We’re adding fourteen new Peak Picks in October!
In fiction, Hugo Award-winning author Nghi Vo introduces a beguiling fantasy city in the tradition of Calvino, Mieville, and Le Guin in the new standalone novel The City in Glass; legendary storyteller Alan Moore introduces the first book in an enthralling new fantasy series about murder, magic, and madness in post-WWII London in The Great When; Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich tells a story of love, natural forces, spiritual yearnings, and the tragic impact of uncontrollable circumstances on ordinary people’s lives in The Mighty Red; the Maxwell siblings return to their childhood home in the Dallas suburbs after the shocking news of their parents’ death…to find the house, and the family itself, haunted by strange, inexplicable terrors in Rivers Solomon’s haunted-house novel Model Home; from Betsy Lerner, celebrated author of The Bridge Ladies, comes a wry and riveting debut novel about family, mental illness, and a hard-won path between siblings in Shred Sisters; Cherry Loy Sy debuts with a beautiful, tender yet searing novel about intergenerational fractures and coming of age, following a young woman who immigrates to the United States from the Philippines and finds herself adrift between familial expectations and her own burning desires, in Love Can’t Feed You; and from Neal Stephenson, the bestselling author of Termination Shock and Cryptonomicon, comes Polostan, the first installment in a monumental new series – an expansive historical epic of intrigue and international espionage, presaging the dawn of the Atomic Age.
In nonfiction, Ina Garten – aka the Barefoot Contessa, author of thirteen bestselling cookbooks, beloved Food Network personality, Instagram sensation, and cultural icon – shares her personal story with readers hungry for a seat at her table In her long-awaited memoir, Be Ready When Luck Happens; from Seattle-based forager-chef and forest therapy guide Ashley Rodriguez comes Field Notes from a Fungi Forager, a gorgeously illustrated compendium that’s also a love letter to mushrooms – and to the Pacific Northwest; Kari Leibowitz debuts with a blend of mindset science, original research, and cultural insights for cultivating a positive “wintertime mindset,” to vanquish winter blues and find joy and comfort in dark times year-round in How to Winter; in the tradition of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse comes a gorgeously illustrated fable about a young child’s journey into the world beyond the shadow of home, a magical landscape where he discovers the secrets of sharing, connection, and finding peace with the people we love in comedian Trevor Noah’s all-ages fable Into the Uncut Grass; Ta-Nehisi Coates, the bestselling author of Between the World and Me, journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell – and the ones we don’t – shape our realities in The Message; twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with a brand-new volume that reframes the lessons of The Tipping Point in a startling and revealing light in Revenge of the Tipping Point; and from bestselling cookbook author Julia Turshen comes an original, inspired, and interactive approach to cooking that takes the guesswork out of everyday meals in What Goes With What.
~posted by Frank. All descriptions provided by publishers.
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