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Annals of the former world is the winner of the pulitzer prize for nonfictionoxfam shop ulverston the pulitzer prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4as clearly and succinctly written as it is profoundly informed, this is our finest popular survey of geology and a masterpiece of modern non-fiction6 billion years twenty years ago, when john mcphee began his journeys back and forth across the united states, he planned to describe a cross section of north america at about the fortieth parallel and, in the process, come to an understanding not only of the science but of the style of the geologists he traveled withsee oxfam website for delivery information read morelike the terrain it covers, annals of the former world tells a multilayered tale, and the reader may choose one of many paths through itthe structure of the book never changed, but its breadth caused him to complete it in stages, under the overall title annals of the former world
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham winner of the pulitzer prize, the national book critics circle award and the governor-general's award, and short-listed for the booker prizethrough daisy's life, shields reflects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our century in this rich and poignant novel'the stone diaries' is the story of one woman's life, a truly sensuous novel which relects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our centurysee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis is the story of daisy goodwill, from her birth on a kitchen floor in manitoba, canada, to her death in a florida nursing home nearly ninety years later
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham winner of the pulitzer prize for fictionnational book award finalistnew york times bestsellerwinner of the carnegie medal for fictiona beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind french girl and a german boy whose paths collide in occupied france as both try to survive the devastation of world war ii'open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close foreverthe walled city by the sea, where father and daughter take refuge when the nazis invade paris'for marie-laure, blind since the age of six, the world is full of mazesin this magnificent, deeply moving novel, the stories ofmarie-laure and werner illuminate the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one anothersee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe miniature of a paris neighbourhood, made by her father to teach her the way homethe microscopic layers within the invaluable diamond that her father guards in the museum of natural historyand a future which draws her ever closer to werner, a german orphan, destined to labour in the mines until a broken radio fills his life with possibility and brings him to the notice of the hitler youth
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His newspaper career was equally glittering - his interview with stalin won him the pulitzer prize and his articles played a prominent role in gaining american recognition for the ussr inwithin months of duranty arriving in moscow as a correspondent for the "new york times" the romanovs were deposed, but he soon found himself installed as the reigning social host of the western colonysally taylor's biography of this flamboyant individual also explores the source and content of the news the west received between the world wars, and raises issues about the role of the press in modern societysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music perth journalist walter duranty was a working-class english socialist, who acquired the graces of a socialite while stationed in parishe hushed up the great famine of the early s and glossed over the infamous show trials, which led to his dismissal from the "times" in the late showever, the content of his despatches was becoming increasingly selective
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Oxfam bookshop tunbridge wells the stories of john cheever by john cheever when the stories of john cheever was originally published, it became an immediate national bestseller and won the pulitzer prize" in very good condition" from the early wonder and disillusionment of city life in "the enormous radio" to the surprising discoveries and common mysteries of suburbia in "the housebreaker of shady hill" and "the swimmer," cheever tells us everything we need to know about "the pain and sweetness of lifepages clean, small crease to the back cover, minor wear to the cover spinevintage books is proud to reintroduce this magnificent collectionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morein the years since, it has become a classichere are sixty-one stories that chronicle the lives of what has been called "the greatest generation
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His collected poems won the pulitzer prize for poetrywhether he was writing about his native ohio, the natural world, love lost and found, or the luminous resonant italy of his later work, wrights mastery of language and his powerful, haunting voice marked him out as one of the finest writers of his time, a poet whose work caught the spirit of americas anxious yet hopeful post-war yearssee oxfam website for delivery information read morejames wright was born in martins ferry, ohio, inoxfam shop arnold james wright is one of the most significant, most enduring figures in modern american poetry, the central figure of a greatly talented generation
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Winner of the pulitzer prize and the national book awardwe specialize in fine books in the categories of art, architecture, photography, cinema, nature, literature, including poetry and many anthologiesthe armies of the night
