Counterpoint Press: 319 books

An occult Nazi program is threatened by a philosopher’s letter to a friend in this “stunning work, full of mystery and strange tenderness” (Dan Chaon).   In the waning days of World War II, Nazi Germany is coming apart at the seams. Yet the death machine continues to churn. The Third Reich’s...

From the PEN USA Award–winning author comes a novel about a mother’s haunting past, and her fight for redemption in the contemporary American West.   Ten years ago, in an impulsive act of bravery, defiance, and recklessness, Tess Cross left her newborn daughter with her sister and hightailed...

A novel “brimming with rich historical detail . . . a different kind of Holocaust story, set on American soil in 1941.” —The Chicago Review of Books   Abe Auer—a Russian immigrant and small-town junkyard owner—has become disenchanted with his life. So when his friend, a local rabbi with...

“Turns the typical conceit of the conversion memoir on its head . . . a fascinating window into the world of belief.” —Zyzzyva Magazine As someone who clocked more time in mosh pits and at pro-choice rallies than kneeling in a pew, Kaya Oakes was not necessarily the kind of Catholic girl...

**Don’t miss this “fascinating and frightening” psychological thriller “**if you were a fan of HBO’s The Jinx or Netflix’s Making a Murderer” (The Huffington Post).   On a stormy fall night in the northern woods of Minnesota, a writer returns to the lake house where he spent his childhood...

**A family farm in rural Australia is the backdrop for “**a rich, beautifully textured novel, unforgettable in its setting and the people who live there” (Los Angeles Review of Books). When he learns of his mother’s ailing health, young lawyer Daniel Rawson must leave Los Angeles and...

A travel memoir with photos that explores one of the most fascinating regions of China.   A thousand years ago, the Yangtze River replaced the Yellow River as the center of Chinese civilization, and today the region known as Chiangnan remains a meaningful and evocative presence in the nation’s...

“Patterson focuses her unflinching eye on the dark heart of American male privilege . . . an important novel, both terrifying and redemptive.” —Jim Gavin, author of Middle Men Life is pretty sweet for Even Hyde. Despite his parents’ divorce in 2001, he’s doing just fine, having chosen...

“In this sprightly collection of 188 short texts, [Aitken] offers brief stories, observations, memories, and commentaries.” —Spirituality & Practice   For more than four decades, Robert Aitken Roshi has taught thousands of people the Buddhist practice of Zen meditation, and has led hundreds...

“A splendid chronicle of early climbing in the Sierra Nevada.” —Royal Robbins It’s 1873. Gore-Tex shells and aluminum climbing gear are a century away, but the high mountains still call to those with a spirit of adventure. Imagine the stone in your hands and thousands of feet of open...

“A bracing look at the often-strange relationship between sexuality and the legal system over six tumultuous decades” (Booklist). Society’s acceptance of sex and the grasp of its many variables are in constant flux. Switch a decade, cross a border, or traverse class lines and the harmless...

“Intense, complicated short stories about intense, complicated people . . . A seasoned, deeply knowing writer with riches to share” (Kirkus Reviews).   With her keen eye, her fabulous ear and her generous heart, Valerie Trueblood finds characters in moments of true extremity when they are...

“This assured crime novel from Leonard opens on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, in New York City . . . the plot twists and turns” (Publishers Weekly). Jack McCann is a high-stakes Wall Street trader who sneaks into his office early one morning to try and clear out his things and get out...

This memoir of one woman’s struggle with her DNA’s legacy and its effects on multiple generations of family is “amazing” in “the raw courage she exhibits” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). When testing reveals that Bonnie Rough is a carrier of a genetic condition known as hypohidrotic...