Peak Picks Current Titles Book List
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I Shouldn't Be Telling You This
Adult Nonfiction. "There are things Chelsea Devantez probably shouldn't be telling you. [S]ome are TMI: (a series of outrageous doctor visits that ended with one doctor misdiagnosing her as 'pregnant.' Woopsies!) Then there are things Chelsea really shouldn't be telling you: like the time her biggest family secret was publicly outed. Yet through it all, it's the women in Chelsea's life who kept her going - from the lowest points of her childhood...all the way to her career highs as the Emmy-nominated Head Writer for The Problem with Jon Stewart and sensational podcaster deemed 'the celebrity memoir whisperer' by her fans." Publisher description
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A Talent for Murder
Adult Fiction. "Martha Ratliff, a librarian who never expected to fall in love, got married about a year ago. Her husband, Alan, is an unassuming man whose job frequently takes him on the road to conventions around the country. She loves him, but Martha has a problem: she has begun to suspect that he might be a serial killer. She enlists the aid of her old friend, Lily Kintner, who agrees to help Martha figure out what Alan has been up to. Swanson has written many excellent novels, but this one is certainly his most shocking." Booklist
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All Fours
Adult Fiction. "Determined to become the sort of person who would do such a thing, a 45-year-old artist attempts to drive from L.A. to New York. She makes it a few towns from home before pausing at a motel, and the next morning decides to renovate room 321 in the fashion of an unforgettable Parisian hotel room. For check-ins with her husband and child, she keeps up the farce, pretending she's every place she planned to be on the 3-week round trip....[T]his is just the start of July's first novel since The First Bad Man, a brilliant, sexy, funny, ludicrously entertaining primal scream of a coming-of-middle-age story." Booklist
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I Hope This Finds You Well
Adult Fiction. "Sue debuts with a delightfully quirky office comedy about a 33-year-old administrative assistant's interpersonal battles in a Canadian supermarket chain's regional office. Jolene's days consist of eight hours of mind-numbing work, followed by drinking to forget...At the office, she adds cathartic notes in white font at the bottom of emails...When Jolene forgets to white out a nasty note...she’s forced to complete an antiharassment course and have her emails monitored. The workplace hijinks produce steady laughs, and Sue adds depth through the backstory of Ellie, with whom Jolene found solace as a fellow misfit." PW
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It's Not Hysteria
Adult Nonfiction. "Dr. Karen Tang is on a mission to transform how we engage with our bodies and our healthcare. It's Not Hysteria is a comprehensive guide to common conditions and potential treatment options...to equip readers to take control of their gynecologic health. Reproductive healthcare, from abortion to gender-affirming care, is under siege. The onus continues to fall on patients to find and advocate for the care they need. In the face of uncertainty and misinformation, It's Not Hysteria is destined to become a new classic that educates and empowers women and those assigned female at birth." Pub description
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The Last Murder at the End of the World
Adult Fiction. "The world has ended in a black fog, killing everyone except for 200 souls, who now inhabit a remote island. The villagers… live a basic life and work hard but are happy, cheerful, and loving. Ruled over by three elders and Abi, a sort of goddess who lives in their heads, the villagers have never known any other life. But when Niema, one of the elders, is brutally murdered, the islanders are left stunned and bewildered. One villager, Emory, who's always been rebellious, vows to find out who killed the much-loved Niema. An extraordinary, thought-provoking book..." Booklist
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The Light Eaters
Adult Nonfiction. "Schlanger, a staff reporter at the Atlantic, has followed multiple veins of study on plant life to reveal remarkable discoveries and some potentially revolutionary conjectures. She also weighs the skepticism of botanists and biologists who think the study of intelligence in plants is folly. However, this reticence pales when held against new studies of the ways in which plants communicate, defend themselves, and remember, as well as the considerations of how biological systems can replicate across the spectrum of species. You may never look at your houseplants or garden in quite the same way again." Kirkus
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The Ministry of Time
Adult Fiction. "British Cambodian writer Bradley's clever debut features time travel, romance, cloak-and-dagger plotting, and a critique of the British Empire. The unnamed narrator...is selected by the government to aid a newly formed agency to process time travelers from the past. Her assigned 'expat' is real-life polar explorer Lt. Graham Gore, who has arrived in the future sometime before his death during the ill-fated 1845 Franklin expedition...It’s a sly and ingenious vehicle for commentary on the disruptions and displacements of modern life." PW
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Rebel Girl
Adult Nonfiction. "Before Hanna became a beloved musician and co-founder of the Riot grrrl movement, she was a child trying to survive domestic violence. Hanna left home for Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, where...she met Tobi Vail and Kathi Wilcox, and they formed Bikini Kill. After leaving Bikini Kill, surviving Lyme disease, getting married to Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys, adopting a child, and founding the band Le Tigre, Hanna reflects on everything she has learned in her long career. Her political evolution is particularly gratifying, especially for readers who grew up with Hanna's self-admittedly imperfect activism." Kirkus
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The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Adult Nonfiction. "The lovely latest from novelist Tan brings together selections from 'nine personal journals filled with sketches and handwritten notes of naive observations' about birds spotted in her northern California backyard between 2017 and 2022. Tan's drawings, a highlight of the volume, trace the development of her artistry, with respectable if amateurish early colored pencil sketches giving way to impressively detailed and realistic depictions of the oak titmouse, chestnut backed chickadee, and great horned owl. Tan's enthusiasm and jaunty descriptions of her avian subjects enchant." PW
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