10 Good Choices that Empower Black Women’s Lives
Cornish, Dr. Grace
Crown. November. 192p.
ISBN: 0-609-60506-2. $21

This new guidebook encourages Black women to break free from loneliness, anger, confusion, procrastination, self-pity, fear, and stress.  Like her previous book, Cornish uses anecdotes, interviews, case studies, and letters to present her program to help women know who they are, what they are worth, and where they are going.

A Setback is a Setup for a Comeback
Jolley, Willie
Griffin. September. 224p.
ISBN: 0-312-26773-8. $11.95

Readers may now read Jolley’s strategies for seizing the moment in this new paperback version of his acclaimed work.  He uses stories of ordinary people who refused to succumb to hardship and instead found opportunities where they least expected them and were able to succeed.

An American Story
Dickerson, Debra J. and Erroll McDonald (Editor)
Pantheon. October. 288p.
ISBN: 0-375-42069-X. $24

Born in 1959, Debra Dickerson is a widely admired journalist.  She tells how she became what she is today—from her transformation in the U.S. Air Force; her years at Harvard Law School; and her current position as a journalist.

An Eighth of August
Trice, Dawn Turner
Crown. October. 304p.
ISBN: 0-517-70589-3. $22.95

Annually, since the 1800s, the people of Halley’s Landing celebrate the August 8 signing of the Emancipation Proclamation with the grandest of festivities. Special dishes are prepared and former residents and neighbors come from far and near. But below the surface lurk memories of past hurts and resentments.

Beauty’s Daughter, Monster, The Gimmick
Orlandersmith, Dael
Vintage. October/ 208p.
ISBN: 0-375-70871-5. $12

This three-play collection includes Beauty’s Daughter (received an Obie Award in 1995), about a woman named Diane who yearns to free herself from a world where people drown their sorrow in drugs and alcohol; Monster, about life in the Lower East Side of New York City; and The Gimmick, about Alexis who buries herself in the world of books at her local library and dreams of being a writer in Paris.

Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace
Williams, Angel Kyodo
Viking. September. 256p.
ISBN: 0-670-89268-8. $23.95

This spiritual handbook was written for Black Americans searching for greater meaning in life.  Williams combines the universal wisdom of Buddhism with an inspirational call for self-acceptance and community empowerment that transcends the materialism of the American Dream.

Blackgammon
Neff, Heather
One World Ballantine. October. 400p.
ISBN: 0-345-43611-3. $24

Two sisters live in Paris and London for 25 years of self-imposed exile.   Upon reflection of her life, relationships, and the meaning of her art, Chloe wonders if her success is a result of her inability to love.  Her closest friend and sister faces her own insecurities as she evaluates her marriage to a white man.  Both sisters struggle to regain the depth of character they lost and find they might have to sacrifice more than they bargained for.

Black Theology, Black Power and Black Love
James, Michael
African American Images. September. 144p.
ISBN: 0-9135-4368-3. $14.95

This examination of modern black theology creates a new paradigm known as “Integrasegreology”, which offers a corrective theory to the polarization of the ideologies of Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It also addresses the important social and theological shortcomings in Dr. James Cone’s original introduction of black theology. Integrasegreology argues that black theology should not be an end in itself, but serve the greater purpose of the liberation of oppressed blacks throughout the world.

Black Wings and Blind Angels: Poems Sapphire
Alfred Knopf. September. 144p.
ISBN: 0-679-76731-2. $11

Sapphire shares with her readers the harsh realities of the African American experience in her forty-seven poems.  Sapphire explores deep feelings as the heroes live through the pain of betrayal as they strive for redemption. She takes us along city streets, to the psychotherapist’s couch, and into dreamland.

Blues Dancing: A Novel
McKinney-Whetstone, Diane
HarperCollins. November. 320p.
ISBN: 0-688-17789-1. $13

Nominated for an NAACP Image Award, this novel is set in Philadelphia and tells the story of Verdi, the pampered daughter of a wealthy Southern preacher.  She is principal at a school for children with special needs and is faced with the memories of her ‘70s college years and experimentation with drugs when an old flame comes to town.

