New Releases by Chris Bohjalian

Everyone wants to belong to the club, but what will it cost you? Three married couples collide in a suburban living room one autumn Sunday - what they think is a refuge from the rock ''n'' roll turbulence outside their neighborhood - only to discover there''s no escape from the era''s cultural upheaval. Rich with biting wit and startling twists as it explores racism, marriage, and the lies we tell ourselves daily. And though the play is set in 1968, it''s eerily timely. "A crisp, attention-grabbing 80 minutes." -U.S. 1 "Bohjalian''s skillful writing [makes] THE CLUB a provocative and worthwhile experience." -New Jersey Stage "Bohjalian''s fast-paced, clever dialogue [doesn''t] miss a beat." -Broadway World "THE CLUB brings much emotion to the forefront." -Front Row Center

In this Civil War love story, inspired by a real-life friendship across enemy lines, the wife of a missing Confederate soldier discovers a wounded Yankee officer and must decide what she’s willing to risk for the life of a stranger, from the New York Times bestselling author of such acclaimed historical fiction as Hour of the Witch and The Sandcastle Girls. Virginia, 1864—Libby Steadman’s husband has been away for so long that she can barely conjure his voice in her dreams. While she longs for him in the night, fearing him dead in a Union prison camp, her days are spent running a gristmill with her teenage niece, a hired hand, and his wife, all the grain they can produce requisitioned by the Confederate Army. It’s an uneasy life in the Shenandoah Valley, the territory frequently changing hands, control swinging back and forth like a pendulum between North and South, and Libby awakens every morning expecting to see her land a battlefield. And then she finds a gravely injured Union officer left for dead in a neighbor’s house, the bones of his hand and leg shattered. Captain Jonathan Weybridge of the Vermont Brigade is her enemy – but he’s also a human being, and Libby must make a terrible decision: Does she leave him to die alone? Or does she risk treason and try to nurse him back to health? And if she succeeds, does she try to secretly bring him across Union lines, where she might negotiate a trade for news of her own husband? A vivid and sweeping story of two people navigating the boundaries of love and humanity in a landscape of brutal violence, The Jackal’s Mistress is a heart-stopping new novel, based on a largely unknown piece of American history, from one of our greatest storytellers.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of The Flight Attendant: “Historical fiction at its best…. The book is a thriller in structure, and a real page-turner, the ending both unexpected and satisfying” (Diana Gabaldon, bestselling author of the Outlander series, The Washington Post). A young Puritan woman—faithful, resourceful, but afraid of the demons that dog her soul—plots her escape from a violent marriage in this riveting and propulsive novel of historical suspense. Boston, 1662. Mary Deerfield is twenty-four-years-old. Her skin is porcelain, her eyes delft blue, and in England she might have had many suitors. But here in the New World, amid this community of saints, Mary is the second wife of Thomas Deerfield, a man as cruel as he is powerful. When Thomas, prone to drunken rage, drives a three-tined fork into the back of Mary's hand, she resolves that she must divorce him to save her life. But in a world where every neighbor is watching for signs of the devil, a woman like Mary—a woman who harbors secret desires and finds it difficult to tolerate the brazen hypocrisy of so many men in the colony—soon becomes herself the object of suspicion and rumor. When tainted objects are discovered buried in Mary's garden, when a boy she has treated with herbs and simples dies, and when their servant girl runs screaming in fright from her home, Mary must fight to not only escape her marriage, but also the gallows. A twisting, tightly plotted novel of historical suspense from one of our greatest storytellers, Hour of the Witch is a timely and terrifying story of socially sanctioned brutality and the original American witch hunt. Look for Chris Bohjalian's new novel, The Lioness!

