📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Squirrel Superhighway: It’s Good To Be A Dog Virtual Book Publicity Tour

We invite you to Anna C. Morrison’s SQUIRREL SUPERHIGHWAY: IT’S GOOD TO BE A DOG Virtual Book Tour February 6 – 28! Inside the Book: Title: SQUIRREL SUPERHIGHWAY: IT’S GOOD TO BE A DOG Author: Anna C. Morrison Publisher: Guardian Angel Publishing Pages: 16 Genre: Children’s Picture Book Squirrel Superhighway features a dog on a self-discovery mission who is surrounded by many graceful squirrels. This is a vocabulary booster in a series of feel-good stories for children of all ages and those who read with and to them. The story includes squirrels, more squirrels, even more squirrels, and a dog who wants to be a squirrel! Amazon | Barnes
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents When Wars Were Won Virtual Book Publicity Tour

We invite you to Hugh Aaron’s WHEN WARS WERE WON Virtual Book Tour February 6 – 28! Inside the Book: Title: WHEN WARS WERE WON Author: Hugh Aaron Publisher: Stones Point Press Pages: 269 Genre: Fiction  Hal Arnold, a professor of English, returns to the Philippines after forty years yearning for the unity, spirit and optimism he knew as a 19- year-old member of a Seabee battalion in the South Pacific theater during World War II. Trying to recapture that experience, he writes this story, vividly portraying members of the battalion who impacted his life. Searching for his own identity, he finds it in the warm, rich culture of
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First Chapter: Dominion by Doug Hewitt

Title: DOMINION: FIRE AND ICE Author: D.A. Hewitt Publisher: Double Dragon eBooks Pages: 372 Genre: Science Fiction It’s the year 2075. Lunar mining and processing facilities have prospered near the lunar south pole, where the Moon’s largest city, Valhalla, rests on the rim of the Shackleton Crater. Dominion Off-Earth Resources has beaten the competition into space and is ready to establish its monopoly with the opening of the orbiting space resort Dominion. But Pettit Space Industries has a secret plan to emerge as a major contender in the commercialization of space. The upstart company is training the first space rescue squad at a secluded off-grid site in Barrow, Alaska.
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First Chapter: The Heatstroke Line by Edward L. Rubin

Title: THE HEATSTROKE LINE Author: Edward L. Rubin Publisher: Sunbury Press Pages: 223 Genre: Scifi/Cli-Fi (Climate Change Science Fiction) Nothing has been done to prevent climate change, and the United States has spun into decline.   Storm surges have made coastal cities uninhabitable, blistering heat waves afflict the interior and, in the South (below the Heatstroke Line), life is barely possible.  Under the stress of these events and an ensuing civil war, the nation has broken up into three smaller successor states and tens of tiny principalities.  When the flesh-eating bugs that inhabit the South show up in one of the successor states, Daniel Danten is assigned to venture below
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First Chapter: Sealed Up by Steve Dunn Hanson

Title: Sealed Up Author: Steve Dunn Hanson Publisher: Independent Pages: 402 Genre: Action/Adventure/Suspense The Da Vinci Code unsettles. SEALED UP shakes to the core! UCLA anthropologist Nathan Hill, in a funk since his young wife’s death, learns of staggering millennia-old chronicles sealed up somewhere in a Mesoamerica cliff. This bombshell rocks him out of his gloom, and he leads a clandestine expedition to uncover them. What are they? Who put them there? No one knows. But, self-absorbed televangelist Brother Luke, who funds the expedition, thinks he does. If he’s right, his power-hunger will have off-the-charts gratification. Striking Audra Chang joins Nathan in his pursuit and brings her own shocking secret. As they
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Announces The Heatstroke Line Virtual Book Tour

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Pump Up Your Book! is proud to announce Edward L. Rubin’s THE HEATSTROKE LINE (Sunbury Press) virtual book tour starting January 3 and ending March 31.  Edward will be guest appearing at blogs throughout the U.S. and international regions talking about his phenomenal new scifi/cli-fi new novel that critics are comparing to Mad Max, The Hunger Games, Waterworld, and The Walking Dead.  THE HEATSTROKE LINE is Pump Up Your Book’s Top Scifi Pick of the Month. Edward Rubin is University Professor of Law and Political Science at Vanderbilt University.  He specializes in administrative law, constitutional law and legal theory. He is the author of Soul, Self
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Lord of the Infield Flies Virtual Book Publicity Tour

