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The Heretic Wind
- The Life of Mary Tudor, Queen of England
- By: Judith Arnopp
- Narrated by: Alex Lee
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Adored by her parents and pampered by the court, the infant Princess Mary’s life changes suddenly and drastically when her father’s eye is taken by the enigmatic Anne Boleyn. Mary stands firm against her father’s determination to destroy both her mother’s reputation and the Catholic church. It is a battle that will last throughout both her father’s and her brother’s reign, until she is almost broken by persecution.
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A well-crafted and beautifully narrated novel
- By Nicknacks on 27-01-21
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The Heretic Wind
- The Life of Mary Tudor, Queen of England
- Narrated by: Alex Lee
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 30-11-20
- Language: English
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Spinoza
- L'homme qui a tué Dieu
- By: José Rodrigues Dos Santos, Catherine Leterrier - traducteur
- Narrated by: Pierre Lognay
- Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Amsterdam, 1640. Un homme est excommunié de la communauté juive portugaise pour avoir remis en question les Saintes Ecritures. Le jeune Bento de Espinosa assiste à la scène et l'épisode fait germer en lui un doute. Et si tout ce qui est écrit dans la Bible était faux ? Le soupçon va lancer Bento dans la plus grande quête intellectuelle qui soit. Qui a écrit les textes sacrés ? Qui est vraiment Dieu ? Qu'est-ce que la nature ? Toutes ces questions sont extrêmement dangereuses et le jeune Spinoza va bientôt en payer le prix. Juifs et chrétiens l'accusent d'hérésie et commencent à le persécuter.
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Spinoza
- L'homme qui a tué Dieu
- Narrated by: Pierre Lognay
- Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 25-07-24
- Language: French
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Heatherley
- The ‘Lost’ Sequel to Lark Rise to Candleford
- By: Flora Thompson
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Flora Thompson is best known as the author of Lark Rise to Candleford, a semi-autobiographical, bestselling series exploring Oxfordshire country life in the late 19th century. Heatherley picks up the story a year after her central character, Laura, left Candleford Green, moving on to Grayshott on the Hampshire/Surrey border, and with it, finding a new world. Through Laura, the book explores Flora’s experience working in a post-office, where to her surprise her customers included the authors Arthur Conan Doyle and George Bernard Shaw.
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Beautifully descriptive writing
- By Wendy on 12-03-25
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Heatherley
- The ‘Lost’ Sequel to Lark Rise to Candleford
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 01-12-24
- Language: English
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Small Rain
- By: Garth Greenwell
- Narrated by: Garth Greenwell
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance16
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Read by the author, Garth Greenwell Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 'Marvelous: exceptionally vivid, real, and true' – Colm Tóibín, author of Long Island 'Fundamentally about the beauty of life' – Alice Winn, author of In Memoriam 'Exquisite. Utterly mesmerizing' - Mark Haddon...
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Compelling Read
- By O. Sheehan on 05-12-24
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Small Rain
- Narrated by: Garth Greenwell
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 19-09-24
- Language: English
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The Picnic and Suchlike Pandemonium
- A laugh-out-loud collection of short stories, from the author of My Family and Other Animals
- By: Gerald Durrell
- Narrated by: Elliot Chapman
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Life with the Durrells is seldom straightforward. Dive headfirst into family adventures with this collection of laugh-out-loud short stories from the much-loved author of My Family and Other Animals. Notable tales include 'The Picnic', a hilarious account of an ill-fated Durrell excursion which...
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The Picnic and Suchlike Pandemonium
- A laugh-out-loud collection of short stories, from the author of My Family and Other Animals
- Narrated by: Elliot Chapman
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 19-03-26
- Language: English
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I, Claudius
- By: Robert Graves
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Abridged
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Performance511
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The politics of empire-building and the hypocrisies, back-stabbings, and corruptions of Rome's first family come to light. First published in 1934, the book retains a marvelously modern and often comic tone, and is written in the form of Claudius' autobiography. This is gripping stuff, read by one of our finest actors, who also starred as Claudius in the classic television series.
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Shame it's abridged.
- By Mary Carnegie on 11-04-16
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I, Claudius
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 03-12-07
- Language: English
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The Danish Girl
- By: David Ebershoff
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall341
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Performance320
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Story318
Loosely inspired by a true story, this tender portrait of marriage asks: what do you do when the person you love has to change? It starts with a question, a simple favour asked by a wife of her husband while both are painting in their studio, setting off a transformation neither can anticipate.
