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Winter Reads December 2016
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Get into the season with these "wintery" reads!
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Unearthly
by Cynthia Hand
Sixteen-year-old Clara Gardner's purpose as an angel-blood begins to manifest itself, forcing her family to pull up stakes and move to Jackson, Wyoming, where she learns that danger and heartbreak come with her powers
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The left hand of darkness
by Ursula K. Le Guin
While on a mission to the planet Gethen, earthling Genly Ai is sent by leaders of the nation of Orgoreyn to a concentration camp from which the exiled prime minister of the nation of Karhide tries to rescue him
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Frozen
by Melissa De la Cruz
More than a century after a disaster wiped out most of humanity and covered much of the earth with ice, Cass yields to the voice in her head urging her to embark on a journey across a poisoned sea to the mythical land, Blue
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Blankets
by Craig Thompson
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After the snow
by S. D. Crockett
Willo Blake, born after the 2059 snows that ushered in a new ice age, encounters outlaws, halfmen, and an abandoned girl as he journeys in search of his family, who disappeared from the freezing mountain that was their home
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Shiver
by Maggie Stiefvater
In all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has been watching her with increasing intensity
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Shatter me : New York times bestselling series
by Tahereh Mafi
Incarcerated her whole life, Juliette is released on the condition that she use her abilities in support of the dictatorship, but she soon finds herself allying with a resistance movement
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Love on the lifts
by Rachel Hawthorne
Kate finds the perfect chance for romance when she spends winter break with her two best friends at a ski resort. By the author of Caribbean Cruising. Original.
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The Tragedy Paper
by Elizabeth LaBan
While preparing for the most dreaded assignment at the prestigious Irving School, the Tragedy Paper, Duncan gets wrapped up in the tragic tale of Tim Macbeth, a former student who had a clandestine relationship with the wrong girl, and his own ill-fated romance with Daisy.
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Bittersweet
by Sarah Ockler
Hudson Avery gave up a promising ice skating career after her parents divorced, but when she gets a chance at a scholarship and starts coaching a hockey team, she realizes that she is not through with ice skating after all
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