Literary Fiction

Literary Fiction

Are you the type of person that needs a lot of depth in your ebooks?  Are you interested in contemplating significant social or political issues while you enjoy fiction?  Then, you've come to the right place.  We feature bestselling authors of ebooks in our Literary Fiction genre, and they bring their epic works to you either free or discounted.  

 

Definition of the "Literary Fiction Genre": A central aspect of the Literary Fiction genre of ebooks is that they do not focus on plot as much a they focus on theme.  Thus, commentary on a social issue, or the growth of a character from a human aspect during a story are the central parts of Literary Fiction ebooks.  This, naturally, stands in stark contrast to "mainstream" fiction, which focuses more on plot and how the plot is driven by action or tension.  Other important aspects of Literary Fiction ebooks is that their pace tends to be slower, and due to the substance they address, they are "darker" or "heavier" than fiction ebooks in other genres.

 

Some examples of bestselling ebooks in the Literary Fiction genre are J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye), Aldous Hudley (Brave New World), Anthony Doerr (All the Light We Cannot See), Catherine Ryan Hyde (When I Found You) and Kimberly McCreight (Reconstructing Amelia: A Novel).

Spiritual Revolution: Rise of the Unmarked Book One

by J. Michael Krivyanski


“A fantastic read of the end times. People are forced to be marked or implanted. Christian and Jews have refused and are being hunted down. There is a safe place for them and they must make it there. Angels and demons battle. Could not put it down. Had to read all of it.”

This is the first book in the Spiritual Revolution series. The Bible’s predictions of the future have come true. There is a world government as well as a One World Church. All people are required to have a mark on their right hand. Without the mark, people can’t participate in any area of society. Things have moved beyond simply marking people. The world government now implants people. This enables them to electronically view and hear what an implanted person sees as well as hears. It is a way to keep track of people’s behavior. There is a supreme evil behind all the actions of the world government as well as the One World Church. Most people don’t realize or understand what is happening. It is up to the few remaining Christians to make people aware of this and provide a way to battle it. They discover how to get rid of their mark and join the fight against evil dominating the world.

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The Children of the Roses

by Warren Adler


From the bestselling author of 
War of the Roses, now The Roses, a major motion picture now streaming on HULU - starring Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch, comes the next explosive chapter of the Rose family saga.

Meet Josh and Evie Rose, heirs to the notorious legacy of Barbara and Jonathan. In 
The Children of the Roses, Adler delivers a darkly comic, razor-sharp sequel about love, family, and the havoc we inherit.

Josh’s marriage to Victoria seems destined to avoid the mistakes of the past. But when a harmless prank involving missing Milky Ways at their son’s elite private school spirals into all-out war, everything changes. Josh and Victoria find themselves caught in a whirlwind of emotional chaos, fueled by a depraved headmaster, hidden affairs, and a meddling mother-in-law with a vendetta against men.

Meanwhile, Josh’s sister Evie, ever loyal and always ready with a comforting meal, tries to hold the family together. As tensions rise, even the children, Michael and Emily, plot their own desperate plan to keep their family from falling apart.


Witty, biting, and unforgettable, The Children of the Roses explores how the ghosts of the past haunt the present and how even the most perfect facades can shatter in an instant.

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Becoming Hattie Mae: A Hardscrabble Life in an Appalachian Holler

by Carol Guthrie Heilman


“In lilting Kentucky-speak, Carol Heilman captures her readers with the riveting story of a coal-miner’s daughter, Hattie Mae, and her struggle to break free from a life in which she feels trapped.” –Leanna Sain, Award-Winning Southern Suspense Author

Summertime 1929. Hattie Mae Sizemore lives with her family in a Kentucky holler. Her father is a coal miner and a moonshiner. Determined to shield his oldest from the influence of outsiders, he declares Hattie won’t return to school. She is distraught, not even having a single book of her own.

When she accompanies her Granny Guthrie to a charity sale, a gypsy peddler passes through their camp. He stirs a restless feeling inside Hattie to see people and places she has only imagined. At the sale, she discovers a small book and carries it home.

One evening, Hattie’s father returns from hunting. She tries to hide her book, but he grabs it. Stories and poems fly through the woods. Heartbroken, she vows to escape her father’s oppression. Then Granny Guthrie dies and Hattie loses the one person who always stood up for her.

Will Hattie find a way to leave the only home she has ever known and make a life of her own?

