We’re adding twelve new Peak Picks in April!
In fiction, Emma Straub returns with an irresistible story about what happens when your teenage fantasy comes true after you’re already an adult as she sets sail on a cruise ship for a four-day themed voyage with all five members of a famous 1990s boyband in American Fantasy; Evelyn Clarke — the brilliant and diabolical creation of Cat Clarke and V.E. Schwab – debut with a propulsive mystery about six authors, one private island, and seventy-two hours to write the ending that will change their lives in The Ending Writes Itself; Maria Semple (Where’d You Go, Bernadette) returns to form in her most exuberant and life-affirming novel yet with the story of one woman – a Stoic philosopher and divorcée – and her cheerful determination to live a life of the mind only to have the heart force its way in with Go Gentle; the latest from Glenn Dixon, set in a near future where even the smallest of appliances are sentient, finds a young Roomba vacuum that sets out to save the humans of her house from a rising technological power in the compelling and original The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances; Lambda Literary Award winner TJ Klune returns with a heart-wrenching standalone novel that follows an elder gay couple on an end-of-the-world road-trip with We Burned So Bright; and Caro Claire Burke debuts with the sensational tale of a traditional American woman, a beautiful wife and mother who sells her pioneer lifestyle of raw milk and farm-fresh eggs to her millions of social media followers, who suddenly awakens cold, filthy, and terrified in the brutal reality of 1855 –where she must unravel whether this living nightmare is an elaborate hoax, a twisted reality show, or something far more sinister in Yesteryear.
In nonfiction, 24th Poet Laureate of the United States Ada Limón inspires us to see poetry as much more than just words — as a powerful force for healing, a call to action, and a vibrant celebration of humanity’s many voices – in Against Breaking; Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon, two lifelong peace activists and guides to Israel/Palestine, both of whom have lost family in the conflict, take readers on a revealing life-changing journey across this holy, bloodstained land and discover the mythic, political, and personal history that divides but also binds them and their peoples in The Future is Peace; from Patrick Radden Keefe, prize-winning author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, comes a spellbinding account of a family devastated by the sudden death of their nineteen-year-old son, only to discover that he had created a secret life which drew him into the dangerous criminal underworld that lies beneath London’s glittering surface in London Falling; Noam Scheiber paints a vivid portrait of a disillusioned generation that set out to reclaim its dignity and take on corporate American giants like Starbucks and Apple in Mutiny; from Alex Mayyasi and the hosts of the world’s leading economics podcast comes Planet Money, an irresistible guide to the hidden world of everyday economics; and beloved author and lexicographer Kory Stamper embarks on a kaleidoscopic journey through the secret history of hues — and the story of the obsessive genius behind the definitions of colors we use today — in the irresistibly wry and culturally rich True Color.
~posted by Frank. All descriptions provided by publishers.
