Grove Atlantic: 1452 books
Once in a Lifetime: The Incredible Story of the New York Cosmos
Girls, Greed, Goals, Superstars and Excess
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The “compelling . . . detailed and thoughtful account” of the rise and fall of the Cosmos, New York’s first superstar soccer team (Kirkus Reviews).
In the summer of 1977, soccer was poised to finally conquer America and the New York Cosmos were the premier sports team of the city. They...
I Don't Care if We Never Get Back
30 Games in 30 Days on the Best Worst Baseball Road Trip Ever
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Two friends take a wild month-long road trip to hit every Major League Baseball stadium in America: “A fun ride” (The Boston Globe).
Ben, a sports analytics wizard, loves baseball. Eric, his best friend, hates it. But when Ben writes an algorithm for the optimal baseball road trip, an impossible...
by Will Self
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
What is there is only a limited amount of sanity in the world and the real reason people go mad is because somebody has to? What if a mysterious tribe in the Amazon rainforest turn out to be the most boring people on earth? What if the afterlife is nothing more than a London suburb, where the dead...
Beyond the Game
The Collected Sportswriting of Gary Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Fifteen compelling stories from the acclaimed Sports Illustrated correspondent who’s been hailed as one of America’s finest sportswriters.
Gary Smith’s sportswriting stands among the best journalism being written today. His award-winning stories shatter the confines of traditional sports...
by Samuel Beckett
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, novels, stories and poetry has earned him an uncontested place as one of the greatest writers of our time. Endgame, originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett himself, is considered...
A Fighter's Heart
One Man's Journey Through the World of Fighting
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
This “whirling, no-holds-barred,” national bestselling memoir of mixed martial arts by the author of The Fighter’s Mind is “adrenaline-addled and addictive” (Playboy).
In A Fighter’s Heart, former merchant marine and Harvard graduate Sam Sheridan shares a “fascinating” first-person...
by Jon A. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
A taut police thriller featuring detective “Fang” Mulheisen—from a writer hailed as “the best-kept secret of hard-boiled crime fiction connoisseurs” (The New York Times Book Review).
When a cop guns down an intruder during a break-in, it seems like another case of a bad guy meeting...
Good Value
Reflections on Money, Morality and an Uncertain World
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
“An unusual and thoughtful disquisition on how to conduct oneself in a world of high finance and ambition.” —The Wall Street Journal
A Financial Times Book of the Year
Can one be both an ethical person and an effective businessperson? As an ordained priest and former bank chairman, Stephen...
Scripts People Live
Transactional Analysis of Life Scripts
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A “stimulating and thought-provoking” guide to help you make productive and autonomous choices toward rewriting your life (Los Angeles Times).
We choose a “life script” at an early age. But you can change its course. Whether born into wealth or poverty, into nurturing families or damaged...
by P. J. O'Rourke
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008
The #1 New York Times–bestselling political humorist reads Adam Smith’s classic economic treatise—so you don’t have to.
Recognized almost instantly on its publication in 1776 as the fundamental work of economics, The Wealth of Nations was also recognized as really long. The original edition...
The Long Emergency
Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A “frightening and important” look at our unsustainable future (Time Out Chicago).
A controversial hit that has sparked debate among business leaders, environmentalists, and others, The Long Emergency is an eye-opening look at the unprecedented challenges we face in the years ahead, as oil...
Leisureville
Adventures in a World Without Children
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2009
This revealing profile “disappears down the rabbit hole [into] the largest gated retirement community in the world” and what it discovers is “fascinating” (The New York Times).
When his next-door neighbors pick up and move from New England to an age-restricted “active adult” development...
Since Eve Ate Apples Much Depends on Dinner
The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Mea
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
A “funny and fascinating” cultural history about one of our favorite pastimes: eating (The Village Voice).
This is a delightful and intelligent look at the food we eat, with a cornucopia of incredible details about the ways we do it.
Presented like a meal, each chapter of Since Eve...
by John Reader
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A “vastly entertaining” history of urban centers—from the ancient world to today (Time).
From the earliest example in the Ancient Near East to today’s teeming centers of compressed existence, such as Mumbai and Tokyo, cities are home to half the planet’s population and consume nearly...