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Bundle Up with Books! Adult Readalikes |
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The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year
by Ally Carter
Meet Maggie Chase and Ethan Wyatt. She's the new Queen of the Cozy Mystery. He's Mr. Big-Time Thriller Guy. She hates his guts. He thinks her name is Marcie (no matter how many times she's told him otherwise.) But when they both accept a cryptic invitation to attend a Christmas house party at the English estate of a reclusive fan, neither is expecting their host to be the most powerful author in the world: Eleanor Ashley, the Duchess of Death herself. That night, the weather turns, and the next morning Eleanor is gone. She vanished from a locked room, and Maggie has to wonder: is Eleanor in danger? Or is it all some kind of test? Is Ethan the competition? Or is he the only person in that snowbound mansion she can trust?-- Provided by publisher
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Frigid
by Jennifer L. Armentrout
From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout comes the first in an icy-hot duology following two friends and the boys who complicate everything for them.No one could replace me in his life. I knew that. I was the friend who knew everything about him and whom he trusted above everyone else.I was Kyler's best friend. And because of that, he would never love me the way I loved him.For twenty-one-year-old Sydney Bell, being in love with Kyler isn't anything new. They've been best friends ever since he pushed her down on the playground and she made him eat a mud pie. Somewhere over the years, she fell for him and fell hard. The problem? He's never stayed with a girl for longer than a few nights, and with it being their last year of college, Sydney won't risk their friendship by declaring her feelings.Meanwhile, Kyler has always put Sydney on a pedestal too high to reach. To him, she's everything. But he's hidden away his feelings, drowning them in other girls instead. After all, Kyler will always be the poor boy from the wrong side of tracks, and Syd will always be the best thing he can never have.But when they're stranded together at a posh ski resort after a massive snowstorm, there's nothing stopping their red-hot feelings from finally coming to the surface. Can their friendship survive the attraction? Better yet, can they survive at all? Because as the snow falls, someone is stalking them, and this trip may be a life-changer in more ways than one.
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Powder Days: Ski Bums, Ski Towns and the Future of Chasing Snow
by Heather Hansman
Veteran ski journalist and former ski bum Heather Hansman takes readers on an exhilarating journey into the hidden history of American skiing, offering a glimpse into an underexplored subculture from the perspective of a true insider--
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The Lodge
by Kayla Olson
A cozy winter rom-com about a ghostwriter who decamps to a Vermont lodge to work on her new project, but finds herself falling for the ski instructor next door--
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After the North Pole: A Story of Survival, Mythmaking, and Melting Ice
by Erling Kagge
The North Pole looms large in our collective psyche--the ultimate Otherland in a world mapped and traversed. It is the center of our planet's rotation, one of the places that is most vulnerable in an epoch of global climate change. Its sub-zero temperatures and strange year of one sunset and one sunrise make it an eerie, utterly disorienting place that challenges human endurance and understanding. Erling Kagge and his friend Bge Ousland became the first people 'to ever reach the pole without dogs, without depots, and without motorized aids, ' skiing for 58 days from a drop off point on the ice edge of Canada's northernmost island. Erling describes his record-making journey, probing the physical challenges and psychological motivations for embarking on such an epic expedition, the history of the territory's exploration, its place in legend and art, and the thrilling adventures he experienced during the trek--
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The Shots You Take
by Rachel Reid
After moving back to his hometown ten years ago, Riley Tuck thought he had left his major league hockey career--and his broken heart--far behind. But when an unexpected tragedy strikes, it brings ex-teammate and former best friend with benefits Adam Sheppard back into his life.
