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Tuesday, November 02, 2010

Irreverent NYT Bestsellers

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Jump to: Shelfari on Kindle | Irreverent NYT Bestsellers | Book Giveaway | Thrills & Chills

Shelfari Book Extras Make Reading Easier on Kindle

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Book Extras, curated factoids by the Shelfari community, are now integrated into the latest Kindle app for iPad, iPhone & iPod touch. For example, while reading Steig Larsen's thriller The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo you can quickly refer to Shelfari's list of Swedish character names and descriptions without having to memorize Mikael Blomkvist romantic trysts or the Vanger family tree.

Learn more about our integration with Kindle.

Irreverently Yours, the NYT Bestsellers

Making it onto the New York Times Bestsellers list is a proud moment for an author. Lest this recognition result in exaggerated egos, we'd like to recommend NYT bestsellers in a less traditional manner. We present the Ridiculously Simplified Synopses:

Third World America

"A book about saving the people too dumb to appreciate the wit on my website." Learn more


Members have added 3 characters, 4 quotes, 1 theme & more to this book.

 
Open

"In the scathing confessional, tennis great Andre Agassi comes clean about drug and toupee abuse during his heyday." Learn more


Members have added 44 characters, 8 quotes, 31 settings & more to this book.

 
The Thorn

"Amish Girls Gone Wild." Learn more


Members have added 6 characters, 1 quote, 3 settings & more to this book.

 
Kisser

"A hot woman falls for a super rich guy. This book proves that beautiful women and money are related." Learn more


Members have added 8 characters, 1 quote, 1 setting & more to this book.

 
Half Broke Horses

"Survival story of a grandma who teaches, flies, lives in poverty, marries a bigamist, and sells moonshine." Learn more


Members have added 20 characters, 2 quotes, 15 settings & more to this book.

 
New Atkins for a New You

"By the Atkins who DIDN'T write a diet book and then have a heart attack." Learn more


Members have added 7 quotes, 1 organization, 7 glossary terms & more to this book.

 
The Tipping Point

"You heard about this from someone influential in your social circle. And now you'll buy it. Q.E.D." Learn more


Members have added 39 characters, 4 quotes, 4 glossary terms & more to this book.

 

Think you can describe a book in 115 characters or less? We dare you to add Ridiculously Rimplified Synopsis to your favorite books.

Shelfari Book Giveaway

We’re giving away 10 copies of Crossing by Andrew Fukuda to the first 10 members who post in this discussion thread.

Crossing

Crossing by Andrew Fukuda

Crossing is the story of Xing Xu, a Chinese teenager growing up in a small town in upstate New York. Xing is a loner who doesn't fit in at school and when a rash of disappearances rattle the town, suspicion is immediately cast in his direction. The author, Andrew Fukuda, half-Chinese and half-Japanese, was inspired to write Crossing by the experiences of the immigrant teenagers he worked with in Manhattan's Chinatown. Learn more about this book.

Recommended Thrills & Chills

This month we've specially selected these spooky and supernatural groups. If you're a fan of true crime, paranormal mystery or horror, you won't want to miss these popular groups:

Chiller

Chiller

This group is for everyone who reads and write in the Horror genre. Talk about your favorite horror authors, books, and movies and tell us what you're reading. More

 
Paranormal Mystery

Paranormal Mystery

This is a group for people who enjoy the sub/cross-genre of paranormal mystery. We're reading books from the Dresden Files, Odd Thomas series and many others.

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True Crime

True Crime

This is a group for lovers of True Crime. We are a relaxed group and invite everyone with an interest in True Crime to post whatever they feel like talking about. Feel free to post any True Crime books you have read or want to read and discuss with other members. More



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Monday, October 11, 2010

Award Winners

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Jump to: Books: Award Winners | Editors: Breaking 100,000 | Groups: Recommendations

Award Winners

Zeitoun

Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

Winner of the 2010 American Book Awards. Eggers riveting nonfiction book is about Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a prosperous Syrian-American and father of four, who chose to stay during Hurricane Katrina to protect his house and contracting business. In the days after the storm, he traveled the flooded streets in a secondhand canoe, passing on supplies and helping those he could. A week later, Zeitoun abruptly disappeared. Learn more

 
The Neighbor

The Neighbor by Lisa Gardner

Winner of the 2010 Thriller Awards, this is the third book in the Detective D.D. Warren series. From a master of suspense comes a chilling new novel that explores the dangers lurking closer than you think. Because even in the perfect family, you never know what is going on behind closed doors. Learn more

