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| "The Jewel In The Crown by Paul Scott (Paperback, 1996)" |
| "BOOK ONE OF THE RAJ QUARTETIndia 1942 everything is in flux World War II has shown that the British are not invincible and the self-rule lobby is gaining many supporters Against this background Daphne Manners a young English girl is brutally raped in the Bibighat Gardens The racism brutality and hatred launched upon the head of her young Indian lover echo the dreadful violence perpetrated on Daphne and reveal the desperate state of Anglo-Indian relations The rift that will eventually prise India - the jewel in the Imperial Crown - from colonial rule is beginning to gape wide"
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| "A Guide For The Perplexed by E. F. Schumacher (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "E F Schumacher asserts that it is the task of philosophy to provide a map of life and knowledge which exhibits the most important features of life in their proper prominence The questions How am I to conduct my life? What is the nature of art and nature? What is the meaning of religion? are restored to daylight on Schumacher's map of life by his maxim 'if in doubt show it prominently' Science is therefore restored to its home territory and its growing imperialism over the fields is reserved"
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| "The Day Watch: (Night Watch 2) by Vladimir Vasiliev, Sergei Lukyanenko (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "Walking the streets of Moscow indistinguishable from the rest of its population are The Others Possessors of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight a shadowy world that exists in parallel to our own each owes allegiance either to The Dark or The Light In The Day Watch second book of the Night Watch trilogy Alice a young but powerful Dark Other attends a planning meeting with her comrades in the Day Watch The team is on a mission to apprehend an uninitiated Other a practicing Dark witch who has so far eluded the bureaux responsible for finding and initiating unlicensed practitioners of magic It seems a routine operation But when they arrive the Night Watch team has already made the arrest A fierce battle ensues during which Alice almost dies Drained of her powers she is sent to recuperate at a youth camp near the Black Sea There she meets Igor; the chemistry between them is instant and irresistible But then comes a shattering realisation Igor is a Light Mage Suddenly Alice remembers him as one of those involved in the battle that left her crippled Now that they know there is no alternative to a magical duel a battle that neither of them wants to win"
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| "Amaretto, Apple Cake and Artichokes : The Best of Anna Del Conte" |
| "As featured in a BBC documentaryIn this book Anna Del Conte has collected together the best of her delicious recipes along with tips anecdotes and reminiscences about her life in Italy and London Packed with inspiring information from the best way to make a tomato sauce and a tiramisu to more unusual dishes such as nettle risotto and chestnut mousse each chapter is devoted to a different ingredient As well as explaining the basics and introducing more surprising recipes Anna includes special additional chapters describing traditional regional and historical menus So whether you want to eat tagliatelle with ham and peas or rabbit with rosemary and tomato a Roman Late Supper or a Renaissance Dinner you will find what you need here"
Price: 11.49 |
| "Dublin 4" |
| "A society hostess entertains her husband's mistress to dinner; a country girl savours the delights of city life; a student faces the dilemma of unmarried pregnancy; and a drink-ridden photographer tries to relaunch a shattered career This vintage collection of stories from the bestselling author of Light a Penny Candle and Circle of Friends is Maeve Binchy at her best - her trademark warmth wit and compassion are unmistakeable"
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| "The Year of Living Biblically" |
| "Avoiding shellfish was easy The stoning of adulterers proved a little more difficult - and potentially controversial Was it enough to walk up to an adulterer and gently touch them with a stone? Even that could be grounds for accusations of assault especially with female adulterers in Manhattan So what's a good Bible-reading boy to do?Raised in a secular family but increasingly interested in the relevance of faith in our modern world AJ Jacobs decides to dive in head first and attempt to obey the hundreds of less-publicized rules The resulting spiritual journey is at once funny and profound reverent and irreverent personal and universal and will make you see history's most influential book with new eyes"
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| "Lonely Boy : Tales from a Sex Pistol" |
