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Heck's Journey by John Deacon
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAn epic tale of strength, compassion, and adventure on the western frontier.Orphaned at fourteen, Hector “Heck” Martin heads west, determined to see the far country and make a man of himself.Along the way, he falls in love with bold and beautiful Hope Mullen. But Heck is too young and poor to marry, so he heads west again...Categorized as:
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Redemption by Carolyn Brown
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsGeneva Garner's mind was fixed on survival, her unborn child, escaping out of Savannah, and getting away from the men in the white robes with hoods over their heads. Covered in dirt and smoke from the cellar where she took refuge when the Klan burned her plantation home, she fled on the first stagecoach headed north. She vowed never to trust a man again as long as there was breath in her body...Categorized as:
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![Old Enough To Know Better by Duane Boehm]()
Old Enough To Know Better by Duane Boehm
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen the infamous retired gunman, Gabriel Wolff, took the job of city marshal in Crystal City, Kansas, he succeeded in taming the wild cattle town in short order. The trouble was that he took to the notion that taming the town would end all the evil that lurked there...Categorized as:
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Augusta by Carolyn Brown
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAugusta "Gussie" Dulan is the only Dulan sister to make it all the way to California on the wagon train for brides. Each of her four sisters has taken off along the trail to marry up with a man they fell in love with and now Gussie is hoping to find a man to love here at the end of the trail...Categorized as:
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![Hand Of Fate by Duane Boehm]()
Hand Of Fate by Duane Boehm
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBestselling Western author Duane Boehm has written another western novel with enough humor, heartbreak, love, and outlaws to keep you turning the page.While the ranchers around Trinidad are circling like buzzards in wait for Flannery Vogel to fail, the downtrodden widow with a young daughter refuses to surrender as she struggles to run the ranch that cost her husband his life...Categorized as:
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Mac's Way by Reg Quist
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRaised in poverty in Missouri, Mac is determined to find a better life for himself and the girl who is still a vague vision in his mind. Work on the Santa Fe Trail, and on a Mississippi River boat give him a start, but the years of Civil War leave him broke and footloose in South Texas. There he discovers more cattle running loose than he ever knew existed...Categorized as:
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Sun Over The Mountains by Duane Boehm
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSun Over The Mountains is the latest novel by bestselling Western author Duane Boehm.When Sammy Landon is called home by his dying mother, he returns to his hometown to find that the things he ran from all those years ago are still as much a part of him as they ever were. Central City still holds the same old heartbreak, temptations, and problems that it always had for his troubled life...Categorized as:
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Hand Of The Father by Duane Boehm
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHand Of The Father is the exciting new sequel to the Bestselling Hand Of Fate.With their troubles behind them, Boone and Flannery anxiously await their wedding day, but men from Boone's past appear in Trinidad just days before the marriage is to take place... -
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Hand Of Justice by Duane Boehm
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAs Boone Youngblood anxiously awaits the arrival of his first child, he wants nothing more than to live the quiet life of a rancher. His wild days of serving as a Texas Ranger are now nothing more than a memory...Categorized as:
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Gypsy by Carolyn Brown
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGypsy Rose Dulan just knew there was a secret hidden in the stars. She just didn't expect to fall sleep while searching for that secret. And she sure didn't expect to be awakened by a rude, overbearing, short Irishman by the name of Tavish O'Leary...Categorized as:
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Garnet by Carolyn Brown
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGarnet Diana Dulan swung open the doors of the Silver Dollar Saloon, sucked up a lunch full of cigar smoke, and listened intently to the sounds of men playing poker and the scrape of boots across the wooden floor; she felt right at home. After just minutes inside the doors of the saloon she knew she'd made the right decision to leave her sisters and the wagon train of brides heading to California...Categorized as:
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Chances by Carolyn Brown
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAdelida Broussau took a big chance by saying she was Rueben Hamilton's new bride. But even a rat will stand up and fight when it's cornered and she was surely feeling the pinch of being pushed in the corner. Her sister, Maria, was dead...Categorized as:
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![Frontier Sisters by A.T. Butler]()
Frontier Sisters by A.T. Butler
