The Quiet American

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...

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. Published for the first time in a beautiful collectible edition, the essential lecture delivered by the 2016 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Litera...

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. 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. This fast-paced narrative traces the emergence of the United States Navy as a global power from its birth during the American Revolution through to...

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

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...

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. 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. Winner of the Harriss Poetry Prize, judged by series editor Kwame Alexander and 2019 final judge Erica Dawson, Behind Normalcy is the first chapboo...

Reducere. Description"Within These Lines is a moving story of love, hope, and family set against the dark history of Japanese internment in America. This boo...

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

Elizabeth Graver's first novel, Unravelling, was hailed on publication as exceptional (The New York Times Book Review), a pleasure (The New Yorker)...

Reducere. dark // thing is a multifaceted work that explores the darkness/otherness by which the world sees Black people. Ashley M. Jones stares directly int...

It is the rainiest year in memory when a homeless man, and a filmmaker are found murdered on the banks of the Snoqualmie River. Mental Health Evalu...

Award NameL.A. Times Book PrizeAward categoryGraphic NovelPrize-winning British cartoonist Julian Hanshaw makes his American debut with the rich an...

Though bringing people to new birth in Christ through evangelism is essential, says Peterson, isn't it obvious that growth in Christ is equally ess...

Reducere. Few writers are more quotable than Henry David Thoreau. His books, essays, journals, poems, letters, and unpublished manuscripts contain an inexhau...

Reducere. Richard Yates, who died in 1992, is today ranked by many readers, scholars, and critics alongside such titans of modern American ficiton as Updike,...

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 ...

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

Reducere. "Filled with unexpected twists, Beautiful Bad is a riveting read." --Sarah Pekkanen, #1 New York Times bestselling author of An Anonymous Girl "The...

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

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

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

Reducere. "Splendid...entirely engrossing."--Los Angeles Times"First-rate...an excellent thriller...well-plotted and smoothly written...crackles with suspens...

Reducere. Have the smugglers made a grave mistake?Customs & Excise are tracking a gang of cigar-smugglers who operate on the quiet Kent coast near Plummergen...

Reducere. Governments everywhere are undergoing a quiet and profound revolution: they're getting simpler, more cost-effective, and focused on improved outcom...

DescriptionThe first new novel in four years from the beloved superstar author of Sarah's Key, a heartbreaking and uplifting story of family secret...

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

The adventurous Countess Harleigh finds out just how far some will go to safeguard a secret in Dianne Freeman's latest witty and delightful histori...

Reducere. ``The best of the best from this year's bountiful harvest of uncommonly strong offerings ... Deeply original.`` --O, The Oprah Magazine``Milena Mic...

El Salvador's roads are less traveled compared to other Central American countries, making for a destination which retains that elusive quality tra...

Reducere. All-American wide receiver Kyler Tate's life is about to change. A fairytale college career skyrocketed him to the NFL draft. Adoration and opportu...

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. A stunning, rhythmic picture book biography of African American composer Scott Joplin, whose ragtime music paved the way for jazz. There was someth...

The story of the young Prudence Crandall's stout-hearted resistance to danger and violence inspirits us in the same way. There really was a patriot...

Reducere. Birds fill our gardens with color, motion and song. What a delight it is to capture them on paper, down to every little detail. Gouache, an opaque ...

Reducere. "I don't mind being alone at all. I was often here alone in the blitz, and I was so frightened of the bombs that I quite stopped being frightened o...

Reducere. Most strive for financial freedom, lacking the knowledge needed to achieve it. We fall into a system that sets us up for financial struggle. In pur...

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...

The peace and quiet of a remote homestead in the 1880s American West is shattered by the arrival of two shadowy outriders searching for 'the healer...

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. 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...

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 ...

Reducere. The title Little Pharma is both a doppelgänger and a cri de coeur: as the poet's dreamlike double, the character Little Pharma navigates the murky ...

Reducere. The true story of Louisiana serial killer Ronald Dominique's ten-year murder spree, the men he slayed, and the detectives who hunted him down. In 1...

Reducere. Description"Wait for me, will you?" His voice was hoarse and thick. "I mean, it's a lot to ask, but I plan to wait for you if you'll wait for me." ...

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...

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