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Authors After Dark on Bourbon Street!

2012-02-09T11:45:00.004-02:00

Welcome to Bourbon Street!

New Orleans has a fascinating history and this summer, a group of enthusiastic authors and readers will decent at the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the Authors After Dark convention.

Unfortunatelly I won't be able to go to New Orleans, to experience the culture and craziness, but because I really wanted to and I am excited Jackie will get to go, I joined up with Literary Escapism to feature a bunch of the Small Press authors who’ll be attending Authors After Dark as well.

Between now and Fat Tuesday (the 21st), Jackie and I will be featuring 27 authors as they give us their impressions of New Orleans through the eyes of one of their characters. Check out who’ll be visiting Jackie's Blog and Mine :

Abigail Barnette	Megan Grooms
Trinity Blacio	Cat Johnson
Boone Brux	Stacey Kennedy
Stephanie Burke	Rosalie Lario
Melanie Card	Lacie Nation
Kris Cook	Kris Norris
Teresa D’Amario	Sophie Oak
Jae Lynne Davies	Melissa Schroeder
Gail Donnelly & Robyn Mackenzie	Arianna Skye
Mari Freeman	Damon Suede
Eliza Gayle	Julia Tabot
KT Grant	BA Tortuga
Bronwyn Green	Beth Williamson
Tilly Green

As the authors visit LE and Literary Escapism, we’ll update the above table with links to their posts, which is important to know. Some of these authors have offered up copies of their novels for contests and what better way to try an author than to get a novel for free. More importantly, you’ll want to make sure you stop by as Larissa and I will be giving away two $25 gift cards to All Romance Books and all you have to do is to stop by one and see what these fabulous authors have to offer. Two winners will be selected from all the comments on the 27 Bourbon Street posts, which means you have 27 chances. Jackie and I hope we can introduce you to a new author while we visit Bourbon Street.

Even though we won’t be giving any additional entries, you can still help support the authors by sharing this event and their articles on your blog, Twitter, Facebook, or anywhere you can. After all, the more people who are aware of these fabulous authors will ensure we get more fabulous stories.

The contest will stay open until February 28th at which time we’ll determine the winners with help from the snazzy new plug-in I have, the Research Randomizer and the List Randomizer.

I have not been contacting winners, so you will need to check back to see if you’ve won.

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Sarah’s Reviews: Intrinsical (The Yara Silva Trilogy #1) by Lani Woodland

2012-02-06T09:45:00.000-02:00

Sixteen-year-old Yara Silva has always known that ghosts walk alongside the living. Her grandma, like the other females in her family, is a Waker, someone who can see and communicate with ghosts. Yara grew up watching her grandmother taunted and scorned for this unusual ability and doesn't want that to be her future. She has been dreading the day when she too would see ghosts, and is relieved that the usually dominant Waker gene seems to have skipped her, letting her live a normal teenage life. However, all that changes for Yara on her first day at her elite boarding school when she discovers the gene was only lying dormant. She witnesses a dark mist attack Brent, a handsome fellow student, and rushes to his rescue. Her act of heroism draws the mist's attention, and the dark spirit begins stalking her. Yara finds herself entrenched in a sixty-year-old curse that haunts the school, threatening not only her life, but the lives of her closest friends as well. Yara soon realizes that the past she was trying to put behind her isn't going to go quietly.

From Goodreads

Publisher: Pendrell Publishing
Release Date: 2010
My Copy: Received From Author.
Pages: 304
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Author’s Website

Buy Intrinsical by Lani Woodland

Before I get into reviewing this book a warning… don’t start reading this unless you can devote your time to this as you’ll not want to put it down! Believe me I started reading this on a train journey and I nearly had to walk and read as I left the train. I didn’t instead I did the rare thing of running so I could carry on reading it sooner.

So yes, I absolutely loved this book. Woodland’s writing is both in depth and also within that she doesn’t ramble her way through. Every sentence adds to the story and leaves you wanting more and more. From the synopsis shown above Yara is just sixteen and as we all would be she’s aware of her family linkage to being a Waker. Thinking that it has missed her she feels she can be a normal teenager (what’s that?) but of course that’s not the case. I really liked the way that Yara and Brent, who Yara saves are the main characters but she brought in other characters who weren’t just background people. They have their own stories too. This really added to the story as a whole even though there is more for us to know about them I’m sure.

