Grove Atlantic: 1452 books
by John O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
From the author of Leaving Las Vegas, “a sensitive and understated novel” about a lonely law clerk yearning for human connection (Booklist).
Here is the simple life of Carroll, a middle-aged, unmarried, friendless man whose only joy is watching beautiful women dance. Terribly shy and unable...
Asian Godfathers
Money and Power in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2008
The author of How Asia Works follows the money. “Alarming . . . enlightening . . . Joe Studwell should be named chief myth buster for Asian business” (Financial Times).
Hong Kong and Southeast Asia are home to five hundred million people, yet their economies are dominated by only fifty...
The Weather Makers
How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The #1 international bestseller on climate change that’s been endorsed by policy makers, scientists, writers, and energy executives around the world.
Tim Flannery’s The Weather Makers contributed in bringing the topic of global warming to worldwide prominence. For the first time, a scientist...
How to DJ Right
The Art and Science of Playing Records
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
DJs have gone from being underpaid live jukeboxes to becoming premier entertainers, producers, businessmen, and musicians capable of commanding admiration from thousands and earning serious money. Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton's Last Night a DJ Saved My Life was the definitive history of the DJ....
World Hunger
10 Myths
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
“The definitive solutions-based book for all those questioning why hunger still exists when there is such an abundance of food.” —The Huffington Post, “Food Tank’s 2015 Recommended Fall Reading List”
From bestselling authors Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins comes the twenty-first...
by Bruce Jay Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
This classic comic novel about a midlife man whose life is spiraling out of control is a “heartbreaking delight . . . Nothing less than a joy” (The Washington Post Book World).
Screenwriter Harry Towns, a bicoastal playboy with a broken marriage and a child he rarely sees, has been reveling...
The Industrial Revolutionaries
The Making of the Modern World, 1776–1914
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
“Anyone with a passing interest in economic history will thoroughly enjoy” this account of how industry transformed the world (The Seattle Times).
In less than one hundred and fifty years, an unlikely band of scientists, spies, entrepreneurs, and political refugees took a world made of...
by Mike Lawson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
The mysterious death of a journalist pulls Washington fixer Joe DeMarco into a conspiracy of power and politics in “one of the best thrillers of the year” (Booklist).
Days after claiming he had a lead on a story that would make Watergate look like a misdemeanor, a mediocre writer from the Washington...
Chasing Kangaroos
A Continent, a Scientist, and a Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Creature
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2008
The internationally acclaimed author of The Weather Makers crafts a love letter to his native land and one of its most unique inhabitants: the kangaroo.
Drawing on three decades of travel, research, and field work, Tim Flannery shows us how the destiny of the extraordinary kangaroo is inseparable...
by Kay Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A mesmerizing collection from the US Poet Laureate whose work is “as intense and elliptical as [Emily] Dickinson, as buoyant and rueful as [Robert] Frost” (J. D. McClatchy, American Poet).
In granting the prestigious Ruth Lilly Prize to Kay Ryan, Poetry magazine editor Christian Wiman wrote...
Say Uncle
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Filled with wry logic and a magical, unpredictable musicality, Kay Ryan's poems continue to generate excitement with their frequent appearances in The New Yorker and other leading periodicals. Say Uncle, Ryan's fifth collection, is filled with the same hidden connections, the same slyness and almost...
Tobacco
A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
“A rich, complex history . . . Deeply engaging and witty” (Los Angeles Times).
Long before Columbus arrived in the New Word, tobacco was cultivated and enjoyed by the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas, who used it for medicinal, religious, and social purposes. But when Europeans began...
by Samuel Beckett
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
This collection gathers together the Nobel Prize-winning writer Samuel Beckett's English poems (including Whoroscope, his first published verse), English translations of poems by Eluard, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, and Chamfort, and poems in French, several of which are presented in translation.
by Andy Warhol
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
We’re the states who thought of uniting into the best country in the world, and we’re the only country that thought of making the word part of our name. Brazil doesn’t call itself Brazil of America.” So we’ve got a right to call ourselves America” for short, any time we want. It’s...