Grove Atlantic: 1452 books
Naked at Lunch
A Reluctant Nudist's Adventures in the Clothing-Optional World
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
“A delightful and informative look at nudism throughout history and around the world.” —The Seattle Times
People have been getting naked in public for reasons other than sex for centuries. But as Mark Haskell Smith reveals, being a nudist is more complicated than simply dropping trou. “Nonsexual...
by Belinda Bauer
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
A spine-tingling, edge-of-your-seat thriller about an alarming killing spree in southwest England from the CWA Gold Dagger Award–winning author.
The eight-year-old boy had vanished from the car and—as if by slick, sick magic—had been replaced by a note on the steering wheel: “You don’t...
On Love
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
On Love is globally bestselling novelist-philosopher Alain De Botton’s iconic debut-the novel that launched his decorated literary career; and a funny, profound, and searingly true-to-life exploration of love.
A man and a woman meet over casual conversation on a flight from Paris to London,...
Global Village Idiot
Dubya, Dunces, and One Last Word Before You Vote
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
In this collection of acid-tongued essays, “the U.K.’s answer to Dave Barry” skewers his American cousins (Publishers Weekly).
Winner of the Best Columnist of the Year at the British Liars’ Awards and Britain’s finest satirist, John O’Farrell takes dead aim at cell phones, awards ceremonies,...
A Symphony in the Brain
The Evolution of the New Brain Wave Biofeedback
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
A “fascinating overview” of neurofeedback and its potential benefits for treating depression, autism, epilepsy, and other conditions (Discover).
Since A Symphony in the Brain was first published, the scientific understanding of our bodies, brains, and minds has taken remarkable leaps. From...
Love For Sale
A World History of Prostitution
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
“[An] enlightening and entertaining . . . survey of the world’s oldest profession” from the Whore of Babylon to the modern sex-worker movement (Kirkus Reviews).
From Eve and Lilith to Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman, the prostitute has been both a target of scorn and a catalyst for social...
Crossing the Rhine
Breaking into Nazi Germany 1944 and 1945—The Greatest Airborne Battles in History
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
“The fighting spirit of Allied paratroopers comes through with exciting clarity” in this account of two separate invasions of Germany in World War II (Kirkus Reviews).
A main selection of the Military Book Club
In September 1944, as the Allies drove across Europe after Normandy,...
Anzio
Italy and the Battle for Rome—1944
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A harrowing and incisive “high-quality battle history” from one of the world’s finest military historians (Booklist).
The Allied attack of Normandy beach and its resultant bloodbath have been immortalized in film and literature, but the US campaign on the beaches of Western Italy reigns...
by Lawrence Norfolk
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The Somerset Maugham Prize–winning, international bestselling debut novel: “a dazzling linguistic and formal achievement” set in 18th century London (Salman Rushdie).
In eighteenth-century London, John Lempriere works feverishly on a celebrated dictionary of classical mythology that bears...
by Gay Talese
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of his landmark bestseller Thy Neighbor’s Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous letter from a man in Colorado. Since learning of your long awaited study of coast-to-coast sex in America,” the letter began, I feel I have important information...
This Is Your Life
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
“[A] satire of celebrity culture and the numbing effects of fame” by the international bestselling comedy writer and author of Things Can Only Get Better (Publishers Weekly).
It’s a big night at the London Palladium. Jimmy Conway is about to perform his stand-up comedy routine in front of...
Other Desert Cities
A Play
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
A political family confronts its dark history in this Pulitzer Prize-finalist play “with gleaming dialogue [and] tantalizing hints of a dangerous mystery” (Ben Brantley, The New York Times).
Winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play
Brooke Wyeth...
Alone With Others
An Existential Approach to Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The author of Buddhism Without Beliefs bridges the gap between Western and Eastern philosophy with this humanist approach to Buddhism.
This uniquely contemporary guide to understanding the timeless message of Buddhism, and in particular its relevance in actual human relations, was inspired...
by José Manuel Prieto
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Now in paperback, Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire was acclaimed by The Hartford Courant as "a thrilling discovery ... a reversal of the letters [of] Saul Bellow's Herzog ... [with] a Nabokovian delight in words and texts." J. is a smuggler living in Russia, making his living fencing the flotsam...