{"id":53822,"date":"2024-10-08T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=53822"},"modified":"2024-10-01T14:58:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T19:58:29","slug":"octobers-celebrity-book-club-picks-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/octobers-celebrity-book-club-picks-4\/","title":{"rendered":"October’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\u00a0The Mighty Red<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Louise Erdrich for her October pick.<\/p>\n

Curious what The Mighty Red<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>is\u00a0about?\u00a0Check out the following description provided by the publisher.<\/p>\n

History is a flood. The mighty red . . .<\/em><\/p>\n

In Argus, North Dakota, a collection of people revolve around a fraught wedding.<\/em><\/p>\n

Gary Geist, a terrified young man set to inherit two farms, is desperate to marry Kismet Poe, an impulsive, lapsed Goth who can’t read her future but seems to resolve his.<\/em><\/p>\n

Hugo, a gentle red-haired, home-schooled giant, is also in love with Kismet. He\u2019s determined to steal her and is eager to be a home wrecker.<\/em><\/p>\n

Kismet’s mother, Crystal, hauls sugar beets for Gary’s family, and on her nightly runs, tunes into the darkness of late-night radio, sees visions of guardian angels, and worries for the future, her daughter\u2019s and her own.<\/em><\/p>\n

Human time, deep time, Red River time, the half-life of herbicides and pesticides, and the elegance of time represented in fracking core samples from unimaginable depths, is set against the speed of climate change, the depletion of natural resources, and the sudden economic meltdown of 2008-2009. How much does a dress cost? A used car? A package of cinnamon rolls? Can you see the shape of your soul in the everchanging clouds? Your personal salvation in the giant expanse of sky? These are the questions the people of the Red River Valley of the North wrestle with every day.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Mighty Red is a novel of tender humor, disturbance, and hallucinatory mourning. It is about on-the-job pains and immeasurable satisfactions, a turbulent landscape, and eating the native weeds growing in your backyard. It is about ordinary people who dream, grow up, fall in love, struggle, endure tragedy, carry bitter secrets; men and women both complicated and contradictory, flawed and decent, lonely and hopeful. It is about a starkly beautiful prairie community whose members must cope with devastating consequences as powerful forces upend them. As with every book this great modern master writes, The Mighty Red is about our tattered bond with the earth, and about love in all of its absurdity and splendor.<\/em> – Harper<\/p>\n

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

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\"\"<\/a>Reese Witherspoon has selected\u00a0Society of Lies<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Lauren Ling Brown for her October pick.<\/p>\n

Curious what Society of Lies<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0is about? Check out the following description provided by the publisher.<\/p>\n

How far would you go to belong?<\/em><\/p>\n

Maya has returned to Princeton for her college reunion\u2014it\u2019s been a decade since she graduated, and she is looking forward to seeing old faces and reminiscing about her time there. This visit is special because Maya will also be attending the graduation of her little sister, Naomi.<\/em><\/p>\n

But what should have been a dream weekend becomes Maya\u2019s worst nightmare when she receives the news that Naomi is dead. The police are calling it an accident, but Maya suspects that there is more to the story than they are letting on.<\/em><\/p>\n

As Maya pieces together what happened in the months leading up to her sister\u2019s death, she begins to realize how much Naomi hid from her. Despite Maya\u2019s warnings, Naomi had joined Sterling Club, the most exclusive social club on campus\u2014the same one Maya belonged to. And if she had to guess, Naomi was likely tapped for the secret society within it.<\/em><\/p>\n

The more Maya uncovers, the more terrified she becomes that Naomi\u2019s decision to follow in her footsteps might have been what got her killed. Because Maya\u2019s time at Princeton wasn\u2019t as wonderful as she\u2019d always made it seem\u2014after all, her sister wasn\u2019t the first young woman to turn up dead. Now every clue is leading Maya back to the past . . . and to the secret she\u2019s kept all these years.<\/em> – Bantam<\/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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