“Your heart is gold. It’s the reason you shine, girl. Keep it shinning.” ARVY NICOLE’S FIRST LOVE SURVIVAL GUIDE: 10. DON’T FIGHT THE FEELING `Cause you’ll lose. 9. DON’T ALIENATE YOUR BFFs You need your team when the going gets tough. 8. DON’T SNOOP Stalking the Boyfie is just tacky. You didn’t force him into the relationship, he willingly went for it because you’re adorbs. 7. YOU DON’T OWN YOUR BOYFIE And he doesn’t own you. Eww. Possessiveness is so last century. 6. BUT HONESTY IS CLASSIC Like pearls, you can never go wrong with it. 5. DON’T WORRY ABOUT LABELS Call him anything you want `cos you’re totally awesome. 4. KEEP YOUR OWN SPACE AND TIME He’s not your iPhone, spend time away from him. 3. NEVER LOSE YOUR IDENTITY You’re not baptized little Miss His-Girlfriend. 2. ACCEPT THAT FIRST LOVE MAY, Uh... DIE That’s why #3 and #9 are necessary. 1. LOVE WITH ALL YOUR HEART Because the bitterest tears are shed not over love unrequited but over the love you didn’t show. This from Tatay Boy, our family driver.

From the archives of the Library of Congress: “An irresistible treasury for book and library lovers.” —Booklist (starred review) The Library of Congress brings book lovers an enriching tribute to the power of the written word and to the history of our most beloved books. Featuring more than two hundred full-color images of original catalog cards, first edition book covers, and photographs from the library’s magnificent archives, this collection is a visual celebration of the rarely seen treasures in one of the world’s most famous libraries and the brilliant catalog system that has kept it organized for hundreds of years. Packed with engaging facts on literary classics—from Ulysses to The Cat in the Hat to Shakespeare’s First Folio to The Catcher in the Rye—this is an ode to the enduring magic and importance of books. “The Card Catalog is many things: a lucid overview of the history of bibliographic practices, a paean to the Library of Congress, a memento of the cherished card catalogs of yore, and an illustrated collection of bookish trivia . . . . The illustrations are amazing: luscious reproductions of dozens of cards, lists, covers, title pages, and other images guaranteed to bring a wistful gleam to the book nerd’s eye.” —The Washington Post

Southern California is not all sun, sand, and surf in this gripping collection of noir tales from T. Jefferson Parker, Don Winslow, Maria Lima, and others. San Diego is home to miles of beaches, Balboa Park, a world-famous zoo, and some of the country’s most expensive home and resort real estate. Yet the city also houses a few items that aren’t actively promoted by the visitor’s bureau: a number of the country’s most corrupt politicians, border-related crimes, terrorists, and the occasional earthquakes. A noir feast! In the fifty-plus years since Raymond Chandler set Playback in Esmeralda, his name for La Jolla, the population has grown by more than a million, and crime has proliferated as well. San Diego of the past and the present offers the book’s contributors a rich selection of settings, from the cross on Mount Soledad to the piers of Ocean Beach, and perpetrators and victims from the residents of its wealthiest enclaves to the inhabitants of its segregated barrios. San Diego Noir includes stories by T. Jefferson Parker, Jeffrey J. Mariotte, Martha C. Lawrence, Diane Clark & Astrid Bear, Debra Ginsberg, Morgan Hunt, Ken Kuhlken, Taffy Cannon, Don Winslow, Cameron Pierce Hughes, Lisa Brackmann, Gabriel R. Barillas, Gar Anthony Haywood, Luis Alberto Urrea, and Maria Lima. “When it’s done right, noir is a darkly delicious thrill: smart, sharp-tongued, surprising. The knife goes in at the end with a twist. San Diego Noir, a new 15-story collection by some of the region’s best writers, has all that going for it, and the steady supply of hometown references makes it even more fun.” —The San Diego Union-Tribune