Grove Atlantic: 1452 books
Native
Dispatches from an Israeli-Palestinian Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Sayed Kashua has been praised by the New York Times as a master of subtle nuance in dealing with both Arab and Jewish society.” An Arab-Israeli who lived in Jerusalem for most of his life, Kashua started writing with the hope of creating one story that both Palestinians and Israelis could relate...
The Story of Tibet
Conversations with the Dalai Lama
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
“A memorable and vivid history lesson about a remote mysterious place that, in terms of its sheer survival, has implications for our own lives.” —The Times-Picayune
Over the course of three years, journalist Thomas Laird spent more than sixty hours with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in...
by Bob Shacochis
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
“Every war brings forth one perfect book. . . . Now we have The Immaculate Invasion, the masterpiece of the 1994 US assault on and occupation of Haiti.” —Chicago Tribune
Widely celebrated upon its original publication in 1999, National Book Award winning writer Bob Shacochis’s The Immaculate...
The Heritage of the Bhikkhu
The Buddhist Tradition of Service
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2003
A classic guide to the life of service and meditation practiced by Buddhist monks.
Walpola Rahula’s What the Buddha Taught is a perennial backlist bestseller and has proven to be an indispensable guide to beginning Buddhism. It is renowned for its authoritative, clear, logical, and comprehensive...
by Kim Echlin
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
A fiercely beautiful love story for the ages, The Disappeared traces one woman’s three-decades-long journey from the peaceful streets of Montreal to the war-torn villages of Cambodia, as a brief affair turns into a grand passion of loss and remembrance, set against one of the most brutal genocides...
The Cosgrove Report
Being the Private Inquiry of a Pinkerton Detective into the Death of President Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2009
A unique historical thriller takes on the true mysteries of Lincoln’s assassination "with verve, humor and impressive scholarship” (Time).
In 1868, Pinkerton Detective Nicholas Cosgrove is tasked with tracking down John Wilkes Booth, a man who should be three years in his grave. Booth,...
The Red Flag
A History of Communism
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
“The best and the most accessible one-volume history of communism now available . . . A far-reaching, vividly written account.” —Foreign Affairs
In The Red Flag, Oxford professor David Priestland tells the epic story of a movement that has taken root in dozens of countries across two...
Freeman's: Family
The Best New Writing on Family
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Freeman's: Family is the second literary anthology in the series reviewers are calling bold” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) and refreshing” (Chicago Literati). Following a debut issue on the theme of Arrival,” Freeman circles a new topic whose definition is constantly challenged by the best...
Freeman's: Home
The Best New Writing on Home
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
The third literary anthology in the series that has been called ambitious” (O Magazine) and strikingly international” (Boston Globe), Freeman’s: Home, continues to push boundaries in diversity and scope, with stunning new pieces from emerging writers and literary luminaries alike.
As...
by Barry Hannah
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Nominated for the National Book Award, Barry Hannah’s brilliant debut offers “a fresh angle on the great American subject of growing up” (John Updike).
Roiling with love and torment, lunacy and desire, hilarity and tenderness, Geronimo Rex is the bildungsroman of an unlikely hero. Reared...
by Jim Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
An unforgettable collection of novellas from the author of Legends of the Fall explores the line between civilization and the “wild men.”
Jim Harrison is an American master. The Beast God Forgot to Invent offers stories of culture and wildness, of men and beasts and where they overlap....
My Traitor's Heart
A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His Conscience
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2012
An Afrikaner crime reporter returns home to face the evil and complex legacy of South African apartheid in “a witness-bearing act of the rarest courage” (Michael Kerr).
Rian Malan’s classic work of reportage, My Traitor’s Heart is at once beautiful, horrifying, and profound in ways...
by Lieve Joris
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010
**“A compelling, blood-soaked portrait of a young Tutsi rebel who rose to become one of the leading generals in the Congolese Army.” —**Details
Lieve Joris has long been considered “one of the best journalists in the world” and in The Rebels’ Hour she illuminates the dark heart of contemporary...
Halsey's Typhoon
The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
This account of a disaster at sea during World War II is “a powerful and engrossing story of tragedy, survival, and heroism” (Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down).
In the final days of 1944, Admiral William “Bull” Halsey is the Pacific theater’s most popular and colorful naval...