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 =='''23 JULYMAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=1408712415Onyi Nwabineli|title=Cry Baby|author=Mark BillinghamAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=ItAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's June 1996 and footballincreasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's European Championships are about to start in Londonchildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. DS Tom Thorne Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is having a nightmare slowly trying to regain her confidence and it's one he has regularly. It relates to a case from ten years earlier when he ''knew'' that a man was guiltyget her life back, but didn't suing her step-mother to take any action until down the man's wife and three children had been murdered and the man had killed himselfcontent about herCat Coyne Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and Maria Ashton are with their sons Kieron secretly abusing people online and Joshreceiving money from them for doing so. ItMost importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's a happy combination in that the boys are devoted to each other and - despite differences in the where and how they live - the women are best friendsonline empire. The boys are seven-year-old Can she save her sister, and they play on the swings in the park perhaps herself and then dash off to play hide and seek in Highgate Wood. Josh was her relationship with her father at the one doing the hiding - but he returned tearfully to the women: Kieron never came to find him and now he can't find Kieron.same time?|isbn=0861546873
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=='''30 MAY'''==
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|isbn=B07WWSCGVSB0CYV674G2|title=The Lies You ToldSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Harriet TyceDavid Blake|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isn't happy about having to start a new schoolIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. She's left the school she loved A man, covered in New York mud and now she's going to Ashams in North London. It's very upmarket; places are rare as hens' teeth blood - and as carrying a knife, comes into the pupils have all been there police station shouting that he hasn''forever'', they have their established groupst killed the man. RobinA body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's going been stabbed to be an outsiderdeath. And why DCI John Tanner is this happening? Welljust back from his honeymoon, over a matter which coincided with the birth of a few days her parents' marriage fell aparthis daughter Samantha. Andrew Spence is staying in New York - You would think he works 'd be grateful for a securities firm - an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and her mother, Sadie Roper, has come back to London to pick up her practice as a criminal barrister'John Tanner' were made for each other. ThatHe's easier said than done when you've been out of the market place sleep- and deprived to the country point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - for more than ten yearsprobably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=1473682401Stuart Douglas|title=The Turning Tide (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Those who were with us at the end of [[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Catriona McPherson|A Step So Grave]] will remember that Donald was engaged to Mallory Dunnoch. They're now married and Mallory is having twins. When they arrive no one can doubt the charms of Lavinia Dahlia Cherry and her brother, Edward Hugh Lachlan Gilver. There are two drawbacks: they're noisy Lowe and they're staying with Dandy and Hugh. Dandy and her detective partner, Alec Osborne, had not taken up the chance to look into a problem Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Cramond ferry when it was offered to them twice before, but suddenly the possibility of being out of the house at Gilverton seems irresistible.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1785765698|title=Shed No Tears|author=Caz FrearDress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In November 2012 Christopher MastersDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', the leading man who would become known as 'Edward Lowe stumbles across the roommate killer', strangled three women in dead body of a fortnight. When he was arrested he admitted woman on the killingsedge of a reservoir. A fourth The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death was attributed to him - that of Holly Kemp - and on occasions, Masters admitted to but something about the killingwhole thing bothers Lowe, then and he denied it - then admitted itenlists the help of a fellow actor, then denied itJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. He played with They travel across the policecountry during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, but there was sufficient evidence on the first three killings a link to put him away for a long time and death during the CPS were not convinced about the Holly Kemp caseSecond World War. There was no body and once Masters was murdered in prison, no hope of progressing But is there really a link between the case further.deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|author=James PattersonKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=HawkDungeon Runners: A Maximum Ride NovelHero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Hawk has been waiting on Meet Kit. Like most of the same street cornerpeople in his world, every dayit seems, for years. She he is waiting for her parents an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to come the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and get herthe points they grant you along the way. They left her there when she was just tinyUnfortunately for Kit, and although shethe only thing he's almost certain seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that they are never coming back for herone team has been retired, she continues to head back there each day, just in case. Hawk isn't your ordinary street urchin though...she has wingseaten, and can fly! Since she was abandoned she's been living with a group new trio of other children, all with interesting characteristics of their own and together they've made their own familyquestors is needed. But now the city is seemingly even more troubled than usualPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, there's a mysterious child-killer who he has been brought taken to the prison next door to where goading from the children live, token bully of his world and then one day Hawk comes home to find her family have been taken awaystumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. Where What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have they been takenin actually managing that, and can Hawk rescue them before it's too latehow could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=15291200041839945184
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=='''4AUGUST13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Christina Hammonds Reed1635866847|title=The Black KidsLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens Lifestyle|summary=Christina Hammonds ReedIt's debut novel is set against the backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riotsstrange, a reaction to the absolution of four police officers for beating a black man, Rodney King, nearly to death. Told from the perspective of Ashley Bennett, the novel follows her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with matters of race, to a woman finding her voice and embracing her heritage.|isbn=1471188191}}==things that make you ''immediately'6 AUGUST'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1838951067|title=The Nothing Man|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=When we first meet Jim Doyle, he's about to get a shock. He's security at a supermarket and he's watching a woman who feel that this is acting suspiciously. She has a the book tucked under her arm and he wonders if she's planning to pay for it. Suddenly it drops to the floor with the spine splayed upwardsyou. Before I started reading ''Nothing ManThe Lavender Companion'' by Eve Black, is I visited the title. Why is Jim shocked? Well, Jim was - author''is'' - the Nothing Man who, until eighteen years ago raped and killeds [https://www. The author of the book was twelve years old when Jim raped her mother, and then killed her, her father and her seven-year-old sister, Annapinelavenderfarm.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178089922X|title=Invisible Girl|author=Lisa Jewell|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=''When you wear a hood, you're invisible.'' Saffyre Maddox is seventeen-years-old com/ website] and beautiful. By her own admission, shethere's a bit picture of a boffin, doing and enjoying maths, physics and biology at A levelslice of chocolate cake on the homepage. Life hasnI don't been easy for her: most people who have been close to her have died eat cakes and she's now living with her Uncle Aaron in an eighthdesserts -floor flatbut I wanted that cake viscerally. Something (There''really, really bad happened'' to her when she was ten and she self-harmed for s a long time. Aaron organised psychological help and for three years Roan Fours was her therapist. He gently unpeeled recipe in the layers of her psyche, but somehow managed to miss that 'something reallybook, really badwhich I'. When the therapy ended Saffyre felt cast adrift, but she retained an interest in Roan.}}{{Frontpage|author=Non Pratt|title=Every Little Piece of My Heart|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= Freya was a beautiful, popular and complex girl, loved by many and seemingly stable in her existence as a queen bee 16-year-old student, complete m avoiding with best friend and the promise of the end of GCSEs just months away. But one day, on January 1st, she just... left. No explanation. No warning. No goodbye. No one heard from her since. A once active social profile left deserted. So, when her best friend Sophie receives a mysterious parcel from her 5 months after, she expects it to contain answers of some kind, but is surprised to find difficulty!!) Then I started reading the parcel contains another layer addressed book and I was told to make a complete stranger, and then another layer to another person and another, each containing an item unique to them and Freya, connecting 4 strangers through her mystery and the promise of 'treasure' at the end mess of it all. With each parcel, a new layer of Notes in the story and of Freya is unwrapped - and painful truths come to light that threaten margins are sanctioned. You get to break bonds, both new and old. Can what's been broken be fixed? And why did Freya leave?|isbn=1406366943}}{{Frontpage|author= Laura Lam and Elizabeth May|title= Seven Devils|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Eris is one of fold down the foremost operatives corners of the Novantae, a resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined to inherit in her past life as Princess Discordia, whom everyone believed has been dead for yearspages. Clo, an ace pilot for the Novantae, has a mission: hijack You suspect that smears of butter would not be a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the war effortproblem. Although she I 's less than pleased to discover that her former friend Eris is her partner on this mission. Things get more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a secret that could potentially cripple the Empire. Eris's brother Damocles, the runner-up heir to the Empire, is plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and the last of the free alien species. Itloved's a race against time as the rebels move to put a stop Damocles' plans, with millions of lives hanging in the balance…|isbn=1473231140this book already.
