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In Celebration of Solitude and Quiet Lives: Fiction and Nonfiction |
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The Heart in Winter
by Kevin Barry
In 1891 Montana, Tom Rourke, a young poet and ballad-maker, and Polly Gillespie, the new bride of an extremely devout mine captain, fall madly in love and strike out west on a stolen horse. With a posse of deranged gunmen in hot pursuit, the choices they make will haunt them forever.
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North is the Night
by Emily Rath
In the Finnish wilderness, more than wolves roam the dark forests. For Siiri and Aina, summer's fading light is a harbinger of unwelcome change. Land-hungry Swedes venture north, threatening the peace, a zealous Christian priest denounces the old ways, and young women have begun to disappear. Siiri vows to protect Aina from danger, but even Siiri cannot stop a death goddess from dragging her friend to Tuonela, the mythical underworld. Determined to save Aina, Siiri braves a dangerous journey north to seek the greatest shaman of legend, the only person to venture to the realm of death and return alive. In Tuonela, the cruel Witch Queen turns Aina's every waking moment into a living nightmare. But armed with compassion and cleverness,Aina learns the truth of her capture: the king of the underworld himself has plans for her.
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Blizzard
by Marie Vingtras
A local Alaskan man and a California girl search in a terrible snow storm for a lost boy with the help of several unsavory and out-of-place helpers, each carrying a dark secret in this award-winning French novel.
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There Should Have Been Eight
by Nalini Singh
Gathering at their late friend Bea's family estate in New Zealand's Southern Alps for a reunion, a group of friends are plagued by long-buried grief, bitterness, and rage, revealing that Bea's shocking death wasn't what it was claimed to be—and that the truth will finally be unleashed no matter the cost.
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Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge
by Lizzie Pook
When Maude Horton, a Victorian Londoner, discovers her sister's death aboard the Makepeace was no accident and that the ship's scientist Edison Stowe was responsible, she begins shadowing Edison, enacting the ultimate revenge to get justice for her sister.
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Last Night in Nuuk
by Niviaq Korneliussen
Weaves together the lives of five young people living in Greenland's capital: Fia, who has recently sworn off men; Amaq, struggling to cope with her past; Inuk, forced to escape after political scandal; and Ivik and Sara, who must confront a transition in their relationship
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The Ice Lion
by Kathleen O'Neal Gear
Teen members of a group of archaic humans, Lynx and Quiller, flee the increasing coldness and monstrous predators for a new land, where they meet a strange old man who tells them how to save the world.
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Cold Victory
by Karl Marlantes
Helsinki, 1947. Finland teeters between the Soviet Union and the West. Everyone is being watched. A wrong look or a wrong word could end in catastrophe. Natalya Bobrova, from Russia, and Louise Koski, from the United States, are young wives of their country's military attachâes. When they meet at an embassy party, their husbands, Arnie and Mikhail, both world-class skiers, drunkenly challenge each other to a friendly-but secret-cross-country wilderness race. Louise is delighted, but Natalya is worried. Stalin and Beria's secret police rule with unforgiving brutality. If news of the race gets out and Mikhail loses, Natalya knows it would mean his death, her imprisonment, and the loss of her two children. Meanwhile, Louise, who is childless, uses the race as an opportunity to raise money for a local orphanage, naive to the danger it will bring to Natalya and her family. Too late to stop Louise's scheme, a horrified Natalya watches as news of the race spreads across the globe as newspapers and politicians spin it as a symbolic battle: freedom versus communism. Desperate to undo her mistake, Louise must reach Arnie to tell him to throw the race and save Mikhail-but how? The two racers are in a world of their own, unreachable in Finland's arctic wilderness.
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The Man Burned by Winter
by Pete Zacharias
Still reeling from a personal tragedy, investigative journalist Rooker Lindstrèom finds a grim hideaway from the world. It's the dilapidated cabin on Minnesota's Deer Lake bequeathed to him by his late father--one of the most notorious serial killers in the state. If the walls of this murder house could talk, they'd scream. Detective Tess Harlow needs something from Rooker only he can provide: a window into the mind of a murderer. A copycat is on the prowl, following in the footsteps of Rooker's father. After reluctantly agreeing to take on the role of consultant, Rooker makes a chilling discovery. Every victim--five and counting--is a depraved taunt meant only for him. Rooker is not just tracking a killer playing sick games. In this brutal Minnesota winter, Rooker is confronting his past. Maybe working with Tess is Rooker's last chance at redemption. But to outrun his father's legacy, he must follow a darker path still to come.
