See larger image Madame Mephisto (Paperback) By (author) A. M. Bakalar List Price: 8.99 GBP New From: 4.34 In Stock

Meet Magda – hardcore drug-dealing queen, or guardian angel? She is one of the new wave of Polish immigrants to the UK, a woman who will stop at nothing to expand her drug dealing business, and will even make the ultimate sacrifice of the people who love and trust her. Already established as a major drug importer to the UK, Magda has to return to Poland to attend a funeral of a family member. She only has five days, before she goes back to London, to convince her mysterious listener to come back with her and help her build up her empire.

Magda begins to tell the unexpected story of her life – the cover jobs in London, the strained relationship with her family who know nothing about who Magda really is, and her development as a cannabis dealer. Can you really trust somebody who is two people, how do you know when to believe a professional liar? … Menacing, fast-paced, with a unique and intense voice, A.M. Bakalar’s first novel reveals unexpected truths about the lies we tell and the people we really are.

Madame Mephisto is a gripping page-turner which delivers a unique and provocative insight into the realities of the migrant experience.

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See larger image The Last Summer (Paperback) By (author) Judith Kinghorn List Price: 6.99 GBP New From: 2.49 In Stock Used from: 4.24 In Stock Release date April 26, 2012.

The Last Summer, by Judith Kinghorn

Clarissa is almost seventeen when the spell of her childhood is broken. It is 1914, the beginning of a blissful, golden summer – and the end of an era. Deyning Park is in its heyday, the large country house filled with the laughter and excitement of privileged youth preparing for a weekend party. When Clarissa meets Tom Cuthbert, home from university and staying with his mother, the housekeeper, she is dazzled. Tom is handsome and enigmatic; he is also an outsider. Ambitious, clever, his sights set on a career in law, Tom is an acute observer, and a man who knows what he wants. For now, that is Clarissa.

As Tom and Clarissa’s friendship deepens, the wider landscape of political life around them is changing, and another story unfolds: they are not the only people in love. Soon the world – and all that they know – is rocked by a war that changes their lives for ever.

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See larger image The Chemistry of Tears (Hardcover) By (author) Peter Carey List Price: 17.99 GBP New From: 8.95 In Stock Used from: 7.50 In Stock

The Chemistry of Tears, by Peter Carey

An automaton, a man and a woman who can never meet, a secret love story, and the fate of the warming world are all brought to incandescent life in this hauntingly moving novel from one of the finest writers of our time.

London 2010, Catherine Gehrig, conservator at the Swinburne museum, learns of the unexpected death of her colleague and lover of thirteen years.

As the mistress of a married man, she has to grieve in private. Her boss at the museum, aware of Catherine’s grief, gives her a special project – to piece together both the mechanics and the story of an extraordinary and eerie automaton.

The mechanical creature is a clockwork puzzle, commissioned in nineteenth-century Germany by an English man, Henry Brandling, as a ‘magical amusement’ for his consumptive son.

Linked by the mysterious automata, Catherine and Henry’s stories intertwine across time to explore the mysteries of life and death, the miracle and catastrophe of human invention and the body’s astonishing chemistry of love and feeling.

See larger image The Registrar's Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages (Paperback) By (author) Sophie Hardach List Price: 7.99 GBP New From: 0.81 In Stock Used from: 0.01 In Stock

The Registrar’s Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages, by Sophie Hardach

Swimming for his life towards traffickers on the Italian shore, Selim enters a world where Kurdish refugees disguise themselves as tomatoes, dates of birth are a matter of opinion, and a residency permit is a ticket to paradise. When he ends up in a small town in Germany, Selim believes he is finally safe, until the law catches up with him and the clock starts ticking. Selim realises there is only one way to avoid deportation, if he dare try…

Fifteen years later, in a town hall in Paris, a Registrar receives an unsettling book in the post. The Registrar’s Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages only fuels her suspicions surrounding an impending Kurdish wedding. Unsure how to intervene, she embarks on an investigation that brings her uncomfortably close to an old acquaintance: Selim.

