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The Hunted by Charlie Higson
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Hunted is Charlie Higson's sixth terrifying installment in the thrilling The Enemy series. The sickness struck everyone over fourteen. First it twisted their minds. Next it ravaged their bodies. Now they roam the streets - Crazed and hungry The others had promised that the countryside would be safer than the city. They were wrong...Categorized as:
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![In the Afterlight by Alexandra Bracken]()
In the Afterlight by Alexandra Bracken
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 54 ratingsRuby can't look back. Fractured by an unbearable loss, she and the kids who survived the government's attack on Los Angeles travel north to regroup. With them is a prisoner: Clancy Gray, son of the president, and one of the few people Ruby has encountered with abilities like hers. Only Ruby has any power over him, and just one slip could lead to Clancy wreaking havoc on their minds...Categorized as:
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![Never Fade by Alexandra Bracken]()
Never Fade by Alexandra Bracken
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 68 ratingsRuby never asked for the abilities that almost cost her her life. Now she must call upon them on a daily basis, leading dangerous missions to bring down a corrupt government and breaking into the minds of her enemies. Other kids in the Children’s League call Ruby “Leader”, but she knows what she really is: a monster...Categorized as:
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![Battle of the Ampere by Richard Paul Evans]()
Battle of the Ampere by Richard Paul Evans
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsThe hair-raising action continues for Michael Vey in this charged third installment of the #1 New York Times bestselling series.Michael, Taylor, Ostin and the rest of the Electroclan have destroyed the largest of the Elgen Starxource plants, but now they’re scattered across the Amazon jungle... -
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![Fire & Ash by Jonathan Maberry]()
Fire & Ash by Jonathan Maberry
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsIn the gripping conclusion to the action-packed standard bearer (Booklist) of zombie series, the threat of death is given new life.Benny Imura and his friends have found the jet and Sanctuary, but neither is what they expected. Instead of a refuge, Sanctuary is a hospice, and the soldiers who flew the plane seem to be little more than bureaucrats who have given up hope for humanity's future...Categorized as:
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![The Emancipation of Veronica McAllister by Shawn Inmon]()
The Emancipation of Veronica McAllister by Shawn Inmon
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTime Travel with a twist! Veronica McAllister died in 2018. She immediately opened her eyes again in 1958, all memories of her previous life intact. She goes from old age, pants suits, and a cane, to poodle skirts, saddle shoes, and Buddy Holly. At the end of her first life, Veronica said she “wasn’t any good at life... -
![The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken]()
The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 70 ratingsWhen Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something alarming enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that gets her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government “rehabilitation camp...Categorized as:
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![Dust & Decay by Jonathan Maberry]()
Dust & Decay by Jonathan Maberry
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsSix months have passed since the terrifying battle with Charlie Pink-eye and the Motor City Hammer in the zombie-infested mountains of the Rot & Ruin. It’s also six months since Benny Imura and Nix Riley saw something in the air that changed their lives...Categorized as:
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![UnWholly by Neal Shusterman]()
UnWholly by Neal Shusterman
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 50 ratingsAlternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereIt’s finally here. The long-awaited sequel to the bestselling Unwind, which Publishers Weekly called a “gripping, brilliantly imagined futuristic thriller.”Thanks to Connor, Lev, and Risa—and their high-profile revolt at Happy Jack Harvest Camp—people can no longer turn a blind eye to unwinding...Categorized as:
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![The Neptune Project by Polly Holyoke]()
The Neptune Project by Polly Holyoke
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWith her weak eyes and useless lungs that often leave her gasping for air, Nere feels more at home swimming with the dolphins her mother studies than she does hanging out with her classmates... -
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Horde by Ann Aguirre
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsThe epic conclusion to the USA Today bestselling trilogy.The horde is coming.Salvation is surrounded, monsters at the gates, and this time, they're not going away. When Deuce, Fade, Stalker and Tegan set out, the odds are against them. But the odds have been stacked against Deuce from the moment she was born. She might not be a Huntress anymore, but she doesn't run...Categorized as:
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![Rebels by Sarah Noffke]()
Rebels by Sarah Noffke
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEm returns to Austin Valley, but there are many things that don’t add up about her homecoming. She’s left Rogue behind and is adamant that Dr. Parker must leave the Valley with her. Zack agrees to help her, but soon learns she’s not telling the whole truth when Rogue comes storming back. With the threesome reunited, they work on a plan to stop the Defect crisis...Categorized as:
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![Flesh & Bone by Jonathan Maberry]()
Flesh & Bone by Jonathan Maberry
