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===[[The Island Unrest by M A BennettJesper Stein]]===
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A contemporary take on DCI Steen is assigned a puzzling case – the savage classic ''Lord tortured body of the Flies'': a group of mismatched, modern-day teenagers must fight to survive on man found in a cemetery in Copenhagen but left there during a deserted island. Link is riot – a fish out of water. Newly arrived from America, he is finding it hard to settle into riot that had the venerable and prestigious Osney Schoolarea swarming in police. Who knew there How could be anyone have been murdered and left in the open with so many strange traditions to understandpolice on site? And what kind Unless the killer is one of school ranks its students by how fast they can run round them… As the school quad - however ancient that quad may be? When Link runs case becomes more and more complicated, it soon begins to take a toll on Steen's already troubled personal life. He won't stop until the slowest time in yearskiller is caught, he immediately becomes whatever the butt of every school jokeconsequences. And some students are determined But the consequences may turn out to make his life more miserable be greater than others... expected – especially for Axel himself… [[The Island Unrest by M A BennettJesper Stein|Full Review]]
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===[[Colour Me In Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by Lydia RufflesDominic Watson]]===
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Reeling from Even with a tragedy birthday fast approaching, I'm still a bit young to be reading about retirement. My next life change in the pipeline will be a big one, and unable it does involve leaving the 9 to cope5 behind for a yacht and the silky blue waters of the Caribbean, unemployed actor Arlo decides but only for a year, and then I will be back, tanned and refreshed but barely 40 and with many working years still to come. Also, I like work. My job is interesting, I get on a plane to travel, what we do matters and it's not badly rewarded. So no, I'm not planning to retire just yet. But as the premise of this book is about planning (and go somewhere newif not now, then when?) I was still intrigued. [[Colour Me In Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by Lydia RufflesDominic Watson|Full Review]]
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===[[A Treachery of Spies Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by Manda ScottLynda La Plante]]===
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When Inspector Inès Picaut is called It was February 1979 in the strike-ridden 'Winter of Discontent' when a body was discovered in Peckham. It was to investigate be the first of two bodies in two days, but the horrific murder first - that of a strikingly beautiful elderly young woman - would remain unidentified for some time. The second - an older lady, she's puzzled – whilst - was found in the identity boot of the woman has been erased, it's clear that she her car by her son. Jane Tennison has been killed in the same way that traitors promoted to the resistance were executed Sergeant and finds herself in World War Two. Solving the mystery will lead Inès deep into the history midst of this woman – an investigation hindered by press articles about police incompetence and back pressure to get a time when the men and women of 1940s France were engaged in a desperate, brutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressorsquick result. As more Four days later and more secrets come another body to add to lightthe count, Inès discovers that there are many in the present who would rather police have named their past stay buried – and many who would kill to keep secrets safe… suspect, but Tennison has her doubts. [[A Treachery of Spies Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by Manda ScottLynda La Plante|Full Review]]
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===[[The Anomaly Broken Ground by Michael RutgerVal McDermid]]===
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Tomb Raider meets Indiana Jones within an X-Files episodeAs the Officer in Charge of the Historic Cases Unit, DCI Karen Pirie rarely finds herself at the scene of the crime, but for once, she's in the Youtube eraright place at the right time when a body is dug up in the Highlands. Join Initially it looks as though the intrepid (if rather inept) team of internet adventurers as they head out on yet another search for ''an anomaly'' only death dates back to (spoilers) actually find one. Imagine ifWWII, instead but the fact that the dead man is wearing a pair of being scared by their own acting, Derek Acorah and Yvette Fielding actually found something; Nikes means that the case is the starting point of this bookKaren's. Deep A little while later she'd come to think that she'd been in the wrong place at the wrong time when she overheard a cave within the Grand Canyon our team of adventurers find themselves trapped conversation in a Stephen King plot with added levels of paranoia and conspiracy thrown into the blendcafe. Intervening, she thought that she'd prevented a crime, but what she said would come back to haunt her. [[The Anomaly Broken Ground by Michael RutgerVal McDermid|Full Review]]
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===[[The Water Thief Half Moon Bay by Claire HajajAlice LaPlante]]===
