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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham in these ten stories, ford mines literary gold from the wind-scrubbed landscape of the american west - and from the guarded hopes and gnawing loneliness of the people who live therea refugee from justice driving across wyoming with his daughter; an unhappy girlfriend and a stolen mercedes; a boy watching his family dissolve in a night of tragicomic violence; two men and a woman swapping hard-luck stories in a frontier bar as they try to sweeten their luckrock springsis a masterpiece of taut narration, cleanly chiselled prose, and empathy so generous that it feels like a kind of grace
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham robert langdon, harvard professor of symbology, receives an urgent late-night call while in paris: the curator of the louvre has been murderedunless landon and neveu can decipher the labyrinthine code and quickly assemble the pieces of the puzzle, the priory's secret - and a stunning historical truth - will be lost foreverlangdon and a gifted french cryptologist, sophie neveu, are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of da vinci - and furtherthe curator, part of a secret society named the priory of sion, may have sacrificed his life to keep secret the location of a vastly important religious relic hidden for centuriesalongside the body is a series of baffling ciphersit appears that the clandestine vatican-sanctioned catholic sect opus dei has now made its move
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham would you live a lie tokeep your child?in , pregnant genevieve russell disappeared"literary times see oxfam website for delivery information read morefor fans of jodi picoult,this is a must read"diane chamberlain is a marvellously gifted authortwenty years later, her remains are discovered and timothy gleason is charged with murdernow timothy gleason is facing the death penalty, and ceecee has another choice to makeceecee wilkes knows how genevieve died - because she was thereor let an innocent man die to protect alifetime of liesevery book she writes is a gemtell the truth and destroy her familybutthere is no sign of the unborn childshe also knows what happened to the missing infant, because two decades ago ceecee made the devastating choice to raise the baby as her own
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham with searching eyes he studied the beautiful purple, barren waste of sagesee oxfam website for delivery information read morein the remote border country of south utah, a man is about to be whipped by the mormons in order to pressure jane withersteen into marrying against her willthe punishment is halted by the arrival of the hero, lassiter, a gunman in black leather, who routs the persecutors and then gradually recounts his own history of an endless search for a woman abducted long ago by the mormonshere was the unknown and the perilouseach affordable volume reflects oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much moreabout the series: for over 100 years oxford world's classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe' the novel that set the pattern for the modern western, riders of the purple sage was first published in , immediately selling over a million copiessecrecy, seduction, captivity, and escape: out of these elements zane grey built his acclaimed story of the american west
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham these eight stories by beloved and bestselling author jhumpa lahiri take us from cambridge and seattle to india and thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family liferich with the signature gifts that have established jhumpa lahiri as one of our most essential writers, unaccustomed earth exquisitely renders the most intricate workings of the heart and mindhere they enter the worlds of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, friends and lovers
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham a spellbinding, exuberant first novel, set in malaysia, that introduces us to a prosperous indian immigrant family, as it slowly peels away its closely guarded secretsher parents, meanwhile, seem to be hiding something away - from themselves, and from one anotherher grandmother has passed away under mysterious circumstances and her older sister has disappeared for a new life abroad, with no plans to returnwhat bought the rajasekharan family to the big house in malaysia? what was chellam's unforgivable crime? why did the eldest daughter leave the country under strained circumstances? what is appa - the respectable family patriarch - hiding from his wife and his children?through this vibrant cast of characters, and through a masterful evocation of the clashes and strains in a country where malays, indians and chinese inhabitants vie for their positions in society, preeta samarasan brings us an enthralling saga of one household and the world beyond itwhen the family's servant girl, chellam, is dismissed from the big house for unnamed crimes, it is only the latest in a series of losses that have shaken six-year-old aasha's lifeas the novel tells us the story of the years leading up to these events, we learn what has happened to the hopes and dreams of a family caught up in malaysia's troubled post-colonial history
