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Anne of Green Gables by Kathleen Olmstead, L.M. Montgomery
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFollowing Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date),comes a dazzling new series: Classic Starts. The stories are abridged; the quality is complete. Classic Starts treats the world's beloved tales (and children) with the respect they deserve--all at an incomparable price...Categorized as:
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![Hello Lighthouse by Sophie Blackall]()
Hello Lighthouse by Sophie Blackall
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA lavish new picture book from Caldecott-winner Sophie Blackall that will transport readers to the seaside in timeless, nautical splendor!Watch the days and seasons pass as the wind blows, the fog rolls in, and icebergs drift by. Outside, there is water all around...Categorized as:
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Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsAn international bestseller: Grace learns that she can be anything she wants...Categorized as:
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![The Count of Monte Cristo (Great Illustrated Classics) by Mitsu Yamamoto, Alexandre Dumas]()
The Count of Monte Cristo (Great Illustrated Classics) by Mitsu Yamamoto, Alexandre Dumas
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA young sailor returns home from a dangerous voyage. His father and his sweetheart are waiting for him. But an act of jealous treachery changes his life forever! An unexpected meeting changes everything and the man who was once an unknown sailor emerges as The Count of Monte Cristo, mysterious, rich, and powerful enough to take the ultimate revenge against his enemies. Retail price: $9.95 US, $11...Categorized as:
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![Paddle-to-the-Sea by Holling Clancy Holling]()
Paddle-to-the-Sea by Holling Clancy Holling
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA 1942 Caldecott Honor Book A young Indian boy carves a little canoe with a figure inside and names him Paddle-to-the-Sea. Paddle's journey, in text and pictures, through the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean provides an excellent geographic and historical picture of the region...Categorized as:
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![The Poacher’s Daughter: A Western Story by Michael Zimmer]()
The Poacher’s Daughter: A Western Story by Michael Zimmer
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThe Poacher’s Daughter is an extraordinary story of betrayal and redemption, set within an uncompromising landscape of raw brutality and unimaginable beauty. In 1885 young Rose Edwards is widowed by Montana vigilantes who hang her husband for an alleged theft, then burn her Yellowstone Valley cabin to the ground as a warning for her and others of her kind to quit the territory...Categorized as:
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![La pierre et le sabre by Eiji Yoshikawa]()
La pierre et le sabre by Eiji Yoshikawa
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDans le Japon du XVIIe siècle, le jeune Takezó devient le samouraï Miyamoto Musashi et n'a plus qu'un seul but : tendre à la perfection. Dépasser ses sentiments et persévérer pour s'améliorer, se perfectionner et parvenir à comprendre le sens profond de la vie en développant son art, l'art du combat. Duel après duel, il crée son propre style... -
![A Story Like the Wind by Laurens van der Post]()
A Story Like the Wind by Laurens van der Post
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsVan der Post’s incomparable knowledge of Africa illuminates this epic novel, set near the Kalahari Desert, about a boy on the verge of manhood, his experiences with the wonder and mystery of a still-primitive land, and his secret friendship with the Bushman whose life he saves. The narrative of A Story like the Wind continues in A Far-Off Place...Categorized as:
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![Sacajawea by Anna Lee Waldo]()
Sacajawea by Anna Lee Waldo
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsClad ln a doeskin, alone and unafraid, she stood straight and proud before the onrushlng Forces of America’s destiny: Sacajawea. child of a Shoshoni chief, lone woman on Lewis and Clark‘s historic trek-beautiful spear of a dying nation.She knew many men, walked many miles...Categorized as:
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![Follow the Drinking Gourd by Jeanette Winter]()
Follow the Drinking Gourd by Jeanette Winter
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIllus. in full color. "Winter's story begins with a peg-leg sailor who aids slaves on their escape on the Underground Railroad. While working for plantation owners, Peg Leg Joe teaches the slaves a song about the drinking gourd (the Big Dipper). A couple, their son, and two others make their escape by following the song's directions...Categorized as:
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![The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge by Hildegarde Hoyt Swift, Lynd Ward]()
The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge by Hildegarde Hoyt Swift, Lynd Ward
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOn the Manhattan bank of the Hudson River, a small lighthouse--made of steel and painted bright red--proudly protects boats with his faithful beam. One day a great expanse of gray steel, which also shines a bright light into the fog and darkness, is built over it. The little red lighthouse feels insignificant and useless in comparison but soon learns that . .Categorized as:
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![Cavalerii florii de cireș by Constantin Chiriță]()
Cavalerii florii de cireș by Constantin Chiriță