 
Going Bovine

Going Bovine by Libba Bray

Winner of the 2010 Michael L. Printz Award for Young Adult Literature. From the author of the popular Gemma Doyle Trilogy comes the adventure of 16-year-old slacker Cameron. All Cameron wants is to get through high school with a minimum of effort. It's not a lot to ask. But that's before she's given some bad news: she's sick and going to die. Which totally sucks. Learn more

 
The Shadow of Sirius

The Shadow of Sirius by W. S. Merwin

The recently announced Library of Congress Poet Laureate, W.S. Merwin, is also the 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner for his poetry. In his best book in a decade-and one of the best outright-Merwin points his oracular, unpunctuated poems toward his own past, and offering what may be his most personal, generous and empathic collection. Learn more

 
The Unincorporated Man

The Unincorporated Man by Dani Kollin & Eytan Kollin

Winner of the 2010 Prometheus Award. This provocative tale takes place after civilization has fallen into complete economic collapse. This reborn civilization is one in which every individual is incorporated at birth, and spends years trying to attain control their own life by getting a majority of their own shares. Learn more

 
The Lacuna

The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

Winner of the 2010 Orange Prize. In her first novel in nine years, Barbara Kingsolver, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author, takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. The Lacuna is a poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as they invent their modern identities. Learn more

Find more award winning books to read from the Nebula Award, National Book Award, or the Pulitzer Prize lists.

Editors break 100,000!

Our Shelfari Librarians and Editors have made an incredible contribution to the Shelfari community. Pequeño Saltamontes and Kelly M have each contributed over 100,000 edits to our book pages and catalog. Punxsutawney Paul and BookCrazy, two of our librarians, have each reviewed over 100,000 requests from members like you. Their incredible effort makes it easier to learn more about books and find new books to read. Thank you Pequeño Saltamontes, Kelly M, Punxsutawney Paul and BookCrazy for all your hard work!

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Find a book group!

Whether you enjoy discussing paranormal romance, graphic design or 19th century British literature—there is a book group for you. Here are a few groups we recommend:

The Historial Fiction Group

The Historical Fiction Group

This is a group for the lovers and readers of historical fiction from any period, any country and any culture. We enjoy a wide range of books from the latest bestseller to older treasures, we'd love for you to join us. More

 
Suspense and Thrillers

Suspense and Thrillers

If you love thrillers, come join us! We're currently discussing The Bodies Left Behind by Jeffrey Deaver. Please feel free to jump into any discussion or start your own discussion. More

 
Readers of Romance

Readers of Romance

Welcome if you read romance this is the place to be. It can be anything from Classic Romance to Paranormal Romance. So if you read all, some or one the romance genres come in and share your passion. More

 
Science Fiction

Science Fiction

We discuss a wide range of themes and sub-genres within Science fiction. We're reading books by Larry Niven, Robert Heinlein, Dan Simmons, and Orson Scott Card-let us know what you're reading. More

 
YA Books that Adults Should Read

YA Books that Adults Should Read

Some of the best literature is written for young adults and children. This group is for sharing titles that are often overlooked because they are marketed to younger people. More



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Wednesday, June 30, 2010

June's Best Cookbooks, Historical Fiction, Humor & More

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"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." ~ Sir Richard Steele

Popular Books in June | Cooking | Historical Fiction | Entertainment & Humor

Popular Books in June

The Passage

The Passage by Justin Cronin

Award-winning author Justin Cronin's latest book is also one of the Amazon Best Books of the Month. You don't have to be a fan of vampire fiction to be enthralled by The Passage. Cronin brings depth and vitality to this ambitious epic about a virus that nearly destroys the world, and a six-year-old girl who holds the key to bringing it back. Learn more

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The Red Pyramic

The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan

Bestselling author of Percy Jackson and the Olympians starts a new series about two siblings who find themselves embroiled in a research project at the British Museum. Their father, Dr. Julius Kane, unleashes the Egyptian god, Set, who banishes him to oblivion and forces the children to flee for their lives. Learn more

Members have added 14 Characters, 2 Important Places, 9 Quotes & more...

 
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender

The wondrous Aimee Bender conjures a moving story of a girl whose magical gift is a devastating curse. On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she can taste her mother's emotions in the cake. Learn more

Members have added 4 Characters, 2 Quotes & more...

