Surprise! St. Valentine’s Day is this coming Monday! It’s not too late to run by the grocery store Monday evening and buy that big heart shaped balloon and some wilted flowers, but here’s a better idea . . . books. I could list all of the reasons why books are a great idea but I think you know all of that stuff.

Here’s another idea if you want to go all out. Have you heard about our First Editions Club? Here’s the deal – once a month we either send you (or in this case your loved one) our featured signed first edition, or you can come pick it up and present the special book personally every month. What are the books? Well, it depends, they are always something special though, a hot literary book like Cold Mountain or a huge bestselling mystery like John Grisham. Sometimes we have even picked great pieces of non-fiction like say Willie Morris or Curtis Wilkie. This month we’re excited to have a really great literary work by Irishman Joseph O’Connor, you can read all about his new book Ghost Light on our blog here.

To see what else we have picked so far for 2011, click here.

A review of 2010 picks and the stories behind each pick can be found here.

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