Peak Picks Current Titles Book List
A complete list of current Peak Picks titles.
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Strangers
Adult Nonfiction. “Immigration lawyer Burden traces the exhilarating start and excruciating dissolution of her two-decade marriage in this bruising debut. Dividing the narrative into five acts, Burden recounts how, during the Covid pandemic, her husband of 20 years abruptly walked out on her and their three children without explanation. With unsparing emotional clarity, Burden examines the often-baffling ways relationships can fall apart, and charts a path for people looking to reassemble their own lives. It's a gut punch.” Publishers Weekly
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Against Breaking
Adult Nonfiction. “In April 2025, as her closing lecture as the 24th poet laureate of the United States, Limón celebrates the power of poetry to inspire, illuminate, and transform. ‘When clarity is hard to come by,’ she writes, ‘when language has morphed into a tool for confusion, I put my faith in poetry.’ Speaking to her listeners at the Library of Congress, she invokes the work of poets who have given her solace and hope, among them William Butler Yeats, Lucille Clifton, Robert Hass, Jean Valentine, Langston Hughes, and Emily Dickinson. A graceful, moving tribute, and a gift to readers.” Kirkus
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American Fantasy
Adult Fiction. “Annie never meant to end up alone on a Boy Talk cruise, but that's exactly what happens when her sister… has to bow out of their vacation. Now Annie is sharing a cabin with a stranger, stuck on the cruise ship American Fantasy with the 1990s band--and thousands of their biggest fans… …Reeling from a recent divorce and dealing with… turning 50, Annie throws herself into the distraction of the trip. What she doesn't expect is to truly connect with the music, the band, the other fans, and herself. A delightfully nostalgic novel about how the things we loved in the past have the power to shape our future.” Kirkus
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The Ending Writes Itself
Adult Fiction. “Invited to the remote Scottish island of Skelbrae by bestselling thriller writer Arthur Fletch, a half-dozen commercially challenged authors… assemble in his castle for one of his legendary salons. But after all the invitees sign NDAs, Fletch's agent drops a bombshell: Fletch is dead, and the group has actually been summoned to compete in a 72-hour competition to ghostwrite the final chapter of his blockbuster Petrarch series. Soon enough, the contest morphs from battle of wits to cutthroat competition darker and twistier than the secret passageways honeycombing Fletch's castle. The result is nothing short of dazzling.” Publishers Weekly
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The Future Is Peace
Adult Nonfiction. “Hope amid trauma. In this bighearted travelogue, friends and peace activists Abu Sarah, a Palestinian whose brother died from injuries suffered in Israeli custody, and Inon, an Israeli whose parents were killed by Hamas, explore the region's militarized landscape and learn about the experiences of others impacted by decades of violence. Their 8-day journey through Israeli and Palestinian communities is an effort to topple ‘walls of ignorance and hatred,’ writes Inon. Powerfully demonstrates that fellowship can bridge seemingly intractable divides.” Kirkus
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Go Gentle
Adult Fiction. “Among the terms of philosopher Adora Hazzard's fellowship at the Lockwood museum in New York City is that she provide ‘moral training’ to owners Layla and Lionel Lockwood's tween twins. Adora… lives nearby in the famed Ansonia building with her surly 15-year-old daughter, Viv, where she has assembled a ‘coven’ of fellow middle-aged single ladies who live on the same floor. The plot kicks into gear when Adora gives an extra ballet ticket to the mysterious David Ignatius ‘Digby’ Beale, and the pair begin a romance… Soon Digby reveals they met not by chance… and he wants her to deliver a sealed letter to Layla.” Publishers Weekly
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The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances
Adult Fiction. “In a self-running, smart house, a young and sentient Roomba listens as her owner, Harold, reads aloud to his dying wife, Edie. Mesmerized by To Kill a Mockingbird and craving the human connection she witnesses in Harold's stories, the little vacuum renames herself Scout and embarks on a journey of self-discovery. But when Edie passes away, Scout and her fellow sentient appliances discover that there are sinister forces in their midst. The omnipresent Grid, which monitors every household in the City, seeks to remove Harold from his home, a place he's lived in for fifty years.” Publisher description
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London Falling
Adult Nonfiction. “In November 2019, 19-year-old Zac Brettler leapt from the fifth-floor balcony of a luxury apartment in London, falling to his death in the Thames. But this was no straightforward suicide. Brettler, well-off but not rich, had become fixated on opulence, spending nights on social media admiring the ‘glitzy, mercenary, aspirational culture’ embodied by foreign billionaires who'd bought mansions and soccer clubs in his city. Hoping to join their number, he contrived a false identity that led to his undoing. An exemplary account of naïveté, wealth, and menace, impeccably told by a top-notch journalist.” Kirkus
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Mutiny
Adult Nonfiction. “This insightful investigation from Scheiber examines how a radical new cohort of young, college-educated workers at major American corporations powered a wave of unionizations and strikes in recent years. The ‘dismal economy’ during and after the Great Recession led to many college graduates taking low-wage jobs in retail and customer service, or working for years for low pay within their profession. Scheiber tracks workers preparing to unionize at an Apple store…and a Chicago Starbucks…It's a galvanizing look at a stymied white-collar generation with the ‘politics... of the proletariat.’” Publishers Weekly
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Planet Money
Adult Nonfiction. “Mayyasi and his fellow contributors to NPR's Planet Money podcast have written an accessible, nonpartisan survey of economic concepts. The book's initial section covers markets, prices, trade, and public goods. The remaining sections explore work and career, love and family, saving and investing, and leisure. Inspired by the podcast's format, topics such as equity, the future value of money, market design, inflation, and automation are explained in the context of news stories that provide just enough detail to explain both the specific circumstances and the broader economic concepts.” Library Journal
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