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We first met Avery in two of the stories featured in Dana Johnson's award–winning collection Break Any Woman Down. As a young girl, she and her fam...

Gavin Francis fulfilled a lifetime's ambition when he spent fourteen months as the basecamp doctor at Halley, a profoundly isolated British researc...

Using the colorful diaries of a sixteenth–century merchant as a narrative guide, Empires of Food vividly chronicles the fate of people and societie...

The short fiction of Thaisa Frank has captivated readers for two decades, and now many of those pieces are collected in one volume, along with seve...

"Jan Redford is a bad–ass. She is also a born storyteller." —John Vaillant, author of The TigerIn this funny and gritty debut memoir, praised by Ou...

“This zany novel will make you appreciate your own fallen soufflés that much more.” —Redbook The writer known only as FW lives high on the food ...

In these poems, Wendell Berry combines plainspoken elegance with deeply felt emotion—this is work of both remembrance and regeneration. Whether wri...

Before achieving critical acclaim as a novelist, David Markson paid the rent by writing several crime novels, including two featuring the private d...

“American Shield” es una historia típicamente americano sobre el deber y la determinación — maravillosamente contada por un inmigrante, un veterano...

“American Shield” es una historia típicamente americano sobre el deber y la determinación — maravillosamente contada por un inmigrante, un veterano...

Two sisters, lost youth, and old obsessions—a “compassionate, lyrical portrait of grief, longing, and love” that unfolds over the course of one day...

Essays on our spiritual role in the fate of the planet from “the most provocative figure among the new breed of eco–theologians” (Newsweek).Among t...

Every Kind of Wanting explores the complex intersection of three unique families and their bustling efforts to have a "Community Baby." Miguel coul...

"A great romp that is almost more of a history of modern rock than it is a look at the life of Bobby Keys. That also makes it an enjoyable and fasc...

John Barth stays true to form in Every Third Thought, written from the perspective of a character Barth introduced in his short story collection Th...

In this companion volume to The Tree of Meaning, Robert Bringhurst collects twenty essays under the subversive principle that "everything is relate...

Centered around multi–million dollar stakes and a series of nationally televised poker tournaments, Fading Hearts on the River offers a story of od...

It's southern California in the early Sixties, and Charlotte is a teenager, which is bad enough. She also has strange grandparents, with whom she l...

A genre-bending romp that is at once reminiscent of Raymond Carver and Carl Hiaasen.Steven Carter, who has been called "madly inventive" (Kirkus Re...

The sanity and eloquence of these poems spring from the land in Kentucky where Wendell Berry was born, married, lives, farms, and writes. From clas...

Fear — the word, itself, conjures the appropriate response. With a dark cacophony of associations like fright, dread, horror, panic, alarm, anxiety...

"Detailed, deeply researched, and compelling." —Chicago TribuneHistorian Leslie Zemeckis reveals the lost stories of Sally Rand and Faith Bacon—ico...

Reissued as part of Counterpoint's celebration of beloved American author Wendell Berry, the five stories in Fidelity return readers to Berry's fic...

Field Notes From a Hidden City is set against the background of the austere, grey and beautiful northeast Scottish city of Aberdeen. In it, Esther ...