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===[[Equator Photographer of the Lost by Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)Caroline Scott]]===
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It strikes me that nobody can speak well of May 1921. Edie receives a photograph through the Wild West outside the walls of a theme parkpost. There is no letter or note with it. Our agent to see how bad it was here There is Pete Ferguson, who bristles at the indignity of white man against Native 'Indian', who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a buffalo hunt, and who hates nothing written on the way man – and woman, back of course – can turn against fellow man at the bat of an eyelidphotograph. But this book It is about so much more than the 1870s USAa picture of her husband, and the attendant problems with gold rushes, pioneer spirits and racial genocideFrancis. Francis has been missing for four years. He finds himself trying to find this book's version of UtopiaTechnically, namely the Equatorhe has been "missing, where everything believed killed" but that is upside down, people walk on their heads with rocks in their pockets to keep them not something that a young widow can believe. She hangs on the ground to counter word 'missing', disbelieving the anti-gravity, and where, who knows, things might actually be betterword killed. But that equator is a long way away – and there's a whole adventure full of Mexico and Latin America between him and it… [[Equator Photographer of the Lost by Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)Caroline Scott|Full Review]]
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| style="''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"''|===[[Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets The Man Who Killed Hitler by Alison WeirAndre Pronovost]]===
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Poor, frumpy Anne Germany is split. Some of Cleaves always gets a raw deal by history, her is in favour of all Hitler and the wives Nazis, but much isn't. Some of Henry VIII she her is stuck to the one who east fighting the Soviets, but some will soon have to be on the other front, against the Americans coming into the continent to put things right as they see it. Finding out that the war to the east isn't working, due to Hitler's tactical ineptitude and inability to heed advice, some people reckon Stalin is known for five seasons away from being rejectedin Berlin. Anne Boleyn The only way to shore things up, and Katheryn Howard were repair the sexy onessplits, Jane is to kill Hitler, and luckily Baron Nicholas is the dutiful one who delivered a sonman to do it. He's aristocratic enough, he knows enough people in industry, Katherine society and other circles of Aragon clung on power, so once he's succeeded he might be able to her crown and Katharine Parr clung on keep a German presence in Europe. But will he still be able to her life but poor frumpy Anne of Cleaves just rolled over keep the "predatory American capitalists" and moved along. Not any more! Alison Weir presents us with a different view of this young woman who saw the opportunity to live an independent life and took it. blatantly communist Soviets from meeting in the middle? [[Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets The Man Who Killed Hitler by Alison WeirAndre Pronovost|Full Review]]
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===[[Liberation Square Just Another Girl on the Road by Gareth RubinS Kensington]]===
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In an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is When Sergeant Farr and Corporal Valentine first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to be rescued by Russian soldiers encountered Katrinka Badeau she was just eighteen years old and fleeing from the East, a farmhouse and a group of German deserters who had raped her. Despite being outnumbered she was giving just about as good as she got when Farr and Valentine intervened and Americans from finished the westgroup off. Dividing It was 1944 and Farr and Valentine were part of the nation between themJedburgh unit, London soon finds itself split in twoEDMOND, lead by Major Willoughby Nye. Nye recognised Katrinka immediately - he'd worked on her father's merchant ship and Katrinka had once had a wall running through it like a scarcrush on Nye. When Jane Cawson's husband is arrested for the murder of he offered her a job with his former wifeunit, Jane is determined to clear his nameshe accepted. In doing so, Jane follows a trail of corruption that leads her right to the highest levels of the state – and soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of the murderous secret police… [[Liberation Square Just Another Girl on the Road by Gareth RubinS Kensington|Full Review]]