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Winner of the pulitzer prize for general non-fiction and described by the jury as "an elegant inquiry, at once clinical and personal" eight pages of monochrome photographs dust jacket has some marks and edge wear; blue board covers, with title etcoxfam shop barnard castle a lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have feared, lived with, and died from for more than five thousand years by an award-winning cancer physician and researcherin gilt on spine, in very good conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read more text, clean, bright and unmarked throughout
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham winner of the pulitzer prize for fiction and richard and judy pickthe story spans the vibrant intellectual world of concord and the sensuous antebellum south, through to the first year of the civil war as the north reels under a series of unexpected defeatsas alcott drew on her real-life sisters in shaping the characters of her little women, so brooks turned to the journals and letters of bronson alcott, louisa may's father, an idealistic educator, animal rights exponent and abolitionist who was a friend and confidante of ralph waldo emerson and henry david thoreaufrom the author of the acclaimed 'year of wonders' and 'people of the book', a historical novel and love story set during a time of catastrophe on the front lines of the american civil warset during the american civil war, 'march' tells the story of john march, known to us as the father away from his family of girls in 'little women', louisa may alcott's classic american novellike her bestselling 'year of wonders', 'march' follows an unconventional love storysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit explores the passions between a man and a woman, the tenderness of parent and child, and the life-changing power of an ardently held beliefas he recovers from a near-fatal illness in a washington hospital, he must reassemble the shards of his shattered mind and body, and find a way to reconnect with a wife and daughters who have no idea of the ordeals he has been throughin brooks's telling, march emerges as an abolitionist and idealistic chaplain on the front lines of a war that tests his faith in himself and in the union cause when he learns that his side, too, is capable of barbarism and racism
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His newspaper career was equally glittering - his interview with stalin won him the pulitzer prize and his articles played a prominent role in gaining american recognition for the ussr inwithin months of duranty arriving in moscow as a correspondent for the "new york times" the romanovs were deposed, but he soon found himself installed as the reigning social host of the western colonyoxfam bookshop cardiff journalist walter duranty was a working-class english socialist, who acquired the graces of a socialite while stationed in parissally taylor's biography of this flamboyant individual also explores the source and content of the news the west received between the world wars, and raises issues about the role of the press in modern societysee oxfam website for delivery information read morehe hushed up the great famine of the early s and glossed over the infamous show trials, which led to his dismissal from the "times" in the late showever, the content of his despatches was becoming increasingly selective
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham from pulitzer prize nominee and award winning author of homeland, the poisonwood bible and flight behaviour, the lacuna is the heartbreaking story of a man torn between the warm heart of mexico and the cold embrace of s america in the shadow of senator mccarthya compulsive diarist, he records and relates his colourful experiences of life with diego rivera, frida kahlo and trotsky in the midst of the mexican revolutionborn in america and raised in mexico, harrison shepherd is a liability to his social-climbing flapper mother, salomea violent upheaval sends him back to america; but political winds continue to throw him between north and south, in a plot that turns many times on the unspeakable breach - the lacuna - between truth and public presumptionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhen he starts work in the household of mexican artists diego rivera and frida kahlo - where the bolshevik leader, lev trotsky, is also being harboured as a political exile - he inadvertently casts his lot with art, communism and revolution
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In , it became the first (and is still the only) graphic novel to win a pulitzer prize (the special award in letters)critics have classified maus as memoir, biography, history, fiction, autobiography, or a mix of genresit is an unforgettable story of survival and a disarming look at the legacy of traumasee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit depicts spiegelman interviewing his father about his experiences as a polish jew and holocaust survivorthe work employs postmodernist techniques and represents jews as mice, germans as cats, and poles as pigsthis reprint of the complete maus collection is in excellent conditionoxfam shop bishop's stortford a graphic novel by american cartoonist art spiegelman, serialized from tomaus is a haunting tale within a tale, weaving the authors account of his tortured relationship with his aging father into an astonishing retelling of one of history's most unspeakable tragedies