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham the unmissable first novel from bestselling and award-winning author of the fault in our stars and turtles all the way downafter: nothing will ever be the same"in the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla and on that thin-mooned night i could see little more than her silhouette, but even in the dark, i could see her eyes - fierce emeraldsgorgeous, clever, funny and utterly fascinating she pulls miles into her world, launches him into a new life, and steals his heartbut when tragedy strikes, and miles comes face-to-face with death he discovers the value of living and loving unconditionallypoignant, funny, heartbreaking and compelling, this novel will stay with you forevermiles halter's whole life has been one big non-event until he starts at anything-but-boring culver creek boarding school and meets alaska young
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham who could have been born to conquer the world other than a god? a boy, born to be a great king - philip of macedon - and his sensuous queen, olympiasalexander became a young man of imense, unfathomable potentialunder the tutelage of the great aristotle and with the friendship of ptolemy and hephaiston, he became the mightiest and most charismatic warrior, capable of subjugating the known world to his powera marvellous novel of one of history's greatest characters and his quest to conquer the civilised world
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham the internationally bestselling, man booker-shortlisted portrait of a man caught between conflicting identities and betrayed by the world he has embraced - from the author of exit westadapted as a major film starring kate hudson and kiefer sutherland'masterfulchallenging, mysterious and thrillingly tense, mohsin hamid's masterly the reluctant fundamentalist is a vital read teeming with questions and ideas about some of the most pressing issues of today's globalised, fractured worldand as he tells you his story, of how he embraced the western dream -- and a western woman -- and how both betrayed him, so the night darkensi am a lover of americafor he is more worldy than you might expect; better travelled and better educateddo not be frightened by my beard'so speaks the mysterious stranger at a lahore cafe as dusk settlesinvited to join him for tea, you learn his name and what led this speaker of immaculate english to seek you outhe knows the west better than you doa poignant love story and a thriller that subtly ratchets up the nerve-jangling tension towards an explosive ending' metro'excuse me, sir, but may i be of assistance? ah, i see i have alarmed youthen the true reason for your meeting becomes abundantly clear
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham tiller and sairy live a quiet life in ruby holler, their children have long since left home and they are happy with their routinesa wonderful, whimsical and magical story that combines quirky action and adventure with the important themes of family and loyalty and learning to belongand now it gets exciting because they adopt two children from the local orphanage and form an unlikely foursome for the children can not believe they are really & 39;wanted& 39; and tiller and sairy have to deal with some pretty unconventional behaviour on the part of the childrenuntil one day they each decide they want to undertake a big adventure and they need companions to accompany them
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham cranfordis the best known and most charming of elizabeth gaskell&39;s novelssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit is a comic portrait of an early victorian country village and its genteel inhabitants, mostly women, whose social attitudes remain firmly unchanging against the modernising world, and whose domestic details dominate conversationgaskell describes the uneventful lives of cranford&39;s inhabitants in this witty and poignant classic which deserves to be read and re&45;read
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham the sunday times top 10 bestseller'this is a novel of the unsaid, the implied, the barely grasped or understood, crammed with dark holes and blurry spaces that your imagination feels compelled to fill' observer'a masterful excursion into terror' the sunday times see oxfam website for delivery information read moreand they cannot resist the causeway revealed with every turn of the treacherous tide, the old house they glimpse at its endone mute, the other his lifelong protectorthe british book awards book of the yearin the long hours of waiting, the boys are left alonemany years on, hanny is a grown man no longer in need of his brother's careit's an amazing piece of fiction' stephen kingtwo brothersa brilliantly unsettling and atmospheric debut full of unnerving horror - 'the loney is not just good, it's greatyear after year, their family visits the same sacred shrine on a desolate strip of coastline known as the loney, in desperate hope of a cureand the loney always gives up its secrets, in the endbut then the child's body is foundwinner of the costa first novel award
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham new book from the bestselling author of a short history of tractors in ukrainian see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham it takes a lot to get under the skin of cornelius 'fatty o'leary, but then there is a lot of skin to get undercan fatty's broad shoulders take the strain or will he suffer one indignity too many? will he get his just deserts, or just dessert? see oxfam website for delivery information read moreright at home in easy-going fayetteville, arkansas, he is happily married to his childhood sweetheart betty, and likes nothing better than the company of good friends tubby o'rourke and porky flanaganthe heroically proportioned fatty can normally take life as it comescalamity and mayhem ensue as one mishap after another befalls the beleaguered couplebut when fatty and betty head off to ireland on the trip of a lifetime, they find that they have left their comfort zone far behind