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"Nature's geatest mishap corrected at last"
- By Rachel Redford on 27-12-15
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The Danish Girl
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 17-12-15
- Language: English
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Wake
- A heartrending story of three women and the journey of the Unknown Warrior
- By: Anna Hope
- Narrated by: Anna Hope
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall64
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Performance57
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Five Days in November, 1920: As the body of the Unknown Soldier makes its way home from the fields of Northern France, three women are dealing with loss in their own way: Hettie, who dances for sixpence a waltz at the Hammersmith Palais; Evelyn, who toils at a job in the pensions office, and Ada...
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Beautiful and compelling story
- By R. J. Gladden on 16-03-14
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Mistress of My Fate
- By the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of THE FIVE
- By: Hallie Rubenhold
- Narrated by: Jane McDowell
- Length: 17 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance14
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Brought to you by Penguin. For fans of BBC TV's hit series HARLOTS My tale is not for the faint of heart. Born illegitimate in eighteenth-century England, Henrietta Lightfoot reveals the truth about the events that shaped her in this candid confessional of a wide-eyed girl's journey to...
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Unputdownable
- By Anon on 05-08-21
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Mistress of My Fate
- By the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of THE FIVE
- Narrated by: Jane McDowell
- Length: 17 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 21-01-21
- Language: English
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Hold Strong
- A Novel
- By: Robert Dugoni, Jeff Langholz, Chris Crabtree
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall25
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Performance24
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Sam Carlson is a projectionist in small-town Minnesota, where fantasies unspool in glorious black and white—for him and for his sweetheart, college-bound math whiz Sarah Haber. When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Sam is sent to the Philippines and captured as a POW. Brutalized but unbroken by the Bataan Death March and POW camps, Sam is one of eighteen hundred starved and weakened prisoners herded into the cargo hold of a barbaric hell ship called the Arisan Maru, his survival doubtful.
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Resilience of people in difficult life situations
- By lizzie on 11-05-26
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Hold Strong
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 28-01-25
- Language: English
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The First Ladies
- By: Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
- Narrated by: Robin Miles, Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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The Instant New York Times Bestseller! A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune—an unlikely friendship that changed the world, from the New York Times bestselling authors of the Good Morning America Book Club...
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So excellent on very level
- By Rebecca JM on 23-01-24
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The First Ladies
- Narrated by: Robin Miles, Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 27-06-23
- Language: English
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The Double Life of a High-Functioning Alcoholic
- Addiction, Lies, and the Courage to Quit Drinking Alcohol
- By: Howard Kane
- Narrated by: Benjamin Powell
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall42
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Dave seemed to have it all. A successful career, a loving family, the respect of everyone around him. But behind the polished surface, he was drinking in secret, convincing himself it wasn’t a problem. No arrests. No missed meetings. Just a few drinks to relax… The Double Life of a High-Functioning Alcoholic is a raw, memoir-style novel inspired by Howard Kane’s own sobriety journey. It takes you inside the hidden world of high-functioning addiction where success becomes a mask, denial runs deep, and every drink feels both normal and dangerous.
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Hidden Booze Struggle
- By Jules on 30-01-26
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The Double Life of a High-Functioning Alcoholic
- Addiction, Lies, and the Courage to Quit Drinking Alcohol
- Narrated by: Benjamin Powell
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 21-08-25
- Language: English
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The Fire and the Ore
- A Novel
- By: Olivia Hawker
- Narrated by: Marli Watson, Billie Fulford-Brown
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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1857. Three women—once strangers—come together in unpredictable Utah Territory. Hopeful, desperate, and willful, they’ll allow nothing on Earth or in Heaven to stand in their way. Following the call of their newfound Mormon faith, Tamar Loader and her family weather a brutal pilgrimage from England to Utah, where Tamar is united with her destined husband, Thomas Ricks. Clinging to a promise for the future, she abides an unexpected surprise: Thomas is already wedded to one woman—Tabitha, a local healer—and betrothed to still another.
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Historical accuracy
- By MariaAnna on 24-06-25
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The Fire and the Ore
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Marli Watson, Billie Fulford-Brown
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 01-10-22
- Language: English
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The Wicked Wife
- By: Alison Weir
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
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Overall20
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The Wicked Wife is an e-short and companion piece to Katheryn Howard: The Tainted Queen, the captivating fifth novel in the Six Tudor Queens series by bestselling historian Alison Weir. 1525. As Anne Boleyn's star rises at Henry VIII's court, Jane Parker's marriage to Anne's brother, George...
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Brilliant!
