Grove Atlantic: 1452 books
by Jim Dodge
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A road trip novel from the author of Fup that “reads like Kerouac’s On the Road as it might have been written by Hunter S. Thompson” (The Plain Dealer).
George Gastin is a Bay Area tow-truck operator who wrecks cars as part of an insurance scam. One of the cars he is hired to demolish...
Rain on the River
Selected Poems and Short Prose
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Chapbooks, musings, poetry, and prose by a folklorist with a “wonderful imagination, eye for detail and command of language” (Publishers Weekly).
While Jim Dodge is internationally known for his fiction, his first and abiding passion is poetry. After eighteen years of publishing anonymously...
Off the Map
Tales of Endurance and Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
“A fine and lively collection of exploration stories” from the author of Barrow’s Boys (Kirkus Reviews).
On John Franklin’s 1820 expedition to find the Northwest Passage, Michel Teroahaute cannibalized two team members and was preparing a third when he was caught and killed. When Rene...
by Gil Scott-Heron
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
The legendary poet and musician’s debut novel is “an impressively crafted urban noir . . . like an early forerunner of The Wire” (The Independent).
Known as the “godfather of rap” and an innovator of spoken-word soul music with songs like The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Gil Scott-Heron...
by Bryan Charles
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
“A sneakily disturbing, disarmingly profound, casually devastating memoir” of a young writer in NYC—and the fateful turn his life takes on Sept. 11, 2001 (Michael Chabon).
In 1998, twenty-four-year-old Bryan Charles came to New York, following the well-trodden path of many before him—pursuing...
From Where You Dream
The Process of Writing Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author “shares his insights into—and passion for—the creation and experience of fiction with total openness” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Robert Olen Butler, author of Perfume River, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, and A Small Hotel, teaches graduate...
The Dressing Station
A Surgeon's Chronicle of War and Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
In this “vividly compelling” New York Times Notable Book, a surgeon recounts his experiences in war zones (The Washington Post).
From treating the casualties of apartheid in Cape Town to operating on Kurdish guerrillas in Northern Iraq at the end of the Gulf War, Jonathan Kaplan has saved...
Birth
The Surprising History of How We Are Born
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A journalist **“**explores the way childbirth has changed, from pre-history to the present” in this “fascinating, funny and occasionally shocking” historical survey (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
From midwives to the epidural and beyond, mother and former Boston Globe editor Tina...
by Amy Silverstein
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2008
This shockingly frank and irreverent memoir of a young woman’s life with a heart transplant “will inspire and choke you up with tears and laughter” (Larry King).
At twenty-four, Amy Silverstein was your typical type-A law student: smart, driven, and highly competitive. With a full course...
Pot Planet
Adventures in Global Marijuana Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
“A gimlet-eyed and often hilarious account of the author’s round-the-world reefer safari . . . A surprisingly clear-headed view of potheads worldwide” (The New Yorker).
In Pot Planet, journalist Brian Preston sets out on a global ganja safari to explore strange new cannabis cultures,...
Josie's Story
A Mother's Inspiring Crusade to Make Medical Care Safe
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
The “wrenching but inspiring” true story of a tragic medical mistake that turned a grieving mother into a national advocate (The Wall Street Journal).
Sorrel King was a young mother of four when her eighteen-month-old daughter was badly burned by a faulty water heater in the family’s...
Masters of the Word
How Media Shaped History from the Alphabet to the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
A captivating, illuminating, and sweeping historical narrative revealing the fascinating role media has played throughout the course of history.
In “an engaging mix of theory, fact and enlightenment from across the millennia that wears its rich scholarship lightly,” Masters of the Word...
by Stuart Walton
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Using Charles Darwin’s survey of emotions as a starting point, Stuart Walton’s A Natural History of Human Emotions examines the history of each of our core emotions-fear, anger, disgust, sadness, jealousy, contempt, shame, embarrassment, surprise, and happiness-and how these emotions have influenced...
by Deon Meyer, K.L. Seegers
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
“Deon Meyer’s novels explore the complex reality of South Africa . . . they are exciting stories of crime, conflict, and revenge.” —The Miami Herald
Blood Safari is a harrowing novel from internationally acclaimed thriller writer Deon Meyer, an expert storyteller whose wickedly fast...