Read up on How to Romance in the 21st Century:

Love at First Site
by Erika Ettin

Dating coach Erika Ettin has laid out her expertise in an easy-to-use and exciting guide to the world of online dating. Erika shows her readers how to increase their odds for connections by marketing themselves well.

Modern Romance
by Aziz Ansari with Eric Klinenberg

The acclaimed comedian teams up with a New York University sociologist to explore the nature of modern relationships, evaluating how technology is shaping contemporary relationships and considering the differences between courtships of the past and present.

Data, A Love Story: How I Gamed Online Dating to Meet my Match
by Amy Webb
A personal account of a digital-strategy expert’s efforts to date using current online technologies recounts how after numerous setbacks she strategically changed her approaches and met dozens of worthwhile candidates. More suggestions about Online Dating.

Wired: How a Math Genius Hacked OkCupid
article by Kevin Poulsen

What happened when a 35 year old math PhD student realized that he should be dating like a mathematician? He set up 12 fake OkCupid accounts, wrote a Python script to manage them, trained them to act human, collected data… and you have to read the article to find out how it turned out.

More articles:

• Washington Post: Dating Apps
• Washington Post: Dating Profiles

She’s Out of My League
DVD [2010]

Average guy Kirk can’t believe his luck when, against all odds, Molly, a successful and outrageously gorgeous babe, falls for him. Kirk is stunned and so are his friends, his family, and even his ex-girlfriend. Now, he must go to great lengths to figure out how to make the relationship work and prove to himself, and everyone else that she is not out of his league.

Modern Dating: a Field Guide
by Chiara Atik

Based on extensive research, Ms. Atik presents this modern guide to dating that is filled with tried-and-true advice, colorful and interesting infographics, real-life stories, hilarious listicles, and more.

In Real Life: Love, Lies & Identity in the Digital Age
by Nev Schulman

Schulman first entered the public eye as the main subject of his sleeper hit documentary Catfish (2010), in which he unwittingly gets involved romantically online with a lonely, midde-aged woman from rural Michigan. His book is at once a memoir, a meditation on a truly unique phenomenon of the internet age, and a motivational address for anyone seeking virtual companionship.

Introverts In Love: the Quiet Way to Happily Ever After
by Sophia Dembling

Love is tricky for everyone–and different personality types can face their own unique problems. Now the author of The Introvert’s Way offers a guide to romance that takes you through the frequently outgoing world of dating, courting, and relationships, helping you navigate issues that are particular to introverts, from making conversation at parties to the challenges of dating an extrovert.

On exhibit at the Aurora Hills Branch Library, September – December 2015.

Using only palette knives and paint straight from the tube, Ann Marie Coolick is an impasto painter focusing on contemporary landscapes. Ann Marie slathers frosting-like paint layer upon layer onto the canvas, with paint running off the edges resulting in a sculptural, three-dimensional appearance. Ann Marie has exhibited throughout the mid-atlantic including the Arlington Arts Center, Glen Allen Arts Center, Center for the Arts in Manassas, and the Hylton Center. Her work has been featured in Home Goods, Elan Magazine, Creative Digest UK, and L’Officiel Australia. Ann Marie currently resides and maintains a studio in Aurora Hills.

Want to buy something you see on our walls? Artists contribute 20% of sales made during their exhibit to the Friends of the Arlington County Public Library, to help support Library programming.

Learn more about Art Exhibits at the Library.