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Falling Through Time: A time travel romance by Nancy Scanlon
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the day the Fates decided he would be the warrior to train and lead a group of time-traveling clansmen, Reilly O’Malley has been certain of everything. He’s gone into every battle, verbal or physical, knowing that he will be victorious... -
![An Enchanted Spring by Nancy Scanlon]()
An Enchanted Spring by Nancy Scanlon
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNancy Scanlon continues the timebending saga she began with The Winter Laird, pulling heroes and villains alike through the portals of time to help save their futures and find their truest loves. A twist of fate has left Aidan MacWilliam, younger brother of a medieval Irish laird, trapped in the future...Categorized as:
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![Once Upon a Summer Night by Nancy Scanlon, Jane Jacobs]()
Once Upon a Summer Night by Nancy Scanlon, Jane Jacobs
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTime, worlds, and hearts collide in this mesmerizing time-travel romance, perfect for fans of Diana Gabaldon.Colin O'Rourke is expanding Celtic Connections, his matchmaking business, to the UK and Ireland. However, its success is threatened before it opens its doors when a prominent UK gossip columnist publishes a slanderous article about his company. The columnist agrees to retract her column.. -
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Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 49 ratingsFor twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future -- to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years...Categorized as:
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![Eclipse of the Sun by Michael D. O'Brien]()
Eclipse of the Sun by Michael D. O'Brien
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this fast-paced, reflective novel, (the third in a trilogy following Strangers and Sojourners and Plague Journal) Michael O'Brien presents the dramatic tale of a family that finds itself in the path of a totalitarian government... -
![Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Rocannon’s World, Planet of Exile, City of Illusions by Ursula K. Le Guin]()
Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Rocannon’s World, Planet of Exile, City of Illusions by Ursula K. Le Guin
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsUrsula K. Le Guin is one of the greatest science fiction writers and many times the winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Her career as a novelist was launched by the three novels contained in Worlds Of Exile And Illusion. These novels, Rocannon's World, Planet Of Exile, and City Of Illusions, are set in the same universe as Le Guin's ground-breaking classic, The Left Hand Of Darkness...Categorized as:
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![The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons]()
The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 68 ratingsOn the world called Hyperion the mysterious Time Tombs are opening and seven pilgrims risk their lives to petition the entity called the Shrike - a creature that may well control the fate of all mankind...Categorized as:
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![Retribution by Randall Ingermanson]()
Retribution by Randall Ingermanson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJerusalem, A.D. 66 . . .The City of God seethes with rage against imperial Rome . . . and, in an act of unspeakable brutality, Rome takes deadly retribution. War looms on the horizon---but one woman already knows the outcome. . . .Transported from the far future, Rivka Meyers has made her home in Jerusalem with her husband and fellow time traveler, Ari Kazan...Categorized as:
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![The Gospel According to Todd by R.A. Williams]()
The Gospel According to Todd by R.A. Williams
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTodd Heller is an arrogant ER physician who stubbornly denies the existence of God. A ministering angel forces him back in time to the harsh, primitive culture of ancient Israel so he can witness the miracles of Jesus with his own eyes. Meticulously researched for historical accuracy, this plot is woven into the gospel account of the final year of Christ’s ministry... -
![Complete Stories by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Dave Eggers]()
Complete Stories by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Dave Eggers
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFeaturing five never-before-published Vonnegut stories!Here for the first time is the complete short fiction of one of the twentieth century’s foremost imaginative geniuses. More than half of Vonnegut’s output was short fiction, and never before has the world had occasion to wrestle with it all together... -
![Rhys by L.L. Muir]()
Rhys by L.L. Muir
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne wrong move and he'll be dead...again.Rhys was never supposed to die on the moor that day, and if the witch is offering him new life, he plans to take it—and run! He doesn't care about the boon he could earn. All he wants is vindication and a long life...Categorized as:
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![James by L.L. Muir]()
James by L.L. Muir
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCockburn Street is a dangerous place, even for a former MI6 agent.James is rarely afraid. He's traveled back to the fifteenth century--not just one, but twice now--and lived to tell the tale. The third trip will be for personal reasons, however, because he believes in his bones the perfect woman for him is back there somewhere, waiting for him... -
![Endymion by Dan Simmons, Guy Abadia]()
Endymion by Dan Simmons, Guy Abadia