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Winter Love
by Suyin Han
As a college student in London during the bitterly cold winter of 1944, Red falls in love with her married classmate Mara. Their affair unleashes a physical passion, a jealousy, and a sense of self-doubt that sweep all her previous experiences aside and will leave her changed forever. Set against the rubble of the bombed city, in a time of gray austerity and deprivation, Winter Love recalls a life at its most vivid.
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A Shining
by Jon Fosse
WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and left, and ultimately finds himself stuck at the end of a forest road. It soon grows dark and begins to snow. But instead of searching for help, he ventures, foolishly, into the dark forest. Inevitably, the man gets lost, and as he grows cold and tired, he encounters a glowing being amid the obscurity. Strange, haunting and dreamlike, A Shining is the latest work of fiction by National Book Award-finalist Jon Fosse, “the Beckett of the twenty-first century” (Le Monde).
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The Wolf in the Whale
by Jordanna Max Brodsky
A young Inuit shaman embarks on a dangerous journey to save her starving people before meeting a Viking warrior and setting in motion a conflict with the potential to both save and shatter her world.
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Winter Swallows
by Maurizio De Giovanni
As Naples prepares to celebrate the New Year, a famous variety show actress is shot dead by her husband and co-star in a seemingly straightforward case of infidelity and marital jealousy, but Commissario Ricciardi has his doubts and sets out to find the truth before the final act.
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The Arctic Fury
by Greer Macallister
1855: Virginia Reeve is summoned by an eccentric Brit with a compelling offer. Lady Jane Franklin wants her to lead a dozen women into the Arctic in search of the ships of her husband's lost expedition, and she's willing to pay handsomely. All four search attempts Lady Franklin has sponsored have failed. She has decided only a radical new approach can succeed: let women make the decisions. Lady Franklin will disavow all knowledge of the expedition if it fails, but if it succeeds, she promises great rewards. A year later, Virginia stands trial for murder. Survivors of the expedition willing to publicly support her sit in the front row. There are only six left. Set against the unforgiving backdrop of one of the world's most inhospitable locations, The Arctic Fury uses the true story of Lady Jane Franklin's tireless attempts to find her husband's lost expedition as a jumping-off point to spin a tale of bravery, intrigue, perseverance and hope.
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Where the Dead Wait
by Ally Wilkes
13 years after a failed expedition resulted in abandonment, betrayal, and cannibalism, Victorian explorer William Day embarks on an uncanny journey into his past to find his missing second-in-command, during which he must face up to the things he’s done as the restless dead follow closely behind.
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My Work
by Olga Ravn
After giving birth, Anna is utterly lost. She and her family move to the unfamiliar, snowy city of Stockholm. Anxiety threatens to completely engulf the new mother, who obsessively devours online news and compulsively buys clothes she can't afford. To avoid sinking deeper into her depression, Anna forces herself to read and write. My Work is a novel about the unique and fundamental experience of giving birth, mixing different literary forms-fiction, essay, poetry, memoir, and letters-to explore the relationship between motherhood, work, individuality, and literature.
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Lost Believers
by Irina Zhorov
A rich, immersive debut novel, inspired by true events, about a meeting between two women in 1970s Soviet Russia-a deeply religious homesteader living in isolation with her family on the Siberian taiga and an ambitious scientist-that irrevocably changes the course of both of their lives. Galina, a promising young geologist from Moscow, is falling in love with her pilot, Snow Crane, on a trip exploring for minerals in Siberia. As their helicopter hovers over what should be a stretch of uninhabited forest, they see a small hut and a garden, and, the following day, when they hike from their field camp to the hut, they find a family. Agafia was born in Siberia into a family of Old Believers, a small sect of Christians who rejected the reforms that shaped the modern Russian Orthodox church. Her parents fled religious persecution four decades earlier, hiking deep into the snowy wilderness and eventually building a home far away from the dangerous and sinful world. Galina and Snow Crane are the first people she has ever met outside of her immediate family. As the two women develop a friendship, each becomes conflicted about futures that once seemed certain-and each is hindered by the immovable forces shaping their lives.
