The Quiet American

Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam "I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he c...

Originally published in 1951, it is said that A Dragon Apparent inspired Graham Greene to go to Vietnam and write The Quiet American.

Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. ...

Invisible Armies presents an entirely original narrative of warfare, which demonstrates that, far from the exception, loosely organized partisan or...

Ever since he first discovered Graham Greene's work, Pico Iyer has felt a haunting closeness with the English writer. In The Man Within My Head, Iy...

This book explores the concept of 'quiet' - an aesthetic of narrative driven by reflective principles - and argues for the term's application to th...

This book explores the concept of 'quiet' - an aesthetic of narrative driven by reflective principles - and argues for the term's application to th...

*Gold Medal winner in the 2014 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award for Home & Garden* ``Just flipping through the pages of Quiet Beauty: The Japanese Gard...

Reducere. African American culture is often considered expressive, dramatic, and even defiant. In The Sovereignty of Quiet, Kevin Quashie explores quiet as a...

Reducere. An innocuous peninsula jutting out into the Atlantic Ocean, Cape Cod became a landmark for early American exploration. When the Pilgrims landed, th...

Reducere. Major Richard J. "Dick" Meadows is renowned in military circles as a key figure in the development of the U.S. Army Special Operations. A highly de...

Reducere. Quiet Street is the story of Edith and Jacob Hirsch and their two children, Dinah and Teddy, who live in a suburb of Jerusalem among neighbors they...

'A wonderfully observed novel which provides a rare outsider's glimpse of the quiet despair that lurks behind those bright, perfectly-formed Americ...

Reducere. Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers. She has been called -an American virtuoso of the short story form- (Salon) and -on...

Reducere. The Hiltons is a sweeping saga of the success-and excess-of an iconic American family. Demanding and enigmatic, patriarch Conrad Hilton's visionary...

Reducere. "Douglas Brinkley has written a sweeping, blow-by-blow account of the struggle to preserve the last great remnants of American wilderness. An engag...

Original / American English Ricardo and Gisela are going home to Rio. Gisela likes reading and quiet people. Ricardo likes noise ... and he likes G...

Classic / American English Ugly and unwanted by the outside world, Quasimodo the hunchback lives under the protection of the priest in the Cathedra...

Suzan Fitzroy is in Sweden, where her adopted father is filling in for the American Ambassador. The most exciting prospect on her agenda is the Nob...

Reducere. Regarded as the standard biography of World War II naval hero Adm. Raymond A. Spruance, this work is now available in trade paperback for the first...

DescriptionCharming and feisty Poppy Redfern stumbles into murder in this exciting new World War II historical mystery series from critically accla...

Reducere. "The poems, plainspoken distillations of origins and loss, explore histories, teasing at what we know without knowing, and know without remembering...

Reducere. DescriptionBased on recently discovered documents, The Jews Should Keep Quiet reassesses the hows and whys behind the Franklin D. Roosevelt adminis...

Reducere. Based on recently discovered documents, The Jews Should Keep Quiet reassesses the hows and whys behind the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration's f...

Mary Paik Lee left her native country in 1905, traveling with her parents as a political refugee after Japan imposed control over Korea. Her father...

Reducere. A revelatory trove of Gustavo Ojeda's previously unseen 1980s drawings of New Yorkers in motionCuban American painter Gustavo Ojeda (1958-89) was k...

DescriptionIn this remarkable first book, Hornik's poems carry a quiet power rooted in nature, place, and family. We find our own lives in hers--in...

Reducere. The Quiet Trailblazer recounts Mary Frances Early's life from her childhood in Atlanta, her growing interest in music, and her awakening to the inj...

Reducere. 2008 Retailer's Choice Award winner Tony Dungy's words and example have intrigued millions of people, particularly following his victory in Super B...

It was 1970. Fighting between the Jordanian Armed Forces and the Palestine Liberation Organization had been escalating, but a Quaker serving at a s...

Reducere. When a disabled veteran takes a new job as an attorney in a small Wyoming town, he is thrust into a mysterious murder case."James Chandler's experi...

Reducere. When a disabled veteran takes a new job as an attorney in a small Wyoming town, he is thrust into a mysterious murder case."James Chandler's experi...

Who can afford not to understand the USA? Many facets of American life have been embraced around the world, yet the sense of "just like in the movi...

Reducere. This deluxe clothbound edition presents one of the most celebrated American novels of all time, The Great Gatsby, with silver gilded page edges and...

Reducere. DescriptionCemeteries have stories to tell, voices to unearth--and lessons from the past that we can draw upon to better shape the future. If These...

Reducere. Ten days before the D-day landings at Normandy, Lt. Henry Woodrum woke early to fl y a combat mission that culminated in being shot down over the n...

