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You're as Cold as Ice

As the old saying goes if you can't beat 'em join 'em! As we hunker down for the dregs of winter check out one of these titles and embrace the cold.

Greenwich Library

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  • Private Investigator Sharon McCone goes undercover to investigate the murders of two Indigenous women in remote Northern California in this gripping, atmospheric mystery.
    BookNew York, NY : Grand Central Publishing, 2022. — PAPERBACK MYSTERY
  • January in Gotland. The days are short, the air is cold, and all the roads are covered in snow. On a deserted, icy backroad, these wintery conditions will soon bring together a group of strangers with a force devastating enough to change…
    BookNew York, NY : Scarlet, an imprint of Penzler Publisher, 2021. — MYSTERY GERHA...C
  • A sweeping novel about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmerizing story that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil.
    BookNew York : Atria Books, 2017. — FICTION ALLEN...I
  • Hope City, Antarctica. The southernmost city in the world, with only a glass dome and a faltering infrastructure to protect its citizens from the freezing, ceaseless winds of the Antarctic wilderness. Within this bell jar four people–some…
    BookNew York : Saga Press, [2015] — SCIFI CLARK...C
  • 2057. Bella Lind and the crew of her nuclear-powered ship, the Rockhopper, push ice. They mine comets. But when Janus, one of Saturn's ice moons, inexplicably leaves its natural orbit and heads out of the solar system at high speed, Bella…
    BookLondon : Gollancz, 2008. — SCIFI REYNO...A
  • When Erin Scott left Ty Wade, she’d vowed never to return. Because of him she’d wrecked her car, her career—and lost their baby. And now Ty wanted her back. Without her, jobs would be lost. The future of the Staghorn Ranch depended on her…
    BookDon Mills, Ont. : HQN, 2008. — FICTION PALME...D
  • Irina Davydovna is a cleaner. She has no time for politics or even for that matter, 'rules and rulers may come and go, but dirt never changes.' Boris Aleksandrovich is a revolutionary. He thinks he understands power. But this is Leningrad…
    BookNew York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2005. — FICTION SLOVO...G
  • A crew attempts to transport an ancient meteor only to unearth something much more dangerous.
    BookNew York : Grand Central, Pub., [2006] — FICTION PREST...D
  • Compared by critics across the country to War and Peace for its memorable characters and sweep, and to Dr. Zhivago for its portrayal of Stalin's Russia, Generations of Winter is the romantic saga of the Gradov family from 1925 to 1945.
    BookNew York : Random House, 1994. — FICTION AKSYO...V
  • Insecure siblings fighting for their parents’ attention; bickering spouses who can’t stand to be together or apart; adultery and sexual experimentation; even the struggle to balance work and family: These are themes as much at home in our…
    BookNew York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2004. — 812.54 HENRY GOLDM
  • The Ice at the End of the World

    An Epic Journey Into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future

    Gertner, Jon,
    Gertner chronicles the unfathomable hardships, amazing discoveries, and scientific achievements of the Arctic's explorers and researchers with a transporting, deeply intelligent style, and a keen sense of what this work means for the rest…
    BookNew York : Random House, [2019] — 551.6998 GERTN
  • A Cold Welcome

    the Little Ice Age and Europe's Encounter With North America

    White, Sam, 1980-
    When Europeans first arrived in North America, they faced a cold new world. The average global temperature had dropped to lows unseen in millennia, and its effects were stark and blizzards and deep freezes, droughts and famines, and…
    BookCambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017. — 970.01 WHITE
  • Making Winter

    a Hygge-inspired Guide for Surviving the Winter Months

    Mitchell, Emma,
    Want to survive those dark and freezing winter months? The Danish do it with hygge, a concept that’s all about coziness, simple pleasures, and the company of loved ones. Embrace this warmhearted philosophy with these 25 creative crafts and…
    BookNew York : Lark, [2017] — 745.5 MITCH
  • The Boys of Winter

    Life and Death in the U.S. Ski Troops During the Second World War

    Sanders, Charles J. (Charles Jeffrey), 1958-
    The true story of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team and the Miracle on Ice, which Sports Illustrated called the greatest moment in sports history.
    BookBoulder : University Press of Colorado, [2005] — 940.5445 JOHNS JOHNS
  • The Boys of Winter

    the Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team

    Coffey, Wayne R.
    The true story of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team and the Miracle on Ice, which Sports Illustrated called the greatest moment in sports history.
    BookNew York : Random House, 2005. — 796.962 COFFE