Counterpoint

First published in 1966, A Conference of Victims charts the corrosive power of guilt and loneliness, showing how one terrible act can possess a family Hal O. Costigan, candidate for Congress, is the...

Author: Jay GriffithsPublisher: CounterpointPublication Date: Nov 10, 2015Number of Pages: 432 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1619025841ISBN-13: 9781619025844

These essays on a woman's wild ride through life give us Marion's bracing tonic?of?truth voice in splendid form?her voice that is always brilliantly funny, intelligent, brave, haunting, and full of...

Do you fear for our democracy? Are you ready to throw in the towel? Don't! This is your guidebook to reassembling our hyperpolarized American society in six (not-so-easy) steps, written by the cohost...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Multilayered, subtle, insightful short stories from the inimitable Booker Prize?winning author, with an introduction by Anita Desai Nobody has written so...

Robison uses a minimalist discipline and barely ruffled surfaces, but her hidden pictures of childhood and other states of vulnerability are boundless in their emotion. ?The Los Angeles Times Book...

?A writer of exceptional gifts and grace.? ?Joyce Carol Oates A young fireman battles to provide for his family?and struggles to avoid the traps of crime and poverty that surround him. A resident of...

A thought-provoking and dramatic account two families who hope to start a new life in the boglands of New Jersey only to discover, much too late, that their new living environment was riddled with...

Bringing It To The Table: On Farming And FoodAuthor: Wendell BerryPublisher: CounterpointPublication Date: Aug 18, 2009Number of Pages: 256 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 158243543X

Ecopsychology: Restoring The Earth, Healing The MindAuthor: Theodore Roszak, Mary E. Gomes, Allen D. KannerPublisher: CounterpointPublication Date: Jan 01, 1995Number of Pages: 338 pagesLanguage:...

Jan Redford is a bad?ass. She is also a born storyteller. ?John Vaillant, author of The Tiger In this funny and gritty debut memoir, praised by Outside, Sierra, Alpinist, and more, Jan Redford grows...

Detailed, deeply researched, and compelling. ?Chicago Tribune Historian Leslie Zemeckis reveals the lost stories of Sally Rand and Faith Bacon?icons who each claimed to be the inventor of the...

Reissued as part of Counterpoint's celebration of beloved American author Wendell Berry, the five stories in Fidelity return readers to Berry's fictional town of Port William, Kentucky, and the...

Finely wrought; Ollestad builds a delicate tension between the characters, exposing their raw desire and exploring the concept of artistic inspiration...A quietly tense and absorbing read. ?Kirkus...

Required reading. ?Josh Tickell, author of The Revolution Generation Since its beginnings in 2009, Generation Citizen has grown to become one of the preeminent civics education organizations in...

A powerful, poetic memoir of an Indigenous woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Band in the Pacific Northwest?this New York Times bestseller and Emma Watson Book Club pick is ?an illuminating...

Long?listed for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice "Here in Berlin is one of the most interesting new works of fiction I've read . . . The voices...

A young Mexican mother struggles to reconnect with her child in America?a ?heartrending, take?no?prisoners? novel (Publishers Weekly) and National Book Award finalist. A vital and unsparing vision of...

A remarkable story of a forgotten seventeen?year?old Jew who was blamed by the Nazis for the anti?Semitic violence and terror known as the Kristallnacht, the pogrom still seen as an initiating event...

?Straight?s portrayal of a black woman?s life is nearly miraculous in its astonishing richness of detail, its emotional honesty and its breadth of human thought and feeling.? ?USA Today Evoking the...

The national bestseller and New York Times Notable Book about a young single mother living in New York, her eccentric aunt, and the decisions they make that have unexpected implications for the world...

?A fast?paced, meticulously researched, thoroughly engaging (and often infuriating) look?see into the systematic criminalization of gay men and widespread condemnation of homosexuality post?World War...

A page turner...heart?stopping and enraging...focused, justified, and without a trace of self?pity. Shot through with poignancy. ?New York Times Book Review Over a decade after its first publication,...

?McGraw is wise and occasionally laugh?out?loud funny, with a seventh sense for the perfect turn of phrase . . . This quintessential collection of stories serves as an homage to the form while...

Life Is A Miracle: An Essay Against Modern SuperstitionAuthor: Wendell BerryPublisher: CounterpointPublication Date: Apr 19, 2001Number of Pages: 176 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

An elegant, eccentric novel of love, loneliness, and lepidoptera . . . Worthy company for work by other naturalist/novelists: Nabokov, Matthiessen, Kingsolver. ?Kirkus Reviews In Magdalena Mountain,...

At first, Oh! seems a satire, a sitcom stripped of its sentiment and foolishness. But it is far more. Mary Robison is trying to show us how the the incredibly complicated dance of family life works...

A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, this memoir of one woman's later in life career change is ?a smart, funny and compelling case for going after your heart's desires, no matter...