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The story involves a new ice age hitting Europe, British refugees fleeing to Nigeria, and what a later group find when they return.. As the story opens, Andrew Leedon, a London-based television documentary producer, is given a new story to research: an Italian scientist, Fratellini, has proposed an imminent fall in solar radiation for the forthcoming few years which may lead to harsher winters.
The Long Winter is an autobiographical children's novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published in 1940, the sixth of nine books in her Little House series. It is set in southeastern Dakota Territory during the severe winter of 1880–1881, when she turned 14 years old. The novel was a runner-up for the Newbery Medal in 1941.
The Long Voyage (US title The White Voyage, 1960) The World in Winter (US title The Long Winter, 1962) Cloud on Silver (US title Sweeney's Island, 1964) The Possessors (1964) A Wrinkle in the Skin (US title The Ragged Edge, 1965) The Little People (1966) The Tripods trilogy (expanded to tetralogy, 1988)
John le Carré's famous spy thriller isn't explicitly a winter book, but the title definitely evokes wintertime, so we're counting it. The story follows British agent Alec Lemas who is sent to ...
The Long Winters, an American indie rock band; The World in Winter alternate title The Long Winter, a novel by John Christopher; The Long Winter, a Spanish film; The Long Winter or Quand je serai parti... vous vivrez encore, a Quebec historical drama film; The Long Winter, an event in the Shire of J. R. R. Tolkien's fiction, The Lord of the Rings
Wilder is portrayed as a hero in his wife's book The Long Winter. Along with Ed "Cap" Garland, Wilder risked his life to save the citizens of De Smet from starvation during the long, hard winter of 1880–81. In between storms of a winter of unusually frequent and severe blizzards, which prevented trains from bringing food and supplies to the ...
Here is what you need to know about the Ashland Public Library's Winter StoryWalk, which features Jimmy Fallon's "5 More Sleeps 'Til Christmas."
The Winter of Our Discontent is John Steinbeck's last novel, published in 1961. The title comes from the first two lines of William Shakespeare 's Richard III : "Now is the winter of our discontent / Made glorious summer by this sun [or son] of York" .