Counterpoint: 634 books
The Grim Sleeper
The Lost Women of South Central
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
"This upsetting account of a Los Angeles serial killer, written with passion by Christine Pelisek, an investigative crime reporter who spent 10 years working the case, blurts out a hard truth that no one wants to acknowledge . . . [She] tries to restore dignity to some of the victims by drawing...
Distant Neighbors
The Selected Letters of Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
A profound, humble, deeply introspective correspondence between two great American writers spanning 40 years.
In 1969 Pulitzer prize-winning poet Gary Snyder returned from a long residence in Japan to northern California, to a homestead in the Sierra foothills where he intended to build a house...
Out of India
Selected Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Chosen by The New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of 1986, this volume of stories, selected by the author from her own early work, represents the essence of her Indian experience. Bearing Jhabvala’s hallmark of balance, subtlety, wry humor, and beauty, these stories present characters...
An Atheist's History of Belief
Understanding Our Most Extraordinary Invention
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
A skeptical yet deeply curious survey of how and why human beings have worshipped throughout the ages—from sun gods and cave paintings to Mormonism.
What first prompted prehistoric man, sheltered in the shadows of deep caves, to call upon the realm of the spirits? And why has belief thrived ever...
Robin Williams
A Singular Portrait, 1986-2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
I had always thought that when I was around 84 and Robin was 80 we could collaborate on a book about the golden years of his career where he could look at my photographs and reminisce about the events and his feelings at the time. Unfortunately, that book was never to be . . . .
Photographer...
From the Forest
A Search for the Hidden Roots of our Fairy Tales
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
A look at folk tales and their origins in the natural world: “Lovely, inventive . . . thought-provoking” (Publishers Weekly).
Fairy tales are one of our earliest cultural forms, and forests one of our most ancient landscapes. Both evoke similar sensations: At times they are beautiful and...
Into Thick Air
Biking to the Bellybutton of Six Continents
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
“Delightful debut travelogue by botanist Malusa, who cycled to the lowest point on each of six continents.” —Kirkus Reviews
With plenty of sunscreen and a cold beer swaddled in his sleeping bag, writer and botanist Jim Malusa bicycled alone to the lowest point on each of six continents,...
Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley
Novellas and Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Ann Pancake’s 2007 novel Strange as This Weather Has Been centered on mountaintop removal and its effects upon a single coal mining family. In Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley, a follow-up collection of eleven astonishing short stories, Pancake returns to her native West Virginia to tell stories...
Jayber Crow
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2001
Jayber Crow, born in Goforth, Kentucky, orphaned at age ten, began his search as a "pre-ministerial student" at Pigeonville College. There, freedom met with new burdens and a young man needed more than a mirror to find himself. But the beginning of that finding was a short conversation with "Old Grit,"...
Speaking of Summer
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2019
**"Speaking of Summer gives us a powerful song about what it means to survive as a woman in America.” —Jesmyn Ward, National Book Award winner and author of Sing, Unburied, Sing
"Raise[s] universal questions about mental illness, racism, and love . . . Fiercely astute."—Tayari...
In the Not Quite Dark
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
**“This prizewinning author’s gorgeous, empathetic collection is composed of stories (mostly) in and about L.A. that juxtapose the haves and the have-nots.” —**Marie Claire
Following her award-winning collection Break Any Woman Down, Dana Johnson returns with a collection of bold stories...
Summer of My Amazing Luck
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Reissued in time for the publication of Toews' new novel, WOMEN TALKING
The Bluesiana Snake Festival
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
. . . Probably many a road scholar would testify this place makes good leavin’ and better comin’ back to . . . Place puts a hold on your soul, man, these streets call you like an old song . . .”So starts The Bluesiana Snake Festival as Hidden Dave Crossway, a New Orleans street sweeper, celebrates...
by Wendell Berry
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
In a rural Kentucky river town, "Old Jack" Beechum, a retired farmer, sees his life again through the sades of one burnished day in September 1952. Bringing the earthiness of America's past to mind, The Memory of Old Jack conveys the truth and integrity of the land and the people who live from it....