It’s February! Hearts and flowers? Chocolates and wine? Well, not always.

Undying love for a good book, well written, thought provoking and enthralling - yes.

Many old favorites spring to mind - books I read in my youth that profoundly affected the path I took; books I read as an adult that challenged me to think again about subjects that had become fixed as I got older; books I revisited with my children and grandchildren; and books I read to a class of children by candlelight.

And now I work in your library, making new favorites and being surrounded by books of all shapes and sizes.

Let a great book give you a heart and a burning feeling to share it and more books with others.

Try some favorites of the staff here:

• “Joseph Had a Little Overcoat” by Simms Taback

• “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien

• “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen

• “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” by Dee Brown

• “Black Like Me” by John Howard Griffin

• “Grandfather and I” by Helen E. Buckley

• “Hatchet” by Gary Paulsen

• “The Little Engine That Could” by Watty Piper

• “Animal Farm” by George Orwell

• “The Myth of Sisyphus” by Albert Camus

• “The Other Einstein” by Marie Benedict

Or try one of our new books, listed below.

NEW BOOKS

Fiction: “Shadow’s Reel,” C.J. Box; “The Match,” Harlan Coben; “Calder Grit,” Janet Dailey; “The Recovery Agent,” Janet Evanovich; “Caramel Pecan Roll Murder,” Joanne Fluke; “The Paris Apartment,” Lucy Foley; “Something to Hide,” Elizabeth George; “Nothing to Lose,” J.A. Jance; “Run, Rose, Run,” Dolly Parton and James Patterson; “Diablo Mesa,” Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child; “The Maid,” Nita Prose; “What Happened to the Bennetts,” Lisa Scottoline; “A Safe House,” Stuart Woods

Nonfiction: “Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom,” Carl Bernstein; “The Hag: The Life, Times and Music of Merle Haggard,” Marc Eliot; “Younger You: Reduce Your Bio Age and Live Longer, Better,” Dr. Kara Fitzgerald; “The Doomsday Mother: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell and the End of an American Family,” John Glatt; “Didn’t We Almost Have It All: In Defense of Whitney Houston,” Gerrick Kennedy; “American Muckraker: Rethinking Journalism for the 21st Century,” James O’Keefe; “The Rise: Kobe Bryant and the Pursuit of Immortality,” Mike Sielski

Juvenile: “He-Man and the Masters of the Universe Legends from Castle Grayskull,” Amanda Deibert; “Graphic Novel: Spy School,” Stuart Gibbs; “The Batman: Before the Batman - An Original Movie Novel,” David Lewman/Random House; “It’s a Zoo in Here!” James Patterson and Brian Sitts; “Turning Red: The Deluxe Junior Novelization (Disney/Pixar),” RH Disney

Young Adult: “The Complete Cookbook for Teen Chefs: 70-plus Teen-tested and Teen-approved Recipes to Cook, Eat and Share,” America’s Test Kitchen Kids; “This Woven Kingdom,” Tahereh Mafi; “Anatomy: A Love Story,” Dana Schwartz

Children: “So Cute! (National Geographic),” Crispin Boyer; “Cleanup Crew (Elbow Grease),” John Cena; “Butternut,” Jill Dana; “Everything Will Be OK,” Anna Dewdney; “Norman Didn’t Do It! (Yes, He Did),” Ryan T. Higgins; “Twinkle Makes a Wish,” Katharine Holabird; “The Digger and the Duckling,” Joseph Kuefler; “Blue’s Busy World! A Book of 300 New Words,” Cara Stevens and Dave Aikins