All Systems Red is the tense first science fiction adventure novella in Martha Wells' series The Murderbot Diaries. For fans of Westworld, Ex Machina, Ann Leckie's Imperial Raadch series, or Iain M. Banks' Culture novels.  All Systems Red tackles que...

All Systems Red

Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 Selection  A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent 30 years on death row for a crime he didn't commit.  “An amazing and heartwarming story, it restores our faith in...

The Sun Does Shine

The follow-up to the hugely popular science fiction action-adventure All Systems Red  Artificial Condition continues The Murderbot Diaries, a science fiction series that tackles questions of the ethics of sentient robotics. It appeals to fans of West...

Artificial Condition

In their exciting final adventure, Carter and Sadie Kane are the mortal world's only hope of defeating the forces of chaos.   Number one New York Times best seller Rick Riordan, a master at making mythology fun and relevant, takes on ancient Egypt To...

The Serpent's Shadow: The Kane Chronicles, Book 3

The third thrilling book in the increasingly popular Murderbot Diaries, which began with All Systems Red.  Sci-fi's favorite antisocial AI is back on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more import...

Rogue Protocol

Martha Wells' New York Times and USA Today best-selling Murderbot series exploded onto the scene in 2017, and the world has not been the same, since. Murderbot returns in its highly anticipated, first full-length stand-alone novel, Network Effect. Yo...

Network Effect

The fourth and final part of the Murderbot Diaries series that began with All Systems Red.  Murderbot wasn't programmed to care. So its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch, right?  Having traveled the wi...

Exit Strategy

The Instant New York Times Best Seller  Everyone is talking about!  An addictive, must-hear mystery with shades of Serial and Making a Murderer about an investigation turned obsession, full of twists and turns and with an ending you'll never expect. ...

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

The Instant New York Times Best Seller Who has the right to change the world forever? How will we live online? How do we find comfort in an increasingly isolated world?    The Carls disappeared the same way they appeared, in an instant. While the rob...

A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

This sexually-charged, emotionally raw series follows LGBT characters from the end of their teen years into their 20s and beyond.  Openly gay high school student Ben Bentley feels lonely and isolated until the fateful day he meets Tim Wyman. By all a...

Something Like Summer

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has attracted one of the world’s largest online followings with his fascinating, widely accessible insights into science and our universe. Now, Tyson invites us to go behind the scenes of his public fame by unveilin...

Letters from an Astrophysicist

National best-selling authors Carl Weber and Treasure Hernandez are back with their latest installment in the wildly popular Family Business saga.  Vegas Duncan's release from prison is right on time for his older brother Junior's engagement to the v...

The Family Business 3

People move to New York looking for magic, and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows what magic a...

The Ballad of Black Tom

A Good Morning America Book Club Pick  Named a Best Book Pick of 2021 by Harper’s Bazaar and Real Simple Named a Most Anticipated Book of Fall by People, Essence, New York Post, PopSugar, New York Newsday, Entertainment Weekly, Town & Country, Bustle...

We Are Not Like Them

New York Times best-selling author Carl Weber delivers a riveting, action-packed drama full of the twists and turns for which he's become known.  It was the night before his wedding, 15 years ago, when the nightmare began for Jay Crawford - locked up...

Man on the Run

There are two sides to every story. When you're Tim Wyman, sometimes there are three.  Tim hoped moving to Texas would mean a new beginning, but he soon finds himself falling into the same tired patterns. Until he meets recklessly brave Benjamin Bent...

Something Like Winter

Love can appear unexpectedly: a chance meeting at a friend's wedding, the arrival of a handsome new co-worker...or while being robbed at a convenience store.  For some, love seems an impossible dream. Growing up gay in small-town Missouri, Jace Holde...

Something Like Autumn

Thanks to an elderly spinster sleuth and her ingenious cat, Christopher Holmes has enjoyed a celebrated career as a bestselling mystery writer. Until now. Sales are down and his new editor is allergic to geriatric gumshoes. On the advice of his agent...

