The inimitable Garrison Keillor spins "a Christmas tale that makes Dickens seem unimaginative by comparison" (Charlotte Creative Loafing)

Snow is falling all across the Midwest as James Sparrow, a country- bumpkin-turned-energy-drink-tycoon, and his wife awaken in their sky- rise apartment overlooking Chicago. Even down with the stomach bug, Mrs. Sparrow yearns to see The Nutcracker while James yearns only to escape-the

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Two strangers who meet when their cars are both stuck in a blizzard spend a delightful eight hours together weathering the storm before parting ways believing they will never see each other again, but fate has other plans.

When John Hale's parents moved from Chicago to a farm in the Dakota Territory in the late 1880s, he was not happy; but after a year, and now eleven, he has settled in and made some friends at school--but when a sunny day in January 1888 turns abruptly into a deadly blizzard he will need all his strength and courage to survive what became known to history as The Children's Blizzard.

Single mother Lily Danziger, forced to ask a stranger for help after she is caught in a terrifying blizzard, finds this rugged fellow traveler may hold the key to her future happiness.

A group of thirty-something Oxford friends celebrate New Year's Eve in the Scottish Highlands as a historic blizzard hits, trapping and isolating them, only to discover one of them is a murderer.

"After a massive blizzard, a boy becomes a hero when he manages to walk to the local store and bring supplies back to his neighborhood which has been snowed in for days. Based on the author's childhood experience"-- Provided by publisher.

Seda, sixteen, feels her invisible childhood nemesis, Sawyer, growing stronger just as a group of stranded teens takes shelter from a blizzard in the dilapidated mansion Seda's mother inherited.

When her teammate disappears while they are searching for missing hikers on Thanksgiving Day, Search and Rescue expert Gracie Kinkaid calls upon all of her survival skills to keep herself and injured hiker, British movie star Rob Christian, alive.

Excited to give his report on explorer Ernest Shackleton in school, and frustrated by a monstrous snowstorm that has left his family and city snowbound, a boy imagines himself on a voyage where he and his crew (his family) are trapped by the ice, just like his favorite explorer.

Stranded alone while vacationing in the Adirondacks, twelve-year-old best friends Kat Wolfe and Harper Lamb leave their snug cabin to search for a missing witness in a criminal case, while a blizzard nears.