Essential books for this Irish Neopagan Druid

1.
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants 4.52 avg rating — 158,444 ratings
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The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1) 4.40 avg rating — 3,050,974 ratings
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Early Irish Myths and Sagas
Early Irish Myths and Sagas
by: Anonymous
3.83 avg rating — 1,956 ratings
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Invoking Ireland
Invoking Ireland 4.57 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation
by: Unknown
3.76 avg rating — 75,121 ratings
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Salmon in the Spring: The Ecology of Celtic Spirituality
Salmon in the Spring: The Ecology of Celtic Spirituality 4.45 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology
Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology 4.17 avg rating — 1,671 ratings
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If Women Rose Rooted: The Power of the Celtic Woman
If Women Rose Rooted: The Power of the Celtic Woman 4.27 avg rating — 4,392 ratings
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Living Druidry
Living Druidry 4.03 avg rating — 192 ratings
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Psychic Self-Defense
Psychic Self-Defense 3.78 avg rating — 1,407 ratings
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The Wisdom of Birch, Oak, and Yew: Connect to the Magic of Trees for Guidance & Transformation
The Wisdom of Birch, Oak, and Yew: Connect to the Magic of Trees for Guidance & Transformation 4.17 avg rating — 54 ratings
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The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft
The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft 4.24 avg rating — 2,135 ratings
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Living With Honour: A Pagan Ethics
Living With Honour: A Pagan Ethics 4.08 avg rating — 139 ratings
14.
The Dark Is Rising (The Dark is Rising, #2)
The Dark Is Rising (The Dark is Rising, #2) 4.04 avg rating — 60,003 ratings
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The Book of English Magic
The Book of English Magic 3.85 avg rating — 1,399 ratings
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The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World 4.17 avg rating — 5,287 ratings
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Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain
Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 347 ratings
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The Táin: From the Irish Epic Táin Bó Cúailnge
The Táin: From the Irish Epic Táin Bó Cúailnge
by: Anonymous
3.95 avg rating — 4,886 ratings
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The Path of Druidry: Walking the Ancient Green Way
The Path of Druidry: Walking the Ancient Green Way 4.08 avg rating — 537 ratings
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Dreaming the Soul Back Home: Shamanic Dreaming for Healing and Becoming Whole
Dreaming the Soul Back Home: Shamanic Dreaming for Healing and Becoming Whole 4.20 avg rating — 409 ratings
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Norse Mythology
Norse Mythology 4.10 avg rating — 338,261 ratings
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American Gods
American Gods 4.10 avg rating — 978,807 ratings
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The Bardic Handbook: The Complete Manual for the Twenty-First Century Bard
The Bardic Handbook: The Complete Manual for the Twenty-First Century Bard 4.13 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Book of Celtic Magic: Transformative Teachings from the Cauldron of Awen
The Book of Celtic Magic: Transformative Teachings from the Cauldron of Awen 4.23 avg rating — 183 ratings
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The Book of Druidry
The Book of Druidry 3.70 avg rating — 252 ratings
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Ritual
Ritual 3.97 avg rating — 66 ratings
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The Encyclopaedia of Celtic Wisdom: A Celtic Shaman's Sourcebook
The Encyclopaedia of Celtic Wisdom: A Celtic Shaman's Sourcebook 4.04 avg rating — 858 ratings
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The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature
The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature 4.24 avg rating — 4,225 ratings
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Heart of the Earth: A Fantastic Mythical Adventure of Courage and Hope, Bound by a Shared Destiny
Heart of the Earth: A Fantastic Mythical Adventure of Courage and Hope, Bound by a Shared Destiny 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Eleven
Eleven 4.29 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Walkers Between the Worlds: The Western Mysteries from Shaman to Magus
Walkers Between the Worlds: The Western Mysteries from Shaman to Magus 4.13 avg rating — 146 ratings
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Journeys of the Soul
Journeys of the Soul 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Druid Source Book
The Druid Source Book 3.81 avg rating — 57 ratings
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The Wakeful World: Animism, Mind and the Self in Nature
The Wakeful World: Animism, Mind and the Self in Nature 4.18 avg rating — 97 ratings
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Beyond the Mist
Beyond the Mist 4.27 avg rating — 26 ratings
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A Hidden Ulster: People, Songs and Traditions of Oriel
A Hidden Ulster: People, Songs and Traditions of Oriel 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Kissing the Hag: The Dark Goddess and the Unacceptable Nature of Women
Kissing the Hag: The Dark Goddess and the Unacceptable Nature of Women 4.18 avg rating — 186 ratings
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Selected Poems
Selected Poems
by: Æ
3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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New View Over Atlantis: The Essential Guide to Megalithic Science, Earth Mysteries, and Sacred Geometry
New View Over Atlantis: The Essential Guide to Megalithic Science, Earth Mysteries, and Sacred Geometry 4.10 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Art Of Conversation With The Genius Loci