Somebody Killed His Editor

Best-selling author Angela Hunt Returns to Biblical Fiction.  An ambitious tyrant threatens genocide against the Jews in ancient Persia, so an inexperienced young queen must take a stand for her people.  When Xerxes, king of Persia, issues a call for...

Esther

Nothing in this world is permanent. Friends, lovers, even family can all disappear in the blink of an eye. Without these anchors, it's all too easy to find oneself drifting.  Jason Grant doesn't have much, aside from a beat-up old guitar and knack fo...

Something Like Spring

Pulitzer Prize Winner, Nonfiction, 2018 An original and consequential argument about race, crime, and the law.  Today, Americans are debating our criminal justice system with new urgency. Mass incarceration and aggressive police tactics - and their i...

Locking Up Our Own

Award-winning and best-selling author Beverly Jenkins delivers another satisfying and deeply emotional historical romance set during the Revolutionary War. Jenkins continues to win readers with her adventurous tales - where love and high stakes go hand in hand.

Night Hawk

A murderous fall down icy stairs is nearly the death of Anna Hitchcock, the much-beloved "American Agatha Christie" and Christopher Holmes' former mentor. Anna's plea for him to host her annual winter writing retreat touches all Kit's sore spots - tr...

All She Wrote

New York Times best seller! From New York Times best-selling author Cal Newport comes a bold vision for liberating workers from the tyranny of the inbox - and unleashing a new era of productivity. Modern knowledge workers communicate constantly. Thei...

A World Without Email

This isn't a coming out story. Nor is it the tale of a lonely heart-seeking companionship. This is about how I learned to fight.  My name is Nathaniel Courtney, and I m a survivor. I didn't let the cruelty of others wear me down, and I've weathered t...

Something Like Thunder

It's moving day at Chez Holmes. Somehow, against Kit's better instincts, he and J.X. are setting up house together. But while J.X. is off at a writing conference, Kit unpacks a crate that should contain either old books or new china.  It doesn't. Within the mounds of Styrofoam popcorn is a dead body. A very dead body. There goes the neighborhood.

The Boy with the Painful Tattoo

Never stop running. No matter how often life trips you up or how many times your enemies knock you down, just get up and keep on moving until you find where you belong.  Kelly Phillips has been out and proud since he was a young teenager, and thanks ...

Something Like Lightning

A Finalist for the Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, the VCU/Cabell First Novelist Prize, the Lambda Literary Award, the NYPL Young Lions Award, and the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award  "A blistering coming of age st...

Real Life

The definitive biography of an American icon, from a New York Times best-selling author with unique access to Ali's inner circle  He was the wittiest, the prettiest, the strongest, the bravest, and, of course, the greatest (as he told us over and ove...

Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross delivers “credible and bold SF” (Science Fiction Weekly) that continually pushes the boundaries of the genre. With Glasshouse, Stross pens a Kafkaesque tale set in a 27th-century of teleport gates and mind-att...

Glasshouse

Michele Andrea Bowen made a name for herself years ago during the African-American inspirational fiction craze. Now, in Pastor Needs a Boo, she's back with an amazing journey of faith, drama, and love.  It was a regular New Jerusalem Gospel United Ch...

Pastor Needs a Boo

In this stirring prequel, New York Times best-selling author Mary Monroe returns to the “cold-blooded yet fascinating” (Publishers Weekly) character from her acclaimed novel The Upper Room. Ruby is a wild youth, with a thirst for boys and booze by th...

Mama Ruby

Nice guys finish last, but that doesn't mean they give up the fight. Sometimes it's necessary to keep trudging through the rain in the hopes of finding a break in the clouds.  William Townson is a good person. He's kind, considerate, and the last thi...

Something Like Rain

Love, like everything in the universe, cannot be destroyed. But over time it can change. The hot Texas nights were lonely for Ben before he met Tim Wyman, the man he would one day marry. Now, 20 years later, everything is perfect. Isn't it?  As Ben s...

