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• The Land in Winter

  Miller, Andrew, 1961-

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  December 1962, a small village near Bristol. Two young couples living next to each other, the first in a beautiful cottage, the second in a rundown, perennially under-heated farm. Despite their apparent differences, the two women (both pregnant)…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Holiday Honeymoon Switch

  McKay, Julia,

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  A hilarious and heartfelt holiday rom com about doppelganger best friends who trade one's cabin Christmas vacation for the other's Hawaiian honeymoon after she's left at the altar, and both find love they weren't expecting

• The Unveiling

  a Novel

  Barry, Quan

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  A genre-bending novel of literary horror set in Antarctica that explores abandonment, guilt, and survival in the shadow of America's racial legacy. Striker isn't entirely sure she should be on this luxury Antarctic cruise. A Black film scout, her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Any Trope but You

  a Novel

  Lavine, Victoria,

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  Beloved romance author Margot Bradley has a dark secret: she doesn't believe in Happily Ever Afters. Not for herself, not for her readers, and not even for her characters, for whom she secretly writes alternate endings that swap weddings and babies…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Woods, Blue Sky

  a Novel

  Ivey, Eowyn,

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  Birdie’s keeping it together; of course she is. So she’s a little hungover sometimes, and she has to bring her daughter, Emaleen, to her job waiting tables at an Alaskan roadside lodge, but she’s getting by as a single mother in a tough town. Still,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Secret Nights and Northern Lights

  Oliver, Megan,

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  Childhood best friends and first loves are reunited on a make-or-break work trip to Iceland, with old feelings coming to the surface in this charming romance from debut author Megan Oliver.

• Shaw Connolly Lives to Tell

  French, Gillian,

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  Shaw Connolly is no stranger to trauma. As a fingerprints analyst, she’s one of the first on-site for crimes, including murder scenes and a mysterious string of arsons popping up throughout the rural Maine community her department serves. But the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• While It Was Snowing

  London, Julia,

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  All Amy Casey wants for Christmas is to paint. She needs five new paintings for the holiday show at her local art gallery, but between her two teenage sons, her needy ex-husband, and her overbearing parents, she hardly has any time for herself.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Merry Little Lie

  Morgan, Sarah (Romance fiction writer),

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  This Christmas, the Balfour family will have more secrets to unwrap than presents… Becky is stranded at the airport, so when she bumps into her brother’s best friend, Will, and he suggests they drive home together, Becky reluctantly agrees. For…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Brightly Shining

  a Novel

  Rishøi, Ingvild H.,

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  Brightly Shining is a 'heartbreaking, funny and philosophical tale about the reality of addiction, the power of dreams and the kindness of strangers'. Christmas is around the corner, and Ronja's father is out of work again, but it seems that their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Wood at Midwinter

  Clarke, Susanna,

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  Nineteen-year-old Merowdis Scot is an unusual girl. She can talk to animals and trees--and she is only ever happy when she is walking in the woods. One snowy afternoon, out with her dogs and Apple the pig, Merowdis encounters a blackbird and a fox.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Snow Falling on Cedars

  Guterson, David

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  San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lodge

  a Novel

  Olson, Kayla,

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  A cozy winter rom-com about a ghostwriter who decamps to a Vermont lodge to work on her new project, but finds herself falling for the ski instructor next door.

• The Eight Heartbreaks of Hannukkah

  Meltzer, Jean,

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  Can these exes rekindle their love this Hanukkah? Evelyn Schwartz has the perfect Hanukkah planned: eight jam-packed days producing the live-action televised musical of A Christmas Carol. That is, until an accident on set lands her in the medical…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Good Spirits

  a Novel

  Borison, B. K.

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  Ghost of Christmas Past Nolan Callahan intends to spend this holiday haunting like every other—get in, get out, return to his otherwise aimless existence as a ghost awaiting the afterlife. But when he’s faced with Harriet York, the sweetest…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Prospectors

  a Novel

  Djanikian, Ariel,

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  One hundred years after her family was transformed by greed during the Klondike Gold Rush, Anna Bush grapples with moral conflict and questions of justice as she travels to the Klondike to bequeath her would-be inheritance to the First Nations…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Yours for the Season

  a Novel

  Stone, Emily, 1989-

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  Could a fake relationship with your ex over Christmas in Scotland be the perfect opportunity for revenge—or a second chance at love? Melanie has not had a good year. Things are definitely not going as planned in her work life, her best friend has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Nightmare Before Kissmas

  Raasch, Sara,

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  Nicholas "Coal" Claus used to love Christmas. Until his father, the reigning Santa, turned the holiday into a PR facade. Coal will do anything to escape the spectacle, including getting tangled in a drunken, supremely hot make-out session with a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Palaver

  a Novel

  Washington, Bryan, 1993-

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  In Tokyo, the son works as an English tutor, drinking his nights away with friends at a gay bar. He’s entangled in a sexual relationship with a married man, and while he has built a chosen family in Japan, he is estranged from his family in Houston,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Window Shopping

  a Novel

  Bailey, Tessa,

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  Two weeks before Christmas and all through Manhattan, shop windows are decorated in red and green satin. I'm standing alone in front of the famous Vivant department store, when a charming man named Aiden asks my opinion of the décor.