Welcome to the New Madrid County Library.

The New Madrid County Library system provides resources, services and expertise at seven locations throughout the county.  In addition to the headquarters at Portageville, libraries are located at Gideon, Matthews, Morehouse, New Madrid, Parma and Risco, all under the direction of Susan Newman.

 Although each branch is different with some offering more options than others, through the library system patrons have access to books, ebooks, audio books, magazines, reference materials, movies, and genealogical items.  Any item housed at one branch is available to patrons of any branch by request. 

The libraries in Portageville, New Madrid and Gideon have computers with internet access available to the public   In addition, the library system supports the growing number of ebook readers through access 24/7/365 to thousands of titles through membership to www.molib2go.org.

The New Madrid County Library strives to meet the educational, informational and recreational needs of the community in a welcoming manner.  We hope you enjoy your virtual tour of our library and look forward to seeing you soon.

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.

The husband of Hollis’s childhood friend Tatum arranges for Hollis’s first love, Jack Finigan, to spend time with them, stirring up old feelings. Meanwhile, Tatum is forced to play nice with abrasive and elitist Dru-Ann, 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’s friend from their thirties, has just discovered that her husband is having an inappropriate relationship with a woman at work. Again! And then there’s Gigi, a stranger to everyone (including Hollis) who reached out to Hollis through her blog. Gigi embodies an unusual grace and, as it happens, has many secrets.

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