Winter World

Categories: Outdoors & Nature , Fiction

Although winter presents plenty of challenges, it brings pleasures as well; a cozy spot by the fireplace and a savory bowl of soup, for instance, if you are lucky enough to have them.  To enhance your enjoyment of the season, here is a smattering of titles from The Library's collection that evoke some of the best that winter has to offer.

Where do such creatures as ladybugs and turtles go in winter?  Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival by Bernd Heinrich explains it all. 

Winter: A Spiritual Biography of the Season is an anthology of essays and poems dedicated to the harshness and the beauty of the natural world.

Designer Charlotte Moss offers ideas for creating seasonal warmth indoors in her decorating book, Winter House.

Winter House is also the title of a mystery by Carol O'Connell, featuring detective Kathleen Mallory, the wealthy and enigmatic Winter family, and an ice pick.

And finally, for those who would rather stay home and watch other people defy gravity via skis and snowboards there is Warren Miller's Cold Fusion: The Power of Snow on DVD.