{"id":58205,"date":"2025-09-23T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=58205"},"modified":"2025-09-16T10:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T15:45:08","slug":"septembers-celebrity-book-club-picks-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/septembers-celebrity-book-club-picks-5\/","title":{"rendered":"September’s Celebrity Book Club Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bestsellers Club<\/a>\u00a0is\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\u00a0here\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\u00a0Buckeye<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Patrick Ryan for her September pick.<\/p>\n

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

One town. Two families. A secret that changes everything.<\/em><\/p>\n

In Bonhomie, Ohio, a stolen moment of passion, sparked in the exuberant aftermath of the Allied victory in Europe, binds Cal Jenkins, a man wounded not in war but by his inability to serve in it, to Margaret Salt, a woman trying to obscure her past. Cal\u2019s wife, Becky, has a spiritual gift: She is a seer who can conjure the dead, helping families connect with those they\u2019ve lost. Margaret\u2019s husband, Felix, is serving on a Navy cargo ship, out of harm\u2019s way\u2014until a telegram suggests that the unthinkable might have happened.<\/em><\/p>\n

Later, as the country reconstructs in the postwar boom, a secret grows in Bonhomie\u2014but nothing stays buried forever in a small town. Against the backdrop of some of the most transformative decades in modern America, the consequences of that long-ago encounter ripple through the next generation of both families, compelling them to reexamine who they thought they were and what the future might hold.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sweeping yet intimate, rich with piercing observation and the warmth that comes from profound understanding of the human spirit, Buckeye captures the universal longing for love and for goodness.<\/em> – Random House<\/p>\n

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

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\"\"<\/a>Reese Witherspoon has selected\u00a0To the Moon and Back<\/strong><\/em> <\/a>by Eliana Ramage for her September pick.<\/p>\n

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

In this dazzlingly powerful story of family, ambition and belonging, one young woman\u2019s obsessive quest to become the first Cherokee astronaut irrevocably alters the fates of the people she loves most.<\/em><\/p>\n

My mother took my sister and me, and she drove through the night to a place she felt a claim to, a place on earth she thought we might be safe. I stopped asking questions. I picked little glass pieces from my sister\u2019s hair. I watched the moon.<\/em><\/p>\n

Steph Harper is on the run. When she was five, her mother fled an abusive husband\u2014with Steph and her younger sister in tow\u2014to Cherokee Nation, where she hoped they might finally belong. In response, Steph sets her sights as far away from Oklahoma as she can get, vowing that she will let nothing get in the way of pursuing the rigorous physical and academic training she knows she will need to be accepted by NASA, and ultimately, to go to the moon.<\/em><\/p>\n

Spanning three decades and several continents, To the Moon and Back encompasses Steph\u2019s turbulent journey, along with the multifaceted and intertwined lives of the three women closest to her: her sister Kayla, an artist who goes on to become an Indigenous social media influencer, and whose determination to appear good takes her life to unexpected places; Steph\u2019s college girlfriend Della Owens, who strives to reclaim her identity as an adult after being removed from her Cherokee family through a challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act; and Hannah, Steph and Kayla\u2019s mother, who has held up her family\u2019s tribal history as a beacon of inspiration to her children, all the while keeping her own past a secret.<\/em><\/p>\n

In Steph\u2019s certainty that only her ambition can save her, she will stretch her bonds with each of these women to the point of breaking, at once betraying their love and generosity, and forcing them to reconsider their own deepest desires in her shadow. Told through an intricately woven tapestry of narrative, To the Moon and Back is an astounding and expansive novel of mothers and daughters, love and sacrifice, alienation and heartbreak, terror and wonder. At its core, it is the story of the extraordinary lengths to which one woman will go to find space for herself.<\/em> – Avid Reader Press \/ Simon & Schuster<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Oprah has picked\u00a0All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Elizabeth Gilbert as her latest pick. Oprah’s Book Club has been around for years! Oprah’s book club picks are not released every month, so it may be a couple months between her releases.<\/p>\n

Curious what\u00a0All the Way to the River<\/em><\/strong><\/a> is about? Check below.<\/p>\n

In 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert met Rayya. They became friends, then best friends, then inseparable. When tragedy entered their lives, the truth was finally laid bare: The two were in love. They were also a pair of addicts, on a collision course toward catastrophe.<\/em><\/p>\n

What if your most beautiful love story turned into your biggest nightmare? What if the dear friend who taught you so much about your self-destructive tendencies became the unstable partner with whom you disastrously reenacted every one of them? And what if your most devastating heartbreak opened a pathway to your greatest awakening?<\/em><\/p>\n

All the Way to the River is a landmark memoir that will resonate with anyone who has ever been captive to love\u2014or to any other passion, substance, or craving\u2014and who yearns, at long last, for liberation.<\/em> – Riverhead Books<\/p>\n

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

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Join\u00a0Bestsellers 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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