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  • The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 7 by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou, st

    The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 7 by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou, st

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    POINT OF NO RETURNAfter failing in their quest to capture the treacherous Xu Shuanglin, Mo Ran and Chu Wanning pursue him to the impenetrable Mount Jiao, accompanied by the noble Nangong Si and the leaders of the cultivation realm's great sects.There, they find the ancestral tomb of Rufeng Sect transformed into a macabre spectacle under the influence of Xu Shuanglin's forbidden magic...
  • The One Who Eats Monsters by Casey Matthews

    The One Who Eats Monsters by Casey Matthews

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Long ago, before history broke in half, elder gods exiled the vengeful deity Erynis to a far corner of Earth. When Ryn is found weakened after saving the life of an innocent villager, the U.S. military mistakes the battered immortal for a feral teenager and places her in New Petersburg, a decaying city full of monsters...
  • Feralsong by T.J. Klune

    Feralsong by T.J. Klune

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    After Heartsong and before Brothersong comes Feralsong, a short story from four different perspectives about what it means to lose your mind.January 10, 2020Exclusive at tjklunebooks...
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    angst  lgbtq  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  drama
  • Deosil by Jordan L. Hawk

    Deosil by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Whyborne, Griffin, and their friends have faced down cultists, monsters, and sorcerers. But their greatest challenge is now upon them.On the return voyage from Balefire Manor, Whyborne receives the worst news possible: Widdershins has fallen before the onslaught of the Fideles and their servants. There’s still time to stop the return of the Masters, but that window grows shorter by the hour...
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    angst  lgbtq  paranormal  wlw  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book
  • Sempiterno by Joana Marcús

    Sempiterno by Joana Marcús

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Una vez empezado, no tiene...
  • Shades of Hate by K.N. Banet

    Shades of Hate by K.N. Banet

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    I live a happy life. I have a lover that I am quickly falling for. I have friends and family that rely on me to keep my territory safe and secure for them. My bar’s business is booming.But I’ve made enemies, some that I know and some that I don’t. Hate for me and the life I’m building is creeping in the darkness.Hate can be insidious...
  • Embracing Winter by Jocelynn Drake

    Embracing Winter by Jocelynn Drake

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Winter Varik believes in only one thing-protecting his family.Even from himself.For nearly 200 years, he's kept a dangerous secret from his brothers.But Winter might have found his salvation in the form of a sexy witch named Fox.Too bad this same witch was named in a prophecy foretelling the destruction of the Variks...
  • Wolf of the Northern Star by S.J. Himes

    Wolf of the Northern Star by S.J. Himes

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ghost, once known as the cub Luca, is finally home. Back among his kind and learning what it means to be both a man and a shaman, Ghost battles the expectations of his people, his family, and the pressures of a society that is both foreign and familiar...
  • Twelve Bones by Rosie Talbot

    Twelve Bones by Rosie Talbot

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Prepare for more spooky, swoony YA from BookTok star @Merrowchild! Charlie Frith and his new love, Sam, have just saved the dead from the living! Now it's time to focus on being a normal couple - if such a thing exists?But when a new threat lurks in the shadows, this time to the living, and all who Charlie and Sam hold near, they must put everything on the line - including their lives - to work...
  • His Prince by Mary Calmes

    His Prince by Mary Calmes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jason Thorpe was content living a quiet life in New Orleans. He and his best friend Ode opened their cozy curios shop in the French Quarter, and he was making some new, albeit interesting, friends….Then Jason met Varic Maedoc, the prince of the vampyrs, and his life changed forever...
  • Smolder by Mika Nix

    Smolder by Mika Nix

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I was hired to protect him, but will our smoldering attraction ignite into love?When my hot headed brother found his fated mate, a deep, aching desire opened up inside of me for my own. Everyone knows dragons are covetous, jealous… possessive. I am all of these things, but never more so than when I set my eyes on Dempsey for the first time.Beautiful. Awkward. Sweet. Shy. Perfect...
  • In Sea-Salt Tears by Seanan McGuire

