Counterpoint Press: 319 books
Generation Rx
A Story of Dope, Death, and America's Opiate Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
A journalist recounts the loss of her brother to pills and heroin in a “gripping memoir, enhanced by statistics and other stories of addiction” (Kirkus Reviews).
What had happened to my baby brother? How did a tiny little pill shatter our family? When did we first begin losing Pat?
These...
Animal, Mineral, Radical
Essays on Wildlife, Family, and Food
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
From the acclaimed author of Theft: “A lyrical exploration of the timeless themes of nature, mortality, love, and family” in the American West (Kristen Iverson, author of Full Body Burden).
“Radical, before it meant a person who advocates strong political reform, meant getting to the root...
Rake
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Celebrity and crime pay off big time for an American sociopath in Paris in “one of the great joys in new noir fiction” (Los Angeles Review of Books).
Dr. Crandall Taylor—or rather the actor who plays him—is enjoying a cushy new life in the City of the Lights where his now-cancelled American...
Democracy Betrayed
The Rise of the Surveillance Security State
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
**“A persuasive *****cri de coeur ***from a national security expert . . . makes a spirited case for preferring untrammeled freedom to managed and monitored safety.” —Kirkus Reviews
In the aftermath of 9/11, in lockstep with booming technological advancements, a new and more authoritarian...
An Extravagant Hunger
The Passionate Years of M. F. K. Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
A “focused, smart, and engaging” look at the turbulent private life of the pioneering food writer who taught America the art of eating well (Publishers Weekly).
In An Extravagant Hunger, the turning points and casual strolls of M.F.K. Fisher’s life are unwrapped and savored. From the...
The Silk Road
Taking the Bus to Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
From an acclaimed travel writer comes a contemporary journey of historic riches from China to Pakistan along the northern route of the Silk Road.
Millennia older than California’s Camino Real, and perhaps even a few years older than the roads of the Roman Empire, the Silk Road is a network of...
by Joanna Bourke
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
From the author of The Story of Pain. “This deeply scholarly work is lively and challenging in equal measure, and rewarding throughout” (The Boston Globe).
In 1872, a woman known only as “An Earnest Englishwoman” published a letter titled “Are Women Animals?” in which she protested...
Alice in Bed
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
“[A] literary feast” of a novel that “portrays the exciting, frustrating, and perplexing private life of bed-ridden Alice [James]” (Publishers Weekly).
“In her mesmerizing first novel, Hooper enters the individualist mind-set of the enigmatic” Alice James. The brilliant 19th century...
Dogen's Genjo Koan
Three Commentaries
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
The classic Buddhist text in three engaging new translations, with commentary from contemporary Zen masters.
One of the greatest religious practitioners and philosophers of the East, Eihei Dogen Zenji (1200–1253) is today thought of as the founder of the Soto school of Zen. A deep thinker...
Deeply Rooted
Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Portraits of a Texas dairyman, a New Mexico rancher, and a North Dakota farmer who “embody the future of American agriculture” (Alice Waters).
A century of industrialization has left our food system riddled with problems. For solutions, we look to nutritionists and government agencies, scientists...
A Country Called Childhood
Children and the Exuberant World
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
From the anthropologist and award-winning author of Wild: “an ardent, discursive, lyrical . . . paean to the lost paradise of childhood freedom in nature” (The New Republic).
While traveling the world to write her award-winning book Wild, Jay Griffiths began to observe the stark differences...
by Amy Sackville
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
“A haunting novel” about sex and obsession, set off the coast of Scotland and “full of otherworldly emotion and strange impulses” (Marie Claire).
A professor marries his prize student, a woman forty years his junior, and at her request, he takes her to the sea for their honeymoon. His...
The Letter Bearer
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
“A tremendous second world war novel [with] striking, hallucinatory descriptions of the desert . . . A finely crafted debut.” —Financial Times
The Rider has no memory of who he is, where he is, or how he came to be lying—dying—in the brutal heat of the North African desert. Rescued...
The Silver Lotus
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
“Filled with rich, meticulous detail . . . portrays two culturally diverse lovers determined to make their mark on the developing Northern California coast.” **—**Foreword Reviews
American merchant captain Jeremiah Macy Hammond is at the forefront of the New World. His trading empire faces...