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SUMMARY:LAUNCH - Normal Women by Ainslie Hogarth
DESCRIPTION:Please join Ainslie Hogarth in celebrating the publication of Normal Women. Ainslie will do a brief reading\, followed by a Q&A and signing. This event is open to the public. \n\n\n\n\nEventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/book-launch-ainslie-hogarths-normal-women-tickets-724024124647 \n \nAbout the book: \nIn this darkly comic story about how we value female labour—and don’t—a new mother becomes embroiled in a dangerous mystery when her friend\, a controversial entrepreneur\, goes missing. \nWhen her daughter Lotte was born\, Dani had welcomed the chance to be a stay-at-home mother. To be good at something\, for once. But now Dani can’t stop thinking about her seemingly healthy husband\, Clark\, dropping dead. Not because she hates him (not right now\, anyway)\, but because it’s become abundantly clear to Dani that if he dies\, she and Lotte will be left destitute. \nAnd then Dani discovers The Temple. Ostensibly a yoga centre\, The Temple and its guardian\, Renata\, are committed to helping people reach their full potential. And if that sometimes requires sex work\, so be it. Finally\, Dani has found something she could be good at\, even great at; meaningful work that will protect her and Lotte from poverty\, and provide true economic independence from Clark. \nJust as Dani is preparing to embrace this opportunity\, Renata disappears. And Dani discovers there might be something else she’s good at: detective work.
URL:http://queenbooks.ca/event/launch-normal-women-by-ainslie-hogarth/
LOCATION:Ontario
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SUMMARY:READING - Trevor Herriot and Emily Paskevics
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a reading by Trevor Herriot (The Economy of Sparrows) and Emily Paskevics (Half-Wild and Other Stories of Encounter)! This event is open to the public. \n \nMore on The Economy of Sparrows: \nHerriot draws on his wealth of knowledge of the natural world to craft the remarkable story of Nell\, a woman contending with the traumas of her past\, the isolation of her present\, and the dread instilled by ongoing ecological devastation—until she fosters young Carmelita\, who makes her see the world with new eyes. \nAdvance Praise: \n“. . .The Economy of Sparrows\, Trevor Herriot’s exquisite\, cataclysmic novel\, makes us question our earnest assumptions about the role of Homo sapiens in the natural world.”\n—Wayne Grady\, author of Pandexicon and The Good Father \nMore on Half-Wild and Other Stories of Encounter: \nIn her stories\, Emily Paskevics subtly subverts traditional nature writing: the forest is burning\, rivers are flooding\, and the exploitation of land looms large. At a time when human-animal sharing of territory is more fraught than ever\, these enthralling tales challenge us to consider how our own existence intersects with the wild creatures we share the earth with\, and to understand our place in a threatened ecosystem. This stunning collection explores intergenerational connection\, home\, and healing amid overwhelming ecological change. \nAdvance Praise: \n“Emily Paskevics’ wilderness is a land apart. . . Her characters\, often bent on escape\, are neither welcomed nor absolved\, but find wonder and meaning in a world that is struggling to survive.”\n—Dianne Warren\, author of Cool Water and The Diamond House
URL:http://queenbooks.ca/event/reading-trevor-herriot-and-emily-paskevics/
LOCATION:Queen Books\, 914 Queen St E\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4M 1J5\, Canada
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SUMMARY:KIDS - Little Ones Story Hour
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a story hour for toddlers and preschoolers\, hosted by Queen Books staff! We will read a combination of board books and picture books.
