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Winter’s Child

Winter’s Child
  • Author(s): Margaret Maron
  • Location(s): Virginia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

It’s one month after their wedding, and the future looks bright for Judge Deborah Knott and Sheriff Deputy Dwight Bryant until a disturbing call from Dwight’s 8-year-old son Cal calls him back to Virginia.When he arrives, he is shocked...

Winter’s Cry

Winter’s Cry
  • Author(s): Cheryl Rees-Price
  • Location(s): Wales
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The grim discovery of a body brings up a past that threatens to rip a community apart. Whilst a farmer is tearing up trees near the boundary of a reclusive commune in the Welsh hills, he unearths the remains...

Winter’s Fairytale

Winter’s Fairytale
  • Author(s): Maxine Morrey
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Step into a winter wonderland and fall in love in the snow this Christmas… Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow… A few weeks before Christmas and a sudden blanketing of snow has closed the roads and...

Winter’s Secret

Winter’s Secret
  • Author(s): Lyn Cote
  • Location(s): Wisconsin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Book 1 in series, Followed by Autumn’s Shadow, Summer’s End, Spring’s Storm, Mistletoe and Sage and Loving Winter Romance and mystery in a small Wisconsin town during a record-breaking snowy winter. Smashed heirlooms, ripped upholstery and rifled drawers–who is...

Wintering

Wintering
  • Author(s): Krissy Kneen
  • Location(s): Tasmania
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jessica is a PhD candidate living in southernmost Tasmania, studying the activity of the glow worms that inhabit Winter Cave, an untouched haven she discovered herself. Aside from study and work, Jessica spends most of her time with her...

Wintering: A Season With Geese

Wintering: A Season With Geese
  • Author(s): Stephen Rutt
  • Location(s): United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

The arrival of huge flocks of geese in the UK is one of the most evocative and powerful harbingers of winter; a vast natural phenomenon to capture the imagination. So Stephen Rutt found when he moved to Dumfries one...

Winter’s Children

Winter’s Children
  • Author(s): Leah Fleming
  • Location(s): Yorkshire Dales
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): mid 20th century

Grieving widow, Kay Partridge and her daughter Evie, unable to face the oncoming Christmas festivities, move into a cottage at majestic Wintergill Farm in the Yorkshire Dales. Kay wants to shut the door and forget about everything. Evie, struggling...

Wisconsin Death Trip

Wisconsin Death Trip
  • Author(s): Michael Lesy
  • Location(s): Wisconsin
  • Genre(s): Photography, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1890-1910

First published in 1973, this remarkable book about life in a small turn-of-the-century Wisconsin town has become a cult classic. Lesy has collected and arranged photographs taken between 1890 and 1910 by a Black River Falls photographer, Charles Van...

Wise Guy

Wise Guy
  • Author(s): Nicholas Pileggi
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Biography, Crime
  • Era(s): 1950s-80s

Nicholas Pileggi’s vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hill–the working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that “to be a wiseguy was to own the world,” who grew up to live the highs and lows...

Wish You Well

Wish You Well
  • Author(s): David Baldacci
  • Location(s): Virginia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s onwards

Precocious twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the hectic New York City of 1940 with her family. Then tragedy strikes — and Lou and her younger brother, Oz, must go with their invalid mother to live on their great-grandmother’s...

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