Peak Picks Current Titles Book List
A complete list of current Peak Picks titles.
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108 Asian Cookies
NEW FOR OCTOBER! Adult Nonfiction. “Growing up as a Canadian-born Vietnamese Chinese American, Lieu sought comfort in the flavors of her youth like taro and black sesame. In 108 Asian Cookies, bakers will learn how to whip up desserts such as Spicy chai cookies, Taiwanese snowflake crisps, Mochi brownies and even instant ramen and pho cookies! At many Asian tables, ‘not too sweet’ is the highest compliment one can give−so whether these recipes are comfortingly familiar or new discoveries, 108 Asian Cookies will delight even the most discerning ‘not too sweet’ kitchens for years to come.” -- Publisher
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Bog Queen
NEW FOR OCTOBER! Adult Fiction. “When a body is found in a bog in northwest England, Agnes, an American forensic anthropologist, is called to investigate. But this body is not like any she’s ever seen. Though its bones prove it was buried more than two thousand years ago, it is almost completely preserved. Flashing between… post-Brexit England and the druidic order of Celtic Europe at the dawn of the Roman era, Bog Queen brims with contemporary urgency and ancient wisdom as it connects across time two gifted, farsighted young women learning to harness their strange strengths in a landscape more mysterious and complex than either can imagine.” -- Publisher
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Enshittification
NEW FOR OCTOBER! Adult Nonfiction. “This trenchant treatise from Doctorow explores how and why the internet has devolved into a wasteland of scams, ads, and surveillance. Platforms from Google to Apple to Facebook have deliberately worsened themselves, he argues−as their users ‘remain trapped in their rotting carcasses unable to escape’−by pursuing monopolistic goals including limited competition, regulatory capture, and diminished worker power, all of which has rendered these platforms not only too big to fail but ‘too big to care.’ The result is a razor-sharp yet subtly optimistic look at the soul-sucking state of the internet.” -- Publishers Weekly
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Hole in the Sky
NEW FOR OCTOBER! Adult Fiction. “On the Great Plains of Oklahoma—in the heart of the Cherokee Nation—a strange atmospheric disturbance is noticed by Jim Hardgray, a… father trying to reconnect with his teenaged daughter, Tawny. At NASA’s headquarters in Houston, astrophysicist Dr. Mikayla Johnson observes an interaction… and concludes that something enormous and unidentified is heading directly for Earth. And in an undisclosed bunker deep in the earth, an American threat forecaster known only as The Man Downstairs intercepts a cryptic communication and sends an urgent message to the president and highest-ranking military brass: ‘First contact imminent’.” -- Publisher
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Intemperance
NEW FOR OCTOBER! Adult Fiction. “In the jaunty latest from Jha, a twice-divorced feminist scholar decides to celebrate her 55th birthday by throwing herself a swayamvar, a traditional Indian ceremony in which a woman invites potential suitors to compete for her hand in marriage by performing various feats. The unnamed narrator’s novelist son is skeptical, as are social media users, who debate the feminist merits of her online invitation to the swayamvar. Jha interweaves mystical Hindu elements throughout, as with the narrator’s series of encounters with mysterious women who might be goddesses...” -- Publishers Weekly
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Joyride
NEW FOR OCTOBER! Adult Nonfiction. “Orlean did not set out to be a public figure, but this joyful memoir of her journey to becoming a writer demonstrates how it was nearly inevitable. Orlean always wanted to be a writer, and her career path−from writing for small alternative weeklies in Portland and Boston to being a staff writer at the New Yorker, all while painstakingly producing books on the side−is represented here in an unstinting look at the challenges and risks of making it as a professional writer, alongside everyday tragedies and disappointments. Sure to delight aspiring writers.” -- Library Journal
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Shadow Ticket
NEW FOR OCTOBER! Adult Fiction. “Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, …the private investigation business shifting from labor-management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks McTaggart, a one-time strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks he’s found job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine case, locating and bringing back the heiress of a Wisconsin cheese fortune who’s taken a mind to go wandering. By the time Hicks catches up with her he will find himself also entangled with Nazis, Soviet agents, British counterspies, swing musicians, …and the troubles that come with each of them…” -- Publisher
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Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave
NEW FOR OCTOBER! Adult Nonfiction. “Argentinian horror novelist Enriquez makes her nonfiction debut with this evocative travelogue-cum-memoir chronicling the two decades she's spent visiting cemeteries. Enriquez's reports are peppered with fascinating trivia about each place. Physical descriptions are likewise full of texture and wonder, prompting graceful ruminations on the fluidity of time and memory (Enriquez admits to a ‘nostalgia for everything, especially for what I've never experienced’). The result is an eccentric and enlightening peek into how memorialization happens across the world.” -- Publishers Weekly
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The Unveiling
NEW FOR OCTOBER! Adult Fiction. “Striker isn’t surprised to be the only Black passenger on the cruise to Antarctica. While her fellow tourists are wealthy sightseers, Striker is on the ship for business; she’s a location scout for the film industry, hired by a production company making a film about the disastrous Shackleton expedition. …Striker observes her extremely privileged fellow passengers with the same wry detachment as the local wildlife. But when a freak accident leaves the group stranded… and they regroup in a shelter left by some long-forgotten expedition, the natural environment quickly turns against them.” --Kirkus
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We Survived the Night
NEW FOR OCTOBER! Adult Nonfiction. “NoiseCat's ambitious debut ruminates on generational trauma and resilience among Indigenous communities. It opens with a night watchman's horrific discovery at St. Joseph's Mission, an Indian residential school in B.C.: a Salish newborn, NoiseCat's father, abandoned in the garbage, ‘the only known survivor of the school's incinerator.’ With this harrowing legacy at the heart of his narrative, NoiseCat traces his family's history, including his father's achievements as an artist and struggles with alcoholism, and reflects on Coyote Stories, the oral tradition centered on the famed trickster.” --Publishers Weekly
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