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Feeling frosty this February? Chill out with these reads. #nonfiction

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  • The Greatest Polar Expedition of All Time

    The Arctic Mission to the Epicenter of Climate Change

    Rex, Markus
    A captain's tell-all about the world's largest Arctic expedition--an illuminating account of seafaring adventure, Arctic natural history, and cutting-edge climate science. The book about the Mosaic Expedition: as seen in the documentary…
    eBookGreystone Books, 2022
  • Until the 1990s, the bulk of hockey history was focused on the National Hockey League and its celebrities, was written by Canadians for Canadians, and was not scholarly in either research methods or presentation. That has begun to change,…
    BookUrbana : University of Illinois Press, [2018] — GV846.5 .H37 2018
  • Ice

    From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks—a Cool History of a Hot Commodity

    Brady, Amy
    The unexpected and unexplored ways that ice has transformed a nation--from the foods Americans eat, to the sports they play, to the way they live today--and what its future might look like on a swiftly warming planet.
    Downloadable AudiobookBooks on Tape, 2023
  • Four Thousand Paws

    Caring for the Dogs of the Iditarod : a Veterinarian's Story

    Morgan, Lee (Veterinarian),
    An intimate account--the first from a trail veterinarian--of the canines who brave the challenges of the Iditarod. Few events attract as much attention, or create as much spectacle, as the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Each March, despite…
    BookNew York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2024] — SF428.7 .M67 2024
  • Realm of Ice and Sky

    Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue

    Levy, Buddy, 1960-
    Two-time National Outdoor Book Award-winning author Buddy Levy's thrilling narrative of polar exploration via airship―and the men who sacrificed everything to make history.
    BookNew York : St. Martin's Press, 2025.
  • The End of Ice

    Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption

    Jamail, Dahr
    After nearly a decade overseas as a war reporter, the acclaimed journalist Dahr Jamail returned to America to renew his passion for mountaineering, only to find that the slopes he had once climbed have been irrevocably changed by climate…
    eBookThe New Press, 2020
  • Searching for Franklin

    New Answers to the Great Arctic Mystery

    McGoogan, Ken
    Arctic historian Ken McGoogan approaches the legacy of nineteenth-century explorer Sir John Franklin from a contemporary perspective and offers a surprising new explanation of an enduring Northern mystery. Two of Arctic explorer Sir John…
    eBookDouglas and McIntyre (2013) Ltd., 2023
  • When three-year-old Nathan Chen tried on his first pair of figure skates, magic happened. But the odds of this young boy—one of five children born to Chinese immigrants—competing and making it into the top echelons of figure skating were…
    BookNew York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] — GV850.C42 A3 2022x
  • Icebound

    Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World

    Pitzer, Andrea,
    The human story has always been one of perseverance-often against remarkable odds. The most astonishing survival tale of all might be that of 16th-century Dutch explorer William Barents and his crew of sixteen, who ventured farther north…
    BookNew York : Scribner, 2021. — G700 1596 .P58 2021
  • Remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen, to spend a year there with her husband. She thinks it will be a relaxing trip, a chance to "read thick books in the remote quiet and, not least, sleep to my heart's content", but when Christiane arrives…
    BookLondon : Pushkin Press Classics, 2024. — G780 .R53 2024
  • In the pages of Arctic Paradise: The Paradox of Finnish Happiness, the intricate tapestry of Finland's contented society unfolds, revealing both its radiant joys and subtle shadows. This insightful non-fiction work delves into the core of…
    eBookSusanna Heiskanen, 2024
  • Antarctica

    a History in 100 Objects

    Pomereu, Jean de,
    This stunning and powerfully relevant book tells the history of Antarctica through 100 varied and fascinating objects drawn from collections around the world.
    BookLondon ; New York : Conway, 2022. — G870 .P654 2022
  • Ice Walker

    a Polar Bear's Journey Through the Fragile Arctic

    Raffan, James,
    From the top of the world, Hudson Bay looks like an enormous paw print on the torso of the continent, and through a vast network of lakes and rivers, the water in this bay connects to oceans across the globe. Here, at the heart of…
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster Canada, 2020. — QL737.C27 R34 2020x
  • Polar Tales

    the Future of Ice, Life, and the Arctic

    Schäfer, Melissa,
    The Arctic is the ground zero of climate change, and the polar bear is on the front line. Filled with groundbreaking photography that reveals the breathtaking landscapes of the Arctic and the transformations of the environment through the…
    BookNew York : Rizzoli New York, 2020. — G610 .S33 2023
  • Call Me Indian

    From the Trauma of Residential School to Becoming the NHL's First Treaty Indigenous Player

    Sasakamoose, Fred, 1933-2020,
    Trailblazer. Residential school survivor. First Indigenous player in the NHL. All of these descriptions are true--but none of them tell the whole story. Fred Sasakamoose suffered abuse in a residential school for a decade before becoming…
    BookToronto : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, 2021. — E99.C88 S352 2021x
  • The Meaning of Ice

    People and Sea Ice in Three Arctic Communities

    Winner of the Inaugural Mohn Prize (2017) Winner of the William Mills Prize for nonfiction Polar Books (2014) The Meaning of Ice celebrates Arctic sea ice as it is seen and experienced by the Inuit, Iupiat, and Inughuit, who for…
    BookHanover, N.H. : International Polar Institute Press, [2013] — GN673 .M43 2013x
  • Ice

    Chilling Stories From a Disappearing World

    Buller, Laura, 1952-
    Describes how plants, animals, and humans survive in the Arctic regions, including facts on prehistoric life, sea ice, and the growing threat to the biome due to climate change.
    BookNew York, New York : DK Publishing, 2019. — QH84.1 .B855 2019x
  • Buried in the Sky

    the Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day

    Zuckerman, Peter
    Presents the stories of the sherpas who have acted as expert consultants to Westerners climbing the Himalayas, focusing in particular on Chhiring Dorje Sherpa and Pasang Lama, who survived when eleven other climbers died on K2 in August…
    BookNew York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2012. — GV199.44.P182 Z84 2012
  • Ice

    the Nature, the History, and the Uses of This Astonishing Substance

    Gosnell, Mariana
    Like the adventurer who circled an iceberg to see it on all sides, Mariana Gosnell, former Newsweek reporter and author of Zero Three Bravo, a book about flying a small plane around the United States, explores ice in all its complexity,…
    BookNew York : Knopf, 2005. — QC926.32 .G67 2005
  • Figure skating, unique in its sublimely beautiful combination of technical precision, musicality, and interpretive elements, has undergone many dramatic developments since the only previous history of the sport was published in 1959. This…
    BookUrbana [Ill.] : University of Illinois Press ; Colorado Springs : World Figure Skating Museum and Hall of Fame, 2006. — GV850.4 .H56 2006