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  • Cover image of book Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum, translated by Shanna Tan
    Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop - by Hwang Bo-reum, translated by Shanna Tan

    £9.99   paperback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781526662286 | ISBN 10: 1526662280

    There was only one thing on her mind.  'I must start a bookshop.'  Yeongju did everything she was supposed to, go to university, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. Burned out, Yeongju abandons her old life, qui ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Bad Decade for Good People by Joe Bedford
    A Bad Decade for Good People - by Joe Bedford

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781914595554 | ISBN 10: 1914595556

    A fiercely hopeful novel about family, sexuality, grief and how we as individuals can rediscover our political agency in the face of continued uncertainty.  Brighton, 2016. Laurie wears the scar given to her by a policeman’s baton as a mark of ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dark Between The Trees by Fiona Barnett
    The Dark Between The Trees - by Fiona Barnett

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781786187147 | ISBN 10: 1786187140

    1643: A small group of Parliamentarian soldiers are ambushed in an isolated part of Northern England. Their only hope for survival is to flee into the nearby Moresby Wood… unwise though that may seem. For Moresby Wood is known to be an unnatura ... more

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  • Cover image of book Murder On The Christmas Express by Alexandra Benedict
    Murder On The Christmas Express - by Alexandra Benedict

    £14.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781398519824 | ISBN 10: 1398519820

    CAN YOU SOLVE THE CASE?   ‘It’s wonderful! A page-turning homage to the Golden Age, with a dash of Poirot and a dark, modern heart’ S J BENNETT  ‘Magnificent! A smart, suspenseful and snow-covered mystery with plenty of heart and more ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lucky Breaks by Yevgenia Belorusets
    Lucky Breaks - by Yevgenia Belorusets

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781782278726 | ISBN 10: 1782278729

    In Lucky Breaks, we encounter anonymous women from the margins of Ukrainian society, their lives upended by the ongoing conflict with Russia. A woman, bewildered by her broken umbrella, tries to abandon it like a sick relative; a beautiful florist su ... more

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  • Cover image of book Category Unknown by Koushik Banerjea
    Category Unknown - by Koushik Banerjea

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780995721784 | ISBN 10: 0995721785

    Life on a London council estate leads the entrepreneurial Conrad on a conflicted journey between his ambition, his loyalty to his Jamaican nan and his need to redeem himself.   The suppressed scars of a life under the Spanish dictator Franco ... more

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  • Cover image of book Exit by Belinda Bauer
    Exit - by Belinda Bauer

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781784164133 | ISBN 10: 1784164135

    Perfect for fans of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club, this is the page-turning, twisty, and often hilarious new crime novel from bestselling author Belinda Bauer.  Meet Felix Pink. The most unlikely murderer you'll ever have the good ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry
    A Thousand Moons - by Sebastian Barry

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780571333394 | ISBN 10: 0571333397

    From the Costa Book of the Year-winning author of Days Without End.   Even when you come out of bloodshed and disaster in the end you have got to learn to live...  Winona is a young Lakota orphan adopted by former soldiers Thomas McNulty and J ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Manningtree Witches by A.K. Blakemore
    The Manningtree Witches - by A.K. Blakemore

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781783786442 | ISBN 10: 1783786442

    WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE  Fear and destruction take root in a community of women when the Witchfinder General comes to town, in this dark and thrilling debut.  England, 1643. Parliament is battling the King; the war bet ... more

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  • Cover image of book All Men Want to Know by Nina Bouraoui
    All Men Want to Know - by Nina Bouraoui

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241447734 | ISBN 10: 0241447739

    AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN TRANSLATES AWARD   All Men Want to Know traces Nina Bouraoui's blissful childhood in Algeria, a wild, sun-soaked paradise, with hazy summer afternoons spent swimming, diving, and driving ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Cat and The City by Nick Bradley
    The Cat and The City - by Nick Bradley

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781786499912 | ISBN 10: 1786499916

