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A Time to Speak by Nadine Brandes
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat happens when you live longer than you wanted to?Parvin Blackwater wanted to die, but now she’s being called to be a leader. The only problem is, no one wants to follow. The Council is using Jude’s Clock-matching invention to force “new-and-improved” Clocks on the public. Those who can’t afford one are packed into boxcars like cattle and used for the Council’s purposes... -
![Night Light by Terri Blackstock]()
Night Light by Terri Blackstock
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWhat happens when the lights go out and don't come back on? At first, of course, the power shutdown seems like a minor inconvenience or even an occasion for merriment; but as this temporary crisis lengthens into months, it becomes apparent that this global blackout is a catastrophe of biblical proportions...Categorized as:
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![A Time to Rise by Nadine Brandes]()
A Time to Rise by Nadine Brandes
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat more can you sacrifice than your life?Parvin Blackwater is dead.At least…that’s what the Council—and the world—thinks. But her sacrifice tore down part of the Wall long enough to stir up hope and rebellion in the people. Now she will rise again. Strong, free, and fearless... -
![The Testaments by Margaret Atwood]()
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsMore than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results.Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order... -
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![The Prequel by Patrick Higgins]()
The Prequel by Patrick Higgins
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis is an alternate cover edition- ASIN B015L6BCEKIt was the weekend before Thanksgiving. More than 100,000 fans were jammed inside Michigan Stadium, on their feet, to witness a heated football rivalry that had spanned more than 100 years...Categorized as:
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![Shadowed: The Final Judgment by Jerry B. Jenkins]()
Shadowed: The Final Judgment by Jerry B. Jenkins
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn this rapid-fire conclusion to the best-selling Soon series, follow Paul Stepola, his wife, Jae, and their young children as they try to elude capture by the National Peace Organization and sentencing for treason. The law banning the practice of religion around the globe is on the brink of collapse...Categorized as:
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![Silenced: The Wrath of God Descends by Jerry B. Jenkins]()
Silenced: The Wrath of God Descends by Jerry B. Jenkins
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEnter the continuing story of double agent Paul Stepola as he works to protect his fellow believers from the government that is trying to eliminate them. The underground church is in mortal peril following the apocalyptic events in Los Angeles, which have only cast further suspicion upon Christians...Categorized as:
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Apocalypse by Mark Goodwin
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAfter a massive wave of disappearances, twenty-six-year-old CIA analyst, Everett Carroll, finally believes what he’s been told about the biblical prophecy of the rapture... -
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The Alliance by Gerald N. Lund
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt's 18 years after the nuclear holocaust and the end of civilization, as we know it. Survivors are being relocated to a new society known as the Alliance. It seems like a dream come true for many of the new citizens... -
![Retribution by Randall Ingermanson]()
Retribution by Randall Ingermanson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJerusalem, A.D. 66 . . .The City of God seethes with rage against imperial Rome . . . and, in an act of unspeakable brutality, Rome takes deadly retribution. War looms on the horizon---but one woman already knows the outcome. . . .Transported from the far future, Rivka Meyers has made her home in Jerusalem with her husband and fellow time traveler, Ari Kazan...Categorized as:
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Slave by Laura Frances
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThere is no sun. There is no moon. There is only gray—the smog belched from coal-fueled factories. The Workers silently shuffle to their assigned posts. The Outcasts watch from the alley walls. On every corner, a Watcher stands stone-faced, a rifle in hand. This is the only life that exists. Beyond the mountains is a dream. But dreams are foolish in a place like this...Categorized as:
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![El Padre Elías en Jerusalén by Michael D. O'Brien]()
El Padre Elías en Jerusalén by Michael D. O'Brien
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsElijah in Jerusalem,the long-awaited sequel to the acclaimed, best-selling novel Father Elijah: An Apocalypse,is the continuing story of the Catholic priest called to confront a powerful politician who could be the Antichrist foretold in the Bible...Categorized as:
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Perdition by Mark Goodwin
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn The Days of Noah, Book Three: Perdition, the end times fall on America like a shadow of darkness and the last days bring an onslaught of sword, famine and plague...Categorized as:
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![Apex by Ramez Naam]()
Apex by Ramez Naam
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsGlobal unrest spreads as mass protests advance throughout the US and China, Nexus-upgraded riot police battle against upgraded protestors, and a once-dead scientist plans to take over the planet's electronic systems. The world has never experienced turmoil of this type, on this scale.They call them the Apex - humanity's replacement. They're smarter, faster, better. And infinitely more dangerous... -
