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Join a tiny snowflake as it gently drifts through moonlit skies, gliding past snowy hills and sleepy forests on its magical journey to the land of dreams. This cozy winter tale wraps little ones in a blanket of calm, making it the perfect bedtime listen for chilly nights.

A star athlete and Olympic prospect, Kal Carter is bound for greatness. Everyone says it, only he's not sure he entirely believes it. Because he's lost something he can't replace, and most days he feels like he's holding up the sky; and doing it all on his own. To maintain focus, he never lets anyone close except in the most superficial ways, and he's become very good at it. Until a long, cold week when the solitary girl next door who never speaks, smiles, or makes eye contact barges into his life and seems poised to upend the whole doggone thing.

From the time he was a small boy in Vermont, Wilson Bentley saw snowflakes as small miracles. And he determined that one day his camera would capture for others the wonder of the tiny crystal. Bentley's enthusiasm for photographing snowflakes was often misunderstood in his time, but his patience and determination revealed two important truths: No two snowflakes are alike; and each one is startlingly beautiful.

Ein Praktikum in einer Konditorei im verschneiten Königreich Fjarora – für Emelie wird ein Wintertraum wahr! Doch schon direkt bei ihrer Ankunft gerät sie mit einem unvorsichtigen Hundeschlittenfahrer aneinander ... der niemand Geringeres ist als Frederik, Prinz von Fjarora höchstpersönlich. Ausgerechnet für seinen Palast soll Emelie backen und das nachdem sie ihm eine gehörige Standpauke erteilt hat.

Christmas in Snowflake Falls is the most wonderful time of the year. The lights, sounds, and smells are pure magic. Living here is like being wrapped up in a warm holiday hug. There's nothing better. My cozy little world gets shaken like a snow globe when the house next door sells. Worse yet, the new neighbor's tomcat sneaks over and makes himself at home on my Christmas quilt with my sweet feline. Furious, I storm next door to give the owner a piece of my mind, only to find John Mitchell—my first love—standing there.

Lori Belkin has been dumped. By her parents. They moved out while she was away on holiday, and now, at the tender age of 25, she must stand on her own two feet. While she’s getting to grips with basic adulting, Lori magically brings to life the super-sexy man she created from celebrity photos as a teenager. Lori learns very quickly that having your ideal man is not as satisfying as it ought to be and that being an adult is far harder than it looks.

Marc Hudson hat sich ein Leben als Makler in Snowflakes aufgebaut. Seine Firma läuft hervorragend, die Arbeit bringt ihm Spaß und doch fehlt ihm etwas. Seine Gedanken driften auch nach zehn Jahren immer wieder zu einer bestimmten Frau ab. Hazel Montgomery lebt ihren Traum. Sie arbeitet als Reisejournalistin und lernt viele interessante Orte kennen. Ihr nächster Auftrag ist ein Artikel über die ›Twelve Days of Christmas‹ in Snowflakes. Völlig unerwartet steht sie bei ihrer Ankunft dem Mann gegenüber, den sie in Snowflakes als Allerletztes erwartet hat.

A high school scholarship student must kill the president as an act of environmental protection. Brilliant 18-year-old Ben Wallace didn’t set out to become a presidential assassin, but after a mind-altering experience, Ben discovers some facts about Earth’s rapid global warming, and none of it is good news. Now, Ben is on a dangerous trajectory, believing he must kill the President of the United States to save the planet. At his exclusive private school, Ben becomes a loner, self-isolated from the other students who appear - on Instagram, anyway - not to have a care in the world.

Leah has spent her formative years isolated on a remote island with her family. But their quiet existence, far from the devastated mainland, is cracking. Father, sensing a coming threat, demands that a wall be built. As the stone blockade rises, Father’s paranoia escalates. So does Leah’s dread that the violence the family left behind has found its way to their sanctuary.

Alex Atherton is the former secondary school headteacher who heard the word ‘snowflake’ once too often. In The Snowflake Myth, he challenges the negative stereotypes surrounding Generation Z. Drawing on his years of experience working with thousands of students, Atherton reveals that far from being lazy, entitled, or unreliable, Gen Z represents our most diligent, pragmatic, and patient generation yet.

