Remote Sympathy
By: Catherine Chidgey
4.31
Format: 526 pages, Hardcover
Moving away from Munich isn’t nearly as wrenching an experience for Frau Greta Hahn as she had fear…
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4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
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"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
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2. The Wren, the Wren
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3.55
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
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4.33
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7. Remote Sympathy
By: Catherine Chidgey
4.31
Format: 526 pages, Hardcover
Moving away from Munich isn’t nearly as wrenching an experience for Frau Greta Hahn as she had fear… read more
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4.46
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10. Enlightenment
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3.70
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3.43
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3.89
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3.04
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
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15. The Bread the Devil Knead
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4.03
Format: 277 pages, ebook
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"Butterflies were like alcohol. The heat of a good wine in a burnt orange butterfly. The cool swallow of rare ship-bought vodka in clear, white and blue beauties."-Leone Ross, Popisho
18. Audition
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3.97
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20. Salt Lick
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21. Creatures of Passage
By: Morowa Yejide
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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"The Conundrum of Three. It's the mind seeking the memory of a body long gone, and the body withdrawing from the mind and the spirit, and the spirit chasing the echo of the other two"-Morowa Yejide, Creatures of Passage