We invite you to Steven Reilly’s THE LORD OF THE INFIELD FLIES Virtual Book Tour March 6 – 31! Inside the Book: Title: THE LORD OF THE INFIELD FLIES Author: Steve Reilly Publisher: Strong Books Pages: 126 Genre: Sports Memoir The Lord of the Infield Flies will thrill readers with Coach Steve Reilly’s harrowing, challenging, and adventuresome baseball team’s trek from Connecticut to play in Maine. As a prequel to his award winning memoir, The Fat Lady Never Sings, Reilly, a high school baseball coach, narrates the true story from the beginning of his coaching career at the age of 20. In summer 1977, Reilly plans to take his
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Super Simple Quick Start Guide to Self-Publishing Release Day Blitz!

We invite you to E.J. Stevens’ SUPER SIMPLE QUICK START GUIDE TO SELF-PUBLISHING Book Release Day Blitz on January 10! Inside the Book: Title: SUPER SINGLE QUICK START GUIDE TO SELF-PUBLISHING Author: E.J. Stevens Publisher: Sacred Oaks Press Pages: 105 Genre: Nonfiction This simple introductory guide will give you the basic information you need to begin self-publishing. Whether you are writing your first novel or looking to breathe new life into your backlist, this guide will give you the tools you need to successfully self-publish. Useful information, direct links to resources, checklists, and step-by-step tutorials will help you create a professional quality book. Simple tips will save you time
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Press Release: Pump Up Your Book! Announces Steve Dunn Hanson’s Sealed Up Virtual Book Tour

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Pump Up Your Book! is proud to announce Steve Dunn Hanson’s Sealed Up: The Course of Fate: Book One virtual book tour January 3 – March 31.  Steve will be guest appearing at blogs throughout the U.S. and international regions talking about his phenomenal new action/adventure/suspense novel that critics are calling “Fascinating. Intricate. Intelligent.” Hanson has lived in places that grew him – from a small Idaho farm town, a run-down neighborhood in St. Louis, and a middle-class southern California community to Sydney, Australia and Bucharest, Romania. His experiences are as varied as the places he’s lived.  He says, “I have a hopper of ‘reality’ including
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Fighter Pilot’s Daughter: Growing Up in the Sixties and the Cold War Virtual Book Publicity Tour

We invite you to Mary Lawlor’s FIGHTER PILOT’S DAUGHTER: GROWING UP IN THE SIXTIES AND THE COLD WAR Virtual Book Tour January 3 – 27! Leave a comment on each of her tour stops to let her know you stopped by! Inside the Book: Title: Fighter Pilot’s Daughter: Growing Up in the Sixties and the Cold War Author: Mary Lawlor Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield Pages: 336 Genre: Memoir Format: Hardcover/Kindle FIGHTER PILOT’S DAUGHTER: GROWING UP IN THE SIXTIES AND THE COLD WAR tells the story of the author as a young woman coming of age in an Irish Catholic, military family during the Cold War. Her father, an aviator
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Tigress and the Yogi Book Blast!

We invite you to Shelley Schanfield’s THE TIGRESS AND THE YOGI Book Blast January 3 – 27! Shelley will be giving away one autographed copy of The Tigress and the Yogi, PLUS 5 ebooks!  Follow her tour and fill out the rafflecopter at each site for more entries to win! Inside the Book: Title: THE TIGRESS AND THE YOGI Author: Shelley Schanfield Publisher: Lake House Books Pages: 382 Genre: Historical Fantasy A talking tigress. A wandering yogi. A young woman’s harrowing journey through an ancient land where chaos threatens gods and mortals alike. A tigress speaks to the outcaste girl Mala, and as she flees in terror, she encounters
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Never Go Alone Virtual Book Publicity Tour

We invite you to Denison Latch’s NEVER GO ALONE Virtual Book Tour January 3 – 27! Leave a comment on each of his tour stops to let him know you stopped by! Inside the Book: Title: Never Go Alone Author: Denison Hatch Publisher: Lookout Press Pages: 300 Genre: Thriller/Mystery/Police Procedural A rash of elaborate cat burglaries of luxury buildings in Manhattan has the police and mayor panicked. When a group of social media obsessed millennials—a loosely organized crew that call themselves “urban explorers”—are suspected in the heists, NYPD detective Jake Rivett is assigned the case. Already undercover with one foot on each side of the blue line, Rivett is
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Sword and Sorcery Series Book Blast!

