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  • THE PRACTICE OF THE WILD
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    THE PRACTICE OF THE WILD
    GARY SNYDER
    A collection of captivatingly meditative essays that display a deep understanding of Buddhist belief, wildness, wildlife, and the world from an American cultural force. With thoughts ranging from political and spiritual matters to those regarding the environment and the art of becoming native to this continent, the nine essays in The Practice of the Wild display the deep unders...

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  • ANDY CATLETT
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    ANDY CATLETT
    WENDELL BERRY
    A young boy takes a trip on his own to visit his grandparents in Kentucky in the tenth entry in Wendell Berry's beloved Port William Membership series In this “eloquent distillation of Berry’s favorite themes: the importance of family, community and respect for the land” (Kirkus Reviews), nine-year-old Andy Catlett embarks on a solo trip by bus to visit his grandparents in Port...

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  • EVERY KIND OF WANTING
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    EVERY KIND OF WANTING
    GINA FRANGELLO
    Every Kind of Wanting explores the complex intersection of three unique families and their bustling efforts to have a "Community Baby." Miguel could not be more different from his partner Chad, a happy–go–lucky real estate mogul from Chicago's wealthy North Shore. When Chad's sister, Gretchen offers the couple an egg, their search for a surrogate leads them to Miguel's old frie...

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  • DEMOCRACY BETRAYED
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    DEMOCRACY BETRAYED
    WILLIAM W. KELLER
    A vital and important look at the rise of a security state that is transforming the nature of our democracy In the aftermath of 9/11, in lockstep with booming technological advancements, a new and more authoritarian form of governance is upplanting liberal democracy. The creation of the Security Industrial Complex — an “internal security state–within–the–state” fueled by tech c...

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  • IF YOU ARE THERE
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    IF YOU ARE THERE
    SUSAN SHERMAN
    Set in the early 1900s, the novel follows young Lucia Rutkowski who, thanks to the influence of her beloved grandmother, escapes the Warsaw ghetto to work as a kitchen maid in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the bustling city of Paris. Too talented for her lowly position, Lucia is thrown out on the street. Her only recourse is to take a job working for two disorganized, ...

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  • MOSHI MOSHI
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    MOSHI MOSHI
    BANANA YOSHIMOTO
    "A beautiful translation . . . Yoshimoto deploys a magically Japanese light touch to emotionally and existentially tough subject matter: domestic disarray, loneliness, identity issues, lovesickness . . . [a] nimble narrative." ―ELLE In Moshi Moshi, Yoshie’s much–loved musician father has died in a suicide pact with an unknown woman. It is only when Yoshie and her mother move to...

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  • SPIES IN PALESTINE
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    SPIES IN PALESTINE
    JAMES SRODES
    Sarah Aaronsohn was a twenty–first century woman in a nineteenth–century world. She and her siblings were born as part of the first wave of Jewish immigrants who fled the pogroms of Russia and Eastern Europe in the 1880s, settling in the province of Syria–Palestine. By the outbreak of World War I in 1914 the settlers had come a dramatic distance in creating the Eretz Israel of ...

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  • ISLAND OF THE MAD
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    ISLAND OF THE MAD
    LAURIE SHECK
    Following on the heels of her exciting and widely acclaimed A Monster's Notes, and with Sheck's characteristic brilliance of language, Island of the Mad follows the solitary, hunchbacked Ambrose A., as he sets out on a mysterious journey to Venice in search of a lost notebook he knows almost nothing about. Eventually he arrives in San Servolo, the Island of the Mad, in the Vene...

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  • PIANO TIDE
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    PIANO TIDE
    KATHLEEN DEAN MOORE
    Do we belong to the Earth or does the Earth belong to us? The question raised by Chief Seathl almost two centuries ago continues to be the defining quandary of the wet, wild rainforests along the shores of the Pacific Northwest. It seethes below the tides of the fictional town of Good River Harbor, a little village pressed against the mountains—homeland to bears, whales, and a ...

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  • EAT LIVE LOVE DIE
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    EAT LIVE LOVE DIE
    BETTY FUSSELL
    Betty Fussell is an inspiring badass. She's not just the award–winning author of numerous books ranging from biography and memoir to cookbooks and food history; not just a winner of the James Beard Foundation's Journalism Award who was inducted into their "Who's Who of American Food and Beverage" in 2009; and not just an extraordinary person whose fifty years' worth of essays o...

