Blackstone Audio June 2014

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June 2014

Global headlines come to life as intrigue and international politics collide in this electrifying debut thriller.

978-1-4830-0765-6 $29.95

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Jason Bourne has been hired to impersonate a high-level government minister at a political summit meeting in Qatar, shielding the minister from any assassination attempts. Suddenly, armed gunmen storm the room, killing everyone but Bourne.

Their target, however, isn’t the minister Bourne impersonates—it is Bourne himself. Kidnapped, Bourne soon finds himself facing a terrorist plot and a monstrous decision.

Recently widowed, Ginger Martin faces the seemingly impossible task of keeping her husband’s farm going without him. By coincidence, a stranger named Samuel appears, always showing up to help in unexpected and much-needed ways. Ginger recognizes in Samuel a kindred spirit, longing to repair a life interrupted. The challenges of their hopes and longings will test who they really are in the most heartbreaking of ways.

(9648) 14 hours • 12 CDs • 1 MP3 CD • Fiction / Thrillers / Espionage

(9500) 13 hours • 10 CDs • 1 MP3 CD • Fiction / General

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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 The Junior Novelization

by Marvel Press • Reader to be announced • Release date 5/2 • Exclusive

(9825) Juvenile Fiction / Media Tie-In • 2 hours • 2 CDs

(8541) 12.5 hours • 10 CDs • 1 MP3 CD • Fiction / Romance / Historical 978-1-4830-1049-6 $105.00

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Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure

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The Junior Novelization

by Disney Press • Reader to be announced • Release date 6/3 • Exclusive

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by Marvel Press • Reader to be announced • Release date 5/13 • Exclusive The Asgardian warrior continues his big-screen adventures in Marvel’s Thor: The Dark World as he battles to save Earth and all Nine Realms from a shadowy enemy that predates the universe itself. In the aftermath of Marvel’s Thor: The Dark World and Marvel’s The Avengers, Thor fights to restore order across the cosmos ‌ but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith returns to plunge the universe back into darkness. Faced with an enemy that even Odin and Asgard cannot withstand, the legendary warrior must embark on his most perilous and personal journey yet, one that will reunite him with Jane Foster and force him to sacrifice everything to save us all.

(9823) Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure / General • 1.5 hours • 2 CDs

Tinker Bell is thrilled when she is selected to make the prestigious Autumn Scepter to commemorate the rare Blue Moon. Her friend Terence tries to help, but he ends up getting in the way—and on Tink’s nerves. Then, to make matters worse, Tink accidentally breaks the scepter’s moonstone! So she must travel north of Never Land to find the one thing that can fix the moonstone—the magical Mirror of Incanta. It’s a rough journey, but Tink is helped along by a firefly named Blaze. Can Tink mend the scepter—and her friendship with Terence— before the Blue Moon rises? Find out in the Junior Novelization retelling of Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure.

(9829) Juvenile Fiction / Fantasy & Magic • 1.5 hours • 2 CDs

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Marvel’s The Avengers: The Avengers Assemble The Junior Novelization

by Marvel Press • Reader to be announced • Release date 5/20 • Exclusive NICK FURY AND S.H.I.E.L.D. are faced with a foe no single person can defeat. So Fury sets out to bring together Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and form the Avengers! Join Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, the Hulk, Black Widow, and Hawkeye as they battle the Asgardian trickster known as Loki, who plans to unleash a dangerous and powerful force upon the Earth. If Loki succeeds, the world as we know it will change forever—for the worse.

Can the Avengers work together and rescue mankind from this vile villain’s cruel grip? Or will Loki disassemble this new team and become ruler of Earth?

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James Malory sets sail for America to honor a promise: his daughter, Jacqueline, will have her come-out in America. Judith, Jacqueline’s cousin and best friend, delays her own debut to accompany her cousin.

Neither girl intends to fall in love during her first season, but Judith’s plans are overturned when she comes face-to-face with the ghost who has been haunting her dreams.

