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Ultimate Sacrifice
CounterpointA landmark in historical research, tying the Mafia and Cuba to the assassination of JFK—updated to reveal the role of Cuban Commander Juan Almeida....
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CounterpointShuttling between cultural comedies and political tragedies, Lawrence Weschler's articles have throughout his long career intrigued readers with hi...
Ver todos los detallesUncollected Poems, Drafts, Fragments, and Translations
CounterpointFinalist in CALIBA's 2022 Golden Poppy Book AwardsA collection of previously uncollected and unpublished works by a Pulitzer Prize-winning Beat poe...
Ver todos los detallesUnder a Metal Sky
CounterpointDiscover the wonders and perils of the earth’s precious metals—what they have offered us as humans, and how they’ve forever changed our relationshi...
Ver todos los detallesUnder a Metal Sky:A Journey Through Minerals, Greed, and Wonder
CounterpointDiscover the wonders and perils of the earth’s precious metals—what they have offered us as humans, and how they’ve forever changed our relationshi...
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CounterpointNovember 2004: George W. Bush is re–elected. Five days later, Alan Meister, a New York professor of philosophy, is diagnosed with lymphoma—not that...
Ver todos los detallesUnframed Originals
CounterpointIn this haunting, elegantly written memoir, W. S. Merwin recalls in utterly unsentimental prose his youth, growing up in a repressed Presbyterian h...
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CounterpointJack McCann is a high–stakes Wall Street trader who sneaks into his office early one morning to try and clear out his things and get out of dodge; ...
Ver todos los detallesUnsuspecting Souls
CounterpointDuring the nineteeth century, something vital went missing: the human being. In Unsuspecting Souls, Barry Sanders examines modern society's indiffe...
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CounterpointNell Dunn's scenes of London life, as it was lived in the early Sixties in the industrial slums of Battersea, have few parallels in contemporary wr...
Ver todos los detallesVanishing Point
CounterpointFrom Wittgenstein's Mistress to Reader's Block to Springer's Progress to This Is Not a Novel, he has delighted and amazed readers for decades. And ...
Ver todos los detallesVegetable Roots Discourse
CounterpointWritten 400 years ago by a scholar in the Ming Dynasty, one hundred years after Columbus and around the time Shakespeare completed Henry VI, accomp...
Ver todos los detallesVera Violet
CounterpointSet against the backdrop of a decaying Pacific Northwest lumber town, Vera Violet is a debut that explores themes of poverty, violence, and environ...
Ver todos los detallesVista Del Mar
CounterpointThis remarkable book joins the company of "self–work," deep acts of memory that serve to illuminate the present by shining the clear light of caref...
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Counterpoint"Voices isn't just illuminating and thought–provoking and clever; it is exciting." —Roddy Doyle, author of The CommitmentsA personal exploration of...
Ver todos los detallesVoyage to the End of the Room
CounterpointOceane, successful computer graphics designer and former erotic dancer, likes to travel, but doesn't like to go out; in fact, she never leaves home...
Ver todos los detallesWaiting for Rescue
CounterpointJarring yet slyly comic, Waiting for Rescue evokes a world turned upside down after the events of 9/11 as seen through the eyes of a wry and observ...
Ver todos los detallesWake
CounterpointIn her first collection of short stories, Beth Goldner looks at loss-of love, of health, of life-through the lives of ordinary women in extraordina...
Ver todos los detallesWalking Towards Walden
CounterpointAn exploration of sense of place, what it means, how it developed, and why it matters.Based on an eighteenth-century literary device in which a gro...
Ver todos los detallesWalks Through Lost Paris
CounterpointWhen he discovered that the city he lived in for many years was actually entirely rebuilt during the mid–1800s, Leonard Pitt plunged into Paris's h...
Ver todos los detallesWasteland
CounterpointA historian and Bram Stoker Award nominee traces the birth of modern horror movies and literature back to World War I, exploring how the conflict i...
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Counterpoint“A small treasure of a book . . . part of a long line that descends from Chaucer to Katherine Mansfield to William Trevor.” —Chicago TribuneThis vo...
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CounterpointIn the last one hundred years, imported water has transformed the environment of the Golden State and its quality of life, with land ownership patt...
Ver todos los detallesWatergate: The Hidden History
CounterpointA groundbreaking investigation into the events of the Watergate Scandal, complete with fascinating new material, all “exhaustively researched” in t...
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