From the library...

Welcome to February! Even though it feels like January is the longest month, we are excited to be moving closer to spring and back into our routines after the holiday season.

This month is designated as National Library Lovers Month, and the 14th is Library Lovers Day! Also, whether you celebrate Valentine’s Day or honor your friends on Galentine’s Day, we have a variety of romantic reads sure to please everyone’s tastes. 

In addition, February is Black History Month, and the library offers numerous books and other materials for those interested in learning more about the important events and people that have shaped our collective history.  

As always, we continue to offer an appealing lineup of programs, resources, and materials that will help anyone beat the winter blues. So be sure to check us out this month, and make a date to visit your favorite local library!

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Library Events

I Love You Every Day
by Isabel Otter

Reflecting on the meaning of love and the many ways it can be expressed, this uplifting picture book encourages readers to celebrate Valentine's Day every day through random acts of kindness and generosity, and messages of love and hope. 

The Summer of Broken Rules
by K.L. Walther

Even though she is still grieving over her sister's death, eighteen-year-old Meredith Fox plans to reconnect with family and friends when they gather on Martha's Vineyard for her cousin's big wedding--unless she gets distracted by a week-long game of Assassin and a handsome groomsman.

Anatomy : A Love Story
by Dana Schwartz

When Hazel, an aspiring female surgeon, meets Jack, a resurrection man who sells bodies for a living, they work together to uncover the secrets buried not just in unmarked graves but in the very heart of Edinburgh society. 

The Tudors In Love : Passion and Politics In The Age of England's Most Famous Dynasty
by Sarah Gristwood

Dissecting the codes of love, desire and power, this brilliant history of the Tudor dynasty reveals the romantic obsessions that irrevocably shaped the politics and international diplomacy of the period, from Henry VIII's six wives to the poems lavished on Elizabeth I by her suitors.

Books for Black History Month

The Year We Learned to Fly
by Jacqueline Woodson

By heeding their wise grandmother's advice, a brother and sister discover the ability to lift themselves up and imagine a better world.

The Door Of No Return
by Kwame Alexander

11-year-old Kofi Offin dreams of water. Its mysterious, immersive quality. The rich, earthy scent of the current. The clearness, its urgent whisper that beckons with promises and secrets... Kofi has heard the call on the banks of Upper Kwanta, in the village where he lives. He loves these things above all else: his family, the fireside tales of his father's father, a girl named Ama, and, of course, swimming. Some say he moves like a minnow, not just an ordinary boy so he's hoping to finally prove himself in front of Ama and his friends in a swimming contest against his older, stronger cousin. But before this can take place, a festival comes to the villages of Upper and Lower Kwanta and Kofi's brother is chosen to represent Upper Kwanta in the wrestling contest. Encircled by cheering spectators and sounding drums, the two wrestlers from different villages kneel, ready to fight. You are only fine, until you are not. The match is over before it has barely begun, when the unthinkable-a sudden death-occurs... The river does not care how grown you are. As his world turns upside down, Kofi soon ends up in a fight for his life. What happens next will send him on a harrowing journey across land and sea, and away from everything he loves.

Moonrise Over New Jessup
by Jamila Minnicks

In 1957, Alice Young arrives in the all-Black town of New Jessup, Alabama, a place of opposing viewpoints on desegregation at the beginning of the civil rights movement, where she falls in love with Raymond Campbell, whose clandestine organizing activities could expel them from the home they love.

Blk Art: The Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western Art
by Zaria Ware

A fun and fact-filled introduction to the dismissed Black art masters and models who shook up the world. Quietly held within museum and private collections around the world are hundreds of faces of Black men and women, many of their stories unknown. Then, after hundreds of years of Black faces cast as only the subject of the white gaze, a small group of trailblazing Black American painters and sculptors reached national and international fame, setting the stage for the flourishing of Black art in the 1920s and beyond. 

"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope."

-Maya Angelou