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Cover: Interregnum: Inside the Gruelling and Glamorous Two-Year Battle to become the Next King of Chess by Jordan Himelfarb. Chess pieces on a green checkered board against a light background and two illustrated hands reaching toward the pieces. The title is set in the top third of the cover and the author’s name at the bottom.

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Interregnum

Cover: I Make My Own Fun: A Novel by Hannah Beer. A martini glass filled with blood has a single barbie arm sticking out of the blood and is set on a bright pink background. The title appears in bold gold lettering above the glass.

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I Make My Own Fun

Cover: Pitiful by Brandi Bird. The text is white over a back backgound, with "poems" appearing in red. In the center, an illustration in red shows a hand reaching up from the ocean, through waves that also look like hands. At the bottom, a blurb reads, "Far from a whimper, Pitiful is a vital battle cry and a song." —Marya Hornbacher

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Pitiful

My Mom Is Like a Kite. Written by Lisl H. Detlefsen and illustrated by Nathalie Dion. A young child with light brown skin and straight black hair leans forward on a table with her arms crossed, looking up and to the right. She wears a tan sweater. To her right, Winkie, a white cat, stands on her hind legs and paws at four kite tails that have pink, yellow, red and teal bows on them.

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My Mom Is Like a Kite

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The House Next Door

Cover: We Are Dreams in the Eternal Machine by Deni Ellis Béchard. The words of the title and author's name are composed of small pink and yellow dots against a turquoise background. The dots are sparse at the top of the page and become more dense moving down the cover, giving the impression of something coming into focus. "A Novel" appears in small white type.

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We Are Dreams in the Eternal Machine

Safekeeping, a Writer's Guided Journal for Launching a Book with Love by Chelene Knight, foreword by Ivan Coyote. The title, subtitle, and author name appear in black type in a white box against an indigo background that is lightly textured to look like handmade paper.

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Safekeeping

Sharing the Light: Stories and Reflections by Monique Gray Smith, featuring a colourful, beaded floral pattern with a hummingbird at the centre and a glowing yellow and orange background.

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Sharing the Light

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The Burrowing Owls of the Prairie Grasslands

Cover: Death Interrupted: How Modern Medicine is Complicating the Way We Die by Blair Bigham, MD. A small black bar in the upper-left corner of the cover reads The Walrus, to indicate this book is part of a series of books published in partnership with The Walrus magazine. Centred against the off-white background is the cover’s only image: a turquoise stethoscope bent into the loose shape of the letter P. The stethoscope’s chest piece acts as the top of the letter P in the word "interrupted."

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Death Interrupted

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The Lost Spells

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The Exiles' Gallery

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Pigeon

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Taking Turns with Turtles

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The Sisters Brothers

Cover: The Wren by A. F. Moritz. An illustration of a wren perches on a branch, leaning forward and looking upward, over a beige background. The text appears in a serif font, with the title in a medium brown and the author's name in black.

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The Wren

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Dodge City

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Together by the Sea

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Stella and Sam ABC

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Hollywood Eden

Cover: John Candy: A Life in Comedy, by Paul Myers. Foreword by Dan Aykroyd. A black and white photograph of the comedian and actor John Candy, shown from the chest up, wearing a tuxedo, and looking directly into the camera, with just the hint of a smile. The main title and author’s name appear in large, pink block letters. The sub-title appears in a white, handwritten typeface. The foreword attribution appears in the same block letters as the title, but smaller and in white.

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John Candy

Cover: Lantern, poems by Sanna Wani. Above a cream-coloured background, a forest green border is stamped. Inside the border are three ginko leaves stamped in various directions, as though falling. The text appears in cursive lettering.

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Lantern

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Ninan

In a green border is the title is at the top in English, “My First Words in Nahuat.” On the left in Nahuat, “Tay naja nitajtaketzji achtu tik Nawat”. On the right in Spanish, “Mis primeras palabras en nahuat.” The authors’ names, Jorge Argueta and El Aleph Sanchez, are below, with “Yujyultawawasul, Poems, Poemas.” In the centre are three children with medium-dark skin tone in colourful crowns. Behind them stand two men with red skin tone, blue beards and black brows. In the background is a village.

