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The Hunger Games Tribute Guide by Emily Seife
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsThe New York Times bestselling Hunger Games is now a major motion picture—and here is the ultimate guide to the all the tributes in the 74th annual Hunger Games!Here is the ultimate guide to the twenty-fourth annual Hunger Games...Categorized as:
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![Dawn's Light by Terri Blackstock]()
Dawn's Light by Terri Blackstock
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn the face of a crisis that sweeps an entire high-tech planet back to the age before electricity, the Brannings face a choice...Categorized as:
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![Days Of Perdition by Dirk Patton]()
Days Of Perdition by Dirk Patton
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsKatie kidnapped by Roach, John must not only save her but also deal with the betrayal of the new President. Days Of Perdition opens with the story of how Katie survived and reached Oklahoma City...Categorized as:
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![True Light by Terri Blackstock, Susie Breck]()
True Light by Terri Blackstock, Susie Breck
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsNow eight months into a global blackout, the residents of Oak Hollow are coping with the deep winter nights. But the struggle to survive can bring out the worst in a person-or a community...Categorized as:
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![Life After Legend by Marie Lu]()
Life After Legend by Marie Lu
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIf you’ve always wanted to know what happened after June and Day’s second first meeting, you can find out in this LEGEND short story.The story was a offered as a bonus for those who preordered Warcross... -
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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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![Second Shift: Order by Hugh Howey]()
Second Shift: Order by Hugh Howey
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsThe incredible second part of Shift, the follow up to bestseller Wool.Donald wasn't supposed to remember. In fact, he was punished for doing just that. But the information he should have forgotten may end up saving his future.Mission Jones is a young man who wants to change the world around him. The rules, the secrets, the lies...Categorized as:
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Rules of Engagement by Jack Hunt
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRules kept them alive, but a single choice could destroy them. After discovering the identity of the mysterious Morning Star, and dividing Camp Olney, the Ford family prepare for an imminent attack from Jude Lawson. However, the real threat might not come from raiders but a powerful and ruthless group intent on making Whitefish home, and its residents captives...Categorized as:
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Third Shift: Pact by Hugh Howey
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe third and final chapter of the Shift saga. This is part 8 of the Silo Series, which began with Wool...Categorized as:
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![First Shift: Legacy by Hugh Howey]()
First Shift: Legacy by Hugh Howey
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsIn 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platform that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma...Categorized as:
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Sacrifice by Thomas A. Watson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBook Three in the Blue Plague series.Mankind is on the verge of extinction. Bruce and the family have continued to pull survivors together after the world succumbed to a virus that altered the genetic make-up of humans. The infected are everywhere, killing everything in their path and what’s most troubling, they’re learning. The family and clan are learning as well... -
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Finally Home by Thomas A. Watson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe country is broken. The borders have been breached. And only Nathan and his prepper compatriots have a chance to put it back together. After months of struggle in a devastated world, the love of his life by his side, he reaches his doomsday redoubt to lead the way...Categorized as:
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![Rules of Darkness by Jack Hunt]()
Rules of Darkness by Jack Hunt
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThey learned the rules, then broke them to survive. One month after a crippling attack on the power grid, the country is still in darkness. As a new wave of violence sweeps the nation, the Ford family are soon drawn into a battle for survival with an unknown menace. Tasked with stopping the threat to protect the small town of Whitefish, Montana, Corey soon discovers a traitor is among them...Categorized as:
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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... -
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![The Truth is Contagious by Emily Goodwin]()
The Truth is Contagious by Emily Goodwin
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Truth is Contagious, the epic conclusion to the award winning Contagium Series!A mysterious virus has infected most of the world’s population. This sickness transforms the living into violent “crazies” and eventually into the flesh-eating undead.Orissa and Hayden have survived in this new harrowing world... -
![All That's Left in the World by Erik J. Brown]()
