Winter Book Recommendations
Contributed by Tina Rhodes, LPC
Beartown by Frederik Backman 4.29☆
You don’t have to be a sports fan to be drawn into this tale about a small town whose hopes are pinned on the local hockey team. The story is set in a place where the snow is deep & the ice is treacherous. The story itself will chill your bones and warm your heart as it explores themes of love/heartbreak, hope/despair and resilience in the face of adversity. Backman’s writing is hauntingly beautiful & captures the essence of winter. #ContemporaryFiction
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger 4.01☆
“Enger’s richly evocative novel, narrated by an asthmatic 11-year-old named Reuben Land, is the story of Reuben's unusual family and their journey across the frozen Badlands of the Dakotas in search of his fugitive older brother….Affecting and dynamic, Peace Like a River is at once a tragedy, a romance, and an unflagging exploration into the spirituality and magic possible in the everyday world, and in that of the world awaiting us on the other side of life.”#ComingOfAge #Western
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivy 4.00☆
“Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart . In a moment of levity they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone--but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees. .… As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child … they come to love her as their own daughter. But in this beautiful, violent place things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn]will transform all of them.” #FairyTales
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