The Quiet American

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. On the southern edge of Manhattan stands a quiet piece of Americana. Governors Island, situated in New York Harbor, blends a sense of nostalgia wit...

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

A year before 1967's famed Summer of Love, documentary photographer William Gedney set out for San Francisco on a Guggenheim Fellowship to record "...

This comprehensive biography is the first to present Lewis Milestone's remarkable life -- a classic rags-to-riches American narrative -- in full an...

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

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

Reducere. John Isaac Jones's new biographical novel on Edgar Allan Poe brings the turbulent life of America's most famous poet to life in vivid, captivating ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: W. Cleon SkousenIntroduction by: Paul B. SkousenContribution by: Tim McConneheyA timely update to the phenomenal national b...

Reducere. Maria Baldwin (1856--1922) held a special place in the racially divided society of her time, as a highly respected educator at a largely white New ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Miriam JorgensenForeword by: Oren LyonsAfterword by: A revolution is underway among the Indigenous nations of North America...

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

Reducere. The invasion and occupation of Iraq wasn't just a tragic mistake. It was a crime. From the planning of aggression in 2002 through years of hostile ...

*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. Contributor(s): Author: Gail GriffinOn a Sunday night during Homecoming weekend in 1999, Neenef Odah lured his ex-girlfriend, Maggie Wardle, to his...

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...

Contributor(s): Author: Tatiana De RosnayThe first new novel in four years from the beloved superstar author of Sarah's Key, a heartbreaking and up...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - This thrilling novel kicks off what Stephen King calls "a trilogy that will stand as one of the great achievements in A...

Reducere. This powerful story documents the Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of extraordinary navy corpsman George Wahlen. After decades of silence, t...

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...

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. Award NameIndieFab awardsAward categoryRegional BookThe long-intertwined communities of the Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation and the bordering ...

Reducere. DescriptionAn American poet once said that you should pack your boat of life with "only what you need-a home and simple pleasures." A tribute to th...

Reducere. Aurora began as the town of Fletcher, named after the Denver businessman who had staked out the original four square miles for resale along with as...

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. John Isaac Jones's new biographical novel on Edgar Allan Poe brings the turbulent life of America's most famous poet to life in vivid, captivating ...

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. 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. 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. 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...

Reducere. Hit the road in style and comfort you built yourself...The road trip has been a celebrated American tradition for as long as there have been roads ...

DescriptionDiscover an American masterpiece. This unassuming story about the life of a quiet English professor has earned the admiration of readers...

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:...

In his first work of narrative nonfiction, Matthew Pearl, bestselling author of acclaimed novel The Dante Club, explores the little-known true stor...

In his first work of narrative nonfiction, Matthew Pearl, bestselling author of acclaimed novel The Dante Club, explores the little-known true stor...

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

Reducere. A MOTHER'S ONLY CHILD. A GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY. A SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH THAT COULD COST JENNY COOPER HER JOB--AND MAYBE HER LIFE. SEVERN VALE DISTRI...

DescriptionOn September 11th 1999 The Times newspaper carried the front page article "Revealed: the quiet woman who betrayed Britain for 40 years. ...

In Cairo in the 1940s, Leila Ahmed was raised by a generation of women who never dressed in the veils and headscarves their mothers and grandmother...

Reducere. "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." This line from director John Ford's film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance serves as an epigraph f...

Reducere. Jack Quinlan, an American writer, travels to a small village in the remote western part of Ireland to research a book on the Irish Famine. The quie...

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...

The Edward Clown family, nearest living relatives to the Lakota war leader, presents the family tales and memories told to them about their famous ...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography comes a sweeping yet intimate story of the most influential humanitarian you...

Reducere. The dramatic story of how a humble bookseller fought against incredible odds to bring one of the most important books of the 20th century to the wo...

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. The long-intertwined communities of the Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation and the bordering towns in Sheridan County, Nebraska, mark their histo...

Reducere. The Hum and the Shiver by Alex Bledsoe is an enchanting tale of music and magic older than the hills, and the first book in the wondrous Tufa serie...

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

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

Gary Cooper was the foremost American screen hero--a major film actor for over thirty years, beginning with the silents. His stardom eclipsed even ...

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

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. Heaven Is a Playground was the first book on the uniquely American phenomenon of urban basketball. Rick Telander, a photojournalist and former high...

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

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

After brilliantly reimagining the worlds of Oz, Wonderland, Dickensian London, and the Nutcracker, the New York Times bestselling author of Wicked ...

The lean years following World War I can lead to desperate acts--even in the quiet English village of Walmsley Parva. When a series of burglaries s...

DescriptionHow far will some go to safeguard a secret? In the latest novel in Dianne Freeman's witty and delightful historical mystery series, the ...

DescriptionTwo-Face, The Joker, Solomon Grundy, Tally Man, KGBeast, Colonel Vega, the Ventriloquist, Anarky and an overzealous bounty hunter named ...

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

Reducere. In a crumbling apartment building in post-Soviet Russia, there's a ghost who won't keep quiet. Mircha fell from the roof and was never properly bur...

While on her last assignment with British Intelligence in Morocco, the widowed Julia Probyn Jamieson meets and is strongly attracted to an Irish co...

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

Reducere. Lababidi's new volume brings a dynamic flow to his subject that is both timeless and very contemporary; his insights summon us to a spiritual but e...

Reducere. DescriptionA look at the history of Tassajara Hot Springs, for millennia used by Native Americans who went there to cure their ills. In the 1800s t...

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...