Cassandra Bowden, di professione assistente di volo, è abituata ai bruschi risvegli post sbornia. È una forte bevitrice e con il lavoro che fa le avventure capitano di frequente: per lei i momentanei vuoti di memoria non sono una novità. Così anche questa volta, al suo risveglio in una stanza d''albergo a Dubai, tenta di mettere insieme i pezzi di quello che è successo la sera prima. Muovendosi con circospezione per non peggiorare il dolore alla testa, getta un''occhiata all''uomo disteso lì accanto, con il quale ha passato la notte. Ha i capelli neri. È totalmente immobile. E freddo. E c''è sangue, una viscida pozza di sangue che si allarga sul lenzuolo. Cosa deve fare? Chiamare la polizia? Ma è una donna single, da sola in un albergo in un paese straniero... Spaventata, Cassie inizia a mentire. Mente quando raggiunge gli altri membri dell''equipaggio. Mente prestando servizio in prima classe sul volo per Parigi. Mente agli agenti dell''FBI che la aspettano al gate a New York. E d''un tratto è troppo tardi per raccontare - e affrontare - la verità su cosa sia successo a Dubai. Potrebbe essere lei l''assassina? E se non è lei, chi? Una storia ammaliante sugli inganni della memoria, sull''eccitante potere dell''alcol e sulle devastanti conseguenze della dipendenza. E ovviamente, una storia di omicidi. Da questo romanzo la serie in onda su Sky.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant comes a twisting story of love and deceit: an American man vanishes on a rural road in Vietnam, and his girlfriend follows a path that leads her home to the very hospital where they met. Alexis and Austin don’t have a typical “meet cute”—their first encounter involves Alexis, an emergency room doctor, suturing a bullet wound in Austin’s arm. Six months later, they’re on a romantic getaway in Vietnam: a bike tour on which Austin can show Alexis his passion for cycling, and can pay his respects to the place where his father and uncle fought in the war. But then Austin fails to return from a solo ride. Alexis’s boyfriend has vanished, the only clue left behind a bright yellow energy gel dropped on the road. As Alexis grapples with this bewildering loss, she starts to uncover a series of strange lies that force her to wonder: Where did Austin go? Why did he really bring her to Vietnam? And how much danger has he left her in? Set amidst the adrenaline-fueled world of the emergency room, The Red Lotus is a global thriller about those who dedicate their lives to saving people—and those who peddle death to the highest bidder. Look for Chris Bohjalian's new novel, The Lioness!

Now an acclaimed HBO Max series starring Kaley Cuoco and Rosie Perez, a powerful story about the ways an entire life can change in one night: a flight attendant wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man—and no idea what happened. 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 the previous night back together, counting the minutes until she has to catch her crew shuttle to the airport. She quietly slides out of bed, careful not to aggravate her already pounding head, and looks at the man she spent the night with. She sees his dark hair. His utter stillness. And blood, a slick, still wet pool on the crisp white sheets. Afraid to call the police—she's a single woman alone in a hotel room far from home—Cassie begins to lie. She lies as she joins the other flight attendants and pilots in the van. She lies on the way to Paris as she works the first class cabin. She lies to the FBI agents in New York who meet her at the gate. Soon it's too late to come clean-or face the truth about what really happened back in Dubai. Could she have killed him? If not, who did? Set amid the captivating world of those whose lives unfold at forty thousand feet, The Flight Attendant unveils a spellbinding story of memory, of the giddy pleasures of alcohol and the devastating consequences of addiction, and of murder far from home. Look for Chris Bohjalian's new novel, The Lioness!

ALEPPO, SYRIA, 1915. Elizabeth Endicott ankommer Aleppo, byen med den historiske bazaren. Hun har et lidenskapelig ønske om å hjelpe de armenske flyktningene. Her møter hun Armen, en armensk ingeniør som har mistet sin kone og sin nyfødte datter. Møtet deres forandrer begges liv drastisk. Kjærlighet blir til lengsel når de to blir adskilt av krigens omstendigheter. NEW YORK, 2012. Laura, barnebarnet til Elizabeth og Armen, bestemmer seg for å reise til Syria. Der oppdager hun familiens historie, som er som en saga om Midtøsten, en historie om store tap og evigvarende kjærlighet. Hun avslører en hjerteskjærende hemmelighet som har vært begravd i generasjoner. Denne mesterlige romanen gir oss et innblikk i Syrias historie. Chris Bohjalian maler et livaktig portrett av en brennende ørken, en bitter fortid og sannheter som blir skjøvet under teppet. Boken vil bergta lesere som liker skjønnlitteratur og som vil lære om Syria, og en svært lite kjent del av Midtøstens historie. Mesterlig, sterk og lidenskapelig historie. THE SEATTLE TIMES Vakker og uforglemmelig. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Perfekt. THE SEATTLE TIMES Imponerende mesterverk. OPRAH.COM CHRIS BOHJALIAN er født i Vermont, USA. Han er en kritikerrost forfatter av i alt 17 bøker, hvorav ni har gått rett til topps på New York Times’ bestselgerliste, og tre har blitt til film. Bøkene hans er oversatt til mer enn 25 språk, og Bohjalian regnes som en av vår tids store forfattere.

