Grove Atlantic: 1452 books
by Barry Hannah
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A darkly comic, fiercely tragic, and strikingly original odyssey into contemporary American life by “the Jimi Hendrix of American short fiction” (Interview).
The thirteen masterful tales in this collection by the award-winning author of Airships and Bats Out of Hell explore lost moments...
Labyrinth
The True Story of City of Lies, the Murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. and the Implication of the Los Angeles Police Department
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Acclaimed journalist Randall Sullivan follows Russell Poole, a highly decorated LAPD detective who in 1997 was called to investigate a controversial cop-on-cop shooting, eventually to discover that the officer killed was tied to Marion Suge” Knight’s notorious gangsta rap label, Death Row Records....
A Splendid Exchange
How Trade Shaped the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2009
A Financial Times and Economist Best Book of the Year exploring world trade from Mesopotamia in 3,000 BC to modern globalization.
How did trade evolve to the point where we don’t think twice about biting into an apple from the other side of the world?
In A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein,...
by Michelle Dean
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
The first book from one of America’s most promising emerging voices in literary journalism, winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing (previous winners include Ron Charles, Kathryn Schulz, Parul Sehgal, and Daniel Mendelsohn) is sure to garner...
The Raymond Chandler Papers
Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909–1959
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Selected letters and nonfiction of one of America’s most beloved writers “reveals the occasionally softer side of the man behind the hard-boiled mysteries” (Library Journal).
The Raymond Chandler Papers brings together the correspondence and other previously uncollected writing of America’s...
by Marianne Power
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
I wanted to find out what would happen if I really did follow the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People? Really felt The Power of Now? Could life be transformed? Could I get rich? Skinny? Find love? Be more productive and fulfilled? Because I really did want all the things these books promised.
For...
by Jim Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Three classic novellas from “one of our master chroniclers of human hungers, flaws, and frustrations.” (The Kansas City Star).
Jim Harrison’s vivid, tender, and deeply felt fictions have won him acclaim as an American master of the novella. His highly acclaimed volume of novellas, The...
by Jeanette Winterson
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
A New York Times bestseller: The “magnificent” memoir by one of the bravest and most original writers of our time—“A tour de force of literature and love” (Vogue).
One of the New York Times’ “50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years”
Jeanette Winterson’s bold and revelatory novels...
by Paula Daly
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
“Riveting! Daly plunges straight into the heart of every parent’s worst nightmare with page-turning results.” —Lisa Gardner, #1 New York Times–bestselling author
Lisa Kallisto—overwhelmed working mother—is the not-so-perfect model of the modern woman. She holds down a busy job...
by Michael Tolkin
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The “shrewd, entertainingly dark Hollywood novel” that inspired the award-winning Robert Altman film (The New York Times Book Review).
Hollywood insider Michael Tolkin perfectly skewers the movie-making business through the mind of Griffin Mill, senior vice president of production at a...
Hiroshima Mon Amour
A Screenplay
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
The award-winning screenplay for the classic film the New York Post hailed as “overwhelming . . . a motion picture landmark.”
One of the most influential works in the history of cinema, Alain Renais’s Hiroshima Mon Amour gathered international acclaim upon its release in 1959 and was...
Honorable Treachery
A History of U.S. Intelligence, Espionage, and Covert Action from the American Revolution to the CIA
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
A “splendidly written, impeccably researched, and perfectly fascinating” look at clandestine operations from colonial times to the Cuban Missile Crisis (The Washington Post Book World).
We’ve always depended on intelligence gathering to drive foreign policy in peacetime and command decision...
Ivory's Ghosts
The White Gold of History and the Fate of Elephants
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
“[A] tour de force examination of the history of ivory . . . and the demise of the elephant and human decency in the process of this unholy quest.” —The Huffington Post
Praised for the nuance and sensitivity with which it approaches one of the most fraught conservation issues we face today,...
The Sweet Smell of Psychosis
A Novella
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
A brief and brilliant satire of magazine hacks and fashionistas, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis shows Will Self-a writer hailed by Time as brilliant, iconoclastic . . . one of Britain’s most original young writers”-at the top of his form. It looks like it’s going to be quite a Christmas for Richard...