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsReeling from the tragic events of Dust & Decay, Benny Imura and his friends plunge deep into the zombie-infested wastelands of the great Rot & Ruin. Benny, Nix, Lilah and Chong journey through a fierce wilderness that was once America, searching for the jet they saw in the skies months ago. If that jet exists then humanity itself must have survived…somewhere...Categorized as:
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![Defending the Galaxy by Maria V. Snyder]()
Defending the Galaxy by Maria V. Snyder
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsYear 2522. Oh. My. Stars.Junior Officer Ara Lawrence here, reporting for duty. Again. It's situation critical for the security team and everyone in the base - including my parents - with a new attack from the looters imminent, a possible galaxy-wide crime conspiracy and an unstoppable alien threat. But this all pales in the face of my mind-blowing discovery about the Q-net... -
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![Pandemic by Scott Sigler]()
Pandemic by Scott Sigler
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe explosive conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with Infected and Contagious.The alien intelligence that unleashed two horrific assaults on humanity has been destroyed. But before it was brought down in flames, it launched one last payload-a tiny soda-can-sized canister filled with germs engineered to wreak new forms of havoc on the human race...Categorized as:
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![The Transall Saga by Gary Paulsen]()
The Transall Saga by Gary Paulsen
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsMark's solo camping trip in the desert turns into a terrifying and thrilling odyssey when a mysterious beam of light transports him to another time on what appears to be another planet. As Mark searches for a pathway back to his own time on Earth, he must make a new life in a new world... -
![Three Days in Undead Shoes by Dee J. Holmes]()
Three Days in Undead Shoes by Dee J. Holmes
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne woman. One Great Dane. A whole lot of zombies.Jane Finch wishes her problems ended with a bad commute and no coffee. Instead, she and Schrodinger, the Great Dane she’s supposed to be training, emerge from a locked room to discover a city changed for the dead...Categorized as:
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![The Changing Lives of Joe Hart by Shawn Inmon]()
The Changing Lives of Joe Hart by Shawn Inmon
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTime Travel with a Twist. Before Joe Hart can stop the murder of John Lennon, he must die himself. When Joe Hart dies after leading a wasted life, he chooses to use his second chance to make the world better. Even when he thinks he knows what is coming, changing the past is difficult... -
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Hope by S.J. West
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter finally reaching the Southern Kingdom, Skye soon realizes it isn’t the nirvana she always dreamt it would be. Through a series of events, Skye must face the Queen of the Eastern Kingdom once again and discover for herself what the true difference is between a harvester and a human... -
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Return by Michael Siemsen
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMatt Turner’s psychic ability has granted him a window into the entirety of Earth’s intelligent beings—past and present—but this gift has also been his heaviest burden. A talent like Matt’s can only be kept secret for so long, and ruthless individuals desiring lost and rare items have viewed him only as a prized tool. Now, there is no more secret... -
![The Final Life of Nathaniel Moon by Shawn Inmon]()
The Final Life of Nathaniel Moon by Shawn Inmon
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNathaniel Moon is the reluctant messiah. He has powers that define the word miraculous. But when he used those powers to help others, he brought about a world of trouble. Now Nathaniel lives a life of quiet obscurity, performing anonymous miracles. But, his anonymity has to end, because evil is coming to Middle Falls, Oregon, and threatens the people Nathaniel loves most... -
![A Memory of Mankind: by Paul Antony Jones]()
A Memory of Mankind: by Paul Antony Jones
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe answers are out there...With the island of Avalon far behind them, Meredith and her companions continue their search for Candidate One in the hope of finally discovering the secrets behind why they were brought to this strange, future-version of Earth.Wild adventures, mysterious technologies, and new friends will help Meredith on her journey...Categorized as:
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![Mutation by Chris Morphew]()
Mutation by Chris Morphew
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJordan’s world is falling apart. She’s a prisoner in her own skin, trapped by an enemy who can paralyse her at the touch of a button.And the questions in Phoenix keep piling higher.Why is Jordan starting to see things before they happen? What’s wrong with her mother’s pregnancy? And why do Peter’s old friends suddenly want to talk to him again?The clock is still ticking... -
![And Then She Vanished by Nick Jones]()
And Then She Vanished by Nick Jones
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHe only looked away for a second.Still haunted by the disappearance of his little sister Amy over twenty years ago, Joseph Bridgeman's life has fallen apart. When a friend talks him into seeing hypnotherapist Alexia Finch to help with his insomnia, Joseph accidentally discovers he can time travel... -
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![Escape by T.W. Piperbrook]()
Escape by T.W. Piperbrook
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDan and Quinn Lowery may have escaped the initial infection, but their journey is far from over.Their once-safe location has been compromised, overrun by the agents and the infected.Now, in order to survive, they must first escape..Categorized as:
