Counterpoint imprint: 558 books
Cementville
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
“A compelling portrait of a small Kentucky town, with its tragedies, pleasures, and crimes, with its fallen heroes, its agoraphobics, and its young lovers.” —Bonnie Jo Campbell, bestselling author of Once Upon a River
In 1969, Cementville, Kentucky, is known for its excellent bourbon...
by Gary Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2004
“In spare, eloquent prose” the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet “presents a series of essays that probe the essence of humanity, nature, and their symbiosis” (Library Journal).**
The nine essays collected here display Gary Snyder’s deep understanding and wide erudition in the ways of Buddhist...
by Eliot Pattison
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
“Edgar-winner Pattison combines action, period details, and a whodunit with ease in his impressive third mystery set in Colonial America.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Despite the raging war between French and British, Scottish exile Duncan McCallum has begun to settle into a new...
Remembering
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
A poetic novel of despair, hope, and the redemptive power of work deepens an award-winning author’s grand Port Williams literary project.
After losing his hand in an accident, Andy Catlett confronts an agronomist whose surreal vision can see only industrial farming. This vision is powerfully...
Wolf Lake
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Could a nightmare be used as a murder weapon? That’s the provocative question confronting Gurney in the thrilling new installment in this series of international bestsellers. The former NYPD star homicide detective is called upon to solve a baffling puzzle: Four people who live in different parts...
White River Burning
A Dave Gurney Novel: Book 6
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
"John Verdon writes grown-up detective novels, by which I mean stories with intelligent plots, well-developed characters and crimes that have social consequences. White River Burning, featuring the author's brainy gumshoe-for-hire, Dave Gurney, checks all these boxes." —The New York Times...
by Peter Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2010
It’s murder in Napa Valley in this “thrillingly knowledgeable, insider’s odyssey into the world of fine wines [and] . . . particularly lurid homicides” (Anthony Bourdain).
With a stroke of a pen, prominent wine critic Richard Wilson lives to elevate and, more often, destroy winemakers’...
Ecotherapy
Healing with Nature in Mind
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
“Groundbreaking . . . Creating a sustainable future means redefining sanity as if the human-nature relationship matters—as it profoundly does.” —Lester R. Brown, president, Earth Policy Institute
In 1995, the anthology Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind brought the...
Consulting the Genius of the Place
An Ecological Approach to a New Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
A call to agricultural revolution from a locavore and author who is one of “the most prominent and effective advocates of American environmental thought” (Prairie Fire Newspaper).
For years, Wes Jackson has made it his mission to raise Americans’ awareness about where their food comes...
And Your Daughters Shall Prophesy
Stories From the Byways of American Women and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
A thoughtful, complex spiritual quest and narrative revisionist history
Written from a female perspective, contextualized within a feminist history of American religious traditions: And Your Daughters Shall Prophesy is an exploration of the American religious experience as reformed and revised...
Alone in Antarctica
The First Woman to Ski Solo Across the Southern Ice
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
A memoir of a challenging adventure that “pulls us in and makes us feel as though we are with her, at the freezing-cold bottom of the world” (Booklist).
In the whirling noise of our technological age, we are seemingly never alone, never away from the barrage of electronic data and information....
Empire Antarctica
Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
“It is difficult to read this engaging memoir without a smile on one’s face . . . moments of sheer joy . . . [a] mesmerizing and memorable book.” —The Economist
Chosen as a Book of the Year by the Scotsman, the Financial Times, and the Sunday Herald.
Gavin Francis fulfilled a...
The Great Clod
Notes and Memoirs on Nature and History in East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet of Turtle Island: a meditative, scholarly memoir of Asia—“a book . . . not quite like any other but trademark Snyder” (Kirkus Reviews).
Over the course of his singular career, the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, essayist, environmental activist, and...
Names for the Sea
Strangers in Iceland
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
A memoir of a family’s year living in Reykjavik that “captures the fierce beauty of the Arctic landscape” (Booklist).
Sarah Moss had a childhood dream of moving to Iceland, sustained by a wild summer there when she was nineteen. In 2009, she saw an advertisement for a job at the University...