Pixar Animation Studio’s thirteenth animated feature film, Brave, is an epic adventure set in the rugged and mysterious Highlands of Scotland. Determined to carve her own path in life, a skilled archer named Princess Merida defies a sacred age-old custom—and inadvertently unleashes a beastly curse upon the kingdom. To set things right, Merida embarks on a perilous quest and discovers the meaning of true bravery. Brave: The Junior Novelization retells the whole exciting story!

(9828) Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure / General • 2 hours • 2 CDs

Marvel’s Thor: The Dark World

#1 New York Times bestselling author Johanna Lindsey returns to the dazzlingly passionate world of the Malorys in a thrilling new tale of unbridled desires.

The Junior Novelization

by Disney Press • Reader to be announced • Release date 5/20 • Exclusive

Peter Parker continues to adjust to his ever-changing life of family, friends, and being the Super Hero wall-crawler known as the Amazing Spider-Man. Since gaining great power and great responsibility, Spidey has fought crime all over the city day in and day out, and it’s taken its toll on Peter’s life. Gwen has moved on from their relationship. His old friend Harry Osborn has returned and plans to take over Oscorp. And a new enemy has risen to wreak havoc across Manhattan: Electro! With the city in jeopardy of being plunged into darkness, will Spidey be able to stop Electro, win back Gwen, and save the day before time runs out and the lights go out ‌ forever?

978-1-4829-9695-1 $29.95

Stormy Persuasion The Malory-Anderson Family Series, Book 11

by Johanna Lindsey • Read by Laural Merlington

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(9824) Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure / General • 2 hours • 2 CDs � 2014 MARVEL

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In this thrilling new novel, Jason Bourne is faced with an impossible mission.

Deep in the Shenandoah Valley the present and the past are as restless as the river mists. And when they collide the heart is the only compass pointing home.

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Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier continues the big-screen adventures of Super-Soldier Captain America, as he battles with modern times and villains that threaten the safety of his country ... and even the world!

by Nicole R. Dickson Read by Karen White

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Here and Again

The Jason Bourne Series, Book 12

by Eric Van Lustbader Read by Holter Graham

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Steve Rogers, known to the world as Captain America, continues his affiliation with S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury. But Steve struggles to fit in the modern world, and now his past will come back to haunt him . . .

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Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Ascendancy

(9827) Juvenile Fiction / Fantasy & Magic • 2 hours • 2 CDs

The Junior Novelization

by Marvel Press • Read by Tom Taylorson • Release date 4/4 • Exclusive

(9588) 14 hours • 11 CDs • 1 MP3 CD • Fiction / Thrillers / Political 978-1-4830-0764-9 $109.00

When the kingdom is trapped in an eternal winter, Anna, a young dreamer, must team up with Kristoff, a daring mountain man, and his reindeer on the grandest of journeys to find Anna’s sister, the Snow Queen Elsa, and put an end to her icy spell. Encountering mystical trolls, a hilarious snowman named Olaf, Everest-like extremes, and magic at every turn, Anna and Kristoff battle the elements in a race to save the kingdom from destruction. Frozen: The Junior Novelization retells the whole exciting story.

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The Junior Novelization

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After a devastating experience in Darfur strips Alex Baines, former rising star of the State Department, of his security clearances, he is contacted by his old mentor and given an opportunity to start over and restore his reputation. But everywhere Alex turns he finds a shady US-based mining company. As violence escalates, Alex struggles to balance the best interests of the United States with the fate of the Congo and its people.

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Disney Princess: Tiana: The Grand Opening

by Disney Press • Reader to be announced • Release date 6/3 • Exclusive Tiana has always dreamed of having her own restaurant, and now her dream is about to come true. The grand opening is just around the corner, and all of Tiana’s friends and family will be there, along with a famous food critic! But suddenly everything starts to go wrong. Her bandleader Louis loses his prized trumpet. Then the power goes out after the guests arrive. Will the princess be able to fix things in time, or will her big night be a royal disaster?

(9830) Juvenile Fiction / Fantasy & Magic • 1 hour • 1 CD

(9826) Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure / General • 2.5 hours • 2 CDs

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by Kate Wilhelm Read by Carrington MacDuffie

SIMULTANEOUS RELEASE 5/27

D o n’t mi s s t hi s n ove ll a fro m t h e bestselling author of the Barbara Holloway series.