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See larger image Life! Death! Prizes! (Paperback) By (author) Stephen May List Price: 11.99 GBP New From: 5.25 In Stock Used from: 5.28 In Stock

Life! Death! Prizes!, by Stephen May

Billy’s Mum is dead. He knows – because he reads about it in magazines – that people die every day in ways that are more random and tragic and stupid than hers, but for nineteen-year-old Billy and his little brother, Oscar, their mother’s death in a bungled street robbery is the most random and tragic and stupid thing that could possibly have happened to them. Now Billy must be both mother and father to Oscar, and despite what his well-meaning aunt, the PTA mothers, the social services and Oscar’s own prodigal father all think, he knows he is more than up to the job, thank you very much. The boys’ new world, where bedtimes are arbitrary, tidiness is optional and healthy home-cooked meals pile up uneaten in the freezer, is built out of chaos and fierce love, but it’s also a world that teeters perilously on its axis. And as Billy’s obsession with his mother’s missing killer grows, he risks losing sight of the one thing that really matters…

Funny, bittersweet and unforgettable, Life! Death! Prizes! is a story of grief, resilience and brotherly love.

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See larger image Losing the Head of Philip K. Dick (Paperback) By (author) David Dufty List Price: 10.99 GBP New From: 2.15 In Stock Used from: 3.40 In Stock

The Philip K. Dick android looked eerily like the iconic science fiction writer and counter culture guru. The android would “watch” people as they approached, “hear” their voices, answer their questions in Dick’s own words. Then, a young roboticist on his way to Google headquarters lost the android head on a flight to Las Vegas. It has never been recovered.

In a story that could have been lifted from one of Philip K. Dick’s celebrated novels, which have been made into such blockbuster films as Blade Runner and The Adjustment Bureau, David Dufty brings to light the incredible events surrounding the creation of the android replica and its disappearance. Along the way, he explores how the science fiction of artificial intelligence will soon meet the very real future.

“This story is touching, absorbing and, ultimately, an exploration of what it means to be human…Highly engaging.” – The Spectator

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See larger image Painter of Silence (Hardcover) By (author) Georgina Harding List Price: 14.99 GBP New From: 6.99 In Stock Used from: 4.79 In Stock

Painter of Silence, by Georgina Harding

Iasi, Romania, the early 1950s. A man is found on the steps of a hospital, frail as a fallen bird. He carries no identification and utters no words, and it is days before anyone discovers that he is deaf and mute. And then a young nurse called Safta brings paper and pencils with which he can draw. Slowly, painstakingly, memories appear on the page: a hillside, a stable, a car, a country house, dogs and mirrored rooms and samovars in what is now a lost world.

The memories are Safta’s also. For the man is Augustin, son of the cook at the manor at Poiana that was her family home. Born six months apart, they grew up with a connection that bypassed words. But while Augustin’s world remained the same size Safta’s expanded to embrace languages, society – and love, as Augustin watched one long hot summer, in the form of a fleeting young man in a green Lagonda.

Safta left before the war. Augustin stayed. But even in the wide hills and valleys around Poiana he did not escape its horrors. He watched uncomprehending as armies passed through the place. Then the Communists came, and he found himself their unlikely victim. There are things that he must tell Safta that may be more than simple drawings can convey.

Beautiful, spare and intense, Painter of Silence captures the loss and the hope of a tragic time through the extraordinary vision of a mute outsider.

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See larger image Blood on the Altar (Hardcover) By (author) Tobias Jones List Price: 16.99 GBP New From: 5.39 In Stock Used from: 9.32 In Stock

Blood on the Altar, by Tobias Jones

Blood on the Altar is the true story of a 16 year-old girl who went missing in 1993 in a church in Potenza, in the deep south of Italy. Elisa Claps had met a young man, Danilo Restivo, one Sunday morning but had then vanished without a trace. Her family were convinced that Restivo, a strange boy with a fetish for cutting women’s hair on the back of buses, was responsible. He had a cut to his hand and a far-fetched alibi. But Restivo was inexplicably protected by local big-wigs: by his Sicilian father, by the priest of the church who had vices of his own, by a doctor with rumoured links to organised crime. Years went by and Elisa’s family could only find false leads. There were sightings and tip-offs and attempted extortions.

