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Lives of the Great Gardeners
Stephen Anderton - W W Norton
Format: Print book
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Entertaining and accessible -- the lives of the men and women, many of them multitalented artists, who created some of the world's most extraordinary gardens, and whose legacy continues to inspireThroughout history, great gardeners have risen from all walks of life. Some have been aristocratic... |
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My Cool Kitchen: A Style Guide to Unique and Inspirational Kitchens
Jane Field-Lewis - Pavilion Books
Format: Hardcover
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This book departs from the standard look-alike conventional kitchens offered by mass-market home stores. Instead, it celebrates individuality, creativity and artistic flair. From the kitchens of tiny city flats to baronial castles, this is a refreshing look outside of the box of the catalogue... |
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The Organic Backyard Vineyard: A Step-by-Step Guide to Growing Your Own Grapes
Tom Powers - Timber Press
Format: Print book
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Interest in wine shows no signs of slowing down—wine tours, tastings, and vacations are now common and homeowners often have space dedicated to their collection. The logical next step? Learning to grow and make your own. In The Organic Backyard Vineyard expert Tom Powers walks the small... |
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Furniture Makes the Room: Create Special Pieces to Style a Home You Love
Barb Blair - Chronicle, 2016.
Format: Print book
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Knack Studio founder Barb Blair is famous for her "knack" with furniture: spotting classic pieces and transforming them into modern showstoppers. In this inspiring book, Blair goes beyond the nuts and bolts of furniture refinishing to show how to style rooms with each customized... |
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Grow All You Can Eat in Three Square Feet
DK Publishing - DK Publishing
Format: Print book
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Want to grow your own vegetables and food, but don't have enough space for a garden? Don't let lack of space get in the way of growing healthy, organic foods at home. Apartment dwellers, schoolteachers, and anyone else who wants to grow a lot of food in a little space will find a great... |
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Living with Pattern: Color, Texture, and Print at Home
Rebecca Atwood - Clarkson Potter
Format: Print book
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If you focus on pattern, from texture and color to furniture and textiles, everything else will fall into place. Pattern is the strongest element in any room. In Living with Pattern, Rebecca Atwood demystifies how to use that element, a design concept that often confounds and confuses,... |
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The bold dry garden : lessons from the Ruth Bancroft Garden
Johanna Silver - Timber Press
Format: Print book
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Celebrate and recreate the beauty of The Ruth Bancroft Garden! Ruth Bancroft is a dry gardening pioneer. Her lifelong love of plants led to the creation of one of the most acclaimed public gardens, The Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek, California. The Bold Dry Garden offers unparalleled... |
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Composting Basics: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started (How To Basics)
Eric Ebeling - Stackpole Books
Format: Paperback
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How to recycle household waste to make quality compostYou dont need a science degree or a shed full of sophisticated equipment to make quality compost. What you need to get started is the know-how provided in this basic how-to book along a little elbow grease and the pile of organic materials... |
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Container Theme Gardens: 42 Combinations, Each Using 5 Perfectly Matched Plants
Nancy J. Ondra - Storey Pub.
