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The various winter challenges are designed for all ages. Children and teens (ages 5-18) can earn some virtual badges on Beanstack and a free book after logging 300 minutes of reading before January 31, 2024. Sign up for a free account, or log in to the account you made for Summer Reading, to manage your family's profiles and reading time here. Adults can pick up reading logs with their list of challenges at any physical library location. Once you have completed at least 5 challenges, return the log to the library for an entry into a prize drawing. Complete all 10 challenges for an extra entry. The rest of this newsletter will provide some book recommendations for the adult winter challenges. |
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The drift : a novel
by C. J. Tudor
Hannah, trapped with a handful of survivors after an accident; Meg, stranded in a cable car high above snowy mountains with five strangers; and Carter, plunged into darkness at an isolated ski chalet, are all faced with something that threatens to consume all of humanity. 20,000 first printing.
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Be mine
by Richard Ford
Frank Bascombe details and confronts his own morality and that of his son, just diagnosed with ALS, on a shared winter odyssey to Mount Rushmore in the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Lay of the Land. 100,000 first printing.
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Dead of winter
by Darcy Coates
Forced to take shelter in an abandoned hunting cabin while on a hike in the Rocky Mountains when a terrible snowstorm moves in, Christa and eight total strangers have nowhere to run or hide as someone begins murdering them. Original.
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Three cowboys and a baby
by Kate Pearce
"When an old military buddy skips town, leaving his son behind, cowboy and former marine Noah Harding does his best to take care of the baby until the arrival of the boy's much-relieved mother for whom he develops complicated feelings as a winter storm puts them in close quarters"
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Winter wolves
by Matthew P. Mayo
"One mans quest to lose himself in the West. Roamers long-planned winter snowshoe trek to the high, lonesome peaks of the Bitterroots takes a hard turn when the big loner of a woodsman finds his mentor, cantankerous mountain man Maple Jack, savaged, terrorized, and raving about the Alooknok, blood-eyed demons who absconded with his cold-weather mate, Winter Woman, a no-nonsense healer and midwife. Its up to Roamer to rescue her. He takes to the trail in the wake of a blizzard, battling winter-starved timber wolves and the unforgiving elements. Tracking him, the addled Maple Jack falls prey to a trio of greasy wolfers. Then the very demons Roamer seeks find him-and force him deep into the belly of the beast, a foreboding, grim place in the raw mountains where sunlight never shines. A brutal battle among friends, enemies, and Alooknok will seal their fates and haunt the few survivors ... forever"
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The wintering place : a novel
by Kevin McCarthy
In the Dakota Territory in 1867, the O'Driscoll brothers, soldiers who have deserted the Indian Wars after surviving a Sioux massacre, seek refuge off of Bozeman Trail with the women they love where, while the world seeks its way to them, human nature makes its own trouble.
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This other Eden : a novel
by Paul Harding
Inspired by the true story of Malaga Island, an isolated island off the coast of Maine that became one of the first racially integrated towns in the Northeast, this novel brings to life an unforgettable cast of characters who struggle to preserve human dignity in the face of intolerance and injustice.
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The Beach Reads Bookshop
by Lee Tobin McClain
Bookstore owner on a quaint Chesapeake island, Deena Clark starts the next chapter in her life when she forms a special bond with billionaire businessman and single father Luis Dominquez and his adorable little girl. Original. 200,000 first printing.
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The summer skies : a novel
by Jenny Colgan
On the verge of making a huge life change, pilot Morag finds everything going off course when she is marooned on Inchborn island with visiting ornithologist Gregor Cameron who might have just the right perspective to get her off the ground. Original.
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After Anne : a novel of Lucy Maud Montgomery's life
by Logan Steiner
Paints a portrait of Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of the Anne of Green Gables books, and the shocking decision she made to live as a rural minister's wife instead of being a spinster authoress. Original. 100,000 first printing.
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Puerto Rico
by Marc Di Duca
Covering all Puerto Rico has to offer, this must-have guide offers local insights and insider tips, reveals the best regional dishes and drinks, collects the destination's best experiences and more. Original. Illustrations.
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Pink lemonade cake murder
by Joanne Fluke
Serving super sweet pink lemonade desserts at the Tri-County Summer Solstice Celebration, Hannah finds the mood souring when a retired professional MLB player meets his demise and takes a swing at finding the killer in a league of their own.
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A traitor in Whitehall
by Julia Kelly
In 1940, Evelyne Redfern, a secretary for Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the cabinet war rooms, uses all of her amateur sleuthing expertise garnered from years of reading mysteries to solve a murder, teaming up with a cagey minister's aide to expose a traitor in their midst.
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The golden gate
by Amy Chua
While investigating the murder of a presidential candidate in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan discovers a link to the death of a 7-year-old girl 10 years earlier and is led to one of the wealthiest families in all of San Francisco whose powerful influence hinder his quest for the truth.
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Black River Orchard : a novel
by Chuck Wendig
Dark magic transforms a small town when strange trees bearing magical apples begin making residents happier, more confident, more powerful and only wanting to eat more apples in the new novel by the best-selling author of The Book of Accidents.
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Code red
by Kyle Mills
Mitch Rapp crosses into war-torn Syria at the behest of a powerful crime lord to determine who is manufacturing a highly addictive new narcotic in the latest addition to the long-running series following Oath of Loyalty.
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White holes
by Carlo Rovelli
An acclaimed theoretical physicist who has dedicated his career to uniting the time-warping ideas of general relativity and the perplexing uncertainties of quantum mechanics draws us into a strange world of white holes—equally compact objects in which the arrow of time is reversed.
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