    In Sea-Salt Tears by Seanan McGuire

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    It was 1972, and a teenage girl named Elizabeth Ryan thought that her world was coming to an end. Elizabeth was the daughter of two Selkies, you see, and she had just been passed up for a skin. But then a mysterious cousin who calls herself Annie appears, and Elizabeth finds other things to think about...It can be easy to forget that worlds don't wait for heroes before they begin...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  wlw  adult  book  contemporary  fae  fairy-tale
  • King & Queen by Maz Maddox

    King & Queen by Maz Maddox

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Running into your one night stand is always awkward.It’s especially awkward when said hunky hookup pulls you into a secret war over fossils and a kidnapped, newly awakened Albertosaurus shifter...
  • Weak Heart by Ban Gilmartin

    Weak Heart by Ban Gilmartin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Something has gone very wrong on the sleepy Scottish Isle of Mab. The tides are angry. Reality has shifted. Selkies are coming up from the ocean, boys are missing, magic is going haywire, and memories are being pulled from people’s minds. Thomas Madigan is living in a nightmare. Isla just wants to go back to the sea. Kit Macrae thinks he’s drowning. Tanis Hughes needs to feed...
  • The Alpha 4: Protect. Procreate. Prevail. by Eric Vall

    The Alpha 4: Protect. Procreate. Prevail. by Eric Vall

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Jansen alpha brothers are finally dead, so I’ve got way more territory and shifters to manage, but I’ve also got more omegas to protect and impregnate.Life just never seems to slow down anymore, and with someone new stalking us through our own woods, I can’t afford to set one paw out of line.But these guys don’t seem like our usual species of enemies...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  harem  magic  mystery
  • Trial by Fire by Ariana Nash

    Trial by Fire by Ariana Nash

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The third book in the thrilling Shadows of London series.Action, MM romance and adventure combine on the streets of London. Time is running out for John "Dom" Domenici.It's not just Kempthorne's secrets bubbling to the surface of London's streets ..
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    lgbtq  paranormal  action-adventure  adult  book  fiction  magic  mlm
  • Thrust by Kiki Burrelli

    Thrust by Kiki Burrelli

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    alternate cover edition of ASIN B0BGJPQ6CZZayne wants controlZayne Andino wants his life back. For years, his father has set him up with mate after mate, but only as a pretext to gain more money and power. Zayne is sick of being a bargaining chip, but he can't anger his father without jeopardizing his own status as agent in the Lunar Council Enforcement Agency...
  • Undergrounder by J.E. Glass

    Undergrounder by J.E. Glass

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Drowned by men. Saved by a monster.The last place Alexandra Bailey expects her routine life of domestic journalism to lead is being sucked into icy floodwaters below New York City with a knife in her ribs. Headlines like this happen to other people, but it's real, and she knows she's dead. Which makes the circumstances of her survival as impossible as the woman who drags her from the water...
  • Let Us Prey (Cass' Version) by Cassandra Featherstone

    Let Us Prey (Cass' Version) by Cassandra Featherstone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    **This series has been re-vamped and changed significantly. If you have not read the new version of the prequel, you will not understand the new version of this book.Apex Academy is where I’m supposed to die.My ex-BFFs turned on me, my fiancé tried to eat me, and my parents are gleefully waiting for someone to kill me so they can be rid of their dirty little secret...
  • The Wayhaven Chronicles: Book One by Mishka Jenkins

    The Wayhaven Chronicles: Book One by Mishka Jenkins

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Your first case as a detective is forcing you to open your eyes to a world bigger than you thought. But maybe it's better to keep them closed. Knowing too much doesn’t help anyone sleep at night! Seems the supernatural didn’t get the memo that nothing exciting ever happens in the little town of Wayhaven...
  • Dark Fate by Kat Silver

    Dark Fate by Kat Silver

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ten days after the battle at Blackriver, Michael struggles with new forbidden desires, with his rampant Flame, and a deepening relationship with the taciturn werewolf, Commander Gabriel Flanagan.Feeling responsible for their loss, Michael longs to rescue the students stolen by the manipulative vampire prince, Alexei Vasiliev. But the High Council refuses to free Michael from his chains...
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    age-gap  angst  lgbtq  paranormal  action-adventure  adult  book  dark
  • Perfectly Perplexing Zombie: Wendall's Story by M.J. May