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He is going to go out with a bang - a final story that will win the newspaper journalism's highest honor - a pulitzer prizebut as jack delves into the story he soon realises that alonzo's so-called confession is bogus, and jack is soon off and running on the biggest story he's had since the poet crossed his path twelve years beforeforced to take a buy-out from the la times, he's got 30 days left on the jobjack convinces alonzo's mother to co-operate with his investigation into the possibility of her son's innocencebut jack's real intention is to use his access to report and write a story that explains how societal dysfunction and neglect created a 16-year-old killerjack focuses on alonzo winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer from the projects who has confessed to police that he brutally raped and strangled one of his crack clientshis investigation leads him into the digital world of data collocation services where server farms are watched over by techs who liken themselves to scarecrows - keeping the birds of prey off their clients' dataoxfam shop evesham jack mcevoy is at the end of the line as a crime reporterbut jack has other plans for his exithis last assignment? training his replacement, a low-cost reporter just out of j-schoolsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis time jack is onto a killer who has worked completely below police and fbi radarbut jack inadvertently set off a digital tripwire and the killer - the scarecrow - now knows he's coming
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It won the pulitzer prize and the national book award]historically, it can be seen as a precursor to joseph heller's catch-22our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storea fable is a novel written by the american author william faulknercatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablehe spent more than a decade and tremendous effort on it, and aspired for it to be "the best work of my life and maybe of my time""a fable" by william faulkner chatto & windus, london - first uk edition first printing - 15cmx13cm - condition: very good, owner;s name to ffep, in original first issue dust jacket with some wear and chipping to edgesplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki
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Winner of the pulitzer prize for general non-fictionoxfam shop kendal first edition hardback with dust jacketa metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of lewis carroll, an illustrated examination of the nature of human thought processessmall inscription at frontbook with brown linen boards with aged edges, very clean and bright withinsee oxfam website for delivery information read morejacket with shelf wear top and bottom and slightly faded spine
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Yin was the winner of the pulitzer prize for poetrycarolyn kizer ()fond regards, carolyn kizersigned twice and inscribed by carolyn kizersigned and dated below the title: for sandra, all good things, carolyn portland
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The four prize winners received unconditional cash prizes as follows: first prize of ÂŁ svetlana fialova; second prize of ÂŁ marie von heyl; and student awards of ÂŁ each: kristian fletcher and tamsin nagelin the jerwood drawing prize was run in partnership with drawing projects ukthe 20th anniversary of the jerwood drawing prize exhibition was celebrated in , and in jerwood charitable foundation marked 15 years of its support for the prizethe prize is supported by jerwood charitable foundation through its contemporary gallery programme jerwood visual artsthe works were selected from more than submissions by kate brindley, director of middlesbrough institute of modern art; michael craig-martin ra, artist; and charlotte mullins, art critic, writer, broadcaster, and editor of art quarterly selected from original drawings, the jerwood drawing prize has established a reputation for its commitment to championing excellence, and to promoting and celebrating the breadth of contemporary drawing practiceoxfam shop mutley plain " a total of 76 drawings are brought together in this group exhibition as part of the largest and longest running annual open exhibition for drawing in the ukspecial commendations were awarded to neville gabie and gary lawrencethe exhibition provides a platform to showcase the work of uk-based drawing practitioners, from student to established, and as a project helps to define a wider understanding of the role and value of drawing in creative practice" book in very good condition with clean pages throughout and securely boundsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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She later won the booker prize for her highly acclaimed novel moon tigeroxfam bookshop cheltenham beyond the blue mountains is a collection of short stories by booker prize winning author penelope livelyin any circumstances, from a wedding to a christmas shopping expedition, lively finds an emotional dilemma, engaging the reader as thoroughly as if they were reading a novel and leaving them speechless' daily mailpenelope lively is the author of many prize-winning novels and short-story collections for both adults and childrenthe fourteen warmly humorous stories in beyond the blue mountains range from the fantasy of scheherazade to a dazzling example of chaos theory, depicting in exquisite prose the subtle but significant events that go to create everyday experience'the fourteen brief stories in beyond the blue mountains reveal penelope lively at her most polished and perceptiveshe was appointed cbe in the new year's honours list, and dbe inshe is a popular writer for children and has won both the carnegie medal and the whitbread award"the slovenian giantess" is a condensed masterpiece' sunday times'penelope lively is a genius and this collection is a joysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreshe has twice been shortlisted for the booker prize: once in for her first novel, the road to lichfield, and again in for according to markher other books include going back; judgement day; next to nature, art; perfect happiness; passing on; city of the mind; cleopatra's sister; heat wave; beyond the blue mountains, a collection of short stories; oleander, jacaranda, a memoir of her childhood days in egypt; spiderweb; her autobiographical work, a house unlocked; the photograph; making it up; consequences; family album, which was shortlisted for the costa novel award, and how it all beganpenelope lively lives in london