By 2002 Restivo had moved to Bournemouth. In November that year his next door neighbour was murdered and mutilated and strands of hair put in both of her hands. But once again, the police could pin nothing on him. It was only in 2010, when Elisa’s decomposed body was found, that the pieces of the jigsaw finally began to fit together.

A sequel to the bestselling The Dark Heart of Italy, Blood on the Altar is more than just a gripping true crime story. It’s a portrait of Basilicata, the most remote and fascinating region in Italy; it’s an investigation into why Italy appears to offer impunity to the powerful; it’s a hunt for a serial killer; and most of all it’s an appreciation of one courageous and determined family who refused to accept the injustice of Italian society.

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See larger image The Hunger Trace (Paperback) By (author) Edward Hogan List Price: 7.99 GBP New From: 1.39 In Stock Used from: 0.01 In Stock

Hunger Trace, by Ed Hogan

The sudden death of David Bryant, the charismatic owner of a rambling Derbyshire wildlife park, leaves an indelible mark on three very different people. David’s young widow, Maggie, struggles to preserve the park and to forge friendships untainted by the suspicions of others. His old friend Louisa, a falconer who lives on the grounds, just wants to be left alone with her hawks and the dark secret she has shared with David since their youth. Meanwhile, Christopher, David’s eccentric teenage son from an earlier marriage, strives for a life beyond the park and trawls the internet for a woman who shares his family values. With the arrival of a stranger, and unforeseen disaster amid the worst rains for a hundred years, the loyalties of Maggie, Louisa and Christopher will be stretched to breaking point, and each must face the decisions which will define them…

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See larger image The Gods of Gotham (Hardcover) By (author) Lyndsay Faye List Price: 14.99 GBP New From: 4.99 In Stock Used from: 3.73 In Stock Release date March 15, 2012.

August 1845 in New York; enter the dark, unforgiving city underworld of the legendary Five Points…

After a fire decimates a swathe of lower Manhattan, and following years of passionate political dispute, New York City at long last forms an official Police Department. That same summer, the great potato famine hits Ireland. These events will change the city of New York for ever.

Timothy Wilde hadn’t wanted to be a copper star.  On the night of August 21st, on his way home from the Tombs defeated and disgusted, he is plotting his resignation, when a young girl who has escaped from a nearby brothel, crashes into him; she wears only a nightdress and is covered from head to toe in blood. Searching out the truth in the child’s wild stories, Timothy soon finds himself on the trail of a brutal killer, seemingly hell bent on fanning the flames of anti-Irish immigrant sentiment and threatening chaos in a city already in the midst of social upheaval. But his fight for justice could cost him the woman he loves, his brother and ultimately his life…

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See larger image The Book of Lies (Paperback) By (author) Mary Horlock List Price: 7.99 GBP New From: 2.50 In Stock Used from: 3.74 In Stock

On this island your friends and your enemies quickly end up the same …

-1985- When fifteen-year-old Catherine sees her best friend slip from a wild cliff path she vows never to say a word. But Catherine was the last person to see her alive.

-1940- Charlie is also holding back a secret from the adults on the island. As German soldiers arrive on Guernsey, he carries out an act of rebellion with consequences that will reach far into the future – and into Catherine’s own life.

The Book of Lies is a powerful novel about friendship, love and betrayal. Weaving together two lives across the decades, it proves that no truth is as simple as it seems.

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See larger image The Snow Child (Hardcover) By (author) Eowyn Ivey List Price: 14.99 GBP New From: 6.24 In Stock Used from: 7.50 In Stock Release date February 1, 2012.

