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conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled The Broken Bridge about Ginny's, Sixteen-year-old, Wales with the genre: Teen & Young Adult.. End with the sentence '.'.
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conversations.value: Sixteen-year-old Ginny's life is secure. Her mother is dead, but she's inherited her outstanding artistic talent, and she loves her life with her father in a seaside village in Wales. But the day a social worker arrives and old files are re-opened, Ginny's world cracks apart. Everything her father has told her about her family is a lie. And Ginny must uncover the hidden secrets of the past on a journey that will ultimately lead her to the mother she's never known...
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conversations.value: Give me the first paragraph for this book.
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conversations.value: The Broken Bridge
  When she told Robert the next morning about the barbecue and made it clear he was invited too, he nodded and said, "Yeah. Okay, I don't mind."
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conversations.value: Give me four more paragraphs.
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conversations.value: Then Granddad said, "If that's what he told you, then I'm sure that's...You see, we weren't in any position to know; we had it all via Arthur. Tony wanted Janet to agree to adopt you, you see, make it look decent, you know, put a decent face on it, but she said no. Wouldn't budge, wouldn't buy it. Not at any price. So there they were. Breaking up over a thing like that. Not that Tony told us. It all came via Arthur. He—Arthur, I mean—he was very bitter, very cut up about it."
  That seemed to be the end, as far as they were concerned. They sat looking down at the floor in the furniture-polished silence.
  The old couple looked at each other. It was a complicated look: there was a sort of furtive anxiety in it, and guilt, and even a sly I-told-you-so triumph—but which feeling came from which partner, Ginny couldn't have said.
  Then a strange thing began to happen. Ginny sensed it, and she knew that Robert did too: a change in the atmosphere as instant and definite as if a spotlight had been switched on. She wouldn't have been surprised if there'd been an audible click.
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conversations.value: Give me the last five paragraphs.
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conversations.value: The dancers on their little square of light were clapping. The band struck up another tune, and the words came clearly over the still water, singing of moonlight, and trouble, and love.
  Sally Lockhart enters the seamy underworld of Victorian London in search of clues to her father's mysterious death. Before long, the daring sixteen-year-old learns that she is the key to two dark mysteries--and it's worth her very life to find out why.
  The year is 1878, and Sally Lockhart has gone into business for herself. When one of her clients loses a large sum of money, Sally seeks the identity of an elusive industrialist--only to uncover a diabolical plot....
  Sally Lockhart has settled into a comfortable life with her daughter, Harriet, her career, and her London friends. But her world comes crashing down around her when a complete stranger claims to be both her husband and Harriet's father....
  Three young Londoners--Adelaide, Becky, and Jim--journey to a tiny country high in the mountains of Central Europe. They're an unlikely trio to lead a nation, but Adelaide and her friends are soon forced to fight for the Crown--and their very lives!
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conversations.value: Swap the first and the last sentence.
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conversations.value: They're an unlikely trio to lead a nation, but Adelaide and her friends are soon forced to fight for the Crown--and their very lives!. The band struck up another tune, and the words came clearly over the still water, singing of moonlight, and trouble, and love.
  Sally Lockhart enters the seamy underworld of Victorian London in search of clues to her father's mysterious death. Before long, the daring sixteen-year-old learns that she is the key to two dark mysteries--and it's worth her very life to find out why.
  The year is 1878, and Sally Lockhart has gone into business for herself. When one of her clients loses a large sum of money, Sally seeks the identity of an elusive industrialist--only to uncover a diabolical plot....
  Sally Lockhart has settled into a comfortable life with her daughter, Harriet, her career, and her London friends. But her world comes crashing down around her when a complete stranger claims to be both her husband and Harriet's father....
  Three young Londoners--Adelaide, Becky, and Jim--journey to a tiny country high in the mountains of Central Europe.The dancers on their little square of light were clapping.
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conversations.value: Give me the first paragraph for this book.
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conversations.value: The Broken Bridge
  You might say I was a total failure in life until the day I found the shades on the subway train on the Midosuji Line in Osaka and transformed myself like Clark Kent when he goes into a phone booth and comes out Superman.
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conversations.value: Give me three more paragraphs.
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conversations.value: At last the summer was ending, and the evening was cooler. They had returned from a family gathering. Kenji's father had consented to attend, and meet the foreign woman.
  Before dinner on the day Mori arrived so unexpectedly, Grandmother Ishikawa stopped in front of Heitman's veranda, stirring the contents of a small bowl. A spotless white apron covered her kimono, sleeves and all, its scalloped hem reaching as far as her knees. The privileged uniform of grandmothers, Heitman thought. Whenever he saw one, he felt suddenly secure, as if someone had waved a white flag of truce in a hostile zone.
  Not pleasant news, Heitman thought. He rolled over and stretched out on the pillows scattered over the veranda. Mori was a nuisance and becoming more of one with each visit. He was glad Grandmother Ishikawa had told him. When he first moved in a year ago, no one would tell him anything.
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conversations.value: Give me the last four paragraphs.
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conversations.value: KATE THE SLOPS is the pseudonym of a Canadian-American writer who has lived in Japan for fourteen years. Formerly a rewriter for the Mainichi Daily News, she is now living in Abiko where she works as an Assistant Language Teacher at the Abiko Board of Education. Her work appears frequently in literary journals in Japan.
  HOLLY THOMPSON lived in Fujisawa City, Kanagawa Prefecture, from 1983 to 1986 and has made several trips to Japan since then for research on her fiction and nonfiction works. She received an M.A. in fiction writing from New York University. Her fiction has appeared in Wingspan, Potato Eyes, Printed Matter, and other publications.
  WILLIAM WETHERALL was born in San Francisco in 1941, settled in Japan in 1975, and became a permanent resident in 1983. Since then he has been active as a free-lance researcher, journalist, and writer, specializing in mental health, ethnic minorities, and popular culture. He has translated short stories by Seicho Matsumoto, Kenzaburo Oe, and Nobuko Takagi and is a cotranslator of Oe's A Quiet Life (Grove Press, 1996). Two of his own short stories appear in Prizewinning Asian Fiction (Hong Kong University Press, 1991). He is currently working on a novel.
  PHILIP WHALEN first moved to Japan in 1965 after receiving a grant from the National Academy of Arts and Letters. Although best known for his poetry, he wrote the novel Imaginary Speeches for a Brazen Head in 1966-67 while living in Kyoto. In 1972 he moved to the Zen Center, San Francisco, and in 1973 was ordained a Zen Buddhist monk.