| "Foreword by Chrissie HyndeWithout the Sex Pistols there would be no Punk And without Steve Jones there would be no Sex Pistols It was Steve who formed Kutie Jones and his Sex Pistols the band that eventually went on to become the Sex Pistols with his schoolmate Paul Cook and who was its original leader As the world celebrates the 40th anniversary of Punk - the influence and cultural significance of which is felt in music fashion and the visual arts to this day - Steve tells his story for the very first time Steve's modern Dickensian tale begins in the streets of Hammersmith and Shepherd's Bush West London where as a lonely neglected boy living off his wits and petty thievery he is given purpose by the glam art rock of David Bowie and Roxy Music and becomes one of the first generation of ragamuffin punks taken under the wings of Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood For the very first time Steve describes the sadness of never having known his dad the neglect and abuse he suffered at the hands of his step father and how his interest in music and fashion saved him from a potential life of crime spent in remand centres and prison From the Kings Road of the early seventies through the years of the Sex Pistols Punk Rock and the recording of Never Mind the Bollocks (ranked number 41 in Rolling Stone magazine's Best Albums of All Time) to his self-imposed exile in New York and Los Angeles where he battled with alcohol heroin and sex addiction - caught in a cycle of rehab and relapse - Lonely Boy written with music journalist and author Ben Thompson is the story of an unlikely guitar hero who with the Sex Pistols changed history"
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| "Bit Rot" |
| "In Bit Rot Douglas Coupland explores the different ways in which twentieth-century notions of the future are being shredded and creates a gem of the digital age Reading the stories and essays in Bit Rot is like bingeing on Netflix you can't stop with just one Bit rot' is a term used in digital archiving to describe the way digital files can spontaneously and quickly decompose As Coupland writes bit rot also describes the way my brain has been feeling since 2000 as I shed older and weaker neurons and connections and enhance new and unexpected ones' Bit Rot the book explores the ways humanity tries to make sense of our shifting consciousness Coupland just like the Internet mixes forms to achieve his ends Short fiction is interspersed with essays on all aspects of modern life The result is addictively satisfying for Coupland's legion of fans hungry for his observations about our world For almost three decades his unique pattern recognition has powered his fiction and his phrase-making Every page of Bit Rot is full of wit surprise and delight"
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| "North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JENNY UGLOWMilton is a sooty noisy northern town centred around the cotton mills that employ most of its inhabitants Arriving from a rural idyll in the south Margaret Hale is initially shocked by the social unrest and poverty she finds in her new hometown However as she begins to befriend her neighbours and her stormy relationship with the mill-owner John Thornton develops she starts to see Milton in a different light"
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| "Three Hands In The Fountain : (Falco 9)" |
| "The fountain was not working Nothing unusual in that'Falco and his laddish friend Petronius find their local fountain has been blocked - by a gruesomely severed human hand Soon other body parts are being found in the aqueducts and sewers Public panic overcomes official indifference and the Aventine partners are commissioned to investigate Women are being abducted during festivals with the next Games only days away As the heat rises in the Circus Maximus Falco and Petro face a race against time and a strong test of their friendship They know the sadistic killerlurks somewhere on the festive streets of Rome - preparing to strike again"
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| "A Perfect Proposal" |
| "Love honour - and obey? A wonderfully romantic novel from the No 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Recipe for Love A French Affair and The Perfect Match Sophie Apperly has spent her whole life pleasing others - but when she realises her family see her less as indispensable treasure and more as general dogsbody she decides she's had enough So when an old friend offers her the chance of a lifetime she decides to swap Little England for the Big Apple and heads off to the land of opportunity From the moment Sophie hits the bright lights of Manhattan she's determined to enjoy every minute of her big adventure And when fate throws her together with Matilda a spirited grande dame of New York society who invites her to Connecticut for Thanksgiving she willingly accepts English-born Matilda is delighted with her new friend - though her grandson Luke undeniably attractive but infuriatingly arrogant is anything but welcoming When Luke arrives in England a few weeks later Sophie hardly expects him to seek her out But Matilda has hatched some complicated plans of her own - and so Luke has a proposal to make"
