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Your next favorite book
is waiting.
by Lemony Snicket, illustrated by Brett Helquist
Little is known about The Penultimate Peril in this alarming phenomenon. What we do know is contained in the following brief list:
In this book things only get worse.
Count Olaf is still evil.
The Baudelaire Orphans do not win a contest.
The title begins with the word 'The'.
Sometimes, ignorance is bliss.
"A Series of Unfortunate Events: Book the Twelfth" - Children's Literature
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