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![Dune by Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert]()
Dune by Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 58 ratingsHere is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Muad'Dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family—and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream...Categorized as:
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![Cabal by Mark Goodwin]()
Cabal by Mark Goodwin
Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFor nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows. Mark 13:8When Agent Joshua Stone is called to a high-level meeting at the Department of Homeland Security, he learns about a new global order which will be transitioning into power...Categorized as:
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![Return to the Whorl by Gene Wolfe]()
Return to the Whorl by Gene Wolfe
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsHorn has travelled from his home on the planet Blue, reached the planet Green and visited the starship, the Whorl and walked on the planet Urth. But Horn's identity has become ambiguous, a question embedded in the story, whose telling is itself complex... -
![Last Light by Terri Blackstock]()
Last Light by Terri Blackstock
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn the face of a crisis that sweeps an entire high-tech planet back to the age before electricity, Deni Branning's career ambitions have vanished. She's not about to let her dream of marriage go as well.But keeping it alive will require extraordinary measures. Yesterday's world is gone. All Deni and her family have left is each other and their neighbors...Categorized as:
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![Devil's Homecoming by Bobby Akart]()
Devil's Homecoming by Bobby Akart
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBuild. Destroy. Rebuild. The dawn of human existence has proven ... we are warlike creatures. Civilizations are built, then they're destroyed. After destruction, will you have the tenacity to overcome obstacles and rebuild? Your fellow man may be the biggest hurdle because Hell is empty and the Devils are all here... -
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Persecution by Mark Goodwin
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn The Days of Noah, Book Two: Persecution, a globalist conspiracy transpires by way of a false flag attack against America’s energy infrastructure. Noah and Cassandra Parker witness a complete economic meltdown which is intentionally triggered by the event. The assault is blamed on patriots and Christians who are rounded up into detention centers across the country...Categorized as:
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![The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury]()
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 61 ratingsHere are stories of other worlds: of the rain-gutted forests of Venus and the deep canals of Mars; of the empty blackness of space and of planets that have no name. Here are stories, too, of Earth - new and unfamiliar in the glow of a wondrous future. And here- above all - is the story of The Illustrated man - tattooed by a witch with the most fantastic images ever seen on Earth..Categorized as:
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![The Light: Who Do You Become When the World Falls Away? (The Light, #1) by Jacqueline Brown]()
The Light: Who Do You Become When the World Falls Away? (The Light, #1) by Jacqueline Brown
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA blinding flash … then darkness. Bria Ford and her three closest friends are stranded on a country highway in the middle of a November night. No phones. No car. No lights. Helpless and hundreds of miles from home, they put their lives in the hands of handsome Jonah Page and his flinty sister, East, strangers who somehow know Bria better than she knows herself...Categorized as:
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California by Jamie Lee Grey
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis is an alternate cover edition of ASIN B07R9WJ81Q Flames will destroy. Planes will fall from the sky. Bombs will detonate. And that’s just the first day. Katie and Zach Nelson are looking forward to celebrating their anniversary with a relaxing camping trip on the California coast. But terrorists have other plans for the weekend. Like torching the place... -
![Premonition by Randall Ingermanson]()
Premonition by Randall Ingermanson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn extraordinary stone box was recently discovered in Jerusalem--the bone-box of James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus. This is his story ... Rome. James, leader of the Jewish Christian community, has an enemy in high places. And two very strange friends ... first-century Jerusalem by a physics experiment gone horribly wrong. his Jewish heritage--and with a man named Jesus he was raised to hate... -
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![The Journey Home by Jeff Motes]()
The Journey Home by Jeff Motes
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAuthors note: This is a Revised Version of the original book. It has been revised to reflect a 1st person point of view for each chapter's main character. Take note of which character leads the chapter title. This will help make the flow of thoughts smooth. This is not a book on religion or religious ideology, however, two of the main characters are Christian... -
![INDIANA FALL 2 by Michael McDonald, Karen McDonald]()
INDIANA FALL 2 by Michael McDonald, Karen McDonald
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBook 2 of the INDIANA FALL series continues to ask the question, “How would everyday people survive a cataclysmic event?”As Mac's group tries to come to terms with the realization that no help is coming from the national level, a local tyrant emerges and seizes power by controlling all the major grocery stores...Categorized as:
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![The Eve by Keary Taylor]()
The Eve by Keary Taylor