We invite you to Dylan Doose’s SWORD AND SORCERY SERIES Book Blast on January 4! Leave a comment on each of his tour stops to let him know you stopped by! Inside the Book: Title: FIRE AND SWORD Author: Dylan Doose Publisher: Independent Pages: 332 Genre: Fantasy/Horror Condemned to hang for their crimes, they’ll march instead to perish as heroes, or live as free men. A broken nation in need of a savior – ravaged by plague, decimated by dark magic, infiltrated by a foreign evil seeking to dominate from within. Three will rise to save the beleaguered land. But will they be enough? A fantasy adventure for fans
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Roping the Cowboy Book Blast – Win $25 Amazon Gift Card!

We invite you to Marianne Stephens for authors at Romance Books ‘4’ Us’ ROPING THE COWBOY: 9 ROMANCES ON THE RANGE Book Blast January 3 – 27! Marianne and the authors will be giving away a $25 Amazon Gift Card! Leave a comment on each of their tour stops for extra entries! Inside the Book: Title: Roping the Cowboy: 9 Romances on the Range Author: Marianne Stephens for authors at Romance Books ‘4’ Us Publisher: Romance Books ‘4’ Us Pages: 306 Genre: Mixed Romance Genres Sweet through sizzling collection of love stories includes contemporary, period, and historical romance, otherworldly romance, and romance with a touch of magic.   Amazon |
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Sealed Up Virtual Book Publicity Tour & Win $25 Amazon Gift Card!

We invite you to Steve Dunn Hanson’s SEALED UP: THE COURSE OF FATE: BOOK ONE Virtual Book Tour January 3 – March 31! Steve will be giving away a $25 Amazon Gift Card & one autographed copy of his book! Leave a comment on each of his tour stops for extra entries! Inside the Book: Title: Sealed Up Author: Steve Dunn Hanson Publisher: Independent Pages: 402 Genre: Action/Adventure/Suspense The Da Vinci Code unsettles. SEALED UP shakes to the core! UCLA anthropologist Nathan Hill, in a funk since his young wife’s death, learns of staggering millennia-old chronicles sealed up somewhere in a Mesoamerica cliff. This bombshell rocks him out of his gloom, and
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Cat O’ Nine Tales Virtual Book Publicity Tour

We invite you to Krystal Lawrence’s CAT O’ NINE TALES Virtual Book Tour January 3 – 27! Leave a comment on each of her tour stops to let her know you stopped by! Inside the Book: Title: Cat O’ Nine Tales Author: Krystal Lawrence Publisher: Telemachus Press Pages: 284 Genre: Horror/Suspense What evil dwells within the pretty lady next door or the ordinary house cat? What happens when you pursue your dreams into the desert after dark? Beware the man borne of your imagination. He could seek vengeance on the one who created him. Visit a bookstore offering a most alluring and sinister service. Journey to the dark side
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Northern Waste Series Book Blast!

