{"id":51692,"date":"2024-05-03T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=51692"},"modified":"2024-05-02T12:16:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T17:16:41","slug":"mays-celebrity-book-club-picks-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/mays-celebrity-book-club-picks-3\/","title":{"rendered":"May’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 Simply 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\u00a0Real Americans<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Rachel Khong for her May pick.<\/p>\n

Curious what Real Americans<\/em><\/strong><\/a> is\u00a0about?\u00a0Check out the following description provided by the publisher.<\/p>\n

Real Americans begins on the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty-two-year-old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media company, meets Matthew. Matthew is everything Lily is not: easygoing and effortlessly attractive, a native East Coaster, and, most notably, heir to a vast pharmaceutical empire. Lily couldn\u2019t be more different: flat-broke, raised in Tampa, the only child of scientists who fled Mao\u2019s Cultural Revolution. Despite all this, Lily and Matthew fall in love.<\/em><\/p>\n

In 2021, fifteen-year-old Nick Chen has never felt like he belonged on the isolated Washington island where he lives with his single mother, Lily. He can\u2019t shake the sense she\u2019s hiding something. When Nick sets out to find his biological father, the journey threatens to raise more questions than it provides answers.<\/em><\/p>\n

In immersive, moving prose, Rachel Khong weaves a profound tale of class and striving, race and visibility, and family and inheritance\u2014a story of trust, forgiveness, and finally coming home.<\/em><\/p>\n

Exuberant and explosive, Real Americans is a social novel par excellence that asks: Are we destined, or made? And if we are made, who gets to do the making? Can our genetic past be overcome?<\/em> – Knopf<\/p>\n

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

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\"\"<\/a>Reese Witherspoon has selected\u00a0How to End a Love Story<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Yulin Kuang for her May pick.<\/p>\n

Curious what How to End a Love Story<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/a>is about? Check out the following description provided by the publisher.<\/p>\n

Helen Zhang hasn\u2019t seen Grant Shepard once in the thirteen years since the tragic accident that bound their lives together forever.<\/em><\/p>\n

Now a bestselling author, Helen pours everything into her career. She\u2019s even scored a coveted spot in the writers\u2019 room of the TV adaptation of her popular young adult novels, and if she can hide her imposter syndrome and overcome her writer\u2019s block, surely the rest of her life will fall into place too. LA is the fresh start she needs. After all, no one knows her there. Except\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Grant has done everything in his power to move on from the past, including building a life across the country. And while the panic attacks have never quite gone away, he\u2019s well liked around town as a screenwriter. He knows he shouldn\u2019t have taken the job on Helen\u2019s show, but it will open doors to developing his own projects that he just can\u2019t pass up.<\/em><\/p>\n

Grant\u2019s exactly as Helen remembers him\u2014charming, funny, popular, and lovable in ways that she\u2019s never been. And Helen\u2019s exactly as Grant remembers too\u2014brilliant, beautiful, closed off. But working together is messy, and electrifying, and Helen\u2019s parents, who have never forgiven Grant, have no idea he\u2019s in the picture at all.<\/em><\/p>\n

When secrets come to light, they must reckon with the fact that theirs was never meant to be any kind of love story. And yet\u2026 the key to making peace with their past\u2014and themselves\u2014might just lie in holding on to each other in the present.<\/em> – Avon<\/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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