It’s the second month of the Adult Tic-Tac-Tone Winter Reading Game! For every 3 in a row, adults get chances to win a $20 gift card or the $50 grand prize Amazon gift card!
Join the challenge, get January’s card, then log the tic-tac-toe and cross your fingers. Remember, you can sign up or submit your wins at any time.
December’s challenge books are:
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Available as a book, ebook, CD audiobook and digital audiobook.
Summary from Goodreads: In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. But the journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sit in a particular seat, they cannot leave the café, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold.
The Arctic Fury by Greer Macallister
Available as a book and ebook.
Summary from Goodreads: In early 1853, experienced California Trail guide Virginia Reeve is summoned to Boston by a mysterious benefactor who offers her a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: lead a party of 12 women into the wild, hazardous Arctic to search for the lost Franklin Expedition. It’s an extraordinary request, but the party is made up of extraordinary women. Each brings her own strengths and skills to the expedition- and her own unsettling secrets. A year and a half later, back in Boston, Virginia is on trial when not all of the women return. Told in alternating timelines that follow both the sensational murder trial in Boston and the dangerous, deadly progress of the women’s expedition into the frozen North, this heart-pounding story will hold readers rapt as a chorus of voices answer the trial’s all-consuming question: what happened out there on the ice?
Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield
Available as a book, large print book, ebook, CD audiobook, and digital audiobook.
Summary from Goodreads: On a dark midwinter’s night in an ancient inn on the river Thames, an extraordinary event takes place. The regulars are telling stories to while away the dark hours, when the door bursts open on a grievously wounded stranger. In his arms is the lifeless body of a small child. Hours later, the girl stirs, takes a breath and returns to life. Is it a miracle? Is it magic? Or can science provide an explanation? These questions have many answers, some of them quite dark indeed.
