Books with title Wintering: A Novel

It’s the dead of winter and Liz’s first relationship ended in disaster. Breaking up with her boyfriend had bigger consequences than she could have ever imagined. With finals around the corner, Patrick’s stalker lurking about, and opening night rapidly approaching, Liz desperately tries to hold it together, but she finds it’s far from easy. Pressure is coming from all sides. Can the crew help her get through this or will they just make things worse? Heartbreak. Betrayal. Loss. Secrets. It’s enough to make Liz want to hibernate until spring. Along the way, without realizing it, she discovers that sometimes a friendship can evolve into a deeper relationship.

Exceptional and acclaimed writer Peter Geye presents his third novel, far and away his most masterful book yet.There are two stories in play here, bound together when the elderly, demented Harry Eide vanishes into the forbidding northernmost Minnesota wilderness-- instantly changing the Eide family forever. He'd done this once before, thirty-some years earlier, fleeing a crumbling marriage and bringing along Gustav, his eighteen-year-old son, pitching this audacious, potentially fatal scheme to him as a reenactment of the ancient voyageurs' journeys of discovery. It's certainly a journey Gus has never forgotten. Now-- with his father pronounced dead-- he relates its every detail to Berit Lovig, who'd waited nearly thirty years for Harry, her passionate conviction finally fulfilled.

Jason Loring, about to enter high school, yearns to succeed. The stutter that darkened his life no longer overwhelms him. By his reckoning, he has “kicked stuttering to the side of the road” and won. The year has been one of searching for a way to withstand the chaos, loneliness, and brutality of family life and to rebound from the aftermath of a hate crime. A circle of friends, “The Fresh Air Five,” each of whom faces challenges of his or her own, supports him and each other as they wend their way toward high school and beyond. Jason’s story is one of bravery, first love, and the refinement of a good heart. Ellen-Marie Silverman first introduced readers to Jason Loring in “Jason’s Secret” as a 10-year-old beginning fifth grade in a new school determined to hide his stuttering. Ellen-Marie Silverman has had a stuttering problem that propelled her to become a speech pathologist. She is a poet, painter, photographer, and naturalist who lives in the United States.

Pierre, the 14-year-old hero of The Broken Blade, spends a winter with the North West Company in the wilderness of French Canada. The canoe-men build a camp beside an Ojibwa village, and Pierre learns the deep-winter survival skills and secrets of the fur traders and trappers. Surviving in close quarters with the repulsive bowman Beloit is a challenge, but friendship with an Ojibwa brave opens up a rich new world to Pierre. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Jason Loring, about to enter high school, yearns to succeed. The stutter that darkened his life no longer overwhelms him. By his reckoning, he has “kicked stuttering to the side of the road” and won. The year has been one of searching for a way to withstand the chaos, loneliness, and brutality of family life and to rebound from the aftermath of a hate crime. A circle of friends, “The Fresh Air Five,” each of whom faces challenges of his or her own, supports him and each other as they wend their way toward high school and beyond. Jason’s story is one of bravery, first love, and the refinement of a good heart. Ellen-Marie Silverman first introduced readers to Jason Loring in “Jason’s Secret” as a 10-year-old beginning fifth grade in a new school determined to hide his stuttering. It is the first book of The Jason Loring Trilogy. "winning: a novel" is the second. And "SheGate" is the third.

Pierre, the 14-year-old hero of The Broken Blade, spends a winter with the North West Company in the wilderness of French Canada. The canoe-men build a camp beside an Ojibwa village, and Pierre learns the deep-winter survival skills and secrets of the fur traders and trappers. Surviving in close quarters with the repulsive bowman Beloit is a challenge, but friendship with an Ojibwa brave opens up a rich new world to Pierre.

A highly acclaimed novelist now gives us a true epic: a love story that spans sixty years, generations worth of feuds, and secrets withheld and revealed. The two principal stories at play in "Wintering "are bound together when the elderly, demented Harry Eide escapes his sickbed and vanishes into the forbidding, northernmost wilderness that surrounds the town of Gunflint, Minnesota instantly changing the Eide family, and many other lives, forever. He d done this once before, more than thirty years earlier in 1963, fleeing a crumbling marriage and bringing along Gustav, his eighteen-year-old son, pitching this audacious, potentially fatal scheme winter already coming on, in these woods, on these waters as a reenactment of the ancient voyageurs journeys of discovery. It s certainly something Gus has never forgotten, nor the Devil s Maw of a river, a variety of beloved (possibly fantastical) maps, the ice floes and waterfalls (neither especially appealing from a canoe), a magnificent bear, the endless portages, a magical abandoned shack, Thanksgiving and Christmas improvised at the far end of the earth, the brutal cold and sheer beauty of it all. And men hunting other men. Now with his father pronounced dead Gus relates their adventure in vivid detail to Berit Lovig, who d spent much of her life waiting for Harry, her passionate conviction finally fulfilled over the last two decades. So, a middle-aged man rectifying his personal history, an aging lady wrestling with her own, and with the entire saga of a town and region they d helped to form and were in turn formed by, relentlessly and unforgettably."