{"id":61245,"date":"2026-03-05T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=61245"},"modified":"2026-02-25T12:30:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T18:30:05","slug":"february-celebrity-book-club-picks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/february-celebrity-book-club-picks-2\/","title":{"rendered":"February 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! Oprah has also recently announced a new pick. Reminder that if you join\u00a0Bestsellers 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\u00a0One & Only<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by Maurene Goo for her February pick.<\/p>\n

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

She knows what her happily ever after looks like. And it\u2019s not him.<\/em><\/p>\n

Cassia Park believes in soul mates. Fated love stories. It\u2019s her family business, after all\u2014for centuries, from Korea to Los Angeles, Park women have peered into clients\u2019 past lives to find their one true love, their fated. This magical secret is why One & Only Matchmaking has a 100% guarantee\u2026for everyone but Cassia.<\/em><\/p>\n

For ten years, Cass has been searching for her fated, a man named Daniel Nam. But he\u2019s still nowhere to be found.<\/em><\/p>\n

And so, on the eve of her 40th birthday, Cass decides to do something for herself. She impulsively has a fling with Ellis. He\u2019s twenty-eight, indecently handsome, and not destined to be the love of her life. But she\u2019s surprised by their connection and their fling feels like something more\u2014up to the moment he introduces her to his boss\u2026Daniel Nam.<\/em><\/p>\n

As she battles between fate and chance, head and heart, a family secret is revealed that will make her question everything she\u2019s ever known. Cassia will have to decide if she\u2019ll follow her fate\u2026or make her own.<\/em> – G.P. Putnam’s Sons<\/p>\n

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

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\"\"<\/a>Reese Witherspoon has selected\u00a0In Her Defense<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by Philippa Malicka for her February pick.<\/p>\n

Curious what In Her Defense <\/em><\/a>i<\/strong>s about? Check out the following description provided by the publisher.<\/p>\n

As a sensational celebrity libel trial unfolds, a young woman at the periphery secretly wields the power to make or break the case. But with her own hidden past, will she dare to speak up?<\/em><\/p>\n

Everyone is watching. Only one person knows the truth.<\/em><\/p>\n

The whole country has been riveted by the trial: Beloved TV star and national treasure Anna Finbow, standing in court, accusing her daughter\u2019s therapist Jean Guest of brainwashing her daughter Mary for her own financial gain. Jean insists Mary\u2019s traumatic memories arise from her upbringing and her time studying at a prestigious art school in Rome; wounds only Jean\u2019s therapy can heal. But as the trial unfolds, it\u2019s Augusta \u201cGus\u201d Bird, Anna\u2019s former employee\u2014a seemingly insignificant bystander, a nobody\u2014who holds the key to unraveling the tangled web of lies and deceit.<\/em><\/p>\n

What really happened to Mary in Rome? And if her memories can\u2019t be trusted, how will they ever uncover the truth behind her estrangement? Twisty and propulsive, In Her Defense is a compulsively readable debut for fans of Lucy Foley and Laura Dave.<\/em> – Scribner<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Oprah Winfrey has selected Kin<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Tayari Jones for her latest pick.<\/p>\n

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

Vernice and Annie, two motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, have been best friends and neighbors since earliest childhood but are fated to live starkly different lives. Raised by a fierce aunt determined to give her a stable home in the wake of her mother\u2019s death, Vernice leaves Honeysuckle at eighteen for Spelman College, where she joins a sisterhood of powerfully connected Black women and discovers a world of affluence, manners, aspiration, and inequality. Annie, abandoned by her mother as a child and fixated on the idea of finding her and filling the bottomless hole left by her absence, sets off on a journey that will take her into a world of peril and adversity, as well as love and adventure, culminating in a battle for her life.<\/p>\n

A novel about mothers and daughters, friendship and sisterhood, and the complexities of being a woman in the American South, Kin is an exuberant, emotionally rich, unforgettable work from one of the brightest and most irresistible voices in contemporary fiction.<\/p>\n

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