This is the first of this series and I cannot wait for more, I want to see where Woodland will take this next? I’m intrigued to know what she does with Yara and Brent next and also with Steve and Cherie, I’m dying to know more about those two! Absolutely loved this and cannot wait to read more in this series and more from Lani Woodland too!

You can find out more about Sarah HERE!

Thanks for reading, please comment below x x x

Top 5 Sundays #72 - Most Annoying Love Triangles in Fiction!

2012-02-05T05:24:00.000-02:00

Hi guys!

we all have read a book or a series that has that annoying and sometimes unnecessary Love triangle that you just cannot stand... it was def fun listing my choices...

Hope you'll join me!

This week’s results:

Most Annoying Love Triangles in Fiction! = 13 (54%)
Fave Fictional Teams You Root For! = 11 (45%)

The theme for today is:

Most Annoying Love Triangles in Fiction!

But first, a little bit about this feature and the rules to join in…

Every Sunday I will post a TOP 5 list on the blog. It can be about anything and every week I'll have a new theme {You can vote on next week’s theme on my left sidebar!} and I will ad the Mr.Linky bellow the post so you can do a list with the theme and add you link to it.

Rules:

Write a post listing your TOP 5 choices within the theme I chose (or was chosen on a poll) for the week.
Mention this Blog on the post and link back to it.
Fell free to use the Feature's image (there is a smaller size version of it bellow)
After you've finished your post, add you link (of the post, not your blog's main page) to the Mr.Linky at the end of that week's post.
If you don’t have a blog to post, just leave your list in the comments =)

This week’s theme is Most Annoying Love Triangles in Fiction!

*in no particular order

Kyio | Eugenie | Dorian

Dark Swan Series by Richelle Mead

This triangle worked for a while but it did drag for longer than necessary!

Anita | Jean Claude | Richard | Everyone else...

Anita Blake Series by Laurell K. Hamilton

The title is self explanatory... this has really gotten out of hand... really!

Seth | Georgina | Roman

Georgina Kincaid Series by Richelle Mead

I love Georgie and Seth, but Roman is awesome and knowing he never had a chance in hell or heaven, was just annoying!

Mircea | Cassie | Pritkin

Cassandra Palmer Series by Karen Chance

Mircea annoys me so much! Pritkin needs to get his shot!

Edward | Bella | Jacob

Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer

Did anyone really thought Jacob had a chance? Please!

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Guest Blog by Anna Randol + Book Giveaway! {US Only}

2012-02-03T05:11:00.000-02:00

Sailing Down the Amazon River by Anna Randol

When I was eight, I decided that my life was too boring, so I decided to write in my journal as if I was sailing down the Amazon River with my dog, Cream Puff. Nope. I wish I was kidding. I still have the red spiral bound notebook as proof. Here’s the entry for that day in case you don’t believe me. I've captured it exactly, bad spelling and all.

“Dear Diary, today I will write about school our class sugle [I have to assume this was an attempt at schedule.] is take roll, handwriting, seat work, reading, recess, spelling, math, lunch, story after recess and lunch, sharing, language, s.s., since, fine arts/ P.E. I hate math. I like art and since. Today I will start something new. I am going to write like I am on a raft. Not true. Repeat not true! Day 1…It’s nice out here just me and my dog Cream Puff smelling the fresh air drinking clean water in peace and quite. [This might be an appropriate place to note I have six sisters and one brother…] eating fish and seaweed and fresh fruit. I put my unused fish in a barll of salt. The day is over so I will go to bed. I have one cover and a pillow so good night Cream Puff.” [In case you were wondering, no, my spelling hasn't improved much over the past twenty years. I just use spell check.]

I know, after reading that fascinating tale, you might be wondering how I didn’t end up as a world famous travel writer. That’s because when I was twelve, my sister and I began picking boys to go on our rafts. (We’d take turns deciding. We had to make sure no one got all the good ones, after all.) Those handsome guys began appearing in my journal as well.

