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Cold Comforts

You have chapped cheeks, frozen buns, and your frostbite has frostbite.

Time to head inside. Curl up with one of these new (and coming soon) novels, and winter will fly by.

Frat Chance
Newcomer Patricia Weitz — a cross between Judy Blume and Diablo Cody — follows a socially awkward college senior as she breaks out of her shell in College Girl.

Revenge Full
Three childhood girlfriends are forced to face their scheming past when a mysterious man arrives in Laura Benedict’s dark and creepy Calling Mr. Lonely Hearts.

She’s Got It
Former TV writer Maria Semple’s funny first novel, This One Is Mine, uncovers the trouble two L.A. women get into when they become restless with their seemingly perfect lives.

Cry, Cry Again
Stephen Lovely’s tearjerker, Irreplaceable, imagines the complicated relationship between a heart transplant recipient and the donor’s grieving husband.

Get a Clue
The Agency
, by Ally O’Brien (a pseudonym for a writing team of two media insiders), is a murder mystery involving beautiful backstabbing literary agents.

Family Affairs
In a quiet Pennsylvania town, a young girl goes missing. In the same town, a woman abandons her husband and leaves him to raise two daughters. Both stories converge in Sandra Novack’s Precious.

Now you can really chill.