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The Wonder House

by Justine Hardy

“A haunting tragedy of love, beauty and bounty lost . . . The budding passion of The Wonder House cleaves closer to the tragic romance of Arundhati Roy’s God of…

On the Missionary Trail

by Tom Hiney

“On the Missionary Trail . . . illuminate[s] the struggles of the nineteenth-century men and women who risked–and often lost–their lives to bring Christianity and civilization to the remotest corners…

The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk

by Palden Gyatso

…optimistic…. If he has proved nothing else, Palden Gyatso has demonstrated that we are not helpless and that even individuals can make a difference.” –the Dalai Lama, from the Foreword…

Beautiful Thing

by Sonia Faleiro

“A tour de force of heartrending reportage . . . which blends rigorous journalistic research with the narrative skills of a novelist. . . . With tight focus and pacing,…

Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea

by Gary Kinder

“A marvelous tale, with generous portions of history, adventure, intrigue, heroism, and high technology interwoven . . . Gary Kinder has the skill to put it all together, and luckily…

The Zanzibar Chest

by Aidan Hartley

“An extraordinary and heartbreaking book, the finest account of a war correspondent’s psychic wracking since Michael Herr’s Dispatches, and the best white writing from Africa in many, many years.” —Rian…

The Inquisitors’ Manual

by António Lobo Antunes

“Antunes creates voices with a scrupulous, authorial neutrality. . . . He also has created a character in Senhor Francisco . . . as complex in his cunning, blindness, selfishness…

12,000 Miles in the Nick of Time

by Mark Jacobson

“Jacobson is a very funny writing. . . . He also weaves in enough memoir . . . to tie the current adventure to a larger question of what it…

First Love and Other Shorts

by Samuel Beckett

…was giving birth to his child–has all the pertinacity of that bone-deep fatigue which gives Beckett’s decrepit figures (ruined leech-gatherers) their ruthless strength, their rigor, not mortis but of moribundity.”…

Grove at Home: February 7-13

…vault — to say hi, remind you to keep reading, and let you know what’s on our minds. Friday, February 12th Happy birthday, Abraham Lincoln! Today marks the 212th birthday…