URL:http://queenbooks.ca/event/kids-little-ones-story-hour/
LOCATION:Queen Books\, 914 Queen St E\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4M 1J5\, Canada
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SUMMARY:READING - Wayne Ng and Danila Botha
DESCRIPTION:Join Wayne Ng and Danila Botha for a reading from The Family Code and a signing! Come hang and hear them discuss Wayne’s new novel The Family Code and what it’s like to write outside one’s experiences and craft unlikeable characters. Danila’s latest release is Things that Cause Inappropriate Happiness\, releasing April 1\, 2024. This event is open to the public. \nAbout the book: \nEvery family has rituals and routines holding them together. But sometimes they are the very things that tear them apart. The Family Code is a gritty family drama featuring the troubled life of Hannah Belenko\, a young single mother dogged by the brutality of past traumas and a code of silence that she must crack in order to be free—or else lose everything. \nHannah was raised by this code and rules her own family by it. When she loses her daughter to the state and her boyfriend threatens her\, she flees from Ottawa to Halifax with her remaining son\, six-year-old Axel. While she bulldozes her way through everything and schemes to protect him\, Axel flounders in the chaos. He begins to doubt his mother and her dream of a way out. With her life crashing down\, Hannah is driven by desperation to survive yet hangs on to elusive hope. \nWith unvarnished and high-voltage prose\, The Family Code unabashedly reveals the power and perils of parenting\, but also the longing and vulnerability of children. \nCan’t make it to the event? Order a copy of the book here.
URL:http://queenbooks.ca/event/event-wayne-ng-and-danila-botha/
LOCATION:Queen Books\, 914 Queen St E\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4M 1J5\, Canada
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SUMMARY:LAUNCH - Colin Shafer's Finding American: Stories of Immigration from All 50 States
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of Colin Boyd Shafer’s newest book\, Finding American: Stories of Immigration from All 50 States. Colin will be sharing photographs from the project as well as having a conversation with author Gabriel Allahdua of Harvesting Freedom: The Life of a Migrant Worker in Canada (2023). The evening’s event will be led by award-winning author Martha Bátiz of No Stars in the Sky (2022). \nAbout the book: \nA captivating photographic portrait of the diverse experiences of immigrants in the United States\, depicting the resilience and realities of building a home in a new place. \nDisturbed by the increasingly hostile views of immigrants that arose in the United States during the 2016 presidential election\, photographer Colin Boyd Shafer set out on a road trip to meet hundreds of families and individuals with roots abroad who now live in America. The result\, after a year of travel covering fifty thousand miles\, is this collection of striking photos and moving stories that form a portrait of the nation’s complex and shifting relationship to immigration. Some of the participants chose to make America home; others were displaced by crises. Some were warmly welcomed and granted citizenship; others battled the immigration system for years and still live with fear and uncertainty. Their circumstances and origins vary\, but all are united by a willingness to share their stories – of harrowing journeys\, intense love\, separated families\, passionate activism – in hopes of adding nuance and depth to a vital issue that continues to polarize Americans. \nCan’t attend the event? Order a copy of Colin’s book here\, Gabriel’s book here\, and Martha’s book here.
URL:http://queenbooks.ca/event/launch-colin-shafers-finding-american-stories-of-immigration-from-all-50-states/
LOCATION:Queen Books\, 914 Queen St E\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4M 1J5\, Canada
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SUMMARY:KIDS - Pirate Glitterbeard Reading and Craft!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an event hosted by Oksanna and Larissa Crawley\, featuring a reading by the authors\, snacks\, and a craft! This event is open to the public. The book is recommended for ages 4-8.\nAbout the book: \nAlone In his cabin\, Pirate Glitterbeard sprinkled pink glitter onto his beard and put on his finest pink skirt! \nAll aboard The Heart’s Desire! Pirate Glitterbeard loves everything pink and glittery. Will his crew rebel when they find out? In this rollicking sea tale\, the captain and his quirky crew journey to find their treasure – the Wikkie-Tikkie’s legendary meat pies. But\, argh\, evil Pirate Squidlips and her ship\, The Rotten Turnip draw near… \nCan’t make it to the event? Order a copy of the book here.
