Counterpoint Press: 319 books
The Carry Home
Lessons from the American Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
An award-winning “big-hearted soul-searching memoir about . . . a man looking to nature for answers after the death of his beloved wife” (Los Angeles Times).
In 2005, “ever-evocative nature writer Gary Ferguson” lost his wife Jane in tragic canoeing accident on the Kopka River in northern...
by Jessica Hendry Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
**“****A quirkily mesmerizing debut memoir about a dysfunctional family wracked by alcoholism and drug addiction. Bittersweet and wryly funny.” —**O, The Oprah Magazine
*If Only You People Could Follow Directions *is a spellbinding debut by Jessica Hendry Nelson. In linked autobiographical...
by Lorna Gibb
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
A “fast-paced and well-researched” biography of the writer who fought for women’s suffrage, had a child with H. G. Wells, and covered the Nuremberg trials (NPR).
Winner of the Granta Memoir Award
Rebecca West was a leading figure in the twentieth-century literary scene. A passionate...
The Awful Grace of God
Religious Terrorism, White Supremacy, and the Unsolved Murder of Martin Luther King Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
An in-depth examination of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination using declassified documents to reveal a secret right-wing terrorist network.
The Awful Grace of God examines America’s most violent right-wing extremists, including Sam Bowers, head of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan...
by David Bergen
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
An “immaculately written, trenchantly honest, hugely compelling” novel from the Giller Prize-winning author of Stranger (Globe and Mail).
When Morris Schutt, a prominent newspaper columnist, surveys his life over the past year, he sees disaster everywhere. His son has just been killed in Afghanistan,...
Dark at the Roots
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
“Like fellow humorists Merrill Markoe and David Sedaris, she makes the most of her misfit existence . . . both harrowing and hilarious.” —Booklist (starred review)
Known widely for her role in Strangers with Candy and her public radio appearances, Sarah Thyre delves here into her past...
Granada
A Pomegranate in the Hand of God
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
**“In poetic prose . . . Nightingale’s intimate reflections and succulent style present a textured picture of the city and its people, culture, and antiquity.” —**Publishers Weekly
Granada resident Steven Nightingale excavates the rich past of his adopted city and its surrounding countryside,...
The Teachings of Don B.
Satires, Parodies, Fables, Illustrated Stories, and Plays
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
A wildly inventive and deeply humorous collection of literary delights by one of the great contemporary masters of the short story.
A hypothetical episode of Batman hilariously slowed down to soap-opera speed.
A game of baseball as played by T. S. Eliot and Willem Big Bull de Kooning.
A...
Eat, Live, Love, Die
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Thoughts on food—and life—from “one of the culinary world’s treasures” (The Wall Street Journal).
Betty Fussell is an inspiring badass. This is a woman who at eighty-two years old, and despite being half-blind, went deer hunting for the very first time in the Montana foothills with...
The Duke of Wellington, Kidnapped!
The Incredible True Story of the Art Heist That Shocked a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
One of art history’s most notorious crimes is solved in this true caper that reads “like a finely tuned suspense thriller” (Publishers Weekly).
In 1961, a thief broke into London’s National Gallery and committed the most sensational art heist in British history by stealing the museum’s...
Delirium
The Politics of Sex in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
“An insightful look at the history of sexual mores and politics and how we got to such a contentious place.” —Booklist
Perhaps if the Pill had never been invented, American politics would be very different today, Nancy L. Cohen writes, as she takes us on a gripping journey through the confounding...
Tales of Two Cities
Paris, London, and the Birth of the Modern City
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
This dual history of dueling capitals is “full of unexpected facts . . . Conlin’s case studies of possible cultural exchange are both concise and entertaining” (New York Times Book Review).
Paris and London have long held a mutual fascination, and never more so than in the period 1750-1914,...
Shadow Warfare
The History of America's Undeclared Wars
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
The evolution of covert operations, detailing the tactics and tools used from the Truman era through the Obama Administration.
Contrary to their contemporary image, deniable covert operations are not something new. Such activities have been ordered by every president and every administration...
Breakthrough
The Making of America's First Woman President
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
A “well-reasoned and researched” look at why Americans have never elected a woman president, what will make it possible, and why it matters (Booklist).
From Hollywood to the halls of Congress, a lively conversation about women’s leadership, equal pay, and family-work balance is underway....