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Template:Up to date Books are readable items in Baldur's Gate 3. Reading them might start or update Quests or trigger a cutscene. Most of them provide world or character lore.
In addition, other forms of written material can be found on these pages:
- Notes includes a list of letters and notes in the game.
- Category:Books provides a comprehensive list of written material found in game.
- There are separate articles grouping Books by Subject and Books by Author.
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Legendary
Caution Before the Seelie
The Annals of Karsus
The Red Knight's Final Stratagem
The Tharchiate Codex
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A Brush with Evil: On Hags
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A is for Azuth, and other Gods I
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A is for Azuth, and other Gods II
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A is for Azuth, and other Gods III
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A is for Azuth, and other Gods VI
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A is for Azuth, and other Gods VII
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A is for Azuth, and other Gods IX
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A is for Azuth, and other Gods XI
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A Fall of Netheril
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A Guide to Avernus - One Hellish Holiday
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A History of the Flaming Fist
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A List of Essential Personnel
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A Modest Guide To Sword Coast Wine
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A Mummy's Memories
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A New Blasphemy: Bloodletting and Sanguine Arcana
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Annotated Ship's Manifest
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A Pleasurable Deal
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A Promising Candidate
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A Primer on Mythical Beasts
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A Sprinter's Guide to Goblins
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A Swift and Sudden Death
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A Tour of Tempest
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A Traveller's Guide to Baldur's Gate
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Abandoned Journal
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About Creation of Orphic Hammer
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Absolving the Wayward Heart
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Accelerated Grand Design
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Account of the Establishment of Crèche Y'llek
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Address Book
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Adopters of Culture
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Always Hungry
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Amaps' Memoirs
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An Archduke's Leadership: Decorum
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An Archduke's Leadership: Discipline
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An Archduke's Leadership: Protection
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An Archduke's Leadership: Public Works
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An Archduke's Leadership: Surveillance
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An Archduke's Leadership: Verification
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An End to Suffering
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Ancient Selûnite Journal
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Apostle Diary
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Apothecary's Ledger
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Apprentice's Journal
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Arfur's Private Musings
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Artefact Mission: Agent Roster
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Artefact Mission: Challenges
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Attention Acolytes
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Attracting Drow Exiles
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Avernus Survival Guide
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Baelen's Alchemical Notes
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Bagida's Diary
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Balduran Founds a City
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Baldur's Bones
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Baldur's Gate and the Dialectics of Plunder
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Baldur's Gate Protectors
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Baldur's Gate Temple Of Bhaal
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Bane's Book of Admonitions
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BAN LIST
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Barkskin Recipe
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Battle Plans
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Beheading the Bitterroots
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Blood Bank Log
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Blood-Smeared Logbook
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Bloody Journal
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Bonded By Love - Husband's Diary
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Bonded By Love - Wife's Diary
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Book Draft - Volume I
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Book Draft - Volume II
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Book Draft - Volume III
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Book Draft - Volume IV
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Book of Dead Gods
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Book of Final Breath
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Book of Poetry
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Born to be Wild
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Broom and Bucket
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Burnt Journal
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Canticles of the Dark Mistress
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Captives of Shar
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Chapel Records
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Charred Prayer Book
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Circus of the Last Days: Employees
- Clasped Book
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Client List
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Colfax's Compendium of Consecrated Creatures
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Confessions, Vol. 1, Father Lorgan
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Confiscated Book
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Confronting the False Heart
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Consolation of the Dark
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Corsairs of Luskan
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Crawler Mucus Poison Recipe
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Credo of the Rack-Stricken Lord
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Crimes of the Moonmaiden
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Curfew (Confidential Orders)
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Dalyria's Journal
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Damaged Journal
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Dammon's Journal
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Dark Journal
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Dark Justiciar's Journal
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Dark Justiciar's Plea
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De Hurst's Diary
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Dead Druid's Journal
