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The Girl Who Escaped from Auschwitz by Ellie Midwood
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratings“We must die standing up for something.”“And what are we standing up for?”“The most important thing there is. Freedom.”Millions of people walked through Auschwitz’s gates, but she was the first woman who escaped. This powerful novel tells the inspiring true story of Mala Zimetbaum, whose heroism will never be forgotten, and whose fate altered the course of history…Nobody leaves Auschwitz alive... -
![A Man by Oriana Fallaci]()
A Man by Oriana Fallaci
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"What's the point anyway — Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives." (quote from the book)The book is a pseudo-biography about Alexandros Panagoulis written in the form of a novel. Fallaci had an intense romantic relationship with Panagoulis... -
![To Wake the Giant: A Novel of Pearl Harbor by Jeff Shaara]()
To Wake the Giant: A Novel of Pearl Harbor by Jeff Shaara
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe New York Times bestselling master of military historical fiction tells the story of Pearl Harbor as only he can in the first novel of a gripping new series set in World War II’s Pacific theater. In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt watches uneasily as the world heads rapidly down a dangerous path...Categorized as:
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![Hepburn's Necklace: A Novel by Jan Moran]()
Hepburn's Necklace: A Novel by Jan Moran
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA vintage necklace. A long-hidden secret. A second chance for love. From a USA Today Bestselling Author. When costume designer Ariana Ricci leaves her groom at the altar, she seeks solace at the Palm Springs home of her great-aunt, a Texas-born Hollywood legend who began her career as an extra on the film Roman Holiday... -
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![Kinfolk by Pearl S. Buck]()
Kinfolk by Pearl S. Buck
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsKinfolk is the story of a Chinese family. Dr. Liang moves to America in search of a better life, but his children long to return to China. Each responds to their new life in China differently, providing rich insight into the struggles between Eastern and Western culture, and the differences between generations...Categorized as:
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![No Less Than Victory: A Novel of World War II by Jeff Shaara]()
No Less Than Victory: A Novel of World War II by Jeff Shaara
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAfter the success at Normandy, the Allied commanders are confident that the war in Europe will soon be over. But in December 1944, in the Ardennes Forest, the Germans launch a ruthless counteroffensive that begins the Battle of the Bulge. The Führer will spare nothing to preserve his twisted vision of a “Thousand Year Reich,” but stout American resistance defeats the German thrust...Categorized as:
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![A Mind at Peace by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar]()
A Mind at Peace by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLibrarian note: Alternate cover edition of: 9780976395096Set on the eve of World War II, A Mind at Peace captures the anxieties of a Turkish family facing the difficult reality entrenched in the early republic, founded on the ashes of the Ottoman Empire in 1923... -
![Palestine's Children: Returning to Haifa & Other Stories by Ghassan Kanafani]()
Palestine's Children: Returning to Haifa & Other Stories by Ghassan Kanafani
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPolitics and the novel, Ghassan Kanafani once said, are an indivisible case. Fadl al-Naqib has reflected that Kanafani wrote the Palestinian story, then he was written by it. His narratives offer entry into the Palestinian experience of the conflict that has anguished the people of the Middle East for more than a century...Categorized as:
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![A Division of the Spoils by Paul Scott, Richard Brown]()
A Division of the Spoils by Paul Scott, Richard Brown
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAgainst the backdrop of the violent partition of India and Pakistan, this volume sketches one last bittersweet romance, revealing the divided loyalties of the British as they flee, retreat from, or cling to India... -
![The Lake Pagoda by Ann Bennett]()
The Lake Pagoda by Ann Bennett
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom Ann Bennett, bestselling author of The Orphan House, comes The Lake Pagoda, a captivating story of love and loss set in war-torn Indochina.Perfect for fans of Dinah Jeffries and Victoria Hislop.Indochina 1945: Arielle, who is half-French, half-Vietnamese, is working as a secretary for the French colonial government when the Japanese storm Hanoi... -
