Shelf Talk posted: " 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 " Shelf Talk
In fiction, Colson Whitehead's follow up to Harlem Shufflefinds 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 Katherine Centers' Hello Stranger; housekeeper Mrs. King is fired without explanation, but she sets out to find out why during a costume ball in Alex Hay's The Housekeepers; retired librarian Bob Comet fills his days at a senior center and reconsiders his past in Patrick deWitt's The Librarianist; and Amber Glass vowed never to return to Baltimore after shocking accusations on prom night, but finds herself drawn to the situation in Laura Lippman's Prom Mom.
In nonfiction, B. Dylan Hollis takes a decade-by-decade look at the best (and worst) baking recipes from the 1900s to the 1980s in Baking Yesteryear; Jeff Goodell examines the impact that rising temperatures will have on our lives and our planet in The Heat Will Kill You First; and Anupam B. Jena and Christopher Worsham take a Freakonomics-like look at the hidden forces that sway doctors, impact patients, and shape our health in Random Acts of Medicine.
No comments:
Post a Comment