 
Delivering Happiness

Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh

This is the first book by the visionary CEO of Zappos, who explains how an emphasis on corporate culture can lead to unprecedented success. Pay new employees $2000 to quit. Make customer service the entire company, not just a department. Seek to change the world. Oh, and make money too. Sound crazy? Learn more

Members have added 6 Characters, 1 Important Place, 2 Quotes & more...

Cooking

Planet Barbecue

Planet Barbecue by Steven Raichlen

The most ambitious book yet by America's bestselling, award-winning grill expert whose Barbecue! Bible books have over 4 million copies in print. Welcome to Planet Barbecue, the book that will take America's passionate, obsessive, smoke-crazed live-fire cooks to the next level. Learn more

 
Rose's Heavenly Cakes

Rose's Heavenly Cakes by Rose Levy Beranbaum

This 2010 winner of the IACP Cookbook Award is the all-new, full-color cake lover's companion from Rose Levy Beranbaum, The Diva of Desserts! Eagerly-awaited by her legions of devoted fans, Rose's Heavenly Cakes is a must-have guide to perfect cake-baking from this award-winning master baker and author of The Cake Bible, one of the bestselling cookbooks of all time. Learn more

 
The Country Cooking of Ireland

The Country Cooking of Ireland by Colman Andrews

This 2010 winner of the James Beard Award, by internationally acclaimed food and travel writer Colman Andrews brings to life the people, countryside, and delicious food of Ireland. Fast emerging as one of the world's hottest culinary destinations, Ireland is a country of artisanal bakers, farmers, cheesemakers, and butteries, where farm-to-table dining has been practiced for centuries. Learn more

 
Medium Raw

Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain

Tracking his own strange and unexpected voyage from journeyman cook to globe-traveling professional eater and drinker, and even to fatherhood, Bourdain takes no prisoners as he dissects what he's seen, pausing along the way for a series of confessions, rants, investigations, and interrogations of some of the most controversial figures in food. Learn more

 

Find more cooking books on the NPR's 10 Best Cookbooks, Celebrity Chefs, and the James Beard Foundation 20 Essential Books to Build Your Culinary Library community lists.

Historical Fiction

The Postmistress

The Postmistress by Sarah Blake

Weaving together the stories of three very different women loosely tied to each other, debut novelist Blake takes readers back and forth between small town America and war-torn Europe in 1940. Blake captures two different worlds-a naïve nation in denial and, across the ocean, a continent wracked with terror-with a deft sense of character and plot, and a perfect willingness to take on big, complex questions, such as the merits of truth and truth-telling in wartime. Learn more

 
The Confessions of Catherine de Medici

The Confessions of Catherine de Medici by C. W. Gortner

Acclaimed author C. W. Gortner brings Catherine to life in her own voice, allowing us to enter into the intimate world of a woman whose determination to protect her family's throne and realm plunged her into a lethal struggle for power. To some Catherine de Medici was the ruthless queen who led France into an era of savage violence. To others she was the passionate savior of the French monarchy. Learn more

 
Matterhorn

Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes

Highly decorated Marine veteran, Karl Marlantes bring us this intense, powerful, and compelling, epic war novel. It is the timeless story of a young Marine lieutenant, Waino Mellas, and his comrades in Bravo Company, who are dropped into the mountain jungle of Vietnam as boys and forced to fight their way into manhood. Matterhorn is a spellbinding and unforgettable novel that brings to life an entire world-both its horrors and its thrills-and seems destined to become a classic of combat literature. Learn more



Find other historical fiction books in these great series: The Tudors, Outlander and Avalon.

Entertainment & Humor

Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang

Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang by Chelsea Handler

In this hilarious new book from the star of Chelsea Lately and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea, comes a no-holds-barred account of life on the ridiculous side. Chelsea mines the wealth of material that is her family, her sex life, her career, and her distinctively outrageous worldview. Through it all, Chelsea never lets anyone off the hook, even herself, as she delivers page after page of irrevent humor, biting wit, and deliciously off-kilter entertainment. Learn more

 
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith

While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. That is, until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln, and became the first living person to lay eyes on it in more than 140 years. Learn more

 
P.S. I Hate it Here

P.S. I Hate it Here by Diane Falanga

For every parent who's ever received a letter from a homesick child or anybody who's ever written their parents with crazy requests from their bunk, P.S. I Hate It Here will delight with hilarious and heartwarming real-life letters. This collection of real letters written by children ages eight to sixteen to their parents about their adventures at summer camp are laugh-out-loud funny and will have readers reminiscing about their own camp days. Learn more

Find other humorous books on the Politically Incorrect Guides, or Classics Retold community lists.