Something Like Forever

How do you learn to be a Black man in America? For young Black men today, it means coming of age during the presidency of Barack Obama. It means witnessing the deaths of Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Akai Gurley, and too many more. It m...

Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching

Award-winning novelist Tayari Jones delivers a story based on the 1979-1980 Atlanta child murders. Told from the perspective of three fifth-grade classmates, Leaving Atlanta is a vividly disturbing, but hopeful novel.  Tasha, Rodney, and Octavia each...

Leaving Atlanta

Benjamin Bentley and many other beloved characters from the Something Like...series make their triumphant return in this collection of short stories and bonus material. "Something Like Yesterday" travels to the past where Eric Conroy attempts to find...

Something Like Stories

Death reveals all truths.... Mystery author and sometimes amateur sleuth Christopher Holmes is settling into domesticity with his sometimes rival, sometimes nemesis J.X. Moriarity when he learns a body has been discovered in the backyard of his forme...

In Other Words...Murder

An original journalist for The Source, Dan Charnas built a celebrated career in the rap industry. In The Big Payback, he chronicles the rise of the hip-hop culture and shows how it became so powerful in a matter of decades. Charnas also profiles many of the movers and shakers in this burgeoning cultural movement, offering unprecedented access to an industry that continues to shake the globe. 

The Big Payback

Coretta Scott King award-winner and National Teacher of the Year, Sharon M. Draper uses a brilliant variety of styles and voices to tell this compelling first story of her Hazelwood High trilogy. The night that changes everything in Andy's life begin...

Tears of a Tiger

National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping-off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her gener...

The Fire This Time

An Instant New York Times Best Seller! Get Out meets Holly Jackson in this YA social thriller where survival is not a guarantee. Sixteen-year-old Jake Livingston sees dead people everywhere. But he can't decide what's worse: being a medium forced to ...

The Taking of Jake Livingston

One of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2019! From National Book Award finalist and New York Times best-selling author Jason Reynolds comes a genre-defying new novel that serves as an homage to sharing the stories we all hold within ourselves.

Look Both Ways

An NAACP Image Award nominee, The Black Male Handbook is an impassioned call to end the problems facing today's Black men. Author and activist Kevin Powell offers insights on steering away from violence and toward a more responsible manhood. A new cl...

The Black Male Handbook

When life closes each door and the world has taken away every opportunity, sometimes, it's up to us to make our own luck - and to give ourselves a second chance.   Noah Westwood is tired of life on the streets, so he turns to Marcello Maltese, a man ...

Something Like Hail

Winner of the Gold Pen, Romantic Times Career Achievement, and Zora Neale Hurston Literary Awards, Rochelle Alers has nearly two million copies of her books in print. Here she crafts the tale of a hotshot athlete and the woman who can fulfill his dre...

Here I Am

Over a century ago Illusionist David Berkeley committed suicide in his mansion by the sea, thus dooming his restless spirit to wander forever. Or so the local legend goes. Professor Rhys Davies, a part-time parapsychologist, is writing a book on Cali...

A Ghost of a Chance

The Something Like series is drawing to a close! Before it ends, reunite with favorite characters and meet others for the first time in this special collection of fourteen stories. Highlights include Something Like Champagne, in which Marcello search...

“A frothy confection of sea foam, young love, and derring-do.” (NPR) A young prince must rely on a mysterious stranger to save him when he is kidnapped during his coming-of-age tour in this swoony adventure that is The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and V...

In Deeper Waters

Carry On meets Arthurian legend in this funny, subversive young-adult fantasy about what happens after the chosen one wins the kingdom and has to get married to keep it…and to stay alive. Arek hadn’t thought much about what would happen after he comp...

So This Is Ever After

Remember that hunky guy on YouTube who caught your eye? The one with the awesome pecs and killer smile? I bet you couldn't stop watching his videos. Just imagine if you had a chance to meet him and all your fantasies started coming true. There's only...