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=='''19 AUGUST 2021'''==
=='''4 JULY'''==
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|author=Anders de la MotteMax Boucherat|title=End The Last Life of Summer|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= In the summer of 1983, little Billy Nilsson goes missing. He was chasing a rabbit, through the garden, and into the maize field behind. He has not been seen since. In the present day, Veronica Lindh is a grief counsellor running group therapy sessions for the bereaved – although she clearly has problems of her own: anxiety, panic attacks, a scar on her arm that she keeps obsessively hidden and she is barely hanging on to her job. It's clear that she has just returned to work after an episode that seems to have resulted in restraining orders against her, a deal of therapy, a change of location and her supervisor is watching closely. As well, he needs to.|isbn=1785768239}}=='''20 AUGUST'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0241433568|title=Eight Detectives|author=Alex Pavesi|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=It's 1930 and Megan and Henry are staying with Bunny at his house in Spain. It's unbearably hot and Bunny drank too much at lunch: he's going to have a rest and then he wants to talk to Megan and Henry about something serious. Only it never gets that far: when Bunny doesn't emerge after his siesta his guests find that he's been murdered. How can that have happened? There's no one else in the house, so one of them must be the killer.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jacqueline Wilson|title=Love FrankieLori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary= Frankie is nearly fourteen. Being nearly fourteen is not easy when your mum has been diagnosed with MS when your dad has decided to leave her for another woman, when your older sister has turned into the girliest girl who ever lived, and, above all when Sally and her mates are bullying you at school. Oh, and when Sam, your best friend since forever, suddenly starts sending out signs that he might fancy you - and you don't fancy him back.
 
Poor Frankie!
|isbn= 0857535897
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{{Frontpage
|author= Adrian Tchaikovsky
|title= The Doors of Eden
|rating= 4.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary= Wow – this novel is gigantic, in every sense of the word. "Epic" is a word that's thrown around a lot these days, but if a book ever earned the name it's this one. It's a doorstopper full of big ideas, and at times it almost felt too big for my brain.
|isbn=1509865888
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=='''27 AUGUST'''==
 
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|author= Samira Ahmed
|title= Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know
|rating= 3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=''In the end, we all become stories''
 
Spending the summer in Paris sounds like a dream for most people, especially art-lovers, but Khayyam can't relax and stop thinking about the mess she left behind in Chicago. On a chance encounter with a descendant of Alexandre Dumas, Khayyam finds herself on a historical journey with him to unveil the truth about the 19th century Muslim woman who may have crossed paths with Alendre Dumas, Eugene Delacroix and Lord Byron. As the two teenagers travel the city they not only discover themselves, but uncover the true story of the woman and why it was one that should never have been forgotten.
|isbn=0349003556
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=='''3 SEPTEMBER'''==
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|isbn=0008314721
|title=Truth Be Told
|author=Kia Abdullah
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The Hadids are an ''effortful'' family. Flowers are sent for the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank and this prompts a phone call in return. There are two sons of the family, seventeen-year-old Kamran and sixteen-year-old Adam. Their mother, Sofia, regrets that she didn't name them the other way round: 'Adam and Kamran' trips off the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adam'. Sofia worries about that sort of thing. Both boys go to the prestigious Hampton school, where they board, despite the school being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park home. Kamran has a place at Oxford next year and all seemed to be going well until the night when he was raped.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1471179273
|title=House of Correction
|author=Nicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we first meet Tabitha Hardy, she's in prison, on remand. She's sharing a cell with Michaela, who's more caring than she first appears. She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages her to have a shower, unpleasant as the whole processes might be. And how did Tabitha get here? Well, on 21 December the body of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered in her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who was helping with the renovations to Tabitha's house. So far as the police are concerned, Tabitha is the only person who could have killed Rees - and when they arrived at her house she was covered in his blood.
