Counterpoint: 634 books
Fading Hearts on the River
A Life in High-Stakes Poker
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Centered around multi-million dollar stakes and a series of nationally televised poker tournaments, Fading Hearts on the River offers a story of odds-the odds of a newborn surviving severe jaundice, the odds of Congress passing a law that renders one’s online gambling income inaccessible, the odds...
Owls Do Cry
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
First published in New Zealand in 1957, Owls Do Cry, was Janet Frame’s second book and the first of her thirteen novels. Now approaching its 60th anniversary, it is securely a landmark in Frame’s catalog and indeed a landmark of modernist literature. The novel spans twenty years in the Withers...
by Brian Kiteley
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Originally published in 1989 by Ticknor & Fields, Brian Kiteley’s Still Life with Insects is the intensely focused chronicle of Elwyn Farmer, an amateur entomologist, who uses the field notes of his insect sightings to examine and reweave the tattered fragments of his life. In a series of visually...
Evening Thoughts
Reflecting on Earth as Sacred Community
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Essays on our spiritual role in the fate of the planet from “the most provocative figure among the new breed of eco-theologians” (Newsweek).
Among the contemporary voices for the Earth, none resonates like that of cultural historian Thomas Berry. His teaching and writings have inspired...
Prague Summer
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
“Like the city itself, Prague Summer is romantic and mysterious, with a refined literary bent.” —Stewart O’Nan, author of West of Sunset
Stephanie and Henry are Americans living in Prague. She works for the State Department; he is a rare book dealer. They live the life of a comfortably...
Race to the Polar Sea
The Heroic Adventures of Elisha Kent Kane
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
In the mid-1800s, geographers revived the ancient idea that at the top of the world, encircling the North Pole, lay a temperate Open Polar Sea.” Without doubt, the voyager who discovered this balmy basin would etch his name forever in the annals of exploration. Among those drawn to the challenge...
Tamed By a Bear
Coming Home to Nature-Spirit-Self
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
"Priscilla Stuckey shines a brilliant light on the relationship we long to cultivate with the deepest wellsprings of our wisdom and love . . . This is a groundbreaking book, written with extraordinary clarity, beauty, and radical honesty." —Gail D. Storey, author of I Promise Not to Suffer:...
Red Thread Zen
Humanly Entangled in Emptiness
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
A radical, life-affirming book that reconciles Zen with our embodied humanity.
Love, attachment, the passions, gender, carnality, birth, bodily being, mortality, belonging, suffering, hope, despair, personhood, imagination, vitality, the struggle to be fully human—how do these things dwell wholly...
Generation Rx
A Story of Dope, Death, and America's Opiate Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
A journalist recounts the loss of her brother to pills and heroin in a “gripping memoir, enhanced by statistics and other stories of addiction” (Kirkus Reviews).
What had happened to my baby brother? How did a tiny little pill shatter our family? When did we first begin losing Pat?
These...
Deep Violence
Military Violence, War Play, and the Social Life of Weapons
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the declaration of the First World War, and with it comes a deluge of books, documentaries, feature films and radio programs. We will hear a great deal about the horror of the battlefield. Bourke acknowledges wider truths: war is unending and violence is deeply...
Resistance
Reclaiming an American Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Resistance is a modern-day Common Sense, opening a new window on what it means to be American at a time of uncertainty
Biggers makes cultural history come alive, and demonstrates its relevance to readers' lives today; its celebratory roots-based history and story-telling at its best
In...
Animal, Mineral, Radical
Essays on Wildlife, Family, and Food
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
From the acclaimed author of Theft: “A lyrical exploration of the timeless themes of nature, mortality, love, and family” in the American West (Kristen Iverson, author of Full Body Burden).
“Radical, before it meant a person who advocates strong political reform, meant getting to the root...
The Last Sheriff in Texas
A True Tale of Violence and the Vote
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
**An Amazon Best History Book of the Month
"[A] narrative with resonance well beyond seekers of Texas history. The Last Sheriff in Texas would be an amazing allegory for our times, were it fiction. Instead it suggests cultural trenches that we view as new that were dug decades ago."...
Rake
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Celebrity and crime pay off big time for an American sociopath in Paris in “one of the great joys in new noir fiction” (Los Angeles Review of Books).
Dr. Crandall Taylor—or rather the actor who plays him—is enjoying a cushy new life in the City of the Lights where his now-cancelled American...