Counterpoint: 634 books
River of Ink
[An Illustrated History of Literacy]
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
With its title harkening back to the sack of Baghdad in 1258-when the Tigris ran black with the ink of books flung into the water by Mongol invaders-River of Ink is a collection of essays that range widely across time and cultures to illuminate the role of literature and art throughout history. Christensen...
The Book of Resting Places
A Personal History of Where We Lay the Dead
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
"The Book of Resting Places is Mira y Lopez’s account of his travels, from a cemetery to a crematorium to a cryonics company . . . He’s looking for the good death, somewhere, anywhere." —The New Yorker
In the aftermath of his father’s untimely death and his family’s indecision...
The Patriot
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Another brilliant example of Evan Connell’s art, The Patriot deals with an American boy who grew to maturity with World War II. He had learned his father’s patriotism, and then, through the impact of firsthand experience, formulated his own.
Melvin Isaacs, aged seventeen, became a Navy...
Vista Del Mar
A Memoir of the Ordinary
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
This remarkable book joins the company of self-work,” deep acts of memory that serve to illuminate the present by shining the clear light of careful regard on the past. The book finds company in the work of D J Waldie’s Holy Land, Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem, and the profound My Struggle...
Careless Rambles by John Clare
A Selection of His Poems Chosen and Illustrated by Tom Pohrt
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2012
Born in 1793, John Clare lived and worked during the Golden Age of British poetry, the time of Shelley, Byron, Keats, and Coleridge. In the grand tradition of English nature writing, he stands alongside Wordsworth as a poet of extraordinary humanity and great spirit. Clare was 18 years old when the first...
No Man's War
Irreverent Confessions of an Infantry Wife
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
**“If you’ve ever wanted to know what life on an army base is like, you have to read this amazingly honest memoir.” —**PureWow
Raised as an Army brat, Angie Ricketts thought she knew what she was in for when she eloped with Darrin—then an infantry lieutenant—on the eve of his deployment...
A Sense of the Whole
Reading Gary Snyder's Mountains and Rivers Without End
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
In 1997, Mark Gonnerman organized a yearlong research workshop on Gary Snyder’s Mountains and Rivers Without End at the Stanford Humanities Center. Members of what came to be known among faculty, students, and diverse community members as the Mountains & Rivers Workshop met regularly to read...
Having Everything Right
Essays of Place
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
A collection of essays first published in 1986, Having Everything Right revolves around the history, folklore, and physical beauty of the Pacific Northwest. In terms of genre the book comes closest to books like Wallace Stegner’s Wolf Willow or the essay collections of Edward Abbey and Wendell Berry,...
Mother & Child
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
A literary mediation on life and death, being and non-being, and the intense mystery and beauty of existence between a mother and child.
“Heartbreakingly perfect” (San Francisco Chronicle), Maso’s moving, dreamlike novel follows a mother and child as they roam through wondrous and increasingly...
by David Hinton
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Revered for millennia in the Chinese spiritual tradition, Chuang Tzu stands alongside the Tao Te Ching as a founding classic of Taoism. The Inner Chapters are the only sustained section of this text widely believed to be the work of Chuang Tzu himself, dating to the fourth century B.C.E. Witty...
Kissed by a Fox
And Other Stories of Friendship in Nature
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
A collection of essays from the author of Tamed by a Bear that “will make you think about life and nature in a different way” (Temple Grandin, author of Animals in Translation).
For Priscilla Stuckey, a fundamental and heartbreaking misconception running through Western culture is that...
Black Light
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Black Light is a voyage of discovery and transformation. Set in Iran, it tells the story of Jamshid, a quiet simple carpet mender, who one day suddenly commits a murder and is forced to flee. With this violent act his old life ends and a strange new existence begins.
Galway Kinnell combines...
by Red Pine
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2005
The Heart Sutra is Buddhism in a nutshell. It has had the most profound and wide-reaching influence of any text in Buddhism. This short text covers more of the Buddha’s teachings than any other scripture, and it does so without being superficial or hurried. Although the original author is unknown,...
The Hunt for the Golden Mole
All Creatures Great & Small and Why They Matter
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
An environmental journalist chronicles the animal conservation movement in this “informed and informative, provocative and rousing work” (The Telegraph)****.
“This is natural history at its funniest, most curious, enlightening and heartfelt. I couldn’t put it down. It was like going on...