![The Most Precious of Cargoes by Jean-Claude Grumberg]()
The Most Precious of Cargoes by Jean-Claude Grumberg
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSet during the height of World War II, a powerful and unsettling tale about a woodcutter and his wife, who finds a mysterious parcel thrown from a passing train.Once upon a time in an enormous forest lived a woodcutter and his wife. The woodcutter is very poor and a war rages around them, making it difficult for them to put food on the table. Yet every night, his wife prays for a child...Categorized as:
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![1921: The Great Novel of the Irish Civil War by Morgan Llywelyn]()
1921: The Great Novel of the Irish Civil War by Morgan Llywelyn
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Irish fight for independence is one of the most captivating tales of the twentieth century. Morgan Llywelyn, the acclaimed historical writer of books like Lion of Ireland, Bard and The Horse Goddess , is the writer born to bring this epic battle to life...Categorized as:
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![Missing Soluch by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi]()
Missing Soluch by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsPerhaps the most important work in modern Iranian literature, this starkly beautiful novel examines the trials of an impoverished woman and her children living in a remote village in Iran, after the unexplained disappearance of her husband, Soluch.Lyrical yet unsparing, the novel examines her life as she contends with the political corruption, authoritarianism, and poverty of the village... -
![The Uprising: Three Young Women Caught in the Fire That Changed America by Margaret Peterson Haddix, Suzanne Toren]()
The Uprising: Three Young Women Caught in the Fire That Changed America by Margaret Peterson Haddix, Suzanne Toren
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsAround her the workers were screaming out prayers and curses.... She herself was sobbing tearlessly....Her only prayer was still, "I don't want to die." Oh, please, God, don't let me die, she thought. I've never even had a chance to live.Bella, newly arrived in New York from Italy, gets a job at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory...Categorized as:
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![Almonds and Raisins by Maisie Mosco]()
Almonds and Raisins by Maisie Mosco
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe first in a trilogy about a Jewish family who flee Eastern Europe in the early 20th century and settle in Manchester, England. In the cold world of Manchester in 1905 the family Sandberg found the good things of life scarce and the hardships bitter as the chill northern winds. Sarah, the mother. A born survivor stranded in a land of strangers by the vicious tides of persecution... -
![This Is How It Begins by Joan Dempsey]()
This Is How It Begins by Joan Dempsey
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“In a time when religious liberty is on trial, This Is How It Begins is an extraordinarily pertinent novel dripping in suspense and powerful scenes of political discourse . . . a must read . . .” —Foreword (starred review)A woman bearing a thorny secret. A man fighting for religious freedom. A battle neither saw coming. Massachusetts, 2009. Ludka Zeilonka is relishing her emeritus status... -
![Once an Heiress (Gilded Promises) by Renee Ryan]()
Once an Heiress (Gilded Promises) by Renee Ryan
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBoston society darling Gigi Wentworth leaves behind everything she holds dear for the sake of love—only to learn that the man with whom she’d planned to elope is nothing but a thieving scoundrel. Abandoned in New York City and saddled with debt, Gigi must sell a prized family heirloom, but even that sacrifice isn't enough to get her home... -
![1972: A Novel of Ireland's Unfinished Revolution by Morgan Llywelyn]()
1972: A Novel of Ireland's Unfinished Revolution by Morgan Llywelyn
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Irish Century series is the narrative of the epic struggle of the Irish people for independence through the tumultuous twentieth century. Morgan Llywelyn's magisterial multi-novel chronicle of that story began with 1916, continued in 1921 and 1949, and now continues with 1972... -
![The 13th Valley by John M. Del Vecchio]()
The 13th Valley by John M. Del Vecchio
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPraise for "The 13th Valley," a Finalist for the American Book Award: "There have been a number of excellent books about Vietnam...but none has managed to communicate in such detail the day-to-day pain, discomfort, frustration and exhilaration of the American military experience in Vietnam." --Joe Klein, "The New York Times Book Review"" "The" novel about the Vietnam War..Categorized as:
