Counterpoint

A Woman of Pleasure

By Juliet Winters Carpenter (trans.) - By Kiyoko Murata - Published 2024

Genres:

Literary

Ichi is fifteen when she is taken from her island home of Iojima and sold to the preeminent brothel in the Kumamoto licensed ...Read Review

Freedom’s Ghost: A Mystery of the American Revolution (Bone Rattler)

By Eliot Pattison - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This seventh in Eliot Pattison’s series of mysteries of the American Revolution seizes a small portion of time in the lead-up to ...Read Review

The Elephant of Belfast (US) / The Zookeeper of Belfast (UK)

By S. Kirk Walsh - Published 2021

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Violet, a three-year-old Ceylonese elephant, meets and enchants Hettie Quin immediately after disembarking at the Belfast harbor and making her lumbering way to ...Read Review

The Doll: A Portrait of My Mother

By Ismail Kadare - By John Hodgson (trans.) - Published 2020

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

Winner of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize and other prestigious awards, Ismail Kadare is Albania’s most well-known novelist and poet. This ...Read Review

Death and the Butterfly

By Colin Hester - Published 2020

Genres:

Literary

Starting in 1940 and moving to the early years of the present century, this novel follows a disparate group of people connected by death ...Read Review

The King’s Beast: A Mystery of the American Revolution (Bone Rattler)

By Eliot Pattison - Published 2020

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeThriller

The latest installment in Eliot Pattison’s Bone Rattler series, The King’s Beast follows Duncan McCallum, a veteran of the Battle of ...Read Review

Only the River

By Anne Raeff - Published 2020

Genres:

LiterarySaga

In 1938, during the Anschluss, a Jewish family escapes from Vienna to El Castillo, Nicaragua. The parents, both doctors, establish a clinic to assist ...Read Review

The Revisioners

By Margaret Wilkerson Sexton - Published 2019

Genres:

Saga

Margaret Wilkerson Sexton has crafted an unforgettable story of strong women through multiple generations of one African American family in Louisiana. The chapters ...Read Review

Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall

By James Polchin - Published 2019

Genres:

Nonfiction

Compact and powerful, Polchin’s social history of crimes against queer men in the first half of the 20th century coincides with the 50...Read Review

Savage Liberty

By Eliot Pattison - Published 2018

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In 1768, the English merchant ship Arcturus, arriving from London, explodes in Boston harbor, killing 37 men on board. Upon examination of the destroyed vessel ...Read Review