Around the World in 80 Days Mini Reading Challenge: The Arctic, Antarctica, Greenland, and Iceland

Can the one thing she hates, help her find love?

Hedera hates the squeakers used in toys.

When she is accused of stealing them, she has no choice but to flee the North Pole, leaving behind her secret crush Ilexa.

Ilexa also has a crush on Hedera, and is determined to clear her name, that’s if she can find her.

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Could they find love despite being poles apart - literally?

Ettia heads to the South Pole, filling in for her sick uncle, and meets talking kangaroo’s and their sand averse sleigh.

Cherri’s call to rescue a stranded vehicle, could save more than first appears. Can Cherri risk her security for a stranger in a Santa suit?

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Phoenix Murray has had enough.

When Phoenix and Ash meet at the South Pole, sparks fly, and not the good kind. But a year in isolation means finding common ground. As friendship grows to love, they discover an intimacy neither expected from each other.

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In this spellbinding debut novel, two estranged half-sisters tasked with guarding their family’s library of magical books must work together to unravel a deadly secret at the heart of their collection—a tale of familial loyalty and betrayal, and the pursuit of magic and power.

For generations, the Kalotay family has guarded a collection of ancient and rare books. Books that let a person walk through walls or manipulate the elements—books of magic that half-sisters Joanna and Esther have been raised to revere and protect.

All magic comes with a price, though, and for years the sisters have been separated.

Ten extraordinary women. A year-long assignment to the frozen wastes of Antarctica. What could go wrong?

Meteorologist Jo Peterson loves chasing extreme weather events around the world. She’s not a people person. Now she’s on a ten-person team in Antarctica with sabotage, internal conflicts, and a host of misunderstandings. Will she and the team survive the mission and come home safely?

Allison Shaunessy is a woman on the edge.

Allison and Michela instantly clash regarding the focus of the expedition and who should lead the team. They settle into a grudging working relationship that gradually deepens into a fragile friendship, but what they find at the expedition site defies all expectations. With hardship, extreme cold, and rivalry standing in their way, will the two women see past their own stubbornness long enough to allow their friendship to develop any further?

Antarctica is a vortex that draws you back, season after season.

The place is so raw and pure, all seal hide and crystalline iceberg. The fishbowl communities at McMurdo Station, South Pole Station, and in the remote field camps intensify relationships, jack all emotion up to a 10. The trick is to get what you need and then get out fast.

At least that’s how thirty-year-old Rosie Moore views it as she flies in for her third season on the Ice. She plans to avoid all entanglements, romantic and otherwise, and do her work as a galley cook. But when her flight crash-lands, so do all her plans.

Five friends attempt to find themselves in the nightlife of Greenland’s capital city in this “audacious and honest, sorrowful and triumphant” debut novel (NPR).

In a collection of blurry nights and bleary mornings after, Greenlandic author Niviaq Korneliussen weaves together the coming of age of five young people in the city of Nuuk.

Fia has recently sworn off men only to discover that the woman she wants is unavailable. Her brother Inuk is forced to escape Greenland after being implicated in a political scandal. Arnaq struggles to cope with her past as her hard-partying life spirals out of control. Meanwhile, Ivik and Sara must confront an important transition in their relationship.

For eighteen years, Charlotte Klaus lived a sunny life as an aerospace engineer and professor in Florida.

But when her father needed her help back home in Qeqertarsuaq, Greenland, to take over the family business, she packed her bags and returned to the Arctic. After ten years of running the family business and raising her daughter, Magda, Charlotte’s friends and family can see she’s lonely. In fact, Magda has a special Christmas wish for her mom—to find love again.

But there’s a problem. How can Magda send a letter to Santa at the North Pole when her mom is Santa Claus and lives in Greenland? Luckily, Charlotte’s elf secretary, Eli, has wise advice: say a prayer instead. And soon enough, a new resident arrives in their small village.

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When photo-journalist Kelly Sheffield is offered the chance to travel to Greenland for coverage of American science teams, she grabs it.

Not only is it a dream assignment, it also means she’ll have a chance to reconnect with the compelling Jordan Westgate, the glaciologist studying the melting ice cap.

Jordan hasn’t forgotten Kelly, nor has she forgotten that she’d found it hard, all those years ago, to firmly reject the inappropriate overtures from a student. This Kelly—self-assured, successful, and even more attractive—is a threat to Jordan’s equilibrium, something she simply can’t allow.

Canada and Iceland mark this romantic journey between two women brought together by fate.

Best friends and housemates in their late thirties, Bebs (Barbra) and Scott have their lives turned upside down over the course of a summer. Bebs is struggling to sort out her career and life in Ottawa as Scott’s hitherto unknown birth father, Ari, arrives in the city to meet his son. Ari lives in Reykjavik with his much younger sister Katarina.