Paging all heat-seeking singles and couples: LJ’s February 1 issue is bursting at the seams with our annual pre–Valentine’s Day roundup, “Hot and Heavy Harmony,” among other tantalizing Book Review specials. This double-paged spread boasts a few how-tos (e.g., Joel D. Block’s The Art of the Quickie) as well as more cerebral, even meditative material (e.g., Homo Domesticus: Notes from a Same-Sex Marriage). LJ’s sex book reviewer supreme, Martha Cornog, returns with the assistance of former LJ intern Amanda Glasbrenner and Book Review Assistant Anna Katterjohn.

Of course, I couldn’t assign everything sex- and love-themed that publishes in February. There were some earlier pubs and late arrivals that looked like contenders. So if the roundup isn’t big and bad enough for your patrons, here is a brief addendum:

• William Cane’s Kiss Like a Star: Smooching Secrets from the Silver Screen (Griffin: ISBN 0-312-35993-4) is a charming, though not an explicitly demonstrative, sequel to the best-selling The Art of Kissing (Martha reviewed the 2nd edition). Stills from classic and modern flicks illustrate “The Almost Kiss” (La Dolce Vita) and “Kissing in the Snow” (Bridget Jones’ Diary). Both romantics and movie buffs will go for this.
• In Naked on the Page (Viking), Jane Ganahl recounts a year in her middle-aged dating life. Her columns from the San Francisco Chronicle were a big hit locally and could very well be nationally—Ganahl is funny-cynical and a single mother of a twentysomething. Plenty of other women can relate. (For more on sex and women of a certain age, see “The Go-Go Golden Libido,” the 2006 roundup.)
• Single Mom Seeking (Seal Press) is also a collection of columns (from www.literarymama.com), though Rachel Sarah is 28 with a nine-month-old living in New York City when the book opens. Sarah, too, got tremendous reader response, and her book will no doubt strike a chord with other young single moms in big cities.
• And finally, some steamy how-to from the house of steamy how-to, Quiver. The full-color erotic photos in Susan Crain Bakos’s The Sex Bible don’t make it the most library-friendly book depending on the population served, but it deserves consideration for its informed, in-depth, tartly written text. Bakos is an expert on the female orgasm, and she clearly knows a lot about everything else, from flirting to stripping.