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Winter Reading ❄️
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items Atmospheric books that are perfect for the dark, gloomy, winter evenings.
Told through the point of view of death, The Book Thief is a coming of age story about Liesel, a foster child, living outside of Munich during WWII.
The Book Thief
During the Bolshevik Revolution Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced to house arrest in a grand Russian hotel. The Count must now live his days within attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the ho...
A Gentleman in Moscow
Within Beartown Kevin, Amat, Benji, and the rest of the town’s junior ice hockey team are about to compete in the national semi-finals—and they actually have a shot at winning. All the hopes and dreams of this place now rest on the shoulders of a han...
Beartown
Beartown is home to tough, hardworking people who don’t expect life to be easy or fair. It's a cruel blow when they hear that Beartown ice hockey might soon be disbanded. What makes it worse is the obvious satisfaction that all the former Beartown pl...
Us Against You
In Beartown, two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Everyone has tried to move on, but there’s something about this place that prevents it. The destruction caused by a ferocious late-summer storm reignites the old ri...
The Winners
As darkness falls, a man caught in a snowstorm is forced to shelter at the strange, grim house Wuthering Heights. It is a place he will never forget. There he will come to learn the story of Cathy: how she was forced to choose between her well-meanin...
Wuthering Heights
This timeless favorite follows the four March sisters—pretty Meg, tomboy Jo, shy Beth, and vain Amy—as they grow and mature into four distinctive little women.
Little Women
Anne Brontë is so wrongly overshadowed by her sisters! This book is so revolutionary for it's time and honestly is more feminist than any other the Brontë novels I have read. It tells the story of Gilbert Markham is obsessed with a young widow, Helen...
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall: Anne Bronte
Don't let the size of this one scare you! There are a lot of characters, so each of their story's almost read as a set of interwoven short stories. Set against Napoleon's 1812 invasion of Russia this novel follows 3 primary characters Pierre Bezukhov...
War and Peace: Leo Tolstoy
You will truly feel like you have been dropped in a fairytale in the midst of the Russian wilderness. When Vasya’s widowed father brings home a new wife from Moscow. Fiercely devout, Vasya’s stepmother forbids her family from honoring their household...
The Bear and the Nightingale (Winternight Trilogy #1)|: Katherine Arden
You will want to reread this every Christmas! Every December, an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J.R.R. Tolkien’s children. Inside would be a letter in strange spidery handwriting and a beautiful colored drawing or some sketches. The letters were from Father Christm...
Letters from Father Christmas: JRR Tolkien
Truly the definition of small, but mighty. 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 loc...
Small Things Like These: Claire Keegan