Anyone else having trouble with Amazon advanced book search?

Anyone else having trouble with Amazon advanced book search?
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Yeah, it is not working well for me. Seaches for known titles, or for known author names, are giving me “No results for in Books.” which suggests to me that it’s failing to take my search terms as input.
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