Books with title If winter comes

In the voice of an unforgettable heroine, V. A. Shannon explores one of the most harrowing episodes in pioneer history - the ill-fated journey of the Donner Party - in a mesmerizing novel of resilience and survival. Mrs. Jacob Klein has a husband, children, and a warm and comfortable home in California. No one - not even her family - knows how she came to be out West 13 years ago. Jacob, a kind and patient man, has promised not to ask. But if she were to tell her story, she would recount a tale of tragedy, mishaps, and unthinkable choices - yet also sacrifice, courage, and a powerful, unexpected love.... 1846: On the outskirts of Cincinnati, wagons gather by the hundreds, readying to head west to California. Among the throng is a 15-year-old girl eager to escape her abusive family. With just a few stolen dollars to her name, she enlists as helpmate to a married couple with a young daughter. Their group stays optimistic in the face of the journey's hazards and delays. Then comes a decision that she is powerless to prevent: Instead of following the wagon train's established route, the Donner Party will take a shortcut over the Sierras, aiming to clear the mountains before the first snows descend. In the years since that infamous winter, other survivors have sold their accounts for notoriety and money, lurid tales often filled with half-truths or blatant, gory lies. Now, Mrs. Klein must decide whether to keep those bitter memories secret, or risk destroying the life she has endured so much to build.

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Publishers Weekly Starred ReviewThis is her last chance and she won’t allow man or nature to rob her of what she’s worked so hard to claim. In the fall of 1886, Alena Sommer leaves behind a life fraught with disappointments and loss only to arrive in Sawtooth City and find the man she’d pledged to marry has been killed. To return east is unthinkable; to stay is ill-advised, but she resolves to remain and manage the man’s lodging house despite the warnings of winter's deadly storms. More than her stubborn nature influences her decision. From her first glimpse of this mountain valley she falls captive to its wild beauty and begins to sink her roots into its rich earth. Sharing her love of literature with her lodgers before a warming fire, she builds a family of lonesome souls, where dreams awaken. However, one man stands apart, disturbing her peace with ominous warnings to leave before winter comes. Evan Hartmann knows from personal loss that winter snows bring to these mountains both unimaginable beauty and death. He is also a man conflicted, because as much as he’d like for Lena to leave the mountains, his heart longs for her to stay. "Rich descriptions and entertaining characters bring to life the beauty and struggle of life in the 19th-century West. This cozy tale grounded in the everyday will surely delight historical romance fans." – Publishers Weekly Starred Review Lush landscapes, relatable characters, and compelling stories of courageous women are the hallmarks of Samantha St. Claire’s historical fiction. Be inspired. Fall in love. Discover your next favorite author with COMES THE WINTER.

Winter is a time for snowballs and sledding, mittens, crackling fires, and soup. Through splendid full-color photographs and a simple text, Robert Maass invites young children to bundle up and step into the coldest season of the year.And don't forget Robert Maass's other books on the seasons also available in paperback: When Autumn Comes; When Spring Comes; When Summer Comes.

In the voice of an unforgettable heroine, V.A. Shannon explores one of the most harrowing episodes in pioneer history—the ill-fated journey of the Donner Party—in a mesmerizing novel of resilience and survival. Mrs. Jacob Klein has a husband, children, and a warm and comfortable home in California. No one—not even her family—knows how she came to be out West thirteen years ago. Jacob, a kind and patient man, has promised not to ask. But if she were to tell her story, she would recount a tale of tragedy, mishaps, and unthinkable choices—yet also sacrifice, courage, and a powerful, unexpected love . . . 1846: On the outskirts of Cincinnati, wagons gather by the hundreds, readying to head west to California. Among the throng is a fifteen-year-old girl eager to escape her abusive family. With just a few stolen dollars to her name, she enlists as helpmate to a married couple with a young daughter. Their group stays optimistic in the face of the journey’s hazards and delays. Then comes a decision that she is powerless to prevent: Instead of following the wagon train’s established route, the Donner Party will take a shortcut over the Sierras, aiming to clear the mountains before the first snows descend. In the years since that infamous winter, other survivors have sold their accounts for notoriety and money, lurid tales often filled with half-truths or blatant, gory lies. Now, Mrs. Klein must decide whether to keep those bitter memories secret, or risk destroying the life she has endured so much to build . . .