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Nick Half Moon Bay is in a small town on the middle west coast of wedding preparations America, a little down from San Francisco. Jane has just moved there, to start a new life after losing everything when he decides her teenage daughter was killed and her husband left her. Although she has begun to leave his fiancée behind find a little peace in London and take up the quiet, seaside town, one day a post in some un-named west African country providing engineering support child goes missing, bringing back painful memories for Jane of her grief and loss and, also, rousing the building suspicions of a children's hospital. He has no idea what he the local townsfolk that she is getting himself intosomehow involved in the disappearance. [[The Water Thief Half Moon Bay by Claire HajajAlice LaPlante|Full Review]]
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===[[Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Peter Lovesey]]===
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Children love wrecking balls, so the young lad wasn't going to pass up the opportunity to watch one hit Sixteen-year-old Nova is an undercity dweller and a leecher - a building through one futuristic kind of those very tempting holes in fencing which you find around building sitespickpocket who uses tech hacks to steal byts from hapless corps workers. The problem was that when higher up in the dust settled a skeletoncity you live, sitting in an armchair the more sunlight you see and clad in clothes which looked to be a few the easier your life. For leechers like Nova, four hundred years oldstoreys below the surface, was visible in life is tough. But with the loft help of the halfhacking program Phantom, invented by legendary anti-demolished building. The lad's father ceased his explanations about kinetic energy and hurried the boy away. Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond was not so lucky. Viewing corps hacker the corpse from a cherry pickerMoth, an unfortunate adjustment Nova can sneak up to the controls left him eye to, ercity, eye socket with the corpse leech some byts and the picture was caught by a press photographer. It was too good not to go viralat least make rent. v[[Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) Phantom by Peter LoveseyLeo Hunt|Full Review]]
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===[[Only Love Can Break Your Heart All the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Katherine WebberClaire Askew]]===
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Though it's been 5 years since Mika diedAs a news item, Reiko still sees school shootings always terrify me: the ghost of her sister every day, forever 14. It's something that brings her comfortdeaths are bad enough, but also a constant reminder even the young people who survive are always going to be scarred by the fact that she has this was done to make up for being them by one when there should have been two. She has to shine bright enough for both of themtheir number. When she befriends outsider Seth It doesn't end on the day, he presents her with an escapeeither. From her family, her friends, School shootings cast a very long shadow. May the 14th had the grief makings of being a normal day until Ryan Summers used three modified starting pistols to shoot thirteen fellow students - and loss that continue one last bullet to scar them allkill himself. Seth is instantly smitten with her. After all We follow the story through the lives of three women: Moira Summers, the mother of the murderer, who wouldn't fall for gorgeousHelen Birch, popular Reiko Smiththe newly-Mori? But while she falls in love with promoted detective inspector who will investigate the escape that he represents from her griefkillings and Ishbel Hodgekiss, it's not so clear that she's falling in love with himthe mother of one of the victims. [[Only Love Can Break Your Heart All the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Katherine WebberClaire Askew|Full Review]]
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===[[Garrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by Rachel Aaron]]===
 
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===[[Bone Talk by Candy Gourlay]]===''You want me to be like everyone else and spend my life hiding inside the walls where it's safe, but that's an illusion. So long as there are titans out there… no one is safe''
[[image:4In the dystopian world of Attack on Titan, humanity hides behind the safety of high impenetrable walls to keep out the enemies outside.5starKnown as titans, these enemies are impossibly tall human like creatures, with sharp hungry teeth and regenerative powers.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] Difficult to kill and innumerable they roam the Earth looking for prey, and whilst the walls have always kept them out, that has begun to change… [[:Category:Confident ReadersGarrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by Rachel Aaron|Confident ReadersFull Review]]
Samkad is living high up in the mountainous Philippine jungle just as the nineteenth century turns to the twentieth. But Samkad has no idea about any of that. He has never met anyone from outside his own small tribe and his thoughts are focused on becoming a man. He's desperate for the Elders to permit him to join the ranks of the warriors who protect his tribe from their headhunting enemies, even though he knows it will mean leaving his childhood friend Little Luki behind. [[Bone Talk by Candy Gourlay|Full Review]]