Art Of Conversation With The Genius Loci 3.70 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Dancing Goddesses: Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance
The Dancing Goddesses: Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance 4.30 avg rating — 152 ratings
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Jung the Mystic: The Esoteric Dimensions of Carl Jung's Life & Teachings
Jung the Mystic: The Esoteric Dimensions of Carl Jung's Life & Teachings 3.93 avg rating — 421 ratings
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A Branch from the Lightning Tree (The Mythteller trilogy, vol. 1)
A Branch from the Lightning Tree (The Mythteller trilogy, vol. 1) 4.44 avg rating — 247 ratings
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Witchcraft and Magic in Ireland
Witchcraft and Magic in Ireland 3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees
The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees 4.35 avg rating — 2,918 ratings
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Cath Maige Tuired: A Full English Translation
Cath Maige Tuired: A Full English Translation 4.56 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Earth, The Gods and The Soul - A History of Pagan Philosophy, The
Earth, The Gods and The Soul - A History of Pagan Philosophy, The 4.45 avg rating — 67 ratings
48.
Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths?
Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths? 3.70 avg rating — 482 ratings
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All That Is Sacred Is Profaned: A Pagan Guide to Marxism
All That Is Sacred Is Profaned: A Pagan Guide to Marxism 4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Words of Re-enchantment: Storytelling, Myth, and Ecological Desire
Words of Re-enchantment: Storytelling, Myth, and Ecological Desire 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Bard of Liberty: The Political Radicalism of Iolo Morganwg
Bard of Liberty: The Political Radicalism of Iolo Morganwg 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Occult
The Occult 3.91 avg rating — 2,084 ratings
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Why The Moon Travels
Why The Moon Travels 4.28 avg rating — 329 ratings
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Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape
Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape 4.24 avg rating — 1,100 ratings
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Deep Ecology: Living as if Nature Mattered
Deep Ecology: Living as if Nature Mattered 3.97 avg rating — 249 ratings
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Wild Woods: The Magic of Ireland’s Native Woodlands
Wild Woods: The Magic of Ireland’s Native Woodlands 3.78 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Possessed by the Devil: The Real History of the Islandmagee Witches & Ireland's Only Witchcraft Mass Trial
Possessed by the Devil: The Real History of the Islandmagee Witches & Ireland's Only Witchcraft Mass Trial 3.92 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Witches Abroad (Discworld, #12; Witches, #3)
Witches Abroad (Discworld, #12; Witches, #3) 4.25 avg rating — 95,931 ratings
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A God Who Makes Fire: The Bardic Mysticism of Amergin
A God Who Makes Fire: The Bardic Mysticism of Amergin 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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A Hut at the Edge of the Village: The Beauty and Trouble of John Moriarty
A Hut at the Edge of the Village: The Beauty and Trouble of John Moriarty 4.18 avg rating — 44 ratings
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A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 348,969 ratings
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In Search of the Irish Dreamtime: Archaeology and Early Irish Literature
In Search of the Irish Dreamtime: Archaeology and Early Irish Literature 3.78 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Teagasca: The Instructions of Cormac Mac Airt
Teagasca: The Instructions of Cormac Mac Airt 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Ireland's Immortals: A History of the Gods of Irish Myth
Ireland's Immortals: A History of the Gods of Irish Myth 4.19 avg rating — 203 ratings
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Old Gods, New Druids
Old Gods, New Druids 4.12 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1) 4.08 avg rating — 28,455 ratings
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Over Nine Waves: A Book of Irish Legends
Over Nine Waves: A Book of Irish Legends 4.14 avg rating — 606 ratings
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Miracles of Our Own Making: A History of Paganism
Miracles of Our Own Making: A History of Paganism 3.89 avg rating — 239 ratings
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Irish Trees: Myths, Legends & Folklore
Irish Trees: Myths, Legends & Folklore 4.14 avg rating — 118 ratings
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The Case for God
The Case for God 3.85 avg rating — 9,250 ratings
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Irish Wild Plants: Myths Legends & Folklore
Irish Wild Plants: Myths Legends & Folklore 4.15 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Ireland's Animals: Myths, Legends & Folklore
Ireland's Animals: Myths, Legends & Folklore 4.19 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Ireland's Birds – Myths, Legends & Folklore
Ireland's Birds – Myths, Legends & Folklore 4.21 avg rating — 39 ratings
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The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking
The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking 4.07 avg rating — 1,449 ratings
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The Gary Snyder Reader: Prose, Poetry, and Translations
The Gary Snyder Reader: Prose, Poetry, and Translations 4.37 avg rating — 405 ratings
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Introduction to Early Irish Literature
Introduction to Early Irish Literature 3.98 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Tales of the Elders of Ireland
Tales of the Elders of Ireland
by: Anonymous
3.72 avg rating — 265 ratings
78.
