Counterpoint Press: 319 books
by Jane Vandenburgh
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
A true story of 1950s California, teenage rebellion, and a family torn apart by illicit desire: “Intense, controlled, a memoir-as-fever-dream” (The New York Times).
Born into “a certain kind of family”—affluent, white, Protestant—Jane Vandenburgh came of age when the sexual revolution...
by Linda Gray Sexton
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2011
“Linda Sexton’s beautiful book is a cry for health and sanity . . . It explains the way suicide blights families from generation to generation.” —Erica Jong
After the agony of witnessing her mothers multiple—and ultimately successful—suicide attempts, Linda Gray Sexton, daughter...
A Complicated Kindness
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2005
From the award-winning author of Women Talking: “A darkly funny and provocative novel” of family, faith, and adolescent angst (O, The Oprah Magazine).
“Half of our family, the better-looking half, is missing,” Nomi Nickel explains at the beginning of A Complicated Kindness. Left alone...
The Quiet Streets of Winslow
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
From the acclaimed author of two New York Times Notable books comes a gripping mystery written with “**subtle but emotionally wrenching prose” (Kirkus Reviews).
When the body of a young woman is found in a river bed in Black Canyon City, Arizona, Deputy Sheriff Sam Rush starts an investigation...
by Banana Yoshimoto
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This novel of a young Japanese girl grieving her father is “an unlikely, engrossing Tokyo ghost story . . . You won’t be able to take your mind off it” (Marie Claire).
Yoshie’s much-loved musician father has died in a suicide pact with an unknown woman. It is only when Yoshie and her...
by Dinah Lenney
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
“A rich, poignant homage to, quite literally, the stuff of life.” —Meghan Daum
This collection of interconnected essays asks: what if one way to understand your life was to examine the objects within it? Which objects would you choose? What memories do they hold? And lined up in a row, what...
I Just Hitched in from the Coast
The Ed McClanahan Reader
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
“It’s a little Hunter S. Thompson cut with the mellowing influence of a peaceful flower child that makes for one hell of a fun ride.” —The Paris Review
This rollicking collection—personally selected by the author (in collaboration with his editor Tom Marksbury)—gathers the best...
by Sergei Dovlatov, James Wood
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
A dissolute writer fights redemption in “a black comedy of eyes-wide-open excess . . . and a fine rumination on being Russian, besides” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
Praised by Kurt Vonnegut for his “truly deep and universal” fiction,...
1616
The World in Motion
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
“A stunning overview of the nascent modern world through a thematic exploration of the year 1616 . . . with dozens of fabulous illustrations” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
The early 17th century was a time of enormous change in most regions of the world. The advent of maritime globalism...
Legacy of Secrecy
The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
From the authors of Ultimate Sacrifice—”Explosive new material, based mainly on government documents from the National Archives” (Vanity Fair).
John F. Kennedy’s assassination launched a frantic search to find his killers. It also launched a flurry of covert actions by Lyndon Johnson,...
The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination
The Definitive Account of the Most Controversial Crime of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
The definitive account of the crime and the secrecy which has surrounded it.
For the first time, this concise and compelling book pierces the veil of secrecy to fully document the small, tightly-held conspiracy that killed President John F. Kennedy. It explains why he was murdered, and how it was...
Uncanny Valley
Adventures in the Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Strange, wondrous, and moving tales of unbelievable truth from a contemporary master of narrative nonfiction.
Shuttling between cultural comedies and political tragedies, former New Yorker staff writer Lawrence Weschler’s articles have throughout his long career intrigued readers with his...
Born Bad
Original Sin and the Making of the Western World
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
The sweeping, 2,000-year history of a controversial idea and the remarkable influence it still wields: “Exceptional, highly recommended” (Publisher’s Weekly, starred review).
According to the Christian doctrine of original sin, humans are born inherently bad, and only through God’s...
The Irish Brotherhood
John F. Kennedy, His Inner Circle and the Improbable Rise to the Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
A behind-the-scenes look at JFK’s team: “Lively . . . fast-paced anecdotes . . . insights into presocial media mid-twentieth-century politics” (Library Journal).
The Irish Brotherhood is the history of Jack Kennedy’s original political inner circle. Led by Bobby Kennedy, Kenny O’Donnell,...