Counterpoint: 634 books

“An entertaining outing” in the series featuring a tough San Francisco stuntwoman by an Anthony Award-winning author (Booklist). Stunt double Darcy Lott is on location at the Port of Oakland, positioned for a power slide—a dangerous trick in which she falls off a bike and skids under...

The heart-stopping true story of the tragic and historic California wildfire by the award-winning, national bestselling author of Fire on the Mountain. On October 26, 2006, an arson-set wildfire ignited in the San Jacinto Mountains west of Palm Springs, California. By the time of its containment...

"A riveting portrayal of the joys and mysteries of growing up, and of friendship itself." —People Mikey Callahan, a thirty-year-old who is suffering from the clouded vision of macular degeneration, struggles to establish human connections—even his emotional life is a blur. As the novel...

"Every word here feels set down with care and fierce conscience. The resulting narrative glows." —San Francisco Chronicle A novel of rich details and landscapes, Winter Kept Us Warm follows three friends through six decades — from postwar Berlin to Manhattan, 1960s Los Angeles...

Rivalries, temptations, and betrayals collide in “this sharp-eyed novel of the art world” by a New York Times bestselling author (The New Yorker). Edward Darby has everything a man hopes for: meaningful work, and a loving wife and daughter. With a rising career as a partner at an esteemed...

Two epic adventures along the Silk Road—a century apart—offer a cautionary tale about China’s rise in the modern age: “A wonderful book” (Wade Davis).   “A complicated, ambitious travel adventure through modern Inner Asia . . . a truly inspired journey.” —Kirkus Reviews   On July...

A calligraphy expert traces the history of the written word from Mesopotamia to the digital revolutions of today in “a book no bibliophile should miss” (Publishers Weekly). From the simple representative shapes used to record transactions of goods and services in ancient Mesopotamia to...

Harry Gill, a moderately successful writer of historical fiction, has been awarded the annual Watercress-Armstrong Fellowship-a ‘living memorial’ to the poet, Margaret Rose Hurndell. He arrives in the small French village of Menton, where Hurndell once lived and worked, to write. But the Memorial...

Originally published in 1982 to wide acclaim, The Good Son remains Craig Nova’s undisputed masterpiece. This classic explored the complicated entanglements of fathers and sons -expressed in the story of nouvue-riche father Pop Mackinnon, who used his wealth to manipulate his son Chip into the ‘right’...

This latest edition of the original--and best--natural foods backpacking cookbook features a wealth of new recipes and mouthwatering classics, as well as the most current information on cooking with today's lightweight foods and equipment. This unique cookbook brings together the expertise of culinary...

“Please teach me Indian cooking! I will bring ingredients and pay you for your trouble. I would like to know about your culture as well.”And with this posting on Craigslist, so begins Nani Power’s journey to learn traditional Indian cooking in the most ancient of ways - woman to woman. Welcomed...

IACP Award winner for Culinary History: This fascinating true story is “a treasure” (Weekly Alibi). Precious Cargo tells the tale of how foods from the western hemisphere conquered the globe and saved it from mass starvation. Focusing heavily on American foods, specifically the lowly crops...

Pritchett is the winner of the PEN USA Award for Fiction, the Colorado Book Award, the Milkweed National Fiction Prize, and others, and has published over 100 essays and short stories in magazines (including O Magazine, High Country News, 5280, The Sun, Orion, and others) Her most recent essay for...

**1 of 100 Best Books of 2017 (San Francisco Chronicle) One of 2017's Best Fiction Books (Kirkus Reviews) "Sharp observations about motherhood and womanhood . . . Audacious, confident, smart, seductive." —The New York Times Book Review** Pages for Her is the story of two women, Flannery...