Career Success is Color-Blind: Overcoming Prejudice and Eliminating Barriers in the Workplace
Stevenson, Ollie
Jist Works. July. 400p.
ISBN: 1-563-70733-0. $16.95

The advice offered in Career Success through anecdotes and personal accounts is for any career-minded individual, regardless of racial or cultural background. Given the changing demographics of America, millions of minorities enter the workforce and everyone has to adjust to working together. Therefore, the tips about how to handle office politics and reach beyond one’s own circle of contacts, allies, and mentors will prove valuable.

Catching Dreams: My Life in the Negro Baseball Leagues
Robinson, Frazier “Slow” with Paul Bauer
Syracuse University. July. 256p.
ISBN: 0-8156-0658-3

Robinson, who died in 1997, recalled to Bauer the details of the games he played over 50 years ago as if they were yesterday.  Sports fans will enjoy the stories he tells and will rejoice that even though racism kept him from the major leagues, he maintained his enthusiasm for the game and for life.

Chamique: On Family, Focus, and Basketball
Holdsclaw, Chamique with Jennifer Frey
Scribner. September.192p.
ISBN: 0-7432-0220-1. $18

Chamique is a twenty-two year old, six-foot-two-inch Women’s National Basketball Association player who is considered to be the best woman player in history.  She was the number one draft pick in the 1999 basketball season and finished as Rookie of the Year.  She also played on the Olympic team and has five-year contracts with Nike and Nickelodeon.  Chamique tells her story from her years growing up in the housing projects of Queens, NY.

Cooking with Heart and Soul
Hayes, Isaac with Susan di Sesa
Putnam’s. October. 256p.
ISBN: 0-399-14656-3. $25.95

Hayes, a musician, actor, and radio host, is the voice of “Chef” on the television show South Park.  It is less known that he was a short-order cook before he came to the music world.  His recipes are a mix of traditional home cooking and healthy eating, served with a huge helping of stories about life.

Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats
Cunningham, Michael and Craig Marberry
Doubleday. October. 240p.
ISBN:0-385-50086-6. $27.50

Fifty black-and-white photographs by Cunningham capture the many expressions of Black women in their hats, ranging from the simple to the most flamboyant and beaded numbers.  Essays written by Marberry, from interviews he conducted, accompany the photographs of either young girls or grandmothers.

Dark Matter: the Anthology of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction
Black Writers
Thomas, Sheree and Martin Simmons (Editors)
Warner. August. 464p.
ISBN: 0-446-52583-9. $24.95

This title introduces short stories from past and present black science fiction and fantasy writers.  Included are works from Charles W. Chestnutt of the 1890s and Octavia Butler, Walter Mosley, and Ishmael Reed.

Destined to Witness: Growing up Black in Nazi Germany
Massaquoi, Hans J. (bottom right)
William Morrow. November. 464p.
ISBN: 0-688-17155-9. $25

This is the first time ever in literature that a beautifully rendered memoir chronicles the experiences and ultimate survival of a Black youth growing up in Nazi Germany.  It's a wonderful book and simply a "must read." The story opens along a parade route amidst a group of schoolchildren saluting Hitler's Black Mercedes as it pulls through the frenzied crowd. In the gathering of blond, blue-eyed children, a small eight-year-old boy stands at attention: young Hans, with curly dark hair and deep brown skin, still shielded by youthful ignorance, but not for long. "Like everyone around me," the adult Hans writes, "I cheered the man whose every waking hour was dedicated to the destruction of  'inferior non-Aryan people' like myself, the same man, who only a few years later would lead his own nation to the greatest catastrophe in its long history and bring the world to the brink of destruction." Massaquoi, born of a successful African father and a white German nurse, grew up in Nazi Germany.  He lived with his mother after his father and grandfather were forced to return to their homeland of Liberia. Massaquoi eventually lived for a time in Liberia and later immigrated to the United States where he became a journalist and the managing editor of Ebony magazine. This provocative book has been on the best-seller lists in Germany.

Details at Ten: A Novel
Garland, Ardella
Simon & Schuster. September. 288p.
ISBN: 0-684-87375-3. $23

After a young girl admits to witnessing a drive-by shooting on Chicago’s South Side, she disappears.  Garland, who is really the novelist Yolanda Joe, resurrects her popular protagonist, reporter Georgia Barnett, who gets caught up in the search for the young woman.