URL:http://queenbooks.ca/event/kids-pirate-glitterbeard-reading-and-craft/
LOCATION:Queen Books\, 914 Queen St E\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4M 1J5\, Canada
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SUMMARY:YA - READING - Zoulfa Katouh's As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a reading\, conversation\, Q&A session\, and signing of As Long as The Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh. This event is open to the public and will be moderated by Maha @onetruedaydreamer. \nAbout the book: \nA love letter to Syria and its people\, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow is a speculative novel set amid the Syrian Revolution\, burning with the fires of hope\, love\, and possibility. Perfect for fans of The Book Thief and Salt to the Sea. \nSalama Kassab was a pharmacy student when the cries for freedom broke out in Syria. She still had her parents and her big brother; she still had her home. She had a normal teenager’s life. \nNow Salama volunteers at a hospital in Homs\, helping the wounded who flood through the doors daily. Secretly\, though\, she is desperate to find a way out of her beloved country before her sister-in-law\, Layla\, gives birth. So desperate\, that she has manifested a physical embodiment of her fear in the form of her imagined companion\, Khawf\, who haunts her every move in an effort to keep her safe. \nBut even with Khawf pressing her to leave\, Salama is torn between her loyalty to her country and her conviction to survive. Salama must contend with bullets and bombs\, military assaults\, and her shifting sense of morality before she might finally breathe free. And when she crosses paths with the boy she was supposed to meet one fateful day\, she starts to doubt her resolve in leaving home at all. \nSoon\, Salama must learn to see the events around her for what they truly are—not a war\, but a revolution—and decide how she\, too\, will cry for Syria’s freedom. \nZoulfa Katouh is a Canadian with Syrian roots based in Switzerland. She is currently pursuing her master’s in Drug Sciences and finds Studio Ghibli inspiration in the mountains\, lakes\, and stars surrounding her. When she’s not talking to herself in the woodland forest\, she’s drinking iced coffee\, baking aesthetic cookies and cakes\, and telling everyone who would listen about how BTS paved the way. A dream of hers is to get Kim Nam-joon to read one of her books. As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow is her debut novel. \n \nCan’t make it to the event? Order a copy of the book here!
URL:http://queenbooks.ca/event/reading-zoulfa-katouhs-as-long-as-the-lemon-trees-grow/
LOCATION:Queen Books\, 914 Queen St E\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4M 1J5\, Canada
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SUMMARY:READING - Chris MacDonald and Roz Weston
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an event with readings by author Chris MacDonald (The Things I Came Here With)\, recently nominated for the Heritage Toronto Book Award\, and DJ Roz Weston (A Little Bit Broken). This event is open to the public. \nAbout Chris’s book: \n“Does it hurt?” When you’re a tattoo artist\, that’s the most universal question. For Chris MacDonald\, the answer is simple: hurts less than a broken heart. Those words are painted above the entrance to his shop\, Under My Thumb Tattoos\, as a reminder. \nChris and his brothers were as wild as the wind\, in their house among the fields of Alliston\, Ontario\, when their parents divorced. Shell-shocked\, they were uprooted and brought to Toronto by their dad. Their mother’s mental illness worsened in the aftermath\, and she disappeared. As a teenager\, Chris left home and found himself immersed in the city’s underbelly\, a world where drugs\, skateboarding\, and punk rock reigned. Between the youth shelters\, suicidal thoughts\, and haunted apartments\, a light shined: and it was art. \nHe eventually found himself following the path of his brother\, Rob\, and pursuing life as a tattooist. Then\, at the height of a destructive summer\, everything changed: he met Megan\, the girl who would become his rock of ages. \nThis remarkable memoir examines what tattooing means to MacDonald and traces the connection his artistic motives have to both his family and childhood. The Things I Came Here With is about how crucial our past is to understanding our future\, but it’s also a love letter to his daughter about the importance of expression\, life’s uncertainty\, and beauty. \nAbout Roz’s book: \nIt never gets better\, but it does get easier. That’s the first thing Roz says to anyone who asks him for advice. Anyone who’s lost\, or just putting the pieces back together. When you’re