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  • WEDDING BUSH ROAD
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    WEDDING BUSH ROAD
    DAVID FRANCIS
    A young lawyer in Los Angeles is called back to his family's farm in rural Australia and plunged into a complex struggle between past and present, town and country, and the secrets that haunt them all. When he learns of his mother's ailing health, Daniel Rawson must leave Los Angeles and travel half a world away to the family's horse farm on Wedding Bush Road, one hundred miles...

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  • RED THREAD ZEN
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    RED THREAD ZEN
    SUSAN MURPHY
    Love, attachment, the passions, gender, carnality, birth, bodily being, mortality, belonging, suffering, hope, despair, personhood, imagination, vitality, the struggle to be fully human – how do these things dwell wholly in emptiness, how do we reconcile their vivid life with 'no–thingness'? The red (or 'vermilion') thread originally connoted the color of the silk undergarments...

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  • THE HOT CLIMATE OF PROMISES AND GRACE
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    THE HOT CLIMATE OF PROMISES AND GRACE
    STEVEN NIGHTINGALE
    With these short stories, deeply indebted to Sufi Tales and Jataka stories (as well as to the Brothers Grimm and American folktales), Steven Nightingale offers testimonies of revelation, mischief, miracles, and grace given him by sixty–four remarkable women who've appeared in his life over time. These delightful pieces combine humor and sensuality with surrealism and an oblique...

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  • FRENCH GIRL WITH MOTHER
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    FRENCH GIRL WITH MOTHER
    NORMAN OLLESTAD
    "Finely wrought; Ollestad builds a delicate tension between the characters, exposing their raw desire and exploring the concept of artistic inspiration...A quietly tense and absorbing read." —Kirkus French Girl with Mother is a provocative, propulsive thriller that marries the spirit of James Salter with a hint of Patricia Highsmith and the velocity of The Art Forger. Nathan is...

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  • ROOTS TO THE EARTH
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    ROOTS TO THE EARTH
    WENDELL BERRY / WESLEY BATES
    In 1995, Wendell Berry’s Roots to the Earth was published in portfolio form by West Meadow Press. The wood etchings of celebrated artist and wood engraver, Wesley Bates, were printed from the original wood blocks on handmade Japanese paper. In 2014, this work was reprinted at Larkspur Press, along with additional poems. It is now with great pleasure that Counterpoint reproduces...

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  • IN THE NOT QUITE DARK
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    IN THE NOT QUITE DARK
    DANA JOHNSON
    Following her prize–winning collection Break Any Woman Down, Dana Johnson returns with a collection of bold stories set mostly in downtown Los Angeles that examine large issues –love, class, race – and how they influence and define our most intimate moments. In "The Liberace Museum," a mixed–race couple leave the South toward the destination of Vegas, crossing miles of road and...

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  • SOUTH OF THE YANGTZE
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    SOUTH OF THE YANGTZE
    BILL PORTER
    Chinese civilization first developed 5,000 years ago in North China along the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. And the Yellow River remained the center of Chinese civilization for the next 4,000 years. Then a thousand years ago, this changed. A thousand years ago, the center of Chinese civilization moved to the Yangtze. And the Yangtze, not the Yellow River, has re...

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  • A SMALL PORCH
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    A SMALL PORCH
    WENDELL BERRY
    This collection of Wendell Berry poems and essays—written outdoors on the Sabbath—“[shines] with the gentle wisdom of a craftsman who has thought deeply about the paradoxical strangeness and wonder of life” (Christian Science Monitor) More than 35 years ago, Wendell Berry began spending his sabbaths outdoors, when the weather allowed, walking and wandering around familiar terri...

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  • THE GREAT CLOD
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    THE GREAT CLOD
    GARY SNYDER
    For the full course of his remarkable career, Gary Snyder has continued his study of Eastern culture and philosophies. From the Ainu to the Mongols, from Hokkaido to Kyoto, from the landscapes of China to the backcountry of contemporary Japan, from the temples of Daitokoji to the Yellow River Valley, it is now clear how this work has influenced his poetry, his stance as an envi...

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  • WATER AND THE CALIFORNIA DREAM
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    WATER AND THE CALIFORNIA DREAM
    DAVID CARLE
    In the last one hundred years, imported water has transformed the environment of the Golden State and its quality of life, with land ownership patterns and real estate boosterism dramatically altering both urban and rural communities. The key to this transformation has been expanded access to water from the Eastern Sierra, the Colorado River, and Northern California rivers. "Wh...