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[[image:4starBerlin, 1989. Miriam is in the middle of a city freshly united, with the Wall newly broken down and people able to cross at liberty for the first time in decades. She is in the middle of such euphoria, but cannot feel it, for she has not left her father's apartment in weeks, nursing him as he lies dying. One standard bed-bath, however, is very different, when he gasps the name ''Frieda'' that she does not recognise – and she sees for the first time ever a tattoo for his camp inmate identity under his watch. One bombshell outside, then, and two inside.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] And inside her father, Henryk, what is going on, as he has a first-person narrative alternating with her story? What will we find happened, as he remembers back to the real Frieda, a young woman that shook him to the core when he was her literature professor? That's right, more bombshells… [[:Category:Historical FictionThe Rabbit Girls by Anna Ellory|Historical FictionFull Review]]
You might not think that Georgian London contained many black people. But it contained more than you think. You may have heard of Francis Barber, the black African slave who became the friend of lexicographer Samuel Johnson and was a beneficiary of his will. ''The Boy in a Turban'' tells the story of a fictional black character, James, in Georgian London. James, then Quaccoe, is brought to the capital from a Jamaican plantation by a ship captain who wanted a servant for his two daughters. [[The Boy in a Turban by Joseph Hucknall|Full Review]] <!-- Clark Hlad -->
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===[[In The Full Light of the Sun Long Flight Home by Clare ClarkA L Hlad]]===
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September 1940 - as WWII rages on, bombs rain down on Britain, destroying the homes and lives of a people on the edge. In 1930's BerlinEpping Forest, three people obsessed Susan Shepherd and her grandfather Bertie live together raising homing pigeons with art find themselves swept up into the birds proving a scandalcomfort for Susan following the loss of her parents. EmmelineThese pigeons are more than just birds to Susan though – in each one, and especially in Duchess, she sees a wayward young student, Julius, an anxious middle-aged art expert, distinct personality and Rachmann, forms a mysterious art dealerclose bond. Meanwhile, live in young pilot Ollie Evans leaves Maine to head to Britain and join the Royal Air Force. Working with the politically turbulent Weimar BerlinNational Pigeon Service, he soon meets Susan and soon find themselves whipped up is tasked with air-dropping hundreds of homing pigeons into excitement over the surprise discovery of thirtyGerman-two previously unknown paintings by Vincent Van Goghoccupied France, where many will not survive. Based on a true story and unfolding through As the mission is planned, the subsequent rise of Hitler bond between Ollie and the NazisSusan grows stronger, but when Ollie's plane is downed behind enemy lines, the discovery it may be Duchess who provides an unexpected lifeline and ensures that hope of the art allows these characters to explore authenticity, vanity a reunion for Susan and self-delusion. Ollie remains… [[In The Full Light of the Sun Long Flight Home by Clare ClarkA L Hlad|Full Review]]
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===[[The Phoenix of Florence Brightfall by Philip KazanJaime Lee Moyer]]===
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Deep in the Tuscan countryside of fifteenth century ItalyRobin Hood is gone – denouncing both his former life and his love Marian, Onoria survives a massacre that destroys her family and home. Alone in the forest, she meets a band of soldiers who, believing her retreating to be a boy train and develop her monastery – and the determined Onoria becomes a mercenary – desperate although no-one knows quite what led him to avoid any situation in which she may feel vulnerable againabandon all that he had built. Along the way, she meets exMarion's life since has been relatively quiet -soldier Celavinibut when her friends start dying, whose journey Marion is tasked by Father Tuck to Florence sees him investigating two brutal murders. As he digs further break the curse surrounding them and uncovers links to his own family historysave their lives. Setting off with a soldier, Celavini must revisit the past he shares with Onoriaa Fey Lord and a sullen Robin Hood, she becomes tangled in the hope that they can lay the ghosts a maze of their shared history to restbetrayals, complicated relationships, before it's too late... and a vicious struggle for the throne…[[The Phoenix of Florence Brightfall by Philip KazanJaime Lee Moyer|Full Review]]
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===[[Deviation A Perfect Explanation by Luce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)Eleanor Anstruther]]===