In the vein of the hit television show Battlestar Galactica comes the fifth book in the action-packed, New York Times bestselling science fiction series Star Carrier

Sam and Lori had only just met and now they are dead, the result of a suspicious car accident. In life, Sam was a successful playwright, Lori a secretary for Ben Carnahan, a scheming movie producer responsible for the death of Lori’s father. Now Sam and Lori are ghosts out of sequence with the real world. As they work together to find out what happened to them, a plot to murder Ben is revealed.

The United States of North America is engaged in a civil war with the Earth Confederation when highly advanced, seemingly godlike aliens appear through an artificial wormhole sixteen thousand light-years from Earth. Now President Koenig must make a tremendous choice.

(9821) 3 hours • 3 CDs • 1 MP3 CD • Fiction / Ghost

(bc32) 12 hours • 10 CDs • Fiction / Science Fiction / Military

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Great American Authors Read from Their Works: Complete Collection

By Calliope Author Readings Featuring selections read by John Updike, Philip Roth, James Baldwin, and others These recordings of twentieth-century American authors interpreting their own works were highly praised when first released in the 1960s.

Today the cultural and historical value of these recordings makes them an essential part of our literary heritage.

Included are selected readings from one or more of their own works

by James Baldwin, James Jones, Philip Roth, William Styron, Bernard Malamud, Nelson Algren, and John Updike.

(9819) 5.5 hours • 5 CDs • Fiction / Classics 978-1-4830-1933-8 $55.00

God, drugs, corruption, and morality come together in this gripping tale of desperation.

In Gasconade County, Missouri—once called the meth capital of the world—Deputy Sheriff Dale Banks discovers $52,000 hidden in the old trailer Jerry Dean Skaggs uses for cooking crystal and takes it. Banks knows it was wrong, but he did it for all the right reasons—he thinks. But Jerry Dean can’t afford to lose that money, and Banks will face serious consequences for his actions.

(9576) 8 hours • 7 CDs • 1 MP3 CD • Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General 978-1-4830-2054-9 $76.00

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The Long Mars

Homeland

A Novel The Long Earth Series, Book 3

by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter Reader to be announced

by Cory Doctorow Read by Wil Wheaton EXCLUSIVE

Fast moving, passionate, and as current as next week, Homeland is every bit the equal of Little Brother—a paean to activism, to courage, to the drive to make the world a better place.

After being arbitrarily detained and brutalized by the government in the wake of a terrorist attack, Marcus Yallow became a leader of a movement of technologically clued-in teenagers fighting against the tyrannical security state. Now in possession of hard evidence of corporate and governmental perfidy, he must figure out the best plan of action—without getting himself killed.

(9795) 12 hours • 10 CDs • 1 MP3 CD • Juvenile Fiction / Science & Technology 978-1-4830-2030-3 $105.00

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The third novel in Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter’s exciting Long Earth series

In the years after the cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption, populations flee to myriad Long Earth worlds. Sally, Joshua, and Lobsang are all involved in this rescue work when Sally is contacted by her long-lost father, who wants her to accompany him on a voyage across the Long Mars. (bazg) 12 hours • 10 CDs • Fiction / Science Fiction / Adventure 978-1-4830-0491-4 $59.99

(9654) 12.5 hours • 10 CDs • Fiction / Romance / Contemporary 978-1-4789-0148-8 $84.99

Jenn and Greg have been married for fourteen years and are enjoying the last week of their summer holiday in Deia, a village off the coast of Spain. It is the perfect summer idyll—until Greg’s teenage daughter arrives with her new boyfriend, Nathan. What follows is a brilliantly paced fever dream of attraction between Jenn and the reckless yet mesmerizing Nathan.

Cowboys and Indies

The Epic History of the Record Industry

by Gareth Murphy Reader to be announced

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An edge-of-your-seat thrill ride from a master of suspense.

They were two untamed outcasts o n a Te x a s- b o u n d wa g o n t rai n — t wo p a s s i o n a t e t r ave l e r s u n i t e d by need, threatened by pasts they could not outrun.

