THE DECEMBER MARKET
By: RaeAnne Thayne
When their grandparents begin dating, Amanda and Rafe are dubious of the match. When their paths keep crossing at the holiday market, it starts to feel like fate, prompting them both to wonder if taking a chance on love might gift them everything they’ve been wishing for.
LOVE YOU A LATKE
By: Amanda Elliot
Seth’s parents have been badgering him to bring a Nice Jewish Girlfriend home for Hanukkah. Abby needs his contacts to make her town’s first Hanukkah festival a success. What’s a little fake dating among friends? Love comes home for the challah-days in this sparkling romance.
WINTER COUNTS
By: David Heska Wanbli Weiden
A vigilante enforcer on South Dakota’s Rosebud Indian Reservation enlists the help of his ex to investigate the activities of an expanding drug cartel, while a new tribal council initiative raises controversial questions.
WINTERING
By: Katherine May
An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knocks us down. A moving personal narrative shot through with lessons from literature, mythology, and the natural world, May’s story offers instruction on the transformative power of rest and retreat.
ONE BIG HAPPY FAMILY
By: Susan Mallery
Julie Parker is happy that her children do not plan to visit for Christmas, because she has been hiding her younger beau from them. When they instead want to spend the holiday at the family cabin, she discovers that more really is merrier.
DASH & LILY’S BOOK OF DARES
By: Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
In a story told in the alternating voices of Dash and Lily, two sixteenyear-olds carry on a wintry scavenger hunt at Christmastime in New York, neither knowing quite what--or who--they will find.
A BOY CALLED CHRISTMAS
By: Matt Haig
Having received a single beloved toy in his life, an 11-year-old boy nicknamed “Christmas” travels to the North Pole when his father goes missing, where he befriends a surly reindeer and discovers an enchanted frozen world along the way.
A MIDWINTER’S TAIL
By: Sofie Kelly
When a guest drops dead at a gala to raise money for the library’s popular Reading Buddies program, Kathleen Paulson and her detective boyfriend must shovel through a wealth of suspects before the case gets buried.
WINTER: A SOLSTICE STORY
By: Kelsey E. Gross
Owl, Mouse, and Deer all watch as the light fades and dark surrounds them, but they have a gift of hope to share with their neighbors. The moon and stars shine down on a lone tree in the forest, and the animals gather around to bask in its light. Winter Solstice arrives as the winter sky brings magic for all to share.
THE BEAR AND THE NIGHTINGALE
By: Katherine Arden
A novel inspired by Russian fairy tales follows the experiences of a wild young girl who taps the mysterious powers of a precious necklace given to her father years earlier to save her village from dark and dangerous forces.
