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Paradise Kiss, Vol. 4 by Ai Yazawa
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsWhen Yukari is asked to be the runway model for the clothing label Paradise Kiss, her life is turned upside down as she juggles college and career... -
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Paradise Kiss, Vol. 3 by Ai Yazawa
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsWhen Yukari is asked to be the runway model for the clothing label Paradise Kiss, her life is turned upside down as she juggles college and career... -
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![Last Game 01 by Shinobu Amano]()
Last Game 01 by Shinobu Amano
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsHe's rich, he's smart, girls gather around him all the time, and he has always gotten first place on his exams... well, until Kujou transferred in his primary school class... -
![Meeting Sang: Gabriel by C.L. Stone]()
Meeting Sang: Gabriel by C.L. Stone
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsThe Academy: Ghost Bird series in a different look at the very beginning. Read Introductions with a whole new perspective--the boys'. Despite having eight great friends thanks to The Academy, what Gabriel Coleman really wants is a connection with someone special. However, he’s never had much luck with girls. He doesn't have the sleek looks, wealth, or charm like his friends... -
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![Meeting Sang: Victor by C.L. Stone]()
Meeting Sang: Victor by C.L. Stone
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsVictor Morgan hides from the public whenever he can. It's not that he's a recluse; he hides to avoid rumors and throngs of teen girls throwing themselves at him because of his fame. When his team of friends is assigned a job at a new school, it's his one chance to finally be just Victor; not a local celebrity, or that guy whose parents have a huge house and lots of money...Categorized as:
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![Kick, Push & Coast Duet: Includes Kick, Push and Coast by Jay McLean]()
Kick, Push & Coast Duet: Includes Kick, Push and Coast by Jay McLean
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBox set includes exclusive never before seen bonus short story told from Tommy Warden’s ten-year-old mind. ★SYNOPSIS for Kick, Push There’s a single defining moment within every skater. It lasts only a second. Two if you're good. Three if you’re really good. It’s the moment you’re in the air, your board somewhere beneath you and nothing but wind surrounds you... -
![The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths by Megan McCafferty]()
The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths by Megan McCafferty
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsGrowing Up Can Be Perfect in Its Imperfection The Jessica Darling series chronicles one young woman’s coming-of-age in the first decade of the 21st century. Over five books and ten years, Jessica Darling fumbles her way into adulthood... -
![Illegal My Ass by Makeandoffer]()
Illegal My Ass by Makeandoffer
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsMia Hastings was never one to follow the rules. Her brother knew it, her best friend knew it. Everyone knew it. She lives for the moment, doing whatever she feels and thinking of the consequences later. Her main goal in life is to live it.Mia’s brother’s best friend Drake O’Connell was never big on rules.The judge who sentences him to 2 years in prison knew it...Categorized as:
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![Una sfida come te by Katie McGarry]()
Una sfida come te by Katie McGarry
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsOttimi voti, stile impeccabile e una carriera di successo: ecco cosa si aspettano tutti da Rachel Young. Specialmente la sua numerosa e assillante famiglia. Ma nessuno sospetta che dietro quella maschera di perfezione si nasconda una ragazza fragile con una lista interminabile di segreti. Segreti inconfessabili come la passione per la velocità e le auto da corsa...Categorized as:
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![The Youth & Young Loves of Oliver Wade by Ben Monopoli]()
The Youth & Young Loves of Oliver Wade by Ben Monopoli
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsA novel in stories, by the author of "The Cranberry Hush"At the heart of these twelve interconnected stories is Ollie Wade, a gay guy navigating life and love from age 13 to 28.At a middle-school dance, a boy keeps a secret from his date; on a subway platform, he realizes a young green-eyed stranger has the same secret... -
![Ali's Pretty Little Lies by Sara Shepard]()
Ali's Pretty Little Lies by Sara Shepard
