{"id":5671,"date":"2021-01-11T12:33:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T17:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/?p=5671"},"modified":"2021-01-11T12:50:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T17:50:56","slug":"warm-up-with-a-cool-read-over-10-suggestions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/2021\/01\/11\/warm-up-with-a-cool-read-over-10-suggestions\/","title":{"rendered":"Warm up with a Cool Read: Over 10 Suggestions"},"content":{"rendered":"

January 11, 2021|Maria Firkaly<\/span><\/p>\n

Overcast days, cold temperatures, snow, and freezing rain only mean it is really winter and time to get a mug of your favorite hot beverage, cover up with a nice blanket and settle into a cozy spot to read a book. Our newest in-house display is Warm up with a Cool Read<\/em><\/strong>. All of the storylines take place (or mostly) in a cold climate or winter season. As if you aren’t cold enough. Ha! Most of the titles are available in a choice of formats. You can call us up<\/span><\/strong><\/a> and schedule a browsing appointment or place a hold on one. Also, our online catalog and Libby app are available 24\/7 to place a hold or download an e-book or audiobook. I hope you find something new to read on the list!<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Winter People<\/em> by Jennifer McMahon<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Available in print<\/a>, audiobook<\/a>, e-book<\/a>, digital audiobook<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange disappearances and old legends. The most mysterious is that of Sara Harrison Shea, who, in 1908, was found dead in the field behind her house just months after the tragic death of her daughter.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, in present-day, nineteen-year-old Ruthie lives in Sara’s farmhouse with her mother, Alice, and her younger sister. Alice has always insisted that they live off the grid, a decision that has weighty consequences when Ruthie wakes up one morning to find that Alice has vanished. In her search for clues, she is startled to find a copy of Sara Harrison Shea’s diary hidden beneath the floorboards of her mother’s bedroom. As Ruthie gets sucked into the historical mystery, she discovers that she’s not the only person looking for someone that they’ve lost. But she may be the only one who can stop history from repeating itself.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Winter Garden<\/em> by Kristin Hannah<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Available in print<\/a>, large print<\/a>, audiobook<\/a>, e-book<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different as sisters can be. One stayed at home to raise her children and manage the family apple orchard; the other followed a dream and traveled the world to become a famous photojournalist. But when their beloved father falls ill, Meredith and Nina find themselves together again, standing alongside their cold, disapproving mother, Anya, who even now, offers no comfort to her daughters. As children, the only connection between them was the Russian fairy tale Anya sometimes told the girls at night. On his deathbed, their father extracts a promise from the women in his life: the fairy tale will be told one last time\u2014and all the way to the end. Thus, begins an unexpected journey into the truth of Anya\u2019s life in war-torn Leningrad, more than five decades ago. Alternating between the past and present, Meredith and Nina will finally hear the singular, harrowing story of their mother\u2019s life, and what they learn is a secret so terrible and terrifying that it will shake the very foundation of their family and change who they believe they are.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Shining<\/em> by Steven King<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Available in print<\/a>, audiobook<\/a>, e-book<\/a>, digital audiobook<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Jack Torrance’s new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he’ll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing. But as the harsh winter weather sets in, the idyllic location feels ever more remote…and more sinister. And the only one to notice the strange and terrible forces gathering around the Overlook is Danny Torrance, a uniquely gifted five-year-old.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Last Night of Nuuk<\/em> by Niviaq Korneliussen<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Available in print<\/a> and Hoopla e-book<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

A witty and fearless debut from a stunning new voice, Last Night in Nuuk<\/em> is a work of daring invention about your life in Greenland. Through monologues, emails, and text exchanges, she brilliantly weaves together the coming of age of five distinct characters: a woman who\u2019s \u201cgone off sausage\u201d (men); her brother, in a secret affair with a powerful married man; a lesbian couple confronting an important transition; and the troubled young woman who forces them all to face their fears. With vibrant imagery and daring prose, Korneliussen write honestly about finding yourself and growing into the person you were mean to be. Praised for creating \u201cit\u2019s own genre\u201d (Politiken,<\/em> Denmark), Last Night in Nuuk<\/em> is a brace entrance onto the literary scene and establishes her as a voice that cannot be ignored.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Moon Crusted Snow<\/em> by Waubgeshig Rice<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Available in print<\/a>, e-book<\/a>, Hoopla e-book<\/a>, Hoopla audiobook<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

A daring post-apocalyptic thriller from a powerful rising literary voice<\/span><\/p>\n

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 unexpected visitor arrives, escaping the crumbling society to the south. Soon after, others follow.<\/span><\/p>\n

