February is the month when I begin to page through garden books, scheming up garden plans beyond my time, space, and resources. You may have other strategies for late-winter gloom, when visions of spring hover just beyond your reach.
While one needs no special month to read a book, February seems a time when you really need a retreat: travel; poetry; tales of romance, adventure, or mystery; natural history. Something that makes it just right to sit in a comfy chair and explore other worlds. Find your February armchair escape at Arugula Books at the Providence Flea, February 24, 10:00-4:00, at Hope High School.
Select February additions to Arugula Books:
- The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry
- An Object of Beauty, by Steve Martin
- The New Tea Book: A guide to black, green, herbal, and chai tea
- Trees, Shrubs and Vines, Rodale’s Successful Organic Gardening
- The Garden Through the Year, by Graham Stuart Thomas
- Boxed set of Rachel Carson paperbacks:
- The Sea Around Us
- The Edge of the Sea
- Under the Sea Wind
Arugula Books 
Rachel Carson! She was writing about the ocean becoming warmer (and the problems around that) in the 1950s! Always a visionary.
Dawn, thank you for your response. I couldn’t say it better. In case you didn’t see it, there was an interesting article about Rachel Carson in the New Yorker, earlier this year. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/26/the-right-way-to-remember-rachel-carson.