Counterpoint: 634 books
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...
Gangster Nation
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Tod Goldberg is an international bestseller and a favorite among the literary crime fiction market.
His previous work has been championed by big name authors such as Lee Child, Thomas Perry and Brad Meltzer; for his fans, many have been patiently waiting and are very excited for the sequel...
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,...
The Carry Home
Lessons from the American Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
An award-winning “big-hearted soul-searching memoir about . . . a man looking to nature for answers after the death of his beloved wife” (Los Angeles Times).
In 2005, “ever-evocative nature writer Gary Ferguson” lost his wife Jane in tragic canoeing accident on the Kopka River in northern...
The Mountain and the Fathers
Growing Up on The Big Dry
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
The Mountain and The Fathers explores the life of boys and men in the unforgiving, harsh world north of the Bull Mountains of eastern Montana in a drought afflicted area called the Big Dry, a land that chews up old and young alike. Joe Wilkins was born into this world, raised by a young mother and...
by Jessica Hendry Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
**“****A quirkily mesmerizing debut memoir about a dysfunctional family wracked by alcoholism and drug addiction. Bittersweet and wryly funny.” —**O, The Oprah Magazine
*If Only You People Could Follow Directions *is a spellbinding debut by Jessica Hendry Nelson. In linked autobiographical...
by Lorna Gibb
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
A “fast-paced and well-researched” biography of the writer who fought for women’s suffrage, had a child with H. G. Wells, and covered the Nuremberg trials (NPR).
Winner of the Granta Memoir Award
Rebecca West was a leading figure in the twentieth-century literary scene. A passionate...
The Lightkeepers
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Winner of the 2016 B&N Discover Great New Writers Award for Fiction
In The Lightkeepers, we follow Miranda, a nature photographer who travels to the Farallon Islands, an exotic and dangerous archipelago off the coast of California, for a one-year residency capturing the landscape. Her only...
The Awful Grace of God
Religious Terrorism, White Supremacy, and the Unsolved Murder of Martin Luther King Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
An in-depth examination of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination using declassified documents to reveal a secret right-wing terrorist network.
The Awful Grace of God examines America’s most violent right-wing extremists, including Sam Bowers, head of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan...
America's Secret Jihad
The Hidden History of Religious Terrorism in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2015
The conventional narrative concerning religious terrorism inside the United States says that the first salvo occurred in 1993, with the first attack on the World Trade Center in New York City. This narrative has motivated more than a decade of wars, and re-prioritized America’s domestic security...
by Charles L. McNichols
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Ursula K. Le Guin selected Crazy Weather for her contribution to Pharos Editions citing Charles McNichols offhanded skill, the ease with which (he) takes us deep into a complex society and the complex minds and hearts of its people.” In four days of "glory-hunting" with an Indian comrade,...
David Jones
Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Among the revolutions of the last century, none was more important or potentially more lasting than the one in the arts called “Modernism”. Among the giants of that movement were writers who changed our conceptions of poetry and prose forever. Now, well into the new century, we can look back to...