Peak Picks Current Titles Book List
A complete list of current Peak Picks titles.
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The Paris Express
Adult Fiction. "A French anarchist targets a passenger train in the taut latest from Donoghue, which is inspired by a true story. On Oct. 22, 1895, Mado Pelletier boards the express from Granville to Paris with a homemade bomb in tow. Born into poverty, she's furious over the plight of the working class, which is made all the more plain to her by the arrangement of the train's carriages: first-class passengers are placed at the center of the train to cushion the blow in the event of a crash. But as the locomotive speeds toward Paris, Mado meets her fellow passengers and questions whether she can follow through with her plan." Publishers Weekly
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Wild Dark Shore
Adult Fiction. "Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of a remote island near Antarctica, home to the Shearwater research base and the world's largest seed bank. Rising seas have been threatening the island, and readers meet the Salts as they are considering evacuating the island with their precious seeds. When a woman named Rowan washes up on shore, the Salts take her in and nurse her back to health. Rowan shares pieces of her past...but unraveling the island's mysteries brings them both closer to hidden truths. As lush as it is taut with tension, this novel is filled with both the joys and ravages of nature." Library Journal
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Adult Nonfiction. "As an immigrant who came to the West, El Akkad believed that it promised freedom. But in the past twenty years, reporting on the War on Terror, Ferguson, climate change, Black Lives Matter protests, and watching the unmitigated slaughter in Gaza, El Akkad has come to the conclusion that much of what the West promises is a lie. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is a chronicle of that painful realization, a moral grappling with what it means, as a citizen of the U.S., as a father, to carve out some sense of possibility in a time of carnage." Publisher description
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Three Days in June
Adult Fiction. "Gail Baines is having a bad day. To start, she loses her job - or quits, depending on whom you ask. Tomorrow her daughter, Debbie, is getting married, and she hasn't even been invited to the spa day organized by the mother of the groom. Then, Gail's ex-husband, Max, arrives unannounced on her doorstep, carrying a cat, without a place to stay, and without even a suit. But the true crisis lands when Debbie shares with her parents a secret she has just learned about her husband to be. Told with deep sensitivity and a tart sense of humor, full of the joys and heartbreaks of love and marriage and family life..." Publisher description
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We Do Not Part
Adult Fiction. "Kang (The Vegetarian) delivers an indelible exploration of Korea's historical traumas through the story of a writer who discovers how her friend's family was impacted by the 1948–1949 Jeju MassacrE... Kyungha spends her days alone in her apartment outside Seoul... One morning, she's unexpectedly contacted by her friend Inseon, who has been hospitalized in Seoul and begs Kyungha to fly to her home on Jeju to care for her bird, Ama, who will not survive long without food. In dreamy yet devastating prose, Kang details Inseon's evolving relationship with her late motheR... The result is a meticulously rendered portrait of friendship, mother-daughter love, and hope in the face of profound loss." Publishers Weekly
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