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 50 ratingsThe multiple-award-winning SF master returns to the universe that is his greatest success--the world of Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion--to tell a story of love and memory, triumph and terror in a novel even more magnificent than its predecessors.Two hundred and seventy-four years after the fall of the WorldWeb in Fall of Hyperion, Raoul Endymion is sent on a quest...Categorized as:
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![The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 2: We Can Remember it for You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick]()
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 2: We Can Remember it for You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMany thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick's works has continued to mount and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K...Categorized as:
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![Mockingbird by Walter Tevis]()
Mockingbird by Walter Tevis
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMockingbird is a powerful novel of a future world where humans are dying. Those that survive spend their days in a narcotic bliss or choose a quick suicide rather than slow extinction. Humanity's salvation rests with an android who has no desire to live, and a man and a woman who must discover love, hope, and dreams of a world reborn...Categorized as:
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![Dune by Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert]()
Dune by Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 58 ratingsHere is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Muad'Dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family—and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream...Categorized as:
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![The Star Rover by Jack London]()
The Star Rover by Jack London
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThe Star Rover, in the UK published as The Jacket, is a collection of short stories revolves around the concept of reincarnation...Categorized as:
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![Mama Hissa's Mice by Saud Alsanousi]()
Mama Hissa's Mice by Saud Alsanousi
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom the author of The Bamboo Stalk and winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction comes an apocalyptic and caustically funny novel about the power of friendship in a war-torn world...Categorized as:
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![Lady Ever After by Tamara Leigh]()
Lady Ever After by Tamara Leigh
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEver After is a rewrite of UnforgottenFrom the USA Today best-selling author of DREAMSPELL comes LADY EVER AFTER, the second medieval time travel romance in the BEYOND TIME series.THE WARS OF THE ROSES ~ England, 1464. As civil war rages, King Edward IV besieges the northern barons who support the dethroned King Henry VI... -
![Finding You in Time by Bess McBride]()
Finding You in Time by Bess McBride
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsREVISED AND UPDATED (No new content) Book Four of the best-selling Train Through Time series, a historical time travel romance series set in and around Seattle, Spokane, Wenatchee and Montana in the early 1900s. Nathan Carpenter has lost the woman he loves...on a train...to another time. He has lost everything, even himself as he cannot find a way to return to his own time...to 1906...Categorized as:
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![Last Knight by Cynthia Luhrs]()
Last Knight by Cynthia Luhrs
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsStuck in medieval England with no cell service... Christian Thornton keeps losing his betrothed. The ladies have heard a terrible rumor and flee. If that wasn't bad enough, he's facing pestilence and disease, his people are sick, and the last thing he needs is a vexing future girl showing up at Winterforth. Ashley is high-strung, stressed out, and lost without her ever present phone... -
![Under an English Moon by Bess McBride]()
Under an English Moon by Bess McBride
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUnder an English Moon, Book Two of the bestselling Moonlight Wishes in Time series, a historical time travel romance series to England's late Georgian/Regency era. Lord Reginald Hamilton pines for a love of his own. The woman he fancied himself in love with has married another, and Reggie finds himself restless, at loose ends, and wondering where he will find his destiny...Categorized as:
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![Severed Knot by Cryssa Bazos]()
Severed Knot by Cryssa Bazos
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBarbados 1652. In the aftermath of the English Civil War, the vanquished are uprooted and scattered to the ends of the earth. When marauding English soldiers descend on Mairead O’Coneill’s family farm, she is sold into indentured servitude...Categorized as:
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![A Fall in Time by Bess McBride]()
A Fall in Time by Bess McBride
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsREVISED AND UPDATED (No new content) Book Five of the bestselling Train Through Time series, a historical time travel romance series set in and around Seattle, Spokane, Wenatchee and Montana in the early 1900s. Sara Reed, a twenty-first century college student in Spokane, Washington, hears the train’s whistle every day as it passes by her apartment...Categorized as:
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![Secrets of Time by Zoe Matthews, Jade Jenson]()