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For those of you Enid Campbell was a woman who have read books of life in , on the Nazi camps – and face of courseit, for those had everything. Leading the life of you who have not an aristocrat – this can be considered a next step. It begins, after all, with someone escaping Dachau full of inherited wealth and fleeing her work assignment during a bombing raidsplendour, glamourous locales and youhigh expectations. Only Enid'd not blame her one minutes life has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, as untreated and threatening both Enid and those close to her career was deemed to be cess-tank cleaner and sewage unblocker by the Germans. In MunichAfter losing custody of her children, she stumbles on help Enid sells her son to get her to what seems to be a camp sister for non-native civilians to look for work£500 – but is this an act of greed, or company, or transport elsewhere, either official or otherwise. But then an act of desperation? Exploring the next chapter sees true story of her going back into own grandmother, Eleanor Anstruther has found the camp next to Dachau once moreperfect subject for an explosive, moving and by then eyebrows are being raisedbeautifully well-written debut. [[Deviation A Perfect Explanation by Luce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)Eleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]
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===[[The Count of 9 Equator by Erle Stanley GardnerAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)]]===
[[image:43.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeHistorical Fiction|CrimeHistorical Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|Historical General Fiction]]
''The Count It strikes me that nobody can speak well of the Wild West outside the walls of a theme park. Our agent to see how bad it was here is Pete Ferguson, who bristles at the indignity of 9white man against Native 'Indian' is , who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a hardboiled detective story written in buffalo hunt, and who hates the way man – and woman, of course – can turn against fellow man at the 1950sbat of an eyelid. It revolves around But this book is about so much more than the 1870s USA, and the detective duo of Donald Lam attendant problems with gold rushes, pioneer spirits and Bertha Cool as they attempt racial genocide. He finds himself trying to solve find this book's version of Utopia, namely the theft of priceless Bornean artefacts. HoweverEquator, where everything is upside down, people walk on their heads with rocks in their case quickly turns into something darker pockets to keep them on the ground to counter the anti- an impossible murdergravity, and where, who knows, things might actually be better. But that equator is a long way away – and there's a whole adventure full of Mexico and Latin America between him and it… [[The Count of 9 Equator by Erle Stanley GardnerAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[The Hidden Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets by Mary ChamberlainAlison Weir]]===
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When Barbara Hummel arrivesPoor, determined to identify frumpy Anne of Cleaves always gets a raw deal by history, of all the mysterious woman whose photograph wives of Henry VIII she has found among her mother's possessions, Dora is the one who is known for being rejected. Anne Boleyn and Joe find their worlds upended – and are swiftly forced to confront their pasts. Revisiting their time on Katheryn Howard were the Channel Islands during World War IIsexy ones, Dora remembers Jane the dutiful one who delivered a time when she concealed son, Katherine of Aragon clung on to her crown and Katharine Parr clung on to her Jewish identity, life but poor frumpy Anne of Cleaves just rolled over and Joe, a Catholic Priest, remembers moved along. Not any more! Alison Weir presents us with a time when he hid something very different. In view of this story of love, loss young woman who saw the opportunity to live an independent life and betrayal, took it remains to be seen whether a speck . [[Six Tudor Queens: Anna of light can diffuse the darkest shadows Kleve, Queen of war… [[The Hidden Secrets by Mary ChamberlainAlison Weir|Full Review]]
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===[[The Turn of Midnight Liberation Square by Minette WaltersGareth Rubin]]===
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At the beginning of 1349 there In an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is a glimmer of a hope that first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the ravages of East, and Americans from the Black Death might be passingwest. In Devilish Dividing the nation between them, London soon finds itself split in Dorset the population is welltwo, because of Lady Annea wall running through it like a scar. When Jane Cawson's strict rules about quarantine, which are regarded as heresy as they go against husband is arrested for the strict rules murder of the churchhis former wife, Jane is determined to clear his name. In doing so, but their stores Jane follows a trail of food are dwindling and they know corruption that when they are exhausted they will have no choice but leads her right to leave. What will they find on the outside? Are they highest levels of the only survivors? state – and soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of the murderous secret police… [[The Turn of Midnight Liberation Square by Minette WaltersGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[Frieda by Annabel Abbs]]===