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Tay naja nitajtaketzki achtu tik Nawat / ‌Mis primeras palabras en nahuat / My First Words in Nahuat‌

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McMafia

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river woman

Cover: CBC Massey Lectures, The Age of Insecurity: On the Collapse of Our Economic, Emotional, and Ecological Well-being by Astra Taylor. A white arrow points downward, framed by red and black geometric shapes.

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The Age of Insecurity

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French Exit

Cover: Shy Me. Written by Sandra V. Feder and illustrated by Ashley Barron. The images in this book were created using a cut-paper collage art style. A shy child, with light skin tone, ginger hair and a brown hoodie stands with their hands behind their back in front of the white board at the front of a classroom. Three other children gather, looking toward the shy child.

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Shy Me

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The Immortal Woman

Cover: Ultra Blue by Graeme Bezanson. The text appears in thick yellow brush strokes over a red background, with "poems" appearing in white. In the center, a wolf springs forward, its head tilted toward the reader with a somewhat feral smile.

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Ultra Blue

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Endings

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Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2026

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Me enoja / Angry Me

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A Short History of Progress

Seven Heavens Away: A Novel by Ashraf Zaghal. The title and author name appear in bold red, green, and cream letters to evoke the colours of the Palestinian flag. The background features stylized clouds, stars, a crescent moon, and the Jerusalem skyline.

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Seven Heavens Away

Cover: Everything Is Fine Here by Iryn Tushabe. Two black outlines of papyrus swamp plants appear in front of a green background. "A Novel" appears in smaller yellow type.

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Everything Is Fine Here

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Big Lonely Doug

Go, stories by Deborah Ellis. The background is pale green. Clockwise from the top are six illustrations: A purple basket of various home items, two floor cushions around a wood Go game board covered in black and white pieces; an upside-down dog bowl surrounded by dog kibble and broken glass; an orange shirt, white towel, bar of soap and a toothbrush; a shovel in front of a gravestone; a white chair and a pink purse by a potted tree; and a pair of shoes, red cup and a race bib with the number forty-four.

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Go

A blue balloon floats against a white background. Underneath the balloon, at the bottom of the cover, is a silver thumb tack. Text: Payback. Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth. Margaret Atwood. CBC Massey Lectures.

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Payback

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Swimming Lessons

Cover: The All + Flesh, poems by Brandi Bird. A vibrant, impressionist-style painting of a golden sunset over a red horizon. The sky blends from teal at the top to a bright yellow around the white sun, which reflects like a flaming spotlight on the ground. The brush strokes are cross-hatched in the sky, giving the appearance of downward motion, while the ground appears sponged.

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The All + Flesh

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Biology As Ideology

The Quiet Hunt: A Poem for Young Foragers. By Jean E. Pendziwol and Risa Hugo. A young girl lays on a hill with her head in her hands, her wicker basket next to her. She has medium-light skin tone, short brown hair, brown eyes and her nails painted red. She wears a white baseball t-shirt with red sleeves, red high-top sneakers and a pink baseball cap with a smiling sun. She gazes at a cluster of mushrooms with brown rounded tops and white stems.

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The Quiet Hunt

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The 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology

Cover: Inheritance, a novel, by Jane Park. A silver eunjangdo (Korean ornamental knife in a sheath) with a blue tassel and a yellow crysanthemum over a background illustration of a prairie grassland. The title Inheritance is set in the top third of the cover and the author's name at the bottom.

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Inheritance

Cover: Definitely Thriving, a novel, by Kerry Clare. An illustration of an upside-down green clawfoot bathtub full of bubbles is at the top of the frame, with a multicoloured stack of books at each end of the tub. A woman with light skin tone and dark hair in a messy top-knot reclines in the tub, reading. The title and author’s name are in dark blue brushstroke font set slanted on a yellow background with a few scattered open books and bubbles falling to the bottom of the frame.

