5 books to keep you warm this winter

January is a good time to curl up by the fire with a great read. Below are five books available for check-out at the Eddy-New Rockford Library. The list includes some thrillers to keep your mind racing, a ghost story to keep your heart pumping, a magical historical fiction and a happy poignant story that will warm your heart! If you don't already have a library card, now is the time to get one free and take home one of the season's best reads. Library hours are 12 - 6 p.m. Monday and 1 - 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday.

"She Was the Quiet One" by Michele Campbell

For Rose Enright, enrolling in a prestigious New England boarding school is the opportunity of a lifetime. But for Rose's vulnerable twin sister Bel, Odell Academy is a place of temptation and danger. When Bel falls in with a crowd of wild rich kids who pressure her into hazing Rose, the sisters' relationship is shattered. Rose turns to her dorm mother, Sarah Donovan, for advice. But Bel turns to Sarah's husband Heath, a charismatic and ambitious teacher. Is Heath trying to help Bel or take advantage of her? In a world of privilege, seduction, and manipulation, only one sister will live to tell the truth.

In a book full of twists, turns, and dark secrets, Michele Campbell once again proves her skill at crafting intricately spun and completely compelling plots.

"You Don't Own Me" by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke

When readers last saw Laurie Moran, she had recently become engaged to her show's former host, Alex Buckley. Since then, the two have been happily planning a summer wedding and honeymoon, preparing for Alex's confirmation to a federal judicial appointment, and searching for the perfect New York City home for their new life together.

But then Laurie is approached by Robert and Cynthia Bell, parents of Dr. Martin Bell, a famously charming and talented physician who was shot dead as he pulled into the driveway of his Greenwich Village carriage house five years ago. The Bells are sure that Martin's disgraced and erratic wife, Kendra, carried out the murder. Determined to prove Kendra's guilt and win custody over their grandchildren, they plead with Laurie to feature their son's case on "Under Suspicion," ensuring her that Kendra is willing to cooperate.

Kendra has lived under a blanket of suspicion since Martin's death, with the tabloid media depicting her as a secretive, mentally unstable gold-digger. Laurie's show is a chance for her to clear her name. But unbeknownst to the Bells, Kendra has already refused once before to go forward with a re-investigation of her husband's murder, and her statements to the contrary only add to the appearance of guilt.

But once Laurie dives into the case, she learns that Martin wasn't the picture-perfect husband father, and doctor he appeared to be and was carrying secrets of his own. And what does the web of lies ensnaring the Bell family have to do with a dangerous stranger, who gazes at Laurie from afar and thinks, "What a pretty girl, I'm sure she's going to be missed"?

"Daughters of the Lake" by Wendy Webb

After the end of her marriage, Kate Granger has retreated to her parents' home on Lake Superior to pull herself together- only to discover the body of a murdered woman washed into the shallows. Tucked in the folds of the woman's curiously vintage gown is an infant, as cold and at peace as its mother. No one can identify the woman. Except for Kate. She's seen her before. In her dreams...

One hundred years ago, a love story ended in tragedy, its mysteries left unsolved. It's time for the lake to give up its secrets. As each mystery unravels, it pulls Kate deeper into the eddy of a haunting folktale that has been handed down in whispers over generations. Now, it's Kate's turn to listen.

As the drowned woman reaches out from the grave, Kate reaches back. They must come together, if only in dreams, to right the sinister wrongs of the past.

"Once Upon a River" by Diane Setterfield

In a town on the Thames in the late 1800s, something strange is afoot at the local inn. A man staggers into the establishment, holding an apparently dead young girl in his arms. Inexplicably, the young girl begins to breathe again, and those gathered at the inn scramble to determine her identity and how she could have come back to life. Three different families are convinced that the girl is, in fact, one of their own. As this novel unfolds, readers will come to understand the lives of those families, the circumstances that took a young girl from each of them, and exactly what happened that night at the inn.

"Ginny Moon" by Benjamin Ludwig

Meet Ginny. She's 14, autistic, and has a heartbreaking secret...

Ginny Moon is trying to make sense of a world that just doesn't seem to add up...

After years in foster care, Ginny is in her fourth forever family, finally with parents who will love her.

Everyone tells her that she should feel happy, but she has never stopped crafting her Big Secret Plan of Escape.

Because something happened, a long time ago – something that only Ginny knows – and nothing will stop her going back to put it right...

A fiercely poignant and inspirational story about a lost girl searching for a place to call home. Ginny Moon will change everyone who spends time with her.