Do Unto Others
Lattany, Kristin
One World Ballantine. November. 272p.
ISBN: 0-345-43837-X. $14

In this story, Lattany reminds us all of the perils of romanticizing our roots.  Zena Lawson takes her love for all things African to another level—art, culture, and history.  It turns around and “bites” her when she welcomes a twenty-year old West African girl who needs a temporary place to stay, into the home she shares with her husband.

Faith, Family, and Finance: the Three Pillars of a Successful Future
Jakes, T.D.
Putnam’s. October. 224p.
ISBN: 0-399-14683-0. $21.95

Jakes is a well-known TV minister and is also founder and pastor of the Potter’s House in Dallas, Texas.  His latest book offers his formula for success: Faith is the foundation of all we want to achieve, family is the anchor that keeps us grounded, and finance is the vessel that brings us to our destination.

Far From the Tree
DeBerry, Virginia and Donna Grant
St. Martin’s. September. 352p.
ISBN: 0-312-20291-1. $24.95

Having written an earlier novel together, these two friends DeBerry and Grant, collaborate once again to produce this novel about sisterhood, family secrets, and the ties that bind.  Celeste and Ronnie are sisters who lead very different lives.  When they inherit a house in North Carolina from their father, their trip to the small town to claim it only serves to dredge up decades-old secrets better left uncovered.

For the Love of Money: A Novel
Tyree, Omar
Simon & Schuster. August. 368.
ISBN: 0-684-87291-9. $23

Remember Flyy Girl?  Well, Tyree reintroduces Tracy Ellison from that earlier novel.  She is now a 28 year-old movie star who goes back to visit her hometown in Philadelphia.  She now has to answer questions from old loves and face family business left unfinished.

George Foreman’s Big Book of Grilling, Barbecue, and Rotisserie
Foreman, George and Barbara Witt
Simon & Schuster. October. 192p.
ISBN: 0-7432-0092-6. $24.

The boxing champion shares his more than 75 recipes for preparing meats, poultry, fish, fruit, and vegetables.  There are sandwiches, pizza, and salads tossed in as well as marinades, salsas, and sauces for the different dishes.  The recipes each have an international flavor, whether Caribbean, Pan-Asian, or Latino, and come with full nutritional breakdowns.

God’s Name in Vain: The Wrongs and Rights of Religion in Politics
Carter, Stephen L.
Basic Books. October. 288p.
ISBN: 0-465-00886-0. $26

Carter argues that American politics is nothing without the voice of religion.  Using historical and contemporary examples—sermons of abolitionists and speeches of presidential candidates—he shows how American politics and religion do and do not mesh.  He also illustrates how spiritual perspectives could be of value in the nation’s debates.

I Wish I Had a Red Dress
Cleage, Pearl
William Morrow. November. 256p.
ISBN: 0-380-97733-8. $24

This sequel to Cleage’s previous novel What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day, brings back the same characters, but focuses on the elder sister Joyce, who readers will remember as selfless and caring.  Joyce now feels it’s time to do something for herself and seeks a romance of her own.

In Search of Africa
Diawara, Manthia
Harvard U.  September. 288p
ISBN: 0-674-00408-6.  $16.95

NYU Professor of film and literature takes the cultural pulse of contemporary Africa. Returning to his native Guinea, 32 years after he and his family were expelled, to make a documentary film about Sekou Toure, Diawara finds a country that has lost the excitement of independence but is far from the barbarism often depicted in Western press reports. He argues that the deadening legacy of colonialism can be overcome by a fusing the indigenous and scattered strands of African culture.

It’s the Little Things: The Everyday Interactions that get Under the Skin of Blacks and Whites
Williams, Lena
Harcourt. September. 256p.
ISBN: 0-15-100407-2. $22

The little things are the small behaviors that create huge walls between blacks and whites, and they are often funny.  It’s because of ignorance why we’re still divided, says Williams, as she writes from her own experiences.  Williams conducted focus groups of blacks and whites as she looked at the very separate worlds of the two.