 

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My Do-Over Year (The Larry Tolleson series)

by Dan Stancil


Larry Tolleson is confronted with a choice and not one of his making. His mother decided he was bright enough to start school a year early. Larry is entering his senior year in high school when his mother realizes that decision didn't give him the best start in life. She agrees with his guidance counselor that he should take a do-over year to let his body and emotions catch up to his intellect.
Larry approaches his senior year full of hope. This will finally be his year. He sets his goals on becoming a better athlete, more confident with girls, and finding his path to college. Now the adults in his life are questioning his readiness and capabilities. The concept of a do-over year sounds like he's going backwards. They say it's his choice, and his alone, but it isn't one he requested. They say they want him to be the best version of himself but what's wrong with the current version? They say he needs more time to mature but the decision requires wisdom and maturity. They say it's his salvation; it feels like punishment. Larry is an overachiever, always trying to please others. It's becoming increasingly clear to him that whatever he decides, he can't please everyone.
Life is a series of choices, many inconsequential, some life changing. Are we defined by the decisions we make or how we react to them? 
My Do-Over Year examines Larry Tolleson's life with and without the do-over year. Can he become the best version of himself?
My Do-Over Year is the author's second novel and the prequel to Lucky Larry. While the books share common characters, they are written as stand-alone stories that can be read in any order. Readers who prefer exploring Larry Tolleson's character development and life events in chronological order will benefit from reading My Do-Over Year first.

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The Baroque Cycle: Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World

by Neal Stephenson


Get all three novels in Neal Stephenson's New York Times bestselling "Baroque Cycle" in one e-book, including: Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World. This three-volume historical epic delivers intrigue, adventure, and excitement set against the political upheaval of the early 18th century.

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Devil's Defense: A Fischer at Law Novel

by Lori B. Duff


A gripping courtroom drama that explores the struggle between morality vs. professional obligation, Devil's Defense will appeal to fans of female-lead courtroom dramas like The Good Wife.

Jessica Fischer wants nothing more than to build her law practice in small-town Ashton, Georgia. She's well on her way when the local town hero, football coach Frank "Tripp" Wishingham III, hires her to represent him in a paternity suit. Coach is everything Jessica despises—arrogant, sexist, entitled—but it's her job to make him look good in public. This is made doubly difficult when her burgeoning relationship with a local reporter gets in the way of telling the truth.


Are things as black and white as Jessica thinks? And can she find a way to succeed without compromising her own personal values—or her personal life?

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Crimson Wings - The Boy Who Flew

by B.T Skylark


 

In a city choking on smog and secrets, one boy finds hope in a creature thought lost to legend.

1940s London is no place for a quiet, odd boy like Henry Portwhistle. Orphaned, bullied, and living under the iron rule of a cold-hearted matron, Henry survives by staying silent and unseen. But when he discovers a strange, warm egg on the banks of the Thames, his world begins to change.

From that egg hatches Crimson—a dragon of myth and memory, a creature who speaks not in words but in feelings, and who understands Henry in a way no human ever has. Together, they flee the city under cover of fog, soaring north through war-torn England in search of freedom, safety, and belonging.

But the world is watching. Whispers of a dragon reach Westminster, and soon, powerful eyes turn toward the skies. With war looming and loyalty tested, Henry must decide who he is willing to trust—and how far he will go to protect the only family he has left.

A story of courage, friendship, and quiet resilience, Crimson Wings is perfect for readers who love historical adventure with a touch of magic.

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The Marfa Blues: searching for treasure

by John Egenes


Vera DeSoto runs a cafe in Marfa, Texas in 1968. The cowboys and truckers who come in fantasize and hope for a chance with her, but she enjoys her solitary life and isn’t ready to settle down with anyone.

Somehow, Vera seems to collect strays—lost and wayward people looking for second chances. A 14-year-old girl, two hippie boys, and a scared young artist manage to find their way into her life and suddenly, Vera is joining them in a search for buried treasure in the badlands of the rugged desert of Southwest Texas.

Egenes gives us a mismatched group of characters that helps explore themes of found family, redemption, and the varying interpretations of "treasure"—is it gold, or human connection? The dusty, mystical backdrop of 1968 West Texas—with its iconic Marfa Lights—adds a magical, almost surreal quality to the narrative. In a playful yet poignant tone, the author takes us from hippie culture and desert adventure to giant cloned cows and a psychic raven, as the novel balances whimsy with real emotional stakes.

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Sailing For Grace

by Joseph Bauer


Wilton and Grace Goodbow' s long marriage was frequently marked by political disagreement— she was the progressive activist, he the conservative, successful businessman. But their love was deep and bonded by a common passion for the sea aboard their ocean sailing yacht, The Sails of Grace. About to die, Grace elicits her husband' s promise to set aside his political beliefs and take on her last cause: the reunification of Central American parents separated from their children at the El Paso border. Will risks his own freedom to keep his word. Sometimes the letter of the law and the right thing to do meet head-on. Sailing for Grace is a suspenseful exploration of the intersection of law, morality, and personal choice.