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOregon has to be better than what she has now.Annie Hudson already has one foot out the door. She has responded to a mail order bride advertisement and now needs to figure out how to get all the way to Oregon.When her older sister Louisa learns about her plans, she enlists the other two Hudson sisters to her side...Categorized as:
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![The Hardest Ride by Gordon L. Rottman]()
The Hardest Ride by Gordon L. Rottman
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBook 1 in the bestselling “Ride” series, which won the Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award for Best Western Novel 2014 Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award Finalist for Best First Western Novel 2014 Western Writers of America Spur Award Finalist for Best Traditional Western Novel for 2013. The Texas-Mexico border, the winter of 1886—The Great Die Up. A raw rift separates Mexicans and Anglos...Categorized as:
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![Fitzpatrick: Cowboy Reluctant by Kathleen Ball]()
Fitzpatrick: Cowboy Reluctant by Kathleen Ball
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings...Categorized as:
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War of the Mountain Man by William W. Johnstone
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRocky Mountain Showdown Big Max Higgins ran the outlaw town of Hell's Creek up in the north Montana Rockies. . .and he decided to include the nearby town of Barlow in his cutthroat operation. What he didn't know was that Smoke Jensen was there with his wife, visiting relatives. It didn't take Smoke long to rout out the lot of them with angry fists and blazing guns. . -
![Two Thousand Grueling Miles by L.J. Martin]()
Two Thousand Grueling Miles by L.J. Martin
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA QUEST – STAY ALIVE, KEEP FAMILY SAFE, AND ABOVE ALL ELSE, KEEP MOVING WEST. Young but determined, the man of the family too soon, Jake Zane comes of age with the help of a massive mute escaped slave. It’s conquer the wilderness, protect your mother and sisters, or die trying...Categorized as:
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![Dreams of Eagles by William W. Johnstone]()
Dreams of Eagles by William W. Johnstone
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the greatest western writers of the 21st century, the classic second adventure in The Eagles, one of the most iconic and beloved sagas of the American frontier, is back in print as legendary Scottish frontiersman Jamie MacCallister blazes through the Wild West.In peace and war, he was the soul of a nation—and the flesh and blood of the American Frontier . .Categorized as:
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![Paradise Sky by Joe R. Lansdale, Brad Sanders]()
Paradise Sky by Joe R. Lansdale, Brad Sanders
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA rollicking novel about Nat Love, an African-American cowboy with a famous nickname: Deadwood Dick.Audio run time: 14 hours, 8 minutesYoung Willie is on the run, having fled his small Texas farm when an infamous local landowner murdered his father. A man named Loving takes him in and trains him in the fine arts of shooting, riding, reading, and gardening...Categorized as:
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![Deadlier Than the Rest by Shirleen Davies]()
Deadlier Than the Rest by Shirleen Davies
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“A passionate, heartwarming story of the iconic MacLarens of Fire Mountain. This captivating historical western romance grabs your attention from the start with an engrossing story encompassing two romances set against the rugged backdrop of the burgeoning western frontier.” Connor MacLaren’s search has already stolen eight years of his life...Categorized as:
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![Harder Than the Rest by Shirleen Davies]()
Harder Than the Rest by Shirleen Davies
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWill MacLaren is a hardened, plain-speaking bounty hunter. His life centers on finding men guilty of horrendous crimes and making sure justice is done. There is no place in his world for the carefree attitude he carried years before when a tragic event destroyed his dreams. Amanda is the daughter of a successful Colorado rancher...Categorized as:
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![Stronger than the Rest by Shirleen Davies]()
Stronger than the Rest by Shirleen Davies
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“Smart, tough, and capable, the MacLarens protect their own no matter the odds. Set against America’s rugged frontier, the stories of the men from Fire Mountain are complex, fast-paced, and a must read for anyone who enjoys non-stop action and romance.” Drew MacLaren is focused and strong...Categorized as:
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![Sophie's Daughters Trilogy by Mary Connealy]()
Sophie's Daughters Trilogy by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSaddle up for sure-fire fun when three sisters meet their opposites in a collection of Old West romances: Alex Buchanan is a wanted man. Beth McClellan is an idealistic nurse. When the two cross paths, will they find enough common ground for a future together? Sally McClellan is a tomboy through-and-through... until she's rescued by Logan McKenzie...Categorized as:
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![King's Crossing by Wyatt Cochrane]()
King's Crossing by Wyatt Cochrane
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWho would you kill to save those you love? Oliver King is not your typical Montana fur trapper. Raised an English gentleman, he believes the world is ordered and mostly good. His pregnant Crow wife’s family is missing and in danger, and King must find and rescue them. US Cavalry Lieutenant Atticus Little wants nothing more than to get back to the belles and the balls of the East... -
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![Rise of the Wolf by Steven A. McKay]()