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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Book Giveaway & Best in Sci-Fi, Romance, Biographies

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"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all of the miseries of life." ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Popular May Books | Science-Fiction & Fantasy | Romance | Biographies & Memoirs | Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award | Book Giveaway

Popular May Books

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson

In this finale to Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest roars with an explosive storyline that blows the doors off the series and announces that the very best has been saved for last. A familiar evil lies in wait for Lisbeth Salander, but this time, she must do more than confront the miscreants of her past; she must destroy them. Learn more

 
The Big Short

The Big Short by Michael Lewis

From the author of the signature bestseller Liar’s Poker comes a brilliant account of the U.S. current economic downturn. Michael Lewis’s splendid cast of characters includes villains, a few heroes, and a lot of people who look very, very foolish. In this trenchant, raucous, irresistible narrative, Lewis writes of the goats and of the few who saw what the emperor was wearing, and gives them, most memorably, what they deserve. Learn more

 
Come, Thou Tortoise

Come, Thou Tortoise by Jessica Grant

Amazon Canada’s First Novel Award Winner. This delightfully offbeat story features an opinionated tortoise and an IQ-challenged narrator who find themselves in the middle of a life-changing mystery. Audrey Flowers is living quietly in Oregon with Winnifred, her tortoise, when she finds out her dear father has been knocked into a coma back in Newfoundland. When Audrey disarms an Air Marshal en route to St. John’s we begin to realize there’s something, well, odd about her. Learn more

 
WAR

WAR by Sebastian Junger

From the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm. Junger turns his brilliant and empathetic eye to the reality of combat-the fear, the honor, and the trust among men in an extreme situation whose survival depends on their absolute commitment to one another. His on-the-ground account follows a single platoon through a 15-month tour of duty in the most dangerous outpost in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley. Learn more

 
The Marrowbone Marble Company

The Marrowbone Marble Company by M. Glenn Taylor

National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist M. Glenn Taylor impresses with this second novel-a satisfying and substantive story of a man determined to create his own utopia in the hardscrabble and racially-divided West Virginia of the post-war years. Within the novel’s historic context, the small Marrowbone community, comprised of unique and open-minded souls is, like the marbles it produces, a perfect microcosm within a very imperfect world. Learn more

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Changes

Changes by Jim Butcher

The newest addition to the New York Times bestselling Dresden Files. Long ago, Susan Rodriguez was Harry Dresden’s lover-until she was attacked by his enemies, leaving her torn between her own humanity and the bloodlust of the vampiric Red Court. Now Arianna Ortega has discovered a secret Susan has long kept, and she plans to use it-against Harry. To prevail this time, he may have no choice but to embrace his own untapped dark power. Harry’s not fighting to save the world. He’s fighting to save his child. Learn more

 
The City & The City

The City & The City by China Mieville

New York Times bestselling author China Mieville delivers his most accomplished novel yet, an existential thriller set in a city unlike any other-real or imagined. When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points to conspiracies far stranger and more deadly than anything he could have imagined. Learn more

 
Dragon Haven

Dragon Haven by Robin Hobb

The second book in New York Times Bestselling author Robin Hobb’s Rain Wild Chronicles. Returning to the territory of her beloved Liveship Traders and Tawny Man trilogies, Robin Hobb creates a lush and ultimately triumphant tale set in an imaginative world of magic and wonder as compelling and emotionally resonant as our own. Learn more

 

Find other Science Fiction & Fantasy books on the Science Fiction Masterworks community list.

Romance

Savor the Moment

Savor the Moment by Nora Roberts

Wedding baker Laurel McBane is surrounded by romance working at Vows wedding planning company. But she’s too low-key to appreciate all the luxuries that their clients seem to long for. What she does appreciate is a strong, intelligent man, like Delaney, on whom she’s had mega-crush since childhood. When Laurel’s quicksilver moods get the better of her-leading to an angry, hot, all-together mind-blowing kiss with Del-she’ll have to quiet the doubts in her mind to turn a moment of passion into forever. Learn more

 
Stay a Little Longer

Stay a Little Longer by Dorothy Garlock

Rachel Watkins has her hands full. Her mother had been the town midwife, but when her daughter Alice died under her care, she refused to assist in a childbirth ever again. Since then Rachel has assumed the work. She also takes care of Alice’s six-year old, Charlotte. One day, Charlotte befriends a stranger ill with influenza. Although badly scarred by wounds suffered in the War, he is strong and slowly recovers. Rachel is drawn to him despite his disfigurement, and his voice is comforting, vaguely familiar. Learn more

