and particularly the India back-pack trail. Dave travels to India with Liz because he thinks he might be able to get her into bed. Liz […]
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Fashion - Fiction - Non Fiction
Austerity (Vintage Minis)
Vintage Minis bring you the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human – from birth to death and everything in between.
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Biography - Music - Non Fiction
Autobiography
Autobiography covers Morrissey’s life from his birth until the present day. Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder of…..
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Humour
Awards for Good Boys
“Shelby and her art are extremely my shit. You need this book.” —Samantha Irby, New York Times bestselling author of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life “The rare Instagram-turned-book that actually works.” —Jezebel A wickedly funny illustrated look at living and dating in a patriarchal culture that celebrates men for displaying the bare minimum of […]
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Essays - Fiction - Non Fiction
Babies (Vintage Minis)
Babies: our biggest mystery and our most natural consequence, our hardest test and our enduring love. Anne Enright describes the intensity, bewilderment and extravagant happiness of her experience of having babies, from the exhaustion of early pregnancy to first smiles and becoming acquainted with the long reaches of the night. Everyone, from parents to the […]
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Fiction
Bad Behavior
A young woman anxiously waits for her date on a street corner in New York City; he sits in a pizza parlour across the street, watching her discomfort. The stories in this collection peer deep into the inner lives of men and women, explore the cavernous spaces between what we say and what can be […]
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Classics - Fiction
Big Sur
‘Kerouac’s grittiest novel … sensual and uninhibited’ The New York Times Driven mad by three years of endless telegrams, phonecalls, mail, reporters and snoopers in the wake of his hugely successful novel On the Road, Jack Kerouac, ‘King of the Beats’, needs peace, quiet and sobriety: surrounded and outnumbered he has to ‘get away to […]
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Fiction
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
‘Black Leopard, Red Wolf is the kind of novel I never realized I was missing until I read it. A dangerous, hallucinatory, ancient Africa, which becomes a fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made, with language as powerful as Angela Carter’s. I cannot wait for the next installment’ – Neil Gaiman In this stunning follow-up […]
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
Blue Ticket
From the Man Booker Prize longlisted author of The Water Cure – discover this chilling new novel about motherhood, free will and fate, human longing and animal instinct ‘The cool intensity and strange beauty of Blue Ticket is a wonder – be sure to read everything Sophie Mackintosh writes’ Deborah Levy, author of Hot Milk […]
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Fiction
Bonjour Tristesse (Penguin Essentials)
‘Late into the night we talked of love, of its complications. In my father’s eyes they were imaginary…This conception of rapid, violent and passing love affairs appealed to my imagination. I was not at the age when fidelity is attractive. I knew very little about love’. The French Riviera: home to the Beautiful People. And […]
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Fiction
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Penguin Essentials)
Meet Holly Golightly – a free spirited, lop-sided romantic girl about town. With her tousled blond hair and upturned nose, dark glasses and chic black dresses, Holly is…..
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Classics - Fiction
Brideshead Revisited
A beautiful clothbound edition of Evelyn Waugh’s classic novel of duty and desire set against the backdrop of the faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh’s novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. […]
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Fiction
Brideshead Revisited (Penguin Essentials)
Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated by the outrageous and exquisitely beautiful Sebastian Flyte. Invited to Brideshead, Sebastian’s magnificent family home…..
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Architecture - Lifestyle
Cabin Porn
‘Addictive … a charter for wistfulness’ Observer ‘An enchanting rabbit hole of handmade houses’ The New York Times ‘The Bible of pared back, natural living’ Der Spiegel ‘Take a deep breath and let the inspiration sink in’ GQ Cabin Porn began as an on-line project created by a group of friends to inspire their own […]
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Essays - Fiction - Non Fiction
Calm (Vintage Minis)
How do we find calm in our frantic modern world? Tim Parks – lifelong sceptic of all things spiritual – finds himself on a Buddhist meditation retreat trying to answer this very question. With brutal honesty and dry wit, he recounts his journey from disbelief to something approaching inner peace and tackles one of the […]
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Fiction
Cat’s Cradle (Penguin Essentials)
Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle is an irreverent and highly entertaining fantasy about the playful irresponsibility of nuclear scientists, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. ‘All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.’ Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb, has left […]
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Classics - Fiction
Chess: A Novel
‘… a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of forcing a wooden king into the corner of a wooden board, and does it without going mad!’ A group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match. […]
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Fiction
Confabulations
‘Language is a body, a living creature …and this creature’s home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate’. John Berger’s work has revolutionized the way we understand visual language. In this new book he writes about language itself, and how it relates to thought, art, song, storytelling and political discourse today. Also containing Berger’s […]
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Essays - Fiction - Non Fiction
Death (Vintage Minis)
When it comes to death, is there ever a best case scenario? In this disarmingly witty book, Julian Barnes confronts our unending obsession with the end. He reflects on what it means to miss God, whether death can be good for our careers and why we eventually turn into our parents. Barnes is the perfect […]
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