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Death & Divinity: A Godly Guide
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Derryth's Journal
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Devil Don't Rhyme - A Verse Epic
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Diary of Ketheric Thorm, Vol 1
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Diary of Ketheric Thorm, Vol 2
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Diary of Ketheric Thorm, Vol 3
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Diary, 1492DR, Ffion Goldgrind
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Discarded Journal
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Diseases of the Blood
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Disintegrating Journal
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Disorders of the Nerves and Mind: A Treatise
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Dispatches Ledger
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Divine Rapture of Ilmater
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Donation Record
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Don't Prod the Specimen
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Don't Sniff the Specimen
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Don't Swallow the Specimen
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Downfall of the Iron Throne
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Druid Notebook
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Druids' Ledger
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Dufay's Diary
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Dusty Book
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Dusty Prayerbook
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Dwarven Taxonomy
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Easy Furnitures DIY
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Efficacious Brain Removal
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Eilistraee: Lady Silverhair
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Elder Brain Domination
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Elder's Journal
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Employee Pay Log
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Encyclopaedia Apotheca, by Sandre Toliar
- Engraved Githyanki Disc
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Estra's Insights
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Evading the Elder Brain
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Evil's Ascent
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Excavation of the Enclave of Nhalloth
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Exile
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Experiment on Cruor
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Extracts - The Rule of Three
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Eyewitness Account
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Fables of Faerûn I: The Dimwitted Drow
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Fables of Faerûn II: The Daring Duergar
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Fables of Faerûn III: The Enticing Elder
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Fables of Faerûn IV: The Magnanimous Miner
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Fables of Faerûn V: The Boy and the Beholder
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Fables of Faerûn VI: The Cheerful Deep Gnome
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Facemaker, Tastemaker
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Faded Blueprints
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Faded Instructions
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Faded Logbook (Selunite, 124)
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Faded Logbook (Selunite, 182)
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Faded Logbook (Meerna)
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Faldorn's Canticle: The Shadow Druids' Doctrine
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Ffion's Journal
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Fiendish Alchemy
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Fiendish Bestiary
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Findings from the Hinterlands - New Edition
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Fine at Home: A Cookery Book
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Flaming Fist History
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Flaming Fist New Recruit Booklet
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Flask of Light
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Flintdigger's Abridged Dwarven History
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Flophouse Issues
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Flophouse Rules
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Flophouse Tenants Logs
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Flow of the Chionthar
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Folksongs of Faerûn
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Forge Construction Log
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Forging Success
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Fringe Philosophy, Vol. V
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Front and Centre: A Thespian's Memoir
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Gerringothe's Logbook
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Get to Baldur's Gate
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Ghustil Stornugoss' Research Notes
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Glory of the Absolute
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Gnomefather
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Gond and Gripping Life By The Tongs
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Gondian Automaton Conversion
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Gondian Autoprinter Manual
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Gondian Research Report
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Guest Log
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Guestbook of Rosymorn Abbey
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Graveyard Diary
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Grymforge: A History
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Habits of Patriars
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Hag Research Notes
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Hairy Henry's Journal
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Halfred's Note
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Halsin's Journal, Vol I
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Halsin's Journal, Vol II
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Harper Journal
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Harper's Notebook
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Harvest of Memory
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Havkelaag's Journal
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Havkelaag's Notes
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Healer's Log
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Healers' Ledger
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Heavy Book
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Her Love For it Was Like A Plum
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Highcliff's Journal
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His Holy Blood, Vol. 1, Dawnmaster Dovaer
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His Holy Blood, Vol. 2, Paladin Vaseid
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His Holy Blood, Vol. 3, Dawnmaster Vaseid
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Hostage Census
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How to Build a Watcher
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How to Track an Illithid
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Hymns for the Gone
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Ideas for New Outfits
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Illasera, the First
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Ilmatari Combat Manual
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Impractical Magic, Volume 1