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNiciun roman pentru copii și tineret nu se poate compara, la noi, ca audiență și ca forță de fascinație, cu Cireșarii. Cireșarii sunt personajebine alese și atent construite de către părintele lor. Se știe, de altfel, că Victor, Lucia și Tic au fost creați prin asemănare cu cei trei copii ai autorului...Categorized as:
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![Haunted Falls by Ken Farmer, Buck Stienke]()
Haunted Falls by Ken Farmer, Buck Stienke
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIf you are a fan of L'Amour, Kelton, Burroughs and Grey, you'll love Haunted Falls - the much awaited sequel to the best selling The Nations as it brings to life the American frontier! US Deputy Marshals, under Judge Issac Parker, The Hanging Judge, patrol the Indian Nations—the most dangerous place in the world in the late 19th century...Categorized as:
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![The Story About Ping by Marjorie Flack]()
The Story About Ping by Marjorie Flack
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsPing was an adventurous duck who lived on a beautiful wise-eyed boat on the Yangtze River. He liked his life on the riverboat just and liked his large family and his kind master. He didn't like to be the last in line to board the boat at night, for that unlucky duck got a loud spank...Categorized as:
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![Two Little Savages: Being the Adventures of Two Boys Who Lived as Indians and What They Learned by Ernest Thompson Seton]()
Two Little Savages: Being the Adventures of Two Boys Who Lived as Indians and What They Learned by Ernest Thompson Seton
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process...Categorized as:
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![Yellowstone Deception by Peggy L. Henderson]()
Yellowstone Deception by Peggy L. Henderson
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDan Osborne has one ambition in life. He wants to be a permanent park ranger in Yellowstone National Park, a place where his family roots run deep. He'll do just about anything to make his dream a reality. When a pretty tourist tells him an incredible story about his ancestors, his dreams might be realized sooner than he hoped.Jana Evans' best friend traveled back in time for true love...Categorized as:
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![Blood on the Blade by Griff Hosker]()
Blood on the Blade by Griff Hosker
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsErik and his family are Norse who live on the island of Orkneyjar. Their world is thrown upside down when the King of Norway colludes with their jarl to take over their home. They flee to the land north of Mercia. Hoping for a life free from the tyranny of a king they have to fight Danes and Saxons... -
![Winnetou III by Karl May]()
Winnetou III by Karl May
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSlight signs of...Categorized as:
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![Brother Wind by Sue Harrison]()
Brother Wind by Sue Harrison
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn a time before time at the top of the world -; in a harsh and unforgiving age of ice -; courage will sustain three remarkable souls through trials as bitter as the chill winds of the eternal winter."Claimed by a brutal, despised enemy, Kiin must sacrifice her love for the sake of her tribe and the safety of her children...Categorized as:
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![People of the Raven by W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O'Neal Gear]()
People of the Raven by W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O'Neal Gear
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn People of the Raven, award-winning archaeologists and New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors W...Categorized as:
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![The Seven Chinese Brothers by Margaret Mahy]()
The Seven Chinese Brothers by Margaret Mahy
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA magnificently illustrated and authentic retelling of the classic Chinese folktale of the seven brothers and their supernatural gifts. "Exceptional...Categorized as:
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![Northwest Passage by Kenneth Roberts]()
Northwest Passage by Kenneth Roberts
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis classic novel follows the career of Major Rogers, whose incredible exploits during the French and Indian Wars are told through Langdon Towne, an artist and Harvard student who flees trouble to join the army...Categorized as:
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![Winnetou II by Karl May, Marlies Bugmann]()
Winnetou II by Karl May, Marlies Bugmann
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratings(Out of print). Winnetou and Old Shatterhand meet again deep in Ku Klux Klan territory. Bizarre circumstances lead them and their friend Old Death on a ride through the Mapimi desert; this will be the last journey for one of them. Later, when Old Shatterhand rescues a young boy from a disastrous oil fire in New Venango his heroic deed has far-reaching implications...Categorized as:
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![The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush by Tomie dePaola]()
The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush by Tomie dePaola
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn spring, the hills and meadows of Texas and Wyoming are ablaze with the reds, oranges, and yellows of the Indian Paintbrush. How this striking plant received its name is told in an old Indian legend...Categorized as:
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![Across the Great Sparkling Water (The Peacemaker Series) by Zoe Saadia]()
Across the Great Sparkling Water (The Peacemaker Series) by Zoe Saadia