    In Tokyo - one of the world's largest megacities - a stray cat is wending her way through the back alleys. And, with each detour, she brushes up against the seemingly disparate lives of the city-dwellers, connecting them in unexpected ways.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book Under the Bridge: A Liverpool Mystery by Jack Byrne
    Under the Bridge: A Liverpool Mystery - by Jack Byrne

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781838343002 | ISBN 10: 1838343008

    WHEN SECRETS RESURFACE THE PAST REACHES OUT...   2004: The discovery of a body in the Liverpool docklands unearths long forgotten secrets. Reporter Anne McCarthy is keen to prove herself and dives into the case with abandon. There she fin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Remembered by Yvonne Battle-Felton
    Remembered - by Yvonne Battle-Felton

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780349700489 | ISBN 10: 0349700486

    From the Women's Prize for Fiction longlist and the Northern Writer's Award Winner comes...  REMEMBERED  It is 1910 and Philadelphia is burning...  The last place Spring wants to be is in the rundown, coloured section of a hos ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dune Song by Anissa M Bouziane
    Dune Song - by Anissa M Bouziane

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781912240357 | ISBN 10: 1912240351

    Winner of the Special Jury Prize, Prix Littéraire Sofitel Tour Blanche   'I came to the Sahara to be buried.'   After witnessing the collapse of the World Trade Centre, Jeehan Nathaar leaves her New York life with her sense of identity ... more

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  • Cover image of book Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
    Zoo City - by Lauren Beukes

    £7.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781405924054 | ISBN 10: 1405924055

    Lauren Beukes' Arthur C Clarke Award-winning tale of a young woman trapped in a brutal city but looking for a way out...   'A major, major talent' George R. R. Martin   Zinzi has a Sloth on her back, a dirty 419 scam habit and a talent ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ironopolis by Glen James Brown
    Ironopolis - by Glen James Brown

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781912681099 | ISBN 10: 1912681099

    Stranded on the outskirts of Ironopolis — nickname to a lost industrial Middlesbrough — the Burn Council Estate is about to be torn down to make way for regeneration. For the future ... But these streets know many stories, some hide secrets... ... more

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  • Cover image of book Please Don
    Please Don't Come Back from the Moon - by Dean Bakopoulos

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784162276 | ISBN 10: 1784162272

    When Michael was sixteen his father left home. He wasn't the first to go. One by one other men in the blue-collar neighbourhood outside Detroit where Michael lives vanish. One props open the door to his shoe store and leaves a note. 'I'm going to the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Time of Lies: A Political Satire by Douglas Board
    Time of Lies: A Political Satire - by Douglas Board

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781785630347 | ISBN 10: 1785630342

    In 2020 the United Kingdom elects its own Donald Trump.   Bob Grant, former football hooligan, now the charismatic leader of the Britain’s Great party, has swept to power on a populist tide. With his itchy finger hovering over the nuclear tr ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Sellout by Paul Beatty
    The Sellout - by Paul Beatty

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786071460 | ISBN 10: 1786071460

    **WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016**   ‘Outrageous, hilarious and profound.' Simon Schama, Financial Times ‘The longer you stare at Beatty's pages, the smarter you'll get.' Guardian ‘The most badass first 100 pages of an American ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea by Bandi
    The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea - by Bandi

    £12.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781781257548 | ISBN 10: 178125754x

    In 1989, a North Korean dissident writer, known to us only by the pseudonym Bandi, began to write a series of stories about life under Kim Il-sung's totalitarian regime.  Smuggled out of North Korea and set for publication around the world in 20 ... more

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  • Cover image of book Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
    Days Without End - by Sebastian Barry

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571333899 | ISBN 10: 0571333893

    'I am thinking of the days without end of my life...'   After signing up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, go on to fight in the Indian wars and, ultimately, the Civil War.   ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
    The Noise of Time - by Julian Barnes

    £7.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784703325 | ISBN 10: 178470332x

    In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few who ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beatlebone by Kevin Barry
    Beatlebone - by Kevin Barry

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781782116165 | ISBN 10: 1782116168

    WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2015  He will spend three days alone on his island. That is all that he asks... John is so many miles from love now and home. This is the story of his strangest trip.  John ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises by Fredrik Backman
    My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises - by Fredrik Backman

