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The Story of Tudor Art
- A History of Tudor England Through its Art and Objects
- By: Christina J. Faraday
- Narrated by: Ffion Aynsley
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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The volatile years of England's Tudor dynasty (1485–1603) and the five monarchs who ruled England during this period continue to fascinate and intrigue. Thanks to the paintings of artists like Hans Holbein, we have very definitive ideas about the appearance and personalities of Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and her successor Elizabeth I. It is through their eyes of artists that we still see the dynasty which ruled England for just over a century.
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interesting book, fantastic narrator
- By Mr Luke A Champion on 09-10-25
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The Story of Tudor Art
- A History of Tudor England Through its Art and Objects
- Narrated by: Ffion Aynsley
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 25-09-25
- Language: English
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A Daughter of Isis
- The Early Life of Nawal El Saadawi, In Her Own Words
- By: Nawal El Saadawi
- Narrated by: Nadia Albina
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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In A Daughter of Isis, Nawal El Saadawi, author of Woman at Point Zero and one of the Arab world’s greatest writers, tells the story of the formative years which shaped an iconic voice in global feminism. In poignant and moving prose we learn about her relationships with her family, her traumatic experience of female genital mutilation at seven years old and escaping suitors at ten and her journey from the rural Egyptian village of her birth to metropolitan Cairo to study medicine.
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wonderful story, told well
- By karinc10 on 09-12-25
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A Daughter of Isis
- The Early Life of Nawal El Saadawi, In Her Own Words
- Narrated by: Nadia Albina
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 26-09-24
- Language: English
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Blythe Spirit
- The Remarkable Life of Ronald Blythe: WINNER OF THE NEW ANGLE PRIZE 2025
- By: Ian Collins
- Narrated by: David Holt
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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'Tender and revelatory, Blythe Spirit gives us both the patron saint of the English countryside and a frank portrait of a complex figure' MARK COCKER, COUNTRY LIFE BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'Moving, candid, vivid, it is all that we could hope for in a memoir of this unique and treasured writer' ROWAN...
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Perfect in every way.
- By Anonymous on 29-12-24
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Blythe Spirit
- The Remarkable Life of Ronald Blythe: WINNER OF THE NEW ANGLE PRIZE 2025
- Narrated by: David Holt
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 07-11-24
- Language: English
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The Secret Heart
- John Le Carré: An Intimate Memoir
- By: Suleika Dawson
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance13
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A Telegraph Book to Read for Autumn 2022 A Times Best Non-fiction Book for Autumn 2022 A Daily Mail Book of the Year 2022 A Waterstones Best Book of 2022: Biography The astonishing new portrait of the master of spy fiction, by the woman he kept secret for almost half his life John le Carré led...
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Frank, perceptive and uniquely moving
- By emeralda on 19-11-22
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The Secret Heart
- John Le Carré: An Intimate Memoir
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 18-10-22
- Language: English
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Existentialism and Excess
- The Life and Times of Jean-Paul Sartre
- By: Gary Cox
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall69
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Performance59
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Story59
Jean-Paul Sartre is one of the undisputed giants of 20th-century philosophy. His intellectual writings popularizing existentialism, combined with his creative and artistic flair, have made him a legend of French thought. His tumultuous personal life - so inextricably bound up with his philosophical thinking - is a fascinating tale of love and lust, drug abuse, high-profile fallings-out and political and cultural rebellion.
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Excellent audiobook
- By Justice Peace on 12-10-16
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Existentialism and Excess
- The Life and Times of Jean-Paul Sartre
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 08-09-16
- Language: English
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Yellow Notebook
- Diaries Volume I 1978-1987
- By: Helen Garner
- Narrated by: Helen Garner
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance8
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Helen Garner has kept a diary for almost all her life. But until now, those exercise books filled with her thoughts, observations, frustrations and joys have been locked away, out of bounds, in a laundry cupboard. Finally, Garner has opened her diaries and invited readers into the world behind her novels and works of non-fiction. Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I spans a decade beginning in the late 1970s just after the publication of her first novel, Monkey Grip.
