2012: #27 – The Sandcastle Girls (Chris Bohjalian)

Title: The Sandcastle Girls Author: Chris Bohjalian Format: Kindle Pages: 320 (2012 total – 6,857) Approx. Word Count: 96,000 (2012 total – 1,910,214) Release Date: July 17, 2012 Publisher: Doubleday Categories: general fiction, historical fiction Source: ARC from publisher via Edelweiss Rating: 4.5 out of 5 Back of the book: The Sandcastle Girls is a sweeping historical love story steeped in Chris Bohjalian’s Armenian heritage.

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2012: #17 – The Night Strangers (Chris Bohjalian)

Title: The Night Strangers Author: Chris Bohjalian Format: ARC Paperback Pages: 416 (2012 total – 4,265) Approx. Word Count: 124,800 (2012 total – 1,163,783) Release Date: October 04, 2011 Publisher: Crown Categories: general fiction Source: ARC from publisher Rating: 4.5 out of 5 Back of the book: In a dusty corner of a basement in a rambling Victorian house in northern New Hampshire, a door

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2007: #130 – Idyll Banter (Chris Bohjalian)

Book #130 was Idyll Banter by Chris Bohjalian.  The back of the book reads: 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

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2007: #66 – The Double Bind (Chris Bohjalian)

Book #66 was The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian. The back of the book reads: When college sophomore Laurel Estabrook is attacked while riding her bicycle through Vermont’s back roads, her life is forever changed. Formerly outgoing, Laurel withdraws into her photography and begins to work at a homeless shelter. There she meets Bobbie Crocker, a man with a history of mental illness and a

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