Secrets of Time by Zoe Matthews, Jade Jenson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings1902 Keegan has finally accomplished his lifelong goal- he is a doctor. He was able to work in an office, and he loves his job. However, when he is offered an even better position, he isn’t sure why he doesn’t want to accept it. He can’t explain why.. until he meets Megan Conway. The only problem is Megan is from 2015. 2015 Megan has had dreams of the same man her entire life... -
![Premonition by Randall Ingermanson]()
Premonition by Randall Ingermanson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn extraordinary stone box was recently discovered in Jerusalem--the bone-box of James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus. This is his story ... Rome. James, leader of the Jewish Christian community, has an enemy in high places. And two very strange friends ... first-century Jerusalem by a physics experiment gone horribly wrong. his Jewish heritage--and with a man named Jesus he was raised to hate...Categorized as:
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![Rapsodie der eenzaamheid by Agnar Mykle, Maurice Michael]()
Rapsodie der eenzaamheid by Agnar Mykle, Maurice Michael
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDutch translation of Lasso rundt fru Luna...Categorized as:
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![Matthew's Story: From Sinner to Saint by Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins]()
Matthew's Story: From Sinner to Saint by Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe new novel in the Jesus Chronicles, the bestselling series from the authors of the Left Behind novels. Levi was studying to be a priest, but when an unspeakable tragedy befalls his family, he turns his back on his faith and decides to pursue riches and luxury instead. He becomes a tax collector, disappointing his family and reviled by Jews and Romans alike... -
![Highland Intrigue by Ceci Giltenan]()
Highland Intrigue by Ceci Giltenan
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLady Gillian MacLennan's clan needs a leader, but the last person on earth she wants as their laird is Fingal Maclan. She can neither forgive nor forget that his mother killed her father, and, by doing so, created Clan MacLennan’s current desperate circumstances... -
![Dreamspell by Tamara Leigh]()
Dreamspell by Tamara Leigh
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn alternate cover for this ASIN can be found here.A TIME TO LIVE. A TIME TO DIE. A TIME TO DREAM.Sleep disorders specialist Kennedy Plain has been diagnosed with a fatal brain tumor. When her research subject dies after trying to convince her he has achieved dream-induced time travel and her study is shelved, she enlists herself as a subject to complete her research... -
![The Tragedy of Man: Dramatic Poem by Imre Madách]()
The Tragedy of Man: Dramatic Poem by Imre Madách
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible... -
![Clothar The Frank: A Dream of Eagles Book VI, The Golden Eagle Volume I by Jack Whyte]()
Clothar The Frank: A Dream of Eagles Book VI, The Golden Eagle Volume I by Jack Whyte
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn Clothar the Frank, the first novel of a two-book miniseries called The Golden Eagle, Jack Whyte invites us to explore his cast of fascinating characters during the reign and tragic downfall of the Riothamus Arthur, High King of All Britain. From Gaul, now the land of the Franks, comes young Clothar, the son of one king and the nephew of another...Categorized as:
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![Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny]()
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 45 ratingsEarth is long since dead. On a colony planet, a band of men has gained control of technology, made themselves immortal, and now rule their world as the gods of the Hindu pantheon. Only one dares oppose them: he who was once Siddhartha and is now Mahasamatman. Binder of Demons, Lord of Light...Categorized as:
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![Hainish Novels & Stories, Vol. 1: Rocannon’s World / Planet of Exile / City of Illusions / The Left Hand of Darkness / The Dispossessed / Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin]()
Hainish Novels & Stories, Vol. 1: Rocannon’s World / Planet of Exile / City of Illusions / The Left Hand of Darkness / The Dispossessed / Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBeginning in the 1960s and 70s, Ursula K. Le Guin redrew the map of modern science fiction...Categorized as:
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![The Complete Science Fiction Treasury of H.G. Wells by H.G. Wells]()
The Complete Science Fiction Treasury of H.G. Wells by H.G. Wells
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsSeven of Well's greatest, most startling forays into the realm of the fantastic. Includes The Time Machine, Island of Dr. Moreau, Invisible Man, War of the Worlds, First Men in the Moon, Food of the Gods, and In the Days of the Comet...Categorized as:
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![Gaspar by L.L. Muir]()
Gaspar by L.L. Muir
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA trouble-making Scottish lass catches the attention of the most dangerous man in Venice.(Previously published as Collecting Isobelle.)Isobelle's soft heart and penchant for trouble has delivered her to the shores of Venice, and to the attention of God's Dragon, a man whose responsibilities include trying witches... -
![Counter Clockwise by Elle Strauss]()
Counter Clockwise by Elle Strauss
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHigh school senior Casey Donovan is in trouble. Again. If only she had trusted in Nate’s loyalty when he traveled to Spain with his college basketball team – despite the accompaniment of the cheerleading squad and Fiona the Floozy who’d made it super clear she wanted Nate for herself...Categorized as:
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![Clockwork Crazy by Elle Strauss]()
Clockwork Crazy by Elle Strauss