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Finding a religion
- By Brenda M. on 26-04-25
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Yellow Notebook
- Diaries Volume I 1978-1987
- Narrated by: Helen Garner
- Series: Diaries, Book 1
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 01-01-21
- Language: English
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Storyteller
- The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson
- By: Leo Damrosch
- Narrated by: Richard Pryal
- Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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From a critically acclaimed biographer, an engrossing narrative of Robert Louis Stevenson’s life, a story as romantic and adventurous as his fiction.
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Storyteller
- The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson
- Narrated by: Richard Pryal
- Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 03-10-25
- Language: English
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The Life of Crime
- Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators
- By: Martin Edwards
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance9
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Winner of four major prizes for the best critical/biographical book related to crime fiction: the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and H.R.F. Keating Awards; and shortlisted for both the Agatha and Gold Dagger Awards. ‘Martin Edwards is the closest thing there has been to a philosopher of crime...
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An absolute must for crime fans
- By David Beckler on 17-09-22
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The Life of Crime
- Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 26-05-22
- Language: English
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The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis
- How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind
- By: Jason M Baxter
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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C. S. Lewis had one of the great minds of the 20th century. Many know Lewis as an author of fiction and fantasy literature, including the Chronicles of Narnia and the Space Trilogy. Others know him for his books in apologetics, including Mere Christianity and The Problem of Pain. But few know him for his scholarly work as a professor of medieval and Renaissance literature. What shaped the mind of this great thinker?
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The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis
- How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 08-03-22
- Language: English
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BARE
- 'You have to read this book' MICK JAGGER
- By: Lorna Tucker
- Narrated by: Lorna Tucker
- Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance31
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I, Lorna Tucker, have lived a life that most of you can't even begin to imagine... The unflinching true story of one woman's fight to survive living on the streets of London - from Britain's most exciting filmmaker 'You need to read this' MICK JAGGER 'Truly changes your perception of what the...
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Lorna’s honesty and courage
- By Amazon Customer on 04-01-26
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BARE
- 'You have to read this book' MICK JAGGER
- Narrated by: Lorna Tucker
- Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 20-03-25
- Language: English
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Without Warning and Only Sometimes
- Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood
- By: Kit de Waal
- Narrated by: Kit de Waal
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall126
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Performance114
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Story115
Kit de Waal grew up in a household of opposites and extremes. Her haphazard mother rarely cooked, forbade Christmas and birthdays, worked as a cleaner, nurse and childminder sometimes all at once and believed the world would end in 1975. Meanwhile, her father stuffed barrels full of goodies for his relatives in the Caribbean, cooked elaborate meals on a whim and splurged money they didn't have on cars, suits and shoes fit for a prince. Both of her parents were waiting for paradise. It never came.
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Superb
- By Amazon Customer on 19-08-22
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Without Warning and Only Sometimes
- Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood
- Narrated by: Kit de Waal
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 18-08-22
- Language: English
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Back in the Day
- The deeply affecting, first ever memoir by beloved national treasure Melvyn Bragg
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall110
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Performance100
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* AN OBSERVER AND DAILY MAIL "BOOKS OF 2022" PICK * Melvyn Bragg's first ever memoir - an elegiac, intimate account of growing up in post-war Cumbria, which lyrically evokes a vanished world. In this captivating memoir, Melvyn Bragg recalls growing up in the Cumbrian market town of Wigton, from...
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Fabulous!
- By Amazon Customer on 06-09-22
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Back in the Day
- The deeply affecting, first ever memoir by beloved national treasure Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 25-08-22
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
- By: Benvenuto Cellini
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance13
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Master Italian sculptor, goldsmith, and writer Benvenuto Cellini is best remembered for his magnificent autobiography. In this work, which was actually begun in 1558 but not published until 1730, Cellini beautifully chronicles his flamboyant times. He tells of his adventures in Italy and France, and his relations with popes, kings, and fellow artists.