Fra forfatteren bak salgssuksessen «Syrias døtre» – en medrivende historie om kjærlighet, fortvilelse og hevn 1943: Den unge adelskvinnen Cristina Rosati lever et sorgløst liv i en fornem villa i Toscana. Familien Rosati tror villaens tykke murer vil beskytte dem mot krigen som raser i Europa, men alt forandrer seg da en tysk soldat oppsøker villaen for å undersøke en antikk grav – og Cristina forelsker seg i fienden. 1955: En seriemorder jakter på kvinnene i Rosati-familien, én etter én ... Politietterforsker Serafina Bettini gjør alt for å stoppe morderen, men sliter samtidig med sine egne demoner. I jakten på morderen avdekker hun rystende hemmeligheter de toscanske kvinnene har holdt skjult i en årrekke ... Noen hemmeligheter skulle helst forblitt begravet ... «Toscanas døtre» er en mesterlig historie om moralske paradokser, menneskelig skjørhet og hjertets mystiske veier – med den idylliske italienske landsbygda som bakteppe. «BESTE BOK 2013», KIRKUS REVIEWS NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELGER PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELGER BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELGER «BESTE BOK I JULI 2013», BARNES & NOBLE «MÅ LESE BOK» I OPRAH MAGAZINE CHRIS BOHJALIAN er født i Vermont, USA. Han er en kritikerrost forfatter av i alt 17 bøker, hvorav ni har gått rett til topps på New York Times’ bestselgerliste, og tre har blitt til film. Bøkene hans er oversatt til mer enn 25 språk, og Bohjalian regnes som en av vår tids store forfattere.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant comes the spellbinding tale of a party gone horribly wrong: two men lie dead in a suburban living room, two women are on the run from police, and a marriage is ripping apart at the seams. When Kristin Chapman agrees to let her husband, Richard, host his brother's bachelor party, she expects a certain amount of debauchery. She takes their young daughter to Manhattan for the evening, leaving her Westchester home to the men and their hired entertainment. What she does not expect is that the entertainment—two scared young women brought there by force—will kill their captors and drive off into the night. With their house now a crime scene, Kristin's and Richard’s life spirals into nightmare. Kristin is unable to forgive her husband for his lapses in judgement, or for the moment he shared with a dark-haired girl in the guest room. But for the dark-haired girl, Alexandra, the danger is just beginning. Look for Chris Bohjalian's new novel, The Lioness!

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A heartbreaking, wildly inventive, and moving novel narrated by a teenage runaway, from the author of The Flight Attendant. Emily Shepard is on the run; the nuclear plant where her father worked has suffered a cataclysmic meltdown, and all fingers point to him. Now, orphaned, homeless, and certain that she’s a pariah, Emily’s taken to hiding out on the frigid streets of Burlington, Vermont, creating a new identity inspired by her favorite poet, Emily Dickinson. Then she meets Cameron. Nine years old and with a string of foster families behind him, he sparks something in Emily, and she protects him with a fierceness she didn’t know she possessed. But when an emergency threatens the fledgling home she’s created, Emily realizes that she can’t hide forever. Look for Chris Bohjalian's new novel, The Lioness!

Alep (Syrie), 1915. Elizabeth Endicott, une jeune Américaine, arrive en Syrie durant le génocide arménien. Elle se lie d''amitié avec Armen, un ingénieur arménien qui a perdu sa femme et sa fille. Mais très vite, Armen quitte Alep pour s''engager dans l''armée anglaise. Il entame alors une correspondance avec Elizabeth et comprend qu''il est tombé amoureux de la riche Américaine, si différente de la femme qu''il a perdue. Bronxville, banlieue de New York, 2012. Laura Petrosian, romancière, n''a jamais accordé beaucoup d''importance à ses origines arméniennes. Jusqu''au jour où une amie l''appelle : elle croit avoir reconnu la grand-mère de Laura sur une photo tirée d''une exposition au musée de Boston. Laura entreprend alors un voyage à travers son histoire familiale et découvre un terrible secret enfoui depuis des générations...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant comes a spellbinding novel of love, despair, and revenge—set in war-ravaged Tuscany. 1943: Tucked away in the idyllic hills of Tuscany, the Rosatis, an Italian family of noble lineage, believe that the walls of their ancient villa will keep them safe from the war raging across Europe. But when two soldiers—a German and an Italian—arrive at their doorstep asking to see an ancient Etruscan burial site, the Rosatis’ bucolic tranquility is shattered. 1955: Serafina Bettini, an investigator with the Florence Police Department, has successfully hidden her tragic scars from WWII, at least until she’s assigned to a gruesome new case—a serial killer who is targeting the remaining members of the Rosati family one by one. Soon, she will find herself digging into past secrets that will reveal a breathtaking story of moral paradox, human frailty, and the mysterious ways of the heart. Look for Chris Bohjalian's new novel, The Lioness!