W hen t h i r teen-yea r-old Jace Wilson witnesses a brutal murder, he’s plunged into a new life, issued a false identity, and hidden in a wilderness skills program for troubled teens. The plan is to get Jace off the grid while police find the two killers. The result is the start of a nightmare. The clock is ticking, and those who wish Jace Wilson dead are not far behind.

Voluptuous, russet-haired Lydia and dark, brooding Ross have both been hurt in the past. However, they find themselves thrown together by fate on a Texas-bound wagon train, fighting the same enemy and unable to stop the events that will eventually pit one man’s vengeance against the strength of a woman’s love.

(9653) 12 hours • 10 CDs • Fiction / Thrillers

(9650) 13.5 hours • 13 CDs • Fiction / Romance / Historical

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Everyone thinks Emmy Dockery is crazy. Obsessed with finding the link between hundreds of unsolved cases, she has taken leave from her job as an FBI researcher. Not even her ex-boyfriend, field agent Harrison Bookman, will believe her that hundreds of kidnappings, rapes, and murders are all connected. That is, until Emmy finds a piece of evidence he can’t afford to ignore. More murders are reported by the day—and they’re all inexplicable. Could one person be responsible for it all?

(9646) 8 hours • 7 CDs • 1 MP3 CD • Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense 978-1-4789-0126-6 $64.99

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The critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling master of suspense delivers her first stand-alone novel, a thrilling tale of crime and struggle set in Atlanta in the mid-1970s.

Atlanta, 1974. It’s Kate Murphy’s first day on the job, and the Atlanta Police Department is seething after the murder of an officer. Before the day has barely begun, she suspects she’s not cut out for the job. She’s partnered with another female cop with her own ax to grind—a strategy meant to isolate the two from the action.

But that move backfires.

(8861) 12.5 hours • 10 CDs • 1 MP3 CD • Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense 978-1-4830-0209-5 $105.00

The Things You Kiss Goodbye

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The Will Trent Series, Book 8

By Karin Slaughter Reader to be announced

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Fans of Sarah Dessen will love this heartbreaking story about family, loss, and the joys and disappointments of first love.

Bettina Vasilis can hardly believe it when basketball star Brady Cullen asks her out over the summer, but when school starts up again, Brady changes. What happened to the sweet boy she fell in love with? Then she meets a smoldering guy in his twenties, and this “cowboy” is everything Brady is not. (bc33) 8 hours • Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues / Physical & Emotional Abuse 978-1-4830-2006-8 $59.99

978-1-4830-0210-1 $29.95

Busted

by Leslie Connor Reader to be announced

Invisible is James Patterson’s scariest, most chilling stand-alone thriller yet.

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A Novel

by Karin Slaughter Reader to be announced

978-1-4789-0136-5 $94.99

by James Patterson and David Ellis • Reader to be announced

Witty and evocative, Cowboys and Indies offers a fresh panoramic view of the cycles and grooves of pop music and is sure to top the charts with music industry classics like Hitmaker and The Mansion on the Hill.

(9861) 14.5 hours • 12 CDs • 1 MP3 CD • Music / History & Criticism

by Sandra Brown Read by Ellen Archer

Invisible

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This is the definitive record-business bible, chronicling the pioneers who set the stylus on the most important labels and musical discoveries of the last century. The narrative follows all the musical trends and developments from the phonograph to the Internet age.

Sunset Embrace

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Cop Town

(9652) 7 hours • 6 CDs • Fiction / Thrillers

by Michael Koryta Reader to be announced

(9911) 6 hours • 5 CDs • 1 MP3 CD • Fiction / Romance / Suspense 978-1-4830-2770-8 $55.00

The Nash family is close-knit. Their seeming stability, however, is thrown into chaos when one of the kids’ best friends is struck by a terrifying unexplained seizure in class.

Rumors of a hazardous outbreak spread through the family school and community.

Those Who Wish Me Dead

A highly charged, sultry, beautifully written and compulsive one-sit read, The Lemon Grove is an intense novel about obsession and sex—the perfect summer book.

She’s ready for the ride of her life.

The panic unleashed by a mysterious contagion threatens the bonds of family and community in a seemingly idyllic suburban community.