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| "Nemesis by Jo Nesbo (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "36 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDEHow do you catch a killer when you're the number one suspect? A man is caught on CCTV shooting dead a cashier at a bank Detective Harry Hole begins his investigation but after dinner with an old flame wakes up with no memory of the past 12 hours Then the girl is found dead in mysterious circumstances and he beings to receive threatening emails is someone trying to frame him for her death? As Harry fights to clear his name the bank robberies continue with unparalleled savagery"
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| HHhH |
| "THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERTwo men have been enlisted to kill the head of the Gestapo This is Operation Anthropoid Prague 1942 two Czechoslovakian parachutists sent on a daring mission by London to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich - chief of the Nazi secret services 'the hangman of Prague' 'the blond beast' 'the most dangerous man in the Third Reich' His boss is Heinrich Himmler but everyone in the SS says 'Himmler's brain is called Heydrich' which in German spells HHhH HHhH is a panorama of the Third Reich told through the life of one outstandingly brutal man a story of unbearable heroism and loyalty revenge and betrayal It is a moving and shattering work of fiction Laurent Binet's highly anticipated new novel The Seventh Function of Language is available for pre-order now"
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| Savages |
| "Part-time environmentalist and philanthropist Ben and his ex-mercenary buddy Chon run a Laguna Beach-based marijuana operation reaping significant profits from their loyal clientele In the past when their turf was challenged Chon took care of eliminating the threat But now they may have come up against something that they can't handle-the Mexican Baja Cartel wants in sending them the message that a no is unacceptable When they refuse to back down the cartel escalates its threat kidnapping Ophelia the boys' playmate and confidante O's abduction sets off a dizzying array of ingenious negotiations and gripping plot twists that will captivate readers eager to learn the costs of freedom Savages is an adrenaline-fuelled novel by a master thriller writer at the very top of his game"
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| "Serious Sweet" |
| "LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEJon is 59 and divorced a senior civil servant in Westminster who hates many of his colleagues and loathes his work he is a good man in a bad world Meg is a bankrupt accountant - two words you don't want in the same sentence or anywhere near your CV Living on Telegraph Hill she can see London unfurl below her Somewhere out there is safety As Jon and Meg navigate the sweet and serious heart of London - passing through 24 hours that will change them both for ever - they tell a very unusual unbearably moving love story"
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| "Spill Simmer Falter Wither" |
| "SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2016WINNER OF THE SUNDAY INDEPENDENT NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2015 WINNER OF THE GEOFFREY FABER MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR FICTIONYou find me on a Tuesday on my Tuesday trip to town A note sellotaped to the inside of the jumble-shop window COMPASSIONATE & TOLERANT OWNER A PERSON WITHOUT OTHER PETS & WITHOUT CHILDREN UNDER FOUR A misfit man finds a misfit dog Ray aged fifty-seven too old for starting over too young for giving up' and One Eye a vicious little bugger smaller than expected a good ratter Both are accustomed to being alone unloved outcast - but they quickly find in each other a strange companionship of sorts As spring turns to summer their relationship grows and intensifies until a savage act forces them to abandon the precarious life they'd established and take to the road Spill Simmer Falter Wither is a wholly different kind of love story a devastating portrait of loneliness loss and friendship and of the scars that are more than skin-deep Written with tremendous empathy and insight in lyrical language that surprises and delights this is an extraordinary and heartbreaking debut by a major new talent"
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| "Middle School: Save Rafe! : (Middle School 6)" |
| "Rafe Khatchadorian is getting the Hollywood treatment in a film version of Middle School The Worst Years of My Life starring Griffin Gluck Lauren Graham Rob Riggle and Thomas Barbusca After a rough summer Rafe is heading back to the dreaded Hills Village Middle School the site of the very worst years of his life And as if that's not bad enough Rafe's learned that he's going to be held back a year unless he can prove himself on an outdoor survival excursion - complete with dangerous white-water rafting dizzying rock climbing and military style counsellors Rafe and the rest of the pack of 'delinquent' trainees are forced to cooperate as they prepare for the final test a solo excursion in the deep woods Can Rafe come out of the experience in one piece? And if he does will anyone recognise him as the kid they once knew?"