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From New York Times best-selling adult author Joseph Fink comes a wickedly fun middle-grade novel about a Halloween-obsessed girl named Esther Gold, who goes out trick-or-treating for one last year, only to find her town under the thrall of a mysteri...

The Halloween Moon

Recipient of a Zora Neal Hurston Literary Award, Rochelle Alers is the best-selling author of the Hideaway novels. In this sizzling series debut, a casual meeting of high-profile lawyer Jordan Wainwright and attorney Aziza Fleming soon leads to unexp...

Because of You

Calling all young magicians of Egypt! If the blood of the pharaohs runs in your veins, you can't afford to be without this guide to Ancient Egyptian deities and creatures, and Carter and Sadie Kane's world of magic. Greetings, initiate! Carter Kane, ...

From the Kane Chronicles: Brooklyn House Magician's Manual

The revised and expanded third edition of the best-selling guide to understanding borderline personality disorder - with advice for communicating with and helping the borderline individuals in your life.  After more than three decades as the essentia...

I Hate You - Don't Leave Me: Third Edition

The Book of Pride captures the true story of the gay rights movement from the 1960s to the present, through richly detailed, stunning interviews with the leaders, activists, and ordinary people who witnessed the movement and made it happen. These ind...

The Book of Pride

Each story in this jubilantly acclaimed collection pays testament to the wisdom and resilience of children, even in the face of the most agonizing circumstances. A family living in a makeshift shanty in urban Kenya scurries to find gifts of any kind ...

Say You're One of Them

When 16-year-old Tariq Johnson dies from two gunshot wounds, his community is thrown into an uproar. Tariq was black. The shooter, Jack Franklin, is white.  In the aftermath of Tariq's death, everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the ...

How It Went Down

The most popular, provocative, and unforgettable essays from the past 15 years of the New York Times "Modern Love" column - including stories from the upcoming anthology series starring Tina Fey, Andy Garcia, Anne Hathaway, Catherine Keener, Dev Pate...

Modern Love, Revised and Updated (Media Tie-In)

A riveting collection of the hardships, hairbreadth escapes, and mortal struggles of enslaved people seeking freedom: These are the true stories of the Underground Railroad. Featuring a powerful introduction by Ta-Nehisi Coates  As a conductor for th...

The Underground Railroad Records

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams is on a mission to tackle one of the most stubborn health problems in the country: chronic disease in the African American community. African Americans are heavier and sicker than any other group in the US, with ...

Healthy at Last

Embark on a final trip through the Something Like... universe with this special collection of stories that promises heartwarming reunions and gut-wrenching closure. "Something Like Stars" playfully explores what would happen if someone made a movie a...

Something Like Stories: Volume Three

A mysterious letter alluding to a secret in her parents' past brings Genevieve Woodward back to her Blue Ridge Mountains hometown, but she's also in need of a break from a high-profile career that has left her dangerously burned out and concealing a ...

Stay with Me

The incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors founded after emancipation, and the complicated legacy their descendants carry with them to this day - by the journalist who discovered ...

The Last Slave Ship

New York Times reporter and “Corner Office” columnist David Gelles reveals legendary GE CEO Jack Welch to be the root of all that’s wrong with capitalism today and offers advice on how we might right those wrongs. In 1981, Jack Welch took over Genera...

The Man Who Broke Capitalism

Acclaimed poet, novelist, journalist, and educator Nikki Grimes was born and raised in New York City.  Each of the 18 kids in Mr. Ward's inner city classroom has something important to say, but some don't even realize it. Then Mr. Ward begins to have "open mic" poetry slams once a month on Fridays. Young adult listeners will identify with the characters in Bronx Masquerade as they explore questions about life and self-expression.

Bronx Masquerade

One woman’s inspiring true story of an unlikely alliance to stop the atrocities of a warlord, proving that there is no limit to what we can do, even in the face of unspeakable injustice and impossible odds. “This compelling and inspiring book beautif...

To Stop a Warlord

National best-selling author La Jill Hunt has earned widespread success with popular novels such as Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda. Drama Queen features Kayla Hopkins, a woman who finds herself in a complicated situation. Kayla is in love with a man, but th...

