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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
'Frost-demons have no interest in mortal girls wed to mortal men. In the stories, they only come for the wild maiden.' In a village at the edge of the wilderness of northern Russia, where the winds blow cold and the snow falls many months of the year, an elderly servant...
ARDEN Katherine Bear 2017
Snow
Banville, John
Paper Book
A chilling mystery from the Man Booker Prize winner

BANVILLE John Snow 2020

Winter of the Gods
Brodsky, Jordanna Max
Paper Book
Manhattan has many secrets. Some are older than the city itself. Winter in New York: snow falls, lights twinkle, and the goddess Artemis prowls the streets looking for prey. But when a dead body is discovered sprawled atop Wall Street's iconic Charging Bull statue, it's clear...
BRODSKY Jordanna Winter 2017
Snow falling on cedars
Guterson, David.
Paper Book
In 1954, a fisherman is found dead in the nets of his boat, and a local Japanese-American man is charged with his murder. In the course of his trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than one man's guilt. For on San Piedro, memories grow as thickly as cedar trees and the fields of ripe...
GUTERSON David Snow 1995
Winter garden
Hannah, Kristin.
Paper Book
From the New York Times number one bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds, comes Kristin Hannah's haunting, heartbreakingly beautiful novel that illuminates the intricate mother-daughter bond and explores the enduring links between past and present....
HANNAH Kristin Winter 2010
The snow child : a novel
Ivey, Eowyn.
Paper Book
A bewitching tale of heartbreak and hope set in 1920s Alaska, Eowyn Ivey's THE SNOW CHILD was a top ten bestseller in hardback and paperback, and went on to be a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. 'A story about finding love in unexpected places... full of fire and ice'...
IVEY Eowyn Snow 2012
Snow flower and the secret fan : a novel
See, Lisa.
Ebook
Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer, and to her family she is just another expensive mouth to feed. Then the local matchmaker delivers startling news: if Lily's feet are bound properly, they will be flawless. In nineteenth-century China, where a woman's eligibility is judged by the shape and...
SEE Lisa Snow 2005
Winter
Smith, Ali
Paper Book
Winter? Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. The shortest days, the longest nights. The trees are bare and shivering. The summer's leaves? Dead litter. The world shrinks; the sap sinks. But winter makes things visible. And if there's ice, there...
SMITH Ali Winter 2017

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