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One & only
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Cassia Park believes in soul mates. Fated love stories. It's her family business, after all...for centuries, from Korea to Los Angeles. Park women have peered into clients' past lives to find their one true love, their fated. This magical secret is why One & Only Matchmaking has a 100% guarantee...for everyone but Cassia. For ten years, Cassia has been searching for her fated, a man named Daniel Nam. But he's still nowhere to be found. And so, on the eve of her 40th birthday, Cass decides to do something for herself. She impulsively has a fling with Ellis. He's 28, indecently handsome, and not destined to be the love of her life. But she's surprised by their connection and their fling feels like something more--up to the moment he introduces her to his boss--Daniel Nam. As the battles between fate and chance, head and heart, a family secret is revealed that will make her question everything she's ever known. Cassia will have to decide if she'll follow her fate...or make her own.
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LP FIC Goo
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Missing Sam : a novel
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One night after a party, old grievances surface between married couple Aliya and Sam and the night ends badly with a heated argument. Sam goes for a run early the next morning to clear her head--and doesn't come back. Aliya reports her wife missing, but as a gay, Muslim daughter of immigrants, she can't escape the scrutiny and suspicion of those around her. Scared and furious and feeling isolated as strangers and acquaintances alike doubt her innocence, Aliya makes one wrong choice after another. She must fight to prove her innocence in the public eye even as she is torn between her fear that Sam is dead and her desire to find and save her wife. But is safety ever truly possible for them? A provocative examination of suburban mores, Missing Sam captures the terror manifested in today's political climate, and the real dangers, both physical and psychological, of being brown and queer in America.
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LP FIC Umr
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How to cheat your own death : a novel
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Some secrets are deadlier than others. 1968: Frances Adams is loving her new London life, and she's stepped into a world of glamour thanks to her new friend, Vera Huntington, a magnetic socialite as mysterious as she is provocative. Vera dances around London like she owns it, taking Frances with her. Present day: When Annie Adams heads to London to visit her famous artist mother, Laura, the last thing she expects to find is a dead body. Least of all for it to be Laura's new protégé, left in an alley with her heart surgically removed from her chest. Annie is no stranger to murder; after all, she's solved a few already. And something about this case feels familiar. She's read about one just like it, in the journals of her late great aunt Frances, whose friend Vera was killed in the 1960s in the exact same way. As Annie investigates, threats pile up on Laura's doorstep, and it soon becomes clear that she's next. With her mother's life on the line, can Annie find the killer before it's too late?"--Publisher description.
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LP FIC Per
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The way out : a true story of survival in the heart of the Rockies - VIEW IN CATALOG
The way out : a true story of survival in the heart of the Rockies
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A harrowing, never-before-told story of life and death in the Colorado mountains-- thirty hours that changed lives forever and forced a reckoning about the cost of adventure. "You wanna ski a lap?" Fifteen-year-old Cole Walters-Schaler couldn't resist. This was why they'd come to the backcountry, after all--three fathers and four teenage children together for a bonding alpine getaway outside Salida, Colorado, in January 2017. Within minutes, Cole and Brett Beasley, a longtime Forest Service ranger and expert outdoorsman in his mid-forties, had pushed off from their cabin, expecting to be gone for a half hour or so. But an unforgiving blizzard transformed their quick jaunt into a thirty-hour ordeal that would end in tragedy, as the community raced to find them. The Way Out is the story of those ensuing hours and their aftermath--an almost unbelievable event that shook a tight-knit mountain community and raised difficult questions about life and death, guilt and redemption, and the pursuit of adventure. Why, when we know that the wilderness can kill, can't we stay away? When the unthinkable happens, how does a community forgive the survivors? And how do the survivors forgive themselves? Drawing on firsthand interviews with those closest to the tragedy, including the key eyewitness, and written with the gripping intensity of classics such as Into Thin Air and Touching the Void, O'Neil recreates that fateful day. The Way Out is a thoughtful investigation of the allure of the mountains and the aftermath of trauma, and an unforgettable look at life at its very edge. The Way Out includes 12 black-and-white personal photos throughout.