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTo live in captivity, adopted by the enemies of her people, or to break the law and tradition by running away? That question did not occur to Onheda until after she fled Little Falls on the spur of the moment, against any better judgment. If she was to die in the woods, making her way back to her people, accused, even by them, of breaking the ancient custom, it was still the better choice... -
![Henry Reed's Journey by Keith Robertson]()
Henry Reed's Journey by Keith Robertson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe journal from Henry's trip across the country with the Glass family, telling of the sights they saw and the strange things which resulted when Henry and Midge became involved in innocent and blameless goings-on...Categorized as:
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![The Best of Robert Service by Robert W. Service]()
The Best of Robert Service by Robert W. Service
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis new and revised edition of poems about the men and women of the North features the most loved ballads by Robert Service, and is illustrated with lively art by Marilen Van Nimwegen. While living in Whitehorse, Robert Service wrote The Cremation of Sam McGee, and other well-known poems. He wrote and published into his mid-eighties...Categorized as:
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![Wildwood by Elinor Florence]()
Wildwood by Elinor Florence
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA single mother. An abandoned farmhouse. An epic battle with the northern wilderness.Broke and desperate, Molly Bannister accepts the ironclad condition laid down in her great-aunt’s will: to receive her inheritance, Molly must spend one year in an abandoned, off-the-grid farmhouse in the remote backwoods of northern Alberta... -
![Savage Winter by Constance O'Banyon]()
Savage Winter by Constance O'Banyon
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJoanna found happiness and contentment as Windhawk's wife, until the day she was kidnapped and returned to the white world. Now she must rely on Windhawk's love and devotion to find her and bring her home to his side...Categorized as:
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![Lost Lady of Laramie by Robert Vaughan]()
Lost Lady of Laramie by Robert Vaughan
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA wife abandoned to the savage Sioux...a bold young beauty fights against two worlds of powerful men in search of love and fulfillment... -
![Walk in My Soul by Lucia St. Clair Robson]()
Walk in My Soul by Lucia St. Clair Robson
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTiana was a Cherokee woman. She grew up learning the magic, spells, and nature religion of her people. Before Sam Houston became the father of Texas, he was a young man who had run away from his home in Tennessee to live among the Cherokee. He came to love Tiana. As the Cherokee would say, she walked in his soul. But Sam was a white man, and Tiana, a Cherokee...Categorized as:
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![Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky by Faith Ringgold]()
Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky by Faith Ringgold
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIllus. in full color. Cassie, who flew above New York in Tar Beach, soars into the sky once more. This time, she and her brother Be Be meet a train full of people, and Be Be joins them. But the train departs before Cassie can climb aboard...Categorized as:
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![Chicot the Jester by Alexandre Dumas]()
Chicot the Jester by Alexandre Dumas
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsChicot the Jester was one of King Henry III's trusted advisors and friends, sharp-tongued and cunning and spoke with the king without formalities. Dumas' novel is another great series of plot twists, schemes, and larger than life characters delving into the ill-fated romance of the Dame de Monsoreau and Count de Bussy... -
![Naya Nuki: Shoshone Girl Who Ran by Kenneth Thomasma]()
Naya Nuki: Shoshone Girl Who Ran by Kenneth Thomasma
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAfter being taken prisoner by an enemy tribe, a Shoshoni girl escapes and makes a thousand-mile journey through the wilderness in search of her own people...Categorized as:
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![Encounter by Jane Yolen]()
Encounter by Jane Yolen
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen Christopher Columbus landed on the island of San Salvador in 1492, what he discovered were the Taino Indians. Told from a young Taino boy’s point of view, this is a story of how the boy tried to warn his people against welcoming the strangers, who seemed more interested in golden ornaments than friendship... -
![Linnea in Monet's Garden by Christina Björk, Lena Anderson]()
Linnea in Monet's Garden by Christina Björk, Lena Anderson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLinnea has visited Claude Monet's garden! In Paris, she got to see many of his actual paintings. Now she understands what it means for a painter to be called an Impressionist. This innovative art book for children contains full-color photos of many of Monet's famous paintings...Categorized as:
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![Winnetou by Karl May]()
Winnetou by Karl May
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMore copies of this German tale of the American West have been printed than any other novel in German publishing history. This lively English translation of the daring adventures of Old Shatterhand and the Apache Chief Winnetou puts the best-known work by Karl May 1842-1912 into the hands of an American audience for the first time in paperback...Categorized as:
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![Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden]()
Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA haunting novel about identity, love, and loss by the author of Three Day RoadWill Bird is a legendary Cree bush pilot, now lying in a coma in a hospital in his hometown of Moose Factory, Ontario. His niece Annie Bird, beautiful and self-reliant, has returned from her own perilous journey to sit beside his bed...Categorized as:
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![Storm Boy by Paul Owen Lewis]()
Storm Boy by Paul Owen Lewis
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter a violent seastorm, a Haida prince washes ashore in the supernatural realm of the strange and colossal killer whale people. There his spiritual journey begins. Powerful illustrations make stunning use of northwest coast Native American motifs to create a compelling atmosphere of mystery and displacement...Categorized as:
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![Stories for Children by Isaac Bashevis Singer]()
Stories for Children by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThirty-six stories by the Nobel Prize winner, including some of his most famous such as "Zlateh the Goat," "Mazel and Shlimazel," and "The Fools of Chelm and the Stupid Carp."Stories for Children is a 1984 New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year... -
![Time Beyond Beginning by William Sarabande]()
Time Beyond Beginning by William Sarabande
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDark forces are at work within the realms of earth and sky, and a savage new dance of life and death is about to begin....the internationally acclaimed saga of the First Americans continues in this long-awaited novel from bestseller William Sarabande...Categorized as:
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![Face of the Rising Sun by William Sarabande]()
Face of the Rising Sun by William Sarabande
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA warmer sun fills the sky as the great Ice Age is ending and a new and savage epoch descends upon the land. Warakan, son of war chiefs and spirit masters, wanders alone in the primeval forest, searching for the mysterious great white mammoth and the totemic power it can give him...Categorized as:
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![Run with the Wind by Tom McCaughren]()
Run with the Wind by Tom McCaughren
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Don't forget,' said the old fox, "If danger threatens, run with the wind."In the Land of Sinna, Black Tip, Vickey, Old Sage Brush, Fang and the rest of the foxes who live around Beech Paw are in trouble. The fur companies are hunting them almost to extinction. The foxes have no choice but to set out in search of the secret of survival...Categorized as:
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![Shades by Marguerite Poland]()
Shades by Marguerite Poland
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSt Matthias Mission 1902: 'There are men who know that when you are finished with this war of yours and have raised your flag to the glory of your Empire - the one that we, as black men, are supposed to revere for having bestowed on us education, faith, prosperity and all the other high-sounding gifts - that you will sell us out - perhaps against the advance of metaphorical cattle - and say it... -
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![The Bears of Blue River by Charles Major]()
The Bears of Blue River by Charles Major
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLittle Balser lives with his parents, a younger brother, and a baby sister in a cozy log cabin on the bank of the Big Blue River. Although only thirteen or fourteen years old, he is quite familiar with the dangers and rigors of frontier life...Categorized as:
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![Savage Bliss by Cassie Edwards]()
Savage Bliss by Cassie Edwards
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEntranced by her beloved and virile Gray Wing, Amelia is torn away by her family from her proud and magnificent Susquamish chief and taken to a an exotic shore, far from his touch but her hidden longings cannot be denied when he claims her as his forever. Reissue...Categorized as:
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![Island of Shattered Dreams by Chantal T. Spitz]()
Island of Shattered Dreams by Chantal T. Spitz
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFinally in English, Island of Shattered Dreams is the first ever novel by an indigenous Tahitian writer. In a lyrical and immensely moving style, this book combines a family saga and a doomed love story, set against the background of French Polynesia in the period leading up to the first nuclear tests...Categorized as:
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![The Rigel Affair by L.M. Hedrick]()
The Rigel Affair by L.M. Hedrick
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAbandoned by his part-Cherokee Ma, Charlie Kincaid escapes servitude with his uncle. He jumps a boxcar, accompanied by his schoolmate Roxy, who is escaping troubles of her own. Charlie becomes a US Navy Diver.Mattie Blanc is from a genteel New Zealand family. But when her brother’s friend persuades her to take a ride, it all goes horribly wrong... -
![Stories from Around the World by Heather Amery]()
Stories from Around the World by Heather Amery
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe stories in this book, one from each major country or area of the world, are written in a way that young listeners and young readers will find easy to understand and...Categorized as:
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![Lone Warrior by Bobbi Smith]()
Lone Warrior by Bobbi Smith
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsReady for adventure in the rugged West, Marissa Williams quickly learns how untamed the frontier is when a party of raiding Comanche spirits her away to their village. Placed in a tipi to await her fate, Marissa fears the worst when virile warrior Wind Ryder enters. His green eyes calm her fears, but his searing kiss enflames a passion that sets her shaking all over again...Categorized as:
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