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham a moving and powerful mystery, the forgotten garden is the bestselling second novel from author of the house at riverton, kate mortonbut it is at cliff cottage, abandoned for years, and in its forgotten garden, that cassandra will uncover the truth about the family and why the young nell was abandoned all those decades beforewhat has prompted nell's journey after all these years?on nell's death, her granddaughter, cassandra, comes into a surprise inheritanceher quest leads her to cornwall, and to a beautiful estate called blackhurst manor, which had been owned by the mountrachet familycliff cottage, in the grounds of blackhurst manor, is notorious amongst the locals for the secrets it holds - secrets about the doomed mountrachet familynow an old lady, nell travels to england to discover the truth about her parentagebut the authoress has vanished without a traceon the eve of the first world war, a little girl is found abandoned after a gruelling ocean voyage from england to australiaall she can remember of the journey is that a mysterious woman she calls the authoress had promised to look after her
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham from acclaimed novelist elizabeth chadwick comes a story of huge emotional power set against the road to magna carta and the fight to bring a tyrant king to heelthe privileged daughter of one of the most powerful men in england, mahelt marshal's life changes dramatically when her father is suspected of treachery by king johnwhen king john sets out to subdue the bigods, mahelt faces a heartbreaking battle, fearing neither she, nor her marriage, is likely to survive the outcomeher brothers become hostages and mahelt is married to hugh bigod, heir to the earldom of norfolkmagnificent in scope and detail, with characters that leap off the page, this is historical fiction at its finestadapting to her new life is hard, but mahelt comes to love hugh deeply; however, defying her father-in-law brings disgrace and heartbreak
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham the lake house by kate morton is the mysterious and enchanting fifth novel from the number one bestselling author of the house at riverton and the secret keepernot only has she worked out the perfect twist for her novel, she's also fallen helplessly in love with someone she shouldn'tan unsolved mysteryuntil one day, sadie stumbles upon an abandoned house surrounded by overgrown gardens and dense woods, and learns the story of a baby boy who disappeared without a tracean abandoned housealice edevane, sixteen years old and a budding writer, is especially excitedshe retreats to her beloved grandfather's cottage in cornwall but soon finds herself at a loose endjune , and the edevane family's country house, loeanneth, is polished and gleaming, ready for the much-anticipated midsummer eve partymeanwhile, in the attic writing room of her elegant hampstead home, the formidable alice edevane, now an old lady, leads a life as neatly plotted as the bestselling detective novels she writesuntil a young police detective starts asking questions about her family's past, seeking to resurrect the complex tangle of secrets alice has spent her life trying to escapeseventy years later, after a particularly troubling case, sadie sparrow is sent on an enforced break from her job with the metropolitan policebut by the time midnight strikes and fireworks light up the night skies, the edevane family will have suffered a loss so great that they leave loeanneth forever
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham the ultimate rome storyfrom the spectacle of gladiatorial combat to the intrigue of the senate, from the foreign wars that secure the power of the empire to the betrayals that threaten to tear it apart, this is the remarkable story of the man who would become the greatest roman of them all: julius caesarthe first instalment in the bestselling emperor seriesin the city of rome, a titanic power struggle is about to shake the republic to its corecitizen will fight citizen in a bloody conflict - and julius caesar, cutting his teeth in battle, will be in the thick of the action
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham "a highly original and often hypnotic worktranslated from the german by jamie bulloch see oxfam website for delivery information read morea woman burns her mother's diaries on a berlin balconythis first novel of germany's most celebrated contemporary playwright is written in prose of tremendous power and precisionelisabeth and micha run away through the snow from their home village, crossing the wolf's tracks on their way to the cityand elisabeth's father, a famous sculptor, observes the vast skeleton of a whale in his studio and asks: what am i doing here? and why? experiences and encounters flicker past with a raw, visual power, like frames in a black and white filmthe lone wolf is glimpsed on the hard shoulder and photographed by tomasz, a polish construction worker who cannot survive in germany without his girlfriendon an icy motorway eighty kilometres outside the city, a fuel tanker jack-knifes and explodesthose who catch sight of the wolf see their own lives reflected, and find themselves searching for a different path in a cold timeexactly the type of book that readers in search of striking european voices should embrace" john boyne, author of the boy in the striped pyjamasa contemporary berlin fairy tale that bristles with urban truths - the first novel of germany's best-known contemporary playwright one clear, ice-cold january morning shortly after dawn, a wolf crosses the border between poland and germanyhis trail leads all the way to berlin, connecting the lives of disparate individuals whose paths intersect and diverge