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Book
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LP 613.69 ONe
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Into the blue : a love story
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In the summer of 2000, AJ Graves dreams of writing for Saturday Night Live; instead, she's stuck working in a video rental store, with slim odds of escaping her small Massachusetts town. Then in walks Noah Drew, the enigmatic and intense scion of the Drew acting dynasty, and her life changes forever. Despite wildly different upbringings, the two forge a deep, cosmic bond, first as friends, then as acting partners--until one day, Noah disappears without a word. Seven years later, in New York City, AJ is shocked to find herself cast in the same intergalactic TV production as Noah, by then a well-known Hollywood heartthrob. As their on-screen characters grow closer every day, the lines between reality and acting begin to blur. Unable to stay away from each other, AJ and Noah are forced to confront the truth of what happened years ago--and the devastating secret that will send their lives careening apart, even as fate continues to draw them together. Blending unforgettable characters, explosive chemistry and yearning, and profound emotion, Into the Blue is a journey unlike any other--one that asks: What does it mean to diverge from the script to forge your own story?
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Book
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LP FIC Bro
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Wildwood : a novel
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Deputy Sheriff Eli North has spent the last year getting his life back together. He hasn't touched a drop of alcohol, he's working through his PTSD from his military deployment, and he's repairing his most important relationships. When an undercover informant disappears and all signs point to murder, Eli must expose the dark underbelly of his idyllic Wisconsin small town while safeguarding his newfound stability. Then, with the unexpected arrival of FBI Agent Alyssa Mason, Eli and his mother, the sheriff, are pulled deeper into a violent criminal network built on the backs of the lost and forgotten. As the case deepens, loyalties fracture and the line between justice and survival begins to blur. In a town where everyone has something to hide, exposing the truth may cost them everything.
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Book
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LP FIC Pea
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The seven daughters of Dupree
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It's 1995, and fourteen-year-old Tati is determined to uncover the identity of her father. But her mother, Nadia, keeps her secrets close, while her grandmother Gladys remains silent about the family's past, including why she left Land's End, Alabama, in 1953. As Tatidigs deeper, she uncovers a legacy of family secrets, where every generation of Dupree women has posed more questions than answers. From Jubi in 1917, whose attempt to pass for white ends when she gives birth to Ruby; to Ruby's fiery lust for Sampson in 1934 that leads to a baby of her own; to the night in 1980 that changed Nadia's future forever. The Dupree women carry the weight of their heritage. Bound by a mysterious malediction that means they will only give birth to daughters, they confront a legacy of pain, resilience, and survival that began with an enslaved ancestor who risked everything for freedom.
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Call Number:
LP FIC Wil
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The true true story of Raja the Gullible (and his mother) - VIEW IN CATALOG
The true true story of Raja the Gullible (and his mother)
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In a tiny Beirut apartment, sixty-three-year-old Raja and his mother live side by side. A beloved high school philosophy teacher and 'the neighborhood homosexual,' Raja relishes books, meditative walks, order, and solitude. Zalfa, his octogenarian mother, views her son's desire for privacy as a personal affront. She demands to know every detail of Raja's work life and love life, boundaries be damned. When Raja receives an invite to an all-expenses-paid writing residency in America, the timing couldn't be better. It arrives on the heels of a series of personal and national disasters that have left Raja longing for peace and quiet away from his mother and the heartache of Lebanon. But what at first seems a stroke of good fortune soon leads Raja to recount and relive the very disasters and past betrayals he wishes to forget.
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Call Number:
LP FIC Ala
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The insomniacs
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Four strangers. Two secrets. One missing person. In the city that never sleeps, it's not always easy to share what's on your mind with the people who know you best. Huddled in an all-night diner over coffee and pancakes, a lonely middle-aged mom, an injured baseball pro, an elusive retiree, and a young waitress examine the thoughts that plague them in the middle of the night. Empty-nester Sybil does what she does best: rolls up her sleeves and spearheads the efforts to turn this group of strangers into friends. Aimless after injury threatens to ruin his career, Zeke finds genuine connection among the unlikely group. Tight-lipped Julian, who's seemingly adrift in retirement and attempting to rebuild a relationship with his daughter, expands their circle when he takes their cagey diner waitress, Betty, under his wing. Betty, cautious about strangers and uncertain about strokes of good luck, entertains the trio in an attempt to resolve her own problems, which she keeps close to the vest. Within a few restless months, the group of strangers have become a fragile family. And when one of them goes missing in the dead of night, they're thrust into a propulsive mystery pulled straight from the true crime podcasts Sybil obsesses over. Though ill-prepared and unequipped for the job, they begin to piece together the clues left behind. And in chasing down answers, they uncover a reason for their friend's disappearance, and are forced to wrestle with the question of how well you can really know anyone, and once you do, how much are you willing to risk to save them? And in doing so, save yourself.