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsBefore there was A, there was Alison DiLaurentis. Boys wanted to date her, girls wanted to be her, and somebody wanted her dead. . . .It's the end of seventh grade, and Alison DiLaurentis and her friends are the girls of Rosewood Day. Ali runs her clique with an iron fist, and she's got enough dirt on Hanna, Emily, Aria, and Spencer to keep them in line...Categorized as:
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![Hawthorne & Heathcliff by R.K. Ryals]()
Hawthorne & Heathcliff by R.K. Ryals
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsTwo names that didn't belong to us. Two shoes that did. Intense and introspective, seventeen-year-old Hawthorne Macy knows all about being abandoned. She's felt the stark pain of being left behind by the people who are supposed to love her the most; her parents. Raised by her caring uncle on an old plantation, Hawthorne lives her life on the fringes of her small Southern town... -
![Before Ryan Was Mine by Kahlen Aymes]()
Before Ryan Was Mine by Kahlen Aymes
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsWhen Ryan Matthews meets Julia Abbott for the first time at Stanford University, he immediately knows she will change his life. They have an instant, unbreakable connection that goes beyond partying and palpable attraction...Categorized as:
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![Eden High: Book 4 by Jordan Silver]()
Eden High: Book 4 by Jordan Silver
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsNow that he has staked his claim Jace and Sian are the new 'It' couple and there's love in the air , not only for these two lovebirds, but their friends seem to have been bitten by the bug...Categorized as:
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![Devious Love by Anastasija White]()
Devious Love by Anastasija White
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA secret. A line they shouldn't cross. A love they will never forget.DOMINIC WATSON has always been MIA ASHTON’s weakness. Her brother’s best friend. Her neighbor. And later…her stepbrother. Her crush on him was never meant to be more than unrequited love.But one night and a pair of masks changed everything.What started as a secret quickly turned into something Mia and Dominic couldn’t control...Categorized as:
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![Arabian Nights by Simone Shirazi]()
Arabian Nights by Simone Shirazi
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsBlair Bakhtiar always wanted to be royalty. Zayn al-Haydar wanted to be anything but. When one fateful summer brings them together, the two discover that maybe it's not that much better on the other side... but the journey there is always full of surprises, with love being the biggest surprise of them all. [Book #2 in the Fairytale Series, but can be read as a standalone...Categorized as:
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![Eden High : Series 2 Book 6 by Jordan Silver]()
Eden High : Series 2 Book 6 by Jordan Silver
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsAfter the explosion that could've taken Sian's life, Jace is at the end of his rope. No longer willing to leave Mandy in the same town, he's set things in motion to see to her removal. But first he has to protect the people around him, some from Mandy's wrath once she's cornered, and others, from retaliating against her...Categorized as:
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![Say Car For Me – Bonus Brian POV Scene by Kelly Oram]()
Say Car For Me – Bonus Brian POV Scene by Kelly Oram
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsFor those of you who missed the party over the weekend, don't worry, you can still check out the new bonus material. Because I felt like you guys needed 29 new pages from the mind of Brian Oliver, here's the infamous scene where Brian and Ella first come face to face, told from Brian's perspective... -
![The Choice by Nicholas Sparks]()
The Choice by Nicholas Sparks
#1 New York Times bestseller Nicholas Sparks turns his unrivaled talents to a new tale about love found and lost, and the choices we hope we'll never have to make.Travis Parker has everything a man could want: a good job, loyal friends, even a waterfront home in small-town North Carolina...Categorized as:
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![Eden High Series 2 #4 by Jordan Silver]()
Eden High Series 2 #4 by Jordan Silver
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsJace knows Sian is up to something. He suspects her sleepover is just a cover for her to get up to no good, so he stakes out her driveway to catch her at it. He'd no sooner pulled her out of her car when she did indeed try to sneak out of the house when there is an explosion. Track is miles away from home when he gets the sense that something is wrong and puts a call out to Valerie and Jace...Categorized as:
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![Mistrust by Margaret McHeyzer]()
Mistrust by Margaret McHeyzer
