FIRST PERSON
The February BookPage interviews:

Richard Ford: The sins of everyday life

"By looking at these lives, you're liable to see something as great as kings and heroes. In that fabric of otherwise under-noticeable lives is the stuff of real moral existence."

"No one is immune from suffering... so the deeper question is how do you want to live? We can live in fear. Or we can live as sharing, caring people."

FEATURES

SPOTLIGHT: It all adds up for Danielle Steel

Valentine's Day: the roller coaster of love

Celebrating a centenary of John Steinbeck

Black History A season of introspection

Here comes the bride

On Robert Hanssen: The why of spying

FICTION

Beyond Illusions by Duong Thu Hong

Burning Marguerite by Elizabeth Inness-Brown

The Doctor's House by Ann Beattie

Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles

The Illuminated Soul by Aryeh Lev Stollman

Me Times Three by Alex Witchel

Radiance by Carter Scholz

Red Water by Judith Freeman

Tishomingo Blues by Elmore Leonard

Wavemaker II by Mary-Beth Hughes

SCIENCE FICTION

Lion's Blood by Steven Barnes

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

BOOK CLUBS

Selections in new paperback releases

Black History Month: books to help children understand their history

Books that say "be mine"

Trouble Don't Last by Shelley Pearsall

Tell All the Children Our Story by Tonya Bolden

The Master Swordsman and the Magic Doorway by Alice Provensen

Fox Tale Soup by Tony Bonning

Dot the Fire Dog by Lisa Desimini

Clever Beatrice by Margaret Willey

Cendrillon by Robert D. San Souci

WINNER! Where will Rosemary Rita go next?

NONFICTION

Men
Lummox by Mike Magnuson

Middle East
Searching for Hassan by Terence Ward

Memories
The Ville: St. Louis by John A. Wright Sr.

Memoir
When Katie Wakes by Connie May Fowler
Lazy B by Sandra Day O'Connor & H. Alan Day
Sounds of the River by Da Chen
Breaking Clean by Judy Blunt

History
Selkirk's Island by Diana Souhami

Military
Shadow Warriors by Tom Clancy

Language
The Power of Babel by John McWhorter

Justice
WITSEC by Pete Earley and Gerald Shur

OVERBOOKED
Overbooked: The haunting story of an invisible ghost

AUDIO
The Spoken Word: Audios for February

MYSTERIES
Whodunit?: The month's new mysteries

COOKING
First things first

BETWEEN THE WINES
Aphrodisiacs

ROMANCE
Love, Exciting & New: A chorus of dramatic romance

BUSINESS & FINANCE
Catch the career you crave