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• Brightly Shining

  a Novel

  Rishøi, Ingvild H.,

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  "Christmas is just around the corner, and Ronja and Melissa’s dreamer of a father is out of work again. When ten-year-old Ronja hears about a job at a Christmas tree stand near where the family lives in central Oslo, she thinks it might be the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Moon of the Crusted Snow

  a Novel

  Rice, Waubgeshig, 1979-

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  "With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Small Things Like These

  Keegan, Claire,

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  "It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Christmas Guest

  a Novella

  Swanson, Peter, 1968-

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  "Ashley Smith, an American art student in London for her junior year, was planning on spending Christmas alone, but a last-minute invitation from fellow student Emma Chapman brings her to Starvewood Hall, country residence of the Chapman family. The…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Christmas Witness

  Todd, Charles,

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  "December 1921: Being single and a new Chief, Inspector Rutledge of Scotland Yard gets the short straw at Christmastime and is called upon by Chief Superintendent Markum to go to the Kentish home of a lord recovering from an attempt on his life. In…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret

  a Festive Mystery

  Stevenson, Benjamin,

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  "My name’s Ernest Cunningham. I used to be a fan of reading Golden Age murder mysteries, until I found myself with a haphazard career getting stuck in the middle of real-life ones. I’d hoped, this Christmas, that any self-respecting murderer would…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Winter in Sokcho

  Dusapin, Élisa Shua, 1992-

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  "It’s winter in Sokcho, a tourist town on the border between South and North Korea. The cold slows everything down. Bodies are red and raw, the fish turn venomous, beyond the beach guns point out from the North’s watchtowers. A young French Korean…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cold Snap

  Ryan, Lindy,

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  "Two weeks ago, Christine Sinclaire's husband slipped off the roof while hanging Christmas lights and fell to his death on the front lawn. Desperate to escape her guilt and her grief, Christine packs up her fifteen-year-old son and the family cat…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Wood at Midwinter

  Clarke, Susanna,

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  "Nineteen-year-old Merowdis Scot is an unusual girl. She can talk to animals and trees-and she is only ever happy when she is walking in the woods. One snowy afternoon, out with her dogs and Apple the pig, Merowdis encounters a blackbird and a fox.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• You Should Have Left

  Kehlmann, Daniel, 1975-

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  "A screenwriter, his wife, and their four-year old daughter rent a house in the mountains of Germany, but something isn’t right. As he toils on a sequel to his most successful movie, the screenwriter notices that rooms aren’t where he remembers…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Christmas Murder Game

  Benedict, Alexandra, 1977-

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  "Lily Armitage never wanted to return to Endgame House. The grand estate holds too many painful memories—including the unsolved murder of her mother, twenty-one Christmases ago. But when a cryptic invitation arrives, Lily can't ignore it. Her aunt…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Winter Hours

  Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems

  Oliver, Mary, 1935-2019

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  "From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award comes Winter Hours, Mary Oliver's most personal book yet. And never more so than in this extraordinary and engaging gathering of nine essays, accompanied by a brief selection of new…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Winter Recipes From the Collective

  Glück, Louise, 1943-2023

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  "Louise Glück’s thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in the Wild Iris there is a chorus, but the speakers are entirely human, simultaneously spectral and ancient. Winter Recipes from the Collective is chamber music, an invitation into…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

  Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-

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  "In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cold Enough for Snow

  Au, Jessica,

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  "A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the autumn evenings, escape the typhoon rains, share meals in small cafes and restaurants, and visit galleries to see some of the city’s most radical…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Clear

  a Novel

  Davies, Carys,

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  "John, an impoverished Scottish minister, has accepted a job evicting the lone remaining occupant of an island north of Scotland—Ivar, who has been living alone for decades, with only the animals and the sea for company. Though his wife, Mary, has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Route of Ice & Salt

  Zárate Herrera, José Luis,

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  "It's an ordinary assignment, nothing more. The cargo? Fifty boxes filled with Transylvanian soil. The route? From Varna to Whitby. The Demeter has made many trips like this. The captain has handled dozens of crews. He dreams familiar dreams: to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Meal in Winter

  a Novel of World War II

  Mingarelli, Hubert, 1956-2020

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  "This timeless short novel begins one morning in the dead of winter, during the darkest years of World War II, with three German soldiers heading out into the frozen Polish countryside. They have been charged by their commanders with tracking down…Read moreRead more of this annotation