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Book
Call Number:
LP FIC Sco
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Flesh
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Fifteen-year-old Istvan lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town and shy, he is unfamiliar with the social rituals at school and soon becomes isolated, with his neighbor -- a married woman close to his mother's age -- as his only companion. These encounters shift into a clandestine relationship that Istvan himself can barely understand, and his life soon spirals out of control. As the years pass, he is carried gradually upwards on the currents of the twenty-first century's tides of money and power, moving from the army to the company of London's super-rich, with his own competing impulses for love, intimacy, status and wealth winning him unimaginable riches, until they threaten to undo him completely.
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Book
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LP FIC Sza
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The Hong Kong widow
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In 1950s Hong Kong, Mei is a young refugee of the Chinese Communist Revolution struggling to put her past in Shanghai behind her. When she receives a shocking invitation--to take part in a competition pitting six spirit mediums against one another, in a series of six séances, over six nights, until a single winner emerges, in one of Hong Kong's most notoriously haunted houses--she has every reason to refuse. Except that the hostess, a former Shanghainese silent film star, is none other than the wife of the man who once destroyed Mei's entire life. The winner is promised a fortune, but there is only one prize Mei wants: Revenge. Decades later, the final night of that competition has become an infamous urban legend: The police were called to the scene of a brutal massacre but found no evidence, dismissing it as a collective hallucination. Mei knows what she saw, but now someone else is convinced they know what she did. Mei must uncover the truth about that fateful night in that cursed house at last--even if the ghosts of her past are waiting for her there."
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Book
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LP FIC Loe
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Agnes Aubert's mystical cat shelter
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Agnes Aubert leads a meticulously organized life, and she likes it that way. As the proudly type-A manager of a cat rescue charity, she has devoted her life to finding forever homes for stray cats. Now it's the shelter that needs a new home. And the only landlord who will rent a space to a cat rescue is a mysterious man called Havelock. Havelock also happens to be the world's most infamous magician, running an illegal magic shop out of his basement. He is cantankerous and eccentric, and rumors swirl about his past, including whispers that his dark magic once almost brought about the apocalypse. When another magician comes looking for Havelock, putting the magic shop--and the cat shelter--in jeopardy, Agnes will have to team up with the magician. Havelock is everything Agnes thinks she doesn't need in her life: chaos, mischief, and a little too much adventure. But as she gets to know him, she discovers she may be ready for a little intrigue--and romance--in her life.
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Book
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LP FIC Faw
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The foursome : a novel
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When Eng and Chang Bunker arrive in Wilkes County in 1839, they're not just a curiosity, they're a sensation. Everyone is eager to learn whether the salacious rumors about them are true. Within months, the twins have opened a general store, bought land, and begun building a plantation. Now they're looking for wives. In a place that thrives on gossip and legacy, their ambitions set the community on edge. Sarah and Adelaide Yates, daughters of a once-prominent local family brought low by scandal, are drawn into their orbit. Bold, beautiful Adelaide sees in the twins' fame a chance to reclaim her future. Sarah, quiet and observant, isn't so sure. When the twins' lives become entangled with theirs, they must navigate loyalty, longing, and identity in a world where everything--including race, class, and gender--is rigidly defined.
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Book
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LP FIC Kli
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The girl in the green dress : a mystery featuring Zelda Fitzgerald - VIEW IN CATALOG
The girl in the green dress : a mystery featuring Zelda Fitzgerald
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At the dawn of the Jazz Age, Morris Markey arrives in New York to become a writer. Having served in France, he needs to be in a place so distracting he cannot hear himself think. Markey hovers at the edge of the city's revels, unable to hear the secrets that might give him his first Big Story. One night he spots Joseph Elwell, a man about town known for courting wealthy married women, with a glorious girl in a dress of silver and dollar green. The next morning, Elwell's housekeeper runs out into the street screaming that Elwell has been shot. At last, Morris Markey has his story. To penetrate the glittering world of Joseph Elwell, Markey turns to the newly famous Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, who met Elwell the same fateful night he night. Together, Markey and Zelda learn that there were many people in Elwell's life who had reason to want him dead. And when a second man is found shot in his home in a very similar way, Markey begins to suspect that this story is more complicated, and so dangerous that after he finishes it three decades later, he himself is found dead in his home, a single bullet through his head.
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Book
Call Number:
LP FIC Fre
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The queen's coronation : a novel
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London, 1953. Buckingham Palace and the employees who are vital to the smooth running of the monarch find themselves in bedlam as the coronation approaches. Caroline Brimstone, assistant dresser to the queen, watches as the queen finds the strength to rule. Lucy Jones is a young, idealistic, eager junior wardrobe assistant who yearns to become a famous singer. Miranda Miller is an American temporary secretary. As all three women discover, just because a woman will soon be sitting atop the throne, it doesn't mean the society will change over night. If they want to make a place for themselves in the world, they will have to carve it out together.