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsA plan was laid out as the Evolution crushed mankind, a plan that was right under Eden’s nose all along. And Eve is the key to everything. New Eden—mankind—they have a small chance at fixing their dismembered planet. But it will be a reckless sprint against time and the coming Bane to retrieve the final piece to the plot. New Eden’s worst fears have become reality... -
![36 Hours by Bobby Akart]()
36 Hours by Bobby Akart
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWHAT WOULD YOU DOif a voice was screaming in your head - GET READY . . .for a catastrophic event of epic proportions . . .with no idea where to start . . .or how, or when?This is a true story, it just hasn't happened yet.A new dystopian, post-apocalyptic fiction series from six-time best-selling author Bobby Akart (The Boston Brahmin series and the Prepping for Tomorrow series)... -
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Sanctuary by Paola Mendoza, Abby Sher
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA near future dystopian where a young girl and her brother must escape a xenophobic government to find sanctuary.It's 2032, and in this near-future America, all citizens are chipped and everyone is tracked--from buses to grocery stores. It's almost impossible to survive as an undocumented immigrant, but that's exactly what sixteen-year-old Vali is doing...Categorized as:
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![Turning Point by Bobby Akart]()
Turning Point by Bobby Akart
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsYa' lives by da sun, ya' dies by da sun.Life is always at a turning point . . .when faced with a certain death . . .would you be willing to seize the moment . . .and do what it takes to survive?Know this - You'll never know where the bend in the road might take you... -
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Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick by David Wong, Jason Pargin
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author David Wong's Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick is the latest—and arguably greatest–sci-fi thriller in the Zoey Ashe Series.In the futuristic city of Tabula Ra$a, Zoey Ashe is like a fish so far out of water that it has achieved orbit... -
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American Reset by Mark Goodwin
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsIn American Reset, the final chapter of the Economic Collapse Chronicles, the ultimate contest between liberty and tyranny reaches the apex. The Bair family and their neighbors learn the true value of community as they rely on each other to survive the war and the effects of the financial meltdown...Categorized as:
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![Conspiracy by Mark Goodwin]()
Conspiracy by Mark Goodwin
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIs there a secret cabal working to collapse the international economy in order to usher in a global government and one-world currency? Noah Parker, like many in the United States, has been asleep at the wheel. During his complacency, the founding precepts of America have been slowly, systematically destroyed by a conspiracy that dates back hundreds of years...Categorized as:
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![Water & Storm Country by David Estes]()
Water & Storm Country by David Estes
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsHuck Jones, the son of the admiral of the Soaker fleet, has a legacy to live up to. Haunted by the distorted memories of his mother's untimely death, he must face his demons and the man who raised him as he strives to take the courageous step forward into manhood...Categorized as:
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![CASTLE HILLS FALL 2 by Stephen Mezzomo, Boyd Craven Jr.]()
CASTLE HILLS FALL 2 by Stephen Mezzomo, Boyd Craven Jr.
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKyle Hunter worries about protecting Kate’s farm and the critical role each person will play in its defense after bugging out there.Everyone is excited about learning new skills and begin discussing other types of training like first aid and long-distance shooting in case trouble finds them there.They soon make a name for themselves with new friends and enemies in their new location...Categorized as:
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![Ichabod by Mark Goodwin]()
Ichabod by Mark Goodwin
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFollowing a crippling EMP attack against the USA, and a long merciless journey, college student turned survivalist, Danny Walker, finally makes it to his secure, rural location. No sooner does Danny arrive than he is given another petrifying prophetic vision of the chaos still to come...Categorized as:
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![WYOMING FALL by Millie Copper, L.A. Bayles]()
WYOMING FALL by Millie Copper, L.A. Bayles
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIf an EMP instantly changed the world as you knew it, would you be able to survive? Lauren and her family had been grieving the unimaginable loss of her husband, just trying to make it from one day to the next. Things were just starting to return to a semblance of normal. Her daughter, Elsie, was in college, and the family's businesses were thriving...Categorized as:
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![NEW HAMPSHIRE FALL by Karen McDonald, Michael McDonald]()
NEW HAMPSHIRE FALL by Karen McDonald, Michael McDonald
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNew Hampshire Fall is a story of family, faith, hope, and love in a post-apocalyptic world.The Barrette family is an average, middle-class family with strong family and Christian values. When the world was safe, faith was easy. In the blink of an eye, the world changes...Categorized as:
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![Through the Ashes by Jacqueline Brown]()
Through the Ashes by Jacqueline Brown
