Check out the ten new books joining Peak Picks in September!
In fiction, Canadian Mohawk author Alicia Elliott follows a young Indigenous woman whose failure to connect – with her infant daughter and her new posh neighbors – has horrifying consequences in And Then She Fell; Kim Coleman Foote merges fact and fiction in her debut novel about two families who become intertwined during the Great Migration in Coleman Hill; C Pam Zhang’s sophomore novel centers on a chef who faces an ethical dilemma after agreeing to feed the elite while the rest of the world starves following an environmental catastrophe in Land of Milk and Honey; British thriller writer Mick Herron delivers a stand-alone spy novel about a disastrous MI5 mission set during Cold War Berlin in The Secret Hours; and Lauren Groff returns with the story of servant girl, alone in the wilderness and trying to survive, in the captivating novel The Vaster Wilds.
In nonfiction, Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey draw on current research to provide a framework for happiness in Build the Life You Want; Heather Cox Richardson, author of the popular newsletter Letters From an American, explains how America is teetering on the brink of autocracy – and how we can turn back – in Democracy Awakening; Kristi Coulter recounts the life and death of her ambitious career after a grueling decade at Amazon in Exit Interview; Saturday Night Live alum Leslie Jones hilariously reveals what it took to become a successful Black female comedian in Leslie F*cking Jones; and social scientist Dan Ariely explores what makes rational people believe irrational things in Misbelief.
~posted by Frank
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