Grove Atlantic: 1452 books
by Helen Macdonald
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
**One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year
ON MORE THAN 25 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR LISTS: including TIME (#1 Nonfiction Book), NPR, O, The Oprah Magazine (10 Favorite Books), Vogue (Top 10), Vanity Fair, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times,...
Triangle
The Fire That Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2004
Triangle is a poignantly detailed account of the 1911 disaster that horrified the country and changed the course of twentieth-century politics and labor relations
On March 25, 1911, as workers were getting ready to leave for the day, a fire broke out in the Triangle shirtwaist factory in New...
The Last Stand of Fox Company
A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
“The authors of the bestselling Halsey’s Typhoon do a fine job recounting one brutal, small-unit action during the Korean War’s darkest moment.” —Publishers Weekly
November 1950, the Korean Peninsula. After General MacArthur ignores Mao’s warnings and pushes his UN forces deeper into...
The Bible
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2008
As the single work at the heart of Christianity, the world’s largest organized religion, the Bible is the spiritual guide for one out of every three people in the world. It is also the world’s most widely distributed book and its best-selling, with an estimated six billion copies sold in the last...
by Tim Parks
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year: A deliciously entertaining account of expatriate life in a small village just outside Verona, Italy.
Tim Parks is anything but a gentleman in Verona. So after ten years of living with his Italian wife, Rita, in a typical provincial Italian neighborhood,...
Brunetti's Venice
Walks with the City's Best-Loved Detective
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2009
An armchair traveler’s companion to Donna Leon’s Brunetti mysteries: “a splendid present for mystery-fiction fans [or] travel-lit buffs” (Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal).
Follow Commissario Guido Brunetti, star of Donna Leon’s international bestselling mystery series, on over...
Ambient
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
One man struggles to survive in a dystopian near-future New York City in this acclaimed novel that “performs feats of brilliance on so many levels” (Entertainment Weekly).
In a decaying and violent near-future New York, the remnants of civic order are maintained with brute force by the conglomerate...
Bohemian Paris
Picasso, Modigliani, Matisse, and the Birth of Modern Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
“[An] epic account of life and loves among artists and writers in Paris from belle époque to world slump.” —William Feaver, The Spectator**
A legendary capital of the arts, Paris hosted some of the most legendary developments in world culture—particularly at the beginning of the twentieth...
by Anton Chekhov
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Anton Chekhov was a master whose daring work revolutionized theater, and this was as true of Ivanov, his first full-length play, as of The Cherry Orchard, his last. Building on the success of his acclaimed adaptation of The Seagull, Tom Stoppard returns to Chekhov and the themes of bitter social satire,...
Off to the Side
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Jim Harrison traces his upbringing in Michigan amid the austerities of the Depression and the Second World War.
In this “sprawling, impressionistic memoir”, which was selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Jim Harrison chronicles his coming-of-age, from a boy drunk with...
The Unknown Night
The Genius and Madness of R. A. Blakelock, an American Painter
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
“The best book yet written about this neglected and fascinating American painter” who anticipated abstract expressionism by more than fifty years (Gail Levin, The New York Times Book Review).
At the dawn of the 20th century, Ralph Blakelock’s brooding, hallucinogenic paintings were a...
Charles Bukowski
Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
“A lively portrait of American literature’s ‘Dirty Old Man’.” —Library Journal
A former postman and long-term alcoholic who did not become a full-time writer until middle age, Charles Bukowski was the author of autobiographical novels that captured the low life—including Post...
Untouchable
The Strange Life and Tragic Death of Michael Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
"A dishy Michael Jackson biography that makes the exhaustively covered King of Pop fascinating all over again."-PeopleThe first deep-dive narrative by a veteran journalist covering the King of Pop’s convoluted final years on earth . . . [Untouchable] helps cast Jackson in a new light.”-Los Angeles...
All Tomorrow's Parties
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
“In this carefully wrought coming-of-age memoir, a young American writer searches for home in an unlikely place: East Berlin immediately after the fall of the wall.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
Rob Spillman—the award-winning, charismatic cofounding editor of the legendary Tin House...