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Married to English Professor Ernest Weekley, aristocrat Frieda Von Richtofen finds herself stifled by the confines of married life. Visiting family in Munich, she becomes captivated by the ideas of revolution and free love. Meeting the penniless writer D.H. Lawrence, she finds herself drawn into a passionate affair and a tempestuous relationship, changing the course of both their lives, and unleashing a creative outpouring that will change the course of literature forever[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Frieda by Annabel Abbs:Category:Historical Fiction|Full ReviewHistorical Fiction]]
You might not think that Georgian London contained many black people. But it contained more than you think. You may have heard of Francis Barber, the black African slave who became the friend of lexicographer Samuel Johnson and was a beneficiary of his will. ''The Boy in a Turban'' tells the story of a fictional black character, James, in Georgian London. James, then Quaccoe, is brought to the capital from a Jamaican plantation by a ship captain who wanted a servant for his two daughters. [[The Boy in a Turban by Joseph Hucknall|Full Review]] <!-- Susan Fletcher Clark -->
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===[[House In The Full Light of Glass the Sun by Susan FletcherClare Clark]]===
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Clara suffered from In 1930''Osteogenesis imperfecta'': these days it would probably be called brittle bone disease and whilst there is still no cures Berlin, treatments have advancedthree people obsessed with art find themselves swept up into a scandal. At the beginning of the twentieth century it meant that Clara was confined to her homeEmmeline, living life through a window wayward young student, Julius, an anxious middle-aged art expert, and Rachmann, a mysterious art dealer, live in the tales her motherpolitically turbulent Weimar Berlin, Charlotte, brought home. Both became far too knowledgeable about bones and soon find themselves whipped up into excitement over the sounds they made surprise discovery of thirty-two previously unknown paintings by Vincent Van Gogh. Based on breaking. Charlotte would ''list bones like continents''. Clara would only escape the house after her mother's death - of a tumour at true story and unfolding through the age subsequent rise of thirty nine - Hitler and in her wanderings discovered Kew Gardens. Her growing knowledge the Nazis, the discovery of tropical plants led the art allows these characters to the offer of a job stocking a newlyexplore authenticity, vanity and self-built glass house at Shadowbrook in Gloucestershiredelusion. [[House In The Full Light of Glass the Sun by Susan FletcherClare Clark|Full Review]]
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===[[A Treachery The Phoenix of Spies Florence by Manda ScottPhilip Kazan]]===
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When Inspector Inès Picaut is called to investigate Deep in the horrific murder Tuscan countryside of fifteenth-century Italy, Onoria survives a strikingly beautiful elderly ladymassacre that destroys her family and home. Alone in the forest, she's puzzled – whilst the identity meets a band of the woman has been erasedsoldiers who, it's clear that she has been killed in the same way that traitors believing her to the resistance were executed in World War Two. Solving the mystery will lead Inès deep into the history of this woman be a boy train and develop her – and back to a time when the men and women of 1940s France were engaged in determined Onoria becomes a mercenary – desperateto avoid any situation in which she may feel vulnerable again. Along the way, she meets ex-soldier Celavini, whose journey to Florence sees him investigating two brutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressorsmurders. As more he digs further and more secrets come uncovers links to lighthis own family history, Celavini must revisit the past he shares with Onoria, Inès discovers in the hope that there are many in they can lay the present who would rather ghosts of their past stay buried – and many who would kill shared history to keep secrets safe… rest before it's too late... [[A Treachery The Phoenix of Spies Florence by Manda ScottPhilip Kazan|Full Review]]
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===[[Murmuration Deviation by Robert LockLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)]]===
