{"id":54444,"date":"2024-12-09T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=54444"},"modified":"2024-12-06T10:18:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T16:18:47","slug":"decembers-celebrity-book-club-picks-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/decembers-celebrity-book-club-picks-4\/","title":{"rendered":"December’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! Oprah has also made a new selection this December! 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\u00a0Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Mary Oliver for her December pick.<\/p>\n

Curious what Devotions<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0is\u00a0about?\u00a0Check out the following description provided by the publisher.<\/p>\n

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career.<\/em><\/p>\n

Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Identified as \u201cfar and away, this country\u2019s best selling poet\u201d by Dwight Garner, she now returns with a stunning and definitive collection of her writing from the last fifty years.<\/em><\/p>\n

Carefully curated, these 200 plus poems feature Oliver\u2019s work from her very first book of poetry, No Voyage and Other Poems, published in 1963 at the age of 28, through her most recent collection, Felicity, published in 2015. This timeless volume, arranged by Oliver herself, showcases the beloved poet at her edifying best. Within these pages, she provides us with an extraordinary and invaluable collection of her passionate, perceptive, and much-treasured observations of the natural world. –\u00a0<\/em>Penguin Books<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Reese Witherspoon has selected\u00a0City of Night Birds<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Juhea Kim for her December pick.<\/p>\n

Curious what\u00a0City of Night Birds<\/strong><\/em><\/a> is about? Check out the following description provided by the publisher.<\/p>\n

A once-famous ballerina faces a final choice\u2014to return to the world of Russian dance that nearly broke her, or to walk away forever\u2014in this incandescent novel of redemption and love<\/em><\/p>\n

On a White Night in 2019, prima ballerina Natalia Leonova returns to St. Petersburg two years after a devastating accident that stalled her career. Once the most celebrated dancer of her generation, she now turns to pills and alcohol to numb the pain of her past.<\/em><\/p>\n

She is unmoored in her old city as the ghosts of her former life begin to resurface: her loving but difficult mother, her absentee father, and the two gifted dancers who led to her downfall.<\/em><\/p>\n

One of those dancers, Alexander, is the love of her life, who transformed both Natalia and her art. The other is Dmitri, a dark and treacherous genius. When the latter offers her a chance to return to the stage in her signature role, Natalia must decide whether she can again face the people responsible for both her soaring highs and darkest hours.<\/em><\/p>\n

Painting a vivid portrait of the Russian ballet world, where cutthroat ambition, ever-shifting politics, and sublime artistry collide, City of Night Birds unveils the making of a dancer with both profound intimacy and breathtaking scope. Mysterious and alluring, passionate and virtuosic, Juhea Kim\u2019s second novel is an affecting meditation on love, forgiveness, and the making of an artist in a turbulent world.<\/em> – HarperCollins<\/p>\n

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

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\"\"<\/a>Oprah has selected\u00a0Small Things Like These<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Claire Keegan for her latest pick. Check out the publisher’s description of this book below.<\/p>\n

It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church.<\/em> – Grove 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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