Chase the Chill this winter by signing up for the Plum Creek Adult Winter Reading Program. When you register at the Rock County Library you will receive a book log to record your reading efforts. Books on cassette and CD are allowed. Once you have read and recorded your 12 books you will receive a free gift that is terribly useful. And, drawings for additional prizes will be held each month. Plum Creek will also award $500 to the library that has the most participants complete the reading program. Chase the Chill Reading Program runs from Jan. 1 to March 31, and is open to anyone 16 years or older. Books read or listened to, must be those checked out at your library. Stop in at the Rock County Library to register and have a warm and cozy winter. Here are a few ideas to begin Chasing the Chill. "The Sight of the Stars," by Belva Plain. Dressed in a brand-new suit, with $150 in his pocket, Adam Arnring says good-bye to his family and boards a train for the fabled West. The year is 1907. Adam, who is 19-years-old, has always dreamed of a future in the great open spaces of America. Now, far from his New Jersey home, he takes the first step toward attaining that dream, landing a job in a small department store in a booming Texas town. Here he meets a woman who excites him beyond all measure. The exquisite, untouchable Emma Rothirsch lives in a world whose doors are firmly closed to him. But Adam is a man willing to take great risks to get what he wants. One is Emma. The other is to build a lasting business enterprise that will live on through his children and grandchildren. But just when Adam’s dreams are within reach, fate intervenes. Tragedy strikes from the trenches of World War I, setting in motion a series of events that echo down through the years. The owner of a prospering department store and the head of a growing family, Adam succumbs to a moment of weakness that culminates in an unforgivable act of betrayal. And now, as another generation prepares to take its rightful place in the family’s legendary empire, the tenuous threads of the Arnrings’ past begin to unravel, revealing a shattering secret that reaches back nearly a century. "Sunny Chandler’s Return," by Sandra Brown. Sunny Chandler said she’d never go back to the tiny town where she grew up. It was just three years ago that she was at the center of a notorious scandal and the good folks of Latham Green, La., made it clear they’d never let her forget it. So. Sunny packed up and headed for New Orleans, and now she wouldn’t give up city life for the world. When she’s invited to her best friend’s wedding, Sunny has no choice but to go home. And with her return come the whispers, the looks, and the rumors she tried to escape. It doesn’t take Sunny long to see that Latham Green has nothing new to offer. Except maybe Ty Beaumont. The moment Ty and Sunny first meet at a party, he can see she’s no ordinary woman. Yet even when he turns on his southern charm, Sunny makes it clear she’s not interested. She’s not in town to become some good old boy’s latest conquest, no matter how sexy he is. Little does she know that Ty isn’t used to taking no for an answer and he isn’t about to start now.Soon what began as an innocent flirtation becomes a skillfully deliberate and seductive pursuit that even Sunny finds hard to resist. But resist him she will. For Sunny is harboring an agonizing secret, the painful truth of why she left Latham Green the way she did. Despite his roguish facade, Sunny comes to see he has a heart of gold. Still, she doesn’t know if she can trust another person with her secret heartbreak, not even the one man who may be able to heal it. The library will be closed on New Years Day and will close at 3 p.m. on New Years Eve. .