King: A Photobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Johnson, Charles and Bob Adelman
Viking. November. 288p.
ISBN: 0-670-89216-5. $40

Johnson, who won a National Book Award for his novel Middle Passage, has teamed up with Adelman, to produce this collection.  Text written by Johnson accompanies Adelman’s photos, which portray King’s public and family life—as son and student, husband and father, powerful preacher and courageous leader.

Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors
Edelman, Marian Wright
HarperCollins. September. 208p.
ISBN: 0-06-095859-6. $14

Edelman pays tribute to her mentors who helped light her way during her efforts with civil rights and child advocacy struggles.  Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert F. Kennedy, Fannie Lou Hamer, and many others helped in one way or other.  However, her parents remain her most important mentors.

Make a Joyful Noise: Dr. Bobby Jones’ 25 years in Gospel Music
Jones, Dr. Bobby with Lesley Sussman
St. Martins. October. 224p.

ISBN: 0-312-25258-7. $22.95

Jones is the host and executive producer of Bobby Jones Gospel, the gospel music show with a television audience of over five million.  He shares his personal journey from childhood in poverty to his becoming an award-winning leader in the music world because of his love for Christian music.

Men of Color: Fashion, History, and Fundamentals
Boston, Lloyd
Artisan.  September. 256p.
ISBN: 1-579-65167-4. $25

Boasting a foreword by Quincy Jones, this book is new in paperback.  Included are photographs of famous Black men such as Nat King Cole, Bill Cosby, and Denzel Washington and  accompanying interviews with Jesse Jackson, Wynton Marsalis, and Gregory Hines.  The author, formerly the vice president of art direction for Tommy Hilfiger, is now the on-air fashion editor for NBC’s Later Today show.

Nappily Ever After: A Novel
Thomas, Trisha R.
Crown. December. 256p.
ISBN: 0-609-60583-6. $22

After kicking her boyfriend out of the house when he refuses to marry her, Venus Johnson rebels against the beauty rituals she was slave to by cutting her shoulder-length hair.  The simple act marked a turning point in her life as she examines who she really is and what she wants to be.

Never Die Easy: The Autobiography of Walter Payton
Payton, Walter with Don Yaeger
Villard. September. 288p.
ISBN: 0-679-46331-3. $24.95

Payton, known as the leading rusher in the National Football League, died from liver cancer on November 1, 1999.  For many years, Payton raised money to provide Christmas presents for more than 30,000 children who were wards of the state.  And, it is not widely known that he refused to use his celebrity to move up on the nation’s organ donation list.  Payton’s book is an inspiration.

No Future Without Forgiveness
Tutu, Desmond
Doubleday. October. 256p.
ISBN: 0-385-49690-7. $14.95

Now in paperback, this book offers Nobel Peace Prize recipient Tutu’s insights and reflections on South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was the country’s attempt at healing after years of suffering under apartheid.  It is Tutu’s argument that true reconciliation does not come easily or by merely denying the past.  It must be faced squarely and with honesty and he shows us how.

Orange Laughter
Ross, Leone
Farrar, Straus & Giroux. November. 240p.
ISBN: 0-374-22676-8. $23

Moving between dream and reality, Ross tells a story about two men, one black and the other white, who lived as childhood friends in North Carolina.  The story is set in ’90s New York City and ’60s North Carolina during the Civil Rights movement and the two friends share the memory of their childhood caretaker Agatha, who “lives” again as a ghost.

Oreo
Ross, Fran
Northeastern U. November. 224p.
ISBN: 1-55553-464-3. $15.95

Ross, who’s written for comedian Richard Pryor, writes a funny commentary on relations between Blacks and Jews through the life of Oreo, who is born to a Jewish father and a Black mother who divorce before she is two.  Oreo grows up and goes to New York to search for her father, but discovers there are dozens of Sam Schwartzes in the phone book.  There ensues a story that readers will find hilarious.

Passing
Larsen, Nella
The Modern Library. December. 208p.
ISBN: 0-375-50446-X. $18.95

This classic novel by one of the premier female writers from the Harlem Renaissance is enjoying a rebirth with an introduction by Ntozake Shange.  First published in 1929, this is a story about two black women who “pass” for white in the 1920’s.