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{{Frontpage
|author=Natasha Farrant
|title=Voyage of the Sparrowhawk
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Set in England in the aftermath of World War One, this is the story of two children, Lotti and Ben, who have lost everyone they love, but don't want to let go of their last, tiny glimpses of hope. Ben is living on a narrowboat We meet Lori on the canal, lying to the police about his brotherfirst evening she's imminent return from got the battlefields house to take care of him. Lottiherself – no neighbour to pop in, meanwhilebabysitter poorly, has been expelled from school and is back mother at home; it's a beautiful house that belongs to work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her but that her terrible Aunt and Uncle currently have guardianship forlonesome. The day Lotti meets Ben (the day she steals a dog!) is the beginning of a deep, and powerful friendship. What could possibly go wrong? It sees them become each other's family, and undertake Snuggled in a perilous trip to France, in the boatblanket fort, to try to find out the truth of the people they both love.|isbn=0571348769}} =='''8 SEPTEMBER'''== {{Frontpage|author=Sharon Doering|title=She Lies Close|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary= Ava Boone was five years old when she went missing, around 6 months ago. There has been no sign of her sinceone main intention, and no arrests have been made. And yetthat is to log on to Voxminer, this book is not about Ava. Not really. This book is about Gracethe world-building, who has just discovered her neighbour in her new house critter-collecting game that is a suspect hit in AvaLori's disappearanceworld. As But first Lori has a single mother to two young children, she's really wishing tiny inkling that this sort of information had come to light before they moved in.|isbn=1789094194}} ==stormy night doesn'''10 SEPTEMBER'''== {{Frontpage|author= Andrea Stewart|title= The Bone Shard Daughter (The Drowning Empire)|rating=4.5|genre= Fantasy|summary=''I could never be what he wanted if I did not take what I wanted'' In an empire controlled by a bone shard magic that powers animal-like constructs, an heir to the throne, a smuggler, and a warrior will fight to t find their place in the world. Lin is the emperor's forgotten daughterherself entirely on her own, kept locked away in a palace of secrets and closed doorsthen she finds something even more spooky. When her father refuses to recognise her as heir to For the throne, server she vows to show him she is capable of reviving a dying empire and in secret, she begins to unlock one door after another, searching for the mysteries of her past bestie and the forbidden art nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of bone shard magictamperingYet Lin is playing a deadly game When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her quest for power will come at great cost. With revolution safe place in the air and creeping closer and closer to the gates of the palacegame has been doctored – well, Lin must decide just how far she will where is a girl to go to become a catalyst of change and save her people.turn?|isbn=03565149430008666482
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=='''17 SEPTEMBER'''==
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|author=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)Jenny Lecoat|title=The Seven DoorsBeyond Summerland
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesn't even try to suggest a genre of any kind until we're a full fifth of the way through. We start with our couple, she a literature lecturer, he big in medical provision and decisions at the council, being forced to move out of their home, a building that had existed throughout her life since childhood and which they'd occupied for over thirty years. The building he's inherited, meanwhile, and which they let out to a single mother, is needed by their adult daughter, who quite blatantly says to its occupant 'take a hike, I'm moving in and you're moving out'. Now, at this stage you may well, if you know this is a genre read, think it's going to be a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in the 1980s, but no. We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, in case that has any bearing on what happens here, and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their lives. Until at that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow as any crime book should – until the point where the evicted tenant is found to have completely vanished.