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She later won the booker prize for her highly acclaimed novel moon tigeroxfam bookshop cheltenham city of the mind is the second novel by booker prize winning author penelope livelypenelope lively lives in london'this is the city in which everything is simultaneousshe was appointed cbe in the new year's honours list, and dbe inshe is a popular writer for children and has won both the carnegie medal and the whitbread awardthere is no yesterday, nor tomorrow, merely weather, and decay, and construction'in london's changing heartland, architect matthew halland is aware of how the past and the present blendhere too is the london of prehistory, of georgian elegance, of the blitz'a glorious novel' observer'the descriptions of the london blitz are achingly real' sunday telegraphpenelope lively is the author of many prize-winning novels and short-story collections for both adults and childrenshe has twice been shortlisted for the booker prize: once in for her first novel, the road to lichfield, and again in for according to markher other books include going back; judgement day; next to nature, art; perfect happiness; passing on; city of the mind; cleopatra's sister; heat wave; beyond the blue mountains, a collection of short stories; oleander, jacaranda, a memoir of her childhood days in egypt; spiderweb; her autobiographical work, a house unlocked; the photograph; making it up; consequences; family album, which was shortlisted for the costa novel award, and how it all begansee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut matthew is occupied with constructing a new future for london in docklands, and with it he begins to forge new beginnings of his ownit stirs memories of his boyhood, the early years of his daughter jane and the failed marriage that he has almost put behind him
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He won the nobel prize in economics in and was master of trinity college, cambridgeit would be no surprise if it were to become as defining and as influential as work as edward said's orientalism'Â Â soumya bhattacharya, observer 'the winner of the nobel prize in economics is a star in indiashows that the argumentative gene is not just a part of india's make-up that can easily be wished away'Â Â the economist amartya sen is lamont university professor at harvardindia is an immensely diverse country with many distinct pursuits, vastly different convictions, widely divergent customs and a veritable feast of viewpointsthis is a book that needed to have been written'profound and stimulatingout of these conflicting views spring a rich tradition of skeptical argument and cultural achievement which is critically important, argues amartya sen, for the success of india's democracy, the defence of its secular politics, the removal of inequalities related to class, caste, gender and community, and the pursuit of sub-continental peacethe product of a great mind at the peak of its power'Â Â william dalrymple, sunday times 'one of the most influential public thinkers of our timeshis books have been translated into thirty languagessee oxfam website for delivery information read morehe deserves the recognitionoxfam bookshop harrogate from nobel prize-winning economist amartya sen, the argumentative indian: writings on indian culture, history and identity brings together an illuminating selection of writings on contemporary indiahis most recent books are the idea of justice, identity and violence and development as freedom
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'the eye in the door' was awarded the guardian fiction prize, while the final volume in the 'regeneration' trilogy, 'the ghost road', won the booker prize inwriting in the sunday times, peter kemp said, 'in the climate of exhaustion and hysteria amid which the war is wearing to its close, pressures to fall into line become fierce and take ugly formsa sequel every bit as unwaveringly intense and intelligent as its predecessor'oxfam bookshop cheltenham set in london in , 'the eye in the door' is an intense and profoundly intelligent examination of the effects of war, continuing the interwoven stories of dr william rivers, billy prior, and siegfried sassoon begun in 'regeneration'at the forefront of her story, barker places figures especially menaced by this: pacifists, conscientious objectors and homosexualssee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Winner of the royal society of literature ondaatje award and the spirit of scotland award and shortlisted for the guardian first book award, the john llewellyn rhys memorial prize and the scottish book of the year prizeonly with the help of an unexpected companion and the generosity of the people he met on the way did he survive to report back with unique insight on a region closed to the world by twenty-four years of warcaught between hostile nations, warring factions and competing ideologies, at the time afghanistan was in turmoil following the us invasionsee oxfam website for delivery information read moretravelling entirely on foot and following the inaccessible mountainous route once taken by the mogul emperor, babur the great, stewart was nearly defeated by the extreme, hostile conditionsoxfam bookshop cheltenham the places in between, rory stewart's moving account of his walk across afghanistan in january was immediately hailed as a classic