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Lauren Grahame is looking to reinvent herself. She has left her cheating husband and moved to Carnal, Colorado, where she gets a job as a waitress in a biker bar called Bubba’s. It’s a nothing job in a nowhere joint … until Tatum Jackson walks in. But when this sizzling hot bad boy insults her, Lauren doesn’t want anything to do with him. Too bad for Lauren—Tate is also the bar’s part-owner and bartender.

978-1-4830-2306-9 $29.95

by Helen Walsh Reader to be announced

The Colorado Mountain Series, Book 2

by Kristen Ashley Reader to be announced

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(bc34) 12 hours • Self-Help / Motivational & Inspirational

The Lemon Grove

Sweet Dreams

by Matthew McBride Read by John McLain

The Star Carrier Series, Book 5

by Ian Douglas Reader to be announced

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978-1-4830-2305-2 $105.00

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A Swollen Red Sun

Dark Matter

(2444) 13 hours • 10 CDs • 1 MP3 CD • Travel / Asia / India

In Supersurvivors, David B. Feldman and Lee Daniel Kravetz introduce the powerful notion of grounded hope as the foundation for overcoming trauma. Interweaving personal interviews with the latest scientific research, Supersurvivors will reset our thinking about how we deal with challenges.

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In Between

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(9682) 12 hours • 10 CDs • 1 MP3 CD • Fiction / Literary

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978-1-4830-2023-5 $49.00

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“Never since Somerset Maugham has rain seemed so romantic” (Observer). With exceptional sensitivity and wit, Frater uses fact, impression, and anecdote to vividly describe his own experience of the monsoon as well as its influence on the lives and culture of India and its people.

Starting where resiliency studies leave off, two psychologists explore the science of remarkable accomplishment in the wake of trauma, revealing the surprising principles that allow people to transform their lives and achieve extraordinary things.

A Novel

by Megan Abbott Reader to be announced

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(9862) 4.5 hours • 4 CDs • 1 MP3 CD • Religion / Christianity / Catholic

SIMULTANEOUS RELEASE 6/3

English anthropologist Andrew Bankson, increasingly frustrated and isolated by his work studying a river tribe in the territory of New Guinea, is on the verge of suicide when a chance encounter with colleagues, the controversial Nell Stone and her husband, pulls him back from the brink. Soon an intellectual and romantic firestorm ignites between the three of them.

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In the year since he was elected, Pope Francis’ simple message of mercy, service, and renewal has spread to every corner of the world, capturing the attention of a world longing for a message of hope. Collected from Pope Francis’ speeches, homilies, and papers presented during the first year of his papacy, this is the first Vatican-authorized book detailing his vision for the Catholic Church.

This is the inspiring story of how one man realized his dream of witnessing firsthand the most dramatic of meteorological events: the Indian monsoon.

The Fever

The Surprising Link Between Suffering and Success

by David B. Feldman and Lee Daniel Kravetz Reader to be announced

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Set between two World Wars and inspired by events in the life of revolutionary anthropologist Margaret Mead, Euphoria is an enthralling story of passion, possession, exploration, and sacrifice from accomplished author Lily King.

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Supersurvivors

A Modern Pilgrimage through India

by Alexander Frater Read by Bernard Mayes

A Novel

by Lily King • Read by Simon Vance and Xe Sands

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The Church of Mercy encourages each of us to ignite the flame within to help share the light of Christ and revitalize the Church.

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A Vision for the Church

by Pope Francis • Read by Paul Michael

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Chasing the Monsoon

Euphoria

The Church of Mercy

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From Karin Slaughter comes a fast and furious tale in which no one is quite who they seem.

Will Trent is standing in Georgia’s Lil’ Dixie Gas-n-Go, waiting on an Icee machine. To the surveillance cameras, however, Will appears to be someone very different—the menacing ex-con Bill Black. Going undercover, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent is about to infiltrate the most corrupt town in the most corrupt county in the new American South. Then all hell breaks loose.

(9877) 2.5 hours • 2 CDs • 1 MP3 CD • Fiction / Thrillers 978-1-4830-2319-9 $28.00

978-1-4830-2320-5 $19.95

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