|isbn=1913193381
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=='''22 SEPTEMBER'''==
 
{{Frontpage
|author=Antoine Laurain and Emily Boyce, Jane Aitken and Polly Mackintosh (translators)
|title=The Readers Room
|genre=General Fiction
|rating=3.5|summary=Violaine's publishing house has had a great success, and it was through Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the slush pile end of unsolicited manuscriptsthe occupation. The three people who work in During the Readerswar, Jean' Room s father was arrested for listening to sift through what is ninety nine per cent dross – plus the fourth advisor in her rarefied mansion up the road – all agreed the book would be a huge smashbanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and so it has proven. But there are several 'howevers' to that. As in, however – Violaine herself is not having life all her own way, mother waiting for years for she has been involved in a near-fatal accident, and starts this book coming round from a coma. And, however – despite all urging, the author news of the book has never once made themselves known to the publishers in person, and in fact offered up a most peculiar statement-come-threat in their last emailhim. What is going to befall Violaine, her memory, her staff – and how much is any of it due to As the hit novel? And just where British finally free the heck did that come Channel islands from?|isbn=1910477974}} =='''1 OCTOBER'''== {{Frontpage|author=Tania Unsworth|title=The Time Traveller and the Tiger|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Elsie is an ordinary sort of girl. The sort of small girl who often gets overlookedNazis, and forgotten. She the war is quietfinally over, and compliant, and makes the best of whatever happens to her. So when her parents forget their hopes rise that her school holidays have started before they are free to take care will finally learn what became of her, they have to arrange for her to go and stay with her Great Uncle for a weekhim. Poor Elsie, forgotten again, just decides to make But will the best of things. On investigating the house she finds that her Great Uncle had lived in India truth come as a boyrelief, and he has an enormous tiger rug on the floor of one of the rooms. When Elsie asks him about the rug he seems unhappy, and he says he has to keep or will it because he was raise further questions around what else happened during the one who shot the tiger when he was 12 years old, and he says it was the worst thing he ever did. war? So when Elsie suddenly finds herself magically transported back many, many years, to the time in India when her Great Uncle Who was 12 years old, she believes that she must try to stop him from killing the tiger, in order to put something right that happened a long time ago.|isbn=1788541707}}{{Frontpage|author=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)|title=Betrayal|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=Meet Ursula, the stand-in minister, drafted in from outside the leading party to cover the post for a year. You might get to meet her hunky husband she can't believe she deserves, and the children informer who are ignorant of just how she spent all her empathy for them on previous jobs in told the foreign aid charity sector. You'll meet her ministry's cleaner, who bizarrely has fallen into Nazis about the task of helping a famous newsreader with her Tinder profile. radio? You'll certainly meet a homeless tramp, who has taken one look at a newspaper image of Ursula, and, knowing her of old, decided she needs saving from the devil posing beside her. You'll meet the ministerial bodyguard and driver the tramp almost immediately forces Ursula to accept. But as for the first ministerial case, of a woman demanding her daughter's rape get looked at and pronto, nobody can say, for all records of Ursula's meeting with the woman And what other secrets have been wiped…|isbn=1913193403}}=='''15 OCTOBER'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0356512479|author= Alix E Harrow|title= The Once and Future Witches|rating= 5|genre= Fantasy|summary=''There's no such thing as witches, but there used to be.'' In 1893, after the purges and the burnings, witching has been reduced to little more than weak charms and simple spells. If women want to hold power in their hands, to have their voices heard, it is now through women's suffrage.}}=='''29 OCTOBER'''== {{Frontpage|author=Caroline Scott|title=When I Come Home Again|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=1918 and a young man is arrested in Durham Cathedral. He refuses to give a name, no matter how hard they push he will not say who he is. Eventually, they determine this isn't willful obstinance, he doesn't answer because he doesn't know. He remembers being on kept throughout the road for a long time and being frightened, and some of the faces from the road, but other than that – everything that came before has gone. They need a name for the forms and so they call him Adam and, because he was found in the Galilee Chapel, it becomes Adam Galilee. A fanciful name for a tired young man in a dishevelled uniform who doesn't know who he is, where he is or how he got there.occupation?|isbn=14711921721846976537
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