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  • New Nonfiction Roundup – January 2024

    Happy 2024! It’s a new year, and we’ve got plenty of books for those of you looking to start the year off on a positive start, along with compelling histories, stimulating science, and lots more! Judson Brewer (Unwinding Anxiety) examines why we eat when we’re not hungry – and how to stop – in The… Continue reading

  • A Peek at Peak Picks – January 2024

    We’re starting the new year off with a bang, and twelve new Peak Picks! Check out these books coming your way in January 2024. In fiction, Susan Muaddi Darraj gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American community in Behind You is the Sea; Karl Marlantes transports readers to Cold War Finland where… Continue reading

  • New Nonfiction Roundup – December 2023

    There’s nothing better than a book to get you through the cold, windy, dark days of December. Check out the top nonfiction titles for the last month of the year. Former Republican leader Liz Cheney issues a warning to Americans who ignore the Constitution in Oath and Honor, while Tim Alberta reports on American evangelicals… Continue reading

  • New Nonfiction Roundup – November 2023

      November brings a cornucopia of notable and newsworthy nonfiction! Leading the pack is My Name is Barbra, Ms. Streisand’s highly anticipated 992 page(!) memoir. Not a fan of Babs? Other memoirs to consider include Elvis and the Colonel, Greg McDonald’s look at the most legendary partnership in show business, and Jennifer Burns’ biography of… Continue reading

  • A Peek at Peak Picks – late October to December

    19 titles are joining Peak Picks through the end of 2023! In adult fiction, National Book Award winner Alice McDermott provides a riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War in Absolution; Jonathan Evison delivers a poignant story about a 102-year-old nursing home resident seeking love and redemption in Again and… Continue reading

  • New Nonfiction Roundup – October 2023

    October abounds with some of the most notable nonfiction of the year! Celebrity autobiographies are in demand this month: Britney Spears details her journey to freedom following the end of her conservatorship in The Woman in Me; Henry Winkler revisits The Fonz, and more lovable TV characters, in Being Henry; Dolly Parton celebrates her passion… Continue reading

  • A Peek at Peak Picks – October 2023

    Twelve new books are joining Peak Picks in October! FICTION. Amanda Peters debuts with the tale of a a four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl who disappears from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a fifty year mystery that will haunt the survivors and unravel a family in The Berry Pickers; Bryan Washington (Lot, Memorial) returns with a… Continue reading

  • New Nonfiction Roundup – September 2023

      September marks the beginning of the fall publishing season, and some outstanding nonfiction will be released this month! Check out these top nonfiction picks. Bestselling biographer Walter Isaacson profiles fascinating and controversial innovator Elon Musk, while Anderson Cooper chronicles another legendary American family in Astor. Jill Duggar reveals the secrets behind the TLC reality… Continue reading

  • A Peek at Peak Picks – September 2023

    Check out the ten new books joining Peak Picks in September! In fiction, Canadian Mohawk author Alicia Elliott follows a young Indigenous woman whose failure to connect –  with her infant daughter and her new posh neighbors – has horrifying consequences in And Then She Fell; Kim Coleman Foote merges fact and fiction in her… Continue reading

  • New Nonfiction Roundup – July 2023

    Summer’s here, and it’s a great time to catch up with some of the month’s most anticipated nonfiction. In memoir, Andrew Leland reflects on his transition from sightedness to blindness in The Country of the Blind while Kate Flannery explores the line between sexual liberation and exploitation while working at American Apparel in Strip Tees.… Continue reading

  • A Peek at Peak Picks – July 2023

    Eight books are joining Peak Picks in July! In fiction, Colson Whitehead’s follow up to Harlem Shuffle finds furniture store owner Ray Carney dragged back into the criminal underworld in Crook Manifesto; portrait artist Sadie Montgomery’s onset of face blindness following a medical procedure gone awry gets in the way of a budding relationship in… Continue reading

  • New Nonfiction Roundup – June 2023

      Add to your TBR pile with some of the best nonfiction that June has to offer. Richard Rothstein (The Color of Law) teams up with daughter Leah for a primer on challenging segregation in the 21st century in Just Action. David Neiwert traces the radical right’s assault on democracy to its roots in the… Continue reading

  • A Peek at Peak Picks – June 2023

    Ten books are joining Peak Picks in June! In fiction, the first Black sheriff of a Small southern town battles racism while on the hunt for a serial killer in S.A. Cosby’s All the Sinners Bleed; the first novel from Roxane Gay Books follows two queer Nigerian students amid the passage of new anti-gay laws… Continue reading

  • New Nonfiction Roundup – May 2023

    The busy spring publishing season heats up in May! We’re highlighting the month’s most anticipated releases in history, food, science, biography & memoir, current events and self care. Jonathan Eig recounts the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. in King: A Life, the first full biography of MLK in decades, while two books consider the… Continue reading

  • A Peek at Peak Picks -May 2023

    Ten new books are joining Peak Picks this month! In fiction, two women gladiators fight for their freedom in a for-profit prison in Nana Kwame Adjel-Brenyah’s Chain Gang All-Stars; a legendary Chinese pirate queen fights to save her fleet in Rita Chang-Eppig’s Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea; a young woman insinuates herself… Continue reading

  • New Nonfiction Roundup – April 2023

    April is brimming with notable nonfiction. In addition to the six nonfiction titles joining Peak Picks, consider adding some of these titles to your TBR pile. In Tasting History, Max Miller guides you through 4,000 years of recipes, from ancient Rome and Ming China to Medieval Europe and beyond. Kristin Cavallari focuses on 140 healthy… Continue reading

  • A Peek at Peak Picks – April 2023

    Eleven new books are joining Peak Picks in April! NONFICTIONTimothy Egan recounts the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, and the woman who stopped them, in the historical thriller A Fever in the Heartland;  David Grann chronicles the survivors of two shipwrecks off the coast of Patagonia who failed to capture a… Continue reading

  • New Nonfiction Roundup – March 2023

    Spring is right around the corner, and March is full of guides for healthy living – physically and emotionally – along with coverage of historical and current events, poetry, crafts and more! In Outlive, Peter Attia challenges conventional thinking on aging to prevent chronic disease while extending long-term health, while William Li helps readers burn… Continue reading