The community leadership loses its grip on power as the visitors manipulate the tired and hungry to take control of the reserve. Tensions rise and, as the months pass, so does the death toll due to sickness and despair. Frustrated by the building chaos, a group of young friends and their families turn to the land and Anishinaabe tradition in hopes of helping their community thrive again. Guided through the chaos by an unlikely leader named Evan Whitesky, they endeavor to restore order while grappling with a grave decision.<\/span><\/p>\n

Blending action and allegory,\u00a0Moon of the Crusted Snow<\/em>\u00a0upends our expectations. Out of catastrophe comes resilience. And as one society collapses, another is reborn.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Washington Black: A Novel<\/em> by Esi Edugyan<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Available in print<\/a>, e-book<\/a>, digital audiobook<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar plantation where he was born.<\/span><\/p>\n

When his master’s eccentric brother chooses him to be his manservant, Wash is terrified of the cruelties he is certain await him. But Christopher Wilde, or “Titch,” is a naturalist, explorer, scientist, inventor, and abolitionist.<\/span><\/p>\n

He initiates Wash into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky; where two people, separated by an impossible divide, might begin to see each other as human; and where a boy born in chains can embrace a life of dignity and meaning. But when a man is killed and a bounty is placed on Wash’s head, Titch abandons everything to save him.<\/span><\/p>\n

What follows is their flight along the eastern coast of America, and, finally, to a remote outpost in the Arctic, where Wash, left on his own, must invent another new life, one which will propel him further across the globe.<\/span><\/p>\n

From the sultry cane fields of the Caribbean to the frozen Far North,\u00a0Washington Black<\/em> tells a story of friendship and betrayal, love and redemption, of a world destroyed and made whole again–and asks the question, what is true freedom?<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Voyage of the Narwhal<\/em> by Andrea Barrett<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Available in print<\/a> and audiobook<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Capturing a crucial moment in the history of exploration\u2014the mid-nineteenth century romance with the Arctic\u2014Andrea Barrett’s compelling novel tells the story of a fateful expedition. Through the eyes of the ship’s scholar-naturalist, Erasmus Darwin Wells, we encounter the\u00a0Narwhal<\/em>‘s crew, its commander, and the far-north culture of the Esquimaux. In counterpoint, we meet the women left behind in Philadelphia, explorers only in imagination. Together, those who travel and those who stay weave a web of myth and mystery, finally discovering what they had not sought, the secrets of their own hearts.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Bear and the Nightingale<\/em> by Katherine Arden<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Available in print<\/a>, large print<\/a>, e-book<\/a>, digital audiobook<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. But Vasilisa doesn’t mind\u2014she spends the winter nights huddled around the embers of a fire with her beloved siblings, listening to her nurse’s fairy tales. Above all, she loves the chilling story of Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon, who appears in the frigid night to claim unwary souls. Wise Russians fear him, her nurse says, and honor the spirits of house and yard and forest that protect their homes from evil.<\/span><\/p>\n

After Vasilisa’s mother dies, her father goes to Moscow and brings home a new wife. Fiercely devout, city-bred, Vasilisa’s new stepmother forbids her family from honoring the household spirits. The family acquiesces, but Vasilisa is frightened, sensing that more hinges upon their rituals than anyone knows.<\/span><\/p>\n

And indeed, crops begin to fail, evil creatures of the forest creep nearer, and misfortune stalks the village. All the while, Vasilisa’s stepmother grows ever harsher in her determination to groom her rebellious stepdaughter for either marriage or confinement in a convent.<\/span><\/p>\n

As danger circles, Vasilisa must defy even the people she loves and call on dangerous gifts she has long concealed\u2014this, in order to protect her family from a threat that seems to have stepped from her nurse’s most frightening tales.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Dollmaker of Krakow<\/em> by R. M. Romero<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Available in print<\/a>, e-book<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

In the land of dolls, there is magic.<\/span>
\nIn the land of humans, there is war.<\/span>
\nEverywhere there is pain.<\/span>
\nBut\u00a0together<\/em>\u00a0there is hope.<\/span><\/p>\n

Karolina is a living doll whose king and queen have been overthrown. But when a strange wind spirits her away from the Land of the Dolls, she finds herself in Krakow, Poland, in the company of the Dollmaker, a man with an unusual power and a marked past.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Dollmaker has learned to keep to himself, but Karolina’s courageous and compassionate manner lead him to smile and to even befriend a violin-playing father and his daughter–that is, once the Dollmaker gets over the shock of realizing a doll is speaking to him.<\/span><\/p>\n

