Peak Picks Current Titles Book List
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The Tusks of Extinction
Adult Fiction. “Moscow has resurrected the mammoth. But someone must teach them how to be mammoths, or they are doomed to die out again. Dr. Damira Khismatullina, an expert in elephant behavior, was brutally murdered trying to defend the world's last elephants from the brutal ivory trade. Now, her digitized consciousness has been downloaded into the mind of a mammoth. As the herd's new matriarch, can Damira help fend off poachers long enough for the species to take hold? Or will her own ghosts, and Moscow's real reason for bringing the mammoth back, doom them to a new extinction?†Publisher description
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The Seattle Book of Dates
Adult Nonfiction. “From the authors of the bestselling Portland Book of Dates comes this cheeky insider's guide to the coolest spots in Seattle and Washington State. Authors (and married couple) Eden Dawn and Ashod Simonian seek out the obscure and fascinating, and the date descriptions are motivating enough to prompt even the most dedicated Netflix-and-chillers to head out the door. The book is an essential resource and armchair read for Seattle's couples of all ages (and singles with friends) interested in learning about off-the-beaten-path things to do, see, and taste.†Publisher description
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Absolution
Adult Fiction. “The opening cocktail party in McDermott’s sublime ninth novel is a marvel of emotional, sensual, and social acuity as a young, shy, recently married woman from Yonkers tries to find her footing in the brash, moneyed American expat circle in early 1960s Saigon. Blueblood Charlene quickly enlists Tricia in a fundraising scheme to help Vietnamese orphans and leprosy patients sequestered at a coastal retreat. McDermott is a resplendent writer… illuminating shades of good and evil within a bubble of Western privilege and prejudice in a country on the brink of war… †Booklist
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The Berry Pickers
Adult Fiction. “In July 1962, a Mi'kmaq family travels from Nova Scotia to Maine to pick blueberries, and the four-year-old daughter disappears. Subsequently, little Norma grows up haunted by strange dreams she becomes convinced are memories as one family mourns, another hides secrets, and a mystery slowly unravels over 50 years. Of Mi'kmaq and settler ancestry, Peters won the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award for Unpublished Prose.†Library Journal
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Roman Stories
Adult Fiction. “Lahiri delivers a dazzling collection of nine stories originally written in Italian and featuring characters who grapple with vast emotional and social chasms that cleave the lives of families, longtime friends, and immigrants. In ‘The Reentry,’ two friends, an Italian woman in mourning for her father and a visiting professor, meet at a trattoria where the woman downplays the racially tinged slights her dark-skinned friend endures from the owners, forever altering the friendship. Throughout, Lahiri’s luminous prose captures a side of Rome often ignored… These unembroidered yet potent stories shine.†PW
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
Adult Fiction. “In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, PA, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side... An unforgettable cast of characters… closely guard a secret, especially when the truth is revealed about what happened and the part the town’s white establishment played in it.†Pub description
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