But all of this meant that once I started writing historical romance, staid ballrooms and dinner parties just didn’t keep my interest. I needed action. I needed adventure. I needed sultry. So my debut novel, A Secret in Her Kiss, is set in Constantinople. There are spies, knife fights, and scandalous scenes in a bath. And although this story lacks a raft, I had to save something for next time…

So Readers, if you were sailing down the Amazon with a handsome hero, who would you pick? One lucky commenter will receive a signed copy of A Secret in Her Kiss!

Blurb for A SECRET IN HER KISS:
A rare beauty, raised in the exotic heart of the Ottoman Empire, Mari Sinclair knows it’s time to end her career as a British spy when she narrowly avoids a brush with death. Unfortunately her employers think otherwise—and they are not above using blackmail to keep Mari in the Game.
Saddled with a handsome, duty-obsessed “minder” to ensure that she completes—and survives—one last mission, Mari is incensed…for her guardian, Major Bennett Prestwood, is simply too dedicated, too unbending, and too disarmingly attractive. But in the face of dark secrets and deadly treacheries, as the true peril to Mari is slowly revealed, loyal soldier Bennett realizes that, to save and win this extraordinary woman, he will have to do the unthinkable and break the rules—rules that passion and desire have suddenly, irrevocably changed.

Anna lives with her family in Southern California. She writes sultry, adventurous Regency romances for Avon. Her debut novel, A Secret In Her Kiss, is set in Constantinople and earned a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly, who called it a “...masterful debut…[that] spins a tale replete with mystery, espionage, and memorable romance.” When she’s not plotting fun, sexy story lines, Anna’s usually eating dark chocolate, having wild dance parties with her kids in the living room, or remodeling her house one ill-planned project at a time. She loves hearing from readers at her website www.AnnaRandol.com or on Twitter at @AnnaRandol!

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Guest Blog by Lorraine Heath + Book Giveaway! {US Only}

2012-02-02T05:11:00.000-02:00

SPEED INTERVIEW WITH LORRAINE HEATH

1. Favorite book

Morning Glory by LaVyrle Spencer

2. Favorite author

Tie between Anna Campbell and Sarah MacLean

3. Most memorable guilty pleasure

4 hand massage at Swan and Dolphin Resort, Disneyworld

4. Favorite quote

Life is a book and you are its author. You determine its plot and pace and you—only you—

turn its pages. — Beth Mende Conny

5. Favorite movie

Love, Actually – although I watch Sense and Sensibility anytime hubby goes out of town

6. Favorite actor

Henry Cavill – loved him as Charles Brandon in The Tudors

7. Most recent book you read that you would recommend to others

Baby It’s Cold Outside by Addison Fox

8. Favorite dessert

Texas Sheet Cake—chocolate cake made with buttermilk

9. One thing you cannot live without

Smart phone. Must have my words with friends.

10. Celebrity you would most like have to dinner with

Brian Williams

11. Something you collect

Musical carousel horses

12. Favorite place to be

Anyplace that includes family or friends

13. Favorite place to write

Home office

14. Favorite book you’ve written

Always the one I’m writing now

15. Latest release

She Tempts the Duke, book 1 in the Lost Lords of Pembrook series

16. Favorite character in the book

Sebastian because he’s so tormented; Tristan because he’s such fun; Rafe because he’s

mysterious

17. Favorite line in book

Can’t reveal. It would be a spoiler.

18. Favorite part of writing a book

Every part. I’m a pantster so writing each scene is a surprise.

19. Favorite part of your day

Greeting hubby at door when he gets home.

20. Favorite part of blogging

Connecting with the readers and having the chance to ask them a question. Select one of

the questions above and share the answer with us.

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Guest Blog by Emma Cane + Book Giveaway! {US Only}

2012-02-01T05:11:00.000-02:00

An Introduction to Emma Cane

Hello! My name is Emma Cane, and I’m new to contemporary romance. My first novel, A TOWN CALLED VALENTINE, was just published yesterday—and am I excited! Now I confess, I’m not a debut author. I’ve written twenty-five historical romances as Gayle Callen and Julia Latham, and I’ll keep doing so because I love history!