broken\, fixed becomes an obsession. \nRoz is a multi-platform entertainer and storyteller who’s used to hosting three shows a day on five hours of sleep a night. On The Roz & Mocha Show\, ET Canada Live and Entertainment Tonight Canada\, Roz built an audience and turned them into family. But as with most families\, there is just some shit we don’t talk about. \nFrom growing up in a small town to getting lost\, drunk and terrified in New York; from finding comfort in the arms and beds of strangers to kicking an opioid addiction he didn’t know he had; from broken bones to broken hearts and a broken marriage. From navigating grief and guilt following the devastating loss of his father to persevering in the face of an ongoing and private battle with his own body. All is shared in Roz’s disarming signature blend of blunt truth and humour. \nA Little Bit Broken is a deeply personal and inspiring account of self-forgiveness\, redemption and recovering from bad choices–because let’s face it\, the reason we make bad choices is that they usually feel really good. And Roz has made them all. \nWe are not our mistakes. We are not our scars. We are not our guilt. \nThis book is for anyone who thinks they’re too far gone or beyond repair. Anyone too ashamed to admit to or face the hurt because their current place in the world seems too goddamn good to complain about anything. We hide it or deny it and carry on. But it’s nothing we can’t fix. \nCan’t make it to the event? Order a copy of Chris’s book here and Roz’s book here.
URL:http://queenbooks.ca/event/reading-chris-macdonalds-the-things-i-came-here-with/
LOCATION:Queen Books\, 914 Queen St E\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4M 1J5\, Canada
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SUMMARY:LAUNCH - Suzanne Heywood's Wavewalker with 30 Birds Foundation
DESCRIPTION:Please join Suzanne Heywood in celebrating the publication of Wavewalker. The event will feature a conversation\, Q & A session\, and words from girls supported by the 30 Birds Foundation. This event is open to the public. \nAbout the book: \n“Aged just seven\, Suzanne Heywood set sail with her parents and brother on a three-year voyage around the world. What followed turned instead into a decade-long way of life\, through storms\, shipwrecks\, reefs and isolation\, with little formal schooling. No one else knew where they were most of the time and no state showed any interest in what was happening to the children. \nSuzanne fought her parents\, longing to return to England and to education and stability. This memoir covers her astonishing upbringing\, a survival story of a child deprived of safety\, friendships\, schooling and occasionally drinking water… At seventeen Suzanne earned an interview at Oxford University and returned to the UK.”
URL:http://queenbooks.ca/event/launch-suzanne-heywoods-wavewalker-with-30-birds-foundation/
LOCATION:Queen Books\, 914 Queen St E\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4M 1J5\, Canada
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SUMMARY:READING - Cardsy B's The Saturn Diaries
DESCRIPTION:Join Cardsy B for a guided meditation\, herbal elixir recipes\, reading from The Saturn Diaries\, and Q & A session. This event is open to the public.\n \nAbout the book: \nFashion diva turned wellness witch\, Cardsy B\, shares her irresistibly witty and raw account of seemingly having\, then losing\, it all to redirect inward to find healing and purpose in unlocking her intuition. \nBefore becoming Cardsy B\, Rebecca Szymczak was a rebellious outcast from rural Pennsylvania\, determined to live the quintessential Manhattan life\, landing high-level fashion jobs\, celebrity friends\, and even her own lingerie line along the way. But by age thirty-one\, an astrological transit—known as Saturn’s Return—gate-crashed her life\, stripping away her self-identity and exposing a battle with depression\, anxiety\, and substance abuse\, just beneath the glossy surface. \nAs she began to rebuild her life\, Cardsy revisited her childhood hobby of pulling tarot cards. In doing so\, she reconnected with her intuition in powerful and often unexpected ways. \nThe Saturn Diaries is the compelling record of that journey\, involving everything\, from a homemade Oprah-ator phone created to dial the universe to a solo trek through the Costa Rican Jungle to participate in an Ayahuasca ceremony. \nPart memoir and part spellbook\, each chapter features a spell\, elixir\, or ritual. The Saturn Diaries – intensely moving and often hilarious – chronicles discovery and remembrance. It reveals the magic that occurs when you acknowledge the seeker within and begin listening to your own inner guidance system. \nCan’t make it to the event? Order a copy of the book here.
