- Source: Kansas Notable Book Awards
The State of Kansas Notable Book Awards are presented annually for fifteen notable books created by writers, illustrators or book artists who are Kansans or have written about Kansas. The award, originally established in 2006, is organized by the Kansas Center for the Book (KCFB).
Winning authors include Clare Vanderpool, Rolf Potts, Ben Lerner, Candice Millard, and Gordon Parks.
Process
The KCFB is a state affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. It is a program of the State Library of Kansas.
A committee of KCFB affiliates and fellows, together with authors of previous Notable Books, identifies notable titles from among those published the previous year, and the State Librarian makes the selection for the final list of fifteen. A reception and medal awards ceremony are held to honor the books and their authors and illustrators.
List of winners
Following are the Kansas Notable Book Award winners, listed in alphabetical order by title:
= 2006
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Airball: My Life in Briefs – L.D. Harkrader
Capote in Kansas: A Drawn Novel – Ande Parks
The Darkest Dawn: Lincoln, Booth, and the Great American Tragedy – Thomas Goodrich
Deputy Harvey and the Ant Cow Caper – Brad Sneed
The Great Blues – Steve Semken
A Hungry Heart: A Memoir – Gordon Parks
In the Small, Small Night – Jane Kurtz
John Brown, Abolitionist – David S. Reynolds
The Kansas Guidebook for Explorers – Marci Penner
Maggie Rose and Sass – Eunice Boeve
The Moon Butter Route – Max Yoho
Oceans of Kansas: A Natural History of the Western Interior Sea – Michael J. Everhart
Ordinary Genius – Thomas Fox Averill
Wildflowers and Grasses of Kansas: A Field Guide – Michael John Haddock
The Youngest Brother: On a Kansas Wheat Farm During the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression – C. Hugh Snyder
= 2007
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Eighteen notable books were selected in 2007, the only year in which it was not a list of fifteen.
Afoot: A Tale of the Great Dakota Turkey Drive – George Brandsberg
Angle of Yaw – Ben Lerner
Ballots and Bullets: The Bloody County Seat Wars of Kansas – Robert K. DeArment
Flint Hills Cowboys: Tales From the Tallgrass Prairie – James Hoy
I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You – Ally Carter
John Brown to Bob Dole: Movers and Shakers in Kansas – Virgil Dean, Ed.
John Steuart Curry: The Road Home – Alice Bertels
Kansas Murals: A Traveler's Guide – Lora Jost & Dave Loewenstein
Light on Main Street: Storytelling by a Country Newspaper Editor – Rudy Taylor
The Loose Change of Wonder – Steven Hind
My Little Yellow Taxi – Stephen Johnson
Next Year Country: Dust to Dust in Western Kansas, 1890–1940 – Craig Miner
Not Afraid of Dogs – Susanna Pitzer
Ogallala Blue: Water and Life on the High Plains – William Ashworth
Revolutionary Heart: The Life of Clarina Nichols and the Pioneering Crusade for Women's Rights – Diane Eickhoff
Shanghai Shadows – Lois Ruby
The Virgin of Small Plains – Nancy Pickard
Words of a Prairie Alchemist – Denise Low
= 2008
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American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China – Matthew Polly
The Boy Who Was Raised by Librarians – illustrated by Brad Sneed
Can I Keep My Jersey? 11 Teams, 5 Countries, and 4 Years in My Life as a Basketball Vagabond – Paul Shirley
The Curse of Catunkhamun – Tim Raglin
The Farther Shore – Matthew Eck
From Emporia: The Story of William Allen White – Beverley O. Buller
Hellfire Canyon – Max McCoy
Hunger for the Wild: America's Obsession with the Untamed West – Michael L. Johnson
The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems, 1972–2007 – Albert Goldbarth
A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution – David A. Nichols
The Middle of Somewhere – J.B. Cheaney
The Rest of Her Life – Laura Moriarty
Sea Monsters: Prehistoric Creatures of the Deep – Michael J. Everhart
(companion book to Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure)
Storm Chaser: A Photographer's Journey – Jim Reed
Writing in an Age of Silence – Sara Paretsky
= 2009
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Amelia Earhart: the Legend of the Lost Aviator – Shelley Tanaka, and illustrated by David Craig
Artfully Done: Food, Flowers & Joy Across Generations – RoxAnn Banks Dicker, Ed.
