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	Lift Your Right Arm 4.22 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Outtakes from Lift Your Right Arm it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Between a Dream and a Cup of Coffee 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1987	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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To celebrate next Monday's publication of my new short prose collection, Whistler's Mother's Son (and Other Curiosities), Pelekinesis is making my Kindle-only Outtakes from Lift Your Right Arm free through Monday. You don't need a Kindle device to read it, you can also download free apps for phone, tablet or computer.

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Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear

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So You Don't Get Lost In The Neighborhood: A Haunting Parisian Noir of Murder, Memory, and Identity

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Peter Cherches and 2 other people liked Peter's review of Tracks: Memoirs from a Life with Music: "Best known for his irony-rich, emotionally close-to-the-vest, short-short, enigmatic fiction, in his new book, "Tracks, Memoirs from a Life with Music," Peter Cherches allows a measure of lyricism into his otherwise tart-tongued prose to relate memor" Read more of this review »
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