But…I read a lot of contemporary romance, too, from Susan Elizabeth Phillips to Debbie Macomber. I fell in love with the small-town America depicted in a lot of books and began to get the urge to try it myself. And so the town of Valentine Valley was born. Now it wasn’t an immediate sell to Avon Books, my historical publisher. They loved the idea of the town itself, a place known for romance, where people

come to get engaged, get married, or have the “Valentine Valley” postmark stamped on their wedding invitations. But I was thinking of setting it in the Fingerlakes region of New York, in the middle of wine country and the historic villages along the Erie Canal. And my publisher said, “How about setting it in a ranching community out west? Everyone loves cowboys!” I was immediately intrigued! My son lives in

Colorado, so it only seemed natural to set my series there.

To my surprise, I did just as much research on cowboys and the ranching life as any historical novel I’ve written. But ultimately, it’s fun learning about how other people live, and isn’t that part of the reason we all read? I realized that writing a romance isn’t so different when it’s set in modern times. Sure my characters can drive cars—that was so fun and different for me that I had the heroine driving a car in the opening scene!—but it still comes down to a conflict between two people who are falling in love, but really resisting it. In some ways, that’s a little more difficult to plot in modern times. After all, no one cares how many dates you’ve had before you sleep with a guy. There’s more tension in historic times where even a private kiss on the cheek can ruin a woman. But that’s okay—it just made me dig deeper into my characters and give them even more reasons why they resist falling in love. I hope you enjoy

reading all about them.

So which do you usually prefer, contemporaries or historicals? Tell me why! And don’t forget, a lucky commenter will win a free book today.

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Top 5 Sundays #71 - Favorite Ghostly Novels!

2012-01-29T01:21:00.000-02:00

Hey hey!

I've had such a tiring week, wasn't able to post much, but Sunday is here and with another Top 5 YAY!

Very cool theme idea won today and I went with novels or series that might not only have main and secondary characters as ghosts but may have them in the background or as recurring characters =D

Hope you'll join me this week!

Have fun!

This week’s results:

Fave Fictional Teams You Root For! = 10 (47%)

Fave Ghostly Novels! 11 (52%)

The theme for today is:

Favorite Ghostly Novels!

Thanks Lieder Madchen for the Theme Idea!

But first, a little bit about this feature and the rules to join in…

Rules:

Write a post listing your TOP 5 choices within the theme I chose (or was chosen on a poll) for the week.
Mention this Blog on the post and link back to it.
Fell free to use the Feature's image (there is a smaller size version of it bellow)
After you've finished your post, add you link (of the post, not your blog's main page) to the Mr.Linky at the end of that week's post.
If you don’t have a blog to post, just leave your list in the comments =)

This week’s theme is Favorite Ghostly Novels!

*in no particular order

World of Lupi Series

by Eileen Wilks

Lily can see ghosts in this series and even though they are not main characters, they do help the sometimes creepy atmosphere LOL

The Strangely Beautiful Series

by Leanna Renee Hieber

Ghost are very important to this series and maybe as important characters as the main ones =D

Night Huntress Series

by Jeaniene Frost

Love how our dear Cat deals with ghost in the NH series =D

Cassie Palmer Series

by Karen Chance

One of Cassie's main sidekicks is a ghost... nuff said LOL

Shade Series

by Jeri Smith-Ready

Love this YA series so much ans Ghost as such an intrinsic part of it =D

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Top 5 Sundays #70 - Series You Plan to Start in 2012!

2012-01-21T22:31:00.000-02:00

Hey guys!

Very nice theme for the day! I am such a series addict that I am always looking for new series to dig my teeth into and there are SO many that are on my radar and some that I have even bought, but just have not gotten a chance to start.

In December 2011, I finally started one of the biggest ones, the In Death series and I not only I don't regret it but I am in love with it and 16 books out 34 in already YAY!

So these are my next victims =D

This week’s results:

Book Series You Wish Would End! = 7 (41%)

Series You Plan to Start in 2012! 10 (58%)

The theme for today is:

Series You Plan to Start in 2012!