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBefore the light, the truth could be slippery. You could work around it, dodge it, run away from it. But in Bria Ford’s new life, the truth is always knocking … about the past, the fate of friends and family, the realities of burgeoning love, and the changed world. For Bria there’s no escaping the truth—no matter how much she may want to... -
![Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card]()
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 75 ratingsNow available in mass market, the revised, definitive edition of the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning classic. In this second book in the saga set 3,000 years after the terrible war, Ender Wiggin is reviled by history as the Xenocide--the destroyer of the alien Buggers. Now, Ender tells the true story of the war and seeks to stop history from repeating itself. ..Categorized as:
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![American Meltdown by Mark Goodwin]()
American Meltdown by Mark Goodwin
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWritten from a Christian constitutional worldview, American Meltdown, Book Two of The Economic Collapse Chronicles uses dystopian fiction to take an in-depth look at the economic and political trends that have taken America to the edge of bankruptcy. The book assesses the current course of the nation and projects it into the near future...Categorized as:
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![The Divide by Jolina Petersheim]()
The Divide by Jolina Petersheim
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn this gripping conclusion to The Alliance, nearly six months have passed since Leora Ebersole's Old Order Mennonite community fled to the mountains for refuge after an attack destroyed the power grid and altered life as they knew it. Since then, Leora has watched and waited for news of Moses Hughes, the young Englischer pilot who held off invading looters long enough for everyone to escape...Categorized as:
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![Second Time Around (Time Lottery Series) by Nancy Moser]()
Second Time Around (Time Lottery Series) by Nancy Moser
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCome experience a lottery unlike any other. The prize is not money, or a new car, or a trip to Bermuda. The prize is utterly priceless: time. The annual Time Lottery offers its winners a chance to go back into their pasts and change something--make a different choice... -
![The Missing Persons League by Frank Bonham]()
The Missing Persons League by Frank Bonham
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBrian's sister and mother vanished without a trace over a year ago. It was not uncommon. People were disappearing everywhere. To Brian, life had become a frightening madness. He knows that in another two years the planet will be unable to support life.Now suddenly, his father is gone. Fighting the panic that haunts everyone, Brian resolves to find his family before it is too late...Categorized as:
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![Deep Shadows by Vannetta Chapman]()
Deep Shadows by Vannetta Chapman
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLife in Abney, Texas is predictable and safe--until the night a massive solar flare wipes out all modern technology. As the brilliant northern lights give way to deep shadows, single mom Shelby Sparks, her former sweetheart, and their entire small-town community must find a way to survive...Categorized as:
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![Voyage to Alpha Centauri: A Novel by Michael D. O'Brien]()
Voyage to Alpha Centauri: A Novel by Michael D. O'Brien
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSet eighty years in the future, this novel by the best-selling author Michael O'Brien is about an expedition sent from the planet Earth to Alpha Centauri, the star closest to our solar system. The Kosmos, a great ship that the central character Neil de Hoyos describes as a "flying city," is immense in size and capable of more than half light-speed... -
![Death at the Gala: History in the Making by Jerry B. Jenkins, Tim LaHaye]()
Death at the Gala: History in the Making by Jerry B. Jenkins, Tim LaHaye
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA Global Community raid forces the kids in Illinois to abandon the schoolhouse, but not before Vicki has a final word for her satellite audience.In Israel, Judd and Lionel attempt to stop an assassination plot and prepare for a deadly prophecy. Will this be the end of two of their beloved friends?Join the Young Tribulation Force as they search for safety and witness good triumph over evil...Categorized as:
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![Europe in Winter by Dave Hutchinson]()
Europe in Winter by Dave Hutchinson
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRudi, the former chef-turned-spy, returns on a mission to uncover the truth—in a fractured Europe utterly changed by the public unveiling of the Community.Union has been forged and the Community is now the largest nation in Europe; trains run there from as far afield as London and Prague. It is an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity...Categorized as:
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![Holding Their Own V: The Alpha Chronicles by Joe Nobody, D.A.L.H.]()
Holding Their Own V: The Alpha Chronicles by Joe Nobody, D.A.L.H.
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWord of Alpha's recovery spreads throughout the region. The news is welcomed by most - but not all. Some see the small Texas town as a threat, others want to dominate the prosperous community. Often, it's difficult to discern friend from foe, and miscommunication can be deadly. The legendary range wars of the early American West were brutal, bloody affairs... -
![Soon: The Beginning of the End by Jerry B. Jenkins]()
Soon: The Beginning of the End by Jerry B. Jenkins
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratings2004 Christy Fiction award winner! Paul Stepola, an agent working for the National Peacekeeping Organization (NPO), has been assigned to enforce compliance with the world government's prohibition on religion. Paul relishes his job and is good at it...Categorized as:
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