Grove Atlantic: 1452 books
by Marguerite Duras
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
A man hires a woman to spend several weeks with him by the sea. The woman is no one in particular, a "she," a warm, moist body with a beating heart-the enigma of Other. Skilled in the mechanics of sex, he desires through her to penetrate a different mystery: he wants to learn to love. It isn't a matter...
by Eugene Ionesco
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
The leading figure of absurdist theater and one of the great innovators of the modern stage, Eugène Ionesco (1909-94) did not write his first play, The Bald Soprano, until 1950. He went on to become an internationally renowned master of modern drama, famous for the comic proportions and bizarre effects...
by Paul Sussman
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2008
From the international bestselling author—a “cinematic, rip-roaring adventure mystery” about Egypt’s ancient past and a race for priceless treasure (Booklist).
In 523 BC, the Persian pharaoh Cambyses dispatched an army across Egypt’s desert to destroy the oracle at Siwa—only for...
by Leila Aboulela
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Since her award-winning debut novel, Minaret, Leila Aboulela has been praised by J.M. Coetzee, Ali Smith, Aminatta Forna, and Anthony Marra among others for her rich and nuanced depictions of Islamic spiritual and political life. Her latest collection, Elsewhere, Home, draws us ineluctably into the...
The Billionaire and the Mechanic
How Larry Ellison and a Car Mechanic Teamed up to Win Sailing's Greatest Race, the Americas Cup, Twice
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
**A Forbes Best Book of the Year: “Must reading for any yacht-racing aficionado.” —**Frank Deford
The America’s Cup, first awarded in 1851, is the oldest trophy in international sports, and one of the most hotly contested. In 2000, Larry Ellison, cofounder and billionaire CEO of Oracle...
Patient
The True Story of a Rare Illness
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year: “Unforgettable . . . Few have told such a compelling life-story as skillfully” (San Francisco Chronicle).
In the summer of 1992, on the eve of an American tour, singer/songwriter Ben Watt, one half of the Billboard-topping pop duo Everything But...
Wagons West
The Epic Story of America's Overland Trails
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
An acclaimed historian’s “compellingly told” year-by-year account of the pioneering efforts to conquer the American West in the mid-nineteenth century (The Guardian).
In all the sagas of human migration, few can top the drama of the journey by Midwestern farmers to Oregon and California from...
And They Shall Be My People
An American Rabbi and His Congregation
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A “lucid, compassionate, [and] inspiring” chronicle of an American Rabbi’s struggle to keep the faith of his congregation (Chicago Tribune).
Journalist Paul Wilkes spent a year with Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum of Congregation Beth Israel in Worchester, Massachusetts. He silently observed the Rabbi’s...
Monster
The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
After pumping eight blasts from a sawed-off shotgun at a group of rival gang members, twelve-year-old Kody Scott was initiated into the L.A. gang the Crips. He quickly matured into one of the most formidable Crip combat soldiers, earning the name Monster” for committing acts of brutality and violence...
by Jeanette Winterson
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The New York Times–bestselling author’s Whitbread Prize–winning debut—“Winterson has mastered both comedy and tragedy in this rich little novel” (The Washington Post Book World).
When it first appeared, Jeanette Winterson’s extraordinary debut novel received unanimous international...
The Cello Suites
J. S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
An award-winning journey through Johann Sebastian Bach’s six cello suites and the brilliant musician who revealed their lasting genius.
One fateful evening, journalist and pop-music critic Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cello Suites—an experience that set him...
The Last Holiday
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
“Engrossing and even at times uplifting, Scott-Heron’s self-portrait grants us insights into one of the most influential African American musicians of his generation.” —Booklist
The stunning memoir of Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner Gil Scott-Heron, The Last Holiday has been praised...
There's a Riot Going On
Revolutionaries, Rock Stars, and the Rise and Fall of the 60s
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
“Doggett’s encyclopaedic account of Sixties counter-culture is a fascinating history of pop’s relationship with politics.” —The Independent
Between 1965 and 1972, political activists around the globe prepared to mount a revolution. While the Vietnam War raged, calls for black power...
by Sarah Henstra
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
The Red Word is a smart, dark, and take-no-prisoners look at both rape culture and the extremes to which ideology can go.
Rape culture has been getting a significant amount of media attention recently, and Henstra’s fictional take is nuanced, compelling, and very timely.
Though the...