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781444775853 | ISBN 10: 1444775855

    The hilarious, heart-breaking novel by the author of the international bestseller A Man Called Ove.  A must-read for fans of Rachel Joyce's and Maria Semple's Where'd You Go, Bernadette.  Heartbreaking and hilarious in equal measure, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume
    Spill Simmer Falter Wither - by Sara Baume

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099592747 | ISBN 10: 0099592746

    LONGLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2015   You find me on a Tuesday, on my Tuesday trip to town. A note sellotaped to the inside of the jumble-shop window: COMPASSIONATE & TOLERANT OWNER. A PERSON WITHOUT OTHER PETS & WITHOUT CHILDREN ... more

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  • Cover image of book Blackass by A. Igoni Barrett
    Blackass - by A. Igoni Barrett

    £14.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780701188566 | ISBN 10: 0701188561

    White skin, green eyes, red hair – black ass. Furo Wariboko – born and bred in Lagos – wakes up on the morning of his job interview to discover he has turned into a white man. As he hits the streets of Lagos running, Furo finds the dead ends of hi ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Secret of Evil by Roberto Bolano
    The Secret of Evil - by Roberto Bolano

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780330510660 | ISBN 10: 0330510665

    Roberto Bolaño confirmed his place as a giant of Latin American literature with his novels The Savage Detectives and 2666. Included in this one-of-a-kind collection is everything he was working on just before his death in 2003.   A North Ameri ... more

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  • Cover image of book Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan
    Trout Fishing in America - by Richard Brautigan

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781782113805 | ISBN 10: 1782113800

    Richard Brautigan's wonderfully zany, hilarious episodic novel set amongst the rural waterways of America.   Here's a journey that begins at the foot of the Benjamin Franklin statue in San Francisco's Washington Square, wanders through the won ... more

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  • Cover image of book Complicity by Iain Banks
    Complicity - by Iain Banks

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780349139135 | ISBN 10: 034913913x

    COMPLICITY n. 1. the fact of being an accomplice, esp. in a criminal act   A few spliffs, a spot of mild S&M, phone through the copy for tomorrow's front page, catch up with the latest from your mystery source - could be big, could be very big - i ... more

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  • Cover image of book HHhH by Laurent Binet, translated by Sam Taylor
    HHhH - by Laurent Binet, translated by Sam Taylor

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780099555643 | ISBN 10: 0099555646

    An astonishing, unforgettable novel: a thrilling Second World War assassination plot told with rare literary brilliance.  Two men have been enlisted to kill the head of the Gestapo. This is Operation Anthropoid, Prague, 1942: two Czechoslovak ... more

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  • Cover image of book Philida by André Brink
    Philida - by André Brink

    £10.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780099578758 | ISBN 10: 0099578751

    LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2012.   An unforgettable story of a woman determined to find her freedom - set in South Africa in 1830s, as slavery was about to be abolished. The year is 1832 and the Cape is rife with rumours about the libera ... more

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  • Cover image of book Turbulent Priests by Bateman
    Turbulent Priests - by Bateman

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780755378753 | ISBN 10: 075537875x

    Is she the new Messiah, or just a very naughty girl?   Dan Starkey arrives on Wrathlin Island - meteorogically wet but alcoholically dry - to investigate the residents' belief that the Messiah is alive, female, and about to start school th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Full House by Maeve Binchy
    Full House - by Maeve Binchy

    £2.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781409136613 | ISBN 10: 1409136612

    A brand new Maeve Binchy - written specially for the World Book Day Quick Reads promotion.  Dee loves her children very much, but now they are all grown up, shouldn't they leave home?  Rosie moved out when she got married, but i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Heart of Tango by Elia Barceló, translated by David Frye
    Heart of Tango - by Elia Barceló, translated by David Frye

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781849164078 | ISBN 10: 184916407x

    Natalia is to be married to a German sailor much older than herself, but two days before the wedding she meets Diego, a mysterious young dancer, and they fall immediately in love. When he serenades her on the eve of the ceremony, Natalia's father unw ... more

