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A complete list of current Peak Picks titles.

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76 items

  • NEW FOR MARCH! Adult Nonfiction. "Klein, a New York Times columnist, and Thompson, an Atlantic staffer, lean to the left, but they aren't interrogating the usual suspects. Aware that many conservatives have no interest in their opinions,…
    BookSimon & Schuster 2025
  • Close to Home

    The Wonders of Nature Just Outside Your Door

    Hanson, Thor
    NEW FOR MARCH! Adult Nonfiction. "Conservation biologist Hanson, [who] lives in the Pacific Northwest...writes that readers who assume a backyard consists of weeds, shrubbery, rodents, local birds, and bugs are in for a surprise. Assisted…
    BookPerseus Books Group 2025
  • NEW FOR MARCH! Adult Fiction. "Lalami delivers a stirring dystopian tale of dwindling privacy and freedom in the digital age. In the late 2030s, Sara T. Hussein, 38, a Muslim American art archivist, is detained by officials from the Risk…
    BookNew York : Pantheon Books, 2025.
  • Everything Is Tuberculosis

    The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

    Green, John, 1977-
    NEW FOR MARCH! Adult Nonfiction. "YA author Green writes that he became 'obsessed' with tuberculosis after a chance meeting at a Sierra Leone hospital with a charming young patient, Henry Reider, who was sick with drug-resistant TB. Green…
    BookPenguin Group USA 2025
  • NEW FOR MARCH! Adult Fiction. "A French anarchist targets a passenger train in the taut latest from Donoghue, which is inspired by a true story. On Oct. 22, 1895, Mado Pelletier boards the express from Granville to Paris with a homemade…
    BookSimon & Schuster 2025
  • NEW FOR MARCH! Adult Fiction. "The Hawthorn family has tended the magical willows on their land for generations, providing songs of thanks in exchange for the trees' power. The residents of the town of Thistleford, sitting near the edge of…
    BookSt Martins Pr 2025
  • Stag Dance

    A Novel and Stories

    Peters, Torrey
    NEW FOR MARCH! Adult Fiction. "In this electrifying collection of three stories and a novella from Peters, trans characters explore desire, identity, and love. 'Infect your Friends and Loved Ones,' the postapocalyptic opener, follows…
    BookRandom House Inc 2025
  • NEW FOR MARCH! Adult Nonfiction. "Slate journalist Koul follows up her 2017 collection One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter with a sharp companion volume that reflects on body image, the dissolution of her marriage, and…
    BookSt Martins Pr 2025
  • Sweet Farm!

    More Than 100 Cookies, Cakes, Salads (!), and Other Delights From My Kitchen on a Sugar Beet Farm

    Yeh, Molly
    NEW FOR MARCH! Adult Nonfiction. "As a beet farmer, [Yeh is] rooted in sweetness, and her latest cookbook confirms that her smile isn't saccharine - it's pure sugar, and she dishes up everything from classics to her signature 'desserts for…
    BookHarperCollins 2025
  • The Tears of Things

    Prophetic Wisdom for An Age of Outrage

    Rohr, Richard
    NEW FOR MARCH! Adult Nonfiction. "How do we live compassionately in a time of violence and despair? What can we do with our private disappointments and the anger we feel in such an unjust world? In his most personal book yet, Richard Rohr…
    BookNew York, NY : Convergent, [2025]
  • NEW FOR MARCH! Adult Fiction. "This story isn't really about the moon; it's all about the reactions to it...Because the moon and all of the moon rocks ever taken back to Earth suddenly turn into cheese. There's lots of laughter, and…
    BookSt Martins Pr 2025
  • NEW FOR MARCH! Adult Fiction. "Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of a remote island near Antarctica, home to the Shearwater research base and the world's largest seed bank. Rising seas have been threatening the island, and…
    BookNew York : Flatiron Books, 2025.
  • NEW FOR FEBRUARY! Adult Nonfiction. "As an immigrant who came to the West, El Akkad believed that it promised freedom. But in the past twenty years, reporting on the War on Terror, Ferguson, climate change, Black Lives Matter protests,…
    BookNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2025.
  • NEW FOR FEBRUARY! Adult Nonfiction. "As the pandemic forced us to socialize at a distance, Kelsey McKinney was mourning the juicy updates and jaw-dropping stories she'd typically collect over drinks with friends - and from her hunger, the…
    BookNew York : Grand Central Publishing, 2025. — 302.24 M2157Y 2025
  • NEW FOR FEBRUARY! Adult Fiction. "Gail Baines is having a bad day. To start, she loses her job - or quits, depending on whom you ask. Tomorrow her daughter, Debbie, is getting married, and she hasn't even been invited to the spa day…
    BookNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2025. — FIC TYLER 2025
  • NEW FOR FEBRUARY! Adult Fiction. "Benedict vividly brings to life real Golden Age mystery novelists and a 1930s setting. Dorothy Sayers is miffed that she is considered just a second-tier member by the male writers of the Detection Club,…
    BookNew York : St. Martin's Press, 2025. — PEAK PICKS
  • NEW FOR FEBRUARY! Adult Fiction. "In this razor-sharp, fever dream of a novel, Feito delivers a wickedly entertaining twist on the Victorian governess tale, plunging readers into the unsettling world of Winifred Notty, a nanny with…
    BookNew York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2025] — FIC FEITO 2025
  • On the Hippie Trail

    Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer

    Steves, Rick, 1955-
    NEW FOR FEBRUARY! Adult Nonfiction. "In the 1970s, the ultimate trip for any backpacker was the storied 'Hippie Trail' from Istanbul to Kathmandu. A 23-year-old Rick Steves made the trek, and like a travel writer in training, he…
    BookPerseus Books Group 2025
  • The Mother Next Door

    Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy

    Dunlop, Andrea
    NEW FOR FEBRUARY! Adult Nonfiction. "No bond is more sacred than that between a mother and child. And no one is more sympathetic than a mother whose child faces a life-threatening illness. But what if the mother is the cause of the…
    BookNew York : St. Martin's Press, 2025. — 616.85822 D9216M 2025
  • NEW FOR FEBRUARY! Adult Nonfiction. "On Memorial Day, 2019, Tony Horwitz, Brooks' 60-year-old husband, collapsed on a street in Washington, D.C., and died. In the days and months that followed, Brooks found herself hiding behind a 'heavy…
    BookNew York, NY : Viking, [2025] — 823.914 B7914B 2025