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In the Mode of Masters
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Incomplete Journal
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Infernal Contracts And Bargains
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Infirmary Records
- Inkeeper's Journal
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Inner Peace: The Path to Perfection
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Innkeeper's Journal
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Inroads by Arms Dealer Gortash
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Inscribed Githyanki Slate
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Inscrutable Journal
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Intelligence concerning the weapon
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Interrogation Log
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Into the Feywild
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Inventory of Takings
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Inventory Report
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Ironhand Gnomes: Our Grievances
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Isobel's Diary
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Jake's Encyclopaedia of Eels
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Journal Log of True Soul Korliss
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Journal of Enver Gortash
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Journal of Gyldro Angleiron
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Journal of High Initiate Jarrus
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Journal of Magthew Budj
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Journal of Past Adventurers N°1
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Journal of Past Adventurers N°2
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Journal of Past Adventurers N°3
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Journal of Past Adventurers N°4
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Journal of a Novice Monk
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Journey Through The Jungle
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Judge of the Damned
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Kobold Journal
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Larethian
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Last Notes of a Monk
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Ledger: Blood Donors
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Ledger of Production: Motivators
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Lessons for Sensible Living IV: Cities and How to Survive Them
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Lessons for Sensible Living XII: Zariel's Fall
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Lessons from the Boiler
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Lessons of Helm
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Level Up Your Life
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Life of Beaky
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Lo! A Most Joyous Sensation!
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Log of Visitors to Rosymorn Monastery
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Logbook of Sendings
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Logbook XII: 1371
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Lower City and Upper City
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Magical Histories, Volume 1: The Origins of Mystra
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Magical Histories, Volume 2: The Spellplague
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Magical Histories, Volume 3: The Second Sundering
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Magical Histories, Volume 4: The Chosen of Mystra
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Magic of the Weave - An Introduction
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Magmar's Record
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Manual of Hilaritie for the Trulie Unfunnie
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Mason's Log
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Mastodonian Memoirs, Vol. 1, Investigator Valeria
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Meditations, Vol. 1, Father Lorgan
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Memoir Notes with Recent Addenda
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Memoirs, Vol 1, Sister Clarwen
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Merchant's Almanac: The Coast Way
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Merchant's Almanac: The Trade Way
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Meticulous Notes
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Missives of Candlekeep
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Mistress of Souls' Research Log
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Mistress of the Night and Friends
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Moonhaven Logbook
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Mother of Halflings
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Mysterious Moonshae
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Myth Drannan Amphigory
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Necromantic Codexes, Their Enigmas
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Needle's Points: Tips for Top Stories
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NO CAUSE FOR ALARM
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No Price Too High
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Note About the Shield of Silvam
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Notes from a Soothsayer
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Notes on Mind Flayer Anatomy
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Notice
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Observations on the Shadow Curse
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Officially Unofficial Circus History
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Olam's Journal
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Old Architectural Collection
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Old Maintenance Records
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Old Schoolbook
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Oliver's Diary
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On Antidotes
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On Death & Resurrection
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On Educating the Faithful
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One-Eye
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One Foot, Two Feet, Well Met, We'll Meet
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One Night in Nashkel
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On Goblins: My Life Among the Conquering Host
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On Illithids, Volume XXVI
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On Potions and Elixirs
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On Psionic Manipulations and Countermeasures
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On Receiving Her Grace
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On Serpent Venom Toxin
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On Sloth, Gluttony, and Vice
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On the Greater Healing Potion
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'On the Inevitability of Moral Decay and its Benefits'
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On the Origins of the Zhentarim
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On the Weary, Vol. 1, Father Lorgan
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On Weapon Coatings
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Oral Histories of Faerûn: Gith and Mind Flayers
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Oral Histories of Faerûn: Paladin Oathbreakers
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Oral Histories of Faerûn: The Spellplague
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Orcs of the Trielta Hills
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Order of Ilmatari Service