Drama Queen

Jay Bell, the out-and-proud author of Something Like Summer, delivers another emotional escape into the world of gay love in this upbeat novel. After graduating high school, a freak accident whisks Reggie Valentine back in time to the 1950s, where he...

Out of Time, into You

An excellent bottle of wine can be the spark that inspires a brainstorming session. Such was the case for Ian Tattersall and Rob DeSalle, scientists who frequently collaborate on book and museum exhibition projects. When the conversation turned to wi...

A Natural History of Wine

Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton is a Maasai tribesman of Kenya. In this fascinating autobiography, he shares stories about growing up in his nomadic tribe - from licking sweat off cows’ noses to survive a drought, to facing down a lion at age 14, to playing...

Facing the Lion

Brought to life by narrator Kevin R. Free with sound effects and music, this The Very Hungry Caterpillar audiobook includes a special read-along track of Eric Carle narrating his all-time classic story. One sunny Sunday, the caterpillar was hatched o...

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Senior editor at L.A. Magazine RJ Smith saw his first book, The Great Black Way, win the coveted California Book Award. With The One, Smith profiles one of the 20th century’s most innovative musical icons, the Godfather of Soul himself, James Brown. ...

The One

They say a good man is hard to find. Kardell Spencer and Lewis Turner know this all too well. Neither is lucky in love.  Kardell Spencer is a hard-working, successful advertising company owner who has a no nonsense approach to work and professionalis...

May the Best Man Win

The Nebula Award-winning author of the Alex Benedict novels and the Priscilla Hutchins novels returns to the world of Ancient Shores in a startling and majestic epic.  A working stargate dating back more than 10,000 years has been discovered in North...

Thunderbird

A YALSA 2022 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults Selection! Four starred reviews! Dear Martin meets They Both Die at the End in this gripping, evocative novel about a Black teen who has the power to see into the future, whose life turns upside down w...

The Cost of Knowing

New York Times and Essence best-selling author Omar Tyree is a pioneer in the megapopular urban fiction genre. His stories feature sexy guys and girls navigating life and love in the city. Set in sunny San Diego, Pecking Order follows Ivan David, an ...

Pecking Order

Author of the #1 best-seller The Book of Negroes, Lawrence Hill is a writer of immense talent—and his literary reputation grows with each new work. Canadian Langston Cane V finds his writing career (and, indeed, his life) in stasis until inspired by ...

Any Known Blood

Some dreams will test your head and your heart... John Small may be a successful Wall Street banker, but at heart he's a country boy from the sleepy town of Nedine, South Carolina. John wants to open Nedine’s first black-owned bank. But big dreams ca...

Looking for Trouble

Selected as One of the Young Adult Library Services Association’S 2022 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults! “A riveting ride through the stars.” (Kirkus Reviews) Black Mirror meets What If It’s Us in this gripping, romantic, and wildly surprising nov...

A Complicated Love Story Set in Space

The first definitive biography of music legend Stevie Wonder.  Stevie Wonder's achievements as a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer are extraordinary. During a career that has spanned almost fifty years, he has earned more than 30...

Signed, Sealed, and Delivered

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES • Max takes on knight school in the hilarious sequel to the bestselling illustrated novel Max and the Midknights, from the author of the Big Nate series! "Fantastic! I loved it!" -Dav Pilkey, New York Times bestselli...

Max and the Midknights: Battle of the Bodkins

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A deeply reported, searingly honest portrait of the death penalty in Texas — and what it tells us about crime and punishment in America “If you’re one of those people who despair that nothing changes, and dream that s...

Let the Lord Sort Them

Widely hailed for its historical resonance, Daniel Black's The Sacred Place is a powerful examination of racial tensions in 1955 Mississippi.  Visiting from Chicago, 14-year-old Clement is unfamiliar with the social customs of the tiny town of Money. Striding into a general store, he offends the white store clerk by not placing his nickel in her hand. This seemingly innocuous act leads to a horrific murder and a conflict drawn along racial lines.