But first, a little bit about this feature and the rules to join in…

Rules:

Write a post listing your TOP 5 choices within the theme I chose (or was chosen on a poll) for the week.
Mention this Blog on the post and link back to it.
Fell free to use the Feature's image (there is a smaller size version of it bellow)
After you've finished your post, add you link (of the post, not your blog's main page) to the Mr.Linky at the end of that week's post.
If you don’t have a blog to post, just leave your list in the comments =)

This week’s theme is Series You Plan to Start in 2012!

*in no particular order

Immortals After Dark Series

by Kresley Cole

One of those series everyone has read, but me!
It's about time LOL

Elder Races

by Thea Harrison

I keep hearing so many wonderful things about the series, I have to check it out =D

Dark Hunter Series

by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Another series everyone has read... well, I gotta start it soon =P

Stephanie Plum

by Janet Evanovich

All the series listed, I have at least the first few books of it... this is another one I am really looking forward to try out =P

Sisters of The Moon Series

by Yasmine Galenorn

This looks like such a great series! I have all the books, i just need to buckle down =P

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Darker After Midnight {Midnight Breed #10} by Lara Adrian

2012-01-18T23:19:00.000-02:00

In the dark of night, a blood war escalates within the hidden world of the Breed. After existing in secret for many long centuries, maintaining a fragile peace with the humans who walk beside them unaware, a single act of retaliation has put the entire vampire nation at risk of discovery. It falls to the Order—a cadre of Breed warriors pledged to protect their own and humankind alike—to stop Dragos, the power-mad vampire at the center of the conflict, before his push for domination can explode into catastrophe.
At the center of the Order’s quest is Sterling Chase, once a morally rigid enforcer of Breed law, now a warrior fallen from grace, whose biggest battle is the one he wages against his own savage nature. With addiction beckoning him toward eternal darkness, Chase’s path to redemption has never seemed more out of reach. But when his eyes meet those of Tavia Fairchild, a beautiful witness who identifies him at the scene of a mission gone terribly wrong, Chase finds himself drawn to the woman—and convinced she is something much more than she seems.
Pulled into a vortex of intrigue and danger she can neither resist nor understand, Tavia is uncertain whom to trust. And while everything sane and logical warns her against getting close to Chase, she cannot deny that the handsome, deeply haunted male stirs something primal and ravenous within her. But even as she surrenders to her cravings, nothing can prepare her for the shattering truth of who—and what—she truly is.
As the Order’s enemy mobilizes for the battle of the ages, Dragos and his Minions unleashing a hell on Earth like nothing ever seen before, Chase and Tavia are thrust into the heart of the violence. With time running out and the streets running red with the blood of innocent lives, both Breed and human, together Chase and Tavia must find a way to defeat Dragos once and for all—or die trying.

From Goodreads.

Publisher: Robinson Publishing

Release Date: January 24th, 2012

Pages: 420

Series: Midnight Breed Series

Author's Website

*Contains Very MINOR SPOILERS if you haven’t read the previous books in this series.

Finally! Sterling Chase finally gets his story told! Chase a.k.a. Harvard was one of the late additions to the Order, but quickly captured the harts of the Midnight Breed fans all over, all of whom have been hoping for his HEA with our hearts in our hands, hoping for the best.

Of the current members of the Order, Chase is the last one to get his HEA and after his specially featured role in Hunter's book, Deeper Than Midnight, the expectation for his story just got that much higher and I am so happy to say that Lara Adrian delivered it in spades!

We met Chase's HEA in Deeper Than Midnight and Tavia proves to be such an awesome mate to our dear Harvard and Lara has an incredible twist where she is concerned that I thought was a great addition to the series.

Now when it comes to Chase, I have to say that the poor guy basically goes from Hell to an even hotter Hell throughout the novel and his path back to a Haven he has always been reticent to wish for is far from easy.

I LOVED Darker After Midnight! It is such a fantastic novel and the perfect ending to the current arch of the series. I thoroughly enjoyed the twists and turns Lara threw at me and I think the ending had the the perfect tone.