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Definitely Thriving

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The Book of Birds

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Fly Away Home. Written by Betty Quan and illustrated by Akin Duzakin. A young girl and a woman with their backs to us hold hands and carry backpacks. The girl has medium-light skin tone and straight black hair. The woman has medium-light skin tone and black hair tied back in a ponytail. They each clutch a full bag their arms and look out across a hilly green field with a blue sky above. A group of people also carrying bags walk in the distance. Above them a flock of white birds fly through the sky.

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Fly Away Home

Cover: Wellwater, poems by Karen Solie. Over an off-white background, the cover featured an illustration of a flowering lilac tree with a thin stem and visible roots.

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Wellwater

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The Rayburn Affair

Cover: An Ordinary Violence, a novel by Adriana Chartrand. A black-and-white image of a rabbit against a black background spans the cover diagonally. The rabbit appears from the side with its eyes open. Its legs are bunched under its body, and its ears are laid flat against its back, with its nose pointed into the upper left corner. Red blood droplets spatter the cover.

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An Ordinary Violence

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The Lost Words

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One Goal: How Soccer Can Help Save the Planet. Heather Camlot and Drew Shannon. A boy with medium-dark skin tone, wearing a red soccer kit with black shorts, stands on a large green soccer field and winds up to kick the ball. Ahead of him, a girl with light skin tone and red hair in a ponytail, wearing the same uniform, runs toward the net where a goalkeeper in yellow stands. A crowd of people watch from the stands, andn image of the Earth, focused on North America and South America, hangs above them.

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One Goal

This image is in shades of black and white. Six women hang upside down by their knees from a set of monkey bars. They each wear the same uniform of white shorts with a dark stripe and buttons down the side and a white short-sleeved sweater with a thick dark stripe across the chest. Each woman dangles their arms toward the ground. They all have light skin tone and dark hair. Text: Dunk Tank. Kayla Czaga.

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Dunk Tank

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The King's Daughter

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These Festive Nights

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Atonement

Leo and Ralph. Written by Peter Carnavas. A dark blue night sky is dotted with shining stars. The title of the book is placed centerfold in light blue with the author’s name appearing underneath in white. Sitting on the letter “O” of “LEO” is a tiny white figure that looks like a little boy looking up through a telescope. A ringed planet hangs in the sky. A furry yellow alien appears at the bottom of the cover from neck-up with a wide-eyed smile on his face.

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Leo and Ralph

Cover: Chrysalis: Stories by Anuja Varghese. The title is centred with the author's name below it. A faint paisley pattern fills the black background. The image is an 18th C painting of a thin reddish branch with heart-shaped leaves and a pale peach flower and two buds. In the bottom left is a pinkish-brown Antheraea polyphemus moth with a brown thorax and two large black spots ringed in white on the lower wings, and two smaller black and white spots on both the upper and lower wings.

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Chrysalis

Cover: The Two Roberts, by Damian Barr. A black-and-white upper-body photo of two men, both with light skin tone. One man lies sideways, his head on his arm and his hand draped over his head; the second man sits more upright behind the first, only the lower half of his face visible, both smile slightly.The image is partially obscured by diagonal semi-opaque coloured stripes at the top of the frame and the title, and similar stripes at the bottom of the frame and the author's name.

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The Two Roberts

Cover: A Love Affair with the Unknown: Leaning into the Uncertainty of Modern Life by Gill Deacon. A painting by the author of a woman in a black bathing suit jumping off a green cliff into the water below against a cloudy sky. The title is stacked over this background with the author's name below it.

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A Love Affair with the Unknown

Cover: procession by katherena vermette. The title and author's name all appear in white text, stylized in lower case. The backdrop is a close-up image of a beaded quilt, vibrant and detailed, with flowers, paisley, and more designs appearing. The edge of the quilt is beaded in red, and a yellow surface beneath the quilt appears at the bottom-left corner.

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Procession

A Friend Is a Friend Is a Friend. Written by Sara O’Leary and illustrated by Qin Leng. A group of fifteen children of various skin tones perch and swing playfully from the branches of a tree.

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A Friend Is a Friend Is a Friend

On Wholeness: Anishinaabe Pathways to Embodiment and Collective Liberation by Quill Christie-Peters. The cover features abstract, colourful artwork against a brown background. Organic shapes, some humanlike, and swirling lines reminiscent of waterways and galaxies flow out of a dark hole with red blood dripping from its bottom edge. The hole is flanked by two bears and two thunderbirds on either side.

