![]() Beartown by Fredrik BackmanIn the isolated Swedish town of Beartown, the residents' hopes are pinned on the local amateur hockey team winning the championships. When the team's star is accused of raping the coach's daughter, it threatens to tear the town apart. |
![]() Rock paper scissors by Alice FeeneyAdam and Amelia Wright win a weekend away to Scotland, and they hope it will help what's been going wrong in their marriage. Every year on their anniversary, Amelia writes Adam a letter she doesn't let him read--until this year. Secrets and lies are revealed |
![]() The Snow Child by Eowyn IveyStill grieving over their stillborn child, middle-aged couple Mabel and Jack left a comfortable Pennsylvania life in 1918 to homestead in Alaska. Two years later, after building a snowchild, they see glimpses of a young girl who appears to live in the woods. This girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods; she hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. |