Peak Picks Current Titles Book List
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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 Of Mi'kmaq and settler ancestry, Peters won the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award for Unpublished Prose.†Library Journal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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