Grove Press imprint: 1036 books
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...
by Alain Robbe-Grillet
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Here, in one volume, are two remarkable novels by the chief spokesman of the so-called new novel” which has caused such discussion and aroused such controversy. Jealousy,” said the New York Times Book Review is a technical masterpiece, impeccably contrived.” It is an exhilarating challenge,”...
The China Dream
The Quest for the Last Great Untapped Market on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
“An entertaining, if cautionary, tale of Western business woes in China, stretching back seven hundred years” (The Wall Street Journal).
In The China Dream, acclaimed business journalist Joe Studwell challenges the predictions that China will become an economic juggernaut on the world stage...
Throwim Way Leg
Tree-Kangaroos, Possums, and Penis Gourds: On the Track of Unknown Mammals in Wildest New Guinea
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
From the bestselling author of The Weather Makers: “An enthralling introduction to the mountain people of New Guinea . . . and to their magnificent land” (The New York Times Book Review).
A world expert on the fauna of New Guinea with twenty new species and over seven books to his credit,...
by Gustavo Faverón Patriau
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearA Best Book of the Summer: Los Angeles Times and Publishers WeeklyAn Amazon Best Book of the Month (Mystery, Thriller & Suspense)Three years have passed since Gustavo, a renowned psycholinguist, last spoke to his closest friend, Daniel, who has been interned in...
Cleopatra Dismounts
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
An enchanting, audacious retelling of the Cleopatra story from a Mexican novelist who is “a luminous writer” and “a masterful spinner of the fantastic” (The Miami Herald).
In Cleopatra Dismounts, Carmen Boullosa has written a remarkable imaginary life of one of history’s most legendary...