{"id":45170,"date":"2022-09-22T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=45170"},"modified":"2022-09-12T14:19:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T19:19:42","slug":"septembers-celebrity-book-club-picks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/septembers-celebrity-book-club-picks-2\/","title":{"rendered":"September’s Celebrity Book Club Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a new month which means that Jenna Bush Hager and Reese Witherspoon have picked new books for their book clubs! Reminder that if you join our\u00a0Best Sellers Club<\/a>, these titles will automatically be put on hold for you.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Jenna Bush Hager has selected\u00a0Solito: A Memoir<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Javier Zamora for her September pick.<\/p>\n

Curious what Solito<\/strong><\/em><\/a> is about? Check out the following description provided by the author:<\/p>\n

A young poet tells the unforgettable story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this moving, page-turning memoir hailed as \u201cthe mythic journey of our era\u201d (Sandra Cisneros)<\/em><\/p>\n

Trip. My parents started using that word about a year ago\u2014\u201cone day, you\u2019ll take a trip to be with us. Like an adventure.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

Javier\u2019s adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. He will leave behind his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers. Traveling alone except for a group of strangers and a \u201ccoyote\u201d hired to lead them to safety, Javier\u2019s trip is supposed to last two short weeks.<\/em><\/p>\n

At nine years old, all Javier can imagine is rushing into his parents\u2019 arms, snuggling in bed between them, and living under the same roof again. He cannot foresee the perilous boat trips, relentless desert treks, pointed guns, arrests and deceptions that await him; nor can he know that those two weeks will expand into two life-altering months alongside a group of strangers who will come to encircle him like an unexpected family.<\/em><\/p>\n

A memoir as gripping as it is moving, Solito not only provides an immediate and intimate account of a treacherous and near-impossible journey, but also the miraculous kindness and love delivered at the most unexpected moments. Solito is Javier\u2019s story, but it\u2019s also the story of millions of others who had no choice but to leave home.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Reese Witherspoon has selected\u00a0On the Rooftop<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton for her September pick.<\/p>\n

Curious what On the Rooftop<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/a>is about? Check out the following description provided by the author.<\/p>\n

A stunning novel about a mother whose dream of musical stardom for her three daughters collides with the daughters’ ambitions for their own lives–set against the backdrop of gentrifying 1950s San Francisco.<\/em><\/p>\n

At home they are just sisters, but on stage, they are The Salvations. Ruth, Esther, and Chloe have been singing and dancing in harmony since they could speak. Thanks to the rigorous direction of their mother, Vivian, they’ve become a bona fide girl group whose shows are the talk of the Jazz-era Fillmore.<\/em><\/p>\n

Now Vivian has scored a once-in-a-lifetime offer from a talent manager, who promises to catapult The Salvations into the national spotlight. Vivian knows this is the big break she’s been praying for. But sometime between the hours of rehearsal on their rooftop and the weekly gigs at the Champagne Supper Club, the girls have become women, women with dreams that their mother cannot imagine.<\/em><\/p>\n

The neighborhood is changing, too: all around the Fillmore, white men in suits are approaching Black property owners with offers. One sister finds herself called to fight back, one falls into the comfort of an old relationship, another yearns to make her own voice heard. And Vivian, who has always maintained control, will have to confront the parts of her life that threaten to splinter: the community, The Salvations, and even her family.<\/em><\/p>\n

Warm, gripping, and wise, with echoes of Fiddler on the Roof, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton’s latest novel is a moving family portrait from “a writer of uncommon nerve and talent” (New York Times Book Review).<\/em><\/p>\n

Join our\u00a0Best Sellers Club<\/a>\u00a0to have Oprah, Jenna, and Reese\u2019s adult selections automatically put on hold for you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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