Snow Child, by by Eowyn Ivey

Jack and Mabel have staked everything on making a fresh start for themselves in a homestead ‘at the world’s edge’ in the raw Alaskan wilderness. But as the days grow shorter, Jack is losing his battle to clear the land, and Mabel can no longer contain her grief for the baby she lost many years before.

The evening the first snow falls, their mood unaccountably changes. In a moment of tenderness, the pair are surprised to find themselves building a snowman – or rather a snow girl – together. The next morning, all trace of her has disappeared, and Jack can’t quite shake the notion that he glimpsed a small figure – a child? – running through the spruce trees in the dawn light. And how to explain the little but very human tracks Mabel finds at the edge of their property?

Written with the clarity and vividness of the Russian fairytale from which it takes its inspiration, The Snow Child is an instant classic – the story of a couple who take a child into their hearts, all the while knowing they can never truly call her their own.

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See larger image The Bellwether Revivals (Hardcover) By (author) Benjamin Wood List Price: 12.99 GBP New From: 4.99 In Stock Used from: 4.99 In Stock

The Bellwether Revivals, by Benjamin Wood

Bright, bookish Oscar Lowe has escaped the urban estate where he was raised and made a new life for himself amid the colleges and spires of Cambridge. He has grown to love the quiet routine of his life as a care assistant at a local nursing home, where he has forged a close friendship with the home’s most ill-tempered resident, Dr. Paulsen. But when he meets and falls in love with Iris Bellwether, a beautiful and enigmatic medical student at King’s College, Oscar is drawn into her world of scholarship and privilege, and soon becomes embroiled in the strange machinations of her brilliant but troubled brother, Eden, who believes he can adapt the theories of a forgotten Baroque composer to heal people with music. Eden’s self-belief knows no bounds, and as he draws his sister and closed circle of friends into a series of disturbing experiments to prove himself right, Oscar realises the extent of the danger facing them all…

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See larger image The Revelations (Paperback) By (author) Alex Preston List Price: 12.99 GBP New From: 3.61 In Stock Used from: 3.15 In Stock

The Revelations, by Alex Preston

A group of young people are searching for meaning in a dark and directionless world. The Course, a religious movement led by a charismatic priest, seems at first to offer everything the friends have been looking for: a community of bright, thoughtful, beautiful people. But as they are drawn deeper into the Course, money, sex and God collide, threatening to rip them apart.

This gripping novel of ideas lays bare a world where the advancement of a movement becomes more important than the lives of its followers.

See larger image Waiting for Sunrise (Hardcover) By (author) William Boyd List Price: 18.99 GBP New From: 9.19 In Stock Used from: 11.94 In Stock Release date February 16, 2012.

Waiting for Sunrise, by William Boyd

Vienna, 1913. It is a fine day in August when Lysander Rief, a young English actor, walks through the city to his first appointment with the eminent psychiatrist Dr Bensimon. Sitting in the waiting room he is anxiously pondering the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis when a young woman enters. She is clearly in distress, but Lysander is immediately drawn to her strange, hazel eyes and her unusual, intense beauty. Her name is Hettie Bull. They begin a passionate love affair and life in Vienna becomes tinged with a powerful frisson of excitement for Lysander. He meets Sigmund Freud in a cafe, begins to write a journal, enjoys secret trysts with Hettie and appears – miraculously – to have been cured.

Back in London, 1914. War is imminent, and events in Vienna have caught up with Lysander in the most damaging way. Unable to live an ordinary life, he is plunged into the dangerous theatre of wartime intelligence – a world of sex, scandal and spies, where lines of truth and deception blur with every waking day. Lysander must now discover the key to a secret code which is threatening Britain’s safety, and use all his skills to keep the murky world of suspicion and betrayal from invading every corner of his life. Moving from Vienna to London’s West End, from the battlefields of France to hotel rooms in Geneva, Waiting for Sunrise is a feverish and mesmerising journey into the human psyche, a beautifully observed portrait of wartime Europe, a plot-twisting thriller and a literary tour de force from the bestselling author of Any Human Heart, Restless and Ordinary Thunderstorms.