Format: Print book
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Simple and foolproof! Enjoy beautiful container plantings with no stress or fuss. Container Theme Gardens offers 42 plans for container arrangements, each using just five specific plants that you can find at your local garden center. There's something here for every setting and every... |
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Herbs: Gardens, Decorations and Recipes
Emelie Tolley - C.N. Potter
Format: Book
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The first glorious full-color life-style book about gardening, decorating, and cooking with herbs. More than 450 full-color illustrations and 25 black-and-white illustrations. |
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Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden: Grow, Harvest, and Arrange Stunning Seasonal Blooms
Erin Benzakein - Chronicle Books
Format: Print book
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From Erin Benzakein, a leader in the locaflor farm-to-centerpiece movement and owner of internationally renowned Floret Flower Farm, Cut Flower Garden is equal parts instruction and inspiration - a book overflowing with lush photography of magnificent flowers and breathtaking arrangements... |
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Building Natural Ponds: Create a Clean, Algae-free Pond without Pumps, Filters, or Chemicals
Robert Pavlis - New Society Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Build a natural pond for wildlife, beauty, and quiet contemplationTypical backyard ponds are a complicated mess of pipes, pumps, filters, and nasty chemicals designed to adjust pH and keep algae at bay. Hardly the bucolic, natural ecosystem beloved by dragonflies, frogs, and songbirds.The... |
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Be Your Own Herbalist: Essential Herbs for Health, Beauty, and Cooking
Michelle Schoffro Cook - New World Library
Format: Print book
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Herbs don't have television or magazine ads touting their benefits and yet, in many instances, they perform just as well as - and sometimes better than - the pharmaceuticals we constantly hear and read about. While pharmaceuticals can be life saving, neglected herbal remedies can be equally... |
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The Decorated Home: Living with Style and Joy
Meg Braff - Rizzoli
Format: Print book
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In her first book, interior designer Meg Braff presents the building blocks of a pretty, polished home. Everyone wants a house that is filled with grace and charm. Classic yet cheerful, Meg Braff's style has a formality that is never studied, an elegance that is approachable and pretty.... |
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Modern Mix: Curating Personal Style with Chic & Accessible Finds
Eddie Ross - Gibbs Smith
Format: Print book
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In this richly illustrated style guide from an unabashed hoarder of all things beautiful, design editor and entertaining expert Eddie Ross reveals his insider secrets to creating exciting interiors, table settings and parties with chic and accessible finds that celebrate who you are and what... |
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The Rooftop Growing Guide: How to Transform Your Roof into a Vegetable Garden or Farm
Annie Novak - Ten Speed Press, 2016.
Format: Print book
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Tapping into the expanding market for rooftop farming and green roofs, this is the first stylish, easy-to-use book for urban gardeners interested in utilizing their roof space for growing food. If you'd like to grow your own food but don't think you have the space, look up! In urban and suburban... |
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100 Plants to Feed the Bees: Provide a Healthy Habitat to Help Pollinators Thrive
Xerces Society. - Storey Books
Format: Print book
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The international bee crisis is threatening our global food supply, but this user-friendly field guide shows what you can do to help protect our pollinators. The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation offers browsable profiles of 100 common flowers, herbs, shrubs, and trees that attract... |
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Charles Faudree Country French Legacy
Jenifer Jordan - Gibbs Smith, 2015.
Format: Print book
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The newest and best of a beloved decorator in country French style Celebrating the lifework of the much-loved icon of Country French design. New photography features Faudree's most recent decorating projects, plus some of the best photos from his previous books make this a cherished... |
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The Humane Gardener: Nurturing a Backyard Habitat for Wildlife
Nancy Lawson - Princeton Architectural Press
Format: Hardcover
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In this eloquent plea for compassion and respect for all species, journalist and gardener Nancy Lawson describes why and how to welcome wildlife to our backyards. Through engaging anecdotes and inspired advice, profiles of home gardeners throughout the country, and interviews with scientists... |
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The Homegrown Paleo Cookbook: Over 100 Delicious, Gluten-Free, Farm-to-Table Recipes,
Diana Rodgers - Victory Belt Publishing; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Seasonal, gluten-free, farm-to-table eating never tasted so good!On her farm in Massachusetts, nutritionist Diana Rodgers has found a way back to a healthy, active lifestyle with a focus on nutritious and delicious eating, raising animals, growing vegetables, and balancing work and play.... |
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Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism
