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+mongoDB
+-------
+
+About
+-----
+
+A mongoDB driver for Haskell.
+
+This driver lets you connect to MongoDB, do inserts, queries, updates,
+etc. Also has many convience functions inspired by HDBC such as more
+easily converting between the BsonValue types and native Haskell
+types.
+
+Links
+-----
+
+* [mongoDB API reference](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/mongoDB)
+* [tutorial](http://github.com/srp/mongoDB/blob/master/tutorial.md)
+* [map/reduce example](http://github.com/srp/mongoDB/blob/master/map-reduce-example.md)