{"id":56878,"date":"2025-06-12T06:00:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=56878"},"modified":"2025-06-04T14:18:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T19:18:37","slug":"junes-celebrity-book-club-picks-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/junes-celebrity-book-club-picks-5\/","title":{"rendered":"June’s Celebrity Book Club Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bestsellers Club<\/a> is\u00a0a 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\u00a0A Family Matter<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Claire Lynch for her June pick.<\/p>\n

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

1982. Dawn is a young mother, still adjusting to life with her husband, when Hazel lights up her world like a torch in the dark. Theirs is the kind of connection that\u2019s impossible to resist, and suddenly life is more complicated, and more joyful, than Dawn ever expected. But she has responsibilities and commitments. She has a daughter.<\/em><\/p>\n

2022. Heron has just received news from his doctor that turns everything upside down. He\u2019s an older man, stuck in the habits of a quiet existence. Telling Maggie, his only child\u2014the person around whom his life has revolved\u2014seems impossible. Heron can\u2019t tell her about his diagnosis, just as he can\u2019t reveal all the other secrets he\u2019s been keeping from her for so many years.<\/em><\/p>\n

A Family Matter is a heartbreaking and hopeful exploration of love and loss, intimacy and injustice, custody and care, and whether it is possible to heal from the wounds of the past in the changed world of today.<\/em> – Scribner<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Reese Witherspoon has selected\u00a0The Phoenix Pencil Company<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Allison King for her June pick.<\/p>\n

Curious what The Phoenix Pencil Company<\/a><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is about? Check out the following description provided by the publisher.<\/p>\n

In this dazzling debut novel, a hidden and nearly forgotten magic\u2014of Reforging pencils, bringing the memories they contain back to life\u2014holds the power to transform a young woman\u2019s relationship with her grandmother, and to mend long-lost connections across time and space.<\/em><\/p>\n

Monica Tsai spends most days on her computer, journaling the details of her ordinary life and coding for a program that seeks to connect strangers online. A self-proclaimed recluse, she’s always struggled to make friends and, as a college freshman, finds herself escaping into a digital world, counting the days until she can return home to her beloved grandparents. They are now in their nineties, and Monica worries about them constantly\u2014especially her grandmother, Yun, who survived two wars in China before coming to the States, and whose memory has begun to fade.<\/em><\/p>\n

Though Yun rarely speaks of her past, Monica is determined to find the long-lost cousin she was separated from years ago. One day, the very program Monica is helping to build connects her to a young woman, whose gift of a single pencil holds a surprising clue. Monica\u2019s discovery of a hidden family history is exquisitely braided with Yun\u2019s own memories as she writes of her years in Shanghai, working at the Phoenix Pencil Company. As WWII rages outside their door, Yun and her cousin, Meng, learn of a special power the women in their family possess: the ability to Reforge a pencil\u2019s words. But when the government uncovers their secret, they are forced into a life of espionage, betraying other people\u2019s stories to survive.<\/em><\/p>\n

Combining the cross-generational family saga and epistolary form of A Tale for the Time Being with the uplifting, emotional magic of The Midnight Library, Allison King\u2019s stunning debut novel asks: who owns and inherits our stories? The answers and secrets that surface on the page may have the unerasable power to reconnect a family and restore a legacy.<\/em> – William Morrow<\/p>\n

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

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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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