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Road of Bones
by Christopher Golden
While preparing to film a story about the Kolyma Highway, a Siberian road built on top of the bones of prisoners of Stalin's gulag, a documentary producer and his crew must fight for their survival when they are pursued down this road paved with angry ghosts.
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The Favorites
by Layne Fargo
Katarina Shaw and Heath Rocha, childhood sweethearts turned champion ice dancers, captivated the world with their fiery chemistry until a shocking incident at the Olympics tore them apart. As a documentary threatens to reshape their legacy, Kat breaks her decade-long silence to reveal the truth behind their intense, obsessive relationship.
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Saturnalia
by Stephanie Feldman
During the Saturnalia carnival, Nina, a former member of Philadelphia's elite Saturn Club who ekes out a living by telling fortunes, is drawn back into the Club's wild solstice masquerade at the behest of a friend where she becomes the custodian of a horrifying secret and the target of a mysterious hunter.
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The Last Whaler
by Cynthia Reeves
Tor, a beluga whaler, and his wife, Astrid, a botanist specializing in Arctic flora, are stranded during the dark season of 1937-38 at his remote whaling station when they misjudge ice conditions and fail to rendezvous with the ship meant to carry them back to their home in southern Norway. Beyond enduring the Arctic winter’ s twenty-four-hour night, the couple must cope with the dangers of polar bears, violent storms, and bitter cold as well as Astrid’s unexpected pregnancy.
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The Bishop's Villa
by Sacha Naspini
Tuscany, November 1943. The village of Le Case is miles from any big city and appears rooted in an earlier century. Seen from there, even the war looks different; it is mostly a matter of waiting, praying, and mourning. As a fierce winter threatens, an order is issued by the local Fascist authorities: all Jews must be rounded up and detained in the bishop's villa to await deportation.
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Melvill
by Rodrigo Fresan
An invented biography, a gothic novel populated by ghosts, and an evocation of a filial love, Melvill contains all the talent, humor, and immense culture found in the other great works from one of Spanish literature's most ambitious writers. Book Annotation
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The Snow Collectors
by Tina May Hall
Haunted by the death of her parents and twin sister, Hanna exiles herself in a snowy Northeastern village where she is plunged into a murder mystery involving one of the most famous stories of Arctic exploration—the Franklin expedition, which disappeared into the ice in 1845. Original.
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PS: I Hate You
by Lauren Connolly
In this splendidly bittersweet debut romantic comedy, enemies forced together by a mutual loss are led on a cross-country journey toward a second chance. Maddie Sanderson would be proud to honor her older brother's dying wish, that she scatters his ashes over eight destinations that the adventurous 29-year-old never got to visit before he died from cancer. But in his will, Josh assigned her an impossible partner to help complete the mission-Dominic Perry. Seriously, if Maddie weren't already at his funeral, she would have killed him for this. Sure, Dom was Josh's life-long best friend. He's also the infuriating man who broke Maddie's heart back when she was naive enough to give it to him. But since Dom insists on following the rules and Josh didn't leave much room for Maddie to argue the matter, they embark together on a farewell trip that spans thousands of miles, exploring new places and revisiting their complicated history along the way. After a snowstorm leads to a shared bed, Maddie starts to wonder if her brother might be matchmaking from the grave. But when grief also reopens old wounds between them, Maddie might need more than Josh's ghostly guidance to trust Dom again.
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Last Night
by Luanne Rice
When her sister Maddie is murdered and her little daughter goes missing, Hadley arrives at the legendary Ocean House in Rhode Island where she teams up with a detective and a coast guard commander to discover who wanted Maddie dead, drawing them all into a world of greed, rage and revenge.
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Our Winter Monster
by Dennis Mahoney
This shaky horror outing from Mahoney (Ghostlove) follows Holly and Brian, a troubled couple hoping for a fresh start on a winter vacation to the ski resort town of Pinebuck, N.Y. While separated during a blizzard, they each encounter a mysterious snow creature leaving a trail of carnage across the slopes.