But their newfound happiness is dashed when Nazi soldiers descend upon Poland. Karolina and the Dollmaker quickly realize that their Jewish friends are in grave danger, and they are determined to help save them, no matter what the risks.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Wolf Winter<\/em> by Cecilia Ekback<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Available in print<\/a>, audiobook<\/a>, Hoopla e-book<\/a>, Hoopla digital audiobook<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

“Wolf winter,'” she said, her voice small. “I wanted to ask about it. You know, what it is.”<\/em>
\nHe was silent for a long time. “It’s the kind of winter that will remind us we are mortal,” he said. “Mortal and alone.”
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\nSwedish Lapland, 1717. Maija, her husband Paavo and her daughters Frederika and Dorotea arrive from their native Finland, hoping to forget the traumas of their past and put down new roots in this harsh but beautiful land. Above them looms Black\u00e5sen, a mountain whose foreboding presence looms over the valley and whose dark history seems to haunt the lives of those who live in its shadow.<\/span><\/p>\n

While herding the family’s goats on the mountain, Frederika happens upon the mutilated body of one of their neighbors, Eriksson. The death is dismissed as a wolf attack, but Maija feels certain that the wounds could only have been inflicted by another man. Compelled to investigate despite her neighbors’ strange disinterest in the death and the fate of Eriksson’s widow, Maija is drawn into the dark history of tragedies and betrayals that have taken place on Black\u00e5sen. Young Frederika finds herself pulled towards the mountain as well, feeling something none of the adults around her seem to notice.<\/span><\/p>\n

As the seasons change, and the “wolf winter,” the harshest winter in memory, descends upon the settlers, Paavo travels to find work, and Maija finds herself struggling for her family’s survival in this land of winter-long darkness. As the snow gathers, the settlers’ secrets are increasingly laid bare. Scarce resources and the never-ending darkness force them to come together, but Maija, not knowing who to trust and who may betray her, is determined to find the answers for herself. Soon, Maija discovers the true cost of survival under the mountain, and what it will take to make it to spring.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Winter Soldier <\/em>by Daniel Mason<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Available in print<\/a>, large print<\/a>, audiobook<\/a>, e-book<\/a>, digital audiobook<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales of battlefield surgery, he enlists, expecting a position at a well-organized field hospital. But when he arrives, at a commandeered church tucked away high in a remote valley of the Carpathian Mountains, he finds a freezing outpost ravaged by typhus. The other doctors have fled, and only a single, mysterious nurse named Sister Margarete remains.<\/span><\/p>\n

But Lucius has never lifted a surgeon’s scalpel. And as the war rages across the winter landscape, he finds himself falling in love with the woman from whom he must learn a brutal, makeshift medicine. Then one day, an unconscious soldier is brought in from the snow, his uniform stuffed with strange drawings. He seems beyond rescue until Lucius makes a fateful decision that will change the lives of doctor, patient, and nurse forever.<\/span><\/p>\n

From the gilded ballrooms of Imperial Vienna to the frozen forests of the Eastern Front; from hardscrabble operating rooms to battlefields thundering with Cossack cavalry,\u00a0The Winter Soldier<\/em>\u00a0is the story of war and medicine, of family, of finding love in the sweeping tides of history, and finally, of the mistakes we make, and the precious opportunities to atone.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Winter Station<\/em> by Jody Shields<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Available in print<\/a>, audiobook<\/a>, e-book<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

An aristocratic Russian doctor races to contain a deadly plague in an outpost city in Manchuria – before it spreads to the rest of the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

1910: people are mysteriously dying at an alarming rate in the Russian-ruled city of Kharbin, a major railway outpost in Northern China. Strangely, some of the dead bodies vanish before they can be identified.<\/span><\/p>\n

During a dangerously cold winter in a city gripped by fear, the Baron, a wealthy Russian aristocrat and the city’s medical commissioner, is determined to stop this mysterious plague. Battling local customs, an occupying army, and a brutal epidemic with no name, the Baron is torn between duty and compassion, between Western medical science and respect for Chinese tradition. His allies include a French doctor, a black marketeer, and a charismatic Chinese dwarf. His greatest refuge is the intimacy he shares with his young Chinese wife – but she has secrets of her own.<\/span><\/p>\n

Based on a true story that has been lost to history, set during the last days of imperial Russia, THE WINTER STATION is a richly textured and brilliant novel about mortality, fear and love.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Snow Child<\/em> by Eowyn Ivey<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Available in print<\/a>, large print<\/a>, audiobook<\/a>, e-book<\/a>, digital audiobook<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart–he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season’s first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone–but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees. This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in this beautiful, violent place things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them.<\/span><\/p>\n

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