Burn – Kathleen Johnson
Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam – Pope Brock
A Curse Dark as Gold – Elizabeth C. Bunce
The Guide to Kansas Birds and Birding Hot Spots – Bob Gress & Pete Janzen
Hometown Appetites: The Story of Clementine Paddleford, the Forgotten Food Writer Who Chronicled How America Ate – Kelly Alexander & Cynthia Harris
Kansas Opera Houses: Actors and Community Events 1855–1925 – Jane Glotfelty Rhoads
Making History: Quilts & Fabric From 1890–1970 – Barbara Brackman
Marco Polo Didn't Go There: Stories and Revelations From One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer – Rolf Potts
The Nature of Kansas Lands – Beverley Worster, Ed.
A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir – Donald Worster
The Pizza Hut Story – Robert Spector
Seeding Civil War: Kansas in the National News, 1854–1858 – Craig Miner
Survival of Rural America: Small Victories and Bitter Harvests – Richard E. Wood
= 2010
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Addie of the Flint Hills: A Prairie Child During the Depression – Adaline Sorace, as told to Deborah Sorace Prutzman
The Blue Shoe: A Tale of Thievery, Villainy, Sorcery, and Shoes – Roderick Townley, and illustrated by Mary GrandPre
Carter Finally Gets It – Brent Crawford
The Evolution of Shadows – Jason Quinn Malott
Ghost Town – Richard W. Jennings
A Kansas Year – Mike Blair
Lisa's Flying Electric Piano – Kevin Rabas
Nothing Right: Short Stories – Antonya Nelson
One Kansas Farmer: A Kansas Number Book – Devin Scillian & Corey Scillian
Our Boys: A Perfect Season on the Plains with the Smith Center Redmen – Joe Drape
Silver Shoes – Paul Miles Schneider
The Storm in the Barn – written and illustrated by Matt Phelan
To the Stars: Kansas Poets of the Ad Astra Poetry Project – Denise Low, Ed.
Under Siege!: Three Children at the Civil War Battle for Vicksburg – Andrea Warren
Years of Dust: The Story of the Dust Bowl – Albert Marrin
= 2011
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Amy Barickman's Vintage Notions – Amy Barickman
And Hell Followed With It – Bonar Menninger
Appetite for America – Stephen Fried
Baking With Friends – Sharon Davis & Charlene Patton
Bound – Antonya Nelson
Crossing the Tracks – Barbara Stuber
A Distant Home – George Paris
Flyover People – Cheryl Unruh
Ghost Stories of the New West – Denise Low
Life in a Jar – Jack Mayer
Moon Over Manifest – Clare Vanderpool
A Prairie Peter Pan – Beverley O. Buller
Prairie Rhythms – Lana Wirt Myers
The Scent of Rain and Lightning – Nancy Pickard
Star Crossed – Elizabeth C. Bunce
= 2012
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8 Wonders of Kansas! – Marci Penner
The Afterlives of Trees – Wyatt Townley
Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart – Candace Fleming
Bent Road – Lori Roy
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President – Candice Millard
Doc – Mary Doria Russell
The Door in the Forest – Roderick Townley
Liar's Moon – Elizabeth C. Bunce
My Ruby Slippers: The Road Back to Kansas – Tracy Seeley
The Northern Cheyenne Exodus in History and Memory – Ramon Powers & James N. Leiker
Osa and Martin: For the Love of Adventure – Kelly Enright
Prairie Fire: A Great Plains History – Julie Courtwright
Rode – Thomas Fox Averill
Send Me Work: Stories – Katherine Karlin
Tapped Out: Rear Naked Chokes, the Octagon, and the Last Emperor: an Odyssey in Mixed Martial Arts – Matthew Polly
= 2013
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The Adventures of Beanboy – Lisa Harkrader
Beyond Cold Blood: The KBI from Ma Barker to BTK – Larry Welch
Blackbear Bosin: Keeper of the Indian Spirit – David Simmonds
The Chaperone – Laura Moriarty
The Dust Bowl: An Illustrated History – Dayton Duncan & Ken Burns
(companion book to The Dust Bowl)
Eisenhower in War and Peace – Jean Edward Smith
Frontier Manhattan: Yankee Settlement to Kansas Town, 1854–1894 – Kevin G. W. Olson
A Kansas Bestiary – Jake Vail & Doug Hitt, and illustrated by Lisa Grossman
May B. – Caroline Starr Rose
This Ecstasy They Call Damnation – Israel Wasserstein
Time's Shadow: Remembering a Family Farm in Kansas – Arnold J. Bauer
To the Stars Through Difficulties: A Kansas Renga in 150 Voices – Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, Ed.
