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8 reviews
Graham Rawle

Counterpoint, 2008

Incredible journey
As an English teacher in an urban setting, I am always searching for literature that is 'outside the box,' that breaks the rules of stuffy, formulaic writing by writers who have no artistic vision. With "Woman's World" I have ignited young adults struggling with literacy; they are creating their own literary visions from music and art magazines. Is not the purppose of literature to implore the ...

Bone Rattler: A Mystery of Colonial America

8 reviews
Eliot Pattison

Counterpoint, 2007

An exceptional work of fiction
In BONE RATTLER, Pattison writes a brilliant suspense novel that includes insights about the founding of our country, as well as the spiritual nature of both Native Americans and the persecuted minorities like the Scots who fled to these shores for refuge, freedom and a new life. These disenfranchised people had to make up justice on the early frontier even though they did not speak the same ...

Appetites: Why Women Want

18 reviews
Caroline Knapp

Counterpoint, 2004

Every girl should read this
This book is amazing. I go to a large State College and see this sort of thing everyday. Girls spending money the don't have to buy an identity; girls giving themselves up to men just to feel wanted, girls starving themselves simply because they are so lost. This book says everything; very honestly. I think any female can relate to it. I couldn't put it down. I stayed up and read the whole thing ...

The Diamond Sutra

8 reviews
Red Pine

Counterpoint, 2002

The Buddhist text that even cuts like a diamond through Buddhism
Mahayana Buddhism has provided some of the most profound texts for cutting right to the core. The Diamond Sutra even cuts through Buddhist beliefs. In this sutra, the Buddha shows even his most important teachings to be provisional. This and the Heart Sutra are the two most chanted sutras in Zen. In this book, The Diamond Sutra is presented in an unsurpassed English translation. I have read ...

Jayber Crow

33 reviews
Wendell Berry

Counterpoint, 2001

Great Read! Couldn't put it down!
I'm 45 years old, from Indiana, and a barber's daughter. I'm pretty sure I know some of the people that Jayber talks about. The stories weren't only about what the people were experiencing, but what they were thinking and feeling. My favorite quotes: "I don't get paid to cut hair. I get paid to know when to stop." "He didn't yet know all that he was going to know." AMEN to that!

Jesus Land: A Memoir (Alex Awards (Awards))

99 reviews
Julia Scheeres

Counterpoint Press, 2005

Engrossing and Deeply Troubling
"Jesus Land" by Julia Scheeres is one of those rare books that one can read in a day, given enough free time. It is lucidly written, engaging, and very troubling. Fans of memoirs/biographies will likely enjoy "Jesus Land," though it reads like a novel, so fiction lovers will enjoy it as well. "Jesus Land" is about Julia growing up in her Christian fundamentalist household in Indiana in the 70s ...

Swallow the Ocean: A Memoir

15 reviews
Laura Flynn

Counterpoint, 2008

Unpretentious and honest
Finally, a memoir that isn't so caught up in itself that it's too cerebral to be readable. Laura has an uncanny ability to make the unimaginable relatable. The story is beautifully written with honesty, making the family familiar and relevant to the reader. The language keeps the story from becoming bigger than itself in the retelling. It gives candid appraisal of a child's unconditional love ...

Morality Tale: A Novel
Sylvia Brownrigg

Counterpoint, 2008

When this novel's unnamed narrator meets the elusive but exciting Richard (an envelope salesman with a nice layman's line in Zen philosophies), he offers her a friendly escape from her dreary domestic life. Burdened by her husband's ongoing negotiations with his angry ex-wife, the strains of looking after two stepchildren, and the lingering ghost of her own past betrayals, she finds that the life of a “second marryer” leaves much to ...

Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination
Lamar Waldron, Thom Hartmann

Counterpoint, 2008

John F. Kennedy's assassination launched a frantic search to find his killers. It also launched a flurry of covert actions by Lyndon Johnson, Robert F. Kennedy, and other top officials to hide the fact that in November 1963 the United States was on the brink of invading Cuba, as part of a JFK-authorized coup. The coup plan's exposure could have led to a nuclear confrontation with Russia, but the cover-up prevented a full investigation into ...