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HUH ?: Around the World with Donald Trump

by Barry Robbins


When the world's most powerful man meets cultures that don't care about his power, hilarity and wisdom collide.

Donald Trump travels the globe encountering people who measure success in ways that would shock Wall Street. A Spanish poet who finds riches in silence. A Jamaican Rastafarian who discovers wealth in community. A Japanese master who sees perfection in broken things.


What happens when someone who's mastered the art of the deal meets cultures that have mastered the art of living?

From the mountains of Tibet to the villages of Mali, witness the most unlikely cultural education ever attempted. Each encounter reveals what happens when ancient wisdom crashes into modern materialism - with results that are both laugh-out-loud funny and surprisingly profound.


Sixteen countries. Sixteen wake-up calls. One very confused president. HUH?

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The Spear Cuts Through Water: A Novel

by Simon Jimenez


Two warriors shepherd an ancient god across a broken land to end the tyrannical reign of a royal family in this epic fantasy from the author of 
The Vanished Birds.

“A beguiling fantasy not to be missed.”—Evelyn Skye, New York Times bestselling author of The Crown’s Game

WINNER OF THE IAFA CRAWFORD AWARD  WINNER OF THE BRITISH FANTASY AWARD • SHORTLISTED FOR THE URSULA K. LE GUIN AWARD • SHORTLISTED FOR THE IGNYTE AWARD

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: 
Oprah Daily, Vulture, Polygon, She Reads, Gizmodo, Kirkus Reviews, The Quill to Live

The people suffer under the centuries-long rule of the Moon Throne. The royal family—the despotic emperor and his monstrous sons, the Three Terrors—hold the countryside in their choking grip. They bleed the land and oppress the citizens with the frightful powers they inherited from the god locked under their palace.

But that god cannot be contained forever.

With the aid of Jun, a guard broken by his guilt-stricken past, and Keema, an outcast fighting for his future, the god escapes from her royal captivity and flees from her own children, the triplet Terrors who would drag her back to her unholy prison. And so it is that she embarks with her young companions on a five-day pilgrimage in search of freedom—and a way to end the Moon Throne forever. The journey ahead will be more dangerous than any of them could have imagined.

Both a sweeping adventure story and an intimate exploration of identity, legacy, and belonging, 
The Spear Cuts Through Water is an ambitious and profound saga that will transport and transform you—and is like nothing you’ve ever read before.

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A Very Furry Christmas: Holiday Cat Tales

by John D. Ottini


Finalist in the 2016 Royal Palm Literary Award Competition. (Florida Writers Association)

Dear Reader: Please be aware that this is not a children's book.

Slipper’s Last Breath

For most people Christmas is a time for reflection, a time to share and celebrate with family and friends, but for some it is a time of sadness and quiet desperation. What if your soul mate, best friend and lover is no longer around to share in the season of joy and you are about to lose the last remaining link to a life you once knew and loved. Would you find the strength to survive?
Slipper’s Last Breath is a story about love, companionship and triumph over tragedy.

Some might call it a Christmas miracle, but I call it the power of unconditional love.

The Unwrapped Gift

Sometimes the best gifts are the unexpected ones. After enduring the heartbreak of a bad marriage, Beth is in no mood to celebrate the Christmas season. It’s sad enough spending the holidays alone, but watching Spice, her five-year-old Labrador retriever, mope around the house was more than she could bear. A visit to Miller’s tree farm to cheer up her canine companion leads to an unexpected find and the possibility of a new found relationship.

When she least expects it, Beth rediscovers love and the magic of Christmas.

A Charcoal Christmas

She was born under the loading dock behind Johnson’s Market and lost her mother when she was only five weeks old. One of a litter of six, she and her siblings had to learn to fend for themselves at a young age. The life expectancy of a feral cat is short, but thanks to the generosity of a compassionate store owner, the kittens were well fed and enjoying their lives. Then one day a stranger appears and takes her away from the safety of her kin. Confused and frightened, she is forced to endure an uncaring human and ultimately the forces of nature, in hopes of returning to the ones she loves.

A Charcoal Christmas is a bittersweet tale of survival, hope and loving companionship.

Christmas Mourning

A troubled priest struggling with doubts about his faith and vocation has an unexpected encounter with a stray, weather-beaten black cat. When Father Pedro decides to provide warmth and shelter for the lost creature, he has no idea how this simple act of kindness will impact his life forever.

