Counterpoint Press: 319 books

One of America’s most acclaimed writers deepens and expands his great literary saga set in small-town Kentucky spanning the Civil War to the present. For more than fifty years, Wendell Berry has been telling us stories about Port William, a mythical town on the banks of the Kentucky River,...

**“*****Marry or Burn *****resolutely probes the idea and range of marriage . . . forming a dangerous, sharp-edged mosaic.” —**The Seattle Times   From the author of *Seven Loves *comes this austere, passionately shaped collection of stories that courageously explores the dynamic nature...

A woman finds love while starting over in a remote Nova Scotia village in this “moving story of grief, love, isolation, and the elements” (San Jose Mercury News).   Fleeing a dissolving marriage in California, artist Anna Starling travels to the isolated landscape of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia...

The classic novel about a repressed upper-middle-class husband in the American Midwest, by a New York Times–bestselling and Man Booker Prize–winning author. Walter Bridge is an ambitious Kansas City lawyer who redoubles his efforts and time at the office whenever he senses that his family...

“Don Carpenter’s semi-”autobiographical Fridays at Enrico’s can be read as the swan song of the entire Love Generation.” —The New York Times Book Review The author of A Hard Rain Falling and A Couple of Comedians, Don Carpenter was one of the finest novelists working in the west....

“It is a rare book that is as scientific as it is magical and as magical as it is scientific. This is that book.” —Karen Joy Fowler In the early 1900s, young Lucia Rutkowski escapes the Warsaw ghetto to work as a kitchen maid in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Paris. But, too talented...

Life is hard for a literary wunderkind after a decade of writer’s block in this “ribald deconstruction . . . of an industry in love with its own absurdities” (Kirkus Reviews). You graduate from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop with a short story published in The New Yorker and subsequently...

From the exiled Russian author of The Zone—“His tales open a small window on to daily life in the former Soviet Union” (The Guardian). Sergei Dovlatov’s subtle, dark-edged humor and wry observations are in full force in The Suitcase as he examines eight objects—the items he brought...

A divorced shop teacher buys a Colorado gold mine sight unseen in this raucous novel from the screenwriter of Doc Hollywood and The Manchurian Candidate. Lee Garrison, a high school shop teacher in Evergreen, Colorado, managed to survive his messy divorce only to find himself in a full-on midlife...

“Lovely . . . more than an ode to a singular character . . . It’s also an evocation of place—a walkable city with stubborn, old-New England charm.” —The Boston Globe   The Penny Poet of Portsmouth is a memoir of the author’s friendship with Robert Dunn, a brilliant poet who spent...

At the dawn of Mexican Civil War two adversaries form a surprising bond in this “brutal and often stunningly brilliant novel” (Booklist, starred review).   Mexico, 1910. The landscape pulses with the force of the upcoming revolution, an atmosphere rich in opportunity for a criminal like Rawbone....

From the Edgar Award–winning author of Bone Rattler. “Evocative language, tight plotting, and memorable characters make this a standout” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). With the aid of the Native American Shaman Conawago, Duncan McCallum has begun to heal from the massacre of his...

From the Edgar Award-winning author of The Skull Mantra: An ingenious thriller that “blends the bleakness of The Road with a well-crafted whodunit plot” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Thirty years after global holocaust, the colony of Carthage still struggles to build its new world....

The Edgar Award winner’s acclaimed mystery set in colonial America is “The Last of the Mohicans meets Braveheart, with a curious dash of CSI” (Entertainment Weekly). Unfairly convicted and force into indentured servitude, young Highland Scot Duncan McCallum finds himself aboard a prisoner...