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Is this a WordPress feature?
Yes, and the redirect is being done by redirect_canonical(), but the URL is determined by redirect_guess_404_permalink():
redirect_guess_404_permalink()
Attempts to guess the correct URL for a 404 request based on query
vars.
So what's happening in your case is, WordPress attempts to find a post having book in the slug (...
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Did you try to exit; after the wp_redirect()?
“Note: wp_redirect() does not exit automatically, and should almost always be followed by a call to exit;”
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_redirect/
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SOLUTION:
With some playing around I realized I am definitely an idiot and WAY over-thought things. While I had previously read and tried some of the things in this similar post, I ended up substituting their code for mine and found it actually worked for my use case. In trying to understand why that was, I began trying to convert it to become mine and ...
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