Counterpoint Press: 319 books
by Susan Dunlap
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
A stuntwoman hunts down a killer at a Buddhist retreat in this “engaging” mystery by the Anthony Award–winning author of the Jill Smith series (Booklist).
Darcy Lott can stare down any risky physical feat—until a stunt gone awry leaves the daredevil vulnerable to her phobias. With a...
by Susan Dunlap
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
“Interesting details about Zen lore and San Francisco history combine with a fast-moving plot to make the second Darcy Lott mystery very appealing.” —Booklist
In Buddhist lore, hungry ghosts have huge bellies and needle-thin necks and—because they cannot swallow the food they crave—their...
by Susan Dunlap
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
“An entertaining outing” in the series featuring a tough San Francisco stuntwoman by an Anthony Award-winning author (Booklist).
Stunt double Darcy Lott is on location at the Port of Oakland, positioned for a power slide—a dangerous trick in which she falls off a bike and skids under...
The Esperanza Fire
Arson, Murder and the Agony of Engine 57
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
The heart-stopping true story of the tragic and historic California wildfire by the award-winning, national bestselling author of Fire on the Mountain.
On October 26, 2006, an arson-set wildfire ignited in the San Jacinto Mountains west of Palm Springs, California. By the time of its containment...
The Prize
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Rivalries, temptations, and betrayals collide in “this sharp-eyed novel of the art world” by a New York Times bestselling author (The New Yorker).
Edward Darby has everything a man hopes for: meaningful work, and a loving wife and daughter. With a rising career as a partner at an esteemed...
The Horse that Leaps Through Clouds
A Tale of Espionage, the Silk Road and the Rise of Modern China
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2011
Two epic adventures along the Silk Road—a century apart—offer a cautionary tale about China’s rise in the modern age: “A wonderful book” (Wade Davis).
“A complicated, ambitious travel adventure through modern Inner Asia . . . a truly inspired journey.” —Kirkus Reviews
On July...
The Golden Thread
The Story of Writing
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
A calligraphy expert traces the history of the written word from Mesopotamia to the digital revolutions of today in “a book no bibliophile should miss” (Publishers Weekly).
From the simple representative shapes used to record transactions of goods and services in ancient Mesopotamia to...
Precious Cargo
How Foods From the Americas Changed The World
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2014
IACP Award winner for Culinary History: This fascinating true story is “a treasure” (Weekly Alibi).
Precious Cargo tells the tale of how foods from the western hemisphere conquered the globe and saved it from mass starvation. Focusing heavily on American foods, specifically the lowly crops...
Surprise Attack
From Pearl Harbor to 9/11 to Benghazi
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
“A valuable examination of U.S. national security crises past and present.” —Kirkus Reviews
Surprise Attack explores sixty plus years of military and terror threats against the United States. It examines the intelligence tools and practices that provided warnings of those attacks and...
Losing the Garden
The Story of a Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
“Waterman’s mesmerizing account of her intense but unusual and tragic marriage to noted climber and wilderness advocate Guy Waterman.” —Stowe Today.com
Laura and Guy Waterman spent nearly three decades homesteading in a cabin in the Vermont mountains. But the end of their marriage came...
South of the Clouds
Travels in Southwest China
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
“The perfect choice for anyone and everyone interested in all things Chinese.” —Library Journal
South of the Clouds takes readers on a journey to southwestern China, a province where as late as the 1990s the people still followed millennia-old ways of life. Originally conquered by the...
Evening Thoughts
Reflecting on Earth as Sacred Community
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Essays on our spiritual role in the fate of the planet from “the most provocative figure among the new breed of eco-theologians” (Newsweek).
Among the contemporary voices for the Earth, none resonates like that of cultural historian Thomas Berry. His teaching and writings have inspired...
Prague Summer
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
“Like the city itself, Prague Summer is romantic and mysterious, with a refined literary bent.” —Stewart O’Nan, author of West of Sunset
Stephanie and Henry are Americans living in Prague. She works for the State Department; he is a rare book dealer. They live the life of a comfortably...
Red Thread Zen
Humanly Entangled in Emptiness
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
A radical, life-affirming book that reconciles Zen with our embodied humanity.
Love, attachment, the passions, gender, carnality, birth, bodily being, mortality, belonging, suffering, hope, despair, personhood, imagination, vitality, the struggle to be fully human—how do these things dwell wholly...