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You are given an array of book titles sorted lexicographically. A title might be missing from this sorted array. Write a program to find the index of a given title. If the title is not found, return -1. The input will consist of the first line with space-separated book titles and the second line with the title to search for. Output one integer, the index of the title or -1 if not found. Example: Input: A Tale of Two Cities Great Expectations Moby Dick To Kill a Mockingbird Moby Dick Output: 2

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