April is brimming with notable nonfiction. In addition to the six nonfiction titles joining Peak Picks, consider adding some of these titles to your TBR pile.
In Tasting History, Max Miller guides you through 4,000 years of recipes, from ancient Rome and Ming China to Medieval Europe and beyond. Kristin Cavallari focuses on 140 healthy recipes for weekday cooking in Truly Simple while
Gordon Ramsay’s Uncharted finds the celebrity chef armed with 60 recipes from around the globe. Abra Berens presents a practical guide to cooking with fruit in her third cookbooks, Pulp; Steven Satterfield provides inspiration for produce-forward cooking in Vegetable Revelations; and Loria Stern shares how cooking with botanicals makes meals not just delicious but beautiful in Eat Your Flowers. And Danny Trejo celebrates Mexican cocktails, snacks and non-alcoholic drinks in Trejo’s Cantina.
The Happiness Project‘s Gretchen Rubin recounts how she got out of her head by exploring Life in Five Senses while Aundi Kolber moves beyond platitudes to experience true flourishing in Strong Like Water. Admiral William H. McRaven returns with more advice and leadership lessons The Wisdom of the Bullfrog and Sharon Salzberg shows readers how to recover from the emotional effects of crisis in Real Life. Lane Moore (How To Be Alone) uncovers how to make meaningful friends in adulthood in You Will Find Your People, and Rainn Wilson – aka Dwight Schrute from The Office – reveals why we need a spiritual revolution in Soul Boom. Kelly Starlett presents ten essential habits to help you move freely and live fully in Built to Move. And Sara Peterson goes inside the maddening, picture-perfect world of mommy influencer culture in Momfluenced.
Jonathan Kennedy takes a sweeping history of the world through eight plagues in Pathogenesis while Peter Frankopan (The Silk Roads) reveals how climate change has shaped the development, and demise, of civilizations in The Earth Transformed. Simon Winchester considers how humans transmit knowledge – from the first encyclopedia and ancient museums to Wikipedia and modern kindergarten classes – in Knowing What We Know. Sally Bedell Smith reveals how the marriage of George VI and Elizabeth saved the British monarchy. Peter Cozzens revisits the struggle between Creek Indians and Andrew Jackson and the implications for the American South in A Brutal Reckoning, and Ned Blackhawk issues a retelling of U.S. history with Native peoples at its center in
The Rediscovery of America.
Bestselling poet and author Maggie Smith explores coming of age in middle age in You Could Make This Place Beautiful; meanwhile, Claire Dederer reckons with our relationship with problematic artists and their art in Monsters. Mother and daughter Diane Ladd and Laura Dern talk life, death, love (and banana pudding) in Honey, Baby, Mine and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Lucina Williams opens up about her childhood and the music industry in Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You. Jonathan Rosen recounts how a psychotic break and schizophrenia diagnosis took down his closest childhood friend in The Best Minds; Boston Marathon champ and former Olympian Des Linden shares her story in Choosing to Run; and Sasha Velour illuminates drag as a form of expression with historical roots in The Big Reveal.
~posted by Frank B.
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