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING YA NOVEL I'm the popular girl at school.The one everyone wants to be friends with.I have the best boyfriend in the world, who's on the basketball team.My parents adore me, and I absolutely love them. My sister and I have a great relationship too.I'm a cheerleader, I have a high GPA and I'm liked even by the teachers... -
![Cards of Love: The Sun by Stevie J. Cole]()
Cards of Love: The Sun by Stevie J. Cole
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe cliche in love stories is that the good little rich girl falls for the poor bad boy with tattoos. The glamorous prom queen gets knocked-up by the swoon-worthy tattooed god who smells of leather and exhaust from his motorcycle.That is not how this story goes.Elias Black may have had a sleeve of tattoos and grown up on the wrong side of the tracks, but he didn’t have a true bad bone in his body...Categorized as:
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![Eden High Series 2 Book 2 by Jordan Silver]()
Eden High Series 2 Book 2 by Jordan Silver
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMandy has decided to up the stakes now that Jace seems to be getting farther out of her reach. From the safety of her hospital bed, she has devised a scheme to get Jace just where she wants him, but everything and everyone keeps getting in her way. Jace is hell bent on proving that Mandy had something to do with the attack on Sian but can’t seem to get a bead on just what is going on...Categorized as:
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![Unspoken Rules by Eliah Greenwood]()
Unspoken Rules by Eliah Greenwood
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 21 ratings"I lost the fight. I lost her. But I don't care about my promise. I'm chasing that girl... again." Haze Adams and Winter Kingston were supposed to be a done deal. A onetime thing. The notorious street fighter had one goal and one goal only: make the girl fall in love, break her heart to hurt his enemies, and move on to the next best thing. Easy, right? Wrong... -
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![Don't Say a Word by Amber Lynn Natusch]()
Don't Say a Word by Amber Lynn Natusch
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsKylene Danners’s ex-FBI agent father is in prison for murder and she’s hell-bent on getting him out. But trying to investigate in the small town where a defensive lineman is a hero no matter who he tries to kill and the girl who gets him locked up is public enemy number one is dangerous. Dark secrets are everywhere in Jasperville—the kind Ky can’t walk away from... -
![Inspiring You by Jessica Sorensen]()
Inspiring You by Jessica Sorensen
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsAyden knows it’s time to remember what really happened four years ago, so he can help save his sister. With the help of Lyric, he faces his past head on. But dealing with the truth is difficult... -
![Eden High: Book 5 by Jordan Silver]()
Eden High: Book 5 by Jordan Silver
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSian might have seen something she shouldn't have. How will she deal with her suspicions and who can she share them with? If what she suspects gets out, it can destroy a lot of lives, but she's tired of spending so much time on her arch enemy...Categorized as:
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![The Good Girl & the Bad Boy by M.L. Collins]()
The Good Girl & the Bad Boy by M.L. Collins
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsWhat happens when Jackson High’s Good Girl and Bad Boy are forced to work together? I’ll tell you:I destroy his guitar. (Accidentally!)He uses my guilt to trick me into doing his work.For three weeks!Until I find out he lied. Oh, heck no. This bad boy has crossed the wrong girl.I call him out on it. In front of the whole school.Check mate, bad boy. “It feels good to be bad,” he whispers...Categorized as:
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![There You'll Find Me by Jenny B. Jones]()
There You'll Find Me by Jenny B. Jones
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsGrief brought Finley to Ireland. Love will lead her home.Finley Sinclair is not your typical eighteen-year-old. She’s witty, tough, and driven. With an upcoming interview at the Manhattan music conservatory, Finley needs to compose her audition piece. But her creativity disappeared with the death of her older brother, Will... -
![Unbroken Rules by Eliah Greenwood]()
Unbroken Rules by Eliah Greenwood
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLies, passion, betrayal. Discover the last book of the teen sensation that captured 30,000,000 hearts across the globe today! Haze and Winter’s relationship has been a fight from day one. From crazy exes, to psycho families, to heart-wrenching betrayal, the couple has been through hell and back and lived to tell the tale...Categorized as:
