Counterpoint: 634 books
The Connoisseur
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Acclaimed author Evan S. Connell sends us through the complete experience of a man initially intrigued and then enslaved by art: a curious interest, a rapt fixation, and the becoming of a connoisseur. The Connoisseur trails the evolution of Muhlbach, an insurance executive on a business trip in Taos,...
Innocence
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
A beautifully written book set in Marin County, Innocence is a philosophical novel that follows John Gegenuber, a former Episcopal priest who has given up his parish and vocation to become a real estate agent. After having corrective surgery for a cleft palate, John has been invited to go on a romantic...
Radical Reinvention
An Unlikely Return to the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
“Turns the typical conceit of the conversion memoir on its head . . . a fascinating window into the world of belief.” —Zyzzyva Magazine
As someone who clocked more time in mosh pits and at pro-choice rallies than kneeling in a pew, Kaya Oakes was not necessarily the kind of Catholic girl...
Kill Me Now
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
**One of the Most Anticipated Small Press Books of 2018 (Big Other)
"Timmy Reed writes like a whacked-out angel." —Amber Sparks, author of The Unfinished World and May We Shed These Human Bodies**
Miles Lover is an imaginative but insecure adolescent skateboarder with an...
The Joy of Killing
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
**Don’t miss this “fascinating and frightening” psychological thriller “**if you were a fan of HBO’s The Jinx or Netflix’s Making a Murderer” (The Huffington Post).
On a stormy fall night in the northern woods of Minnesota, a writer returns to the lake house where he spent his childhood...
Body Full of Stars
Female Rage and My Passage into Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
"In this honest memoir, May recounts how she came to feel connected with her body again. It's a moving work for new moms about a subject that is often overlooked in conversations about postpartum depression." —Real Simple
Molly Caro May grapples with questions of grief and rage...
Anti Lebanon
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
It is Arab Spring and the fate of the Christians of the Middle East is uncertain. The many Christians of Lebanon are walking a knife-edge, their very survival in their ancestral refuge in doubt, as the Lebanese government becomes Hezbollah-dominated, while Syria convulses with warring religious factions....
Now You're Talking
Human Conversation from the Neanderthals to Artificial Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
For his first book, The Sound Book, author received widespread praise, including from NPR, Discover Magazine, and critic Adam Gopnik; we expect similar widespread and interdisciplinary media coverage for Now You’re Talking, with an emphasis on broadcast media and science publications/online media
Wedding Bush Road
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
**A family farm in rural Australia is the backdrop for “**a rich, beautifully textured novel, unforgettable in its setting and the people who live there” (Los Angeles Review of Books).
When he learns of his mother’s ailing health, young lawyer Daniel Rawson must leave Los Angeles and...
by Evan Connell
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
We have here on the planet with us a man of such courage and strength of spirit that he has not lost what Alfred Adler calls the nerve for excellence.’ He has kept it despite the burden of an awareness not only of the enormity of his project and of the limitations of his own human understanding,...
The Doper Next Door
My Strange and Scandalous Year on Performance-Enhancing Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
What happens to a regular guy who dopes? Surprised to learn that pro athletes aren’t the only ones taking performance-enhancing substances, journalist Andrew Tilin goes in search of the average juicing Joe, hoping to find a few things out: Why would normal people take these substances? Where do...
by Evan S. Connell
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Capturing the spirit of arcane writing, Evan S. Connell delivers spectacular and esoteric prose as he imagines the journals of seven alchemists. The first is Paracelsus, the famous sixteenth-century alchemist, who is followed by an array of distinct voices: physicians, historians, alchemists, and...
Road to Heaven
Encounters with Chinese Hermits
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2009
In 1989, Bill Porter, having spent much of his life studying and translating Chinese religious and philosophical texts, began to wonder if the Buddhist hermit tradition still existed in China. At the time, it was believed that the Cultural Revolution had dealt a lethal blow to all religions in China,...
South of the Yangtze
Travels Through the Heart of China
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
A travel memoir with photos that explores one of the most fascinating regions of China.
A thousand years ago, the Yangtze River replaced the Yellow River as the center of Chinese civilization, and today the region known as Chiangnan remains a meaningful and evocative presence in the nation’s...