Rise of the Wolf by Steven A. McKay
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSir Guy of Gisbourne is back! Bent on vengeance against Robin Hood and with a turncoat new lieutenant in tow, an unlikely new hero must stand up for herself..Categorized as:
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Paint the Wind by Cathy Cash Spellman
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBorn Françoise Deverell of the Deverells of Louisiana, everyone calls her Fancy. In one night of blood and tears her past will vanish and she will begin an unforgettable journey of the heart. Too beautiful to be innocent, she will be swept into the relentless rhythms of a nation hungry for adventure. Her fortune is bound to the West...untamed, dangerous, and golden with promise... -
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Last Hope by Duane Boehm
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLast Hope is the highly anticipated third book in the Gideon Johann Western series. It joins #1 bestseller novels on Amazon.com in Western Classics, Last Stand and Last Chance. Love, second chances, new beginnings, and dispensing justice – all set in the town of Last Stand, Colorado in 1880...Categorized as:
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Forty Guns West by William W. Johnstone
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA Friendly Place... During a trip back east for a family reunion, Preacher learns that even the civilized midwest can attract a motherlode of trouble... especially when a gang of local bully boys decides to pick a fight. Now, wealthy landowner Elam Parks lies dead -- and there's a $5,000 reward on the head of the man accused: the first mountain man. ..Categorized as:
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The Fields by Conrad Richter
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsConrad Richter's trilogy of novels The Trees (1940), The Fields (1946), and The Town (1950) trace the transformation of Ohio from wilderness to farmland to the site of modern industrial civilization, all in the lifetime of one character. The Fields continues the saga of the Luckett family that began in The Trees...Categorized as:
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Last Stand by Duane Boehm
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGideon Johann had been gone from Last Stand, Colorado for eighteen years, seeming to have vanished after the Civil War. He is a man running from his conscience and keeping on the move seems to be the only thing preventing it from destroying him...Categorized as:
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Dusty Britches by Marcia Lynn McClure
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAngelina Hunter was seriously minded, and it was a good thing. Her father’s ranch needed a woman who could endure the strenuous work of ranch life. Since her mother’s death, Angelina had been that woman. She had no time for frivolity; no time for a less severe side of life...Categorized as:
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![Once A Marshal by Peter Brandvold]()
Once A Marshal by Peter Brandvold
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe best of life seemed to be in the past for ex-lawman Ben Stillman. Then the past came looking for him... Up on the Hi-Line, ranchers are being rustled out of their livelihoods...and their lives. The son of an old friend suspects that these rustlers have murdered his father, and the law is too crooked to get any straight answers... -
![The Sackett Brand by Louis L'Amour]()
The Sackett Brand by Louis L'Amour
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsForty gunslingers from the Lazy A have got Tell Sackett cornered under the Mogollon Rim. They're fixing to hang him if they can capture him alive, fill him extra full of lead if they can't. But the Sacketts don't cotton to that kind of treatment. Hunt one Sackett and you hunt 'em all. So they're riding in from all over—mountain Sacketts, outlaws, cattlemen, bankers and the rest...Categorized as:
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![Blood Bond by William W. Johnstone]()
Blood Bond by William W. Johnstone
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThorndike Press Western Series titles are selected with the classic Western fan in mind, drawn from the work of the acknowledged masters of Western fiction and some contemporary authors writing in the traditional Western style. Also included are anthologies and collections of short works by favorite authors.Actual Large Print covers may be different from those shown...Categorized as:
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![Smiling Country by Elmer Kelton]()
Smiling Country by Elmer Kelton
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHewey Calloway, the footloose cowboy of The Good Old Boys, is trying to adjust to the trappings of modern life springing up around him in the Smiling Country of West Texas in 1910--all the while regretting his decision for years earlier to run away from the only woman he ever loved...Categorized as:
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![A Colorado Christmas by William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone]()
A Colorado Christmas by William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTHE GREATEST WESTERN WRITERS OF THE 21ST CENTURY At the Sugarloaf Ranch, Smoke and Sally Jensen prepare to welcome Preacher home for the holidays—unaware that their friend is trailed by a storm full of trouble. On a mission of vengeance, an old trapper is rescued by Ace and Chance Jensen from ruthless outlaws—and wanted by a driven bounty hunter named Luke Jensen...Categorized as:
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![Big Beautiful Mail Order Bride And Her Lost Man (A Western Historical Romance Book) by Florence Linnington]()
