"The stunning second novel from National Book Award finalist Andrew Krivak--a heartbreaking, captivating story about a family awaiting the return of their youngest son from the Vietnam War. In a small town in Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains Hannah and her son Bo mourn the loss of the family patriarch, Jozef Vinich. They were three generations under one roof. Three generations, but only one branch of a scraggy tree; they are a war-haunted family in...

"In an Edenic future, a girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. They possess a few remnants of civilization: some books, a pane of glass, a set of flint and steel, a comb. The father teaches the girl how to fish and hunt, the secrets of the seasons and the stars. He is preparing her for an adulthood in harmony with nature, for they are the last two left. But when the girl suddenly finds herself alone in an unknown...

The third book in the Dardan Trilogy, following The Sojourn and The Signal Flame. Rooted in the small, mountain town of Dardan, Pennsylvania, where patriarch Jozef Vinich settled after surviving World War I, Like the Appearance of Horses immerses us in the intimate lives of a family whose fierce bonds have been shaped by the great conflicts of the past century. After Bexhet Konar escapes fascist Hungary and crosses the ocean to find Jozef, the man...

In 2012, a New York auction catalogue boasted an unusual offering: "a superb Tyrannosaurus skeleton." In fact, Lot 49135 consisted of a nearly complete T. bataar, a close cousin to the most famous animal that ever lived. The fossils now on display in a Manhattan event space had been unearthed in Mongolia, more than 6,000 miles away. At eight-feet high and 24 feet long, the specimen was spectacular, and when the gavel sounded the winning bid was over...

This is a heart-wrenching, edge-of-your-seat gripping, romantic suspense. I should feel shame for not wanting this to end, but he doesn't want it to end either. When the darkness sets in, the flames all flickered out, and the loud click of the locks signal it's over, that's when reality comes back. The war. The drugs. All of the lies that leave a tangled web for me to get lost in. I don't want any of it. I only want him. Jase Cross. My enemy. And...

Comprehensively updated with many new speeches including Earl Spencer's lament to "The extraordinary and irreplaceable Diana", Nikita Khrushchev's secret speech of 1956 signalling the beginning of the end of Stalinist Russia, Patrick Pearse's rousing funeral oration that fanned the flames of the Easter Rising, Kevin Rudd's historic apology to Australia's mistreated Aborigines and Barack Obama's momentous US election night victory speech.
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The language of love is universal and largely non-verbal-communicated through our body language, facial expressions, gestures, and paralanguage. Directly communicated to our emotional brain where our mating instincts lie, these signals register subconsciously and carry far more weight than words. They fuel the flames of love and desire, allowing us to initiate and maintain relationships and decipher when someone's attracted to us or when lust turns...

Kay Clark and Sullivan Ward were once the hottest radio duo in Denver. But when Kay left the city-and Sullivan-to continue her career in Los Angeles, their romance wilted before it ever had a chance to fully bloom. Now, five years later, Kay is back. And even though she's changed, her feelings for Sullivan haven't. Sullivan, however, isn't so sure. He's still not ready to take Kay back after he helped launch her career and fell in love with her-only...

The gripping story of Australia and New Zealand in the fight for the Aegean - through the eyes of the soldiers. "We used our knees and our rifle butts and our blades. For a while we stopped being ordinary blokes and became blood-lusted creatures." March, 1941: 40,000 Australian and New Zealand troops are rushed to Greece in a desperate attempt to stop the Wehrmacht overrunning the country. Most of them overseas for the first time in their lives,...

When tragedy strikes it doesn't always signal the end. Sometimes it can mean a new beginning . . . Still reeling from the events of the past culminating in her devastating loss, an emotionally scarred Lillian Ly is determined to follow her heart and temporarily forego a bright academic career to keep alive the only thing that matters, being with the man she loves. Guilt pours over Carson Bradley like molten lava, but despite his shame, he cannot...