Counterpoint: 634 books
The Rainman's Third Cure
An Irregular Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
An “unforgettable” memoir of searching for enlightenment, from the actor, Zen teacher, and bestselling author of Sleeping Where I Fall (San Francisco Chronicle).
With a title inspired by a Bob Dylan lyric that Peter Coyote considers representative of two competing forces—the transcendental,...
Spies in Palestine
Love, Betrayal, and the Heroic Life of Sarah Aaronsohn
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The incredible life of Sarah Aaronsohn, the self-taught Allied spy who helped the British defeat the Turkish Army and liberate Palestine in WWI.
Sarah Aaronsohn, the self-taught spymaster and martyr to the Allied cause in World War I, well-deserved her reputation as the Flame of Israel. Her...
A Train through Time
A Life, Real and Imagined
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Farnsworth was chief correspondent and principal substitute anchor of The Newshour with Jim Lehrer
She has contributed to the San Francisco Chronicle, Mother Jones, Foreign Policy, World Policy Journal and The Nation (where she wrote a regular column for several years)
She has received three Emmy...
Sam Shepard
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
This is the first biography of playwright, director, and actor Sam Shepard in 30 years
Includes dozens of interviews and reveals previously hidden aspects of Shepard’s life, such as his nearly three-decade relationship with actress Jessica Lange
Irrepressible
The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
From the author of Red Star Sister. “An excellent biography. Brody has made the world a better place by telling [Mitford’s] saga so skillfully” (San Francisco Chronicle).**
Admirers and detractors use the same words to describe Jessica Mitford: subversive, mischief-maker, muckraker. J.K....
Jesus Land
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
A New York Times bestseller: A memoir that “will break your heart and mend it again, but it won’t stop haunting you” (Entertainment Weekly).
An ALA Alex Award Winner
Julia and her adopted brother, David, are sixteen years old. Julia is white. David is black. It is the mid-1980s...
Bespotted
My Family's Love Affair with Thirty-Eight Dalmatians
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
A “beautifully written and deeply felt” memoir that “slices to the heart of why the dogs in our lives are so beloved” (Michelle Richmond, author of The Year of Fog).
The Sexton family’s long love affair with the Dalmatian breed began on a snowy morning in Linda’s childhood. At the...
Jubilee Hitchhiker
The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
“Brautigan’s life unfolds as a tragicomedy, and the book vividly evokes the heady 1960s and 1970s, especially in the Bay Area.” —The San Francisco Chronicle
Confident and robust, Jubilee Hitchhiker is an comprehensive biography of late novelist and poet Richard Brautigan, author of...
The Wrong Dog Dream
A True Romance
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
The author calls this a true romance,” saying, it’s the part of her personal history she, being superstitious, was almost afraid to write. She’d grown up accustomed to bad luck, but had by accident or miracle survived her own circumstances: being orphaned, her own misspent youth, the...
The Faith to Doubt
Glimpses of Buddhist Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Kierkegaard said that faith without doubt is simply credulity, the will to believe too readily, especially without adequate evidence, and that in Doubt can Faith begin.” All people involved in spiritual practice, of whatever persuasion, must confront doubt at one time or another, and find a way...
by Arthur Braverman
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
What motivated Sodo-san to spend the last twenty years of his life in a “temple under the sky”— a corner of a public park where he taught passersby what it means to be forever young through the funky tunes he played on his grass flute?
In The Grass Flute Zen Master: Sodo Yokoyama, we...
Silicon States
The Power and Politics of Big Tech
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Named a Best Book of the Year by Esquire
Winner of the 800-CEO-READ Business Book Award in Current Events and Public Affairs
In an era when faith in government and its institutions is quickly eroding, the businesses of Silicon Valley are stepping in to fill the gap. With outsize supplies of...
A Kind of Freedom
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
**Long-listed for the National Book Award
Winner of the Crook's Corner Prize
Winner of the First Novelist Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association
A New York Times Notable Book
“Brilliantly juxtaposing World War II, the ’80s and post-Katrina present, Sexton follows...
Elsewhere, California
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
“Avery’s evolution—a black woman trying to claim her place—is as heartbreaking as it is humorous, powerful as it is poignant.” —Los Angeles Times
As a young girl, Avery escaped the violent streets of Los Angeles to a more gentrified existence in suburban West Covina. But this new...