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Winter's Gifts
by Ben Aaronovitch
When retired FBI Agent Patrick Henderson calls in an 'X-Ray Sierra India' incident, the operator doesn't understand. He tells them to pass it up the chain till someone does. That person is FBI Special Agent Kimberley Reynolds. Leaving Quantico for snowbound Northern Wisconsin, she finds that a tornado has flattened half the town-and there's no sign of Henderson. Things soon go from weird to worse, as neighbors report unsettling sightings, key evidence goes missing, and the snow keeps rising-cutting off the town, with no way in or out. Something terrible is awakening. As the clues lead to the coldest of cold cases-a cursed expedition into the frozen wilderness-Reynolds follows a trail from the start of the American nightmare, to the horror that still lives on today...
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Death at a Scottish Wedding
by Lucy Connelly
Finally feeling like Sea Isle, Scotland is becoming her new home, American doctor Emilia McRoy is delighted when she is invited to a wedding at Morrigan's Castle. Her friends have warned her that it's a three-day party and it's bound to get wild, not to mention the impending snowstorm. Constable Ewan Campbell, owner of the castle, ensures their safety with the blizzard. What he didn't ensure is that all of his guests would survive the night alive. When Emilia explores the impressive castle, she finds a dead man in one of the turrets. The snowstorm hits and the local police can't reach the castle until it lets up. With no one able to leave, the family insists they carry on with the wedding, which makes Emilia's job as the coroner a bit easier--the suspects are in one place--and complicated because the killer has Emilia in his sights. The fact no one claims to know the victim isn't helping. Why would someone no one knows be murdered at a castle in the middle of nowhere? It's up to Emilia to uncover the mystery who the victim is, so the killer doesn't get away Scot free.
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The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him
by Eric Blehm
The award-winning author of the New York Times best-sellers Fearless and The Only Thing Worth Dying For tells the life story of legendary snowboarder Craig Kelly who died in the 2003 Durrand Glacier Avalanche. Blehm also offers a definitive, immersive account of snowboarding and the cultural movement that exploded around it.
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Blackness Is a Gift I Can Give Her: On Race, Community, and Black Women in Hockey
by R. Renee Hess
From the founder of Black Girl Hockey Club, a collection of deeply insightful and piercing essays shedding light on the history of Black excellence in hockey, the future of Black joy within the sport, and the ways we can all do better when it comes to recognizing—and upheaving—systemic and institutionalized racism.
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Winterlust: Finding Beauty in the Fiercest Season
by Bernd Brunner
In Winterlust, a farmer painstakingly photographs five thousand snowflakes, each one dramatically different from the next. Indigenous peoples thrive on frozen terrain, where famous explorers perish. Icicles reach deep underwater, then explode. Rooms warmed by crackling fires fill with scents of cinnamon, cloves, and pine. Skis carve into powdery slopes, and iceboats traverse glacial lakes. This lovingly illustrated meditation on winter entwines the spectacular with the everyday, expertly capturing the essence of a beloved yet dangerous season, which is all the more precious in an era of climate change.
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Dressed for a Dance in the Snow: Women's Voices from the Gulag
by Monika Zgustová
A poignant and unexpectedly inspirational account of women's suffering and resilience in Stalin's forced labor camps, diligently transcribed in the kitchens and living rooms of nine survivors. The pain inflicted by the gulags has cast a long and dark shadow over Soviet-era history. Zgustová's collection of interviews with former female prisoners not only chronicles the hardships of the camps, but also serves as testament to the power of beauty in face of adversity. Where one would expect to find stories of hopelessness and despair, Zgustová has unearthed tales of the love, art, and friendship that persisted in times of tragedy. Across the Soviet Union, prisoners are said to have composed and memorized thousands of verses. Galya Sanova, born in a Siberian gulag, remembers reading from a hand-stitched copy of Little Red Riding Hood. Irina Emelyanova passed poems to the male prisoner she had grown to love. In this way, the arts lent an air of humanity to the women's brutal realities. These stories, collected in the vein of Svetlana Alexievich's Nobel Prize-winning oral histories, turn one of the darkest periods of the Soviet era into a song of human perseverance, in a way that reads as an intimate family history"
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Solitude: The Science and Power of Being Alone
by Netta Weinstein
The science of solitude shows that alone time can be a powerful space used to tap into countless benefits. Translating key research findings into actionable facts and advice, this book shows that alone time can boost well-being. From relaxation and recharging to problem solving and emotion regulation, solitude can benefit personal growth, contentment, creativity, and our relationships with ourselves and others.