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  • Cover image of book Boxer, Beetle by Ned Beuman
    Boxer, Beetle - by Ned Beuman

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780340998410 | ISBN 10: 0340998415

    This is a novel for people with breeding.   Only people with the right genes and the wrong impulses will find its marriage of bold ideas and deplorable characters irresistible. It is a novel that engages the mind while satisfying those th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles
    Two Serious Ladies - by Jane Bowles

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780956003850 | ISBN 10: 0956003850

    ‘I am going on a trip. Wait until I tell you about it. It’s terrible.’   Eccentric, impulsive New York heiress, Christina Goering meets the anxious but equally unpredictable Mrs Copperfield at a party. Two serious ladies, for whom nothing is ... more

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  • Cover image of book Old Masters by Thomas Bernhard
    Old Masters - by Thomas Bernhard

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141192710 | ISBN 10: 0141192712

    Old Masters (1985) is Thomas Bernhard's devilishly funny story about the friendship between two old men.   For over thirty years Reger, a music critic, has sat on the same bench in front of a Tintoretto painting in a Viennese museum, thinking ... more

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  • Cover image of book Gay Love Stories: An Anthology of Erotica by Hank Brooks
    Gay Love Stories: An Anthology of Erotica - by Hank Brooks

    £13.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781935509240 | ISBN 10: 1935509241

    "These stories were written by a hopeless romantic. I believe everyone should be in love; young, old, and in between; men and women. Consequently, every story has a Hollywood ending and all my live happily ever after.  Almost every love st ... more

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  • Cover image of book True Murder by Yaba Badoe
    True Murder - by Yaba Badoe

    £12.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099523321 | ISBN 10: 0099523329

    Eleven year old Ajuba has been abandoned at a Devon boarding school by her Ghanaian father.Haunted by the circumstances of her mother's breakdown and the ghosts of the life she left behind in Ghana, she falls under the spell of new girl Polly Venus a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
    The Ghost Road - by Pat Barker

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141030951 | ISBN 10: 014103095x

    1918, the closing months of the war. Army psychiatrist William Rivers is increasingly concerned for the men who have been in his care – particularly Billy Prior, who is about to return to combat in France with young poet Wilfred Owen. As Rivers tries ... more

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  • Cover image of book Life Class by Pat Barker
    Life Class - by Pat Barker

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141019475 | ISBN 10: 0141019476

    In the Spring of 1914 a group of students at the Slade School of Art have gathered for a life-drawing class. Paul Tarrant is easily distracted by an intriguing fellow student, Elinor Brooke, but when Kit Neville — himself not long out of the Slade bu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Whitethorn Woods by Maeve Binchy
    Whitethorn Woods - by Maeve Binchy

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780752881478 | ISBN 10: 0752881477

    The town of Rossmore is a special place, full of character and charm. Nestled beside the Whitethorn Woods, the town has grown since the days when it was small and friendly and everyone knew everyone else; now it has chain stories and traffic problems ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Sea by John Banville
    The Sea - by John Banville

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780330483292 | ISBN 10: 0330483293

    When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. The Grace family appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world. Dr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
    Fahrenheit 451 - by Ray Bradbury

    £8.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780006546061 | ISBN 10: 0006546064

    The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pig Earth by John Berger
    Pig Earth - by John Berger

    £7.99   paperback   (1999) - ISBN 13: 9780747543039 | ISBN 10: 0747543038

    Set in a small village in the French Alps, Pig Earth relates the stories of sceptical, hard-working men and fiercely independent women.  This book is an act of reckoning that conveys the precise wealth and weight of a world we are losing. ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
    The Good Earth - by Pearl S. Buck

    £8.99   paperback   (1931) - ISBN 13: 9781416511106 | ISBN 10: 1416511105

    O-lan is a homely servant girl in the village's greatest house. When she is taken as a wife by Wang Lung, a simple Chinese farmer, she toils tirelessly through four pregnancies for their family's survival. Reward at first is meagre, but there is hope ... more

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