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>    "description": "An in-depth look at creating applications with XML." },
>  { "id": "bk102",
>    "author": "Ralls, Kim",
>    "title": "Midnight Rain",
>    "genre": "Fantasy",
>    "price": 5.95,
>    "publish_date": "2000-12-16",
>    "description": "A former architect battles corporate zombies, an evil sorceress, and her own childhood to become queen of the world." },
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>    "title": "Maeve Ascendant",
>    "genre": "Fantasy",
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>    "author": "Corets, Eva",
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>  { "id": "bk105",
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>    "title": "The Sundered Grail",
>    "genre": "Fantasy",
>    "price": 5.95,
>    "publish_date": "2001-09-10",
>    "description": "The two daughters of Maeve, half-sisters, battle one another for control of England. Sequel to Oberon's Legacy." },
>  { "id": "bk106",
>    "author": "Randall, Cynthia",
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>    "genre": "Romance",
>    "price": 4.95,
>    "publish_date": "2000-09-02",
>    "description": "When Carla meets Paul at an ornithology conference, tempers fly as feathers get ruffled." },
>  { "id": "bk107",
>    "author": "Thurman, Paula",
>    "title": "Splish Splash",
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>    "price": 4.95,
>    "publish_date": "2000-11-02",
>    "description": "A deep sea diver finds true love twenty thousand leagues beneath the sea." },
>  { "id": "bk108",
>    "author": "Knorr, Stefan",
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>    "genre": "Horror",
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>    "description": "An anthology of horror stories about roaches, centipedes, scorpions  and other insects." },
>  { "id": "bk109",
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>    "description": "After an inadvertant trip through a Heisenberg Uncertainty Device, James Salway discovers the problems of being quantum." },
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>    "title": "Microsoft .NET: The Programming Bible",
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>    "description": "Microsoft's .NET initiative is explored in detail in this deep programmer's reference." },
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