Despite their elaborate preparations for the winter, the animals and birds are delighted by a surprise banquet after a big snow.

Cantankerous Ezra keeps rebuffing his nosy neighbor Old Betty when she tries to give him advice on how to survive the cold winter nights, until she finally discovers that his five dogs are his private source for warmth.

When a roamer trades them an ancient book with only a few pages remaining, Lina and Doon return to Ember to seek the machine the book seems to describe in hopes that it will get their new community, Sparks, through the winter.

During the winter, Beaver searches for a home, flees a coyote, and finds a mate.

"A mother polar bear searches the arctic landscape for her cub"--

On a snowy New Year's Eve, two black horses pull a sleigh through town, spreading love and joy to the community.

On Charley's first night, when it was snowing, Henry tells his new puppy, "This is home".

Hailed "an extraordinary novel of men at war" (Washington Post), The Last Ship is the book that inspired the TNT miniseries starring Eric Dane, Rhona Mitra, and Adam Baldwin, with Michael Bay as executive producer.

The unimaginable has happened: the world has been plunged into all-out nuclear war. Sailing near the Arctic Circle, the USS Nathan James is relatively unscathed, but the future is grim and Captain Thomas is

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