Eleven new books are joining Peak Picks in April!






NONFICTION
Timothy Egan recounts the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, and the woman who stopped them, in the historical thriller A Fever in the Heartland; David Grann chronicles the survivors of two shipwrecks off the coast of Patagonia who failed to capture a Spanish galleon loaded with treasures in The Wager; David Schmader highlights more than 200 film and TV shows set in Seattle, Portland and the Great Northwest in Filmlandia!; Nicole Chung follows up All You Can Ever Know with a memoir of family, class and grief following the death of her adoptive parents in A Living Remedy; Matika Wilbur of the Swinomish and Tulalip tribes celebrates contemporary Native American life and culture through photographic portraits and personal narratives in Project 562; and Makini Howell, chef and owner of Plum Bistro, reissues her classic cookbook, complete with 80 flavorful and comforting recipes in Makini’s Vegan Kitchen.





FICTION
Curtis Sittenfeld introduces us to Sally Milz, a jaded sketch show writer who doesn’t think a dreamy popstar would be interested in her until sparks start to fly in Romantic Comedy; Dennis Lehane returns to Boston and tells the tale of Mary Pat, who will stop at nothing to find out what happened to her daughter in the crime drama Small Mercies; Liana De la Rosa launches a series based on the forbidden love between a Mexican heiress and a British politician in the historical romance Ana María and the Fox; Michelle Min Sterling debuts with the story of Rose, a Korean American climate change refugee looking for the truth behind a secret project in the Canadian wilderness in the dystopian novel Camp Zero; and Monica Brashears follows Magnolia Brown, a young Black woman who impersonates dead people to help their survivors connect in the Southern Gothic debut House of Cotton.
~posted by Frank