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![Love Always, Damian by D. Nichole King]()
Love Always, Damian by D. Nichole King
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThey say time heals all wounds. What a load of bull. It’s been four years, and Kate’s voice still echoes in my mind. Every. Damn. Day. I numb her memory when it taunts me. In college, I drown her out with booze and easy lays. I can’t do what she asked. I can’t let her go. Not even when Lia shows up, freaking ripping what’s left of me to shreds... -
![Fumbled Past by Lauren Runow]()
Fumbled Past by Lauren Runow
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsTwenty years have passed, yet not one thing in my hometown has changed … even the man I left behind.I was the girl no one could touch because they all feared my father. He was a legend, the head football coach who had created this town’s Friday night lights. Only two football players dared to win my heart—the boy next door and the new guy in town...Categorized as:
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![Kiss the Quarterback Next Door by Stephanie Street]()
Kiss the Quarterback Next Door by Stephanie Street
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDid you know there were over 155 different ways to kiss? She figured it would only take 5 to teach the quarterback next door a lesson. Jamie Barnes loved kissing girls, no strings attached. Non-committal make-out session? Sign him up. Had he broken a few hearts? Sure. But it wasn't like those girls hadn't known what they were getting into...Categorized as:
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![Unbroken by R.E. Hunter]()
Unbroken by R.E. Hunter
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsShe was running toward her future. He was running from his past. When their worlds collided, nothing could prepare them for what was to come. Reeling from Luke’s betrayal, Embry Jacobs is lost and looking for answers. His lies have ripped them apart, forcing her to question everything she thought she knew about the man she loves...Categorized as:
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![The Southern Nights Series by M. Never]()
The Southern Nights Series by M. Never
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsKamdyn Ellis is the man. Mr. All-Star athlete and resident bad boy. #7 quarterback on the field, and #1 player off. Every guy at school wants to be him, and every girl at school wants to date him. Well, except Laney Summers that is. The sassy city girl is the only one immune to Kam’s clear blue eyes and arsenal of southern charm...Categorized as:
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![Intercepted by Emma Hart]()
Intercepted by Emma Hart
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFour people. Four goals. Four endings. In the third and final book of the USA Today bestselling By His Game series, the rules of the game no one knew they’d have to play are blurring, and when the past becomes the opposing team, hearts aren’t the only thing at stake of being lost… Finding naked pictures of her best friend on her boyfriend’s phone wasn’t in Everleigh White’s five year plan...Categorized as:
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![Believe Me, I'm Lying by Jordan Lynde]()
Believe Me, I'm Lying by Jordan Lynde
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsWhen seventeen-year-old Harley's parents are killed in a car crash, she's desperate to find work so that she can support her little brother, Elliott. Pretending to be twenty-one, Harley accepts a role as a teacher - at a school for delinquents. It's tough - but life gets even more complicated when Harley starts to have feelings for not one, but two of her students . . -
![The Bright Effect by Autumn Doughton, Erica Cope]()
The Bright Effect by Autumn Doughton, Erica Cope
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 21 ratings“Maybe promises are supposed to hurt a little.”Amelia Bright has lots of plans for the future, and none of them involve falling for a guy like Sebastian Holbrook. With a questionable reputation and an attitude to match, he’s exactly the kind of guy Amelia promised herself she’d avoid... -
![Always Yours by Kari March]()
Always Yours by Kari March
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsCam and Cara's story. Used. That was the only word Cam Greer, the son of a wealthy media mogul, had ever associated with women. When he met Amber Murphy his senior year in high school, he felt like, for once, this girl loved him for him. When she pursued her dreams and left Cam behind, Amber not only crushed Cam's heart, she destroyed his future as well... -
![Breaking Stars by J. Sterling, Erin Mallon]()
Breaking Stars by J. Sterling, Erin Mallon
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAn actress since she was 14 years old, Paige Lockwood finds herself craving a little normalcy after a scandal rocks her otherwise predictable world. With everyone in her life attempting to control her, she takes matters into her own hands and leaves town without so much as a plan or a destination...Categorized as:
