Peak Picks Current Titles Book List
A complete list of current Peak Picks titles.
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All the Way to the River
NEW FOR SEPTEMBER! NEW FOR SEPTEMBER! Adult Nonfiction. “Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love) first met Rayya Elias in 2000…the pair gradually evolved from casual friends to soulmates, with Gilbert ending her second marriage to start a relationship with Elias after Elias received a terminal pancreatic cancer diagnosis. After the couple consum-mated their attraction, both fell deeper into addiction--Gilbert to love and sex, Elias to alcohol and drugs. After Elias died in 2018, Gilbert examined her addictions and arrived at a spiritual awakening. Gilbert achieves her signature intimacy through a bluntly confessional tone and an admirable ability to stare darkness in the face without losing hope.” Publishers Weekly
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Amity
NEW FOR SEPTEMBER! Adult Fiction. “Coleman is a young New Orleanian who, newly emancipated, still works as a servant in the household he grew up in. The paterfamilias, Wyatt Harper, has taken off for the desert of northern Mexico…; he has taken Coleman’s sister, June, with him... June escapes, falling in with a guerrilla band made up of Black and Native American men and women. Resourceful and smart, she fits right in, but now Harper is on the hunt for her, employing a grandiloquent ruffian to bring Coleman to him in order to persuade June to return. A memorable, impeccably written tale that engages the reader, with its twists and turns, from beginning to end.” Kirkus
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Dark Renaissance
NEW FOR SEPTEMBER! Adult Nonfiction. “From the pen of the award-winning scholar Greenblatt (The Swerve) comes this vivid biography of the Renaissance poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe. The son of a Canterbury cobbler, Marlowe won a place at his local school by dint of brains and energy, moved to Cambridge…found himself recruited into a network of intelligence officers for Queen Elizabeth, and then, at age 29, was mysteriously murdered in a bar fight. At the heart of Greenblatt's book, though, is not just a familiar story but a new argument: that it was really Marlowe, rather than Shakespeare, who lit the flame under the literary Renaissance of Elizabethan England.” Library Journal
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History Matters
NEW FOR SEPTEMBER! Adult Nonfiction. “History Matters brings together selected essays by beloved historian David McCullough, some published here for the first time, written at different points over the course of his long career but all focused on the subject of his lifelong passion: the importance of history in understanding our present and future. Edited by McCullough's daughter, Dorie McCullough Lawson, and his longtime researcher, Michael Hill, History Matters is a tribute to a master historian and offers fresh insights into McCullough's enduring interests and writing life.” Publisher description
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Mother Mary Comes to Me
NEW FOR SEPTEMBER! Adult Nonfiction. Booker Prize-winning Indian novelist Roy recounts a life of poverty and upheaval, defiance and triumph in an emotionally raw memoir, centered on her complicated relationship with her mother. Mary Roy…was a volatile, willful woman, angry and abusive. To escape her mother's demands and tantrums, Arundhati, at age 18, decided to move permanently to Delhi…she embarked on a long relationship with a filmmaker, which ignited her career as a writer. Throughout, Mrs. Roy loomed large in her daughter's life, and her death, in 2022, left the author overcome with grief. An intimate, stirring chronicle.” Kirkus
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The New Book
NEW FOR SEPTEMBER! Adult Poetry. The late Giovanni (1943-2024)…offers a moving poetic reflection on a life lived with passion, purpose, and fierce pride. This posthumous collection pulses with emotional and political resonance, capturing the poet's unflinching voice as she traces personal history alongside broader struggles for racial justice. A sense of reverence permeates the work, and Giovanni's deep pride in her heritage is a powerful through-line. To read this collection is to witness a rich, defiant, and generous life. A fitting and electrifying final offering from one of the most vital American voices.” Library Journal
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One of Us
NEW FOR SEPTEMBER! Adult Fiction. “Bolt and Eleanor, the teenage twins at the center of Chaon’s brilliant fifth novel, are orphans who’ve fallen under the watch of ‘Uncle Charlie,’ a con man and serial killer. They escape Charlie’s clutches with the assistance of a mysterious Mr. Jengling, who operates a circus and recruits them for his sideshow… For all that darkness, the brother and sister find a welcoming ersatz family. Set mainly in 1915, the novel captures a vanished vaudeville world… But in its latter chapters, the novel is also powerfully otherworldly, deliberately warping assumptions about life, death, and the nature of souls." Kirkus
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Replaceable You
NEW FOR SEPTEMBER! Adult Nonfiction. “The body is the most complex machine in the world, and the only one for which you cannot get a replacement part from the manu-facturer. For centuries, medicine has reached for what's available--sculpting noses from brass, borrowing skin from frogs and hearts from pigs, crafting eye parts from jet canopies and breasts from petroleum by-products. Today we're attempting to grow body parts from scratch using stem cells and 3D printers. How are we doing? Are we there yet? Irrepressible and accessible, Replace-able You immerses readers in the wondrous, improbable and surreal quest to build a new you.” Publisher description
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The Summer War
NEW FOR SEPTEMBER! Adult Fiction. “Celia discovered her talent for magic on the day her beloved oldest brother left home. Furious at him for abandoning her in a war-torn land, she lashed out, not realizing her childish, angry words would become imbued with the power of prophecy, dooming him to a life without love. …Celia attempts to undo the curse she placed on him. Yet …she cannot find the solution—until she learns the truth about the centuries-old war between her own people and the summerlings… Now…, Celia may be able to both undo her eldest brother’s curse and heal the lands so long torn apart by the Summer War.” Publisher description
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The Wilderness
NEW FOR SEPTEMBER! Adult Fiction. “Desiree, Danielle, January, Monique, and Nakia are in their early twenties and at the beginning. Of their careers, of marriage, of motherhood, and of big-city lives in New York and Los Angeles. Together, they are finding their way through the wilderness, that period of life when the reality of contemporary adulthood… swoops in and stays. As these friends move from the late 2000’s into the late 2020’s, from young adults to grown women, they must figure out what they mean to one another—amid political upheaval, economic and environmental instability, and the increasing volatility of modern American life.” Publisher description
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