Big Beautiful Mail Order Bride And Her Lost Man (A Western Historical Romance Book) by Florence Linnington
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings...Categorized as:
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![Showdown at Dead End Canyon by Robert Vaughan]()
Showdown at Dead End Canyon by Robert Vaughan
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere's no peace for Mason Hawke from the ghosts of his past. A drifter and a loner, he's not looking for trouble when he rides into Wyoming Territory –– but it's waiting for him nonetheless. Coming to the rescue of a wealthy landowner's daughter who was kidnapped by a pair of inept outlaws, Hawke finds himself an unlikely hero in a town called Green River...Categorized as:
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![Massacre Canyon by William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone]()
Massacre Canyon by William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Greatest Western Writer Of The 21st Century Two outlaw brothers have been leaving a blood-trail on their way to infamy on the western frontier. Until bounty hunter Luke Jensen catches one of the black-hearted Kroll brothers away from his gang. But while Luke is trying to get Mordecai Kroll from jail to justice, he's ambushed by the Kroll gang and taken prisoner... -
![A Texas Hill Country Christmas by William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone]()
A Texas Hill Country Christmas by William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“This rollicking Western is full of gunfights, outlaws, and an unforgettable holiday...Categorized as:
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![Violence of the Mountain Man by William W. Johnstone]()
Violence of the Mountain Man by William W. Johnstone
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDEAL WITH THE DEVILSmoke Jensen has seen the worst that men can do on the lawless frontier. But even the mountain man is not prepared for the outlaw band that strikes Smoke's ranch, kidnapping Sally and the daughter of Smoke's neighbor. Now, the women are gone and a ranch hand and his young daughter are dead. AND PAY THE PRICE IN BLOOD.. -
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Blood on the Verde River by Dusty Richards
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Dusty Richards writes. . .with the flavor of the real West." --Elmer Kelton"Dusty Richards is the embodiment of the old west. He brings it to life so realistically, you can almost feel the bullets whizzing past your face." --Storyteller Magazine Never Fight A Man. . . 600 miles from a railroad head in Texas, Chet Byrnes and a handful of cowboys set out to build a new life on the Arizona frontier...Categorized as:
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![Oregon Dreams: 10-Book Box Set of Sweet, Clean, Mail Order Bride Western Historical Romance by Montana Ross]()
Oregon Dreams: 10-Book Box Set of Sweet, Clean, Mail Order Bride Western Historical Romance by Montana Ross
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![Lawless Love by Rosanne Bittner]()
Lawless Love by Rosanne Bittner
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA man ruled by his gun meets a woman led by her heart in a dazzling western historical romance from the bestselling author of Shameless. When Moss Tucker smells danger, he shoots it. When he needs shelter, he grabs it. And when he wants a woman’s touch, he buys it...Categorized as:
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Teton Sunset by Peggy L. Henderson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBook 3 in the Teton Romance Trilogy Life for Lucas Walker is a constant adventure, a daily game to be won in the vast Teton wilderness. Facing every challenge head-on, he values the freedom to go where he wants, when he wants, and without attachments to any one person. She is known to the native people of the land as Ghost Woman... -
![The Lawless Land by Boyd Morrison]()
The Lawless Land by Boyd Morrison
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratings'A rollicking adventure [with] the inventive twists and turns of a satisfyingly bustling plot.' New York Times 'Fantastic... Gerard Fox could be Jack Reacher's ancestor, 700 years ago. Highly recommended!' Lee ChildFirst in a fast-paced historical adventure series from New York Times bestselling author Boyd Morrison and expert medievalist Beth Morrison.Live by the sword. Die for the truth...Categorized as:
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Blackfoot Messiah by William W. Johnstone
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the seventh book in his bestselling Preacher series, William W. Johnstone gives his millions of avid fans exactly the kind of gritty, action-packed Western novel they look for from this prolific and hugely popular writer. "A Messiah Shall Lead Them..."... -
![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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Buffalo Gal by Bill Wallace
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt's her mother's crazy idea: a trip to Texas to save the buffalo. Amanda Guthridge just wants to ride horses with her boyfriend Philip and plan her coming-out party...Categorized as:
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![Strong Convictions: An Emmett Strong Western by G.P. Hutchinson]()
Strong Convictions: An Emmett Strong Western by G.P. Hutchinson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCrossing ethnic barriers cost Emmett Strong the life of his young wife, Gabriela. When she was shoved into the path of his bullet during a dispute over their love, it was enough to make him think twice before drawing his pistol ever again. Now, he must overcome that hesitation when outlaw Charlie Blaylock shoots Strong’s brother dead right in front of him...Categorized as:
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