Back on the Fire: Essays

3 reviews
Gary Snyder

Counterpoint, 2008

Poet, Essayist Gary Snyder on Sustainability and Literature
Snyder has lived in the Sierra Nevada foothills since 1970. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1975 for "Turtle Island," he has twice been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, in 1992 and 2005. He is a recipient of the Bollingen Poetry Prize, the Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2004 Japanese Masaoka Shiki International Haiku Grand Prize. His latest ...

We Need to Talk About Kevin: A Novel

194 reviews
Lionel Shriver

Counterpoint, 2003

Nature vs. Nuture: Compelling on both sides
Even after reading this novel twice I am unsure as to who is in the right or wrong: Kevin or Eva. As someone who has no interest in having children, I felt a great deal of sympathy for Eva. How does one raise a child when that elusive mothering gene refuses to kick in? But perhaps the problem isn't Eva, who does show deep maternal love towards her daughter, but instead is Kevin. Are some ...

Strange as This Weather Has Been: A Novel

11 reviews
Ann Pancake

Counterpoint Press, 2007

Love this book
Thank you for this great book. I love the real Appalachian dialect. This dialect is music to my ears. The coal industry is killing us here in Appalachia. The burning of coal is poisoning our babies all over America.

Andy Catlett: Early Travels

7 reviews
Wendell Berry

Counterpoint, 2007

"...a knot in the net that has gathered me up...."
Andy Catlett, title character, says this of one of his beloved elders, and means it about the entire ensemble of parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, family hires, and others in his close-knit world of childhood, a world that also nurtured him into and through adulthood. Nine-year-old Andy's first solo trip the ten miles to Port William is cause for the boy to ponder how best to navigate the ...

The Scent of God: A Memoir

28 reviews
Beryl Singleton Bissell

Counterpoint Press, 2006

A Must Have for every Library
I just finished this book very early this morning and have been haunted by it all day. Never has a story been so moving for me. Beryl's will and pure sense of the self is astounding and through all of her life challenges, particularly those revealed at the end I believe she still manages to stand tall and find comfort in her journey. There are no mistakes in this life and this story was a gift to ...

The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere: a Memoir

14 reviews
Debra Marquart

Counterpoint Press, 2006

Crafted with poignancy and honesty
Like most of the other reviewers, I simply loved this book. The author has a wonderful sense of place and clear descriptions that made her story so compelling. I felt strong kinship to Ms. Marquart's background as a girl of German-Russian parents who had made their living farming. In my case, it was my grandparents who farmed and in California rather than North Dakota, but my German Mennonite ...

An Absolute Gentleman: A Novel (Counterpoint)

12 reviews
R. M. Kinder

Counterpoint, 2007

A rare, startling book
Last night I was up until 2:30am on a worknight reading this exceptional novel. It's one hell of a story, mega-creepy and the writing is exquisite and perfectly formed. A rare, startling book. You'll be recommending it to your friends if not pushing it into their hands. It's a novel for book lovers in many ways: set on a mid-western campus; the protagonist is a creative-writing professor; the ...

Disturbances in the Field: A Novel

12 reviews
Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Counterpoint, 2005

Writing that carves out the sharp edges of life
I have never read a book that better describes the fullness of life and emotions and the grace of acceptance. The weaving of philosophy throughout the book provides a handle for the characters to check and compare the lives they thought they would lead and the ones they are living and how to help each other along in that journey. The many sides of friendship shine brightly. The perils and joys ...

Sleeping Where I Fall: A Chronicle

22 reviews
Peter Coyote

Counterpoint, 1999

The Voice of Coyote
Peter Coyote, was that incredibly cool "older brother", born just in time "to do" the sixties in all its guts and glory, that later generations would look back on with envy. Tall, dark, handsome and talented Coyote (are you really surprised that's not his real name) from out east lands smack dab in the heart of San Francisco just at the moment when the town is experiencing the labor pains that ...

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