Steph Cha, a rising star who brings a fresh perspective as series editor, takes the helm of the new The Best American Mystery and Suspense, with be...

In simple, striking verse, legendary poet Gary Snyder weaves an epic discourse on the topics of geology, prehistory, and mythology. First published...

Reducere. This stylish jacketed hardback presents one of the greatest works of modern literature, The Great Gatsby, featuring a contemporary cover design and...

Reducere. DescriptionBetween the years 1918 and1920, influenza raged around the globe in the worst pandemic in recorded history, killing at least fifty milli...

The National Bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of Middlesex and The Marriage PlotWith a New IntroductionFirst published in 1993, Th...

Americans are generally apprehensive about what they perceive as big government--especially when it comes to measures that target their bodies. Sod...

Reducere. With an epilogue on recent Russian spying, a ``page-turner of a memoir`` (Publishers Weekly) about an American civilian with a dream, who worked as...

Reducere. Now an award-winning Netflix film by Jane Campion, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst: Thomas Savage's acclaimed Western is "a pitch-p...

In China's political chaos, a woman's desperate search for her family and the American pilot she loves.In the winter of 1942, Jasmine Bai survives ...

Reducere. For fans of American Horror Story, Shirley Jackson, and Creepshow.You know them. Those girls that aren't quite like everyone else. Those girls who ...

Reducere. John Crutchley seemed to be living the American Dream. Good-looking and blessed with a genius level IQ, he had a prestigious, white-collar job at a...

Reducere. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - Latinas of Indigenous descent living in the American West take center stage in this haunting debut story collection-...

Reducere. "Charity and Its Fruits" is a collection of sermons by Jonathan Edwards, one of America's most important religious leaders and theologians. Edwards...

Reducere. From the great-grandson of renowned folk art painter Grandma Moses comes a magical and shimmering picture book about the first Christmas. Based on ...

New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceAn unsettling journey into the United States' disaster-bound food system, and an exploration of possible ...

Reducere. Marcia Lloyd and her brother Arthur have spent every summer of their lives exploring the grand halls and seaside grounds of their family's idyllic ...

Reducere. Riveting and inspiring first-person stories of how "taking a knee" triggered an awakening in sports, from the celebrated sportswriter"The Kaepernic...

Reducere. You've seen the building. Now meet the man whose life went into it.Philip Freelon's grandfather was an acclaimed painter of the Harlem Renaissance....

Reducere. From award-winning author Yang Huang, My Good Son explores the power-and the cost-of parental love. A tailor in post-Tiananmen China, Mr. Cai has o...

Reducere. Fiction. Short Stories. Asian & Asian American Studies. Set in the American Midwest, England, and India (Mumbai, Ahmedabad, rural Gujarat) the stor...

Reducere. Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. PAPER BELLS is a striking, new collection by poet Phan Nhi n Hao, depicting his American life as a Vietname...

Reducere. Duke the Deaf dog learns that some noises are loud and some are quiet. Whether it's a tapping crayon, a beeping fire drill, or a crinkly candy wrap...

Reducere. DescriptionBoston is one of America's most historic cities, but it has quite a bit of unseen past. Riotous mobs celebrated their hatred of the pope...

Reducere. Boston is one of America's most historic cities, but it has quite a bit of unseen past. Riotous mobs celebrated their hatred of the pope in an annu...

Chelsea Clinton introduces tiny feminists, mini activists and little kids who are ready to take on the world to thirteen inspirational women who ne...

"Enthralling. . . . Lying and stealing and invading, it should be said, make for captivating reading, especially in the hands of a storyteller as s...

Reducere. Following the life of newborn infant, Emmanuel, this great contemporary novel of Quebec exposes a painful history central to the new consciousness ...

DescriptionPart historical fiction, part memoir, this novel takes place over a 10-week period in the summer of 1956 in a small town in the mid-west...

Reducere. Manny Lawton was a twenty-three-year-old Army captain on April 8, 1942, when orders came to surrender to the Japanese forces invading the Philippin...

Got a quiet weekend ahead? Get comfortable, get set, and get solving with this fun compilation of 75 of the greatest Sunday puzzles the New York Ti...

Reducere. Bestselling author Gail Tsukiyama is known for her poignant, subtle insights into the most complicated of relationships. Dreaming Water is an explo...

Reducere. Harriet Beecher Stowe grew up in a family in which her seven brothers were expected to be successful preachers and the four girls were never to spe...

With this rollicking novel-hailed equally for its satiric bite, its lightly borne scientific savvy, and its tender compassion for foible-prone huma...

Reducere. These extraordinary teachings on the spiritual path were given between March 3, 2000 and June 6, 2003, when Geshe Michael Roach engaged in a 3 year...