Counterpoint: 634 books
Tea Time with Terrorists
A Motorcycle Journey into the Heart of Sri Lanka's Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
A journalist’s travelogue of war-torn Sri Lanka “brings refreshing clarity and enlightenment” to our understanding of terrorism (Robert Young Pelton).
Armed with a map and a motorcycle, Mark Stephen Meadows ventures to Sri Lanka’s war zone to interview terrorists, generals, and heroin dealers...
God's Doodle
The Life and Times of the Penis
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
“A remarkably entertaining and informative look at the male organ down through the ages . . . undeniably funny.” —Booklist
Throughout history, man has revered his penis as his “most precious ornament.” From small to large, thick to thin, smooth to wrinkled, Hickman lets the history...
by Mark Zepezauer
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
A revised and updated edition of the explosive book that blows the lid off the Central Intelligence Agency.
The CIA’s Greatest Hits details how the CIA:
• hired top Nazi war criminals, shielded them from justice and learned—and used—their techniques
• has been involved in assassinations,...
Looking for Transwonderland
Travels in Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
A “remarkable chronicle” of a journey back to this West African nation after years of exile (The New York Times Book Review).
Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in England, but every summer she was dragged back to visit her father in Nigeria—a country she viewed as an annoying parallel universe...
All My Bones Shake
Seeking a Progressive Path to the Prophetic Voice
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
A thought-provoking reassessment of religious faith and progressive politics from an author whose “wonderful writing is both a surprise and a relief” (Naomi Klein).
In All My Bones Shake, author and political activist Robert Jensen sheds light on the spiritual unrest at the root of our nation’s...
Watchlist
32 Stories by Persons of Interest
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
**“Writers like T.C. Boyle and Cory Doctorow contributed to this surreal anthology of short stories that riff on our modern surveillance culture.” —**Entertainment Weekly
With contributions from Etgar Keret, T.C. Boyle, Robert Coover, Aimee Bender, Jim Shepard, Alissa Nutting, Charles...
Black Flies
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
A “raw and fascinating” novel based on the author’s experiences as a New York City paramedic during the crack epidemic—”Burke is a poet of trauma” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Black Flies is the story of paramedic Ollie Cross and his first year on the job in mid-’90s Harlem....
Slavery Inc.
The Untold Story of International Sex Trafficking
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
A shocking exposé of the lucrative global business of human trafficking that “crackles with the intrigue of a spy novel” (The Washington Post).
Illegal, inhuman, and impervious to recession, the international sex trade is one industry that continues to thrive. Operating just out of sight,...
Guesswork
A Reckoning With Loss
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
In this “splendid and subtle memoir,” a young woman spends a year in an Italian village reflecting on both beauty and grief (The New York Times Book Review).
Having lost eight friends in ten years, Martha Cooley retreats to a tiny medieval village in Italy with her husband. There, in a rural...
The Great Frustration
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
“Fried’s stories are laugh-out-loud hilarious and wonderfully weird, yet his many strange worlds also have the power to haunt.” —Dan Chaon
In “Loeka Discovered,” a buzz flows throughout a lab when scientists unearth a perfectly preserved prehistoric man who suggests to them the...
Approaching the Future
64 Things You Need to Know Now for Then
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
From a Wired technology journalist: an “astute” and “easy-to-read” primer on the vast technological and cultural changes shaping tomorrow’s world (Financial Times).
In Approaching the Future, Editor-at-Large for Wired magazine and guru of the digital age Ben Hammersley offers the essential...
Crashing the Party
An American Reporter in China
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
From exchange student to foreign correspondent, this “smart, thrilling memoirist” chronicles 18 years of living through China’s turbulent change (Publishers Weekly).
In 1983, Scott Savitt is one of the first American exchange students allowed to study in Bejing. For him, it’s not just an...
Vexation Lullaby
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
“Justin Tussing rocks the rock novel. Vexation Lullaby is pure raw pleasure from start to finish.” **—**Lily King, New York Times–bestelling author of Euphoria
Peter Silver is a young doctor treading water in the wake of a breakup—his ex-girlfriend called him a “mama’s boy”...
Landslide
True Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
**“****I know of no one writing more bravely and acutely about the intricate bonds of family, and the ways that we wound and heal the ones closest to us.” —Emily Gould, author of **Friendship
Minna Zallman Proctor’s *Landslide *is a captivating collection of interconnected personal essays....