Have Fun this Week!

From a spine-chilling mystery to a relaxing novel, these winter-inspired reads will keep you curled up under the covers during the chilliest days!

Relax with wintry tunes!

Lindsey Stirling rose to fame by posting videos of her intricately choreographed violin performances on Youtube, where she has almost 10 million subscribers! Now she’s out with a holiday album, Warmer in the Winter, featuring dreamy instrumental takes on “Jingle Bell Rock” and “Angels We Have Heard on High,” plus the original title track, “Warmer in the Winter.”

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Get lost in magical realism! First Frost by Sarah Addison Allen. The confections sold in Claire Waverley’s candy shop are handcrafted with soul-soothing ingredients: lavender to lift the mood, rose to recall lost love and verbena to soothe an anxious mind. But the success of her business is jeopardizing the family life she holds so dear. Meanwhile, Sydney Waverley transforms lives through her hairstyling skills but is almost derailed by her yearning for a baby. As the first frost signals the start of winter, these magically inclined sisters must learn to save a little enchantment for themselves. Solve a chilling mystery! Glass Houses by Louise Penny. The 13th installment in the beloved Chief Inspector Gamache series opens on a frigid November day when a tall, hooded figure appears in the Québécois village of Three Pines—and then vanishes overnight. After a body turns up in a church basement, everyone wonders if the mysterious stranger committed the murder . . . or if other, even more sinister, forces are to blame.

Escape to a crumbling Scottish estate! Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher. What happens when tragedy brings five very different people—including a grieving widower, a retired stage actress and an awkward teen—together in a neglected Scottish estate on the shortest day of the year? This heartwarming novel about love, sacrifice and the magic of a cold winter’s day was a bestseller in the United Kingdom and is winning fans here at home!

Read a sweeping saga! In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende. When 60-year- old scholar Richard Bowmaster heads out in a blizzard and gets in a traffic accident with a young immigrant from Central America, he turns to his tenant Lucia Maraz, a 62-year- old lecturer from Chile, for help—and the two embark on a long- overdue love story. Spanning decades and continents, this epic novel is Allende at her best!