Transcription
By: Kate Atkinson
3.49
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. S…
Want to Read $ 11.99"i will be the hunter, not the hunted. diana, not the stag. the arrow, not the bow."-Kate Atkinson, Transcription
"i will be the hunter, not the hunted. diana, not the stag. the arrow, not the bow."-Kate Atkinson, Transcription
"he had a name, too - a good patriotic name. cry god for harry, england, and saint george."-Kate Atkinson, Transcription
"he had a name, too - a good patriotic name. cry god for harry, england, and saint george."-Kate Atkinson, Transcription
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26. Transcription
By: Kate Atkinson
3.49
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. S… read more
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- world war ii
- fiction
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- mystery
- audiobook
"i will be the hunter, not the hunted. diana, not the stag. the arrow, not the bow."-Kate Atkinson, Transcription
"he had a name, too - a good patriotic name. cry god for harry, england, and saint george."-Kate Atkinson, Transcription
"Human nature favors the tribal. Tribalism engenders violence. It was ever thus and so it will ever be."-Kate Atkinson, Transcription
"This was how people disappeared from history, wasn't it? They weren't erased, they were explained away."-Kate Atkinson, Transcription
27. The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)
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One Thursday afternoon in the seniors' center, a decade-old cold case --their favorite kind-- leads… read more
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4.05
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"The worst crises in politics always occurred, in his experience, when two unrelated problems struck at once. The difficulties weren’t doubled, or even squared, but cubed. Pg345"-Robert Harris, Precipice
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