Counterpoint

Lyrical, riveting, and haunting from its opening lines, None But the Righteous is an extraordinary debut that signals the arrival of an unforgettable new voice in contemporary fiction "[A] profound...

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...

If you've ever wondered how a messed up kid like you or me might master the wisdom of Zen, One Blade of Grass is the adventure for you. It's great company?and after reading it, you might recognize...

A family displaced by World War II finds a new home in Central America, only to watch their fortunes rise and fall on the back of a revolution-from the California Book Award silver medalist and...

In an elegant but contemporary voice, award-winning author Susan Griffin breaks down the creative process step-by-step, guiding the reader through a practical course in how to begin and end a work of...

Erik Reece is obviously a writer to be reckoned with.?Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature In Erik Reece's stunning collection of essays, ideas are the main characters. Written over a period of...

Riprap And Cold Mountain PoemsAuthor: Gary SnyderPublisher: CounterpointPublication Date: Aug 31, 2010Number of Pages: 80 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1582436363ISBN-13:...

Road To Heaven: Encounters With Chinese HermitsAuthor: Bill PorterPublisher: CounterpointPublication Date: Sep 29, 2009Number of Pages: 220 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

A marvelous collection. ?The New York Times Book Review Traversing decades and continents, The Romance of Elsewhere captures the dilemma of the expat with Lynn Freed?s signature honesty and humor...

I have personally adopted many of the practices Rupert describes in his book and experienced more love, joy, empathy, gratitude, and equanimity as a result. We are all indebted to Rupert, who has...

Sex, Economy, Freedom, & Community: Eight EssaysAuthor: Wendell BerryPublisher: CounterpointPublication Date: December 04, 2018Number of Pages: 208 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Named a Best Book of the Year by Esquire Winner of the 800?CEO?READ Business Book Award in Current Events and Public Affairs In an era when faith in government and its institutions is quickly...

South Of The YangtzeAuthor: Bill PorterPublisher: CounterpointPublication Date: Aug 09, 2016Number of Pages: 288 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1619027348ISBN-13: 9781619027343

Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Asian Literary Prize, Strange Weather in Tokyo is a story of loneliness and love that defies age. Tsukiko, thirty?eight, works in an office and lives alone. One night,...

Of beach plums, ramps, and Ramada Inns: a quietly sensitive eminently sensible consideration of the landscapes of our lives . . . A gift. ?Kirkus Reviews Following her bestselling The Architect of...

In Berry?s new book, The Art of Loading Brush, he is a frustrated advocate, speaking out against local wastefulness and distant idealism; he is a gentle friend, asserting, as he always has, the hope...

The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell BerryAuthor: Wendell BerryPublisher: CounterpointPublication Date: August 05, 2003Number of Pages: 352 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Beth Piatote's luminous debut collection opens with a feast, grounding its stories in the landscapes and lifeworlds of the Native Northwest, exploring the inventive and unforgettable pattern of...

Based on the life of bronc rider Doughbelly Price, The Diamond Hitch tells the story of Dewey Jones, western cowman and rodeo hooligan, as he travels the circuit throughout the Southwest in search of...

Zen Buddhism is often said to be a practice of mind?to?mind transmission without reliance on texts ??in fact, some great teachers forbid their students to read or write. But Buddhism has also...

A woman turns herself into a forest after long being co-opted to serve as the subject of her husband?s novels?this surrealist fable challenges traditional gender attitudes and exploitation in the...

The book is informed by the Vietnamese immigrations of the nineteen?seventies but is filled with social observation of contemporary middle?class culture and indie sensibility . . . Quietly beautiful,...

The Heart SutraAuthor: Red PinePublisher: CounterpointPublication Date: Aug 09, 2005Number of Pages: 208 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1593760825ISBN-13: 9781593760823

A simple task to retrieve some artifacts turns into a nightmare of deceit when Duncan McCallum finds himself the target of those obsessed with keeping America under British rule in this thrilling...

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 by a band of deserters, the Rider begins to piece together...

Excellent . . . Tracks the history of that greatest of all cultural institutions. ?The Washington Post Libraries are much more than mere collections of volumes. The best are magical, fabled places...

?Bender's willingness to go deep, to burrow down into what's right and wrong about 21st century America and Americans, is a mirror that draws us in and does not allow us to look away." ?Los Angeles...