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"I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape — the loneliness of it; the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn’t show."

Andrew Wyeth

Updated August 3, 2024
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The bear and the nightingale : a novel
Arden, Katherine
Paper Book
Katherine Arden's bestselling debut novel spins an irresistible spell as it announces the arrival of a singular talent with a gorgeous voice.   "A beautiful deep-winter story, full of magic and monsters and the sharp edges of growing up."--Naomi Novik, bestselling...
ARDEN Katherine Bear 2017
Snow
Banville, John
Paper Book
*NATIONAL BESTSELLER* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD* A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year A New York Times Editors' Choice Pick "Banville sets up and then deftly...

BANVILLE John Snow 2020

A week in winter
Binchy, Maeve.
Paper Book
Stoneybridge is a small town on the west coast of Ireland where all the families know one another. When Chicky Starr decides to take an old, decaying mansion set high on the cliffs overlooking the windswept Atlantic Ocean and turn it into a restful place for a holiday by the sea, everyone thinks...
BINCHY Maeve Week 2012
Dead of winter
Coates, Darcy
Paper Book
USA TODAY BESTSELLER * JULY 2023 LIBRARYREADS SELECTION Eight strangers. One killer. Nowhere left to run. When Christa joins a tour group heading deep into the snowy expanse of the Rocky Mountains, she's hopeful this will be her chance to put the ghosts of her past to rest. But when...
COATES Darcy Dead 2023
Snow falling on cedars
Guterson, David.
Paper Book
A “finely wrought, flawlessly written” novel (New York Times Book Review), set on a small island in the Puget Sound, that is “at various moments a courtroom drama, an interracial love story, and a war chronicle” (San Francisco Chronicle). “Guterson has fashioned...
GUTERSON David Snow 1995
Winter garden
Hannah, Kristin.
Paper Book
Can a woman ever really know herself if she doesn't know her mother? From the author of the smash-hit bestsellerFirefly LaneandTrue Colorscomes a powerful, heartbreaking novel that illuminates the intricate mother-daughter bond and explores the...
HANNAH Kristin Winter 2010
The ice queen : a novel
Hoffman, Alice.
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of Practical Magic comes a miraculous, enthralling tale of a woman who is struck by lightning, and finds her frozen heart is suddenly burning. A magical story of passion, loss, and renewal, this work is Hoffman at her best.
HOFFMAN Alice Ice 2005
The snow child : a novel
Ivey, Eowyn.
Paper Book
In this magical debut, a couple's lives are changed forever by the arrival of a little girl, wild and secretive, on their snowy doorstep. Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart -- he...
IVEY Eowyn Snow 2012
The hunger
Katsu, Alma
Paper Book
As featured in The New York Times Book Review Summer Reading Issue "Supernatural suspense at its finest...The best thing about The Hunger is that it will scare the pants off you."--The New York Times Book Review "Deeply, deeply disturbing, hard to...
KATSU Alma Hunger 2018
The frozen river : a novel
Lawhon, Ariel
Paper Book
GMA BOOK CLUB PICK * AN NPR BOOK OF THE YEAR * From the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia and Code Name Hélène comes a gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-century...

LAWHON Ariel Frozen 2023

The snow bride
Macomber, Debbie.
Paper Book
The Snow Bride by Debbie Macomber released on Sep 30, 2003 is available now for purchase.
MACOMBER Debbie Snow 2003
The winter people
McMahon, Jennifer
Paper Book
The New York Times bestselling author of Promise Not to Tell returns with a simmering literary thriller about ghostly secrets, dark choices, and the unbreakable bond between mothers and daughters . . . sometimes too unbreakable. West Hall, Vermont, has always...
MCMAHON Jennifer Winter 2014
Winter solstice
Pilcher, Rosamunde.
Paper Book
InWinter Solstice Rosamunde Pilcher brings her readers into the lives of five very different people.... Elfrida Phipps, once of London's stage, moved to the English village of Dibton in hopes of making a new life for herself. Gradually she settled into the comfortable...
PILCHER Rosamunde Winter 2000
The edge of winter
Rice, Luanne.
Paper Book
Neve Halloran and her daughter have shared a fierce love for the austere beauty of Rhode Island’s South County ever since Neve guided Mickey’s first baby steps along the sandy shore. Now, with Mickey a teenager and Neve’s last hope for happiness with her daughter’s loving but...
RICE
Snow flower and the secret fan : a novel
See, Lisa.
Paper Book
Lily is haunted by memories–of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness. In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound...
SEE Lisa Snow 2005

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