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===[[Summerland The Island by Hannu RajaniemiM A Bennett]]===
[[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dystopian FictionTeens|Dystopian FictionTeens]], [[:Category:Science General Fiction|Science General Fiction]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]]
Imagine A contemporary take on the savage classic ''Lord of the Flies'': a world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire group of mismatched, modern-day teenagers must fight tosurvive on a deserted island. After discovery Link is a fish out of the afterlifewater. Newly arrived from America, he is finding it hard to settle into the British Empire has extended venerable and prestigious Osney School. Who knew there could be so many strange traditions to understand? And what kind of school ranks its reach into Summerland, students by how fast they can run round the Big Smoke for the recently deceased. In 1938 school quad - however ancient that quad may be? When Link runs the British Empire is caught up in a race against Soviet spies and dealing with a mole buried deep slowest time in years, he immediately becomes the heart butt of Summerlandevery school joke. When Rachel White, an ambitious SIS agent, becomes suspicious about the potential rogue agent, she must decide how far she is willing And some students are determined to go and how much she is willing to risk to uncover the truthmake his life more miserable than others... [[Summerland The Island by Hannu RajaniemiM A Bennett|Full Review]]
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===[[Going To The Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing Colour Me In by K D KnightLydia Ruffles]]===
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In the opening story Reeling from a man whose wife has deserted him visits Sandown with little money, but comes away with cash in his pocket - tragedy and his wife. In ''A Grey Day'' an owner struggles with the problem of whether or not unable to run his horse in the Gold Cup when the ground is against him. My favourite was ''The Story of H''cope, the story of Foinavon. H is depicted as a kind horse who only wanted unemployed actor Arlo decides to please people. After changing hands get on various occasions he came to the yard of John Kempton. H (or Foinavon) was entered in the Grand National and considered a no-hoper. In one of the most dramatic runnings of the race, a pile up occured at the 23rd fence. Foinavon, who had been many lengths adrift, cleared the fence plane and galloped to the line, winning the race at odds of 100/1go somewhere new. [[Going To The Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing Colour Me In by K D KnightLydia Ruffles|Full Review]]
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===[[A Treachery of Spies by Manda Scott]]===
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[[image:4starWhen Inspector Inès Picaut is called to investigate the horrific murder of a strikingly beautiful elderly lady, she's puzzled – whilst the identity of the woman has been erased, it's clear that she has been killed in the same way that traitors to the resistance were executed in World War Two. Solving the mystery will lead Inès deep into the history of this woman – and back to a time when the men and women of 1940s France were engaged in a desperate, brutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressors.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] As more and more secrets come to light, Inès discovers that there are many in the present who would rather their past stay buried – and many who would kill to keep secrets safe… [[:Category:For SharingA Treachery of Spies by Manda Scott|For SharingFull Review]]
''Biriwita the blue frog longs to be accepted at Croak College, the most famous school for frogs in Malawi, but the other students all turn their backs on him. He is just too different!'' Biriwita hails from Lake Ticklewater. Many creatures find a home there, including frogs. For some reason that nobody can remember, all the Lake Ticklewater frogs are blue. They think nothing of it. So, when Biriwita wins a place at Croak College, the first Ticklewater frog to manage such a feat, he is filled with excitement and his only worry is how much he will miss his friends and family. [[The Frog Who Was Blue by Faiz Kermani|Full Review]] <!-- Singer Rutger -->
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===[[The Anomaly by Michael Rutger]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Survival Game by Nicky Singer:Category:Horror|Horror]]===
[[image:5starTomb Raider meets Indiana Jones within an X-Files episode, for the Youtube era. Join the intrepid (if rather inept) team of internet adventurers as they head out on yet another search for ''an anomaly'' only to (spoilers) actually find one.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]Imagine if, instead of being scared by their own acting, Derek Acorah and Yvette Fielding actually found something; that is the starting point of this book. Deep in a cave within the Grand Canyon our team of adventurers find themselves trapped in a Stephen King plot with added levels of paranoia and conspiracy thrown into the blend. [[:Category:Dystopian FictionThe Anomaly by Michael Rutger|Dystopian FictionFull Review]]