    Perfectly Perplexing Zombie: Wendall's Story by M.J. May

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Blessed with eternal fire, Hellfire Rayburn is Fairy Queen Silvidia’s most trusted and feared warrior. In a world living under fairy rule, Ray’s accustomed to serving his queen by upholding the law. Now, Queen Silvidia wants more.Wendall Galen never expected to wake up reanimated as a zombie. Then again, he never expected to be murdered either...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  lgbtq  age-gap  angst  romance  fantasy  magic  mlm
  • Getting Close to the Omega by Lisa Oliver

    Getting Close to the Omega by Lisa Oliver

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Book Five - Cloverleah Pack SeriesCan be read as a standalone.Dean Weir has finally found happiness in his position as Omega wolf of the Cloverleah pack. He has his friends, his work and his art and he has never looked for anything else. Badly abused by his ex-home pack and Alpha, Dean keeps his head down and stays out of trouble. That is, until his mate joins the pack...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  lgbtq  paranormal  abuse  adult  book  contemporary  fae
  • Cosmic Spells and Vampire Lairs by Mia Monroe

    Cosmic Spells and Vampire Lairs by Mia Monroe

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Are we destined to be star-crossed lovers or is Fate on our side?My friends are finding mates while I’m stuck with a sexy but silent vampire. Sure, Pietro is everything a boy could want- handsome, strong, brooding, and possessive. It’s just that with my gift, I’m well aware that he’s not the one fate has in store for me. He couldn’t be. For one thing, his mercury is always in retrograde...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  age-gap  lgbtq  romance  mlm  magic  vampires  fantasy
  • Sworn to the Night by Craig Schaefer

    Sworn to the Night by Craig Schaefer

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Marie Reinhart is an NYPD detective on the trail of a serial killer. When she sleeps, though, she dreams of other lives; she dreams of being a knight, in strange wars and strange worlds. On the other side of the city, Nessa Roth is a college professor trapped in a loveless marriage, an unwilling prop in a political dynasty...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  paranormal  wlw  adult  book  dark  fiction  horror
  • The Ghost of Ellwood by Jaclyn Osborn

    The Ghost of Ellwood by Jaclyn Osborn

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    “I didn't believe in ghosts. Until I met him.”As a horror novelist, Ben makes a living telling scary stories. However, he's struggling in his career and fears he's lost his touch. Not only is there a disconnect in his writing, but in his personal life as well. After his relationship goes south, he decides to start over and moves to Ivy Grove, a small town with a lot of history...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  angst  lgbtq  paranormal  abuse  adult  audiobook  book
  • Cronin's Key III by N.R. Walker

    Cronin's Key III by N.R. Walker

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    History isn’t always what it seems… Twelve months after his change, Alec MacAidan is still getting used to his many vampire talents. While most vampires would give anything to have more than one supernatural power, Alec craves nothing more than peace and time alone with Cronin. But when Alec meets entities from outside this realm, he’s left powerless in their presence...
  • Wren and Oak by Sam Burns

    Wren and Oak by Sam Burns

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Rowan Harbor has been peaceful for a now unprecedented two months, but everyone knows it’s the calm before the storm. The Summer king is coming for the thorn—a weapon destined to bring his end—and Fletcher has never felt so helpless. When the disturbing dreams start and his mentor, Oak, is hesitant to discuss them, Fletcher doesn’t know where to turn...
  • Storm by Skye Knizley

    Storm by Skye Knizley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    On a rainy night in 1971 the cruise ship Crescent Star vanished in the North Atlantic without a trace. No crew, no lifeboats and no wreckage was ever found, in spite of a three-week search. Two days ago, she crashed through and sank a pleasure yacht off the coast of New York, leaving five people dead. The ship has answered no hails and no one appears to be aboard...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  paranormal  wlw  action-adventure  adult  book  demons  fiction
  • The Gifts That Bind Us by Caroline O'Donoghue

    The Gifts That Bind Us by Caroline O'Donoghue

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A spellbinding supernatural teen drama - and sequel to All Our Hidden Gifts.Maeve and her friends have revealed their powers and banded together as a coven: Roe can pick locks, Lily sends sparks flying, Maeve can read minds and Fiona can heal any injury. And even better than their newfound talents? Roe and Maeve are officially an item...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  paranormal  wlw  book  contemporary  dark  fiction  friendship
  • New Day Rising by J.J. Arias