- By Helen Marguerite Musson on 08-06-24
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The Wicked Wife
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
- Release date: 21-01-21
- Language: English
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Nada
- By: Carmen Laforet
- Narrated by: Neus Sendra
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall27
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Performance24
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Andrea llega a Barcelona, con una maleta llena de libros, para estudiar letras. Sus ilusiones chocan de inmediato con el ambiente de tensión y violencia que reina en casa de su abuela. El sórdido microcosmos familiar y la frágil cordialidad de sus relaciones universitarias, centradas en la...
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I wish I could give the narrator six stars!
- By hotteststickofglue on 25-02-20
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Nada
- Narrated by: Neus Sendra
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 30-04-18
- Language: Spanish
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El peligro de estar cuerda
- By: Rosa Montero
- Narrated by: Rosa Montero
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
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Una apasionada defensa del valor de ser diferente. Partiendo de su experiencia personal y de la lectura de numerosos libros de psicología, neurociencia, literatura y memorias de grandes autores de distintas disciplinas creativas, Rosa Montero nos ofrece un estudio apasionante sobre los...
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Gran libro
- By Monica on 05-01-24
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El peligro de estar cuerda
- Narrated by: Rosa Montero
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 25-04-22
- Language: Spanish
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The Woman Who Went Over Niagara Falls in a Barrel
- By: Caroline Cauchi
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow, Penelope Rawlins
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
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Meet the courageous Mrs Annie Edson Taylor. The bravest woman you've never heard of and the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel – over a decade before any male daredevil had the balls to do the same! From the author of the bestselling Heather's Picks title Mrs Van Gogh: a gripping historical novel inspired by a true story.
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Interesting uplting story
- By Kim Driver on 24-04-25
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The Woman Who Went Over Niagara Falls in a Barrel
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow, Penelope Rawlins
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 01-10-24
- Language: English
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Don't Break My Rice Bowl
- By: Robert H. Dodd, Patricia Rykiel, Beth Jackson
- Narrated by: Danny Holt
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Feeling life is slipping him by, an American agriculturalist heads to Vietnam to try and make a difference in the lives of the people as part of President Johnson's 'Hearts and Minds' campaign. There is just one big problem—there's a war going on. Eddie joins a small group of civilian advisors chosen to work with local farmers to help make Vietnam once again self-sufficient in rice. He is drawn to the adventure, the challenge, and the opportunity to make a difference, but he is leaving some problems behind.
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A little known aspect of the Vietnam War
- By Amazon Customer on 02-01-25
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Don't Break My Rice Bowl
- Narrated by: Danny Holt
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 16-09-24
- Language: English
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The Huguenot Chronicles, Books 1 - 3
- Merchants of Virtue, Voyage of Malice, Land of Hope
- By: Paul C.R. Monk
- Narrated by: David Pickering
- Length: 21 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall118
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A family torn apart. A king with an iron fist. Will their faith be strong enough to survive persecution and reunite? Jeanne is the wife of a wealthy merchant, but now she risks losing everything. Louis XIV's soldiers will stop at nothing to forcibly convert the country's Protestants to the "true" faith. The men ransack Jeanne's belongings and threaten her children. If Jeanne and Jacob can't find a way to evade the soldiers' clutches, their family will face a fate far worse than poverty and imprisonment. They may never see each other again....
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Loved this trilogy
- By Vanjazzle on 08-12-19
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The Huguenot Chronicles, Books 1 - 3
- Merchants of Virtue, Voyage of Malice, Land of Hope
- Narrated by: David Pickering
- Series: The Huguenot Chronicles, Book 1-3
- Length: 21 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 15-02-19
- Language: English
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Lichtspiel
- By: Daniel Kehlmann
- Narrated by: Ulrich Noethen
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Einer der Größten des Kinos, vielleicht der größte Regisseur seiner Epoche: Zur Machtergreifung dreht G.W. Pabst in Frankreich; vor den Gräueln des neuen Deutschlands flieht er nach Hollywood. Aber unter der blendenden Sonne Kaliforniens sieht der weltberühmte Regisseur mit einem Mal aus wie ein Zwerg. Nicht einmal Greta Garbo, die er unsterblich gemacht hat, kann ihm helfen. Und so findet Pabst sich, fast wie ohne eigenes Zutun, in seiner Heimat Österreich wieder, die nun Ostmark heißt.
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Wow! Wieder ein Meisterstück von Daniel Kehlmann!
- By taptoflow on 09-05-24
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Lichtspiel
- Narrated by: Ulrich Noethen
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 10-10-23
- Language: German
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