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BostonPL_First Day of Winter: 11 Books to Read under the Safety of Your Covers

This winter, explore cold landscapes from the comfort and safety of your bed with one of these snowy books from the Boston Public Library. Get your hot chocolate and marshmallows ready and borrow one of these books today before the snow starts flying!

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  • Fiction. Every night at precisely eleven, the lights in the neighbor's bedroom turn off. There's something about that light Scott can't let go of. So one day he breaks in. And he feels a jolt of excitement he hasn't felt in a long time.…
    BookNew York : Doubleday, 2016. — FICTION MARINOVI M
  • Fiction. At the start of another pitiless winter, the wolves have come for the children of Keelut. Three children have been taken from this isolated Alaskan village. Sixty years old, ailing in both body and spirit, wolf expert Russel Core…
    BookNew York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2014] — FICTION GIRALDI W
  • Fiction. Nine tales of acute psychological insight and turbulent relationships. A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a snow storm by the voice of her late husband in "Alphinland.” In "The Freeze-Dried Bridegroom," a man who…
    Unknown[New York] : Books on Tape, 2014. — PR9199.3.A8 S86 2014x
  • Mystery/Romance. Los Angeles, 1943. When reporter Nathan Doyle had sees the Philip Arlen's dead body, he knows he'll be the prime suspect, so he sets out to crack the case himself. Lieutenant Matthew Spain's been drawn to men before, but…
    UnknownDon Mills,Ontario : Harlequin, c2011. — PS3612.A588
  • Fantasy. As the Seven Kingdoms face a generation-long winter, the royal Stark family confronts the poisonous plots of the rival Lannisters, the emergence of the Neverborn demons, the arrival of barbarian hordes, and other threats.
    UnknownNew York : Bantam, [2011] — PS3563.A7239 S66 2011x
  • Fantasy. Ash March was found and raised by the Penthero Iss, the mighty Surlord of Spire Vanis. She and Raif Sevrance, a young man of Clan Blackhail, must accept their joint fate and master their uncanny abilities, if they are to defeat an…
    UnknownNew York, NY : Tor® fantasy, 2011. — PS3560.O4874
  • Mystery. The night the first snow falls a young boy wakes to find his mother gone. He walks through the silent house, but finds only wet footprints on the stairs. In the garden looms a solitary figure: a snowman bathed in cold moonlight,…
    Audiobook CDWestminster, Md. : Books on Tape, p2011. — BOOK on CD NESBO J
  • Fantasy. Aleksia, Queen of the Northern Lights, is widely known to have a heart of ice. When she's falsely accused of unleashing evil on nearby villages, she realizes there's an impostor out there far more heartless than she could ever be.…
    BookNew York : Luna, c2008. — Lackey, M
  • Winter Study

    [An Anna Pigeon Mystery]

    Barr, Nevada
    Mystery. Anna Pidgeon joins a wolf study team at Isle Royale National Park in the middle of Lake Superior. When a female member of the team is savaged, Anna is convinced they are being stalked, and what was once a beautiful, idyllic refuge…
    UnknownPrince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p2008.
  • Fiction. A secret Arctic experiment becomes a frozen nightmare, when a team of scientists are set adrift on an iceberg--with a murderer in their midst, and a massive explosive charge only hours away from detonation.
    UnknownNew York : Bantam Books, [2007] — PS3561.O55 I27 2007x
  • Science-Fiction. A lone human emissary heads to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants can choose - and change - their gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. To do so he must bridge…
    eBookPenguin Publishing Group, 2000