The Food of Love
The Easier Way to Breastfeed Your Baby
KATE EVANS

A refreshingly funny guide to breastfeeding packed with hilarious graphics, The Food of Love will entertain anyone who has ever wondered how it all works.

“Vibrant, exciting, funny—and based on up-to-date research.” —Sheila Kitzinger, author of The Complete Book of Pregnancy and Childbirth

SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-1-59376-217-9 | Trade Paper | $16.95

Swallow the Ocean
A Memoir
LAURA M. FLYNN

Set in 1970s San Francisco, Swallow the Ocean is the heartbreaking true story of three young girls who find the strength to survive their mother’s slow spiral into schizophrenia.

“[A] heartbreaking page-turner.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“[A] beautifully written memoir . . . Poetic and masterful, this is a memoir you won’t soon forget.” —Edwidge Danticat, author of Brother, I’m Dying

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-461-2 | Trade Paper | $15.95

Aereality
On the World from Above
WILLIAM L. FOX

Fox turns the travelogue on its head by surveying the land from above while analyzing the people’s perceptions of aerial imagery from New York to Australia. As he traverses the sky in prop planes, helicopters, and hot air balloons, he is accompanied by a motley crew of geographers, anthropologists and artists, who all aim to know and experience the earth from the air.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-429-2 | Cloth | $30.00

On Writers and Writing
JOHN GARDNER
INTRODUCTION BY CHARLES JOHNSON

In this provocative collection of essays and reviews, Gardner fearlessly examines the work of writers like Joyce Carol Oates and John Updike to define the core qualities of lasting fiction. Essential reading for anyone interested in American literature.

“For Gardner, fiction is real and earnest. The reader who takes it equally seriously will get much from this book.” —New York Times

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-494-0 | Trade Paper| $15.95

Leonard Woolf
A Biography
VICTORIA GLENDINNING

Award-winning biographer Victoria Glendinning presents a meticulously researched and compassionately rendered portrait of the “dark star” of Bloomsbury. Leonard Woolf is a shrewdly perceptive and lively biography of a man whose impact on society is far-reaching and who is owed long-overdue appreciation for his contributions.
“Comprehensive and eminently readable.” —New York Times Book Review

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-411-7 | Trade Paper | $16.95

Gold Diggers
Striking It Rich in the Klondike
Charlotte Gray

Between 1896 and 1899, thousands of people lured by gold braved a grueling journey into the remote wilderness of North America. Within two years, Dawson City, in the Canadian Yukon, grew from a mining camp of four hundred to a raucous town of over thirty thousand people. The stampede to the Klondike was the last great gold rush in history.

Drawing on letters, memoirs, newspaper articles, and stories, Charlotte Gray delivers an enthralling tale of the gold madness that swept through a continent and changed a landscape and its people forever.

“A fascinating, rich account . . . Readers can only be grateful to such a skilled writer and historian as Charlotte Gray to let us go to, feel, smell and wonder at such an astonishing place as Dawson City during the ephemeral gold rush.” —The Globe and Mail

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-611-1 | Cloth | $29.95

Deeply Rooted
Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness
LISA M. HAMILTON

Lisa M. Hamilton conducts an inquiry into three unconventional farmers in America whose experiences make the case that, to save our food system, we must bring farmers back to the table.

“The extraordinary farmers . . . in Deeply Rooted embody the future of American agriculture.” —Alice Waters

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-59376-180-6 | Cloth | $25.00

John Milton
A Hero for Our Time
DAVID HAWKES

Published to coincide with the 400th anniversary of his birth, the best John Milton biography in forty years closely examines Milton’s participation in the English civil war and his startlingly modern ideas about capitalism, love, and marriage, reminding us that human liberty and autonomy should never be taken for granted.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-437-7 | Cloth | $28.00

Edward Kennedy
An Intimate Biography
BURTON HERSH

In this groundbreaking biography, historian and journalist Burton Hersh combines extensive critical research with more than fifty years of never-before-told anecdotes and observations from his lifelong acquaintance with Edward Kennedy to create an indelible portrait of one of the finest legislators and most influential senators in American history.

“In the end it was Ted Kennedy, the scapegrace kid brother, who stood for something, passed important laws, defended liberal principles, and had the most substantial career. No one has known Teddy longer, followed that career more closely, or written more seriously or at greater length about the last Kennedy than Burton Hersh. His new book on Teddy draws on all its predecessors and adds substantial new material to create a magisterial political biography of the Kennedy who added real substance to the fleeting promise of his brothers.” —Thomas Powers

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-628-9 | Cloth | $32

Love All the People
The Essential Bill Hicks
BILL HICKS

“An inspired and inspiring truth teller, dangerous and brave and scary all at once.” —Richard Pryor

“Bill Hicks—blowtorch, excavator, truth-sayer, and brain specialist, like a reverend waving a gun around. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.” —Tom Waits

SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-1-59376-201-8 | Trade Paper | $16.95