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![News from the Empire by Fernando del Paso]()
News from the Empire by Fernando del Paso
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOne of the acknowledged masterpieces of Mexican literature, Fernando del Paso's News from the Empire is a powerful and encyclopedic novel of the tragic lives of Maximilian and his wife, Carlota, the short-lived Emperor and Empress of Mexico...Categorized as:
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![The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor]()
The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsO'Connor's 1956 account of big-city politics, inspired by the career of longtime Boston Mayor James M. Curley, portrays its Irish-American political boss as a demagogue and a rogue who nonetheless deeply understands his constituents. The book was later made into a John Ford film staring Spencer Tracy... -
![The Engineer of Human Souls by Josef Škvorecký]()
The Engineer of Human Souls by Josef Škvorecký
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Engineer of Human Souls is a labyrinthine comic novel that investigates the journey and plight of novelist Danny Smiricky, a Czech immigrant to Canada. As the novel begins, he is a professor of American literature at a college in Toronto... -
![Where the Air Is Clear by Carlos Fuentes]()
Where the Air Is Clear by Carlos Fuentes
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"Where the Air Is Clear," Carlos Fuentes's first novel, is an unsparing portrayal of Mexico City's upper class. Departing from a traditional linear narrative, Fuentes overlays Mexican myths onto contemporary settings, showing that even the rich and powerful must succumb to the indomitable spirit of Mexico, which undermines all institutions and shapes all destinies... -
![The Zone: A Prison Camp Guard's Story by Sergei Dovlatov]()
The Zone: A Prison Camp Guard's Story by Sergei Dovlatov
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Zone is a satirical novelization of Dovlatov’s time as a prison guard for the Soviet Army in the early 1960s. Snapshots of the prison are juxtaposed with the narrator’s letters to Igor Markovich of Hermitage Press in which he urges Igor to publish the very book we’re reading. As Igor receives portions of the prison camp manuscript, so too does the reader... -
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![American Princess: A Novel of First Daughter Alice Roosevelt by Stephanie Marie Thornton, Stephanie Marie Thornton]()
American Princess: A Novel of First Daughter Alice Roosevelt by Stephanie Marie Thornton, Stephanie Marie Thornton
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA sweeping novel from renowned author Stephanie Marie Thornton... Alice may be the president's daughter, but she's nobody's darling. As bold as her signature color Alice Blue, the gum-chewing, cigarette-smoking, poker-playing First Daughter discovers that the only way for a woman to stand out in Washington is to make waves--oceans of them... -
![The Pact by Roberta Kagan]()
The Pact by Roberta Kagan
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAustria 1929When three little girls—Anna, Bernie, and Elica—make a pact to be blood sisters for life, they believe nothing can come between them.Anna is from an affluent Jewish family, while Bernie and Elica are from poor Austrian families who barely make ends meet. As they get older, their social differences become all too real... -
![Ardh Al Burtuqal Al Hazin: Short Stories in Arabic by غسان كنفاني, Ghassan Kanafani]()
Ardh Al Burtuqal Al Hazin: Short Stories in Arabic by غسان كنفاني, Ghassan Kanafani
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsGhassan Kanafani is an Arab Palestinian writer and fighter. In this literal Arab genri several short stories are included. These stories were written in the 1960's at Kuwait and Bairut-Lebanon, and reflect nostalgia for the home land, Palestine... -
![Guernica by Dave Boling]()
Guernica by Dave Boling
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAn extraordinary epic of love, family and war set in the Basque town of Guernica before, during, and after its destruction by the German Luftwaffe during the Spanish Civil War... -
![Zayni Barakat by Gamal al-Ghitani, جمال الغيطاني]()
Zayni Barakat by Gamal al-Ghitani, جمال الغيطاني
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"In the course of my long travels I have never seen a city so devastated. After a long time I ventured out into the streets. Death, cold and heavy, hung in the air. Walls have no value here, doors have been eliminated. No one is certain that they will see another day...Categorized as:
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![November of the Heart by LaVyrle Spencer]()
November of the Heart by LaVyrle Spencer
