Did you know February is National Library Lover's Month? Scroll through our "Love @ First Line(s)" book suggestions, check out our movie recs (all available at McFarland), create a book-folded heart by following the CrafTea video tutorial, and de-stress with some Valentine's Day themed coloring pages!
"Snowman wakes before dawn. He lies unmoving, listening to the tide coming in, wave after wave sloshing over the various barricades, wish-wash, wish-wash, the rhythm of heartbeat. He would so like to believe he is still asleep."
Call #: PR 9199.3.A8 O79 2003
"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort."
Call #: PR 6039.O32 H63 1997
"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."
Call #: PQ 8180.17 A73 C51
"We started dying before the snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall."
Call #: PS 3555 R42 T73 1989
"I am an invisible man."
Call #: PS 3555 L625 I5 1952a
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
Call #: PR 4034 .P7 2006
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."
Call #: PR 6029.R8 N5 1977
"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board."
Call #: PS 3515.U789 T5
"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. When it healed, and Jem's fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury."
Call # PS 3562.E353 T6 1960x
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth."
Call #: PS3537.A5 C3 1951
"In the corner of a first-class smoking carriage, Mr. Justice Wargrave, lately retired from the bench, puffed at a cigar and ran an interested eye through the political news in the Times."
Call #: PR 6005 H66 A85 2001
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
Call #: PG 3366 A535 1961
"When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home."
Call #: PS 3558.I548 O98 1967
Location: YA Collection
"It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him. Yossarian was in the hospital with a pain in his liver that fell just short of being jaundice. The doctors were puzzled by the fact that it wasn't quite jaundice. If it became jaundice they could treat it. If it didn't become jaundice and went away the could discharge him. But this just being short of jaundice all the time confused them."
Call #: PS 3558.E476 C38 1966