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of The Flight Attendant, here is a sweeping historical love story that probes the depths of love, family, and secrets amid the Armenian Genocide during WWI. When Elizabeth Endicott arrives in Aleppo, Syria, she has a diploma from Mount Holyoke, a crash course in nursing, and only the most basic grasp of the Armenian language. It’s 1915, and Elizabeth has volunteered to help deliver food and medical aid to refugees of the Armenian Genocide during the First World War. There she meets Armen, a young Armenian engineer who has already lost his wife and infant daughter. After leaving Aleppo and traveling into Egypt to join the British Army, he begins to write Elizabeth letters, realizing that he has fallen in love with the wealthy young American. Years later, their American granddaughter, Laura, embarks on a journey back through her family’s history, uncovering a story of love, loss—and a wrenching secret that has been buried for generations. Look for Chris Bohjalian's new novel, The Lioness!

From the bestselling author of The Double Bind, Skeletons at the Feast, and Secrets of Eden, comes a riveting and dramatic ghost story. In a dusty corner of a basement in a rambling Victorian house in northern New Hampshire, a door has long been sealed shut with 39 six-inch-long carriage bolts. The home's new owners are Chip and Emily Linton and their twin ten-year-old daughters. Together they hope to rebuild their lives there after Chip, an airline pilot, has to ditch his 70-seat regional jet in Lake Champlain after double engine failure. Unlike the Miracle on the Hudson, however, most of the passengers aboard Flight 1611 die on impact or drown. The body count? Thirty-nine - a coincidence not lost on Chip when he discovers the number of bolts in that basement door. Meanwhile, Emily finds herself wondering about the women in this sparsely populated White Mountain village - self-proclaimed herbalists - and their interest in her fifth-grade daughters. Are the women mad? Or is it her husband, in the wake of the tragedy, whose grip on sanity has become desperately tenuous? The result is a poignant and powerful ghost story with all the hallmarks readers have come to expect from bestselling novelist Chris Bohjalian: a palpable sense of place, an unerring sense of the demons that drive us, and characters we care about deeply. The difference this time? Some of those characters are dead.

NOW A LIFETIME TV MOVIE STARRING JOHN STAMOS From the bestselling author of The Double Bind, Midwives, and Skeletons at the Feast comes a novel of shattered faith, intimate secrets, and the delicate nature of sacrifice. "There," says Alice Hayward to Reverend Stephen Drew, just after her baptism, and just before going home to the husband who will kill her that evening and then shoot himself. Drew, tortured by the cryptic finality of that short utterance, feels his faith in God slipping away and is saved from despair only by a meeting with Heather Laurent, the author of wildly successful, inspirational books about . . . angels. Heather survived a childhood that culminated in her own parents' murder-suicide, so she identifies deeply with Alice’s daughter, Katie, offering herself as a mentor to the girl and a shoulder for Stephen – who flees the pulpit to be with Heather and see if there is anything to be salvaged from the spiritual wreckage around him. But then the State's Attorney begins to suspect that Alice's husband may not have killed himself. . .and finds out that Alice had secrets only her minister knew. Secrets of Eden is both a haunting literary thriller and a deeply evocative testament to the inner complexities that mark all of our lives. Once again Chris Bohjalian has given us a riveting page-turner in which nothing is precisely what it seems. As one character remarks, “Believe no one. Trust no one. Assume all of our stories are suspect.”

