The Quiet American, Paperback

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...

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

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

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

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

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. 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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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. 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. 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...

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. 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...

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...

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

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. 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. 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. 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. 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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

In March 1886 in the quiet town of Eatontown, New Jersey, a brutal beating and rape took place of a young white woman named Angelina Herbert. She i...

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

Reducere. Father Augustus Tolton was the first identified black American ordained to the priesthood in the United States. He was born into slavery and escape...

Reducere. Esmont, Virginia is a community woven from many vibrant threads of history and story. From the Monacan Indians who first traveled the hills to the ...

Reducere. In this engaging narrative, author JD Chandler crafts a people's history of Portland, Oregon, sharing the lesser-known stories of individuals who s...

Reducere. Sheriff Skip Harding is investigating a double murder that has shaken the quiet town of Logan, Missouri. A slaughter that seems too brutal for a hu...

Reducere. Winner of the Friends of American Writers Award for FictionAs seamstresses, the young sisters Emilia and Luzia dos Santos know how to cut, mend, an...

Reducere. The fourteen-year-old narrator of IN ZANESVILLE is a late bloomer. She flies under the radar-a sidekick, a marching band dropout, a disastrous baby...

Reducere. "To read a novel by Anne Tyler is to fall in love." PEOPLE Charlotte Emory has always lived a quiet, conventional life in Clarion, Maryland. She li...

Reducere. Swirling mystery permeates Sea of Trees as Bill, an American college student, and his Japanese girlfriend Junko traverse the Aokigahara Forest in J...

DescriptionIn the aftermath of The Great War, everything is changing. But not for Marian Fielding. Marian's life is quiet and predictable in the so...

Reducere. DescriptionDiscover a simpler, more natural way of life. Pour yourself a cup of chamomile tea, find a quiet corner, and browse through the wealth o...

Reducere. A timely update to the phenomenal national bestseller.Soon after its quiet release during the height of the Red Scare in 1958, The Naked Communist:...

Reducere. DescriptionDeath upsets the quiet equilibrium and rustic charm of a small town on the Washington State peninsula when a well-intentioned blacksmith...

The story was that Eli Patterson had died in a gunfight, but Mike Shevlin knew it couldn't be true: the man who'd been like a father to him had bee...

Reducere. Wartime tales of disquiet and dread from Jean Ray, author of Cruise of Shadows and progenitor of the "Belgian School of the Strange"During the Occu...

Reducere. Dayton Literary Peace PrizeA riveting, minute-by-minute account of the momentous event that changed our world foreverOn a quiet Monday morning in A...

Reducere. One of the crucial phases of the Civil War centered on the two Confederate invasions of the North undertaken by Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Vi...

Kjell Eriksson has made a huge splash around the globe with his series set in Sweden. his native country. Already a star in Europe and the Nordic c...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. To hyphenate or not to hyphenate has bee...

Reducere. The year is 1861. The American Civil War has just begun, and London arms dealer Daniel Alberton is becoming a very wealthy man. His quiet dinner pa...