Mhairi Anne Bain is fourteen years old and is on her way home to the Isle of Arran. But Mhairi's world has been ravaged by climate change and the mass movement of people and it is one defined by borders, checkpoints and soldiers with guns. Mhairi has made it across Africa and onto a plane to Heathrow - which is more than can be said for Muma and Papa. She's even made it out of the detention centre at the airport. And during this journey, Mhairi has learned that you can't rely on anyone else and you can't allow anyone else to rely on you... [[The Survival Game by Nicky Singer|Full Review]] <!-- Mazolla Hajaj -->
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===[[The Story Keeper Water Thief by Anna MazzolaClaire Hajaj]]===
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Audrey, a complex mix Nick is in the middle of flights of fancy and seriousness, wanting, needing, wedding preparations when he decides to be more than what everyone expects of her, escapes from the straightjacket of her home. Where every action, every thought, every yearning is controlled by her father, who only once leave his fiancée behind in his life threw caution to the wind London and married way beneath him take up a post in some un-named west African country providing engineering support for lovethe building of a children's hospital. Now a widower and remarried, he He has rigorously returned to upholding what is right, what is proper, the bastion of doing no idea what he is expectedgetting himself into. [[The Story Keeper Water Thief by Anna MazzolaClaire Hajaj|Full Review]]
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===[[Four Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Andy JonesPeter Lovesey]]===
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Friends are niceChildren love wrecking balls, and couple friends are doubly nice, giving you like minded people so the young lad wasn't going to pass up the opportunity to spend time with. A pair of pairs, or watch one hit a couple building through one of couplesthose very tempting holes in fencing which you find around building sites. Married couple Sally The problem was that when the dust settled a skeleton, sitting in an armchair and Al have known Mike for ages – Sally from universityclad in clothes which looked to be a few hundred years old, Al through workwas visible in the loft of the half-demolished building. His new girlfriend Faye completes their foursome and though she doesn't have their shared history, she The lad's father ceased his explanations about kinetic energy and hurried the boy away. Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond was not so lucky. Viewing the corpse from a lot of fun – a bit younger than cherry picker, an unfortunate adjustment to the rest of themcontrols left him eye to, er, an actress eye socket with the corpse and so onthe picture was caught by a press photographer. It was too good not to go viral. [[Four Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Andy JonesPeter Lovesey|Full Review]]
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===[[An Italian Summer Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Fanny BlakeKatherine Webber]]===
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Set against Though it's been 5 years since Mika died, Reiko still sees the backdrop ghost of Rome and Naplesher sister every day, forever 14. It's something that brings her comfort, ten very different people meet on but also a small 'Taste constant reminder that she has to make up for being one when there should have been two. She has to shine bright enough for both of Italy' sightseeing tripthem. When she befriends outsider Seth, he presents her with an escape. This is a story of From her family, friendships her friends, the grief and relationships – my favouriteloss that continue to scar them all. Seth is instantly smitten with her. HoweverAfter all, it was a departure from the usual formulaic chicklit I normally read focused on sassy independent female characters in their twenties or thirties. Here the characters are middlewho wouldn't fall for gorgeous, popular Reiko Smith-aged with children Mori? But while she falls in their twenties and rather than looking for love they are facing different life challenges of maintaining love, empty nest syndromewith the escape that he represents from her grief, and the loss of loved ones. Essentially it is a story of breaking out and new beginnings's not so clear that she's falling in love with him. [[An Italian Summer Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Fanny BlakeKatherine Webber|Full Review]]
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===[[Believe Me by J P Delaney]]===
===[[Bone Talk by Candy Gourlay]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:ThrillersConfident Readers|ThrillersConfident Readers]]
