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Flight Attendant (TVTI) A Novel by Chris Bohjalian
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Cassandra Bowden is no stranger to hungover mornings. She's a binge drinker, her job with the airline making it easy to find adventure, and the occasional blackouts seem to be inevitable. She lives with them-and the accompanying self-loathing. When she awakes in a Dubai hotel room, she tries to piece th ...Show more
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo; Lee Fahnestock (Translator, Introduction by); Norman MacAfee (Translator); Chris Bohjalian (Afterword by)
Category: Fiction
Pearson English Readers bring language learning to life through the joy of reading. Well-written stories entertain us, make us think, and keep our interest page after page. Pearson English Readers offer teenage and adult learners a huge range of titles, all featuring carefully graded language to make ...Show more
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
Category: Fiction
On an icy winter night in an isolated house in rural Vermont, a seasoned midwife named Sibyl Danforth takes desperate measures to save a baby's life. She performs an emergency caesarean section on a mother she believes has died of a stroke. But what if Sibyl's patient wasn't dead - and Sibyl inadvertent ...Show more
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
Category: Fiction
Set in a small rural community in Vermont, Midwives is the story of Sibyl Danforth, a respected midwife who is accused of murder after she performs a caesarian section on a mother in her care, who she believes to have died of a stroke during a long and difficult labour. A trial ensues, and Sibyl faces a ...Show more
Secrets of Eden by Chris Bohjalian
Category: Fiction
'There' says Alice Hayward to Reverend Stephen Drew, when she come up out of the water after her baptism. Just a few short hours later, Alice is dead, shot by her abusive husband who turned the gun on himself soon after. Tortured by the cryptic finality of that short utterance, Reverend Drew feels his f ...Show more
Secrets of Eden by Chris Bohjalian
Category: Fiction
"There," says Alice Hayward to Reverend Stephen Drew, just after her baptism. Twelve hours later, she suffers a violent death at the hands of her husband who will kills shoots himself. But when the medical examiner autopsies the two bodies, what appeared to be a straightforward case of domestic abuse, t ...Show more
Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian
Category: Fiction
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 to reach the British and American lines. Among the group is 18-year-old Anna Emmerich, the daughter of Prussian aristocrats. There ...Show more
Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian
Category: Fiction
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 to reach the British and American lines. Among the group is 18-year-old Anna Emmerich, the daughter of Prussian aristocrats. There ...Show more
The Buffalo Soldier by Chris Bohjalian
Category: Fiction
The stunning new novel from the author of Midwives about a young boy trying to fit into a fractured family
The Buffalo Soldier by Chris Bohjalian
Category: Fiction
A stunning novel from the author of Midwives about a young boy trying to fit into a fractured family and the legacy of the Civil War's buffalo soldiers... A raging river in a small Vermont town overflows and sweeps the nine-year-old daughters of Laura and Terry Sheldon to their deaths. In the aftermath ...Show more
The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian
Category: Fiction
When Laurel Estabrook is attacked while out riding her bike one Sunday afternoon, her life is changed forever. She begins work at a shelter for the homeless and there meets Bobbie Crocker, a man with a history of mental illness and a box full of photos he won't let anyone see. When Bobbie dies suddenly, ...Show more