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HELL NO!: a response to donald j. trump (No Means No)

by Barry Robbins


February 2025. Trump's return to power is no longer a threat but a reality, and democracy's dismantling unfolds before our eyes. While Americans watch in horror, the silent witnesses to this transformation finally speak.

In this powerful collection of fifty unforgettable perspectives, Barry Robbins gives voice to the overlooked narrators of our unfolding national tragedy: The Resolute Desk witnessing the presidency's diminishment. A USAID wheat seed that will never reach starving children. A military school library's shelves emptied of diversity. The Capitol building requesting its own demolition permits.

From Jamaica Hospital, where Trump was born, to the water of Lake Kaweah, forced to commit "suicide" through politically-motivated mismanagement, these voices tell the story of American democracy's fever—rising daily with each executive order, each punishment of enemies, each demand for personal loyalty.

By turns darkly satirical and deeply moving, "HELL NO!" is a unique chronicle of what happens when a nation chooses power over principle, vengeance over values, and personality over democracy itself.

This is the testimony America needs—and the warning we cannot ignore.

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Editing Emily: Faking it in the City

by Mia Rosette


The last few chapters of Emily's life have been a disaster, and unfortunately, it's not as easy to take control of her story as she thought…


Inheriting a crumbling Brownstone in New York City after her parents' devastating loss was supposed to be a fresh start, not another page in her ongoing disaster. She doesn’t know what to do with it, but her controlling boyfriend does.

Andy, sees the Brownstone not as a beacon of hope but as a quick fix for his spiraling debts—and he's scripted Emily's future as a domestic backdrop to his ambitions, sidelining her dreams of becoming a writer.

Determined to revise her fate, Emily's first edit involves ejecting Andy from her narrative.

And her second edit involves taking a gamble on four vibrant women who need a place to stay while they chase their own dreams, and hope they can at least get close enough to scrap together the rent money Emily needs to turn the nearly uninhabitable house into a home.

Just as she's warming up to the ladies, life throws her another plot twist: Sebastian.

He's a charismatic, sensitive bad-boy who even cures her anorgasmia by giving her the elusive orgasm she’s been yearning for...but is he really as perfect as he seems on paper? Or just a one-night stand?

Or will the secret he's keeping leave her wishing life came with a backspace key?


A story of empowerment, self-discovery, and resilience, the first book in this fun, clever, and emotional women’s fiction series for fans of "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" and "The Bold Type" is a must-read.
 

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Deep Water (Tom Rollins Thrillers Book 17)

by Paul Heatley


When you can't trust the law, you make your own.


Former black ops specialist Tom Rollins is trying to live a quiet life in Newark when his friend Dennis witnesses a brutal crime. Reporting it to the police only puts them in greater danger—the lead detective is in the pocket of a powerful and ruthless family—The Penneys.

They have money, influence, and a deadly secret tied to their pharmaceutical empire—and they'll kill to protect it.

Now Tom, Dennis and Tom’s girlfriend are on the run, with no one to trust and nowhere to hide. Outnumbered and outgunned, Tom must rely on every lethal skill he has to keep them alive—and to take the Penneys down, no matter the cost.


Deep Water – Book 17 in the outstanding Tom Rollins action thriller series. Perfect for fans of Lee Child, Jason Kasper and David Archer.


What readers are saying about 
Deep Water:

5 stars. Well worth your time… recommend you read the book.” -Booksprout Reviewer

Relentless action… it just doesn't stop. If you like the one-man army that can take them all on… you will love this.” -Netgalley Reviewer

“If you like fast paced action thrillers starring people who fight for justice till the very end, then this book is for you. …
a page turner with an interesting plot and great characters…” -Booksprout Reviewer

“Another hit. This one was 
crazy good. Action packed and vicious. Each book in this series continues to blow me away… one of my top 5 series.” -Booksprout Reviewer

“This is the author's 
best novel yet. This is a real page turner and I found it hard to put down… Highly recommended.” -Netgalley Reviewer

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Dog Logic: A Thystopian Satire, Book 1 (The Dog Logic Triptych)

by Tom Strelich


"I laughed my tail off right up to the very last page, which I read in a local cemetery for just the right ambience. Hats off to you Tom Strelich." –Tom McCaffrey, author of The Claire Saga

That dystopian future they always warned us about?

It turns out we're already in it.