Welcome to the fluffiest celebration in the land—The Featherbed Festival! In a dreamy village where clouds come to rest, children and critters gather under moonlight for the most magical nighttime party of the year. With pillow forts that reach the stars and feathers floating like snowflakes, bedtime becomes an enchanting event full of laughter, lullabies, and the softest dreams.

On Christmas Eve, 1958, Great Aunt Maude gives a unique snowflake ornament to each of them: Allegra - 13, Sonata - 12, Melody - nine, and Carole - eight. Years later, they learn she might have crocheted a little something extra - a bit of magic and wisdom - into their gifts. In Snowflake Secrets, each sister, now grown, uncovers the magic of her unique ornament.

Nathan McKendrick is world famous, handsome and passionate. The world loves him. Mallory O'Connor McKendrick is successful in her own right. Their storybook marriage had defied the odds as well as the rumors. They believe their love will never die - until suddenly the marriage is crumbling. What could destroy such a strong bond and what could they do to save it?

""Mad and wonderful. I thought I was reading one thing, then discovered—several times—that I was reading a different, even better thing.”—Roddy Doyle “Snowflake is a wonderfully inventive, deeply felt novel full of the best kinds of surprises.”—Margot Livesey An exquisitely...

Ash boards a Greyhound bus heading to the place where Bly was last seen: Snowflake, Arizona. Six thousand feet up in the wide red desert, Ash meets Mona, her dog, her goat, and her neighbors, and finds stepbrother Bly, too. In their ramshackle homes, the walls lined with tinfoil, almost all the residents of Snowflake are sick. But this isn’t any ordinary sickness: the chemicals and technologies of modern life are poisoning them.

Two veterans - one human, one canine - have returned to Montana to recover from the traumas of war. Former Army Ranger Nick Conway depended on his WMD dog Snowflake to help him navigate IEDs on the battlefield. Now he needs his best friend to help him cope with his PTSD and acclimate to civilian life. When he meets Holly McGuire and agrees to help her deliver meals to the needy, her inner light calls to him, but his demons hold him back from giving in to his attraction.

Reluctant to leave her cherished New England hometown after her sister's winter wedding, former journalist Vera Sterling makes a sudden decision. She takes what's left of her severance pay and invests it in real estate ... in one particular drafty colonial home and old timber barn set upon the pretty banks of Addison Cove. In that rough-hewn barn, she discovers a secret treasure left behind by the previous owner, the proprietor of the long-forgotten Christmas Barn gift shop. While restoring her run-down, wood-sided home--its creaking floors, broken banister, and neglected widow's walk--that secret slowly unfolds like a bit of snowflake wonder, crystallizing hopes and dreams for many in this small Connecticut town.

As the snowflakes start to fall, Holly Cove welcomes a new tenant to the beautiful old cottage on the beach... For lifestyle magazine journalist Tia Armstrong, relationships, as well as Christmas, have lost all their magic. Yet Tia is up against a Christmas deadline for her latest article 'Love is, actually, all around...' So, Tia heads to Holly Cove where the restorative sea air and rugged stranger, Nic, slowly but surely start mending her broken heart. Tia didn't expect a white Christmas, and she certainly never dared dream that all her Christmas wishes might just come true.

Jacqueline Briggs Martin’s Snowflake Bentley won a Caldecott Medal, a Parents’ Choice Award, and was picked as an ALA Notable Book for Children. Listeners of all ages will cherish this beautiful story about a real man whose discoveries changed the way the world saw snow.

Jenna has lived in Starr’s Fall for most of her life, and has run the general store for over ten years. Secretly she might dream of love and romance, but she’s happy as she is. Really. That is, until Starr’s Fall’s newest resident—ex-New Yorker, millionaire investment banker—Jack Wexler breezes into Jenna’s store, seemingly furious they don’t stock smoked salmon. Jenna is as amused as she is annoyed. Who is this ridiculous guy, and doesn’t he realize he’s not in Manhattan anymore?