Primetime Blues: African Americans on Network Television
Bogle, Donald
Farrar, Straus & Giroux. September. 512p.
ISBN: 0-374-23720-4. $27

A leading critic of African American film and television, Bogle now examines onscreen stereotypes and also shows the ways in which television has been enlivened by African American performers.  Bogle maintains that their presence on the screen has been of great significance to the Black community.  The book surveys the history of achievement and explores attitudes on race and sex from the seventies through the eighties and nineties.

Put Soul in Your Bridal Shower: The African American Bridal Shower Book
Evans, Tonya D.
Picasso Pub. October. 70p.
ISBN: 1-552-79040-1. $21.95

Share the history behind the cultural terms such as Soul Food, Kwanzaa, Crossing Sticks, and Jumping the Broom.  The Bridal Shower Book will introduce you to seven steps for planning a fun and cultural shower for the bride.  Included are themes, games, and ideas to enhance the day for all the family and friends involved.

Race Men
Carby, Hazel V.
Harvard U. September. 240p.
ISBN: 0-674-00404-3. $15.95

Who are the “race men” standing up for Black America?  This is not a question Carby believes is even valid.  There is no particular man that represents the community.  In six essays Carby shows how the defining images of leadership play out socially, culturally, and politically for black and white society, and especially how they exclude women altogether.  She looks at images of black masculinity in The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois and how the same codes remain today.  Carby also examines Hollywood films as she traces through the career of Danny Glover.

Sold and Gone: African-American Literature and U.S. Society
Pinckney, Darryl
Farrar, Straus & Giroux. September. 320p
ISBN: 0-3742-8188-2. $26

Pinckney, a New York Review of Books contributor, writes a personal history of the relationship between Black writers and the realist tradition, and the story of one writer’s connection to his own literary past.  Pinckney devotes the first part of his work to the achievements of a dozen major authors, including Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston.

Steppin’ Out: An African-American Guide to Over 20 Favorite Cities
Labat, Carla
Avalon Travel Publishing. October. 300p.
ISBN: 1-5626-1544-0. $17.95

Labat gives first-hand accounts of recommended places and events, providing information on restaurants, nightclubs, museums, festivals, and the arts.  Also covered are churches, historical landmarks, and sporting venues, especially African-American owned businesses.

Take Me to the River
Green, Al with Davin Seay
HarperCollins. September. 352p.
ISBN: 0-380-97622-6. $25

Al Green the pop singer and Reverend Al Green the spiritual man are the same.  His life story begins in Jacknash, Arkansas, as a young boy with dreams of stardom and fame; he now lives in Memphis, TN, where he is pastor of the Full Gospel Tabernacle.

Tha Doggfather: The Times, Trials, and Hardcore Truths of Snoop Dogg
Snoop Dogg with Davin Seay
HarperCollins. December. 240p.
ISBN: 0-06-107607-4. $13

In his memoir, Snoop Dogg recounts the details of his life from his days as a Crip gang member, to his rise to the top of the charts as a rap artist.  Snoop Dogg is honest about his life on the streets of Los Angeles’ Long Beach ’hood and how he dealt with the conflicts he faced between family and the gangs, death and survival, addiction and ambition.  He also shares stories of life with his one true friend Tupac Shakur and his musical soul mate Suge Knight.

The Darker Face of the Earth
Dove, Rita
Story Line Press. September. 182p.
ISBN: 1-885266-94-4. $14

This first full-length play by Dove, a Pulitzer Prize winner, is a tragic interracial love story set on a plantation in pre-Civil War South Carolina.

The Fisher King: A Novel
Marshall, Paule
Scribner. October. 224p.
ISBN: 0-684-87283-8. $23

Sonny-Rett Payne, a jazz pianist, fled New York for Paris to escape the racism that stifled his career and his family’s disapproval of his art.  When he dies, his eight-year-old Parisian grandson is brought to his old Brooklyn neighborhood to attend a memorial concert in his honor.  Marshall explores the rivalries that drove the boy’s grandfather away and reveals the myths, betrayals, and anger that can separate people.

The Future Has a Past: Stories
Cooper, J. California
Doubleday. October. 288p.
ISBN: 0-385-49680-X. $23.95

This is Cooper’s sixth collection of stories and she recreates the lives of “everyday people trying to live every day.”  “A Shooting Star” compares the good girl life of Maisha with that of Lorene, who discovered the pleasures of sex at an early age.  In “A Fillet of Soul,” Louella, who is raised to believe she is ugly and undesirable, falls in love with a con man and loses her small inheritance and her dignity, but this tragedy leads her to another love affair that is more than she imagined.