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe continuation of the story arc started in Counter Clockwise ( Clockwise #5)The stress created by Casey’s recent split from Nate causes her to trip back in time in a haphazard manner, and not always to the same time! Sometimes she’s in 1929 Boston getting more entangled than ever with the mishaps of her new and not-so-helpful friends, and at other times she’s back in 1775 trying to make sure...Categorized as:
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![First Knight by Cynthia Luhrs]()
First Knight by Cynthia Luhrs
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTumble through time… A dig on the border of Scotland sends a scholarly damsel slipping through time to medieval England. Jennifer Wilson always knew she’d been born in the wrong century. Happy digging in the dirt, caring not for modern-life or appearances, she quickly finds out medieval England isn’t as romantic as she’d dreamed...Categorized as:
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![Forever Beside You in Time by Bess McBride]()
Forever Beside You in Time by Bess McBride
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAurora Morrison, small town librarian, scrimped and saved for a tour of Britain. Immediately upon arrival, she heads to Kensington Gardens for a picnic lunch under the shade of a maple tree bearing the initials of some long-forgotten lovers. Exhausted from the long flight to London, she falls asleep and wakes to find herself somehow thrust back in time to 1902...Categorized as:
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![The Highlander's Stronghold by Bess McBride]()
The Highlander's Stronghold by Bess McBride
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA new Scottish time travel romance series from Bess McBride! Ann Borodell, a graduate student scrambling to find an archaeological dig to finish her degree, lands a project in the remote Western Isles of Scotland. With a concentration in Colonial American studies, she knows almost nothing about Scottish history and the sixteenth century island stronghold of the Morrison clan... -
![Winds of Time by Zoe Matthews, Jade Jenson]()
Winds of Time by Zoe Matthews, Jade Jenson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBridget wants a family, more than she ever has before.. Now that her two older brothers are married- to women from the year 2006, no less- and her younger brother spends the majority of the year in Denver at school, Bridget decides it is time for her to find love herself. But she also wants something she has never had a chance to have before- an adventure... -
![Together Forever Across Time by Bess McBride]()
Together Forever Across Time by Bess McBride
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsStephen Sadler reluctantly attends the Seattle wedding of Robert Chamberlain to Ellie Standish, the woman who had captured his interest. There he says goodbye to the woman he thought he had fallen for...Categorized as:
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![The Golden Cross by Angela Elwell Hunt]()
The Golden Cross by Angela Elwell Hunt
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTHE HEIRS OF CAHIRA O’CONNOR SERIESBOOK TWOA line of women who would be warriors for truth“It is said that as Cahira, daughter of the great Irish king Rory O’Connor, lay dying of a wound from a Norman blade, she lifted her hand toward heaven and beseeched God that others would follow after her, bright stars who would break forth from the courses to which they are bound and restore right in this... -
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![The Reeve's Tale by Margaret Frazer]()
The Reeve's Tale by Margaret Frazer
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAs illness and murder cast a cloud over Prior Byfield, fear and suspicion reign -- and Frevisse's keen deductions lead her closer to the disturbing truth... -
![Around the World in Eighty Days & Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne]()
Around the World in Eighty Days & Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles...Categorized as:
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![Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson]()
Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMany people are not aware of a startling recommendation that was made by our current Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI. He was sharply critical of the call for a "New World Order" made by President George H. W. Bush...Categorized as:
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![Lake of the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe]()
Lake of the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsWhen the gods of the Whorl speak to him about the future, clergyman Patera Silk begins a quest to save his church and his people, the citizens of a giant spaceship on a generations-old voyage to a forgotten destiny. Reprint. NYT... -
![Stories Volume 1 by Ray Bradbury]()
Stories Volume 1 by Ray Bradbury
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOne hundred classic stories from the celebrated author of Fahrenheit 451. In this, the first volume of Ray Bradbury's short stories, some of the author's finest works are published together, among them 'Homecoming', 'Veldt', 'A Sound of Thunder' and 'The Long Rain'...Categorized as:
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![The Lehman Trilogy: A Novel by Stefano Massini]()
The Lehman Trilogy: A Novel by Stefano Massini
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMagnificent in scope, internationally lauded, and transcendent, the novel in verse that inspired the sensational West End and Off-Broadway play of the same name. The Lehman Trilogy follows the epic rise and fall of three generations of that infamous family and through them tells the story of American ambition and hubris...Categorized as:
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