A Voice for Kanzas – Debra McArthur
Wide Open – Larry Bjornson
The Yard – Alex Grecian
= 2014
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Biting Through the Skin: An Indian Kitchen in America's Heartland – Nina Mukerjee Furstenau
The Black Country – Alex Grecian
Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri: The Long Civil War on the Border – Jonathan Earle & Diane Mutti Burke, Eds.
A Death at Crooked Creek: The Case of the Cowboy, the Cigarmaker, and the Love Letter – Marianne Wesson
Dragging Wyatt Earp: A Personal History of Dodge City – Robert Rebein
Echoes from the Prairie: A Collection of Short Memoirs – Nicole Muchmore, Ed.
Edmund G. Ross: Soldier, Senator, Abolitionist – Richard A. Ruddy
The Good Lord Bird – James McBride
Navigating Early – Clare Vanderpool
Needle in the Bone – Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Of Grave Concern: An Ophelia Wylde Paranormal Mystery – Max McCoy
Teatime to Tailgates: 150 Years at the K-State Table – Jane P. Marshall
The Thing About Luck – Cynthia Kadohata
The Tie That Bound Us: The Women of John Brown’s Family – Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz
Worth the Pain: How Meningitis Nearly Killed Me - Then Changed My Life for the Better – Andy Marso
= 2015
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999 Kansas Characters: Ad Astra, a Biographical Series – Dave Webb, Terry Rombeck, and Beccy Tanner
Bluebird – Lindsey Yankey
A Carol Dickens Christmas: A Novel – Thomas Fox Averill
Chasing Weather: Tornadoes, Tempests, and Thunderous Skies in Word and Image – Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg and Stephen Locke
The Darkest Period: The Kanza Indians and Their Last Homeland, 1846-1873 – Ronald D. Parks
The Devil's Workshop: A Novel of Scotland Yard's Murder Squad – Alex Grecian
Field Guide to the Common Grasses of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska – Iralee Barnard
Girl in Reverse – Barbara Stuber
The Kansas Relays: Track and Field Tradition in the Heartland – Joe D. Schrag
Michael Pearce's Taste of the Kansas Outdoors Cookbook – Michael Pearce
Music I Once Could Dance To – Roy J. Beckemeyer
The Ogallala Road: A Memoir of Love and Reckoning – Julene Bair
Railroad Empire across the Heartland: Rephotographing Alexander Gardner's Westward Journey – by James E. Sherow, photographs by John R. Charlton
Soldiers in the Army of Freedom: The 1st Kansas Colored, the Civil War's First African American Combat Unit – Ian Michael Spurgeo
Waiting on the Sky: More Flyover People Essays – Cheryl Unruh
= 2016
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Alphabet School – Stephen T. Johnson
A Bitter Magic – Roderick Townley
Bottled: A Mom's Guide to Early Recovery – Dana Bowman
The Boy Who Became Buffalo Bill: Growing Up Billy Cody in Bleeding Kansas – Andrea Warren
Diary of a Waitress: The Not-So-Glamorous Life of a Harvey Girl – Carolyn Meyer
For the Sake of Art: The Story of a Kansas Renaissance – Cynthia Mines
Harvey Houses of Kansas: Historic Hospitality from Topeka to Syracuse – Rosa Walston Latimer
Kansas Trail Guide: The Best Hiking, Biking, and Riding in the Sunflower State – Jonathan Conard and Kristin Conard
Kansas Wildflowers and Weeds – Michael John Haddock, Craig C. Freeman, and Janet E. Bare
The Madman and the Assassin: The Strange Life of Boston Corbett, the Man Who Killed John Wilkes Booth – Scott Martelle
Notorious Kansas Bank Heists: Gunslingers to Gangsters – Rod Beemer
Sun and Moon – Lindsey Yankey
To Leave a Shadow – Michael D. Graves
Twenty-Five Years Among the Indians and Buffalo: A Frontier Memoir – by William D. Street, edited by Warren R. Street
While the Kettle's On – Melissa Fite Johnson
= 2017
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Fast-Food Sonnets: Poems – Dennis Etzel Jr.
