“The Book of Charlie”
The following items are available at the Hancock County Public Library, 900 W. McKenzie Road. Descriptions are provided by the publisher, unless otherwise noted. For more information on the library’s collection or to reserve a title, visit hcplibrary.org.
Fiction: “The Five-Star Weekend” by Elin Hilderbrand
After tragedy strikes, Hollis Shaw gathers four friends from different stages in her life to spend an unforgettable weekend on Nantucket. Hollis Shaw’s life seems picture-perfect. She’s the creator of the popular food blog Hungry with Hollis and is married to Matthew, a dreamy heart surgeon. But after she and Matthew get into a heated argument one snowy morning, he leaves for the airport and is killed in a car accident. The cracks in Hollis’s perfect life— her strained marriage and her complicated relationship with her daughter, Caroline— grow deeper. So when Hollis hears about something called a “Five-Star Weekend”— one woman organizes a trip for her best friend from each phase of her life: her teenage years, her twenties, her thirties, and midlife— she decides to host her own Five-Star Weekend on Nantucket. But the weekend doesn’t turn out to be a joyful Hallmark movie.
Nonfiction: “The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-year-old Man” by David Von Drehle
A veteran Washington journalist recounts his long friendship with Charlie White, the centenarian next door who, sharing his good and meaningful life, mastered survival strategies that reflect thousands of years of human wisdom as his sense of adventure guided him through a century of upheaval. – adapted from jacket
Youth: “The Superteacher Project” by Gordon Korman
Oliver and Nathan, determined to get to the bottom of their new homeroom teacher’s fishy behavior, discover Mr. Aidact is actually an AI robot from a secret experimental program.