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![Elsewhere by Dean Koontz]()
Elsewhere by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe fate of the world is in the hands of a father and daughter in an epic novel of wonder and terror by Dean Koontz, the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense.Since his wife, Michelle, left seven years ago, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his eleven-year-old daughter, Amity, in Suavidad Beach...Categorized as:
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![The Enemy by Charlie Higson]()
The Enemy by Charlie Higson
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsCharlie Higson's The Enemy is the first in a jaw-dropping zombie horror series for teens. Everyone over the age of fourteen has succumbed to a deadly zombie virus and now the kids must keep themselves alive. When the sickness came, every parent, police officer, politician - every adult fell ill. The lucky ones died. The others are crazed, confused and hungry...Categorized as:
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![Warriors by Sarah Noffke]()
Warriors by Sarah Noffke
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAustin Valley appears as it always has, but Em Fuller knows that appearances aren’t what they seem. She knows under the surface, that cracks are starting to form in this seemingly well-manicured society. She’s responsible for creating these cracks and for planting a slow dissension among many of the residents of this once happy city... -
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Tsunami Storm by D.F. Capps, David F. Capps
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings*Bronze medal winner in the 2017 Reader's Favorite Book Awards for fiction - thriller - general. *The US has launched secret weapons of mass destruction on other countries. And awaits what might be cataclysmic retaliation…China is devastated by an 8.0M earthquake that leaves 70,000 people dead with hundreds of thousands injured and untold property destroyed... -
![The Day After Oblivion by Tim Washburn]()
The Day After Oblivion by Tim Washburn
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAND SO IT BEGINS... In the United States, the Department of Defense and the NSA computer networks have been hacked. A nuclear-armed CIA drone has lost all flight control. North Korea . . . Iran . . . Russia . . . and soon the gates of Hell will open. DEFCON 1--FULL SCALE NUCLEAR WAR Humanity's most terrifying nightmare has become reality...Categorized as:
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![Sands of Time by Monique Martin]()
Sands of Time by Monique Martin
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Crosses--high-spirited Elizabeth and her brilliant Professor of the Occult husband, Simon--find themselves, along with Jack Wells, in 1920 Cairo on a special assignment for the Council for Temporal Studies. It seems like a simple enough mission---find a missing pocket watch and bring it back to the present. The only problem is, they're not the only ones looking... -
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The Keeper: A Brilliant Darkness Story by A.G. Henley
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPeree knows what he’s doing as the new Keeper of the Water Bearer, Fennel. He knows Fennel’s Sightless. He knows that means the Scourge can’t hurt her when she gathers fresh water for her people. He knows how to wield his bow and arrow to kill piles of the revolting flesh-eaters as they swarm around her. He’ll motivate her, distract her, do anything he can to keep her working...Categorized as:
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![Contact by Chris Morphew]()
Contact by Chris Morphew
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFor the first six months, Peter's life in Phoenix was pretty normal. Hanging out with his friends, frustrating his parents, sleeping through school. Then he found out the world was ending. The Shackleton Co-operative is planning to exterminate the rest of humanity - and they're going to use "Tabitha" to do it... -
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Impulse by Steven Gould
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsCent is the teenaged daughter of two very special people, Davy and Millie, the world's only teleports, but her life is far from ideal. Kept in isolation to protect her from her parents' enemies, she wants a normal life, a life with friends and, perhaps, romance. She wants to go to school like any other normal child.If only she were normal.. -
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![The Purge of Babylon by Sam Sisavath]()
The Purge of Babylon by Sam Sisavath
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOne night. That was all it took. Creatures that once lived in the shadows, hidden from humankind, have risen, spreading like a plague across the globe over the course of a single night. Their numbers growing exponentially through infection, these seemingly unkillable creatures have swallowed up whole cities and collapsed unprepared governments. Survivors call it The Purge...Categorized as:
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![Shades of Earth by Beth Revis]()
Shades of Earth by Beth Revis
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsAmy and Elder have finally left the oppressive walls of the spaceship Godspeed behind. They're ready to start life afresh--to build a home--on Centauri-Earth, the planet that Amy has traveled 25 trillion miles across the universe to experience. But this new Earth isn't the paradise that Amy had been hoping for...Categorized as:
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Infinite by Brian Freeman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom bestselling author Brian Freeman comes an explosive new psychological thriller that pushes the limits of reality as we know it. One rainy night, the unthinkable Dylan Moran’s car plunges off the road into a raging river, his beautiful wife drowning as he struggles to shore... -
![The Shadows of London by Nick Jones]()
The Shadows of London by Nick Jones