Ghost Sign: Poems from White Buffalo – Al Ortolani, Melissa Fite Johnson, Adam Jameson, and J.T. Knoll
Green City: How One Community Survived a Tornado and Rebuilt for a Sustainable Future – Allan Drummond
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape and the Making of Winston Churchill – Candice Millard
Hurt People: A Novel – Cote Smith
Ioway Life: Reservation and Reform, 1837-1860 – Greg Olson
The Last Wild Places of Kansas: Journeys into Hidden Landscapes – George Frazier
Lost and Gone Forever: A Novel of Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad – Alex Grecian
The Memory of Lemon: A Novel – Judith Fertig
Mike Torrez: A Baseball Biography – Jorge Iber
A Nest of Hornets – Robert Krenzel
Never Enough Flamingos – Janelle Diller
Phog: The Most Influential Man in Basketball – Scott Morrow Johnson
Presenting Buffalo Bill: The Man Who Invented the Wild West – Candace Fleming
The Small-Town Midwest: Resilience and Hope in the Twenty-First Century – Julianne Couch
= 2018
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Bad Kansas: Stories – Becky Mandelbaum
Cricket in the Thicket: Poems about Bugs – Carol Murray and Melissa Sweet
Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West – Tom Clavin
Feet of the Messenger: Poems – H.C. Palmer
Fireflies in the Gathering Dark: Poems – Maril Crabtree
Headlights on the Prairie: Essays on Home – Robert Rebeinsas
Ike and McCarthy: Dwight Eisenhower's Secret Campaign Against Joseph McCarthy – David A. Nichols
Kansas Baseball, 1858-1941 – Mark E. Eberle
Kansas Guidebook 2 for Explorers – Marci Penner and WenDee Rowe
The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery – Bill James and Rachel McCarthy James
Midnight at the Electric – Jodi Lynn Anderson
The Shape of Ideas: An Illustrated Exploration of Creativity – Grant Snider
Stark Mad Abolitionists: Lawrence, Kansas, and the Battle over Slavery in the Civil War Era – Robert K. Sutton
That is My Dream! – Langston Hughes and Daniel Miyares
To The Stars Through Difficulties – Romalyn Tilghman
= 2019
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American Heart – Laura Moriarty
Brown Enough: A Tale of a Mixed-Race Baseball Team Summer of ’56 – Ken Ohm
Buried in the Suburbs – Jamie Lynn Heller
The Deepest Roots – Miranda Asebedo
The Diaries of Reuben Smith, Kansas Settler and Civil War Soldier – Lana Wirt Myers
Eisenhower: Becoming the Leader of the Free World – Louis Galambos
Elevations: A Personal Exploration of the Arkansas River – Max McCoy
A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America’s Schools – Rachel Devlin
Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth – Sarah Smarsh
Night Out – Daniel Miyares
No Place Like Home: Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas – C.J. Janovy
No Small Potatoes: Junius G. Groves and His Kingdom in Kansas – Tonya Bolden and Don Tate
The Pastor Wears a Skirt: Stories of Gender and Ministry – Dorothy Nickel Friesen
The Saint of Wolves and Butchers – Alex Grecian
Seafire – Natalie C. Parker
= 2020
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Birds, Bones, and Beetles: The Improbable Career and Remarkable Legacy of University of Kansas Naturalist Charles D. Bunker – Charles H. Warner
A Constellation of Roses – Miranda Asebedo
Crumbled!: The Misadventures of Nobbin Swill – Lisa Harkrader
Follow Me Down to Nicodemus Town – A. LaFaye and Nicole Tadgell
Headwinds: A Memoir – Edna Bell-Pearson
The Healer's Daughter: A Novel – Charlotte Hinger
How to Be a Family: The Year I Dragged My Kids Around the World to Find a New Way to Be Together – Dan Kois
Journey to a Promised Land: A Story of the Exodusters (I Am America) – Allison Lassieur
Kansas City Chiefs Legends: The Greatest Coaches, Players and Front Office Execs in Chiefs History – Jeff Deters
A Perfect Silhouette – Judith Miller
Petroglyphs of the Kansas Smoky Hills – Rex C. Buchanan, Burke W. Griggs, Joshua L. Svaty
The Reckless Oath We Made: A Novel – Bryn Greenwood
Steel Tide: A Seafire Novel – Natalie C. Parker
The Topeka School: A Novel – Ben Lerner
What Color Is Night? – Grant Snider
= 2021
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All Hallows' Shadow – Michael D. Graves
The Amelia Six – Kristin L. Gray
The Chicken Sisters – KJ Dell’Antonia