The Ten Things You Can’t Say in America
Elder, Larry
St. Martin’s. September. 352p.
ISBN: 0-312-26660-X. $23.95

As radio talk show host on KABC Los Angeles, Elder has been known for creating controversy and encouraging provocative dialogue.  This fall he will encourage debate on a new television show, The Moral Court.  As the national elections approach, Elder trashes accepted “wisdom” and utters such no-nos as “there is no difference between Republicans and Democrats” and “the war on drugs is our new Vietnam—and we’re losing.”  He maintains, “politicians, the media, and our so-called leaders lie to us” about so much.

The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender and Freedom
Smith, Barbara
Rutgers U. September. 232p.
ISBN: 0-8135-2897-6. $16

The Truth That Never Hurts, a collection of 21 essays, brings together for the first time more than two decades of literary criticism and political thought about gender, race, sexuality, power, and social change.  Smith defines Black women’s literary tradition, examines the sexual politics of the lives of blacks and other women of color, represents the lives of Black lesbians and gay men; and makes connections between race, class, sexuality, and gender.

The Way Forward is With a Broken Heart
Walker, Alice
Random House. October. 224p.
ISBN: 0-679-45587-6. $23.95

Pulitzer Prize winner Walker presents her philosophy about people, the spirit, life, sex, and love using fictional stories based on her own life, starting with an autobiographical story about her own marriage in the South during the early years of the Civil Rights Movement.

Their Eyes Were Watching God
Hurston, Zora Neale
HarperCollins. October.
ISBN: 0-0601-9949-0. $25.00

This novel about a proud, independent black woman was first published in 1937, but was also out of print for nearly 30 years until the University of Illinois Press reissued it in 1978.  It is now considered one of the greatest works in African-American fiction.  Janie Crawford, a fair-skinned, long-haired woman has grown to expect better treatment than what she gets from her three husbands and community.  She meets Tea Cake, a younger man who mesmerizes her and offers her the chance to appreciate life without being one man’s mule or another man’s decoration.

Those Bones Are Not My Child
Bambara, Toni Cade
Vintage. October. 688p.
ISBN: 0-679-77408-4. $16

Bambara, who died in 1995, wrote this book over a twelve-year span.  The story, edited by Toni Morrison, is about Zala Spencer who wakes up one morning to find her child, Sonny, has disappeared.  Joining up with her ex-husband, Zala embarks on a search that introduces the reader to a world of political, racial, and class tensions in Atlanta, GA.

Transfigurations: Collected Poems
Wright, Jay
Louisiana State U. October. 552p.
ISBN: 0-8071-2630-6. $24.95

Drawing from African, Native-American, and European sources, Wright explores how the psychological and spiritual come together to form cultural.

Unguarded: My Forty Years Surviving in the NBA
Wilkens, Lenny and Terry Pluto
Simon & Schuster. November. 304p.
ISBN: 0-684-87374-5. $25

Basketball Hall of Famer Wilkens has the title of “winningest coach” in National Basketball Association history. He relates his early years in the NBA including experiences on training camp trips when he was served at the kitchen doors of segregated restaurants. He also shares candidly about coaching present-day multimillion-dollar players.

Where Did Our Love Go?
Franklin, Donna
Simon & Schuster. September. 288p.
ISBN: 0-684-81851-5. $25

Franklin reveals that the divorce rate among blacks is double that of the general population, which to her represents a crisis.  It is her belief that the problem lies in the dysfunctional patterns of slavery and its aftermath.  In answering the question, “Why Relationships Fail in Black America?” Franklin also explores how they can succeed.

Where I’m Bound: A Novel
Ballard, Allen B.
Simon & Schuster. October. 320p.
ISBN: 0-684-87031-2. $24

Focusing on an African-American regiment during the Civil War, this story is not only about a runaway slave who becomes a hero in the army, but it allows readers a look into the war from the perspective of the soldiers.  Notably, African-American soldiers comprised ten percent of the Union forces at the time.

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