In the voice of an unforgettable heroine, V.A. Shannon explores one of the most harrowing episodes in pioneer history—the ill-fated journey of the Donner Party—in a mesmerizing novel of resilience and survival. Mrs. Jacob Klein has a husband, children, and a warm and comfortable home in California. No one—not even her family—knows how she came to be out West thirteen years ago. Jacob, a kind and patient man, has promised not to ask. But if she were to tell her story, she would recount a tale of tragedy, mishaps, and unthinkable choices—yet also sacrifice, courage, and a powerful, unexpected love . . . 1846: On the outskirts of Cincinnati, wagons gather by the hundreds, readying to head west to California. Among the throng is a fifteen-year-old girl eager to escape her abusive family. With just a few stolen dollars to her name, she enlists as helpmate to a married couple with a young daughter. Their group stays optimistic in the face of the journey’s hazards and delays. Then comes a decision that she is powerless to prevent: Instead of following the wagon train’s established route, the Donner Party will take a shortcut over the Sierras, aiming to clear the mountains before the first snows descend. In the years since that infamous winter, other survivors have sold their accounts for notoriety and money, lurid tales often filled with half-truths or blatant, gory lies. Now, Mrs. Klein must decide whether to keep those bitter memories secret, or risk destroying the life she has endured so much to build . . .

"Not only a thrilling tale, it is an important work of art. It has a real and skillfully constructed plot; the hero is unforgettable, and even the minor characters are impressively human; it abounds in humor and wit, the laughter of fun and the laughter of the mind; it is based on the spiritual truth revealed to the world some nineteen hundred years ago. Its author is a creative artist and a spiritual force." -William Lyon Phelps, The New York Times "Read it today so that you can talk about it with the rest of the world." -The Boston Herald "In Mark Sabre, Mr. Hutchinson has surely created a great character." -The New York Evening Post "The whole word is reading 'If Winter Comes.' The expression, of course, is a figure of speech. For the whole world in this case merely means the whole world which reads novels written in the English tongue....But what does that make of it - a bestseller or a great book? The two, it is true, may be one. They sometimes are, but the odds are against it....The critics...are proclaiming 'If Winter Comes' the successor of the royal line of 'The Egoist,' of 'Vanity Fair,' of 'Pickwick,' of 'Clarissa,' or of 'Tom Jones.'...It is a story of English life, before and after the war, in which the author has not found it necessary to descend to gross immoralities to show his knowledge....The story itself is admirably told, whilst the dialogue is clever without being unnatural....The world is exceedingly wise in reading Mr. Hutchinson's book." -The International Interpreter "When the story opens, in 1912, in Penny Green, England, Mark Sabre is thirty-four years old and has been married eight years. He is a whimsical, lovable idealist, always in the minority on every question, bound to be misunderstood, and most of all by his wife Mabel, who is practical, conventional, without humor or imagination, and a snob. The ability to see another's point of view, which Mark has had from childhood, enables him to understand and excuse his wife's criticism and he remains loyal to her. Business relationships are as unsympathetic as those of home, but in loneliness and misfortune, and finally, bitterest tragedy, his character develops and deepens till it becomes really Christlike. Through all there is one woman who understands and who in the end restores for him the light and vision which cruel wrong and misrepresentation had for the time almost extinguished." -Book Review Digest "It is an artist's book - its structure is close and exquisite as a flower, its humor pervasive, its character studies keen and varied, its personal note spicy and fresh, and best of all, its dealing with the great fundamentals of life and death, of God and the soul, courageous, poignant, intuitive and nobly Christian." -Atlantic's Bookshelf "The home background of the war, touched only slightly, was never more skillfully done even in 'Mr. Britling.' Hutchinson's dialogue sparkles, hits, jumps, races - does practically everything that human talk should." -Bookman "No review, no amount of comment or praise, can reveal the warm humanity of this story. If ever the mirror were held up to nature, it is held up by Mr. Hutchinson in 'If Winter Comes'; if ever man were recreated in a literary image that man is his Mark Sabre." -Boston Transcript "It has the style of a 'novel of ideas'; the characterization of a novel of purpose; the mood of a novel of sentiment; and the mechanism of a novel of sensation. Finally, and the best thing to be said of it, it is a book of faith and optimism; a book in which, for our comfort in a credulous hour, the dream and the business seem not too hopelessly far apart." -Independent