Grove Press
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The End of the Alphabet
$18.00 Add to cartWith a new introduction by Calvin Bedient
Claudia Rankine’s second poetry collection, The End of the Alphabet, is an inquiry into despair and recovery, selfhood and alienation. Centered on a heroine n
- Author: Rankine, Claudia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 14 2015
- ISBN10: 080212447X
- Language: English
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Breath Taking: The Power, Fragility, and Future of Our Extraordinary Lungs
$17.00 Add to cartFrom an expert in pulmonary medicine, the story of our extraordinary lungs, the organ that both explains our origins and holds the keys to our future as a species
We take an average of 7.5 million brea
- Author: Stephen, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0802149324
- Language: English
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Wild Minds: The Artists and Rivalries That Inspired the Golden Age of Animation
$18.00 Read moreThe vivid and untold story of the Golden Age of classic animation and the often larger-than-life artists who created some of the most iconic cartoon characters of the twentieth century
In 1911, famed c
- Author: Mitenbuler, Reid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 07, 2021
- ISBN10: 0802159141
- Language: English
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Henry VIII: And the Men Who Made Him
$20.00 Add to cartHenry VIII is best known in history for his tempestuous marriages and the fates of his six wives. However, as acclaimed historian Tracy Borman makes clear in her illuminating new chronicle of Henry’s … [more below]
- Author: Borman, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0802148336
- Language: English
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The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People
$16.00 Add to cartHumans first settled the islands of Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, and New Guinea some sixty millennia ago, and as they had elsewhere across the globe, immediately began altering the environme… [more below]
- Author: Flannery, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 16 2002
- ISBN10: 0802139434
- Language: English
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George Washington’s Expense Account: Gen. George Washington and Marvin Kitman, Pfc. (Ret.)
$17.00 Add to cartIn George Washington’s Expense Account — the best-selling expense account in history — Kitman shows how Washington brilliantly turned his noble gesture of refusing payment for his services as comman… [more below]
- Author: Kitman, Marvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 04 2001
- ISBN10: 0802137733
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of the American Dream: The Diaries of David Wojnarowicz
$18.00 Add to cartFew artists have captured the emotional, sexual, and political chaos of modern urban life as perceptively as David Wojnarowicz, whom Out magazine has called “an acute observer of the unmapped region s… [more below]
- Author: Scholder, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 03 2000
- ISBN10: 0802136710
- Language: English
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Three Screenplays: To Kill a Mockingbird, Tender Mercies and the Trip to Bountiful
$17.00 Add to cartHorton Foote’s uniquely personal style of screenwriting is at its peak in this collection of two Academy Award winners, To Kill a Mockingbird and Tender Mercies, and The Trip to Bountiful, a film wide… [more below]
- Series: Foote, Horton
- Author: Foote, Horton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 22 1994
- ISBN10: 0802131255
- Language: English
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Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: The Teachings of Zen Master Seung Sahn
$17.00 Add to cart“Somebody comes into the Zen center with a lighted cigarette, walks up to the Buddha statue, blows smoke in its face, and drops ashes on its lap. You are standing there. What can you do?” This is a pr… [more below]
- Author: Mitchell, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 18 1994
- ISBN10: 0802130526
- Language: English
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Vesper Flights
$27.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of H is for Hawk and winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction, comes a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to the natural
- Author: MacDonald, Helen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 0802128815
- Language: English
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The Seagull
$16.00 Add to cartStoppard’s masterful adaptation of Chekhov’s best-loved play has been lauded by critics for its shining prose as well as its faithfulness. The play opens at a country estate, where a group of friends
- Author: Stoppard, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0802127711
- Language: English
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The Voyeur’s Motel
$16.00 Read moreOn January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of his landmark bestseller Thy Neighbor’s Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous handwritten letter from a man in Colorado. “Since learning of your… [more below]
- Author: Talese, Gay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 11 2017
- ISBN10: 802126979
- Language: English
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Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea
$19.00 Add to cartOriginally published in 1998 and a best seller in its hardcover and paperback publications, Gary Kinder’s Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea tells the story of the sinking of the SS Central America, a … [more below]
- Author: Kinder, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 20 2009
- ISBN10: 080214425X
- Language: English
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Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad
$17.00 Add to cartBased on reporting that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Thunder Run chronicles one of the boldest gambles in modern military history. Three battalions and fewer than a thousand men launched a v… [more below]
- Author: Zucchino, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 345
- Publish Date: November 29 2004
- ISBN10: 080214179X
- Language: English
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Dogma
$18.00 Add to cartOne of the major hits of the 1999 Cannes Film Festival, a film that proved too hot for Disney to handle, Kevin Smith’s ribald, revolutionary new film Dogma is a comic theological fantasy that is sure … [more below]
- Author: Smith, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 16 1999
- ISBN10: 0802136796
- Language: English
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One Thousand Roads to Mecca: (Updated with New Material)
$24.00 Read moreMichael Wolfe’s exemplary (Library Journal) collection of historical writings on the Hajj, now updated with a new introduction by Reza Aslan.
Since its inception in the seventh century, the pilgrimage- Author: Wolfe, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: September 22 1998
- ISBN10: 802135994
- Language: English
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Insatiable: Porn — A Love Story
$18.00 Add to cartAsa Akira (28) has already had an extremely unusual life. Educated at the United Nations International School in Manhattan, she soon was earning a good living by stripping and working as a dominatrix … [more below]
- Author: Akira, Asa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 20 2015
- ISBN10: 080212349X
- Language: English
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The Blacks: And Other Joys of Sexual Intimacy
$16.00 Read more“In form, it flows as freely as an improvisation, with fantasy, allegory and intimations of reality mingled into a weird, stirring unity. . . . Genet’s investigation of the color black begins where mo
- Series: Genet, Jean
- Author: Genet, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: January 18 1994
- ISBN10: 0802150284
- Language: English
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Happiness: A History
$20.00 Add to cartToday, human beings tend to think of happiness as a natural right. But they haven’t always felt this way. For the ancient Greeks, happiness meant virtue. For the Romans, it implied prosperity and divi… [more below]
- Author: McMahon, Darrin M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: December 18 2006
- ISBN10: 0802142893
- Language: English
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The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand
$19.00 Add to cartJim Harrison is one of this country’s most beloved writers, a muscular, brilliantly economic stylist with a salty wisdom. For more than twenty years, he has also been writing some of the best essays o… [more below]
- Author: Harrison, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 17 2002
- ISBN10: 080213937X
- Language: English
