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The Scent of God
A Memoir
BERYL SINGLETON BISSELL
After ten years of life in the convent the author meets a handsome Italian priest and discovers that that her religious garb cannot protect her from her budding sexuality. In spare but lyrical language, Bissell weaves a powerful story of love, death, guilt, and redemption.
COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-361-5 | Trade Paper | $15.00 |
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Swallow the Ocean
A Memoir
LAURA M. FLYNN
In her debut work, Laura M. Flynn shares childhood memories of her charismatic mother’s harrowing mental deterioration. Flynn and her two sisters escaped into their imaginations to deflect the danger threatening their fragile family. In luminous prose, this memoir paints a most intimate portrait of the determination of three young girls to survive their environment even as they yearned to escape it.
COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-385-1 | Cloth | $23.00 |
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Horizontal World
Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere
DEBRA MARQUART
Growing up on the family farm in rural North Dakota, Debra Marquart always knew she wanted out. Though she was never able to abandon it completely, Marquart went on to become a rock musician, a poet, an English teacher, and a memoirist with sentences praised by the New York Times as “elegant, understated . . . as fertile as tilled rows of loam.”
COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-363-9 | Trade Paper | $15.00 |
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Jesus Land
A Memoir
JULIA SCHEERES
“Sibling bond is at the core of Jesus Land, Scheeres’s gritty, heart-wrenching memoir. . . . A lesser writer would have buckled under the weight of this story. . . . A page turner. . . . Heart-stopping and enraging. . . . There is much praise, these days, for the detached, quietly elegant narrative. But there is little mention of the power a well-tended rage can bring to a good story. . . . Focused, justified and without a trace of self-pity. Shot through with poignancy.” —New York Times Book Review
COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-354-7 | Trade Paper | $14.00 |
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Typo
The Last American Typesetter or How I Made and Lost 4 Million Dollars
DAVID SILVERMAN
This memoir about buying a typesetting company tells one entrepreneur’s story of what it means to take on, run, and ultimately lose an entire life’s work. In Typo we find the American Dream run aground, rife with humor and moments of tragedy. It is “amusing, appalling, infuriating and wonderfully written.” —Wall Street Journal
SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-1-933368-65-8 | Trade Paper Original | $16.95 |
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The Palace of the Snow Queen
Winter Travels in Lapland
BARBARA SJOHOLM
In a book Rebecca Brown calls “thoroughly researched, funny, lively and—yes—warm,” detailing “what humans can discover and create in the cold,” Sjoholm both tells of her adventures in the winter landscape of Scandinavia and considers the power of ice and snow to shape our imaginations. With passionate descriptions she delivers both a powerful travel narrative and an unforgettable memoir.
COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-59376-159-2 | Trade Paper Original | $15.95 |
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Dark at the Roots
A Memoir
SARAH THYRE
“The best friend you wish you'd had, and the girl your mother warned you about. . . . My own sister recently said to me, as we were having a swinging contest at the park—I am 41 and she is 51—‘I swing higher, I’m smarter and funnier than you, and people like me better.’ I can think of no better description for Sarah Thyre, or for her memoir, which was crafted with an edge razor-fine.”
—Haven Kimmel, author of A Girl Named Zippy
COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-359-2 | Cloth | $22.95
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White Like Me
Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son
TIM WISE
“White Like Me is the most important memoir by a white person about how race and racism affect everyday life since Lois Mark Stalvey’s The Education of a WASP.”
—James Loewen, best-selling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me
SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-1-933368-99-3 | Trade Paper | $13.95 |
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A Step from Death
A Memoir
LARRY WOIWODE
In A Step from Death, Woiwode addresses his son as the intimate heir to the writer’s interior. Through a series of memories, Woiwode leads us to his contemplation on his proximity to death. As Kirkus Reviews rightly said of Woiwode’s previous memoir, What I Think I Did, this new memoir is also a work of “purest sense and sensitivity.”
COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-373-8 | Cloth | $24.00 |
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