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See larger image The Emperor of Lies (Paperback) By (author) Steve Sem-Sandberg List Price: 14.99 GBP New From: 5.75 In Stock Used from: 1.97 In Stock

The Emperor of Lies, by Steve Sem Sandberg

In February 1940 the Nazis established what would become the second largest Jewish ghetto in Poland, in the city of Lodz. A wire fence was built around the Old City, completely separating Jewish families, some quarter of a million people, from the rest of the population. The fence was patrolled by police ordered to shoot on sight should anyone attempt to escape.

The ghetto’s chosen leader was Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, a sixty-three-year-old Jewish businessman. Mysterious, ambiguous, monarchical, ‘King Chaim’ was motivated by a titanic ambition. Realising that his survival rested upon his ability to make the ghetto indispensable, he sought to transform it into a productive industrial complex, forcing adults and children alike to work punishing hours in workshops to provide supplies for the German military.

Was Rumkowksi a ruthless opportunist – an accessory to the Nazi regime driven by a lust for power? Or was he a pragmatic strategist who managed to save Jewish lives through collaboration? Steve Sem-Sandberg’s extraordinary novel draws on genuine chronicles of life in the Lodz ghetto to ask the most difficult questions about survival and oppression.

Now published in over twenty languages, The Emperor of Lies is one of the great Holocaust novels of the twenty-first century by one of Scandinavia’s most admired authors.

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See larger image Tideline (Hardcover) By (author) Penny Hancock List Price: 12.99 GBP New From: 5.29 In Stock Used from: 4.98 In Stock

Tideline, by Penny Hancock

One winter’s afternoon, voice coach Sonia opens the door of her beautiful riverside home to fifteen-year-old Jez, the nephew of a family friend. He’s come to borrow some music. Sonia invites him in and soon decides that she isn’t going to let him leave.

As Sonia’s desire to keep Jez hidden and protected from the outside world becomes all the more overpowering, she is haunted by memories of an intense teenage relationship, which gradually reveal a terrifying truth. The River House, Sonia’s home since childhood, holds secrets within its walls. And outside, on the shores of the Thames, new ones are coming in on the tide…

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See larger image Cairo: My City, Our Revolution (Hardcover) By (author) Ahdaf Soueif List Price: 14.99 GBP New From: 7.08 In Stock Used from: 9.48 In Stock

 Cairo, by Ahdaf Soueif

Over the past few months I have delivered lectures, presentations and interviews on the Egyptian Revolution. I have had overflowing houses everywhere, been stopped by old ladies in the street and had my hand shaken by numerous taxi drivers and shopkeepers. And all because I’m Egyptian and the glitter of Tahrir is upon me.

They wanted me to talk to them, to tell them stories about it, to tell them how, on the 28th of January when we took the Square and The People torched the headquarters of the hated ruling National Democratic Party, The (same) People formed a human chain to protect the Antiquities Museum and demanded an official handover to the military; to tell them how, on Wednesday, February 2nd, as The People defended themselves against the invading thug militias and fought pitched battles at the entrance to the Square in the shadow of the Antiquities Museum, The (same) People at the centre of the square debated political structures and laughed at stand-up comics and distributed sandwiches and water; to tell them of the chants and the poetry and the songs, of how we danced and waved at the F16s that our President flew over us. People everywhere want to make this Revolution their own, and we in Egypt want to share it.

Ahdaf Soueif – novelist, commentator, activist – navigates her history of Cairo and her journey through the Revolution that’s redrawing its future. Through a map of stories drawn from private history and public record Soueif charts a story of the Revolution that is both intimately hers and publicly Egyptian.

Ahdaf Soueif was born and brought up in Cairo. When the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 erupted on January 25^th, she, along with thousands of others, called Tahrir Square home for eighteen days. She reported for the world’s media and did – like everyone else – whatever she could.