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Cold: Three Winters at the South Pole
by Wayne L. White
Few people on the planet can say they know what it feels like to walk in the unworldly, frigid winter darkness at the South Pole, but Wayne L. White can—having walked several thousand miles and never missing a day outside during his stay, regardless of the conditions.
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After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands
by Margaret D. Jacobs
After One Hundred Winters confronts the harsh truth that the United States was founded on the violent dispossession of Indigenous people and asks what reconciliation might mean in light of this haunted history. In this timely and urgent book, settler historian Margaret Jacobs tells the stories of the individuals and communities who are working together to heal historical wounds—and reveals how much we have to gain by learning from our history instead of denying it.
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Extreme North: A Cultural History
by Bernd Brunner
Scholars and laymen alike have long projected their fantasies onto the great expanse of the global North, whether it be as a frozen no-man's-land, an icy realm of marauding Vikings, or an unspoiled cradle of prehistoric human life. Bernd Brunner reconstructs the encounters of adventurers, colonists, and indigenous communities that led to the creation of a northern "cabinet of wonders" and imbued Scandinavia, Iceland, and the Arctic with a perennial mystique.
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Erebus: One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time
by Michael Palin
Michael Palin brings the fascinating story of the Erebus and its occupants to life, from its construction as a bomb vessel in 1826 through the flagship years of James Clark Ross’s Antarctic expedition and finally to Sir John Franklin’s quest for the holy grail of navigation—a route through the Northwest Passage, where the ship disappeared into the depths of the sea for more than 150 years. It was rediscovered under the arctic waters in 2014.
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The Snowy Cabin Cookbook: Meals and Drinks For Adventurous Days and Cozy Nights
by Marnie Hanel
Whether you’re in need of satisfying snack to get through a day of hibernation, planning a menu for a snowed-in dinner party, or searching for a hearty breakfast before a long day of skiing, sledding, or ice-skating, The Snowy Cabin Cookbook is filled with inspiring and effortlessly cookable recipes.
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Edvard Munch: Magic of the North
by Thomas Köhler
In 1892 the Association of Berlin Artists invited the still-unknown Norwegian artist Edvard Munch to an exhibition. The public was shocked by the colourful, sketch-like pictures. The artist enjoyed the furore and moved to the city on the Spree, where he repeatedly sojourned until 1908. Here he learned the techniques for printed graphics and presented for the first time paintings in several continuous series which would become central to his oeuvre. In Berlin, before long, the concept of the “Magic of the North” was no longer associated with romantic or naturalistic fjord landscapes, but with Munch’s psychologically concentrated pictorial worlds.
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Winter stranger: Poems
by Jackson Holbert
“It is clear now that there are no ends,” Holbert writes, “Just winters.” Though his poems bloom from hills heavy with springtime snow, his voice cuts through the cold, rich with dearly familiar longings: to not be alone, to honor our origins, to survive them.
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The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature
by Ludovic Slimak
Taking us on an enlightening archaeological investigation, from the Arctic Circle to the deep Mediterranean forests, a renowned paleoanthropologist reveals the Neanderthals had their own history, rituals and customs as he works to decipher their real stories through every single detail they left behind.
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How to Winter: Harnessing Your Mindset to Embrace All Seasons of Life
by Kari Leibowitz
A blend of mindset science, original research and cultural insights into cultivating a positive "wintertime mindset," to cure winter blues and learn to find joy and comfort in dark times year-round. Do you dread the end of Daylight Savings each year and grouch about the long, chilly season of gray skies and ice? Do you reach for a lightbox to get you through January and February each year? What if there were a way to rethink this time of year? Psychologist and winter expert Kari Leibowitz's galvanizing How to Winter uses mindset science to help readers embrace winter as a season to be enjoyed, not endured-and in turn, learn powerful lessons that can impact our mental wellbeing throughout the year.