Croaked!: The Misadventures of Nobbin Swill – Lisa Harkrader
Farmers Unite!: Planting a Protest for Fair Prices – Lindsay H. Metcalf
Ladybird, Collected – Meg Heriford
Un Mango Grows in Kansas – Huascar Medina
Mawson's Mission: Launching Women's Intercollegiate Athletics at the University of Kansas – L. Marlene Mawson
Northern Cheyenne Ledger Art by Fort Robinson Breakout Survivors – Denise Low and Ramon Powers
People, Pride, and Promise: The Story of the Dockum Sit-in – Prisca Barnes and Priscella Brown
Prairie Bachelor: The Story of a Kansas Homesteader and the Populist Movement – Lynda Beck Fenwick
Premeditated Myrtle: A Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery – Elizabeth C. Bunce
Swimming Shelter: Poems – Al Ortolani
What Sound is Morning? – Grant Snider
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments – Aimee Nezhukumatathil
= 2022
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Ava: A Year of Adventure in the Life of an American Avocet – Mandy Kern and Onalee Nicklin
Blue Collar Saint: Poems – Brenda Leigh White
Field Journal: Volume XIII, 2021, The Santa Fe Trail – Symphony in the Flint Hills
From This Moment: A Novel – Kim Vogel Sawyer
The Greatest Thing: A Story About Buck O'Neil – Kristy Nerstheimer and Christian Paniagua
Haven’s Secret (The Powers Book 1) – Melissa Benoist, Jessica Benoist, and Mariko Tamaki
How to Resist Amazon and Why – Danny Caine
Killing Dragons: Order of the Dolphin – Kristie Clark
Mad Prairie: Stories and a Novella – Kate McIntyre
Policing Sex in the Sunflower State: The Story of the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women – Nicole Perry
Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains – Lucas Bessire
Stormbreak: A Seafire Novel – Natalie C. Parker
A Vote for Susanna: The First Woman Mayor – Karen M. Greenwald and Sian James
White Hot Hate: A True Story of Domestic Terrorism in America's Heartland – Dick Lehr
Words Is a Powerful Thing: Twenty Years of Teaching Creative Writing at Douglas County Jail – Brian Daldorph
= 2023
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Cabby Potts, Duchess of Dirt – Kathleen Wilford
Easy Beauty: A Memoir – Chloé Cooper Jones
Hell's Half-acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family – Susan Jonusas
Justa’s Escape: A Journey from WWII Ukraine – Justina Neufeld with Russell Binkley
Kansas Speaks Out: Poems in the Age of Me, Too – edited by Dennis Etzel, Jr and Jericho Hockett
Letters to Martin: Meditations on Democracy – Randal Maurice Jelks
The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World – David K. Randall
Native American Stories for Kids: 12 Traditional Stories From Indigenous Tribes Across North America – T. F. Pecore Weso
A New Guide to Kansas Mushrooms – Sherry Kay
Nothing but the Dirt: Stories From An American Farm Town – Kate Guerriero Benz
One Boy Watching – Grant Snider
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile – Candice Millard
The Undead Truth of Us – Britney S. Lewis
The Vagabond's Way: 366 Meditations on Wanderlust, Discovery, and the Art of Travel – Rolf Potts
Winfield's Walnut Valley Festival – Seth Bate
= 2024
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Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind: James Montgomery and His War on Slavery, by Todd Mildfelt and David Schafer
Daughter of Chaos, by Sarah Edgerton
Doomed by Blooms, by Anna St. John
Grief Said "Have a Seat", by Amanda G. Elsbury
Henry, Like Always, by Jenn Bailey
I've Been Fighting This War Within Myself, by Antonio Sanchez-Day and edited by Brian Daldorph
Into the Sunset: Emmett Dalton and the End of the Dalton Gang, by Ian Shaw
The Jayhawk: The Story of the University of Kansas’s Beloved Mascot, by Rebecca Ozier Schulte
Kansas City's Montgall Avenue: Black Leaders and the Street They Called Home, by Margie Carr
Orion O'Brien and the Spirit of Quindaro, by Fran Borin
Proclaiming the Good News: Mennonite Women’s Voices, 1972-2006, by Lois Y. Barrett and Dorothy Nickel Friesen
Red Rabbit, by Alex Grecian
Roadside Geology of Kansas, by James S Aber, Susan E. W. Aber, and Michael J. Everhart
We're Safe When We're Alone, by Nghiem Tran
Without Warning: The Tornado of Udall, Kansas, by Jim Minick
References
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