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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\u00a0Simply Held<\/a>, you can choose to have their selections automatically put on hold for you.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Jenna Bush Hager has selected\u00a0Good Material<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by Dolly Alderton for her February pick.<\/p>\n

Curious what Good Material<\/strong><\/em><\/a> is about?\u00a0Check out the following description provided by the publisher.<\/p>\n

Andy loves Jen. Jen loved Andy. And he can\u2019t work out why she stopped.<\/em><\/p>\n

Now he is. . .<\/em><\/p>\n

Without a home<\/em><\/p>\n

Waiting for his stand-up career to take off<\/em><\/p>\n

Wondering why everyone else around him seems to have grown up while he wasn\u2019t looking<\/em><\/p>\n

Set adrift on the sea of heartbreak, Andy clings to the idea of solving the puzzle of his ruined relationship. Because if he can find the answer to that, then maybe Jen can find her way back to him. But Andy still has a lot to learn, not least his ex-girlfriend\u2019s side of the story\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

In this sharply funny and exquisitely relatable story of romantic disaster and friendship, Dolly Alderton offers up a love story with two endings, demonstrating once again why she is one of the most exciting writers today, and the true voice of a generation.<\/em> – Knopf<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Reese Witherspoon has selected\u00a0Redwood Court<\/strong><\/em> <\/a>by D\u00e9Lana R. A. Dameron for her February pick.<\/p>\n

Curious what Redwood Court<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>is about? Check out the following description provided by the publisher.<\/p>\n

\u201cMika, you sit at our feet all these hours and days, hearing us tell our tales. You have all these stories inside you: all the stories everyone in our family knows and all the stories everyone in our family tells. You write \u2019em in your books and show everyone who we are.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

So begins award-winning poet D\u00e9Lana R. A. Dameron\u2019s debut novel, Redwood Court. The baby of the family, Mika Tabor spends much of her time in the care of loved ones, listening to their stories and witnessing their struggles. On Redwood Court, the cul-de-sac in the all-Black working-class suburb of Columbia, South Carolina, where her grandparents live, Mika learns important lessons from the people who raise her: her exhausted parents, who work long hours at multiple jobs while still making sure their kids experience the adventure of family vacations; her older sister, who in a house filled with Motown would rather listen to Alanis Morrisette; her retired grandparents, children of Jim Crow, who realized their own vision of success when they bought their house on the Court in the 1960s, imagining it filled with future generations; and the many neighbors who hold tight to the community they\u2019ve built, committed to fostering joy and love in an America so insistent on seeing Black people stumble and fall.<\/em><\/p>\n

With visceral clarity and powerful prose, Dameron reveals the devastation of being made to feel invisible and the transformative power of being seen. Redwood Court is a celebration of extraordinary, ordinary people striving to achieve their own American dreams. –<\/em> The Dial Press<\/p>\n

This title is also available in large print.<\/p>\n

Join\u00a0Simply Held<\/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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