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Christmas and Hanukkah
by Elizabeth A. Dice
Introduces Christmas and Hanukkah, describing their history, religious significance, and celebrations and traditions held for each holiday around the world
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The Winter Solstice : The Sacred Traditions of Christmas
by John Matthews
Many of us long for an alternative to the commercial industry Christmas has become. This beautifully illustrated, full-color book, brimming with folklore, stories, recipes, games, activities, decorating ideas, songs, and other resources, will help families who are "burned out" on Christmas create alternative celebrations more in keeping with the heartful spirit of the original Winter Solstice festivals.
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Winter
by Karl Ove Knausgård
A follow-up to Autumn continues the author's autobiographical quartet based on the seasons and collects daily meditations and letters addressed directly to his unborn daughter and how her prenatal development reshaped his perspectives on everyday objects. By the award-winning author of the My Struggle series.
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Winter tenor
by Kevin Goodan
In Kevin Goodan’s second collection, nature is equally cruel to all, and yearning is subsumed by an acceptance as terrible as it is beautiful. These poems are ecstatic, musical prayers, finding God in the details as well as the void.
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Great Wisconsin winter weekends
by Candice Gaukel Andrews
Ski, slide, skate, snowmobile – then find some hot cocoa and a crackling fireplace. That’s the surefire cure for cabin fever, and here’s your guide to winter weekend excitement throughout the Badger State. Twenty-one complete itineraries show you what to see and do, and where to eat and sleep. Includes listings of winter festivals statewide.
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The Snow Poems
by A. R. Ammons
Critics and readers alike recognize Ammons's achievements: in 1973, his Collected Poems won the National Book Award for Poetry; in 1975, his long poem Sphere: The Form of a Motion was nominated for the National Book Award and received the Bollingen Prize for Poetry: in 1977, he received and award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. The Snow Poems, Ammons's twelfth book, is a major achievement by a major American Poet.
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Unbound : a story of snow and self-discovery
by Steph Jagger
An executive life coach reflects on a transformative ski season across five continents in what became a physical and spiritual journey that tested her body and spirit and helped her build new understandings about strength, love and authenticity. 40,000 first printing.
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Winter town
by Stephen Emond
Evan and Lucy begin dating but his choice to follow his father's plans for an Ivy League education rather than becoming the cartoonist he longs to be, and her choices in the wake of family problems, pull them apart.
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Snow day : a novel
by Billy Coffey
A poignant and gently humorous novel reveals how a completely ordinary day can change a whole life when family man Peter Boyd finds his simple life becoming filled with more uncertainties. A first novel.
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A winter's promise
by Christelle Dabos
When Ophelia, who can travel through mirrors, is betrothed to an influential member of a faraway clan, she journeys to the towering city of Citaceleste, where she realizes she has become a pawn in a dangerous political game.
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Winter of the Gods
by Jordanna Max Brodsky
A follow-up to The Immortals finds a disgruntled Selene DiSilva assisting the NYPD when a high-profile murder victim is discovered on Wall Street's Charging Bull statue.
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A fatal winter : a Max Tudor novel
by G. M. Malliet
An investigation into two deaths at Chedrow Castle by former MI5 agent and Anglican priest Max Tudor is complicated by his growing attraction to Awena Owen and the arrival of a raucous group of greedy relatives.
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Winter's child
by Margaret Maron
One month after her marriage to Deputy Sheriff Dwight Bryant, judge Deborah Knott finds their situation tested when Bryant's ex-wife takes flight with their eight-year-old son, forcing Bryant to launch a determined search to find the boy before he comes to harm. By the author of Last Lessons of Summer.
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The wicked winter
by Kate Sedley
Roger the Chapman must join forces with the pious and zealous Brother Simeon to investigate the secrets behind the murder of Lady Cederwell at her country estate, in the sixth in a series of medieval mysteries that includes The Eve of St. Hyacinth.
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The winter soldier
by Daniel Mason
A young doctor and nurse fall in love while navigating the brutal realities of World War I at an underequipped and understaffed field hospital in the Carpathian Mountains. By the best-selling author of The Piano Tuner.
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Snowbirds
by Crissa-Jean Chappell
As an Amish girl in Florida, Lucy has always been part of a safe, hidden world. But now her best friend, who comes down every year from her own Amish sect in the north, has disappeared after a wild Rumspringa party, and the secrets Lucy must keep now, in her desperate search for her friend, could tear her life apart.
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The snow child : a novel
by Eowyn Ivey
A childless couple working a farm in the brutal landscape of 1920 Alaska discover a little girl living in the wilderness, with a red fox as a companion, and begin to love the strange, almost-supernatural child as their own.
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The snow queen : a novel
by Michael Cunningham
The Meeks brothers travel down different paths in search for transcendence. Barrett, haunted by a vision of light, turns unexpectedly to religion. Tyler grows increasingly convinced that only drugs can release his creative powers.
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A boy in winter
by Rachel Seiffert
From the award-winning author of the Booker Prize-short-listed The Dark Room, a startling portrait of the Nazis' arrival in Ukraine as they move to implement the final solution Otto Pohl, an engineer overseeing construction of a German road in Ukraine,awakens to the unexpected sight of SS men herding hundreds of Jews into an old brick factory. Inside the factory, Ephraim anxiously scans the growing crowd, looking for his two sons. As anxious questions swirl around him--"Where are they taking us? How long will we be gone?"--he can't quell the suspicion that it would be just like his oldest son to hole up somewhere instead of lining up for the Germans, and just like his youngest to follow. Yasia, a farmer's daughter who has come into town to sell produce, sees two young boys slinking through the shadows of the deserted streets and decides to offer them shelter. As these lives become more and more intertwined--Rachel Seiffert's prose rich with a rare compassion, courage, and emotional depth, an unflinching story is told: of survival, of conflicting senses of duty, of the oppressive power of fear and the possibility of courage in the face of terror.
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