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham *****part of the bestselling john shakespeare series of tudor spy thrillers from rory clements, winner of the ellis peters historical fiction award*****'(clements)Â does for elizabeth's reign what cj sansom does for henry viii's' sunday times**********england may have survived the armada threat of , but when spanish galleys land troops in cornwall on a lightning raid seven years later, is it a dry-run for a new invasion? revenge for the sacking of spanish shipping and ports? a warning shot to drake and hawkins? or is there, perhaps, a more sinister motive?the queen is speechless with rage at spain's temeritybut what has all this to do with thomasyn jade, a girl driven to the edge of madness by the foul rituals of exorcism? and what is the link to a group of priests held prisoner in the bleak confines of wisbech castle?from the pain-wracked torture rooms of the inquisition in seville to the marshy wastes of fenland, from the wild coasts of cornwall to the sweat and sawdust of the elizabethan playhouses, and from the condemned cell at newgate to the devilish stench of brimstone and fear as demons are driven out by unspeakable means, the heretics builds to a terrifying climax that threatens the life of the queen herselfbut as john shakespeare tries to get a grip on events, england's secret defences begin to unravel as one by one his network of spies is horribly murderedsir robert cecil demands answers
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham it is the height of summersee oxfam website for delivery information read morea single mistake, however, could put her newfound independence at riskafter she is expelled from boarding school, anna severell returns to the strict, orderly house of her father, a celebrated novelistthe family is soon joined by oliver canning, a talented young academic who urges her to take control of her futureas autumn begins and anna enters university, the pair grow closer
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham ex-deniable operator nick stone is bodyguarding a tv crew on the streets of war-torn basrasee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhen the reporter vanishes within hours, presumed kidnapped, stone is asked by the intelligence service to find himthe trail leads from iraq to london, dublin, and kabul - the brutal city where governments, terrorism and big business collidecaught in the crossfire, stone's nightmare is only just beginning - for the hunter has suddenly become the hunteronly a reporter's swift action saves his lifehe seems certain to die when insurgent gunmen attack
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham winner of the franco-british society book prize junesee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe result is an enthralling account of life during the second world war and in the years of recovery and recrimination that followed the liberation of paris init is a story of fear, deprivation and secrets - and, as ever in the french capital, glamour and determinationthe dark days of occupation beginher fascinating cast includes both native parisiennes and temporary residents: american women and nazi wives; spies, mothers, mistresses, artists, fashion designers and aristocratsbetween the extremes of defiance and collusion was a vast moral grey area which all parisiennes had to navigate in order to surviveanne sebba has sought out and interviewed scores of women, and brings us their unforgettable testimoniesgerman troops enter paris and hoist the swastika over the arc de triomphehow would you have survived? by collaborating with the nazis, or risking the lives of you and your loved ones to resist? the women of paris faced this dilemma every day - whether choosing between rations and the black market, or travelling on the metro, where a german soldier had priority for a seat
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham 'a deceptive and riveting novel' - karin slaughterchosen as one of the best seven thrillers of the summer by the new york timesa nearly normal family is the stunning psychological thriller from mhighly recommended' adam hamdy see oxfam website for delivery information read morepraise for a nearly normal family'tore through this in a matter of daysthe daughterbelieves they have no idea what she's truly capable ofthere are three sides to the storyi can see why it's being pitched as the big one for ' - jo spain'an utterly compelling premiseeffortlessly brilliant' - sandie jones'any parent will be gripped by this bookfinn's the woman in the window or jwhat if the suspect is your daughter? would you believe her, or the evidence against her?the fatherbelieves his daughter has been frameda cracking read!' - t m logan'an absolutely fantastic reada layered, intelligent novel' - fiona cummins'a canny, intensely suspenseful legal thriller' - scott turow'i couldn't go to bed until i finished iti couldn't put it down' - michelle frances'an unsettling page turnerevery murder case starts with a suspectthe motherbelieves she is hiding somethingand the truth will shatter this family to piecesedvardsson and asks what would you do if your child was suspected of murder, how far would you go to protect them? do you want to know the truth? if you loved adelaney's the girl before, you will love this
