The Night Strangers by Chris Bohjalian

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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... read more

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Chip Linton: A pilot whose plane crashed in Lake Champlaign while he was flying it killing most of his passengers. He starts to hear and see strange things in the creepy New England house they move into after the tragedy. Will they ever get away.
Emily Linton: Chris's wife who is a lawyer. She finds herself being drawn into a feud between the herbalists in the town and those who think they are up to something evil.
Hallie Linton: Chip and Emily's oldest daughter (oldest by minutes). One of a fraternal set of twins. The more confident of the two- at least until they moved to the new house. Now everything seems to be changing and not necessarily for the good.
Garnet Linton: Chip and Emily's youngest twin...named for her red hair. The shier of the two. She has "trances" that are epileptic seizures rendering her mute.

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You see the long, wide, perfectly straight strip of asphalt before you, the hangar to your right with the words GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS painted in billboard-size letters along the side.

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Prologue

Part 1
Chapters 1-6

Part 2
Chapters 7-9

Part 3
Chapters 10-16

Part 4
Chapters 17-20

Epilogue

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tincture: A medicine made by dissolving a drug in alcohol
reliquary: A container for holy relics
grimoire: A book of magic spells and invocations
inchoate: Just begun and so not fully formed or developed; rudimentary

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Chris Bohjalian (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Crown
Country: USA
Publication Date: October 4, 2011
ISBN: 0307394999
Page Count: 400

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Library of Congress: PS3552.O495N54
Dewey: 813.54

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