After all this time and adventures, I cannot wait to read about the next generation of the Breed, which is what i believe we are getting for the next arch of this incredible series.

If you are a Midnight Breed series fan, this is an absolute MUST read! You will NOT be disappointed!

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One Sea Salt {October Daye #5} by Seanan McGuire

2012-01-16T00:40:00.000-02:00

October "Toby" Daye is settling into her new role as Countess of Goldengreen. She's actually dating again, and she's taken on Quentin as her squire. So, of course, it's time for things to take a turn for the worse.Someone has kidnapped the sons of the regent of the Undersea Duchy of Saltmist. To prevent a war between land and sea, Toby must find the missing boys and prove the Queen of the Mists was not behind their abduction. Toby's search will take her from the streets of San Francisco to the lands beneath the waves, and her deadline is firm: she must find the boys in three days' time, or all of the Mists will pay the price. But someone is determined to stop her-and whoever it is isn't playing by Oberon's Laws...

From Goodreads.

Publisher: Penguin Group
Release Date: September 6th, 2011
Pages: 354
Series: October Daye Series
Author's Website

*Contains Very MINOR SPOILERS if you haven’t read the previous books in this series.

I absolutely adore this series and its characters. Seanan McGuire has done a superb job in depicting Fae characters and worlds and telling awesome stories. I love Toby as a leading woman and look forward to every single one of her adventures.

One Sea Salt was a great book, despite of leaving me a bit off kilter. The story is great and compelling, but Seanan took the characters through a road I did not expect and even though I appreciate it, it threw me off hehe.

I have to say that I am 100% team Tybalt and I will continue to root for his Highness King of Cats and a relationship with Toby that i believe could be quite interesting to read.

Over all, Seanan delivered with One Sea Salt another great addition to an incredible series and I cannot wait for whatever is coming next.

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Top 5 Sundays # 69 - Hero & Heroine That Should NOT Have Ended Up Together!

2012-01-14T21:21:00.000-02:00

Hey everyone!

This week we have a very interesting theme, one that has been extremely hard for me.

I realized I tend to root for the winning team most of the time and by the time a series ends, the hero and heroine I am rooting for are together.

So, for the purposes of this list i shall look at series or individual books in a series where by the end of the book, the Hero with which the Heroine ended up is not my final choice.

Hope you guys will join me!

btw, it might contain spoilers to some series or a book in the series! beware!

This week’s results:

Favorite Love Triangles! = 4 (33%)

Hero & Heroine That Should NOT Have Ended Up Together! 8 (66%)

Theme Idea by Camille

Thanks!

The theme for today is:

Hero & Heroine That Should NOT Have Ended Up Together!

But first, a little bit about this feature and the rules to join in…

Rules:

Write a post listing your TOP 5 choices within the theme I chose (or was chosen on a poll) for the week.
Mention this Blog on the post and link back to it.
Fell free to use the Feature's image (there is a smaller size version of it bellow)
After you've finished your post, add you link (of the post, not your blog's main page) to the Mr.Linky at the end of that week's post.
If you don’t have a blog to post, just leave your list in the comments =)

This week’s theme is Hero & Heroine That Should NOT Have Ended Up Together!

*in no particular order

Sookie & Bill

Southern Vampire Mysteries series by Chalaine Harris

I don't like Bill and even in that first novel i wasn't on his team all the way... So, Sookie ending up with him then was not for me hehe

Morgan & Brian

Morgan Kingsley Series by Jenna Black

The series is over and it is the only example of a series that didn't end up how I really wanted. I know it was canceled and it didn't get a proper send off, but still LOL

Nothing against Brian, but for me Morgan deserved better =D

Justine & Otto

The Disillusionists Trilogy by Carolyn Crane

I was never team Otto, and Justine ending this book with him did not please me to say the least =P

October & Quentin

October Daye Series by Seanan Mcguire

Love Toby and I am totally team Tybalt, so she sort of ending up with Quentin in this book did not make me happy.

Cassandra & Mircea

Cassie Palmer Series by Karen Chance

A lot of people don't agree with me, but Mircea is too manipulative and sleek for me, I am totally Team Pritkin!

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