Counterpoint Press: 319 books

“By turns earthy, reverent, poetic, and wry, these stories . . . make you feel what it feels like . . . to be fully alive in the world.” —Oprah.com   In the twenty years since her first short story collection, The Spectacle of the Body, Noy Holland has become a singular presence in American...

“Pulling from his epic A People’s History of the United States**, Smith creates a chronological history of Native Americans.” —**Library Journal During the last years of his life, Page Smith—one of America’s greatest historians—concentrated on composing a history of Native Americans...

Winner of the Booker Prize, this profound and powerful novel intertwines two stories of two Indias over half a century. Set in colonial India during the 1920s, Heat and Dust tells the story of Olivia, a beautiful woman suffocated by the propriety and social constraints of her position as the...

From the Booker Prize-winning novelist and screenwriter of Howard’s End: “Cinematic” and “exquisite” stories of longing, loss, and redemption (Publishers Weekly). In this expansive story collection, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, author of Heat and Dust and the screenplays for The Remains...

A moving and intriguing book of invention and memory showcasing the genius of a Booker Prize-winning novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter. My Nine Lives is a book filled with invented memories—of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and the life she may have or may have wished to live. Nine vignettes...

This account of one man’s trek as he tests the limits of his endurance is “a spellbinding journey” (Page Stegner, author of Winning the Wild West). Badwater Basin sits 282 feet below sea level in Death Valley, the lowest and hottest place in the Western Hemisphere. Mount Whitney rises...

“As [Altschul] observes in his brilliant new novel . . . there’s not much reality in reality television . . . One of the best novels about American culture in years.” —NPR   On a distant island, reality show contestants battle for bragging rights and a slot on next week’s episode....

A man’s determination to keep a deadly secret throws his life and community into chaos in this “brilliant novel of crime, love, and the American west” (Daniel Woodrell, author of Winter’s Bone).   Henry Brusett is the only one who can explain the mysterious death of Calvin Teague. The young...

“A masterful study of one woman’s fight to stay afloat and alive in an era in which governance was consolidated with oppression and barbarism.” —Malcolm Forbes, Rain Taxi A grocer’s daughter in the Jewish townlet of Mosny, Berta Alshonsky revels in childhood memories of her time spent...

“A work of extraordinary imagination and sympathy, a journey from slavery to the mountaintop, perfectly realized.” —Ken Burns, American filmmaker Born on Emancipation Day, 1863, to a sharecropping family of black and Indian blood, Elijah Yancy never lived as a slave—but his self-image...

“Maggio’s tales of Sicily’s hidden villages reveal her own deep love and gentle understanding of her ancestors’ homeland” (The Boston Globe**).** In this sparkling book, Theresa Maggio takes us on a journey in search of Sicily’s most remote and least explored mountain towns. Using...

A “gripping” collection of short fiction about mountain climbers driven by risk and adventure (Sacramento Bee).   From varied backgrounds with diverse perspectives, the characters who populate Snowblind don’t feel quite whole until they’ve summited some of the world’s most dangerous peaks—an...

A novel of crime and passion in post-Civil War Maryland, based on a true story, from a “wonderfully talented” author (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times). Winner of the Michael Shaara Prize for Excellence in Civil War Fiction Based on true events from the author’s family history,...

The renowned American poet and translator collects 150 poems—from across the globe and many eras—that demonstrate our changing relationship with nature. In News of the Universe, Robert Bly has assembled a uniquely cross-cultural anthology of poems that, taken together, illuminate his vision...