URL:http://queenbooks.ca/event/reading-cardsy-bs-the-saturn-diaries/
LOCATION:Queen Books\, 914 Queen St E\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4M 1J5\, Canada
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SUMMARY:LAUNCH - Casey Plett's On Community
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a launch of On Community by Casey Plett\, featuring a conversation hosted by our very own Lee Suksi\, author of The Nerves! The event is free and all are welcome. No RSVP is required. On Community is published by @biblioasis_books and The Nerves is published by @metatronpress. \nAbout On Community: \nONE OF CBC BOOKS CANADIAN NONFICTION TO READ IN THE FALL \nWe need community to live. But what does it look like? Why does it often feel like it’s slipping away? \nWe are all hinged to some definition of a community\, be it as simple as where we live\, complex as the beliefs we share\, or as intentional as those we call family. In an episodic personal essay\, Casey Plett draws on a range of firsthand experiences to start a conversation about the larger implications of community as a word\, an idea\, and a symbol. With each thread a cumulative definition of community\, and what it has come to mean to Plett\, emerges. \nLooking at phenomena from transgender literature\, to Mennonite history\, to hacker houses of Silicon Valley\, and the rise of nationalism in North America\, Plett delves into the thorny intractability of community’s boons and faults. Deeply personal\, authoritative in its illuminations\, On Community is an essential contribution to the larger cultural discourse that asks how\, and to what socio-political ends\, we form bonds with one another. \nCan’t make it to the launch? Order a copy of the book here.
URL:http://queenbooks.ca/event/launch-casey-pletts-on-community/
LOCATION:Queen Books\, 914 Queen St E\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4M 1J5\, Canada
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SUMMARY:KIDS - Little Ones Halloween Read-a-loud and Craft
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Halloween-themed read-a-loud and craft hosted by Queen Books staff!  We will read a combination of board books and picture books and create a friendly ghost-themed craft. This event is open to the public and is recommended for toddlers and preschoolers.
URL:http://queenbooks.ca/event/kids-little-ones-halloween-read-a-loud-and-craft/
LOCATION:Queen Books\, 914 Queen St E\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4M 1J5\, Canada
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SUMMARY:KIDS - Narwhal and Jelly Halloween Craft for Early Elementary Kids
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Halloween-themed read-a-loud and craft hosted by Queen Books staff\, inspired by A Super Scary Narwhalloween (A Narwal and Jelly Book #8). We will read part of the book together and then design costumes for Narwhal and our own accompanying comic strips! This event is open to the public and is recommended for early elementary-aged children (the book is recommended for ages 6-9; all ages are welcome to join us!). Order a copy of the book here.
