{"id":54172,"date":"2024-11-08T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=54172"},"modified":"2024-10-29T15:47:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T20:47:53","slug":"novembers-celebrity-book-club-picks-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/novembers-celebrity-book-club-picks-4\/","title":{"rendered":"November’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\u00a0This Motherless Land<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Nikki May for her November pick.<\/p>\n

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

Quiet Funke is happy in Nigeria. She loves her art teacher mother, her professor father, and even her annoying little brother (most of the time). But when tragedy strikes, she\u2019s sent to England, a place she knows only from her mother\u2019s stories. To her dismay, she finds the much-lauded estate dilapidated, the food tasteless, the weather grey. Worse still, her mother\u2019s family are cold and distant. With one exception: her cousin Liv.<\/em><\/p>\n

Free-spirited Liv has always wanted to break free of her joyless family. She becomes fiercely protective of her little cousin, and her warmth and kindness give Funke a place to heal. The two girls grow into adulthood the closest of friends.<\/em><\/p>\n

But the choices their mothers made haunt Funke and Liv and when a second tragedy occurs their friendship is torn apart. Against the long shadow of their shared family history, each woman will struggle to chart a path forward, separated by country, misunderstanding, and ambition.<\/em><\/p>\n

Moving between Somerset and Lagos over the course of two decades, This Motherless Land is a sweeping examination of identity, culture, race, and love that asks how we find belonging and whether a family\u2019s generational wrongs can be righted.<\/em> – Mariner Books<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Reese Witherspoon has selected\u00a0We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People<\/strong><\/em> <\/a>by Nemonte Nenquimo and Mitch Anerson for her November pick.<\/p>\n

Curious what We Will Be Jaguars<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0is about? Check out the following description provided by the publisher.<\/p>\n

Born into the Waorani tribe of Ecuador\u2019s Amazon rainforest\u2014one of the last to be contacted by missionaries in the 1950s\u2014Nemonte Nenquimo had a singular upbringing.<\/em><\/p>\n

She was taught about plant medicines, foraging, oral storytelling, and shamanism by her elders. At age fourteen, she left the forest for the first time to study with an evangelical missionary group in the city. Eventually, her ancestors began appearing in her dreams, pleading with her to return and embrace her own culture. She listened.<\/em><\/p>\n

Two decades later, Nemonte has emerged as one of the most forceful voices in climate change activism. She has spearheaded the alliance of indigenous nations across the Upper Amazon and led her people to a landmark victory against Big Oil, protecting over a half million acres of primary rainforest. Her message is as sharp as a spear\u2014honed by her experiences battling loggers, miners, oil companies and missionaries.<\/em><\/p>\n

In We Will Be Jaguars, she partners with her husband, Mitch Anderson, founder of Amazon Frontlines, digging into generations of oral history, uprooting centuries of conquest, hacking away at racist notions of indigenous peoples, and ultimately revealing a life story as rich, harsh, and vital as the Amazon rainforest herself.<\/em> – Abrams Press<\/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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