Fumio Sasaki - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The best-selling phenomenon from Japan that shows us a minimalist life is a happy life.Fumio Sasaki is not an enlightened minimalism expert or organizing guru like Marie Kondo -- he's just a regular guy who was stressed out and constantly comparing himself to others, until one day he decided... |
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Raised-Bed Gardening: How to grow more in less space
Simon Akeroyd - Taunton Press
Format: Print book
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Raised-bed gardening is a popular gardening technique that allows growers to achieve greater yields while watering less. An opening section explains the basics of raised beds, focusing on the benefits of raised beds (easier maintenance, better drainage, soil amelioration, etc.) and explaining... |
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Outdoor Wood Projects: 24 Projects You Can Build in a Weekend
Steve Cory - Taunton Press
Format: Paperback
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Create something to show for your weekend! If you're looking for projects that you can start and finish in just a weekend's time, look no further than Outdoor Wood Projects. This collection of 24 projects for the backyard and garden can be completed with basic DIY tooling, inexpensive materials,... |
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Harvest: Unexpected Projects Using 47 Extraordinary Garden Plants
Stefani Bittner - Ten Speed Press
Format: Print book
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Harvest is a beautifully photographed guide to growing, harvesting, and utilizing 47 unexpected garden plants to make organic pantry staples, fragrances, floral arrangements, beverages, cocktails, beauty products, and more.Every garden--not just vegetable plots--can produce a bountiful... |
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Fairy Gardening 101: How to Design, Plant, Grow, and Create Over 25 Miniature Gardens
Fiona McDonald - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Release your inner child and step into the fairy world by creating your own enchanted garden no matter how much space you have Fairy gardens are increasing in popularity and Fairy Gardening provides you with all the information necessary to design plant and care for your very own miniature... |
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150 Best New Bathroom Ideas
Francesc Zamora - Harper Design
Format: Hardcover
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For homeowners and architects alike, an irresistible collection of hundreds of inspirational full-color profiles of 150 of the most exciting contemporary bathroom designs.Showcasing an extensive collection of designs and style, captured in stunning full-color photos, 150 Best New Bathroom... |
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150 Best New Kitchen Ideas
Manel Gutierrez - Harper Design, New York
Format: Print book
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A comprehensive, full-color handbook, packed with hundreds of photographs that showcase the latest in beautiful, welcoming, and efficient kitchen design.150 Best New Kitchen Ideas offers an in-depth look at exemplary new kitchen designs from today's most renowned architects and designers.... |
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Remodel Success: Home Remodeling Done Right, On Time, and On Budget
MONICA HIGGINS - Schiffer
Format: Paperback
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Most homeowners are uninformed and ill-prepared for big-ticket remodels. The knowledge they do have often comes from reality-TV home makeover shows that gloss over the ingredients essential to success. This book by a construction management pro gives homeowners increased confidence in making... |
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Small Gas Engine Repair, Fourth Edition
PAUL DEMPSEY - MCGRAW-HILL EDUCATION
Format: Print book
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The bestselling step-by-step guide to gas engine maintenance and repair - updated for today's do-it-yourselferThe Fourth Edition of Small Gas Engine Repair shows readers how to troubleshoot and repair virtually any type of small gas engine used in garden equipment, chain saws, pumps,... |
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The Four Season Farm Gardener's Cookbook
Barbara Damrosch - Workman
Format: Paperback
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Barbara Damrosch and Eliot Coleman are America's foremost organic gardeners -- and authorities. Barbara is the author of The Garden Primer, and Eliot wrote the bible for organic gardening, The New Organic Grower. Today they are the face of the locavore movement, working through... |
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The Writer's Garden: How Gardens Inspired our Best-loved Authors
Jackie Bennett - Frances Lincoln
Format: Hardcover
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Great things happen in gardens. No one can doubt the importance of the garden in Roald Dahl's life as it was here where he worked, and here that he created James and the Giant Peach. And where would Jane Austen have been if she had never seen a 'walk', an ornamental lake, or a wilderness?... |
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The Energy Wise Home: Practical Ideas for Saving Energy, Money, and the Planet
JEFF DONDERO - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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When picking out a home, there are a number of aspects to keep in mind: location, size, and layout. One issue that many people neglect is energy conservation, which is quickly becoming one of the most important aspects of modern life. How do make your home energy wise? Where do you start?... |
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Let It Go: Downsizing Your Way to a Richer, Happier Life
Peter Walsh - Rodale
Format: Print book
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Sorting through a lifetime's worth of accumulated possessions can be a daunting and stressful process that millions of Americans confront every year. The need to downsize often arises at a momentous life change, whether you're an empty nester or retiree selling your family home, a newlywed... |