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A Midwinter's Tail
by Sofie Kelly
Kathleen Paulson is snowed under running her library and caring for her extraordinary felines, Owen and Hercules. But when a holiday fund-raiser turns deadly, she'll have to add sleuthing to her already full schedule... Winter in Mayville Heights is busy and not just because of the holidays. Kathleen is hard at work organizing a benefit to raise money for the library's popular Reading Buddies program. She has her hands full hosting the event. And when a guest at the gala drops dead, her magical cats, Owen and Hercules, will have their paws full helping her solve a murder. The victim is the ex of town rascal Burtis Chapman, but she hasn't lived in the area in years. And though everybody is denying knowledge of why she was back in town, as Kathleen and her detective boyfriend, Marcus, begin nosing around, they discover more people are connected to the deceased than claimed to be. Now Marcus, Kathleen, and her uncanny cats have to unravel this midwinter tale before the case gets cold.
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One Jump at a Time: My Story
by Nathan Chen
The three-time World Champion, Olympic gold medalist, and the first Asian American man to stand at the highest podium in figure skating reflects on the events that led him to where he is today, in this testament to the love of family and the power of persistence, grit, and passion.
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If You Hate Me
by Helena Hunting
When a young woman has no choice but to move in with her hockey player brother, she soon has to contend with his playboy teammate and roommate, but their fights only mask the attraction sizzling between them.
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Unforgiving: Lessons from the Fall
by Lindsey Jacobellis
Unforgiving recounts Lindsey's journey from disappointment to triumph. It is an honest account of one life-altering misstep and its aftermath, and a reflection on what it means to come of age as an athlete in the spotlight, the weight of expectations, falling short, and ultimately fulfilling your dreams. Unforgiving is about the purpose-driven, forward-looking attitude Lindsey took on after her fall, when looking back wouldn't have done anyone any favors. It's about the pass she refused to grant herself until she'd earned it. Unforgiving is about the commitment to seek her own truth--and to speak up on one's own behalf after letting others do it for years. Forgiveness, in the end, is at the heart of Lindsey's story, but underneath and alongside is its polar opposite--an unending, uncompromising determination to push herself, to prove herself, to power past every obstacle in her path, even those of her own making.--
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Behind the Net: A Vancouver Storm Novel
by Stephanie Archer
He's the hot hockey player she had a crush on in high school . . . and she's his new live-in assistant. In this tension-filled hockey romance from the viral TikTok author of The Fake Out and The Wingman, she must take a risk in love--or leave him out on the ice. Aspiring musician Pippa Hartley's done with heartbreak. Her new gig? Personal assistant to Jamie Streicher, the surly hockey player she had a crush on in high school. The job is supposed to be a breeze, but nothing about the intimidatingly hot Jamie is easy. He's grouchy, he's demanding, and he doesn't even remember her. Keeping things professional will be no problem. Beneath his surliness, though, Jamie is surprisingly sweet and protective. He pretends to be her boyfriend to make her ex jealous. He encourages her in music and tells her she's beautiful. He buys her expensive gifts that make her feel seen. And when he learns her ex was bad in bed, Jamie's competitive nature flares. Turns out, Jamie remembers exactly who Pippa is, and that high school crush she had? The feeling was mutual. Falling for Jamie can only lead to heartbreak . . . but it might be worth it. Don't miss any of Stephanie Archer's steamy Vancouver Storm series: BEHIND THE NET - THE FAKE OUT - THE WINGMAN
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The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him
by Eric Blehm
On January 20, 2003, a thunderous crack rang out and a 100-foot-wide tide of snow barreled down the Northern Selkirk Mountains in British Columbia, Canada. More than a dozen skiers and snowboarders were thrust down the mountain, buried beneath several tons of rock-hard snow and ice in the Durrand Glacier Avalanche. A heroic search and rescue ensued. Among those buried was Craig Kelly--'the Michael Jordan of snowboarding'--a man who had propelled the sport into the mainstream before walking away from competitions, to rekindle his passion in the untamed alpine wilds of North America. [This] is the story of Craig Kelly's life, a heartbreaking but extraordinary and inspiring odyssey of a latchkey kid whose athletic prowess and innovations would revolutionize winter sports, take him around the globe, and push him into ever more extreme environments that would ultimately take his life--
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A Killing Cold
by Kate Alice Marshall
A woman invited to her wealthy fiancâe's family retreat realizes they are hiding a terrible secret--and that she's been there before--
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