We’re adding eight new Peak Picks in July!
In fiction, Ruben Reyes Jr.’s piercing debut novel follows two families in alternative timelines of the Salvadoran civil war − a stunning exploration of the mechanisms of fate, the gravity of the past, and the endurance of love – in Archive of Unknown Universes; Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Mexican Gothic) returns with a tale of three women in three different eras who encounter danger and witchcraft in the eerie multigenerational horror saga The Bewitching; The first English translation of bestselling Japanese author Sonoko Machida’s novels tells the delightfully quirky and heartfelt stories of a store’s customers and employees, offering us all a unique recipe for a good, fulfilling life in The Convenience Store By the Sea; and Wendy N. Wagner’s latest, Girl in the Creek, is a pulse-pounding eco-horror set in the Pacific Northwest about how climate change is transforming our world, and is perfect for fans of Jeff VanderMeer and T. Kingfisher.
In nonfiction, linguist Adam Aleksic takes an energetic look at how social media is transforming the future of language in both familiar and unprecedent ways in Algospeak; Charlie English revisits “an intriguing and little-known Cold War moment” (The Observer) – the astonishing true story of the CIA’s secret program to smuggle millions of books through the Iron Curtain– in The CIA Book Club; Cultural critic Maris Kreizman debuts with an introspective, searing account of the life experiences that have pushed this former “good Democrat” even further to the political left in I Want to Burn This Place Down; and British journalist Sophie Elmhirst debuts with the electrifying true story of a young couple shipwrecked at sea – a mind-blowing tale of obsession, survival, and partnership stretched to its limits – in A Marriage at Sea.
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