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Order of the Gauntlet: On Matters of Law and Justice
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Orders from B
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Orpheus, Prince of the Comet, Part One: Betrayal
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Orpheus, Prince of the Comet, Part Two: Sacrifice
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Orpheus, Prince of the Comet, Part Three: Resurrection
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Overlapping Lines
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Pandirna's Diary
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Patient Log: Duke Belynne Stelmane
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Patients' Registry
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Patriars, A Homegrown Aristocracy
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Patriars Journal
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Plea of Rest
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Post House Delivery Complaints
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Post-House Dog's Log
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Potion Catalogue
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Potion of Animal Speaking Recipe
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Potion of Healing Recipe
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Potion of Mind Reading Recipe
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Prayer for Forgiveness
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Prayers of Repent
- Priestess' Journal
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Primer on Calimshan
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Prisoner's Journal
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Provender Ledger
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Queen of Ravens
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Ragged Diary
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Raphael's Diary - Chapter 1
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Raphael's Diary - Chapter 2
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Raphael's Diary - Chapter 3
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Recipe of Elixir of Necrotic Resistance
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Recipe of Wyvern Toxin
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Record of Complaints
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Recruiting Gnolls
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Reflections of a Gullible Prick
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Reflections Upon the Mirror of Loss
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Refugee Arrival Record
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Refugee's Journal
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Register of Temple Deadspeakers
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Registry of Citizens' Complaints
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Rives' Failures as a Banite
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Rules for Elfsong Customers
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Runepowder and the Modern Gnome
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Safe and Sound: a Guide to our Vaults
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Sarevok Anchev: A Study in Suffering
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Scaled Scions of Abeir
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Schematic Compendium
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Schools of Magic: Necromancy
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Scorched Book
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Secret Societies of the Sword Coast: Exposed
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Selûne's Devotee
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Selûnite Journal
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Selûnite Prayer Book
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Shanties for the Bitch Queen
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Sharess' Caress Finances
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Sharran Initiate's Notes
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Sharran Registry
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Sharran's Journal
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Shipment Ledger
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Simple Poison Recipe
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Skeletons in Patriar Closets
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Sod The Maimed God
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Songs for Sailors, Soldiers, and Sirens
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Soul Cage Research
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Soul Coins: A Treatise
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SOUPS OF THE REALMS BY BROTHER DONNICK
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Spattered Diary
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Speak your Loss
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Special Operation - Infernal Arms
- Stained Book
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Stedd's Virtues of Unions
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Studies of the Elder Brains
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Study of the Sword Coast
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Submersible Maintenance
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Suelto's Ethics of War
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Superior Potion of Healing Recipe
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Supplication Scrapbook
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Supplications to Umberlee
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Surgeon's Memorandum
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Surgeon's Research Notes
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Surgery and Physiology: A Sharran's Primer
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Surveillance Notes
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Suspended Ceremorphosis
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Sword Coast Songbook
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Taking the Groves Off the Table
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Tales Of The Hells
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Talis
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Talis: Divination without Magic
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Talis Tactics - Ultimate Trick Book
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Tamia Domina
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Tarbell's Guide to Distractions
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Tattered Journal
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Tattered Notes
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Teachings of Ilmater
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Teachings of Loss: Dark Justiciar
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Teachings of Loss: Endless Dark
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Teachings of Loss: Forgetting and Loss
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Teachings of Loss: Light's Love
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Teachings of Loss: Oblivion
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Teachings of Loss: Own Secret
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Tenants of the Broken God
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The Absolute End
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The Amiable Art of Necromancy
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The Annals of Baldur's Gate
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The Approachable East, Vol. 1
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The Approachable East, Vol. 2
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The Approachable East, Vol. 3
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The Approachable East, Vol. 4
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The Approachable East, Vol. 5
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The Approachable East, Vol. 6
