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  • A Peek at Peak Picks – February 2025

    A Peek at Peak Picks – February 2025

    We’re adding eleven books to Peak Picks in February! In fiction, Pulitzer Prize finalist Eowyn Ivey (The Snow Child) returns to the mythical landscapes of Alaska with an unforgettable dark fairy tale that asks the question – can love save us from ourselves? – in Black Woods, Blue Sky. TJ Klune is back with a supernatural road-trip thriller featuring… Continue reading

  • New Nonfiction Roundup – January 2025

    New Nonfiction Roundup – January 2025

    January is brimming with self improvement and self care titles: Brooke Shields shares her thoughts on aging as a woman in Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old while Naomi Watts opens up about what she wished she’d known about menopause in Dare I Say It; relationship coach Jillian Turecki reveals the 9 hard… Continue reading

  • A Peek at Peak Picks – January 2025

    We’re adding a dozen new books to Peak Picks in January! In fiction, Maggie Su debuts with Blob: A Love Story, about a young woman who tries to shape a sentient blob into her perfect boyfriend; a never before published novel from Zora Neale Hurston, The Life of Herod the Great–not the villain the Bible makes him… Continue reading

  • New Nonfiction Roundup – December 2024

    Check out these excellent reads to add to your TBR pile this month! In memoir, Scottish carpenter Callum Robinson explores his life as a craftsman in Ingrained while “clueless craftsman” Patrick Hutchison enjoys off-the-grid adventures in the Cascades in Cabin (also a Peak Pick!). The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Heather Gay returns… Continue reading

  • New Nonfiction Roundup – November 2024

      Stressed out about the election? Dreading the return of the Big Dark? Consider some of these titles to get you through a challenging month. November has plenty to offer for the home cook. Tieghan Gerard returns with 120+ recipes for delicious, soul-warming comfort food in Half Baked Harvest Quick and Cozy, while the incomparable… Continue reading

  • A Peek at Peak Picks – November & December 2024

    We’re adding twelve books to Peak Picks in November and December! In fiction, Daniel Aleman spins a suspenseful dark comedy about a struggling writer who wakes up to find his date from the night before dead–and must then decide how far he’s willing to go to spin the misadventure into his next big book in… Continue reading

  • A Peek at Peak Picks – October 2024

    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… Continue reading

  • New Nonfiction Roundup – September 2024

    We’re back! We took the summer off but are ready to resume our list of notable nonfiction books arriving in September – in addition to our stellar line-up of Peak Picks. We’re kicking it off with cookbooks, including two from celebrities: Dolly Parton teams up with her sister Rachel for a year of meals, friends… Continue reading

  • A Peek at Peak Picks – August and September 2024

    We’re adding fourteen new titles to Peak Picks over the next several weeks! In fiction, In fiction, Danzy Senza delivers a brilliant dark comedy with Colored Television, about love and ambition, failure and reinvention, and the racial- identity-industrial complex; from Rachel Kushner comes Creation Lake, about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an… Continue reading

  • Peak Picks are Back!

    Stop by your local branch to see Peak Picks from the past two months, with titles from June and July available now! Starting with June’s titles, in fiction, Julia Phillips (Disappearing Earth) delivers a mesmerizing novel of two sisters whose lives are upended by an unexpected visitor–a tale of family, obsession, and a mysterious creature… Continue reading

  • New Nonfiction Roundup – May 2024

    George Stephanopolous recounts the inside story of 12 presidents during moments of crisis, from JFK to Biden, in The Situation Room while historian Jon Meacham reflects on the life of George H.W. Bush in The Call to Serve. Former White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki shares lessons from work, the White… Continue reading

  • A Peek at Peak Picks – May 2024

    We are adding ten titles to Peak Picks in May! In fiction, Miranda July returns with an irreverently sexy, hilarious, and surprising novel about a woman upending her life in All Fours; Diane Richards debuts with a magnificent work of “biographical fiction” that reimagines the turbulent early years of Ella Fitzgerald, arguably the greatest singer in the… Continue reading

  • New Nonfiction Roundup – April 2024

    April is the peak of the spring publishing season, and this month’s nonfiction books do not disappoint! Blockbuster author Erik Larson’s latest, The Demon of Unrest, is a saga of hubris, heartbreak, and heroism at the dawn of the Civil War; Hampton Sides’ newest book, The Wide Wide Sea, tells a tale of imperial ambition,… Continue reading

  • A Peek at Peak Picks – April 2024

    Ten new titles are joining Peak Picks in April – plus a bonus March pick! In nonfiction, novelist Amy Tan presents a gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight with beautiful, original sketches by the author in The Backyard Bird Chronicles; Death doula Alua Arthur reframes… Continue reading

  • New Nonfiction Roundup – March 2024

    CNN’s Fareed Zakaria traces the history of progress – and backlash – from 1600 to the present in Age of Revolutions while Henry Louis Gates Jr. considers how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves in The Black Box. Jonathan Haidt investigates how the rewiring of childhood has caused an… Continue reading

  • A Peek at Peak Picks – March 2024

    Eleven books are joining Peak Picks in March! In fiction, Sierra Greer examines intimacy, power, autonomy, and control in her debut about the relationship between a female robot and her human owner in Annie Bot; Justinian Huang follows two men whose love transcends time, going from 4 BCE to the present-day China, in the romantasy… Continue reading

  • New Nonfiction Roundup – February 2024

      February is brimming with eclectic essay collections, incisive memoirs, practical tools for self care, and perceptive observations on current events. Check out some of the most anticipated books for the month. MSNBC’s Joy-Ann Reid traces the lives of civil rights icons Medgar & Myrlie Evers. Katie Rogers considers the transformation of the modern First… Continue reading

  • A Peek at Peak Picks – February 2024

    Check out the ten books we’re adding to Peak Picks in February! In fiction, dozens of authors – including Margaret Atwood, Douglas Preston, Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng – are the forces behind individual tenants in a New York City apartment building during the height of the COVID lockdown in Fourteen Days; Hisashi Kashiwai follows… Continue reading