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Best Book I ever read (listened)
- By Smith family on 18-07-11
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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 13-12-06
- Language: English
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Chaucer
- A European Life
- By: Marion Turner
- Narrated by: Marion Turner
- Length: 20 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance19
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More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the center of political life - yet his poems are anything but conventional. Edgy, complicated, and often dark, they reflect a conflicted world, and their astonishing diversity and innovative language earned Chaucer renown as the father of English literature. Marion Turner, however, reveals him as a great European writer and thinker.
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An unsuitable book for audio
- By Rachel Redford on 14-08-19
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Chaucer
- A European Life
- Narrated by: Marion Turner
- Length: 20 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 10-05-19
- Language: English
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The Mysterious Case of Agatha Christie
- By: Maureen Corrigan, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Maureen Corrigan
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall187
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Performance163
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Meet Agatha Christie, the best-selling novelist in human history. Her writing career spanned six decades, during which time she wrote 66 crime novels, 6 non-crime novels (including romances), and over 150 short stories. Not only was she a phenomenally successful novelist, but she is also the most successful female playwright of all time - her play “The Mousetrap” is the longest-running show in history. As you learn about Christie’s experiences and her storied career, you will better understand how the circumstances of her life shaped her work and vice versa.
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Interesting and enjoyable
- By Andrew Thomas Croft on 31-08-21
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The Mysterious Case of Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Maureen Corrigan
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 20-07-21
- Language: English
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The Golden Age of Murder
- By: Martin Edwards
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall48
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Performance39
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Winner of the 2016 EDGAR, AGATHA, MACAVITY and H.R.F.KEATING crime writing awards, this real-life detective story investigates how Agatha Christie and colleagues in a mysterious literary club transformed crime fiction. Detective stories of the Twenties and Thirties have long been stereotyped as...
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Classic. Brilliant. Enlightening.
- By Nico on 11-06-15
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The Golden Age of Murder
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 07-05-15
- Language: English
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The Art of Her Deal
- The Untold Story of Melania Trump
- By: Mary Jordan
- Narrated by: Mary Jordan
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance16
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In this “scrupulously reported biography” (NPR) Jordan documents how Melania Trump had discussing being First Lady nearly two decades before she landed in the White House and how she encouraged her husband to enter the race for president. Based on interviews with more than one hundred people...
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Very disappointed
- By Muriel casserly on 30-01-21
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The Art of Her Deal
- The Untold Story of Melania Trump
- Narrated by: Mary Jordan
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 16-06-20
- Language: English
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Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations
- By: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Ito
- Length: 1 hr and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde is a timeless collection of the sharpest observations, paradoxes, and epigrams from one of literature’s most brilliant minds. Oscar Wilde’s wit is elegant, mischievous, and relentlessly insightful. With effortless precision, he skewers social conventions, exposes hypocrisy, and reveals enduring truths about love, ambition, beauty, morality, and human folly. Each quotation stands alone yet contributes to a larger portrait of Wilde’s worldview—one that prizes individuality, intellectual courage, and the art of living well.
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Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Ito
- Length: 1 hr and 41 mins
- Release date: 15-01-26
- Language: English
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Awake!
- William Blake and the Power of the Imagination
- By: Mark Vernon
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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In the 200 years since Blake's death, the visionary artist, poet, and writer has become a household name, often beloved. Yet many struggle to comprehend his kaleidoscopic ideas; how they speak to human longings and the challenges of living in anxious times. Philosopher and psychotherapist Mark Vernon provides a fresh route into Blake, taking him at his word.
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Great book - lifeless reading
- By Andrew Marathia on 29-12-25
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Awake!
- William Blake and the Power of the Imagination
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 09-12-25
- Language: English
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Positive Obsession
- The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
- By: Susana M. Morris
- Narrated by: Karen Murray
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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A magnificent cultural biography that charts the life of one of our greatest writers, situating her alongside the key historical and social moments that shaped her work. As the first Black woman to consistently write and publish in the field of science fiction, Octavia Butler was a trailblazer...
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Positive Obsession
- The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
- Narrated by: Karen Murray
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 19-08-25
- Language: English
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