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Oxfam bookshop st albans envelope commemorating the sharing of the peace prize by prime minister menachim begin and president anwar sadat on 10th december ;Â stamp franked jerusalem on same date see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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It should be remembered that maurice maeterlinck was the only belgian writer to receive the nobel prize for literature inthis ballet is one of the last works by maurice maeterlinck who died a few years later in nice, france inthis leaflet is the staging text for the ballet intended for the american publicour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storea very rare 4-page leaflet of a ballet written and directed in the ucatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteby maurice maeterlinck in during his stay in america after the second world warthis is one of the only known copiesit should be pointed out that there is no written record of this balletare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki
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prize plate dated on first free endpaperoxfam bookshop lymington red cloth hard covers with black titles on the front and the spinea lovely s 'wonder book' for children in very good conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morebinding is tight and text is clean and unmarkedunclipped dust jacket in good condition, lightly sunned with wear and chipping at the top and base of the spinewith 9 colour plates plus many sepia and black-and-white illustrations throughout the textlight edge wear plus wear at the top and base of the spine
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Oxfam books & music romsey the jewel in the crown is the epic award winning drama based on the booker prize winning classic novelsthe haunting story opens during the turbulent final years of british rule in india as rioting and violence herald the granting of independencecommentary with geraldine james and charles dance on episodesa tale of passion ensues as questions of identity and personal responsibility are explored against a background of war and personal intriguesee oxfam website for delivery information read moredirectors commentary on episode 4special featurescommentary with art malik and tim pigott-smith on episode 1
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Henry viii must take his fourth wife and the dangerous prize is won by anne of clevesthe king will decide who will live and who will die; he has the power of god nownothing is certain in a kingdom ruled by an increasingly tyrannical kingoxfam bookshop cheltenham from the bestselling author of the other boleyn girl, philippa gregory, comes a wonderfully atmospheric evocation of the court of henry viii and his final queensthe new queen begins to sense a trap closing around hera german princess by birth, anne is to be henry's pawn in the protestant alliance against rome, but the marriage falters from the startand jane boleyn, summoned to the inner circle once more by her uncle the duke of norfolk, finds a fractious court haunted by the boleyn legacy of death and deceitsee oxfam website for delivery information read morehenry finds nothing to admire in his new queen, setting himself against his advisors and nobles to pay court to young katherine howard
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Oxfam shop evesham twenty-fifth anniversary edition of kate atkinson's brilliant and unforgettable first novel, which won the whitbread (now costa) book of the year prize'delivers its jokes and its tragedies as efficiently as dickenswithout doubt one of the finest novels i have read for years' the times see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoutrageously funny'little short of a masterpiecefizzing with wit and energy, kate atkinson's hilarious novel made me laugh and cry' daily mail'an astounding bookruby tells the story of the family, from the day at the end of the nineteenth century when a travelling french photographer catches frail beautiful alice and her children, like flowers in amber, to the startling, witty, and memorable events of ruby's own lifewill dazzle readers for years to come' - hilary mantel, author of the mirror and the lightruby lennox was conceived grudgingly by bunty and born while her father, george, was in the dog and hare in doncaster telling a woman in an emerald dress and a d-cup that he wasn't marriedbunty had never wanted to marry george, but here she was, stuck in a flat above the pet shop in an ancient street beneath york minster, with sensible and sardonic patrica aged five, greedy cross-patch gillian who refused to be ignored, and ruby
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Oxfam bookshop hertford *kazuo ishiguro's new novel klara and the sun is now available to preorder*winner of the booker prize by the nobel-prize winning authorone of the bbc's '100 novels that shaped our world'in the summer of , stevens, the ageing butler of darlington hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his pastsee oxfam website for delivery information read morea contemporary classic, the remains of the day is kazuo ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a great english house, of lost causes and lost love
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Superficial scuffs and marksoxfam bookshop newport in a sleepy outpost in the moroccan desert, charlie halifax is living a quietly desperate lifebeige paper-covered boards, with brown cloth covered spineglossy pictorial dustjacketwhile flying for the french during the war between the foreign legion and arab tribesman, he learns of the orteig prize, offered to the first man to fly between paris and new yorkgilt text to spinesmall creases to front wraparoundsee oxfam website for delivery information read morewoven head and tail bandsa highly decorated american pilot who flew for the french in the first world war, halifax was shot down in , horribly wounded and banished to africa after trying to deserttext block is clean and tight
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