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Book
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LP FIC Rya
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Irish goodbye : micro-memoirs
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A new volume of Fennelly's genre-defying micro-memoirs that explore family, marriage, motherhood, place and coming of age with singular wit and emotional clarity.
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Book
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LP 811.6 Fen
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It's me they follow : a novel
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'It's Me They Follow' is an allegorical love story set in a not so distant past. It follows The Shopkeeper, a bookseller and reluctant matchmaker. Helping others find love through books comes easily for The Shopkeeper, until it is time for her to find love for herself. She secretly yearns for her first customer, ME, who took both her most prized book and a piece of her heart when he left. But just when she begins to lose hope, she discovers that she may hold the key to her own happily ever after as well.
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Book
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LP FIC Coo
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When we were brilliant
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In 1951, Norma Jeane Baker follows documentary photographer Eve Arnold into a powder room, the first night they meet. She has a proposition for her: Norma Jean built Marilyn Monroe to be photographed, and she wants Eve to do it. Eve, who is better than anyone she's seen at capturing beauty, at shedding light on her subjects. Together, they can help each other. Together, she says, they can make something brilliant. Skeptical of this cipher of a young woman, Eve demurs. But she keeps getting drawn back into Marilyn's orbit. Until the women come to recognize something in each other, something fundamental. Nothing will get in the way of what they want, and when Marilyn's star takes off to teetering heights, neither will ever be the same. A lavish and transporting novel, When We Were Brilliant captures the halcyon days of an icon and the grit of women determining their own futures as it explores the exceptional and complicated friendship between Marilyn Monroe and Eve Arnold.
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Book
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LP FIC Cul
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A rose of blood and binding
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The battered Middlemist can barely hold itself together. Olden monsters terrorize the land and the gods are awakening from their ancient slumber. But if the vengeful Kilraith destroys them, all will be lost. It's up to the Ashbourne sisters, daughters of the goddess Kerezen, to stop him. But they're spread thin. Gemma and Talan travel the world searching for the gods, while in the capital, Farrin and Ryder shelter countless refugees amid roiling unrest. And Mara, bound to the Middlemist, is just trying to survive. Every day she battles invaders and fights to protect her fellow Roses. The presence of librarian Gareth Fontaine doesn't help. Charming, brilliant, far too confident, and annoyingly reverent of the Roses, he's a distraction Mara can't avoid or afford. She can see shadows of violence and shame underneath his dazzling smile. As Mara and Gareth search the Old Country for Kilraith's final three curse-anchors, a passion born of sorrow and solace sparks between them, one that could finally bring Mara home, or bring both worlds crashing down alongside her.
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Book
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LP FIC Leg
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A ghastly catastrophe
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When the corpse of an entitled young man is found entirely drained of blood in a carriage next to Highgate Cemetery, Veronica's interest is piqued. And then a second victim is found, his death made to look like a suicide, and Veronica and her intrepid beau, Stoker, know the hunt is on. The two men share one link: they were both members of a society so secretive that only a singular mention of it can be found anywhere. Thirsty for more clues, Veronica and Stoker hear that a young Roma boy may know more about their first victim, but the only way to the boy is through an old acquaintance of Stoker's, Lady Julia Brisbane. Lady Julia and her dashing husband, Nicholas, occasionally track down murderers and are only too happy to help. But as it becomes clear the secret society is a dangerous sect looking to entice immortality seekers, Veronica and Stoker find themselves ensnared by a decidedly more sinister couple.
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Book
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LP FIC Ray
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Departure(s)
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Shortly after our narrator, a writer named Julian, begins this compact book by discussing the workings of involuntary memory, he interrupts himself with a bulletin to the reader: "There will be a story--or a story within the story--but not just yet." Of course, whether Departure(s) is mostly fiction or not, there is a lot of its author in it, including Barnes's reckoning with the blood disorder he has been living with since he was diagnosed in 2020, his long preoccupation with dying and grief, and his mordant sense of the indignities and lost opportunities we're prey to in love. The story he promises to deliver is a love story, that of two friends he met at university in the 1960s, that time of touted but rarely experienced sexual freedom. Julian played matchmaker to Stephen (tall, gangling, uncertain) and Jean (tart and attractive); as the third wheel he was deeply invested in the success of their love and insulted when they broke up. Time is swift, and forty years later, he tries again, watching as their rekindled affair produces joys, betrayals, and disappointments of a different order.
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Book
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LP FIC Bar