 
Hannah’s List

Hannah’s List by Debbie Macomber

On the anniversary of his beloved wife’s death, Dr. Michael Everett receives a letter Hannah had written him. In it she reminds him of her love and makes one final, impossible request. I want you to marry again. And to that end she’s chosen three women she asks him to consider. During the months that follow, he spends time with Winter, Leanne, and Macy, learning more about each of them and about himself. Learning what Hannah already knew. He’s a man who needs the completeness only love can offer. Learn more

 

AmazonEncore Presents:

Herb ’n’ Lorna

Herb ’n’ Lorna by Eric Kraft

On the surface Herb and Lorna Piper are a typical, sunny 1950s American couple. Their story seems like an American myth: small-town origins, Jazz Age romance, Depression trials, postwar prosperity. But this book begins with the shocking, wondrous discovery, made by their grandson after their death. And from that moment the story of Herb and Lorna takes on a tone of mingled awe and delight, propelled by a pair of secrets that dovetail at the end into a luscious and bawdy revelation. Learn more

AmazonEncore identifies exceptional yet overlooked books and works with the author to reintroduce their books to readers.

Find other Romance books on the Romance Suspense Novels, Harlequin Blaze or Restoration Era Romances community lists.

Biographies & Memoirs

When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead

When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead by Jerry Weintraub

Here is the story of Jerry Weintraub: the self-made, Brooklyn-born, Bronx-raised impresario, Hollywood producer, legendary deal maker, and friend of politicians and stars. No matter where nature has placed him-the club rooms of Brooklyn, the Mafia dives of New York’s Lower East Side, the wilds of Alaska, or the hills of Hollywood-he has found a way to put on a show and sell tickets at the door. Learn more

 
Spoken from the Heart

Spoken from the Heart by Laura Bush

In this brave, beautiful, and deeply personal memoir, Laura Bush, tells her own extraordinary story. Born in the boom-and-bust oil town of Midland, Texas, she grew up as an only child in a family that lost three babies to miscarriage or infant death. She vividly evokes Midland's brash, rugged culture, her close relationship with her father, and the bonds of early friendships. When Laura first left West Texas in 1964, she never imagined that her journey would lead her to the White House. Learn more

 
The Other Wes Moore

The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore

Two kids with the same name lived in the same decaying city. One went on to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison. Here is the story of two boys and the journey of a generation. Told in alternating dramatic narratives that take readers from heart-wrenching losses to moments of surprising redemption, The Other Wes Moore tells the story of a generation of boys trying to find their way in a hostile world. Learn more

 

AmazonEncore Presents:

Silent Tears

Silent Tears by Kay Bratt

In 2003, Kay Bratt’s life changed dramatically. A wife and mother of two girls in South Carolina, Bratt relocated her family to rural China to support her husband as he took on a new management position for his American employer. Seeking a way to fill her days and overcome the isolation she experienced upon arriving in a foreign country, Bratt began volunteering at the local orphanage. Within months, her simple desire to make use of her time transformed into a heroic crusade to improve the living conditions and minimize the unnecessary deaths of Chinese orphans. Learn more

Vote for 2010 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Winners

Amazon is days away from announcing the 2010 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award finalists. On May 25th, three finalists will be announced in the General Fiction category and three in the Young Adult Fiction category. Visit the official contest page at www.amazon.com/abna to read extended excerpts from each of the finalists, and reviews from industry experts and Amazon customers. Voting will start on May 25th, and run through 11:59PM EST on June 2nd. Make sure to vote for your favorite in each category. You may vote once in each category and must have an Amazon.com account to vote. Good luck to all six finalists.

Book Giveaway!

We’re giving away 10 copies of Elizabeth Street by Laurie Fabiano to the first 10 members who post in this discussion thread.

Elizabeth Street

Elizabeth Street by Laurie Fabiano

Laurie Fabiano tells a remarkable, and previously unheard, story of the Italian immigrant experience at the start of the twentieth century. Culled from her own family history, Fabiano paints an entrancing portrait of Giovanna Costa, who, reeling from personal tragedies, tries to make a new life in a new world. This intoxicating story follows Giovanna as she finds companionship, celebrates the birth of a baby girl and takes pride in a growing business. However, these modest successes are rewarded with the attention of the notorious Black Hand, a gang of brutal extortionists. As the stakes grow higher and higher, readers share with Giovanna her desperate struggle to remain outside the fray, and then to fight for-and finally to save-that which is important above all other: family. Learn more

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