Set in Winter

Cool off this summer with stories set in the icy depths of winter

Updated May 28, 2024
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Alone on the ice : the greatest survival story in the history of exploration
Roberts, David
Paper Book
On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp. The dogs were gone. Now Mawson himself plunged through a snow bridge, dangling over an abyss by the sledge harness. A line of poetry gave...
The bear and the nightingale : a novel
Arden, Katherine
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A wild and willful young woman finds herself at the center of a tale of spirits, ancient evils, and the mysterious winter-king Frost--in the lyrical first novel of the Winternight Trilogy. "A beautiful deep-winter story, full of magic and monsters and the...
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 unstable father gone,...
A fine and bitter snow
Stabenow, Dana.
Paper Book
With Republicans in the White House, there’s much interest in exploring the Alaskan wilderness for oil reserves. Battle lines are drawn -- jobs or preservation. Chief park ranger Dan O’Brien is on the record for preservation and is asked by his superiors to take an early retirement. Kate...
Frozen in time : an epic story of survival, and a modern quest for lost heroes of World War II
Zuckoff, Mitchell.
Paper Book
Two harrowing crashes . . . A vanished rescue plane . . . A desperate fight for life in a frozen, hostile land . . . The quest to solve a seventy-year-old mystery The author of the smash New York Times bestseller Lost in Shangri-La delivers a gripping true story of endurance,...
A night too dark
Stabenow, Dana
Paper Book
A Night Too Dark isNew York Timesbestselling writer Dana Stabenow's latest, the seventeenth in a series chronicling life, death, love, tragedy, mischief, controversy, nature, and survival in Alaska, America's last real frontier. In Alaska, somebody disappears every day....
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...
The snow bride
Macomber, Debbie.
Paper Book
The Snow Bride by Debbie Macomber released on Sep 30, 2003 is available now for purchase.
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...
A week in winter
Binchy, Maeve.
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestselling Author -- Stoneyville is a small town on the coast of Ireland where all the families know each other. When Chicky decides to take an old decaying mansion, Stone House, and turn it into a restful place for a holiday by the sea, the town thinks she is crazy. Helped by...
Winter of the Gods
Brodsky, Jordanna Max
Paper Book
Selene DiSilva, goddess of the hunt, squares off against a killer who threatens the very existence of the gods themselves in this stunning sequel to Jordanna Max Brodsky's The Immortals, "a lively re-imaging of classical mythology." (Deborah Harkness) Winter in New York:...

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