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On Wholeness

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Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2025

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Broughtupsy

Cover: Bury the Lead: a Quill and Packet mystery by Kate Hilton and Elizabeth Renzetti. The cover illustration shows a woman with dark hair and stark features peeking out from behind a red curtain, as if looking out from backstage. There is a blurb at the top which reads, “A whodunit that had me turning pages as fast as I could … an absolute delight!” —Marissa Stapley, New York Times bestselling author of Lucky

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Bury the Lead

Grandma, Cho Cho and Me. By Morgan Christie and Paulica Santos. A young girl with dark skin tone and curly black hair in two buns wears a pink long-sleeve shirt with yellow dots under a blue apron. She looks up at her grandmother, who has her greying hair in a braided updo and wears a green collared long-sleeve shirt under a blue apron. Green chayote fruit and leaves fill the top of the page. The girl and her grandma have flowers in their hair and wrap hold several chayote fruit in their hands.

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Grandma, Cho Cho and Me

A drawing of a bird is in white against a green background. The bird has slender wings and stands in short grass. Text: The Caiplie Caves. Karen Solie.

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The Caiplie Caves

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This Is How We Love

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The Outside Circle

Cover: Shadow Price by Farah Ghafoor. Over a bright yellow background, the cover features an illustrated pair of hands making casting a shadow puppet in the shape of a dog.

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Shadow Price

Book cover for “Every Space Between” by Naseem Hrab and John Martz. The cover is split in three sections: day, blank white space and night. On the left, a child with medium skin tone and straight black hair runs in daylight under a pale yellow sun. On the right, a white dog with black and brown spots and a red collar runs happily under a night sky filled with stars and a crescent moon. The large orange title text “EVERY SPACE BETWEEN” fills the space in the centre with the creator names below in light blue.

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Every Space Between

Cover: Innie Shadows by Olivia M. Coetzee. “Groundbreaking and unique, character-driven crime fiction." —Deon Meyer. A stylized illustration of a mountain beneath a bright moon and clouds. The background is purple, and the typography and mountain are in vibrant green and yellow. Eyes are scattered at the bottom.

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Innie Shadows

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Layaway Child

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Letters to Kafka

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The Last Stampede

Monster Mender. Written by Christine Baldacchino and illustrated by Ilona Iske. A woman reaches up to gently hold the snout of a large green sea serpent. The woman has long grey hair with bangs, blue eyes and light skin tone. She wears a green dress underneath a burgundy smock, with burgundy tights and black shoes. The sea serpent’s long tail is wrapped in a circle, framing the title.

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Monster Mender

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Un saumon pour Simon

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Soft as Bones

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A Waiter in Paris

Cover: Great Silent Ballad: poems by A. F. Moritz. A Renaissance-style painting primarily features two figures, one playing a violin and the other playing a lute. The face of a third figure looks down and to the right at the bottom-left of the page, and the body of a fourth appears on the upper right section.

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Great Silent Ballad

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Read Me a Story, Stella

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Testament

Cover: House of Anansi presents Xanax Cowboy, poems, written and directed by Hannah Green. The cover is yellow, monochrome. The title text is large and black, and the font appears as though stamped with ink.

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Xanax Cowboy

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Cover: A Daughter's Place by Martha Bátiz. Artwork of two young women in seventeenth-century clothing. One leans on a window ledge, resting her chin on her hand and smiling, while the other peeks out from behind a curtain, holding a cloth to her face. The title and author’s name appear in large, white brush script.

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A Daughter's Place

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The Librarianist

Wildful. Kengo Kurimoto. A young girl sits on a fallen log in the woods, with a black dog beside her. Branches and vines tangle together to form a canopy over their heads, and the silhouette of a deer is visible behind them. The girl has light skin tone, black hair in pigtails, and wears a striped shirt and black pants.

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Wildful

Cover: Valid, Dystopian Autofiction, by Chris Bergeron, translated by Natalia Hero. Hot-pink type against a black background fills the entire cover.

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Valid