Hertell Daggett isn't what he used to be-he'd once been married, he'd once been a physicist, and he'd once been shot in the head. The doctors got the bullet out, but a few tiny specks of copper stayed behind, floating inside his brain, connecting parts that aren't connected in the rest of us, filaments of species memory going back to the beginning of time. He remembers the yodeling sound of dinosaurs and the rubbery smell of trilobites. He once had a future, but now he's the damaged caretaker of a failing pet cemetery where he discovers a lost civilization, well not lost so much as just misinformed-a time-capsule full of people living beneath his pet cemetery since 1963 due to some bad information they got about the end of the world.

But the world didn't end after all but had wobbled on, while that misinformed civilization stayed where it was, back in the world of 1963. Until Hertell finds them and leads the duck-and-cover civilization into our glorious, mystifying, but often dismaying world, and in the process finds a past he never quite remembered, a love he'd never quite lost, and a future he never quite imagined.

Book of the Year Winner - Humor/Satire - Independent Author Network

Book Of The Year Silver Winner - Science Fiction - Foreword INDIES

Bronze Winner - Literary Fiction - Readers' Favorite

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Sarita

by Natalie Musgrave Dossett


In the summer of 1920, nineteen-year-old Sarita’s younger brother, JJ, bleeds to death in her arms after being shot by Javier Salsito de Ortega, a ruthless tequila smuggler. The Texas Rangers have their hands full with Prohibition and border issues. Still, Sarita is stunned when they refuse to help.

JJ’s death devastates her father. Without a male heir, Sarita fears he will give in to the oil prospector intent on buying their family ranch, La Barroneña. Even in his despair, she knows her father yearns for justice, but he is too ill and weak to seek it.

Sarita isn’t.

Determined to prove herself and change her fate, she crosses the Rio Grande into a world of deadly threats––from rattlesnakes to Pancho Villa’s rebels to the very killer she’s hunting. Quickly, Sarita realizes she’s stumbled into a web of danger far bigger and more sinister than she imagined. If she is caught, the consequences could jeopardize innocent lives and put her father’s safety at risk.

In a tumultuous landscape of social and political upheaval, what lines will Sarita have to cross to survive? Will her relentless pursuit of justice exact a price too steep to bear? If she succeeds––if she gets home––will she have earned her father’s respect? Will she have secured her family’s future?

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Project Hail Mary

by Andy Weir


THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MARTIAN Soon to be a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, with a screenplay by Drew Goddard

Winner of the 2022 Audie Awards' Audiobook of the Year

Number-One Audible and New York Times Audio Best Seller

More than one million audiobooks sold

A lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this incredible new science-based thriller from the number-one New York Times best-selling author of The Martian.

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish.

Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.

All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.

His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, he realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Alone on this tiny ship that's been cobbled together by every government and space agency on the planet and hurled into the depths of space, it's up to him to conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.

And thanks to an unexpected ally, he just might have a chance.

Part scientific mystery, part dazzling interstellar journey, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian - while taking us to places it never dreamed of going.

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The Head's Tale

by Susan Kinsolving


This secret could swamp her.

Miranda Crandell, the Head of Strutthorn Academy, has a brilliant idea to one-up the other elite New England prep schools with their piddling plots of organic veggies for experiential learning: She'll buy a swamp. Yes, a bog, a quagmire, an oozy acre, where she intends to build a special science center. What she doesn't account for is Paul Dickersen-her newly hiredfreshwater biologist, who is strikingly handsome (even in cargo pants) and turns out to be an irresistible lover.

Miranda's days are fraught with student and personnel issues, but soon she becomes her own big problem. The Head of School is supposed to be a steadfast and principled role model for impetuous teenage students. Instead, Miranda becomes crazed with lust, spiraling into a wild and messy journey of self-discovery. Funny, sexy, and irreverent, The Head's Tale is a delightful tromp through the muck of prep school drama-and a reminder that the process of growing up never truly ends

 

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The Marfa Blues: searching for treasure

by John Egenes


Vera DeSoto runs a cafe in Marfa, Texas in 1968. The cowboys and truckers who come in every day fantasize and hope for a chance with her, but she enjoys her solitary life and isn’t ready to settle down with anyone. Yet somehow, Vera seems to collect strays, lost and wayward people looking for second chances. A 14-year-old girl, two hippie boys, and a scared young artist manage to find their way into Vera’s life and suddenly, she’s joining them in a search for buried treasure in the badlands of the rugged desert of Southwest Texas.


They will learn what finding treasure really means.

A classic yarn, full of surprises, with all the right elements: love and loss, hope and despair, drug dealers and cloned cows, and the mysterious Marfa Lights.

From the author of the award winning “Man & Horse: The Long Ride Across America”.

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