A masterful love story set against a backdrop of epic history and unforgettable courage In the waning months of World War II, a small group of people begin the longest journey of their lives. At the center is eighteen-year-old Anna, the daughter of Prussian aristocrats, and her first love, a twenty-year-old Scottish prisoner of war named Callum. With his boyish good looks and his dedication to her family, he has captured Anna’s heart. But he is the enemy, and their love must remain a closely guarded secret. Only Manfred, a twenty-six-year-old Wehrmacht corporal, knows the truth. And Manfred, who is not what he seems to be, is reluctantly taken with Anna, just as she finds herself drawn uncomfortably to him. As these unlikely allies work their way west, their flight will test both Anna’s and Callum’s love, as well as their friendship with Manfred–and will forever bind the young trio together. Includes special bonus material: Chris Bohjalian responds to questions from book groups and readers

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Een literaire roman van hoog niveau Wanneer Laurel Estabrook wordt overvallen terwijl ze door een achterafbuurt van Vermont fietst, verandert haar leven voor altijd. Ze stort zich op haar hobby fotografie en gaat werken voor een opvangcentrum voor daklozen. Daar ontmoet ze Bobbie Crocker, een geesteszieke man. Als Bobbie overlijdt, ontdekt Laurel dat hij een briljante fotograaf was die werkte met legendes als Chuck Berry en Eartha Kitt. Laurels fascinatie voor Bobbie Crocker verandert in een obsessie en ze raakt ervan overtuigd dat enkele van zijn fotos een diep verborgen familiegeheim bevatten. Tijdens haar zoektocht naar de waarheid raakt ze verwikkeld in een kat-en-muisspel met achtervolgers die zeggen dat ze haar willen redden.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of The Flight Attendant, here is a novel that examines wildly divisive American issues like gun control and animal rights with Chris Bohjalian’s trademark emotional heft and spellbinding storytelling skill. 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 family—and the convictions that just may pull it apart. Look for Chris Bohjalian's new novel, The Lioness!

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • With his trademark emotional heft and storytelling skill, the bestselling author of The Flight Attendant presents a resonant novel about the unconventional family that forms after Terry and Laura Sheldon, a Vermont storm trooper and his wife grieving the loss of their twin daughters, take in a foster child. His name is Alfred; he is ten years old and African American. And he has passed through so many indifferent families that he can’t believe that his new one will last. In the ensuing months Terry and Laura will struggle to emerge from their shell of grief only to face an unexpected threat to their marriage; Terry’s involvement with another woman. Meanwhile, Alfred cautiously enters the family circle, and befriends an elderly neighbor who inspires him with the story of the buffalo soldiers, the black cavalrymen of the old West. Out of the entwining and unfolding of their lives, The Buffalo Soldier creates a suspenseful, moving portrait of a family, infused by Bohjalian’s moral complexity and narrative assurance. Look for Chris Bohjalian's new novel, The Lioness!

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This modern classic from the author of The Flight Attendant is a compulsively readable novel that explores questions of human responsibility that are as fundamental to our society now as they were when the book was first published. A selection of Oprah's original Book Club that has sold more than two million copies. 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 cesarean section on a mother she believes has died of stroke. But what if—as Sibyl's assistant later charges—the patient wasn't already dead? The ensuing trial bears the earmarks of a witch hunt, forcing Sibyl to face the antagonism of the law, the hostility of traditional doctors, and the accusations of her own conscience. Exploring the complex and emotional decisions surrounding childbirth, Midwives engages, moves, and transfixes us as only the very best novels ever do. Look for Chris Bohjalian's new novel, The Lioness!

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant 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's patients, and he is begining to realize that he has fallen in love with her. As love and legal obligations collide, Leland comes face-to-face with an ethical dilemma of enormous proportions. Graceful, intelligent, and suspenseful, The Law of Similars is a powerful examination of the links between hope and hubris, love and deception. Look for Chris Bohjalian's new novel, The Lioness!

From the bestselling author of The Flight Attendant comes a thought-provoking story about gender, love, and new relationships. When Allison Banks develops a crush on Dana Stevens, she knows that he will give her what she needs most: attention, gentleness, kindness, passion. Her daughter, Carly, enthusiastically witnesses the change in her mother. But then a few months into their relationship, Dana tells Allison his secret: he has always been certain that he is a woman born into the wrong skin, and soon he will transition. Allison, overwhelmed by the depth of her passion, finds herself unable to leave Dana. By deciding to stay, she finds she must confront questions most people never even consider. Not only will her own life and Carly’s be irrevocably changed, she will have to contend with the outrage of a small Vermont community and come to terms with her lover’s new body–hoping against hope that her love will transcend the physical. Look for Chris Bohjalian's new novel, The Lioness!

Lisa Stone joins forces with young Manhattan homicide detective Richard Heckler after her former college roommate is brutally murdered with a pornographer/drug dealer and a second college friend is stabbed