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSet at the turn of the century, November of the Heart tells of Lorna Barnett, a young woman from a wealthy Saint Paul family, and Jens Harken, the ambitious dreamer who works in the kitchen of her family’s summer estate. Lorna’s father, Gideon, an avid sailor, is determined to claim victory for his own White Bear Yacht Club in the next summer regatta... -
![Z by Vassilis Vassilikos]()
Z by Vassilis Vassilikos
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA progressive parliamentary deputy is scheduled to appear at a political rally. Meanwhile, local political bosses plot his assassination. Thugs are recruited to disrupt the rally. Rumors begin to spread. But the forces already set in motion are irresistible. Z is the story of a crime, a time, a place, and people transformed by events... -
![A Bright Room Called Day by Tony Kushner]()
A Bright Room Called Day by Tony Kushner
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“One of the things that makes Kushner such a vibrant writer is the way he luxuriates in exuberance and sorrow, emotions that these intense Berliners have in spades. His intellectual characters are tremendously passionate and expressive, so it's hard not to care about what they care about, and what happens to them.” –Washington Post“A juggernaut of a play... -
![A Princess in Berlin by Arthur R.G. Solmssen]()
A Princess in Berlin by Arthur R.G. Solmssen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBerlín, 1922. Reina la confusión en la capital alemana tras la victoria aliada. Recorren las calles, con banderas rojas, las víctimas de la más impresionante inflación de todos los tiempos. Y, tras ellos, las bandas incontroladas de ex-combatientes nacionalistas, que siguen las consignas de un oscuro militar austríaco, Adolf Hitler... -
![For Those Who Dare by John Anthony Miller]()
For Those Who Dare by John Anthony Miller
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEast Berlin, 1961. Kirstin Beck is determined to escape to the West. She watches from her townhouse window as the border with West Berlin is closed, and a barbed wire fence strung through the cemetery behind her house. With a grandmother in West Berlin that needs her, Kirstin knows she has to go.Tony Marino is an American writer living in West Berlin...Categorized as:
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![Burning Cities by Kai Aareleid, Adam Cullen]()
Burning Cities by Kai Aareleid, Adam Cullen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOpening up about her family history, Tiina revisits the first two decades of her life following World War II, in Tartu, Estonia. The city, destroyed by Nazi invasion then rebuilt and re-mapped by the Soviets, is home to many secrets, and little Tiina knows them all, even if she does not know their import...Categorized as:
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![The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena by Elsa Joubert]()
The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena by Elsa Joubert
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsVoted one of the hundred most important books published in Africa during the last century. Winner of the WA Hofmeyr Prize, the CNA Literary Award and the Louis Luyt Prize...Categorized as:
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![The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Johnston]()
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Johnston
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA mystery and a love story spanning five decades, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams is an epic portrait of passion and ambition, set against the beautiful, brutal landscape of Newfoundland...Categorized as:
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![Two Necklaces by Paulette Mahurin]()
Two Necklaces by Paulette Mahurin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the beginning of 1933 after Adolf Hitler is appointed chancellor of Germany, fourteen-year-old Christa Becker of Ravensburg, Germany, attends meetings of the League of German Girls, an organization established to create dedicated wives whose role was to give birth to superior Aryan children... -
![The Gun by C.S. Forester]()
The Gun by C.S. Forester
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsIt is the time of Napoleon. The place is Spain, where his troops are busy propping up Joseph, Napoleon's brother, as king. Spaniards hate a master, and rebel. They fight a desperate, protracted, bitter and merciless guerilla war.Into the hands of a guerilla band falls a remarkable cannon, an 18-pounder that transforms the rebels into a besieging army...Categorized as:
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![Threads and Flames by Esther M. Friesner]()
Threads and Flames by Esther M. Friesner