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Home
Ellen DeGeneres - Grand Central Life & Style
Format: Print book
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Ellen DeGeneres has bought and renovated nearly a dozen homes over the last twenty-five years, and describes her real-estate and decorating adventures as "an education." She has long cared deeply about design: "I think I wanted to be an interior designer when I was thirteen." |
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150 Best of the Best House Ideas
Francesc Zamora Mola - Harperdesign
Format: Print book
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Packed with hundreds of pages of beautiful and inspirational color photographs of homes from around the world, a visually stunning resource and guide - part of the successful 150 Best series - featuring the latest in modern home construction and design.A comprehensive collection of single-family... |
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The Gardener's Year
DK - Dorling Kindersley
Format: Print book
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Learn how to plan a garden that is colorful and productive throughout the entire year.The Gardener's Year is packed with timely gardening tips for a wide variety of garden projects, covering flowers and plants, fruits, vegetables and herbs, and trees and shrubs. Its vibrant galleries... |
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New Vintage French Interiors
Sebastien Siraudeau - Flammarion-Pere Castor
Format: Hardcover
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Combining bucolic charm and modern elegance, this new collection of French country interiors provides boundless inspiration for interior design enthusiasts and home decoration aficionados. This charming volume features a dozen interiors which bring together vintage and modern styles, for the ultimate... |
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Pretty Tough Plants: 135 Resilient, Water-Smart Choices for a Beautiful Garden
Plant Select. - Timber Press
Format: Print book
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Tough-but-beautiful plant picks There's a growing demand for dependably hardy plants that require less maintenance and less water, but look no less beautiful in the garden. Plant Select - the leading purveyor of plants designed to thrive in difficult climates - meets this need by promoting... |
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The Plant Lover's Guide to Hardy Geraniums
Robin Parer - Timber Press
Format: Hardcover
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Hardy geraniums are a staple in the garden and are among the best-loved and most widely grown plants. The Plant Lover's Guide to Hardy Geraniums, by nursery owner Robin Parer, highlights 140 of the best species and cultivars. Featuring information on growth, care, and design, along... |
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New Bathroom Idea Book
Jamie Gold - Taunton Press
Format: Paperback
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The bathroom continues to be one area of the house that homeowners are willing to spend money on. This all-new edition of Bathroom Idea Book--a virtual designer's notebook of ideas, inspiration, and information--will bea homeowner's first step in turning a dream bath into a real one, whether... |
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Country Living American Style: Decorate * Create * Celebrate
Country Living - Hearst
Format: Hardcover
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Country Living celebrates all-American design from sea to shining sea: quaint New England towns, dusty Texas ranches, woodsy log cabins, and Main Street, Anywhere, USA. Here are our country's most beloved styles on vivid display - its architecture, ornaments, textiles, and other more... |
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Potted: Make Your Own Stylish Garden Containers
Annette Goliti Gutierrez - Timber Press
Format: Print book
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Hand-made style for outdoor living Outdoor style often comes at a high price, but it doesn't have to. This lushly designed guide empowers you to create your own show-stopping containers made from everyday materials such as concrete, plastic, metal, terracotta, rope, driftwood, and fabric.... |
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Grow For Flavor: Tips and Tricks to Supercharge the Flavor of Homegrown Harvests
James Wong - Firefly Books, 2016.
Format: Print book
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Gardeners can be disappointed by the insipid flavor of the vegetables and fruit that they have so carefully nurtured. The problem, according to botanist James Wong, is that many conventional gardening practices are based on pure myth or faulty science. They create bumper crops at the expense... |
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100 Plants to Feed the Bees: Provide a Healthy Habitat to Help Pollinators Thrive
Xerces Society - Storey Publishing
Format: Print book
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The international bee crisis is threatening our global food supply, but this user-friendly field guide shows what you can do to help protect our pollinators. The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation offers browsable profiles of 100 common flowers, herbs, shrubs, and trees that attract... |
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Sage Living: Decorate for the Life You Want
Anne Sage - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover
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Perfectly named style maven and City Sage blogger Anne Sage knows a wise truth: decorating our living spaces for our goals is the first step in making them happen. In Sage Living, she opens the door to covetable dwellings designed to boost the dreams of their occupants, from the sunny,... |
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