    New Day Rising by J.J. Arias

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Would you do anything for your happily ever after? After fighting impossible odds to get back to each other, newly-turned Vampire Erin and her Queen Lucía want nothing more than to run off into the sunset and enjoy a moment’s peace. But when a group of Hunters emerges poised to put all supernatural life in their cross-hairs, their bubble barely has time to form before it implodes...
  • Demons Shemons by K.B. Draper

    Demons Shemons by K.B. Draper

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Most people come home with a window sticker, a shot glass, or a bottle opener cleverly disguised as a key chain from their summer vacations, not Allison Jo Maddox (a.k.a. AJ, if you want to keep your front teeth)...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  paranormal  wlw  adult  book  dark  female-mc  fiction
  • The Empath by Jody Klaire

    The Empath by Jody Klaire

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Aeron Lorelei is a young woman with a troubled past and a troubling gift. Blessed and cursed with the ability to sense the feelings, past, and future of those around her, Aeron lived as a misfit child. When she was sixteen, she took the blame for the death of her best friend’s little brother...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  paranormal  wlw  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror
  • Little Dip by Gill McKnight

    Little Dip by Gill McKnight

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It’s 1977, and Connie Fortune has an easy, freewheeling life as a wildlife photographer and illustrator. A new contract brings her to the Little Dip valley in Oregon to track down a rare bird, but a clash with Sylvie Garoul, the valley’s owner and matriarch of the mysterious Garoul family, and her daughter, the haughty, frustrating, but somehow bewitching Marie Garoul, ruins the deal...
  • Raven by Skye Knizley

    Raven by Skye Knizley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    All Hallows Eve approaches and for once Raven Storm has plans to spend the holiday enjoying a party at Isle of Night with family and friends, something she hasn't done since high school.But someone has other plans and Raven is called to investigate the grisly murder of Monsignor Quinn, a priest left to drown in his own blood...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  paranormal  wlw  action-adventure  adult  book  demons  fiction
  • Ashes and Flame by Aiden Bates, Jill Haven

    Ashes and Flame by Aiden Bates, Jill Haven

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I want to protect him… no matter the cost.After uncovering a threat to dragons everywhere, my mission was simple - find the mage with the evil magic book, and bring him back home to Emberwood Weyr. There we could figure out what he knew… and what we could do about it.Finding him was easy… but protecting him is hard...
  • Death on Denial by E.J. Russell

    Death on Denial by E.J. Russell

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    DOA becomes BRB when this client goes MIA…When I agreed to accompany my selkie boyfriend on a private boat trip, I didn’t realize the invitation included a swim. In the Pacific. In November. Naked. And I certainly didn’t expect to have our swim derailed the instant I got in the water—holy crap, that’s c-c-cold—by a literal boatload of selkie clan leaders...
  • Absolution by Lissa Kasey

    Absolution by Lissa Kasey

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A witch doesn’t always wear black, sometimes he wears snark and blood.Sam is well known for his attitude and now that he’s a vampire, he’s not taking crap from anyone. Not his mentor Gabe, his rival Seiran, or even his roommate Constantine. He wants to be left alone to be the brooding monster the media promised he could be.
But war is on the horizon between vampires and humans...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  angst  lgbtq  age-gap  romance  fantasy  vampires  mlm
  • Ashes and Prophets by Aiden Bates, Jill Haven

    Ashes and Prophets by Aiden Bates, Jill Haven

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I don’t know if he’s my ally… or my enemy.As our head of security, it’s my job to secure the weyr from all incursions - but somehow, this slip of a man got through all our defenses and into the very heart of our land.He says he’s here to help. Sent by a god. A prophet to aid us in an impending apocalypse. And worse, he has some of our people already believing him.I don’t trust him...
  • The Wayhaven Chronicles: Book Three by Mishka Jenkins