We invite you to Eve Silver’s NORTHERN WASTE Book Blast on January 5! Leave a comment on each of her tour stops to let her know you stopped by! Inside the Book: Title: Driven Author: Eve Silver Publisher: Independent Pages: 321 Genre: Scifi Romance “Edgy, steamy, action packed, and plotted with nail-biting tension…”–Library Journal, Starred Review In the harsh Northern Waste where human life is worth little, ice trucker Raina Bowen has learned to keep her eyes open and her knife close at hand. She’s spent her life on the run, one step ahead of the megalomaniac who hunts her. All she wants is to stay out of trouble and
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Heatstroke Line Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Edward L. Rubin’s THE HEATSTROKE LINE virtual book tour January 3 – March 31! Inside the Book Title: THE HEATSTROKE LINE Author: Edward L. Rubin Publisher: Sunbury Press Pages: 223 Genre: Scifi/Cli-Fi (Climate Change Science Fiction) Nothing has been done to prevent climate change, and the United States has spun into decline.   Storm surges have made coastal cities uninhabitable, blistering heat waves afflict the interior and, in the South (below the Heatstroke Line), life is barely possible.  Under the stress of these events and an ensuing civil war, the nation has broken up into three smaller successor states and tens
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Double Take Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Abby Bardi’s DOUBLE TAKE virtual book tour January 3 – 27! Inside the Book Title: Double Take Author: Abby Bardi Publisher: Harper Collins Impulse Pages: 186 Genre: Mystery/Women’s Fiction Set in Chicago, 1975, Double Take is the story of artsy Rachel Cochrane, who returns from college with no job and confronts the recent death of Bando, one of her best friends. When she runs into Joey, a mutual friend, their conversations take them back into their shared past and to the revelation that Bando may have been murdered. To find out who murdered him, Rachel is forced to revisit her
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📚Pump Up Your Book Presents Dominion: Fire and Ice Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you D.A. Hewitt’s DOMINION: FIRE AND ICE virtual book tour January 3 – February 28! Inside the Book Title: DOMINION: FIRE AND ICE Author: D.A. Hewitt Publisher: Double Dragon eBooks Pages: 372 Genre: Science Fiction It’s the year 2075. Lunar mining and processing facilities have prospered near the lunar south pole, where the Moon’s largest city, Valhalla, rests on the rim of the Shackleton Crater. Dominion Off-Earth Resources has beaten the competition into space and is ready to establish its monopoly with the opening of the orbiting space resort Dominion. But Pettit Space Industries has a secret plan to emerge as
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Kracken Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Ray Ellis’ KRACKEN virtual book tour January 3 – 27! Inside the Book Title: KRACKEN Author: Ray Ellis Publisher: NCC Publishing LLC Pages: 367 Genre: Inspirational Science Fiction The year is 135 New Reckoning. A Godless world is rebuilding itself. When a stranger from Mike Stone’s past appears on his doorstep, his ordinary life is suddenly and violently destroyed. Mike’s past has come back to haunt him. Now with his family attacked and his home destroyed, Mike finds himself running for his life through a jungle-planet filled with terrors and a monster known only as the Kracken. In the midst
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Colorado Dream Book Blast!

We invite you to Charlene Whitman’s COLORADO DREAM Book Blast on December 6! Leave a comment on each of her tour stops to let her know you stopped by! Inside the Book: Title: COLORADO DREAM Author: Charlene Whitman Publisher: Ubiquitous Press Pages: 450 Genre: Sweet Historical Western Romance Yearning to become a concert musician, a young woman from New York travels to Colorado to purchase a violin, but when she meets a wild, untamable cowboy, her dream is threatened and her heart torn … In New York in 1877, Angela Bellini longs to become a concert violinist and get away from her abusive father. When her dream takes her
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents S.H.I.N.E. and WIN: 5 Steps to Conquer the Fear of Failure Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you L.T. Lewis’ S.H.I.N.E AND WIN: 5 KEYS TO CONQUER THE FEAR OF FAILURE virtual book tour January 3 – 27! Inside the Book Title: S.H.I.N.E. and WIN: 5 Keys to Conquer the Fear of Failure Author: L.T. Lewis Publisher: Kick Boxing Believers, L.L.C. Pages: 18 Genre: Nonfiction Success/Self-Help If you feel stuck in a mediocre life and you can’t seem to break free, be inspired by the guidance of L.T. Lewis in S.H.I.N.E. and WIN: 5 Keys to Conquer the Fear of Failure.  As a Spiritual Strategist, Coach and Entrepreneur, L.T. utilizes time-tested truths and spiritual secrets to help women
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Paradise Series Book Blast!

