Library Greeting: Reading is magical

Hollis Shaw's life seems picture-perfect. She's the star of the popular food blog, Hungry with Hollis, and is married to Matthew, a dreamy heart surgeon.

ButaftersheandMatthew get into a heated argument onesnowymorning,Matthew leaves for the airport and is killed in a car accident. The cracks in Hollis's perfect lifeher strained marriage and her complicated relationship with her daughter, Carolinegrow deeper.

When Hollis hears about something called the 'Five-Star Weekend'-a woman invites her best friend from her teenage years, her twenties, her thirties, and midlife-Hollis decides to host her own 'Five-Star Weekend' on Nantucket.

But her weekend won't be the Hallmark movie one might expect. Hollis's childhood friend, Tatum, invites Hollis's first love, Jack Finigan, to spend time with them, stirring up old feelings.

Meanwhile, Tatum is forced to play nice with Druann, Hollis's best friend from UNC Chapel Hill. Dru-ann's career as a prominent Chicago sports agent is on the line after her comments about a client's mental health issues are misconstrued online.

Brooke, Hollis' friend from their thirties, has just discovered that her husband is having an inappropriate relationship with a woman at work. Again!

She runs into an old 'friend,' Electra, a troublemaker who had ousted Brooke from the Wellesley mom friend group where Brooke and Hollis met years before. And then there's Gigi, a stranger to everyone (including Hollis) who reached out to Hollis on her blog. Gigi carries an unusual grace and, as it happens, has many secrets.

It will be a weekend like no other. The Five-Star Weekend byElinHilderbrand is a story about friendship, love, and self-discovery set on Nantucket.

Heather is happy. She has a successful business, a cute but contemptuous cat, and best friends Daphne and Tori whoknowwhereshe’sbroken and love her anyway.

So, why does she feel crushed when her ex gets serious about someone new? No problem, she has a plan.

More connections will hold her together while her world falls apart, so she finally reaches out to the stranger who might be her dad.

Daphne isn’t having an emotional affair, despite what her husband believes. He started the rift in their marriage when he said they weren’t ready for a baby.

They used to be the closest couple she knew. Can they find their way back to one another before it’s too late?

When Tori forms an inconvenient crush on Daphne’s brother-in-law, she suppresses her feelings. Until herapartmentfloods,andshe moves in with the dog-loving doctor.

If things go wrong, she could lose her friends, but if they go right, she could lose her heart. Three women search for joy in The Happiness Plan by Susan Mallery.

The beautifully ornate reading room at the Boston Public Library is completely silent one weekday morning, until a woman's terrified scream echoes through the room. Security guards immediately appear and instruct everyone inside to stay put until they determine there is no threat.

While they wait for the all-clear, four strangers who had been sitting in the reading room get to chatting and quickly become friendly. Harriet, Marigold, Whit, and Caine each have their own reasons for being in the reading room that morning and it just happens that one of them may turn out to be a murderer.

TheWomanintheLibrary , by Sulari Gentill is an unexpectedly twisty literary adventure that examines the complicated nature of friendship and shows us that words can be the most dangerous weapons of all.