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  • HARLEY AND ME
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    HARLEY AND ME
    BERNADETTE MURPHY
    “Bernadette Murphy’s luminous book shows us how to take risks that make us fierce and vulnerable, knowing that true strength is about being generous as much as it is about not giving in.” —Emily Rapp Black, author of The Still Point of the Turning World and Poster Child What happens when women in midlife step out of what's predictable? For Bernadette Murphy, learning to ride a ...

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  • THE HOUSEGUEST
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    THE HOUSEGUEST
    KIM BROOKS
    An "evocative" historical novel set on the eve of America's involvement in World War II that follows a Russian immigrant family who agree to take in a dazzling Jewish actress to save her from the atrocities raging through Europe (The New York Times). It is the summer of 1941 and Abe Auer, a Russian immigrant and small–town junkyard owner, has become disenchanted with his life. ...

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  • BLOOD OF THE OAK
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    BLOOD OF THE OAK
    ELIOT PATTISON
    The Edgar Award–winner’s colonial series continues as Scottish exile Duncan McCallum uncovers a loyalist conspiracy—“Historical mystery at its best” (Booklist, starred review). The American Colonies, 1765. As the Stamp Act dissent marks the first organized resistance to English rule, someone is kidnapping and killing members of the Iroquois Nation. Asked by an elder to investig...

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  • BREAKTHROUGH
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    BREAKTHROUGH
    NANCY L. COHEN
    Why Americans have never elected a woman president, how we changed to make it possible, and why it matters. From Hollywood to the halls of Congress, a lively conversation about women's leadership, equal pay, and family–work balance is underway. On the cusp of a historic breakthrough—the potential election of America's first woman president—Nancy L. Cohen takes us inside the wor...

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  • THE SILK ROAD
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    THE SILK ROAD
    BILL PORTER
    To travel upon the Silk Road is to travel through history. Millennia older than California's Camino Real, and perhaps even a few years senior to the roads of the Roman Empire, the Silk Road is a network of routes stretching from delta towns of China all the way to the Mediterranean Sea – a cultural highway considered to be essential to the development of some of the world's old...

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  • GREAT TIDE RISING
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    GREAT TIDE RISING
    KATHLEEN DEAN MOORE
    Even as seas rise against the shores, another great tide is beginning to rise – a tide of outrage against the pillage of the planet, a tide of commitment to justice and human rights, a swelling affirmation of moral responsibility to the future and to Earth's fullness of life. Philosopher and nature essayist Kathleen Dean Moore takes on the essential questions: Why is it wrong t...

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  • DAVID PARK, PAINTER
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    DAVID PARK, PAINTER
    HELEN PARK BIGELOW
    A mesmerizing, deeply moving portrait of the life and works of one of America's most important twentieth-century painters. A half century after his death, David Park (1911–1960) is recognized as one of America's most important twentieth–century painters. He was the first of the brilliant post–World War II generation of artists to break with Abstract Expressionism's hegemony and...

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  • THIS IS WHY I CAME
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    THIS IS WHY I CAME
    MARY RAKOW
    A woman sits in prayerful meditation, waiting to offer her first confession in more than thirty years. She holds a small book on her lap, one that she's made, and tells herself again the Bible stories it contains, the ones she has written anew, for herself, each story told aslant, from Jonah to Jesus, Moses to Mary Magdalen. Woven together and stitched by hand, they provide a n...

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  • SUMMER DOORWAYS
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    SUMMER DOORWAYS
    W. S. MERWIN
    America today is a mobile society. Many of us travel abroad, and few of us live in the towns or cities where we were born. It wasn't always so. "Travel from America to Europe became a commonplace, an ordinary commodity, some time ago, but when I first went such departure was still surrounded with an atmosphere of adventure and improvisation, and my youth and inexperience and my...

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  • SOUTH OF THE CLOUDS
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    SOUTH OF THE CLOUDS
    BILL PORTER
    While flipping through the atlas of Chang Ch'i–yun, one of China's most famous geographers, distinguished translator Bill Porter (Red Pine) developed a curiosity about the southwestern province of China. Dubbed Yun–nan, "South of the Clouds," this was the last area modern China to come under Chinese control. Originally conquered by the Mongols and eventually introduced to forei...

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