    The Wayhaven Chronicles: Book Three by Mishka Jenkins

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Mad scientist vampires, supernatural carnivals! Can there be anything else?Well….As you settle into your new life working with Unit Bravo—and growing ever closer to one member in particular—life goes on. But so does the supernatural world...
  • Vessel of Destruction by Kel Carpenter

    Vessel of Destruction by Kel Carpenter

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    If there is one truth that I hold to in my life, it is that when it rains, it pours. Perhaps that is why I built myself not for the everyday storms most experience. But for the hurricanes I have had to learn to withstand. I know what it is like to feel your heart crack in half like a tree that snaps under too much pressure...
  • Epitaph by Andrea Speed

    Epitaph by Andrea Speed

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In a world where a werecat virus has changed society, Roan McKichan, a born infected and ex-cop, works as a private detective solving crimes involving other infecteds. Tiger strain infections start showing up all over Seattle, much to Roan's dismay, and worse yet, they may have a personal connection. Meanwhile, Roan gets hired to look into the puzzling death of Dee's former lover...
  • Ascendance by Lissa Kasey

    Ascendance by Lissa Kasey

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He descends from a witch they burned.With graduation on the horizon Seiran should be flying high with plans for the future. But his lover, Gabe, is saddled with a new vampire apprentice to babysit, leaving Seiran lonely and looking for direction...
  • Point Pleasant: Illustrated Edition by Jen Archer Wood

    Point Pleasant: Illustrated Edition by Jen Archer Wood

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ben Wisehart grew up in the idyllic town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia. An early encounter with the supernatural shaped his worldview and served as the catalyst for his career as a bestselling horror writer.Thirteen years after abandoning his home, Ben returns to the town to investigate the apparent reemergence of the terrifying creature responsible for his childhood nightmares...
  • Shadowstorm by Skye Knizley

    Shadowstorm by Skye Knizley

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the spring of 1984, just before his daughter's birth, Detective Mason Storm began an investigation into the ritualistic slaying of seven women, their bodies defiled and left covered in black rose petals. The case ended with Storm suspended. The bizarre murders were left unsolved...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  paranormal  wlw  action-adventure  adult  book  fiction  horror
  • Vampires Make Bad Roommates by Mia Monroe

    Vampires Make Bad Roommates by Mia Monroe

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    alternate cover edition of ASIN B09TJV1MLLI'm a medium so someone please tell me how I never saw this coming. We're at war with no idea why or how to stop the enemy, so when head vampire Augustus suggests we pair up to stay safe, logically it makes sense. Unfortunately for me, I end up with the only hyper vampire as my new roommate...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  lgbtq  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  demons  fae
  • Bending Ridge by J.D. Light

    Bending Ridge by J.D. Light

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Hanson Rodgers My dad's best friend is big and burly and gorgeous and has the ability to make my harpy's blood––yes, I'm a male harpy––boil. When he offered my brother and I a job on Terra Mortis, I knew it was probably a bad idea, no matter how much I wanted to live on the island and be a part of a world where everyone was as much different as they were the same...
  • Stone Skin by Jenn Burke

    Stone Skin by Jenn Burke

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Can he break his curse before time runs out?Despite being cursed to sleep as a gargoyle for a hundred years, and awake for only twenty-five, Rian O'Reilly is an optimist. He knows he can find a way to break the curse through the tattooed runes he's spent years mastering. No need to wait for this true love crap. But he hasn't found the right combination of magic and his time is almost up...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  lgbtq  age-gap  romance  mlm  shapeshifters  fantasy  magic
  • Per Sanguinem by Ashlyn Drewek

    Per Sanguinem by Ashlyn Drewek

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Vampires don't get a happily ever after. Over the centuries, Eric Collins learned that the hard way, which is why he has sworn off the idea of companionship and throws himself into his job as a detective. But his plan for a peaceful, solitary existence is disrupted the night he saves Chase Turner, a fellow cop, from being murdered...
  • Guarding His Melody by Victoria Sue

    Guarding His Melody by Victoria Sue

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Deaf since childhood, Sebastian Armitage had a promising musical future until his dreams were shattered when he transformed at twelve years old. In a world where enhanced humans are terrorized and imprisoned, his life shrinks around him even more as he suffers the torment of his father’s experimental research to enable him to hear...
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