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The Bhaalspawn Saga: Part II
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The Big Book of Little Drinking Games
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The Blood War
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The Book of Cheesomancy
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The Butler's Cane Has A Knob On The End
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The Careful Art of Tir'su Ciphers
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The Collectanea Rubrum
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The Curse of the Vampyr
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The Devil You Know: An Autobiography
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The Diary of Lump the Enlightened
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The Dukes of Baldur's Gate
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The Egg-Duty Clan-Call
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The Elf Song
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The Evil Eye
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The Ecstasy of Murder
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The Final Sacrifice of the Moon Daughter
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The Five Year War: A Diplomat's Record
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The Folly and the Fall
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The Folly of Zerthimon
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The Founding of Baldur's Gate
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The Gate's Pub Crawl Guide
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The Gauntlet of Shar
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The Genesis of Selûne and Shar
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The Grand Design
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The Guild: Hidden Rulers of Baldur's Gate
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The Hells Unleashed
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The Hound and the Hand
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The House of Wonders
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The Hunter's Piercing Gaze
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The Illustrated Adventures of Balduran
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The Landed Families of Tethyr
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The Leadership of the Zhentarim
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The Legend of Ansur
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The Lord of Murder's Songbook
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The Lords of Madness, Vol 4: Yeenoghu
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The Many Faces of Gond
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The Many Tales of Mother Campestri
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The Mortal View: Eyewitness Accounts of the Bhaalspawn Crisis
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The Most Holy Sermons of Lashbearer Catrine
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The Mountain Is You
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The Needled Book
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The One that Got A Thay
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The Power of the Crown
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The Purged Palate, Midwinter Edition
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The Quarta Sune
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The Realm According to Bumpo
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The Roads to Darkness
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The Rumour of Reithwin
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The Screed of the Willing
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The Sea Queen's Wrath
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The Shattered Seldarine
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The Soul Forger
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The Suffering Masses
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The Superior Durability of Hardwood
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The Surprising Habits of Kara-Turian Warlords
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The Triad for Children
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The True and Impossible Adventures of Tenebrux Morrow, Vol. 1
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The True and Impossible Adventures of Tenebrux Morrow, Vol. 2
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The True and Impossible Adventures of Tenebrux Morrow, Vol. 3
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The True and Impossible Adventures of Tenebrux Morrow, Vol. 4
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The True Life of 'Lord' Gortash
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The Ultimate State
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The Unclaimed
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The Waning Moon: Consignments
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The War between Selûne and Shar
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The Warrior of Love
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The Watch and the Steel Watch
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The Way of the Wanderer
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The Well-Tended Garden
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The Wonders of Phandalin
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The Would-Be Saint
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Therapeutics
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Threadbare Book
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Tollhouse Ledger (Reithwin)
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Tollhouse Ledger (Risen Road)
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Tome of the Faith-leap Trial
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Tome of the Self-Same Trial
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Tome of the Soft-Step Trial
- Traveller's Guide to the Sword Coast Vol IX: Inns and Guesthouses
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Traveller's Guide to the Sword Coast Vol. IV: The Risen Road
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Traveller's Guide to the Sword Coast Vol. VIII: The Outer City
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Treatise on the Antimagic Properties of Sussur Tree Flowers
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Tymora, Lady Luck
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Unsent Sending
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Urban Exploration - The Undercity!
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Valarken's Failed Coup
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Vault Pass Ledger
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Veronica Hamperclips and her Adventures Beyond The Washbasin
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Veterinary Log
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Violet's Diary
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Volo's Complete Guide to the Behaviour of Nymphs
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Volo's Guide to Baldur's Gate
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Volo's Guide to Spirits and Spectres
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Wall of the Faithless
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Warden's Workbook
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Web-Covered Journal
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What Abides Below
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Winery Records
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Writin Exorcises
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Writings of a Wroot
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Ye Follye of Karsus
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Yearning for the Moon
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Yoshimo is Willing
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You've Got Friends in the Guild
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