Claire Wright wanted to be an actress, but she was penniless and Samkad is living high up in New York. She might have had a scholarship to cover her school fees, but she still had to find the money mountainous Philippine jungle just as the nineteenth century turns to live in one of the most expensive cities in the worldtwentieth. There was a solution, although it didn't provide a regular income: she became a decoy for a firm But Samkad has no idea about any of divorce lawyersthat. The job was to trap straying husbands He has never met anyone from outside his own small tribe and tape them as they propositioned herhis thoughts are focused on becoming a man. There were rules though: she couldnHe't hit on them directly - they had s desperate for the Elders to proposition her. There was no intention permit him to trap join the innocentranks of the warriors who protect his tribe from their headhunting enemies, even though he knows it will mean leaving his childhood friend Little Luki behind. [[Believe Me Bone Talk by J P DelaneyCandy Gourlay|Full Review]]
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===[[Hell's Unveiling Summerland by Laura SolomonHannu Rajaniemi]]===
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A little while ago I really enjoyed [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and I Imagine a world in which death was delighted by the opportunity no longer something to fear but something to aspire to read the sequel, ''Hell's Unveiling''. It's probably not much After discovery of a spoiler to say that Marsha bested the devil in ''Marsha's Deal''afterlife, but the devil is not one to take defeat lying down. He's out to wage war on Planet Earth and particularly on Marsha (who's thought of as a 'goody two shoes' in Hell). Although a strong personBritish Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, she's vulnerable where her foster children are concernedthe Big Smoke for the recently deceased. Daniel In 1938 the British Empire is framed for caught up in a crime he didn't commit race against Soviet spies and sent to juvenile detention and refused permission to return to live dealing with Marshaa mole buried deep in the heart of Summerland. ThenWhen Rachel White, of course there are all an ambitious SIS agent, becomes suspicious about the other children who are not only targetedpotential rogue agent, but - worst of all - subverted to the devil's evil ends. He's out she must decide how far she is willing to prey on their fears go and weaknesses and as with many foster children, their self esteem how much she is very fragile. This is no small-scale operation, either - willing to risk to uncover the devil has set up a training complex on earth, complete with an elevator to Helltruth. [[Hell's Unveiling Summerland by Laura SolomonHannu Rajaniemi|Full Review]]
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===[[A Necessary Murder Going To The Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing by M J TjiaK D Knight]]===
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It's 1863 and In the opening story a man whose wife has deserted him visits Sandown with little girl has been found murdered at money, but comes away with cash in his pocket - and his wife. In ''A Grey Day'' an owner struggles with the family home problem of whether or not to run his horse in Stoke Newingtonthe Gold Cup when the ground is against him. A few days later and a few miles across London My favourite was ''The Story of H'', the story of Foinavon. H is depicted as a man is found dead kind horse who only wanted to please people. After changing hands on various occasions he came to the yard of John Kempton. H (or Foinavon) was entered in the Grand National and considered a similar way outside no-hoper. In one of the opulent townhouse most dramatic runnings of Heloise Chanceythe race, courtesan and part-time detectivea pile up occured at the 23rd fence. Could they be connected? And what Foinavon, if anythingwho had been many lengths adrift, does either of them have cleared the fence and galloped to do with Heloise's maidthe line, Amah Li Leen, and winning the troubling events in her past which are threatening to resurface?race at odds of 100/1. [[A Necessary Murder Going To The Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing by M J TjiaK D Knight|Full Review]]
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===[[The Frog Who Was Blue by Faiz Kermani]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]], [[:Category:Popular ScienceFor Sharing|Popular ScienceFor Sharing]]
This incredible graphic novel is a love letter ''Biriwita the blue frog longs to be accepted at Croak College, the Moon landings and the passion most famous school for frogs in Malawi, but the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collinsother students all turn their backs on him. This He is just too different!'' Biriwita hails from Lake Ticklewater. Many creatures find a story we know well and because of this the authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing home there, including frogs. For some reason that we nobody can fill in remember, all the blanksLake Ticklewater frogs are blue. These shortcuts are They think nothing of it. So, when Biriwita wins a place at Croak College, the only downside first Ticklewater frog to the book. If you've ever read manage such a comic book adaptation of a film you will be familiar feat, he is filled with the slight feeling that there are scenes missing excitement and that dialogue has been trimmed. This his only worry is a graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long how much he will miss his friends and still felt too shortfamily. [[Apollo The Frog Who Was Blue by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike CollinsFaiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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