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| "Biggles Goes to War by W. E. Johns (Paperback, 1996)" |
| "The escort fell in on either side of the prisoners and at a word of command the party moved forward Down the corridor it marched and through an open door into a grim-looking courtyard Across this it proceeded and came to a halt against a wall on the far side-Biggles glanced at the sky It was just turning pink with the first flush of dawn 'If Ginger is going to do the rescue act he hasn't got much time left' He observed calmly-Algy said nothing His face was pale In the uneasy atmosphere of Europe between the two World Wars Biggles Algy and Ginger are persuaded to defend a small middle European country from an aggressive neighbour backed up by an unnamed Big Power"
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| "Dancing Girls and Other Stories by Margaret Atwood (Paperback, 1996)" |
| "Students and journalists farmers and birdwatchers ex-wives adolescent lovers - and dancing girls All ordinary people - or are they? In this splendid collection of short stories Margaret Atwood maps the human motivation we scarcely know we have in a startlingly original voice full of rare intensity and exceptional intelligence With brilliant flashes of fantasy humour and unexpected violence these stories reveal the complexities of human relationships and bring to life characters who evoke laughter compassion terror and recognition and dramatically demonstrate why Atwood is one of the most important writers in English today"
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| "Night Train by Martin Amis (Paperback, 1998)" |
| "'I worked one hundred murders' says Detective Mike Hoolihan an American policewoman 'In my time I have come in on the aftermath of maybe a thousand suspicious deaths most of which turned out to be suicides accidentals or plain unattendeds So I've seen them all jumpers stumpers dumpers dunkers bleeders floaters poppers bursters But of all the bodies I have ever seen none has stayed with me in my gut like the body of Jennifer Rockwell I say all this because I am part of the story I am going to tell and I feel the need to give you some idea of where I'm coming from' Night Train is a mystery story which lingers in the reader's mind even after Mike Hoolihan declares the case closed"
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| "Digital Design and Computer Architecture : ARM Edition" |
| "Digital Design and Computer Architecture ARM Edition covers the fundamentals of digital logic design and reinforces logic concepts through the design of an ARM microprocessor Combining an engaging and humorous writing style with an updated and hands-on approach to digital design this book takes the reader from the fundamentals of digital logic to the actual design of an ARM processor By the end of this book readers will be able to build their own microprocessor and will have a top-to-bottom understanding of how it works Beginning with digital logic gates and progressing to the design of combinational and sequential circuits this book uses these fundamental building blocks as the basis for designing an ARM processor SystemVerilog and VHDL are integrated throughout the text in examples illustrating the methods and techniques for CAD-based circuit design The companion website includes a chapter on IO systems with practical examples that show how to use the Raspberry Pi computer to communicate with peripheral devices such as LCDs Bluetooth radios and motors This book will be a valuable resource for students taking a course that combines digital logic and computer architecture or students taking a two-quarter sequence in digital logic and computer organizationarchitecture"
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| "Spanish Short Stories by Penguin Books Ltd (Paperback, 1972)" |
| "This second volume of short stories contains more diverse and lively writing from the Spanish-speaking world Again much of it is from Latin America Carlos Fuentes being Mexican Norberto Fuentes Cuban and the other writers having their roots in Uruguay Chile Peru Colombia and the Argentine Only Ana Maria Matute is a native of SpainThis highly entertaining selection of stories together with a chapter from Mario Vargas Llosa's novel Conversation in the Cathedral' explores stylistic contrasts and gives an insight into the cultural and social milieu of the Spanish-speaking world With notes on unusual Spanish words and phrases it will be of great value to English students of the language as well as a helpful companion to Spanish-speaking students of English"
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| "I'm the King of the Castle by Susan Hill (Paperback, 1973)" |
| "‘I didn’t want you to come here’ So says the note that the boy Edmund Hooper passes to Charles Kingshaw upon his arrival at Warings But young Kingshaw and his mother have come to live with Hooper and his father in the ugly isolated Victorian house for good To Hooper Kingshaw is an intruder a boy to be subtly persecuted and Kingshaw finds that even the most ordinary object can be turned by Hooper into a source of terror In Hang Wood their roles are briefly reversed but Kingshaw knows Hooper will never let him be Kingshaw cannot win not in the last resort He knows it and so does Hooper And the worst is still to come… This extraordinary evocative novel boils over with the terrors of childhood and won the Somerset Maugham Award ‘Hill’s exploration of a juvenile ghoul and his natural prey is a brilliant tour de force’ Guardian"
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| "Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi by Sri Ramana Maharshi (Paperback, 1988)" |
| "'Our own Self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world'The simple but powerful teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi one of India's most revered spiritual masters continue to enlighten and enrich over sixty years after his death Be As You Are is the definitive compendium of his knowledge edited by the former librarian from Sri Maharshi's ashram which can be found flourishing at the foot of the holy mountain of Arunchala The book collects conversations with the many seekers who came to him for guidance answering the questions sought on the road to enlightenment Through this book we can discover the essence of Sri Ramana's teaching that self-realisation is the vital quest we must all pursue before we can attempt to understand the worldReissue of the classic spiritual work updated with a new cover"