The Sacred Place

Winner of two NAACP awards for his writing, best-selling author Hill Harper is an acclaimed actor known for his role on CSI: NY. A Brown University and Harvard Law School alum, Harper is also a passionate public servant. In this book he offers comforting advice for today's youth through his own wisdom as well as that of such luminaries as Michelle Obama and Angela Bassett.

Letters to a Young Sister

Millenia Black’s debut novel reveals how relationships are affected when individuals use duplicity to cover up bad choices.  For six years, Reginald Brooks - slick Disney marketing VP - has pulled off the perfect scam. He has juggled two families wit...

The Great Pretender

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER  WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY USA TODAY, NPR, VULTURE, MARIE CLAIRE, THE TIMES OF LONDON, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY A group portrait of yo...

Filthy Animals

Critically acclaimed author Jabari Asim gives listeners a fascinating glimpse into the boyhood of civil rights leader John Lewis.  Even as a very young boy, John Lewis knew he wanted to be a preacher when he grew up. He wanted to be the kind of leade...

Preaching to the Chickens

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES • From the creator of the Big Nate series comes the third Max and the Midknights adventure!  "Fantastic! I loved it!" —Dav Pilkey, New York Times bestselling author of the Dog Man series Everyone's favorite knight-in...

Max and the Midknights: The Tower of Time

Soldier Boy begins with the story of Ricky Richard Anywar, abducted at age 14 in 1989 to fight with Joseph Kony's rebel army in Uganda's decades-long civil war. Ricky is trained, armed, and forced to fight government soldiers alongside his brutal kid...

Soldier Boy

The most important novel you’ll listen to this year  Not every story is black and white.  Riley and Jen have been best friends since they were children, and they thought their bond was unbreakable. It never mattered to them that Riley is Black and Je...

After the publication of the best-selling Letters to a Young Brother, accomplished actor and speaker Hill Harper began to receive an increasing number of moving letters from inmates who yearned for a connection with a successful role model. With dist...

Letters to an Incarcerated Brother

When a black field hand disappears, a wealthy white boy he has befriended sets out to find him. But Pete McLean discovers more than he bargained for - including unexpected love and difficult truths about race and class in 1960s Alabama.  There was an...

Missing Isaac

On a moonless night in the spring of 1851, a young slave makes a bid for freedom with only the North Star to guide him.  Best-selling novelist and historian Robert Morgan returns with a stunning new work of historical fiction. In Chasing the North St...

Chasing the North Star

In 1911, famed cartoonist Winsor McCay debuted one of the first animated cartoons, based on his sophisticated newspaper strip Little Nemo in Slumberland, itself inspired by Freud’s recent research on dreams. McCay is largely forgotten today, but he u...

Wild Minds

This collection of 11 stories spans virtually the whole of Tolstoy's creative life. While each is unique in form, as a group they are representative of his style, and touch on the central themes that surface in War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Storie...

The Devil and Other Stories

Best-selling author RM Johnson has built a loyal fan following with her novels The Harris Family and The Million Dollar Divorce. Deceit and Devotion features the Harris brothers in a tale of passion and revenge. Nate Kenny convinces Daphanie Coleman ...

Deceit and Devotion

Lou, a young Black woman, wakes up in an alley in 1930s Los Angeles, nearly naked and with no memory of how she got there or where she’s from. Taken in by a caring foster family, Lou dedicates herself to her education while trying to put her mysterio...

The Perishing

The second season of the Tor.com Collection includes the following Tor.com audiobooks originally published separately in the winter of 2016:    The Drowning Eyes by Emily Foster  Patchwerk by David Tallerman  Lustlocked by Matt Wallace  A Song for No...

Tor.com Collection: Season 2

Jack wouldn't give up.  After a dear family friend died of pancreatic cancer, Jack Andraka decided to create a better method of early detection. It took 200 letters before Jack found lab space to pursue his idea and months of work to make it a realit...

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