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt's 1910, and thirteen-year-old Raisa has just traveled alone from a small Polish shtetl all the way to New York City. It's overwhelming, awe-inspiring, and even dangerous, especially when she discovers that her sister has disappeared and she must now fend for herself. She finds work in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory sewing bodices on the popular shirtwaists... -
![Bliss, Remembered: A Novel by Frank Deford]()
Bliss, Remembered: A Novel by Frank Deford
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn “entertaining and thought provoking” WWII-era novel of love, war, and sports, told with “a superb sense of character and period” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, American swimmer Sydney Stringfellow finds herself falling in love with Horst Gerhardt, a dashing young German... -
![The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai by Wang Anyi, Yvonne André]()
The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai by Wang Anyi, Yvonne André
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSet in post-World War II Shanghai, "The Song of Everlasting Sorrow" follows the adventures of Wang Qiyao, a girl born of the "longtong," the crowded, labyrinthine alleys of Shanghai's working-class neighborhoods.Infatuated with the glitz and glamour of 1940s Hollywood, Wang Qiyao seeks fame in the Miss Shanghai beauty pageant, and this fleeting moment of stardom becomes the pinnacle of her life... -
![Salt by Earl Lovelace]()
Salt by Earl Lovelace
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne hundred years after Emancipation, the diverse people of Trinidad—African, Asian, and European—have not settled into the New World. In Salt, an unforgettable cast of men and women strive with wit and passion to make sense of life in an evolving homeland...Categorized as:
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![Return of the Spirit by Tawfiq Al-Hakim, توفيق الحكيم]()
Return of the Spirit by Tawfiq Al-Hakim, توفيق الحكيم
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe celebrated, revolutionary novel from a pioneering Egyptian writer Tawfiq al-Hakim, now for the first time in Penguin Classics with a foreword by Egyptian writer Alaa Al-AswanyFirst published in Arabic in 1933, Egyptian playwright and novelist Tawfiq Al-Hakim's Return of the Spirit follows a patriotic young Egyptian and his extended family as they grapple with the events leading up to the... -
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![Schreiber's Secret by Roger Radford]()
Schreiber's Secret by Roger Radford
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratings'Unputdownable' - London Evening Standard AudioFile Magazine Earphones Award WinnerNazi. Fugitive. Murderer. Sadist. Who is the real Hans Schreiber?Two journalists conduct a desperate search for Schreiber in this riveting thriller about bringing unimaginable secrets to light — and a monster to justice... -
![Empire by Gore Vidal]()
Empire by Gore Vidal
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn this extraordinarily powerful epic Gore Vidal recreates America's Gilded Age—a period of promise and possibility, of empire-building and fierce political rivalries... -
![Maggie-Now: A Novel by Betty Smith]()
Maggie-Now: A Novel by Betty Smith
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBetty Smith, the beloved author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, weaves a riveting modern myth out of the experiences of her own life in this rediscovered classic. In Brooklyn's unforgiving urban jungle, Maggie Moore is torn between answering her own needs and catering to the desirous men who dominate her life... -
![Three Daughters of Madame Liang by Pearl S. Buck]()
Three Daughters of Madame Liang by Pearl S. Buck
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAfter her husband takes a concubine, Madame Liang sets out on her own, starting an upscale restaurant and sending her daughters to America to be educated. At the restaurant, the leaders of the People's Republic wine and dine and Madame Liang must keep a low profile for her daughters' sake. Soon her two eldest daughters are called back to serve the People's Republic...Categorized as:
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![The Last Man in Europe by Dennis Glover]()
The Last Man in Europe by Dennis Glover
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsApril, 1947. In a run-down farmhouse on a remote Scottish island, George Orwell begins his last and greatest work: Nineteen Eighty-Four...Categorized as:
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![The Traitor's Niche by Ismail Kadare]()
The Traitor's Niche by Ismail Kadare
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE"An extraordinary and complex novel whose time has come . . . 40 years after its initial publication [in Albanian]." —The HeraldAt the heart of the Ottoman Empire, in the main square of Constantinople, a niche is carved into ancient stone. Here, the sultan displays the severed heads of his adversaries...Categorized as:
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