The Folklore of Discworld
The Folklore of Discworld 4.01 avg rating — 3,341 ratings
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The Owl Service
The Owl Service 3.66 avg rating — 7,891 ratings
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Playing the Hero: Reading the Táin Bó Cúailnge
Playing the Hero: Reading the Táin Bó Cúailnge really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Chalice: A Glastonbury Ghost Story
The Chalice: A Glastonbury Ghost Story 4.04 avg rating — 1,001 ratings
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When They Severed Earth from Sky: How the Human Mind Shapes Myth
When They Severed Earth from Sky: How the Human Mind Shapes Myth 4.22 avg rating — 414 ratings
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Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere
Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere 4.29 avg rating — 45,523 ratings
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The Irish Queen Medb: History, Tradition, and Modern Pagan Practice
The Irish Queen Medb: History, Tradition, and Modern Pagan Practice 4.42 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Sacred Isle: Pre-Christian Religions in Ireland
The Sacred Isle: Pre-Christian Religions in Ireland 4.11 avg rating — 71 ratings
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The Lore of Ireland: An Encyclopaedia of Myth, Legend and Romance
The Lore of Ireland: An Encyclopaedia of Myth, Legend and Romance 4.53 avg rating — 45 ratings
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The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs: Use Outdoor Clues to Find Your Way, Predict the Weather, Locate Water, Track Animals―and Other Forgotten Skills
The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs: Use Outdoor Clues to Find Your Way, Predict the Weather, Locate Water, Track Animals―and Other Forgotten Skills 3.77 avg rating — 4,914 ratings
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Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom: A Book of Tarot
Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom: A Book of Tarot 4.33 avg rating — 3,785 ratings
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Wild: An Elemental Journey
Wild: An Elemental Journey 4.13 avg rating — 841 ratings
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To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings
To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings 4.41 avg rating — 5,247 ratings
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Four Elements: Reflections on Nature
Four Elements: Reflections on Nature 4.23 avg rating — 394 ratings
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The Philosopher and the Wolf
The Philosopher and the Wolf 4.13 avg rating — 3,242 ratings
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The Practice of the Wild: Essays
The Practice of the Wild: Essays 4.19 avg rating — 2,688 ratings
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A Dark Muse: A History of the Occult
A Dark Muse: A History of the Occult 3.75 avg rating — 232 ratings
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Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)
Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6) 4.19 avg rating — 66,838 ratings
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The Other Side of Virtue: Where Our Virtues Come From, What They Really Mean, and Where They Might Be Taking Us
The Other Side of Virtue: Where Our Virtues Come From, What They Really Mean, and Where They Might Be Taking Us 4.27 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Women of the Golden Dawn: Rebels and Priestesses: Maud Gonne, Moina Bergson Mathers, Annie Horniman, Florence Farr
Women of the Golden Dawn: Rebels and Priestesses: Maud Gonne, Moina Bergson Mathers, Annie Horniman, Florence Farr 4.26 avg rating — 176 ratings
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The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats 4.23 avg rating — 39,743 ratings
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Dreams of Isis: A Woman's Spiritual Sojourn
Dreams of Isis: A Woman's Spiritual Sojourn 4.16 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Singing the Soul Back Home: Shamanic Wisdom for Every Day
Singing the Soul Back Home: Shamanic Wisdom for Every Day 4.37 avg rating — 171 ratings
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