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Article content With vacations to warmer climates not possible and travel here at home restricted, many of us may be feeling the winter blahs more than usual this year. Here at Belleville Public Library, we encourage you to appreciate the beauty of the season with books set in frosty winter landscapes around the world. Embrace the cold and dive into one these great reads that are best enjoyed when the snow falls. In Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie, detective extraordinaire, Herc...

Jonathan Blanc / NYPL In a year when many of us couldn’t leave our homes for long periods of time or travel to distant locations, books have been a welcome escape or a way to broaden our perspectives—a reality that can be seen in the top books checked out of the New York Public Library in 2020, SILive reports. “The city’s most borrowed books reflect the historic challenges that have impacted New Yorkers during 2020, including a global pandemic, unprecedented isolation, issues of social...