Counterpoint Press: 319 books

The author of A Country Called Childhood delivers “a glimpse of madness from inside the eye of the storm” (The Guardian**).**   *Tristimania *is a stark and lyrical account of the psyche in crisis. It tells the story of a devastating year-long episode of manic depression, culminating in a long...

A powerful collection of stories from the great exiled Russian novelist and Nobel Prize winner. After years of living in exile, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia in 1994 and published a series of eight powerfully paired stories. These groundbreaking stories—interconnected and juxtaposed...

Advice on building a work of fiction, from “a writer of great daring and skill to match” (Newsweek). From a highly acclaimed author who has spent many years teaching the craft of fiction writing, Architecture of the Novel is an ambitious blueprint for writers, one that reveals the underlying...

**“If you’ve ever wanted to know what life on an army base is like, you have to read this amazingly honest memoir.” —**PureWow Raised as an Army brat, Angie Ricketts thought she knew what she was in for when she eloped with Darrin—then an infantry lieutenant—on the eve of his deployment...

A literary mediation on life and death, being and non-being, and the intense mystery and beauty of existence between a mother and child.   “Heartbreakingly perfect” (San Francisco Chronicle), Maso’s moving, dreamlike novel follows a mother and child as they roam through wondrous and increasingly...

A collection of essays from the author of Tamed by a Bear that “will make you think about life and nature in a different way” (Temple Grandin, author of Animals in Translation). For Priscilla Stuckey, a fundamental and heartbreaking misconception running through Western culture is that...

An environmental journalist chronicles the animal conservation movement in this “informed and informative, provocative and rousing work” (The Telegraph)****.   “This is natural history at its funniest, most curious, enlightening and heartfelt. I couldn’t put it down. It was like going on...

“This zany novel will make you appreciate your own fallen soufflés that much more.” —Redbook   The writer known only as FW lives high on the food chain in the heady realm of L.A.s culinary journalism scene. She waxes poetic about her hip home gatherings, thinly veiling the identities of her...

This tale of a battle between a businessman and an environmentalist is “one of the great novels of Alaska and its convoluted coast and history” (Kim Stanley Robinson, New York Times–bestselling author of New York 2140). 2017 WILLA Literary Award Winner in Contemporary Fiction Axel...

“A stunningly heartfelt journey of one young man coming to terms with family and faith through loss, tragedy, and hardship.” —James Brown, author of The Los Angeles Diaries and This River   In 1991, after his closest friend and teammate on the high school swimming team is murdered, David McGlynn...

A father tries to recover from a tragic loss in this rhapsodic, melancholic novel of love and devotion.   Brought up in the Anglo-Welsh borders by an affectionate but alcoholic and feckless mother, Owen Ithell’s sense of self is rooted in his long, vivid visits to his grandparents’ small farm...

NPR Pick for Best Book of the Year: A love story and an epic tale of scientific history that “richly conveys an abiding sense of time and place” (Booklist). In upstate New York, at the confluence of the Hudson River and its mighty tributary the Mohawk, came the creation of a new world of...

**“Rakow’s latest novel brims with wildly imagined Bible stories, into which she infused new layers of mystery and mysticism, ambiguity and wonder.” —**O, The Oprah Magazine A woman sits in prayerful meditation, waiting to offer her first confession in more than thirty years. She holds...

A mystery set in San Francisco from an Anthony Award-winning author who “knows how to create memorable characters [and] build suspense” (Chicago Tribune).   Darcy Lott is a student of Zen Buddhism—as well as a stunt double in the film industry. One day, while scouting a location site on the...