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA time traveler's work is never done.Likable antiques dealer Joseph Bridgeman is back in the present and dreaming of a quiet life. But when a mysterious and enigmatic time traveler arrives in his shop, Joe learns that his first trip was just the beginning and this time, the rules of the game have changed... -
![Unbreakable by Elizabeth Norris]()
Unbreakable by Elizabeth Norris
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFour months after Ben disappeared through the portal to his home universe, Janelle believes she’ll never see him again. Her world is still devastated, but life is finally starting to resume some kind of normalcy. Until Interverse Agent Taylor Barclay shows up...Categorized as:
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Time's Echo by Rysa Walker
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA Kindle exclusive novella, set in the world of Rysa Walker's Timebound. Kiernan Dunne abandoned his family ties to help Kate fight the Cyrists, and he's never regretted that for one moment. But he doesn't understand why Kate can't remember that night in 1893 Chicago, when she turned back to face the killer chasing them through the smoky corridors of the World's Fair Hotel...Categorized as:
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![The Scourge by A.G. Henley]()
The Scourge by A.G. Henley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsSeventeen-year-old Groundling, Fennel, is Sightless. She's never been able to see her lush forest home, but she knows its secrets. She knows how the shadows shift when she passes under a canopy of trees. She knows how to hide in the cool, damp caves when the Scourge comes. She knows how devious and arrogant the Groundlings' tree-dwelling neighbors, the Lofties, can be...Categorized as:
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Please Remain Calm by Courtney Summers
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsIn this gripping sequel to THIS IS NOT A TEST, Rhys and Sloane are headed for a safe haven when they get separated along the way. Rhys is determined to reunite with Sloane until he discovers people who might need him more--people who offer him the closest he'll get to everything he's lost, if they can just hold on long enough...Categorized as:
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![Fragments by Monique Martin]()
Fragments by Monique Martin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsProfessor Simon Cross and his assistant, Elizabeth West, thought their time traveling days were over. That's before they stumble across a World War II photograph -- with missing time traveler, Evan Eldridge, injured and in desperate need of help.They find Evan in 1942 London, ill and not quite sure what's happened... -
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IA: Initiate by John Darryl Winston
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEveryone has secrets... What if you didn't know your own? One young man with latent supernatural abilities plus one street gang hell-bent on recruiting him equals... IA: Initiate. The most important thing in the world to thirteen-year-old orphan, "Naz" Andersen is keeping his little sister safe from the streets of a Chicago/Detroit-like urban ghetto known as the Exclave... -
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![Transference by B.T. Keaton]()
Transference by B.T. Keaton
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRebellion. Revenge. Revelation.Barrabas Madzimure is banished to the desert planet Eridania for his many crimes. Slaves to the Church and to the will of its prophet Jovian, a charismatic figurehead who rules everything on Earth, Madzimure and his cohorts toil underground digging endlessly for the substance eridanium—the source of Jovian’s alien power.But Madzimure can no longer hide from his past... -
![The Prey by Andrew Fukuda]()
The Prey by Andrew Fukuda
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsFor Gene and the remaining humans—or hepers—death is just a heartbeat away. On the run and hunted by society, they must find a way to survive in The Vast... and avoid the hungry predators tracking them in the dark. But they’re not the only things following Gene. He’s haunted by the girl he left behind and his burgeoning feelings for Sissy, the human girl at his side... -
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Timelock by David Klass
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn Timelock, the thrilling finale to the Caretaker Trilogy, the end of life as we know it has arrived, and history will be made -- or lost -- at the hands of one young hero.Jack Danielson has spent the last year saving the oceans and the Amazon, attempting to fulfill a prophecy that was written before his birth... -
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Zomblog: Snoe by T.W. Brown
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt has been almost twenty years since the dead rose... Snoe Gainey has grown up in a world where the walking dead are simply a part of life. Raised by her adoptive mother, she has spent her entire life trying to distance herself from the legacy left by her mother...Categorized as:
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Sketches by Teyla Branton
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSomeone will do anything to stop them from learning the truth.Eighty years after Breakdown, Detective Reese Parker has pulled herself up from the dregs of society in Welfare Colony 6 to become a sketch artist and enforcer for the CORE (Commonwealth Objective for Reform and Efficiency)...Categorized as:
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Refuge Book 1- Night of the Blood Sky by Jeremy Bishop, Jeremy Robinson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRebecca Rule is the sheriff of Refuge, New Hampshire. Her biggest concern is the rowdy summertime revelers making their way up from Massachusetts and New York. With most of the town’s residents in neighboring Ashland, for the 4th of July fireworks show, Refuge is quiet. That is, until the Baptist Church’s bell starts ringing—on its own...
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