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''Murmuration'' follows For those of you who have read books of life in the lives Nazi camps – and of course, for those of you who have not – this can be considered a host of characters from 1863 to the present daynext step. From It begins, after all, with someone escaping Dachau and fleeing her work assignment during a risqué comic bombing raid, and you'd not blame her one minute, as her career was deemed to a fortune teller, we see be cess-tank cleaner and sewage unblocker by the birth of Blackpool and its steadily fading glamourGermans. There is In Munich, she stumbles on help to get her to what seems to be a hint of mysticism camp for non-native civilians to the talelook for work, or company, or transport elsewhere, with the mesmerising dance of starlings over either official or otherwise. But then the pier acting as an anchor throughout next chapter sees her going back into the distinct narratives herecamp next to Dachau once more, drawing together disparate stories of lives captivated and by the seathen eyebrows are being raised. [[Murmuration Deviation by Robert LockLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[The Mercy Seat Count of 9 by Elizabeth H WinthropErle Stanley Gardner]]===
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In an isolated Louisiana town, a young black prisoner sits in his dingy cell, staring at the shadow ''The Count of the window bars cast onto the concrete wall by the evening9''s dying sun rays. At midnight, he will be dead; strapped to a chair and electrocuted for the rape of a white girl, who later committed suicide. He is resigned to his fate; it is futile to protest his innocence or to expect anyone to believe what really happened; after all, love between a black man and a white woman was never going to have a happy ending hardboiled detective story written in a small town filled with small-minded people. [[The Mercy Seat by Elizabeth H Winthrop|Full Review]] <!-- Maitland -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1472235878.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472235878/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Gathering of Ghosts by Karen Maitland]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Witchcraft, the supernatural and the will to survive at all costs collide in a story that never shies away from the darker side of human nature1950s. The land is unhappy, It revolves around the old spirits want revenge and famine is kindling a resurgence detective duo of the old faith. As fear rises, it is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to ignore that something rotten has taken root. The sacred well is tainted, its healing waters run red with blood and strangers are blowing in on a wind of change. [[A Gathering of Ghosts by Karen Maitland|Full Review]] <!-- Syson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Syson_Peacock.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785761862/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions by Lydia Syson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] On a remote volcanic island off the coast of New Zealand, a family of settlers struggle to make such an unforgiving place a home. When a ship appears, they feel that their wishes have been granted and their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when a vulnerable boy disappears. As both settlers Donald Lam and newcomers come together in the search for the child, they uncover far, far more than Bertha Cool as they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both the island and those who inhabit it. [[Mr Peacock's Possessions by Lydia Syson|Full Review]] <!-- Mazolla -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1472234782.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472234782/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Story Keeper by Anna Mazzola]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Audrey, a complex mix of flights of fancy and seriousness, wanting, needing, attempt to be more than what everyone expects of her, escapes from solve the straightjacket theft of her homepriceless Bornean artefacts. Where every actionHowever, every thought, every yearning is controlled by her father, who only once in his life threw caution to the wind and married way beneath him for love. Now a widower and remarried, he has rigorously returned to upholding what is right, what is proper, the bastion of doing what is expected. [[The Story Keeper by Anna Mazzola|Full Review]] <!their case quickly turns into something darker -- Glendinning -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0715652915an impossible murder.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0715652915/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|=== [[The Butcher's Daughter by Victoria Glendinning]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] The Tudor era is often chosen for historical fiction because it has such a wealth Count of intrigue, plots and machinations. The regular cast of courtly characters are usually rich and powerful, with so many to choose from that the well never seems to run dry and the characters are often those high up in the circles of power, or those prepared to do anything to get there. This book, however, is totally different. Set in the mid–to–late 1500s we see the world through the eyes of Agnes Peppin, a young, poor woman. As a woman she can either marry, or join a convent. Since Agnes has disgraced herself then she has no choice at all, and she is sent to join the nuns of Shaftesbury Abbey. [[The Butcher's Daughter 9 by Victoria GlendinningErle Stanley Gardner|Full Review]]
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