All That's Left in the World by Erik J. Brown
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWhat If It's Us meets Life as We Knew It in this postapocalyptic, queer YA adventure romance from debut author Erik J. Brown. Perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Alex London.When Andrew stumbles upon Jamie's house, he's injured, starved, and has nothing left to lose. A deadly pathogen has killed off most of the world's population, including everyone both boys have ever loved...Categorized as:
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![Fire in Winter by James N. Cook]()
Fire in Winter by James N. Cook
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratings“Before you embark on a journey of vengeance, dig two graves.” - Confucius. With the dark cloud of civil war gathering on the horizon, Gabriel Garrett struggles to protect his new home and the new life he has just begun. But as he soon learns, a man’s past has a way of catching up with him, and Gabriel has more than his share of dark secrets...Categorized as:
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![Strands of Sorrow by John Ringo]()
Strands of Sorrow by John Ringo
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsA hardened group of survivors fights back against a zombie plague that has brought down civilization.With the world consumed by a devastating plague that drives humans violently insane, what was once a band of desperate survivors bobbing on a dark Atlantic ocean has now become Wolf Squadron, the only hope for the salvation of the human race. Banding together with what remains of the U.S...Categorized as:
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![Transmission by Dirk Patton]()
Transmission by Dirk Patton
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWith the virus mutating, new dangers appear that threaten a bloody end to the struggle for survival. The next wave of infection sweeps across the remaining population. Betrayal threatens the alliance with the GRU. Roach descends deeper into madness, hiding in plain sight as he plots to capture Katie...Categorized as:
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Anarchy Rising by Arthur T. Bradley
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAnarchy Rising is the 2nd book in Dr. Bradley's Survivalist series. It features eleven full-page illustrations. The 3rd book, Judgment Day, is due out in January of 2014After the worst pandemic in mankind's history, anarchy threatens to break apart the United States. The government is years away from providing even the most basic necessities...Categorized as:
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The Book of Riley 1 by Mark Tufo, Sean Runnette
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen the zombie apocalypse strikes without warning one dog will hold the fate of her pack in her paws. This is the story of Riley, an American bulldog. Follow along as she tries to keep her pack safe from a zombie apocalypse. Traveling with her are Ben-Ben the high strung Yorkie, her favorite two-legger Jessie, Jessie's younger brother Zachary, and Riley's arch enemy Patches the cat...Categorized as:
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![Rules of Survival by Jack Hunt]()
Rules of Survival by Jack Hunt
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHe hated the rules until the power grid failed. Tyler Ford is a tour guide, a brother, and the son of a prepper from Whitefish, Montana...Categorized as:
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![Warrior Within by James N. Cook]()
Warrior Within by James N. Cook
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThere are those who do not wish for peace.As the Free Legion declares war on the survivors of Hollow Rock, Gabriel and Eric find themselves drawn ever deeper into the growing conflict. Aided by a fledgling militia, and a small contingent of federal operatives, the two warriors must find a way to defeat an unyielding enemy that threatens to destroy all they have grown to love...Categorized as:
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Shift by Hugh Howey
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsIn 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech outlined the hardware and software platforms that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. In the same year, a TV program aired the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma... -
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![Surviving Home by A. American]()
Surviving Home by A. American
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNo electricity. No running water. No food. No end in sight. If life as you knew it changed in an instant, would you be prepared? In A. American’s first novel, Going Home, readers were introduced to Morgan Carter, the resourceful, tough-as-nails survivalist who embarks on a treacherous 250-mile journey across Florida following the collapse of the nation’s power grid...Categorized as:
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![To Sail a Darkling Sea by John Ringo]()
To Sail a Darkling Sea by John Ringo
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsBOOK II IN THE BLACK TIDE RISING SERIES FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR. Sequel to Under a Graveyard Sky. A family of survivors fights back against a zombie plague that has brought down civilization...Categorized as:
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![Edge of Darkness by Kyla Stone]()
Edge of Darkness by Kyla Stone
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsA world without power, lights, transportation... Liam and Hannah continue their dangerous journey home. But they're hunted by a deadly adversary. Back home, Noah fights to protect both his son and the town of Juniper Springs, though someone is sabotaging his efforts. Preorder the explosive third book in the Edge of Collapse series now...Categorized as:
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![Free Four: Tobias Tells the Divergent Knife-Throwing Scene by Veronica Roth]()
Free Four: Tobias Tells the Divergent Knife-Throwing Scene by Veronica Roth
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 43 ratings#1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth retells a pivotal Divergent scene (chapter 13) from Tobias's point of view. This thirteen-page scene reveals unknown facts and fascinating details about Four's character, his past, his own initiation, and his thoughts about new Dauntless initiate Tris Prior...Categorized as:
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![Yellowstone Inferno by Bobby Akart]()
Yellowstone Inferno by Bobby Akart
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsCivilization exists by geologic consent, subject to change without notice.The land beneath Yellowstone's caldera is hot.Huffing and puffing. Moving, stretching and bulging.Everything has a boiling point. Yellowstone has reached the point of no return...Categorized as:
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![Yellowstone Hellfire by Bobby Akart]()
Yellowstone Hellfire by Bobby Akart
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsYellowstone is controlled by nature. Its beauty is breathless and tranquil. Crystal clear streams flow. Buffalo roam freely...Categorized as:
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![All That Remains by Jack Hunt]()
All That Remains by Jack Hunt
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsOn the brink of chaos, the journey of survival begins. Landon Gray, a skillful “ferry pilot” who delivers planes to customers has one final drop in Alabama before Christmas. But when an EMP causes the plane he’s in to crash on the remote, snow-covered mountains of North Carolina, he’s rescued by, Beth ‘Bluebird’ Sullivan, who claims to have lived off the grid since she was born...Categorized as:
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![The Book Of Riley 2 by Mark Tufo]()
The Book Of Riley 2 by Mark Tufo
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsWhen the zombie apocalypse strikes without warning one dog will hold the fate of her pack in her paws. This is the story of Riley, an American Bulldog, follow along as she tries to keep her pack safe from a zombie apocalypse. Traveling with her are Ben-Ben the high strung Yorkie, her favorite two-legger Jessie, Jessie's younger brother Zachary and Riley's arch-enemy Patches the Cat... -
![Promise Me Once by Paige Weaver]()
Promise Me Once by Paige Weaver
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOnce with him was never enough.I am the girl you dislike. The girl you snub at parties. I am the one who flirts with men and knows no boundaries. I am the one you whisper about. The one who has no rules. I am the one who takes and uses without any regret or excuses.On the outside I am perfect...Categorized as:
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![As We Fall by Jack Hunt]()
As We Fall by Jack Hunt
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen the system fails, will you fight to survive? Sam Wade is on a trip to reconnect with his estranged daughter studying in Boston when the interconnected U.S. infrastructure is crippled by an unknown attacker. As the internet, communication networks and the power grid go down, the world is soon thrown into turmoil and danger...Categorized as:
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![City Escape by Theresa Shaver]()
City Escape by Theresa Shaver
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFive went by Land and Five went by Sea...the rest stayed in the City...this is their story. Mrs. Moore knew that leaving the city was the best chance that she and her students had to survive the EMP pulse but when half of her charges refused to leave she knows she has to stay and try and protect them...Categorized as:
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![Alone by Megan E. Freeman]()
Alone by Megan E. Freeman
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she ends up waking up to a nightmare. She’s alone—left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated and abandoned.With no one to rely on, no power, and no working phone lines or internet access, Maddie slowly learns to survive on her own...Categorized as:
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![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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![Vengeance in the Ashes by William W. Johnstone]()
Vengeance in the Ashes by William W. Johnstone
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"We're bringing law and order back in this nation."--Ben Raines Scourge Upon The Land While ending the rule of slavers, thugs, and the cannibalistic Night People on the Hawaiian Islands, Ben Raines and his rebel army learn of a new threat to America...Categorized as:
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![Falling Stars by Kyla Stone]()
Falling Stars by Kyla Stone
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThey survived the Grand Voyager. They believed they were safe. They were wrong. After a violent ambush, the survivors find themselves thrust into a harsh, unrecognizable world. No communications. No shelter. No food. All they have is each other—a ragtag group of elites and misfits. Amelia faces her deadliest test yet. Guilt-ridden Willow must save her brother at any cost...Categorized as:
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![Endless Flames by Kennedy Layne]()
Endless Flames by Kennedy Layne
