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Before You Know Kindness [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
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 For ten summers, the Seton family--all three generations--met at their country home in New England to spend a week together playing tennis, badminton, and golf, and savoring gin and tonics on the wraparound porch to celebrate the end of the season. In the eleventh summer, everything changed. A hunting rifle with a single cartridge left in the chamber wound up in exactly the wrong hands at exactly the wrong time, and led to a nightmarish accident that put to the test the values that unite the fam... more info>>
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Idyll Banter: Weekly Excursions to a Very Small Town [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Chris Bohjalian
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In March 1986, while living in Brooklyn, Chris Bohjalian and his wife were cab-napped on a Saturday night and taken on a forty-five-minute joy ride in which the driver ignored all traffic lights and stop signs. Around midnight he deposited the young couple on a near-deserted street, where police officers were about to storm a crack house. Bohjalian and his wife were told to hit the ground for their own protection. While lying on the pavement, Bohjalian's wife suggested that perhaps it was time t... more info>> (Published: 2003)
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Midwives [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Chris Bohjalian
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A talented midwife is arrested for murder when she saves a baby by performing a Caesarean section once she believes the mother has died--only to have her assistant insist later that the woman was still very much alive. Told in the mesmerizing voice of the midwife's daughter, Midwives depicts the aftermath of the tragedy. (Published: 2002)
Words: 125000 - Reading Time: 357-500 min.
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Skeletons at the Feast [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Chris Bohjalian
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In January 1945, in the waning months of World War II, a small group of people begin the longest journey of their lives: an attempt to cross the remnants of the Third Reich, from Warsaw to the Rhine if necessary, to reach the British and American lines. Among the group is eighteen-year-old Anna Emmerich, the daughter of Prussian aristocrats. There is her lover, Callum Finella, a twenty-year-old Scottish prisoner of war who was brought from the stalag to her family's farm as forced labor. And the... more info>>
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The Buffalo Soldier [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Chris Bohjalian
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From the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Midwives and Trans-Sister Radio comes a hauntingly beautiful story of the ties that bind families--and the strains that pull them apart. In northern Vermont, a raging river overflows its banks and sweeps the nine-year-old twin daughters of Terry and Laura Sheldon to their deaths. In the aftermath of the tragedy, the highway patrolman and his wife, unable to have more children, take in a foster child: a ten-year-old African-American boy who ... more info>> (Published: 2003)
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The Double Bind [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
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Throughout his career, Chris Bohjalian has earned a reputation for writing novels that examine some of the most important issues of our time. With Midwives, he explored the literal and metaphoric place of birth in our culture. In The Buffalo Soldier, he introduced us to one of contemporary literature's most beloved foster children. And in Before You Know Kindness, he plumbed animal rights, gun control, and what it means to be a parent. Chris Bohjalian's riveting fiction keeps us awake deep into ... more info>>
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The Law of Similars [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Chris Bohjalian
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" The Law of Similars is fast-paced and absorbing. Few writers can manipulate a plot with Bohjalian's grace and power."-The New York Times Book Review From the number one bestselling author of Midwives comes this riveting medical thriller about a lawyer, a homeopath, and a tragic death. When one of homeopath Carissa Lake's patients falls into an allergy-induced coma, possibly due to her prescribed remedy, Leland Fowler's office starts investigating the case. But Leland is also one of Carissa'... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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Trans-Sister Radio [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Chris Bohjalian
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Allison Banks, a Vermont school teacher and divorced mother, has fallen in love with Professor Dana Stevens, who fully intends to go forward with a sex change operation--genitalia, plumbing, and perceptions be damned. Can their love transcend their bodies? Can their love survive the outrage of her ex-husband and the small community in which they live? (Published: 2002)
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