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham longlisted for the booker prize after the upheavals of the second world war, the richardson family - sam, ellen and their young son joe - settle back to working-class life in the cumbrian town of wigtonas the old order begins to be challenged and new vistas open, sam and ellen forge their future together with differing needs and desires - and conflicting expectations of joe, who grows up with his own demons to confrontyet for them, as for so many, life will never be the same again
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham stepping out into the dusk of a warm moscow evening, esteemed art critic anatoly sukhanov feels on top of the world: his career is glittering, his wife is beautiful and his children are cleversukhanov's future will be haunted by doubtbeset by heartbreaking visions of a past he gave up, he questions his choices: in swapping a precarious life as a brilliant underground artist for comfort and security did he betray his dreams? and if his dreams are lost, what does he have left? one of the most highly acclaimed debuts of recent years, the dream life of sukhanov is a work of demonic energy and startling imagery: a new classicbut the year is and the air is heavy with change
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham it&39;s and author juliet ashton can&39;t think what to write nextsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreout of the blue, she receives a letter from dawsey adams of guernsey &45; by chance, he&39;s acquired a book that once belonged to her &45; and, spurred on by their mutual love of reading, they begin a correspondencewhen dawsey reveals that he is a member of the guernsey literary and potato peel pie society, her curiosity is piqued and it&39;s not long before she begins to hear from other membersas letters fly back and forth with stories of life in guernsey under the german occupation, juliet soon realizes that the society is every bit as extraordinary as its name
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham abandoned as a baby, stephen had nearly given up hope of ever finding his familysee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis epic adventure follows his change in fortunes as he receives an unexpected letter from a strange source and sets off on an unforgettable journeyfrom a drab room in london, where the rain confirms the greyness of his life, stephen travels to a cornish valley; remote, exquisitely beautiful and heavy with secrets
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham if you are a fan of jodi picoult or susan lewis, the escape artist is equal parts family drama, love story and thrillershe dyes her hair, changes her name and escapes from boulder, colorado, leaving behind everyone she knows including linc sebastian, the man who has been her best friend since childhood and who knows her better than anyonediane chamberlain is the sunday times bestselling author of the silent sister and the midwife's confessionif she's willing to take it to the policesusanna lands in annapolis, maryland, alone, frightened, and always looking over her shoulder for someone who might recognize herjust as she's beginning to feel safe in her new surroundings, she stumbles across information that could save the lives of many peoplebut going to the authorities means revealing her identity, admitting her guilt and, worst of all, losing her sonsusanna miller loses custody of her eleven-month-old son, tyler, but rather than turning the little boy over to her ex-husband and his new wife, she goes on the run
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham ritwik ghosh, twenty-two and recently orphaned, finds the chance to start a new life when he arrives in england from calcuttasee oxfam website for delivery information read moreabove all, it is about the impossibilities of loveand then, one night, in the badlands of king's cross, ritwik runs into zafar bin hashm, suave, impossibly rich, unfathomable, possible arms dealerbut oxford holds little of the salvation ritwik is looking forwhat does the drive to redemption hold for lost ritwik? set in s and 80s india, 90s england and in the first decade of twentieth-century bengal, a life apart is a scalding novel about dislocations and alienations, about the tenuous and unconscious intersections of lives and histories and about the consolations of storytellinghowever, the story that ritwik writes to stave off his utter and complete loneliness - a miss gilby who teaches english, music and western manners to the wife of educated zamindar - begins to find ghostly echoes in his life with his aged landlady, anne cameronbut to do so, he must not only relive his entire past but also try and understand itmoreover, he must make sense of his relationship with his mother - scarred, abusive and all-consuminginstead he moves to london, where he drops out of official existence into a shadowy hinterland of illegal immigrants
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