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See larger image The Flying Man (Hardcover) By (author) Roopa Farooki List Price: 16.99 GBP New From: 8.90 In Stock Used from: 9.11 In Stock

The Flying Man, by Roopa Farooki

Meet Maqil – also known as Mike, Mehmet, Mikhail and Miguel – a chancer and charlatan.

A criminally clever man who tells a good tale, trading on his charm and good looks, reinventing himself with a new identity and nationality in each successive country he makes his home, abandoning wives and children and careers in the process. He’s a compulsive gambler – driven to lose at least as much as he gains, in games of chance, and in life. A damaged man in search of himself

From the day he was delivered in Lahore, Pakistan, alongside his stillborn twin, he proved he was a born survivor. He has been a master of flying escapes, from Cairo to Paris, from London to Hong Kong, humbled by love, outliving his peers, and ending up old and alone in a budget hotel in Biarritz some eighty years later. His chequered history is catching up with him: his tracks have been uncovered and his latest wife, his children, his creditors and former business associates, all want to pin him down. But even at the end, Maqil just can’t resist trying it on; he’s still playing his game, and the game won’t be over until it’s been won.

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• Question 3: Sonia’s story in Tideline is written in which point of view?
  
• Question 4: Where was Ahdaf Soueif staying when she realised something was happening in Cairo?

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• audible.co.uk Audiobook of the Year
• Specsavers Popular Fiction Book of the Year
• Crime & Thriller of the Year 
• More4 Popular Non-Fiction Book of the Year
• Galaxy New Writer of the Year
• National Book Tokens Children’s Book of the Year
• Food & Drink Book of the Year
• The Daily Telegraph Biography/Autobiography of the Year
• International Author of the Year
• Waterstone’s UK Author of the Year
• WHSmith Paperback of the Year 

The Questions

• Question 1: In My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You, by Louisa Young, where do Riley Purefoy and Peter Locke fight for their country?
• Question 2: In A Tiny Bit Marvellous, by Dawn French, what does Oscar consider his only worthy companion?
• Question 3: Who is not to be trusted in SJ Watson’s Before I Go To Sleep?
• Question 4: Who is Caitlin Moran’s heroine?
• Question 5: In When God Was A Rabbit, where had Elly Portman’s mother been shopping just before she was born?
• Question 6: What kind of tree spooks Connor in A Monster Calls, by Patrick Ness?
• Question 7: How many egg yolks are required in Simon Hopkinson’s recipe for grilled lamb cutlets with minted hollandaise?
• Question 8: What is the name of Charles Dickens’ father?
• Question 9: What is the third of Sasha’s goals, in A Visit From The Goon Squad?
• Question 10: In The Stranger’s Child, what is Daphne’s favourite Tennyson poem?
• Question 11: How many bugs did Jack count last time, in his Room?
• Question 12: Galaxy Book of the Year Winner Caitlin Moran is less Zola Budd, more…?

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See larger image The Gendarme (Paperback) By (author) Mark Mustian List Price: 12.99 GBP New From: 4.31 In Stock Used from: 1.39 In Stock

An extraordinarily haunting novel of identity and remembrance, love and forgiveness.

Emmett Conn is an old man on the verge of senility, a feisty World War 1 veteran who suffered amnesia during the war. Now at the end of his life, he suddenly finds himself beset by vivid dreams of a march across a foreign land, of appalling acts of cruelty, and the anguish of a lost love. But these are no dreams and he is no prisoner. As the memories come flooding back and his grasp on the past and present begins to break down, he sets out on one final journey to find the love of his life and beg her forgiveness.

With a multi-layered plot and deft characterisation, Mustian explores how love can transcend nationalities and politics, how racism creates divisions where none truly exist, and how the human spirit fights to survive even in the face of hopelessness.

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• Question 1: In what year did Mr. Conn receive a head injury?

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