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Powder Days: Ski Bums, Ski Towns and the Future of Chasing Snow
by Heather Hansman
A veteran ski journalist and former ski bum takes readers on an adventure-filled, action-packed 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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Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia
by Gregory Wallance
After returning to the United States, George Kennan set out to generate public outrage over the plight of the exiles, writing the renowned Siberia and the Exile System. He then went on a nine-year lecture tour to describe the suffering of the Siberian exiles, intensifying the newly emerging diplomatic conflicts between the two countries which last to this day. In a book that ranks with the greatest adventure stories, Gregory Wallance's Into Siberia is a thrilling work of history about one man's harrowing journey and the light it shone on some of history's most heinous human rights abuses.
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The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire
by Tore Skeie
The first major book on Vikings by a Scandinavian author to be published in English, The Wolf Age reframes the struggle for a North Sea empire and puts readers in the mindset of Vikings, providing new insight into their goals, values, and what they chose to live and die for. Tore Skeie takes readers on a thrilling journey through the bloody shared history of England and Scandinavia and across early medieval Europe, from the wild Norwegian fjords to the wealthy cities of Muslim Andalusia. Warfare, plotting, backstabbing, and bribery abound as Skeie skillfully weaves sagas and skaldic poetry with breathless dramatization as he entertainingly brings the world of the Vikings and Anglo-Saxons to vivid life.
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The Telescope in the Ice: Inventing a New Astronomy at the South Pole
by Mark Bowen
Bowen, a physicist and writer, immerses readers deep in Antarctic ice as he offers a mesmerizing look at a development in cutting-edge astrophysics with which few people are familiar: the South Pole’s IceCube Neutrino Observatory, the “weirdest” telescope in the world. Bowen relates the story of IceCube with wry humor and enthusiasm, bringing to life the researchers, their rivalries, and their challenges, as well as the science.
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The Courage of Birds: And the Often Surprising Ways They Survive Winter
by Pete Dunne
From our own backyards to the rim of the Arctic ice, countless birds have adapted to meet the challenges of the winter season. This is their remarkable story, told by award-winning birder and acclaimed writer Pete Dunne, accompanied by illustrations from renowned artist and birder David Sibley. Despite the seasonal life-sapping cold, birds have evolved strategies that meet winter's vicissitudes head on, driven by the imperative to make it to spring and pass down their genes to the next generation. The drama of winter and the resilience and adaptability of birds witnessed in the harsher months of the calendar is both fascinating and astonishing. In The Courage of Birds, Pete Dunne chronicles the behavior of the birds of North America. He expertly explores widespread adaptations, such as feathers that protect against the cold, and unpacks the unique migration patterns and survival strategies of individual species. Dunne also addresses the impact of changing climatic conditions on avian longevity and recounts personal anecdotes that soar with a naturalist's gimlet eye. Filled with unforgettable facts, wit, and moving observations on the natural world, Dunne's book is for everyone.
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Winter Pasture: One Woman's Journey with China's Kazakh Jerders
by Juan Li
An award-winning travel memoir from China documents how the author, a girl from the Altai Mountains, joined a Kazakh family of camel, sheep and cattle herders during their winter pasture migration from the Ulungur River to the Heavenly Mountains.
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Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge
by Ted Conover
In 2017, Ted Conover volunteered for a local group trying to prevent homelessness during the bitter winters. He encountered an unexpected diversity: veterans with PTSD, families homeschooling, addicts young and old, gay people, people of color, lovers of guns and marijuana, people with social anxiety—most of them spurning charity and aiming, and sometimes failing, to be self-sufficient. And more than a few predicting they’ll be the last ones standing when society collapses.
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Scattered Snows, to the North: Poems
by Carl Phillips
An arresting study of memory, perception, and the beauty and finitude of the human condition from Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Phillips.
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White: The History of a Color
by Michel Pastoureau
As a pigment, white is often thought to represent an absence of color, but it is without doubt an important color in its own right, just like red, blue, green, or yellow--and, like them, white has its own intriguing history. In this richly illustrated book, Michel Pastoureau, a celebrated authority on the history of colors, presents a fascinating visual, social, and cultural history of the color white in European societies, from antiquity to today.
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