{"id":55900,"date":"2025-04-05T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=55900"},"modified":"2025-04-02T12:32:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T17:32:41","slug":"aprils-celebrity-book-club-picks-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/aprils-celebrity-book-club-picks-5\/","title":{"rendered":"April’s Celebrity Book Club Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Simply Held is rebranding to Bestsellers Club<\/a>. No change in services, just a name change! If you’ve been with us for a while,\u00a0 you might notice that this was our original name for this service, and now we’re back to it!<\/span><\/p>\n

Simply Held is now Bestsellers Club<\/a>, a service that automatically places you on hold for authors, celebrity picks, nonfiction picks, and fiction picks. Choose any author, celebrity pick, fiction pick, and\/or nonfiction pick and The Library will put the latest title on hold for you automatically. Select as many as you want! Still have questions? Click here\u00a0<\/a>for a list of FAQs.<\/p>\n

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 Bestsellers Club<\/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\u00a0Heartwood<\/strong><\/em> <\/a>by Amity Gaige for her April book.<\/p>\n

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

In the heart of the Maine woods, an experienced Appalachian Trail hiker goes missing. She is forty-two-year-old Valerie Gillis, who has vanished 200 miles from her final destination. Alone in the wilderness, Valerie pours her thoughts into fractured, poetic letters to her mother as she battles the elements and struggles to keep hoping.<\/em><\/p>\n

At the heart of the investigation is Beverly, the determined Maine State Game Warden tasked with finding Valerie, who leads the search on the ground. Meanwhile, Lena, a seventy-six-year-old birdwatcher in a Connecticut retirement community, becomes an unexpected armchair detective. Roving between these compelling narratives, a puzzle emerges, intensifying the frantic search, as Valerie\u2019s disappearance may not be accidental.<\/em><\/p>\n

Heartwood is a \u201cgem of a thousand facets\u2014suspenseful, transporting, tender, and ultimately soul-mending,\u201d (Megan Majumdar, New York Times bestselling author of A Burning) that tells the story of a lost hiker\u2019s odyssey and is a moving rendering of each character\u2019s interior journey. The mystery inspires larger questions about the many ways in which we get lost, and how we are found. At its core, Heartwood is a redemptive novel, written with both enormous literary ambition and love.<\/em> – Simon & Schuster<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Reese Witherspoon has selected\u00a0All That Life Can Afford<\/strong><\/em> <\/a>by Emily Everett for her April pick.<\/p>\n

Curious what All That Life Can Afford<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0is about? Check out the following description provided by the publisher.<\/p>\n

I would arrive, blank like a sheet of notebook paper, and write myself new.<\/em><\/p>\n

Anna first fell in love with London at her hometown library\u2014its Jane Austen balls a far cry from her life of food stamps and hand-me-downs. But when she finally arrives after college, the real London is a moldy flat and the same paycheck-to-paycheck grind\u2014that fairy-tale life still out of reach.<\/em><\/p>\n

Then Anna meets the Wilders, who fly her to Saint-Tropez to tutor their teenage daughter. Swept up by the sphinxlike elder sister, Anna soon finds herself plunged into a heady whirlpool of parties and excess, a place where confidence is a birthright. There she meets two handsome young men\u2014one who wants to whisk her into his world in a chauffeured car, the other who sees through Anna\u2019s struggle to outrun her past. It\u2019s like she\u2019s stepped into the pages of a glittering new novel, but what will it cost her to play the part?<\/em><\/p>\n

Sparkling with intelligence and insight, All That Life Can Afford peels back the glossy layers of class and privilege, exploring what it means to create a new life for yourself that still honors the one you\u2019ve left behind.\u00a0<\/em> – D.P. Putnam’s Sons<\/p>\n

Join Bestsellers Club<\/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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