URL:http://queenbooks.ca/event/kids-narwhal-and-jelly-halloween-craft-for-early-elementary-kids/
LOCATION:Queen Books\, 914 Queen St E\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4M 1J5\, Canada
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SUMMARY:TICKETED - Read Wine Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us\, in partnership with Canary Wines\, for a discussion about Dogs of Summer\, a coming of age novel set in a tiny Tenerife village\, and a guided wine tasting from Tenerife’s Bodegas Viñátigo–located in Paraje La Peña a neighbouring village. \nTickets include wine\, snacks\, and a copy of Dogs of Summer. Purchase them at the Eventbrite page. \n \nAbout the book: \n“[A] firecracker of a debut.”\n—The New York Times \n“Andrea Abreu’s debut novel about two girls in the summer heat of Tenerife is perfect for these dog days.”\n—Shreya Chattopadhyay\, The New York Times Book Review \nMy Brilliant Friend meets Blue is the Warmest Color in this lyrical debut novel set in a working-class neighborhood of the Canary Islands—a story about two girls coming of age in the early aughts and a friendship that simmers into erotic desire over the course of one hot summer. \nHigh near the volcano of northern Tenerife\, an endless ceiling of cloud cover traps the working class in an abject\, oppressive heat. Far away from the island’s posh resorts\, two girls dream of hitching a ride down to the beach and escaping their horizonless town. \nIt’s summer\, 2005\, and our ten-year-old narrator is consumed by thoughts of her best friend Isora. Isora is rude and bossy\, but she’s also vivacious and brave; grownups prefer her\, and boys do\, too. That’s why sometimes she gets jealous of Isora\, who already has hair on her vagina and soft\, round breasts. But she’s definitely not jealous that Isora’s mother is dead\, nor that Isora’s fat\, foul-mouthed grandmother has her on a diet\, so that she is constantly sticking her fingers down her throat. Besides\, she would do anything for Isora: gorge herself on cakes when her friend wants to watch\, follow her to the bathroom when she takes a shit\, log into chat rooms to swap dirty instant messages with strangers. But increasingly\, our narrator finds it hard to keep up with Isora\, who seems to be growing up at full tilt without her—and as her submissiveness veers into a painful sexual awakening\, desire grows indistinguishable from intimate violence. \nBraiding prose poetry with bachata lyrics and the gritty humor of Canary dialect\, Dogs of Summer is a story of exquisite yearning\, a brutal picture of girlhood and a love song written for the vital community it portrays. \nCan’t attend the event? Purchase the book here.
URL:http://queenbooks.ca/event/read-wine-book-club/
LOCATION:Queen Books\, 914 Queen St E\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4M 1J5\, Canada
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SUMMARY:KIDS - Paul Gilligan’s Pluto Rocket: Joe Pidge Flips a Lid
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the first two books in the graphic novels for young readers\, Pluto Rocket by Paul Gilligan (creator of the Pooch Café syndicated comic strip). The launch event for Pluto Rocket: Joe Pidge Flips a Lid will feature a reading by the author\, snacks\, a drawing demo\, and Paul will sit down for a short Q&A with John Martz (Burt’s Way Home)! This event is open to the public. The book is recommended for ages 6-9. \nAbout the book: \nPluto Rocket and Joe Pidge are back\, with more hats and hijinks than ever before\, in the second book of this hilarious new early graphic novel series\, for fans of Narwhal and Jelly and Pizza and Taco! \nJoe Pidge\, king of the neighborhood\, and Pluto Rocket\, an alien who’s new in town\, have become fast friends\, with Joe acting as Pluto’s guide on her secret mission to discover what life in the neighborhood is really like. But on Joe’s tour (where he shows Pluto the best fire escape and the best garbage can in the world!)\, it becomes clear that Joe has never actually left his tiny slice of the planet . . . \nPluto encourages Joe to get out of his comfort zone\, but Joe delays by creating an outlandish list of supplies they’ll need to get before they go! Is Joe Pidge afraid of leaving his safe little neighborhood? And if that’s tough\, imagine how Joe feels when his hat\, his trademark super-flavio look that helps him stand out from the other pigeons\, goes missing. \n“Its saucy vibe and Pluto’s boundless curiosity\, optimism\, and extraterrestrial wizardry will easily melt even the most streetwise bird’s heart.” —Publishers Weekly \nCan’t make it to the event? Order copies of the books here (#1) and here (#2). Order a copy of John’s book here.
URL:http://queenbooks.ca/event/kids-paul-gilligans-pluto-rocket-joe-pidge-flips-a-lid/
LOCATION:Queen Books\, 914 Queen St E\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4M 1J5\, Canada
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