We’re adding a dozen new books to Peak Picks in March!
In fiction, Laila Lalami returns with a riveting and utterly original novel about one woman’s fight for freedom, set in a near future where even dreams are under surveillance, in Dream Hotel; Amal El-Mohtar guides readers to follow the river Liss to the small town of Thistleford, on the edge of Faerie, and meet two sisters who cannot be separated, even in death, in The River Has Roots; Charlotte McConaghy’s introduces us to a family living alone on a remote island when a mysterious woman washes up on shore in the eco-thriller Wild Dark Shore; Torrey Peters’s keen eye for the rough edges of community and desire push the limits of trans writing in Stag Dance; Emma Donoghue returns with a sweeping historical novel about an infamous 1895 disaster at the Paris Montparnasse train station in The Paris Express; and John Scalzi flies you to the moon with his most fantastic tale to date in the sci-fi romp When the Moon Hits Your Eye.
In nonfiction, Scaachi Koul, one of the most original and hilarious voices writing today, returns with more autobiographical essays in Sucker Punch; Molly Yeh’s latest cookbook features more than 100 recipes for sweet treats to be shared in potlucks, set on the counter for family snacking, or scarfed down in one sitting in Sweet Farm; Richard Rohr, one of our most prominent spiritual voices, offers a wholehearted and hope-filled model for the world today, grounded in the timeless wisdom of the Hebrew prophets in The Tears of Things; Natural history writer Thor Hanson opens the door to the nature that thrives in our yards, gardens, and parks in Close to Home; Journalists Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson deliver a paradigm-shifting call to renew a politics of plenty, face up to the failures of liberal governance, and abandon the chosen scarcities that have deformed American life in Abundance; and John Green, author and passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease in Everything is Tuberculosis.
~posted by Frank. All descriptions provided by publishers.
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