Grove Atlantic: 1452 books
Naked Lunch
The Restored Text
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Since its original publication in Paris in 1959, Naked Lunch has become one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Exerting its influence on the relationship of art and obscenity, it is one of the books that redefined not just literature but American culture. For the Burroughs enthusiast...
by Petr Ginz
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
“Recalling the diaries of . . . Anne Frank, Ginz’s diaries reveal a budding Czech literary and artistic genius whose life was cut short by the Nazis.” —International Herald Tribune
Not since Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl has such an intimately candid, deeply affecting account...
Contact Wounds
A War Surgeon's Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
From the author of the New York Times Notable Book, The Dressing Station: “A gripping memoir” of a doctor’s education on the battlefield (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).
Inspired by his father’s time as a military surgeon in World War II, Jonathan Kaplan became a doctor and was appointed to a...
Che Guevara
A Revolutionary Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Acclaimed around the world and a national best-seller, this is the definitive work on Che Guevara, the dashing rebel whose epic dream was to end poverty and injustice in Latin America and the developing world through armed revolution. Jon Lee Anderson’s biography traces Che’s extraordinary life,...
The Last Narco
Inside the Hunt for El Chapo, the World's Most Wanted Drug Lord
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
“Malcolm Beith risked life and limb to tell the inside story of Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán Loera, Mexico’s notorious drug capo.” —George W. Grayson, author of Mexico: Narco-Violence and a Failed State?
The dense hills of Sinaloa, Mexico, were home to the most powerful drug lord...
The Private Lives of the Tudors
Uncovering the Secrets of Britain’s Greatest Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
England’s Tudor monarchs—Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I—are perhaps the most celebrated and fascinating of all royal families in history. Their love affairs, their political triumphs, and their overturning of the religious order are the subject of countless works of...
by Alison Weir
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A “brilliantly written and meticulously researched” biography of royal family life during England’s second Tudor monarch (San Francisco Chronicle).
Either annulled, executed, died in childbirth, or widowed, these were the well-known fates of the six queens during the tempestuous, bloody,...
1942
The Year That Tried Men's Souls
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
America’s first year in World War II, chronicled in this “page-turner” by the Pulitzer Prize–nominated author of Forrest Gump and The Generals (Publishers Weekly).
On December 7, 1941, an unexpected attack on American territory pulled an unprepared country into a terrifying new brand...
by Ana Menéndez
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Eleven short stories of the Cuban immigrant experience as characters adjust to life in the United Sates, from an award-winning author.
From the prize–winning title story—a masterpiece of humor and heartbreak—unfolds a collection of tales that illuminate the landscape of an exiled community...
Thunder Run
The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
“A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter provides a brilliant account of the harrowing drive into Baghdad by an American armor brigade.” —Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Based on reporting that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Thunder Run chronicles one of the boldest gambles in modern military...
The Deserter's Tale
The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2008
Destined to become part of the literature of the Iraq war . . . A substantial contribution to history.”-Los Angeles TimesNow in paperback, The Deserter’s Tale is the first memoir from a soldier who deserted from the war in Iraq, and a vivid and damning indictment of the American military campaign....
Apache
Inside the Cockpit of the World's Most Deadly Fighting Machine
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
“A truly amazing portrayal of the technical, the emotional, and the courageous. Macy puts the reader in the cockpit of our most lethal attack platform.” —Dick Couch, New York Times–bestselling author
Apache is the incredible true story of Ed Macy, a decorated Apache helicopter pilot,...
The Great Wall
China Against the World, 1000 BC–AD 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A “gripping, colorful” history of China’s Great Wall that explores the conquests and cataclysms of the empire from 1000 BC to the present day (Publishers Weekly).
Over two thousand years old, the Great Wall of China is a symbolic and physical dividing line between the civilized Chinese...
My Friend the Mercenary
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
**“Intensely vivid story of war and the peculiar breed of warriors who fight in 21st-century Africa . . . and tribute to an extraordinary comrade-at-arms.” —**Kirkus Reviews
In February 2002, British journalist James Brabazon set out to travel with guerrilla forces into Liberia to show...