Counterpoint: 634 books
The Age of Persuasion
How Marketing Ate Our Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Stop to consider the culture of the 21st century: Each morning, you might hear a half-dozen ads on the radio before your feet touch the floor. Staggering out of bed, you’ll pass brand logos on your clothing and in your bathroom. By the end of the day, hundreds - perhaps thousands - of marketing...
Trace
Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
**Winner of the ASLE Creative Writing Award
Winner of the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation
Finalist for the PEN American Open Book Award
Finalist for the Phillis Wheatley Book Award
Shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing
Shortlisted for the Orion...
On Dupont Circle
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and the Progressives Who Shaped Our World
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
A slice of Washington, DC, history that “traces the careers of a small group that would come to dominate American policy formation” (The Washington Times).
On the eve of World War I, a group of young men and women came together in Washington’s Dupont Circle tony Kalorama neighborhood....
Inconvenient People
Lunacy, Liberty, and the Mad-Doctors in England
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
“A must-read for those who work in the mental health industry, I think most people will find it both eye-opening and provocative.” —The Guardian
The phenomenon of false allegations of mental illness is as old as our first interactions as human beings. But it took the confluence of the...
Edward Kennedy
An Intimate Biography
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
This revealing look at the youngest Kennedy is “an entertaining, psychologically acute rendition of a man and a mystique” (Publishers Weekly).
In this groundbreaking biography of Edward Kennedy, historian and journalist Burton Hersh combines a lifetime of research and reporting with a lively...
by Jeff Greenwald
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Moving between Nepal and America, this blend of memoir and journalism reminds us that “family and home can be every bit as mysterious as a foreign land” (Booklist).
In a circular valley beneath the looming peaks of the Himalaya lies Kathmandu, Nepal. It’s a city of shimmering prayer flags,...
by Scott Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
“Pitch-perfect noir”: in post-WWII America, a soldier is haunted by wartime secrets as he plans to destroy the aircraft industry in his Kansas hometown (Library Journal).
The war is over, but that doesn’t mean things are better for PR man Wayne Ogden or any of the returning vets. Their home...
Gold Diggers
Striking It Rich in the Klondike
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
“Gray memorably resuscitates the life of the miners . . . A lively, delightful reenactment of a single era of ‘Klondike mythology.’” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Between 1896 and 1899, thousands of people lured by gold braved a grueling journey into the remote wilderness of North...
Every Night's a Saturday Night
The Rock 'n' Roll Life of Legendary Sax Man Bobby Keys
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Born in Slaton, Texas, Bobby Keys has lived the kind of life that qualifies as a rock 'n' roll folktale. In his early teens, Keys bribed his way into Buddy Holly’s garage band rehearsals. He took up the saxophone because it was the only instrument left unclaimed in the school band, and he convinced...
Modernist Women Poets
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2014
The 20th century was a time of great change, particularly in the arts, but seldom explored were the female poets of that time. Robert Hass and Paul Ebenkamp have put together a comprehensive anthology of poetry featuring the poems of Gertrude Stein, Lola Ridge, Amy Lowell, Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven,...
The Bishop's Man
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
A priest charged with cleaning up church scandals finds his faith tested in this “engrossing” novel “with the page-turning energy of a thriller” (The Globe and Mail).
Father Duncan MacAskill knows all the devious ways priests allow themselves to indulge their temptations. He’s known as...
by Penelope Fitzgerald
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
Here is a biography whose eccentric genius perfectly matches that of its subjects. Penelope Fitzgerald tells the lives of four extraordinary Englishmen-her father and his brothers-with style and wit. Here is the story of a deeply fascinating family mind, shared by four brothers and passed along to their remarkable biographer.
by Lionel Shriver
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
That neither nature nor nurture bears exclusive responsibility for a child's character is self-evident. But generalizations about genes are likely to provide cold comfort if it's your own child who just opened fire on his feellow algebra students and whose class photograph-with its unseemly grin-is...
Boundless
Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
From the author of Annabel: A “compulsively readable” journey through the Canadian arctic that “lay[s] bare the beauty of both the world and the soul” (Globe and Mail).
In 2010, Kathleen Winter embarked on a journey across the storied Northwest Passage, among marine scientists, historians,...