{"id":57250,"date":"2025-07-24T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=57250"},"modified":"2025-07-17T08:58:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:58:14","slug":"julys-celebrity-book-club-picks-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/julys-celebrity-book-club-picks-5\/","title":{"rendered":"July’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! Oprah has also recently announced a new pick. 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\u00a0Happy Wife<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Meredith Lavender and Kendall Shores for her July pick.<\/p>\n

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

A young woman must find her missing husband and prove her innocence in this twisty, unputdownable novel set in an ultrawealthy Florida community where looks can kill.<\/em><\/p>\n

Nora Davies doesn\u2019t exactly fit in to Winter Park, Florida, where old-guard Floridians mix with the tax-fleeing coastal elite. Twenty-eight and barely making ends meet working at a country club, Nora feels like she\u2019s going nowhere fast. Enter Will Somerset: a prominent forty-six-year-old lawyer, father to a teenage daughter, and recently divorced. The two set Winter Park\u2019s social scene agog when they fall in love and marry after a whirlwind Cinderella-style courtship.<\/em><\/p>\n

But Winter Park is fully upended when Will disappears the morning after a birthday bash Nora throws for him. Going back and forth between Nora and Will\u2019s romance and the search in the wake of Will\u2019s mysterious disappearance, Nora must answer the question from all angles: Where. Is. Will?<\/em><\/p>\n

Combining breathless suspense, glittering and juicy social dynamics, and an unforgettable cast of characters, Happy Wife is a clever and subversive novel that explores marriage, wealth, and the secrets that lurk behind closed doors.<\/em> – Bantam<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Reese Witherspoon has selected\u00a0Spectacular Things<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Beck Dorey-Stein for her July pick.<\/p>\n

Curious what\u00a0Spectacular Things<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0is about? Check out the following description provided by the publisher.<\/p>\n

What would you give up for the person you love most? What would you expect in return?<\/em><\/p>\n

Mia and Cricket have always been close. The gifted daughters of a young single mother, the \u201cLowe girls\u201d are well-known in the small Maine town they call home. Each sister has a role to fill: The responsible and academically minded Mia assumes the position of caregiver far too young, while Cricket, a bouncing ball of energy and talent, seems born for soccer stardom. But the cost of achieving athletic greatness comes at a steep price.<\/em><\/p>\n

As Mia and Cricket grow up, they must grapple with the legacy of their mother\u2019s secret past while navigating their own precarious future. Can Mia allow herself to fall in love at the risk of repeating a terrible history? Will Cricket\u2019s relentless chase of a lifelong goal drive her sister away? When does loyalty become self-sabotage?<\/em><\/p>\n

A sharply observed and tender portrait of sisters, love, and ambition, Spectacular Things is a sweeping story about the impossible choices we\u2019re forced to make in pursuit of our dreams.<\/em> – The Dial Press<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Oprah Winfrey has selected\u00a0Culpability<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>by Bruce Holsinger for her latest pick.<\/p>\n

Curious what\u00a0Culpability<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0is about? Check out the following description provided by the publisher.<\/p>\n

When the Cassidy-Shaws\u2019 autonomous minivan collides with an oncoming car, seventeen-year-old Charlie is in the driver\u2019s seat, with his father, Noah, riding shotgun. In the back seat, tweens Alice and Izzy are on their phones, while their mother, Lorelei, a world leader in the field of artificial intelligence, is absorbed in her work. Yet each family member harbors a secret, implicating them each in the accident.<\/em><\/p>\n

During a weeklong recuperation on the Chesapeake Bay, the family confronts the excruciating moral dilemmas triggered by the crash. Noah tries to hold the family together as a seemingly routine police investigation jeopardizes Charlie\u2019s future. Alice and Izzy turn strangely furtive. And Lorelei\u2019s odd behavior tugs at Noah\u2019s suspicions that there is a darker truth behind the incident\u2014suspicions heightened by the sudden intrusion of Daniel Monet, a tech mogul whose mysterious history with Lorelei hints at betrayal. When Charlie falls for Monet\u2019s teenaged daughter, the stakes are raised even higher in this propulsive family drama that is also a fascinating exploration of the moral responsibility and ethical consequences of AI.<\/em><\/p>\n

Culpability explores a world newly shaped by chatbots, autonomous cars, drones, and other nonhuman forces in ways that are thrilling, challenging, and unimaginably provocative.<\/em> – Spiegel & Grau<\/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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