

<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
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mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;font-weight:normal" lang="EN-US">Dear Reader,</span></strong></p>

<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
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mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;font-weight:normal" lang="EN-US">If this is the first book
you found while searching for a book to read next, then the first thing you
should know is that this next-to-last book is what you should put down first.
Sadly, this book presents the next-to-last chronicle of the lives of the
Baudelaire orphans, and it is next-to-first in its supply of misery, despair,
and unpleasantness. Probably the next-to-last thing you would like to read
about is a harpoon gun, a rooftop sunbathing salon, two mysterious initials,
three unidentified triplets, a notorious villain, and an unsavory curry. Next-to-last
things are the first thing to be avoided, so allow me to recommend that you
put this next-to-last book down first, and find something else to read next at
last, such as the next-to-last book in another chronicle, or a chronicle
containing other next-to-last things, so that this next-to-last book does not
become the last book you will read.</span></strong></p>

<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
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mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal" lang="EN-US">Access codes and
supplements are not guaranteed with used items.</span></strong></p>

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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
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mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal" lang="EN-US">About the Author</span></strong></p>

<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
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mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal" lang="EN-US">Lemony Snicket</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif;
mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
font-weight:normal" lang="EN-US"> was born in 1970 in San Francisco, California United
States. He has published two novels for adults, The Basic Eight and Watch Your
Mouth. he has published eleven of the planned thirteen books in a series for
children called A Series of Unfortunate Events. He is married to Lisa Brown, a
graphic artist. The couple has one child.</span></strong></p>

