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Tales told in Snow and Shadow

Winter serves as both setting and symbol, with stories and films that explore the chill of icy landscapes and the colder corners of the human heart. These tales capture solitude, tension, and quiet beauty, where snow and frost mirror the emotional landscapes of the characters.

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  • Winter

    the Story of a Season

    McDermid, Val,
    In this radiant work of creative nonfiction, internationally beloved novelist Val McDermid delivers a dazzling ode to a lost world, ruminating on a single winter in her life as she journeys into the heart of the season's ever-evolving…
    Book, 2026New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2026. — B MCDERMID VAL
  • Hit by a blizzard, a grief-stricken loner gets lost among backroads near a Minnesotan lake and stops for help at a remote cabin in the woods. Here she discovers a young woman kidnapped by a desperate couple who are armed and intent on murder.…
    DVD, 2025[Santa Monica, California] : Vertical Entertainment, [2025]. — F DEA
  • A devastating love story. A bewitching twist on history. A blood-drenched hunt for purpose, power, and redemption.
    Book, 20260224Tor Books 20260224
  • Frostlines

    a Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic

    Shea, Neil,
    A sweeping exploration of the Arctic--and how it's being transformed by climate change--from National Geographic writer Neil Shea As warming reshapes our planet, the Arctic--a region that once seemed unchangeable, beyond the reach of modern…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2025] — 577.586 SHE
  • November 1939: The Soviet Union invades its small, relatively defenseless neighbor Finland, just three months after the declaration of World War II. So began what is known as the Winter War. A makeshift Finnish army of soldiers, workers, and farmers…
    Book, 20260127Atlantic Monthly Press 20260127
  • Agent Michael Walker returns when multiple deaths at Glacier Bay National Park are just the first steps in a potential global disaster. National Park Service investigator Michael Walker is battling smugglers stealing priceless artifacts when he's…
    Book, 2025New York : Minotaur Books, 2025. — F LAN
  • A heartwarming novel about a married couple in their eighties, flashing back to tell the story of their lives across their courtship, marriage, children, and long-standing, opposites-attract love.
    Book, 2025[New York] : Dutton, [2025] — F EVI
  • Homestead Winter Pantry: Sustainable and Budget-Friendly Recipes to Prep, Preserve, and Store Food Year Round

    Sustainable and Budget-Friendly Recipes to Prep, Preserve, and Store Food Year Round

    Varozza, Georgia
    This commonsense guide helps families prepare for the what-ifs of daily living and experience the peace and confidence that come with a well-prepared pantry. Inclement weather. Power outages. Wildfires. Chain-of-supply issues. Wherever you live and…
    Book, 2025CN : Ten Peaks Press, 2025. — 641.4 VAR
  • With SHADOW, director Zhang Yimou (HERO, HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS) once again pushes the boundaries of wuxia action to create a film like no other, masterfully painting a canvas of inky blacks and greys punctuated with bursts of color from the blood…
    Streaming Video, 2019Well Go USA, 2019.
  • A woman invited to her wealthy fiance's family retreat realizes they are hiding a terrible secret - and that she's been there before.
    Book, 2025New York : Flatiron Books, 2025. — F MAR
  • Nestled amongst the comforting shelves of her beloved Bay Books, newly single Lily Appleton finds the peace and quiet she needs.
    eBook, 2025[United States] : Boldwood Books, 2025. — eBook hoopla
  • When four people, strangers and family, converge on a fifteen-bedroom house in Cornwall for Christmas, will there be enough room for everyone? Sophia Cleves is seeing things. Her son, Art, is seeing things himself. Winter makes all things visible--…
    eBook, 2018New York : Pantheon Books, [2018]
  • Wintering

    the Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

    May, Katherine,
    An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knocks us down. Sometimes you slip through the cracks: unforeseen circumstances like an abrupt illness, the death of a loved one, a break up, or a job…
    Large Print, 2021Waterville, ME : Thorndike Press, an imprint of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2021. — LP 155.2 MAY
  • In a quiet South Seattle neighborhood, a suspected drug smuggler and his girlfriend are murdered in their home. When a young man named Michael Westbrook is accused of the brutal double homicide, his uncle JP Harrison turns to Keera Duggan to defend…
    Book, 20260127Thomas & Mercer 20260127
  • 16-year-old Isla Wallis receives the shock of her young life when she discovers that her real father is in prison for killing the mother she never knew. Furious at having been lied to, Isla runs away to the remote mining town where she was born.
    Streaming Video, 2016Whistle TV, 2016.