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After a lifetime of living in London, actress Elfrida Phipps and her dog move to the little village of Dibton. Eager to make a fresh start, she befriends Oscar and Gloria Blundell, enjoying lavish parties at thier well tended estate. Gradually it dawns on her that she's growing overly fond of Oscar. So when she returns home after a visit to Cornwall, she's shocked to discover that Oscar's wife and daughter have been killed in a car accident........

"Mr. Putter and his fine cat, Tabby, and Mrs. Teaberry and her good dog, Zeke, head for the sledding slope for the wildest ride ever. Maybe winter is not so slow after all!"--

On a short winter day, Samuel and his father enter into a series of trades with neighbors and strangers until they come home with a brown-eyed milk cow for Mama.

When snow closes Greg Heffley's middle school, he and his best friend, Rowley Jefferson, face a fight for survival as warring gangs turn the neighborhood into a wintry battlefield.

A tale of court intrigues in the land of Seven Kingdoms, a country "blessed by golden summers that go on for years, and cursed by cruel winters that can last a generation." Treachery, murder, incest. "Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister...

"During the first snowy day of winter, five little penguins bundle up and venture outside to play"--

The coat of a huge wooly musk ox named Cozy is the winter home for a growing number of Alaskan animals who mostly get along.

"Snow falls, animals burrow, and children prepare for the wonders winter brings"--

As snow approaches and begins to fall, Moose, Bear, Fox, and other forest creatures prepare for winter.

"When Thomas misplaces the basket of dried fruit he needs to make his seasonal wintercake, friends old and new come together to save the day"--Provided by publisher.