We invite you to Deborah Brown’s PARADISE SERIES Book Blast on December 15! Leave a comment on each of her tour stops to let her know you stopped by! Inside the Book: Title: Paradise Series Author: Deborah Brown Publisher: Paradise Books Pages: 628 (total in series) Genre: Mystery/Humor Crazy in Paradise: Dying in the middle of the summer in the Florida Keys is sweaty business. Welcome to Tarpon Cove. Madison Westin has inherited her aunt’s beachfront motel in the Florida Keys. Trouble is she’s also inherited a slew of colorful tenant’s – drunks, ex-cons, and fugitives. Only one problem: First, she has to wrestle control from a conniving lawyer
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Beckham 101: The Kate and Robert Chronicles Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Suzanne Eglington’s BECKHAM 101: THE KATE AND ROBERT CHRONICLES virtual book tour December 5 – 16! Inside the Book Title: Beckham 101: The Kate and Robert Chronicles Author: Suzanne Eglington Publisher: Xlibris Pages: 280 Genre: Romantic Suspense BECKHAM 101 is the third installment in the Kate and Robert Chronicles by author Suzanne Eglington. Eglington invites readers into the intimate inner world of the newly wedded duo as they learn to navigate life as a committed couple. Settling down brings new perspectives and people into Kate’s and Robert’s lives, along with the exposure of more of Robert’s mysterious past. For Kate,
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Macaroni and Cheese for Thanksgiving Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Cheryl C. Malandrinos’ MACARONI AND CHEESE FOR THANKSGIVING virtual book tour December 5 – 16! Inside the Book Title: MACARONI AND CHEESE FOR THANKSGIVING Author: Cheryl C. Malandrinos Publisher: Guardian Angel Publishing Pages: 16 Genre: Children’s Picture Book Ten-year-old Macy is waiting for her grandparents to arrive on Thanksgiving. When the front door swings open, Grandma and Grandpa are covered with hugs and kisses. Crash! Everyone rushes in to find the dog gnawing a meaty turkey leg. Can Macy’s quick thinking save dinner? Amazon | Barnes & Noble Meet the Author Cheryl C. Malandrinos is a freelance writer and editor. She
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Joseph’s Journey: When Dad Left and Never Came Back Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Christina Nicole Smith’s JOSEPH’S JOURNEY: WHEN DAD LEFT AND NEVER CAME BACK 2ND EDITION virtual book tour December 5 – 16! Inside the Book Title: Joseph’s Journey: When Dad Left and Never Came Back 2nd Edition Author: Christina Nicole Smith Publisher: Be A Blessing Enterprises Pages: 44 Genre: Juvenile Literature/Nonfiction As a mother, how do you explain an absentee father to your child without blame, anger or resentment? Empower them! Seven-year-old Joseph shares his story about when he first learns about the POWER of choice he possesses after his father leaves and doesn’t come back. His mother teaches him the
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Captain Hawkins Book Blast!

We invite you to H. Peter Alesso’s CAPTAIN HAWKINS Book Blast November 16 – December 16! Leave a comment on each of his tour stops to let him know you stopped by! Inside the Book: Title: Captain Hawkins Author: H. Peter Alesso Publisher: Independent Pages: 207 Genre: Science Fiction Jamie Hawkins was living on an obscure planet in the twenty third-century when on one fateful night—his life changed forever. His heroic effort to save the lives of innocent women and children, caught in the cross-fire of war, placed him squarely in the crosshairs of avenging soldiers. A former marine, Hawkins was stunned when his rescue effort was seen as
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The True Meaning of Myrrh: A Christmas Day Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you John Manderino’s THE TRUE MEANING OF MYRRH: A CHRISTMAS DAY virtual book tour December 5 – 9! Inside the Book Title: The True Meaning of Myrrh Author: John Manderino Publisher: Ice Cube Press Pages: 101 Genre: Fiction Set in suburban Chicago during the 1960’s, The True Meaning of Myrrh is an amusing, but gritty, look at the holiday season as it used to be. The nostalgia classics: turkey, snowball fights, droopy Christmas trees, and midnight Mass are leavened with a drunken Santa, oedipal anguish, prostitutes and an aggressive midget. One brother can’t shake his profound disappointment at receiving slippers when
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents A Darker Shore Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Malia Zaidi’s A DARKER SHORE virtual book tour December 5 – January 13! Inside the Book Title: A Darker Shore Author: Malia Zaidi Publisher: Bookbaby Pages: 400 Genre: Historical Mystery 1926: A year has passed since the events of “A Poisonous Journey” and Lady Evelyn has made a home for herself in Greece, living with her cousin, Briony, her husband, Jeffrey and Daniel Harper. Disturbing this island idyll is a letter, which arrives from France with troubling information about the Daniel’s long-believed-dead brother, Henry. A new journey awaits! With the shadows of the Great War reaching out, Lady Evelyn and
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