We’re adding ten new books to Peak Picks in January!
In fiction, Gabriel Tallent’s sophomore novel tells a story of intense friendship and grit, following two down-and-out teens who escape their lives and chase a different future through rock-climbing in Crux; Rosie Storey debuts with a modern love story about a woman who leads a double life after she replies to an unanswered message on her late sister’s dating app in Dandelion is Dead; Nina McConigley debuts with a bold, inventive, and fiercely original novel that begins with an uncle dead and his tween niece’s private confession to the reader—she and her sister killed him, and they blame the British—in How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder; First-time author Shen Tao pens a sweeping, epic and intimate dark fantasy—complete with gorgeous gilded edges and detailed endpapers—that introduces readers to the lush, deadly world of The Poet Empress; and George Saunders returns with an electric novel that takes place at the bedside of an oil company CEO in the twilight hours of his life as he is ferried from this world into the next in Vigil.
In nonfiction, Jenn Lueke shows home cooks how to save time, money, and energy with strategic meal planning, grocery lists, and kitchen prep with over 125 recipes that eliminate decision fatigue and make healthy living effortless, delicious, and even fun in Don’t Think About Dinner; MS NOW reporter and LA native Jacob Soboroff delivers a revelatory and searingly immediate report from the frontlines of the wildfires that consumed Los Angeles in Firestorm; Jeanette Winterson, “one of the most daring and inventive writers of our time” (Elle), weaves together memoir, manifesto, and a feminist reimagining of One Thousand and One Nights in this impassioned exploration of the power of reading in One Aladdin, Two Lamps; Best friends Kim Hana and Hwang Sunwoo reveal how they flouted gender norms and societal expectations with their decision to grow old together under one roof in the big-hearted, bestselling South Korean memoir Two Women Living Together; and from plant biologist Beronda L. Montgomery comes a stunning cultural and personal reclamation of Black history and Black botanical mastery that offers up lessons from the natural world shared through the stories of long-lived trees in When Trees Testify.
~posted by Frank. All descriptions provided by publishers.