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBetrayal and desperation are a dangerous combination in this thrilling continuation of the Surviving Ashes series by USA Today Bestselling Author Kennedy Layne... Berke Daniels has learned to live as if there is no tomorrow, because he knows firsthand it can all be taken away in a moment...Categorized as:
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![Tooth & Nail by Jonathan Maberry]()
Tooth & Nail by Jonathan Maberry
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhat happened to Benny Imura and his friends after they reached Sanctuary—and discovered that it was far from the miracle they had thought it would be? Jonathan Maberry shares a glimpse into a formative moment in an exclusive e-short story that also features Joe Ledger (Patient Zero, Extinction Machine) and Iron Mike Sweeney (The Pine Deep Trilogy)...Categorized as:
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![Where the World Turns Wild by Nicola Penfold]()
Where the World Turns Wild by Nicola Penfold
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJuniper Greene lives in a walled city from which nature has been banished, following the outbreak of a deadly man-made disease many years earlier. While most people seem content to live in such a cage, she and her little brother Bear have always known about their resistance to the disease, and dream of escaping into the wild. To the one place humans have survived outside of cities...Categorized as:
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Breakdown by Bruno Miller
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA Post-Apocalyptic Survival seriesDo you have what it takes to survive? Ben Davis was prepared for disaster. He just didn’t know it would come so soon. He and his teenage son, Joel, are miles deep in the backcountry of the San Juan Mountains when high-altitude nuclear electromagnetic detonations light up the pre-dawn sky...Categorized as:
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War by Thomas A. Watson
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOn one side: the ravenous hordes of the Infected – insanely fast blue zombies who can think, heal and even reproduce. On the other: the vicious, hyper-violent remnants of the U.S. Government, obsessed with the destruction of the real America. Only Bruce and his brave clan of battle-hardened warriors stand to fight for the future in a high-tech military thriller that will thrill and inspire... -
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Decisions by Thomas A. Watson
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the wake of his wife’s death, Bruce took the bloodiest of revenges on the gangs who preyed upon the innocent, all while protecting the farm—now called Base Hope—against a seemingly endless horde of the infected. Returning from the very brink of sanity, Bruce makes the decision to rebuild America. He begins by planning the construction of the city of New Hope...Categorized as:
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![Home by Theresa Shaver]()
Home by Theresa Shaver
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBook 3 in the best selling Stranded Series: due to some adult content this book is rated for 16+ Five went by Land. Five went by Sea. Nine made it Home. Alex and Emily's two groups are finally united after making their way home from Disneyland after the EMP destroyed all electronics. Their reunion begins in a hail of gunfire and only gets worse from there...Categorized as:
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![Dead & Gone by Jonathan Maberry]()
Dead & Gone by Jonathan Maberry
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHow did Riot escape from the Night Church? How did she survive the Rot & Ruin—and the horrors of her own past? There’s only one way to find out....Jonathan Maberry explores the origins of a fascinating new character in an exclusive e-short story set in the land of the Rot & Ruin...Categorized as:
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![Where We Stand (Life After War, #6) by Angela White]()
Where We Stand (Life After War, #6) by Angela White
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe soldiers are coming for Adrian... and everyone else like him. Safe Haven has grown too powerful to be ignored any longer and the surviving government wants these dangerous Descendants secured for their own use or eliminated. And they couldn't have chosen a better time to reemerge. Safe Haven has a new leader and XO, and a thick wall of fresh challenges to overcome...Categorized as:
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![Flight 3430 by Jacqueline Druga]()
Flight 3430 by Jacqueline Druga
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn a small Montana town, it takes four minutes for every man, woman and child to die.It isn’t a virus or biological attack, but rather the beginning of a geological event that triggers a chain reaction across the globe with devastating effects.A repeat of an extinction event that occurred millions of years earlier.There is no stopping it. The only way to survive is to stay ahead of it...Categorized as:
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![Locker Nine by Franklin Horton]()
Locker Nine by Franklin Horton
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGrace Hardwick’s dad is a science fiction writer who makes his living destroying the world. When Grace decides to go away for her first year of college her dad, Robert, can’t help but think of all of the potential ways that society could collapse and strand his daughter hundreds of miles from home. Then, near the end of her freshman year, it happens...Categorized as:
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