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| "Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman by Malidoma Patrice Some (Paperback,..." |
| "Maliodoma Patrice Some was born in a Dagara Village however he was soon to be abducted to a Jesuit school where he remained for the next fifteen years being harshly indoctrinated into european ways of thought and worship The story tells of his return to his people his hard initiation back into those people which lead to his desire to convey their knowledge to the world Of Water and the Spirit is the result of that desire; it is a sharing of living African traditions offered in compassion for those struggling with our contemporary crisis of the spirit"
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| "Short Stories in German: New Penguin Parallel Texts by Penguin Books Ltd (Paperback, 2003)" |
| "This new volume of eight short stories offers students of German at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature in the original with the aid of parallel translationsThe majority of these stories have been written in the past decade and reflect a rich diversity of styles and themes Complete with notes the stories make excellent reading in either language"
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| "The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope (Paperback, 2002)" |
| "When Reverend Josiah Crawley the impoverished curate of Hogglestock is accused of theft it causes a public scandal sending shockwaves through the world of Barsetshire The Crawleys desperately try to remain dignified while they are shunned by society but the scandal threatens to tear them and the community apartDrawing on his own childhood experience of genteel poverty Trollope gives a painstakingly realistic depiction of the trials of a family striving to maintain its standards at all costs With its sensitive portrayal of the proud and self-destructive figure of Crawley this final volume is the darkest and most complex of all the Barsetshire novels"
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| "Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "The quintessential adventure story that first established pirates in the popular imagination Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island is edited with an introduction by John Seelye in Penguin ClassicsWhen a mysterious sailor dies in sinister circumstances at the Admiral Benbow inn young Jim Hawkins stumbles across a treasure map among the dead man's possessions But Jim soon becomes only too aware that he is not the only one who knows of the map's existence and his bravery and cunning are tested to the full when with his friends Squire Trelawney and Dr Livesey he sets sail in the Hispaniola to track down the treasure With its swift-moving plot and memorably drawn characters - Blind Pew and Black Dog the castaway Ben Gunn and the charming but dangerous Long John Silver - Stevenson's tale of pirates treachery and heroism was an immediate success when it was first published in 1883 and has retained its place as one of the greatest of all adventure storiesIn his introduction John Seelye examines Stevenson's life and influences and the novel's place within adventure fiction This edition also includes Stevenson's essay on the composition of Treasure IslandRobert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was born in Edinburgh the son of a prosperous civil engineer Although he began his career as an essayist and travel writer the success of Treasure Island (1883) and Kidnapped (1886) established his reputation as a writer of tales of action and adventure Stevenson's Calvinist upbringing lent him a preoccupation with predestination and a fascination with the presence of evil themes he explored in The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) and The Master of Ballantrae (1893)If you enjoyed Treasure Island you might like Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe also available in Penguin Classics"
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| "The Marquise of O -: And Other Stories by Heinrich Kleist (Paperback, 1978)" |
| "In The Marquise of O- a virtuous widow finds herself unaccountably pregnant And although the baffled Marquise has no idea when this happened she must prove her innocence to her doubting family and discover whether the perpetrator is an assailant or lover Michael Kohlhaas depicts an honourable man who feels compelled to violate the law in his search for justice while other tales explore the singular realm of the uncanny such as The Beggarwoman of Locarno in which an old woman's ghost drives a heartless nobleman to madness and St Cecilia which portrays four brothers possessed by an uncontrollable religious mania The stories collected in this volume reflect the preoccupations of Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) with the deceptiveness of human nature and the unpredictability of the physical world"
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| "Six Records of a Floating Life by Shen Fu (Paperback, 1983)" |
| "Six Records of a Floating Life (1809) is an extraordinary blend of autobiography love story and social document written by a man who was educated as a scholar but earned his living as a civil servant and art dealer In this intimate memoir Shen Fu recounts the domestic and romantic joys of his marriage to Yun the beautiful and artistic girl he fell in love with as a child He also describes other incidents of his life including how his beloved wife obtained a courtesan for him and reflects on his travels through China Shen Fu's exquisite memoir shows six parallel 'layers' of one man's life loves and career with revealing glimpses into Chinese society of the Ch'ing Dynasty"
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