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![Path of Destruction by E. Lee, Caisey Quinn]()
Path of Destruction by E. Lee, Caisey Quinn
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThey ignored the warning signs and it cost them everything... At the end of a life-changing summer a devastating tornado hit the small town of Hope’s Grove, Oklahoma.While the brick suburban mansions of Summit Bluffs saw very little damage, their occupants weren’t so lucky... -
![Did I Mention I Miss You? by Estelle Maskame]()
Did I Mention I Miss You? by Estelle Maskame
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsIt’s been a year since Eden last spoke to Tyler. She remains furious at him for leaving her and has moved on with life in Chicago, where she is at University studying psychology...Categorized as:
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![Chasing Forever Down by Nikki Chartier]()
Chasing Forever Down by Nikki Chartier
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen seventeen-year-old Haley Sullivan is dragged to a corporate party with her parents, she's searching for one thing - the nearest exit. Instead, she finds a mysterious stranger who plays by his own rules and chases his own dreams, and he's definitely cute enough to disappear with for the night... -
![Stolen Wishes by Lexi Ryan]()
Stolen Wishes by Lexi Ryan
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsCally… A sexy smile. Intense blue eyes. A goodness that makes him want to save me from these rumors when no one else would care. I didn't ask for a hero. William Bailey was never supposed to be anything more than a wish, a dream, an unrequited crush. Not for a girl like me--a girl whose fractured family has stolen her chance at a decent life... -
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![Here Goes Nothing by Alexander C. Eberhart]()
Here Goes Nothing by Alexander C. Eberhart
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFor high school senior Mike Hernandez, everything is finally falling perfectly into place. He’s publishing his first web comic with his new boyfriend, his friends and family are totally supportive, and he’s looking towards a future he never let himself imagine. Chris Myers is a boy on the mend...Categorized as:
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![Undertow by Leigh Talbert Moore]()
Undertow by Leigh Talbert Moore
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsFalling in love will pull you under. From the time I was sixteen, I had a plan to change my life. A plan born of long days of manual labor in the punishing heat on my dad’s farm. A plan to transform the beaches of our small, southern town from a sleepy farming community to a high-end luxury tourist destination.Getting married right out of high school was not in the plan... -
![Did I Mention I Miss You? by Estelle Maskame]()
Did I Mention I Miss You? by Estelle Maskame
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsIt’s been a year since Eden last spoke to Tyler. She remains furious at him for leaving her and has moved on with life in Chicago, where she is at University studying psychology... -
![My High School Fake Boyfriend by Kylie Key]()
My High School Fake Boyfriend by Kylie Key
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen you take a fake boyfriend for all the wrong reasons…Someone’s going to get hurtMaddieDumped by textHumiliated in the lunch roomAnd flaunting his new girlfriend,I can’t wait to give Josh payback.Dating the new boy who beat him in cross countrySeems like the perfect way to get revenge…PeytonStarting a new school is never easyNot when people stare at the birthmark that covers your face... -
![She's So Dead to Us by Kieran Scott]()
She's So Dead to Us by Kieran Scott
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsAlly Ryan would rather be in Maryland. She would rather be anywhere, in fact, than Orchard Hill, site of her downfall. Well, not hers exactly—but when your father’s hedge fund goes south and all your friends lose their trust funds, things don’t look so sunny for you. Her mother moved her to Maryland to flee the shame, but now they’re moving back...Categorized as:
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![The Hysterics by Kristen Hope Mazzola]()
The Hysterics by Kristen Hope Mazzola
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOnce upon a time, I was Fallon Dunbar. Rock and roll, drugs, and bad decisions were the life I lived. I’d fallen so deep into the dark rabbit hole that I was certain I would never make it out alive. People like me didn’t get second chances. People like me didn’t get lifted from the darkness. So when the opportunity showed up, I had to take it...
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