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The eleventh book in the dramatic and intriguing story about the colonisation of Australia: a country made of blood, passion, and dreams. Against overwhelming odds they fought to tame a savage land, now they must fight to keep it. For three tumultuous generations they had struggled to harness an alien wilderness, to lay the bold foundation for their dreams. But now, just as a radiant future beckons, they are menaced by distant powers hungry to seize what they have so bitterly won.

New York Times best-selling author Kylie Scott presents two stand-alone novellas in this must-listen collection. Colonist's Wife: She'll run to the far corners of space to avoid her violent history, hide her true identity, and pass herself off as a mail-order bride. But no one can escape their past forever. And as for her new husband...well, he's nothing like she expected.

Vesta Colony has a problem: Aliens are snatching men until they disappear for good. Humanity's defensive forces are stretched too thin to help a distant outpost, and so, the desperate founders, as well as their investors, are given the bad option of recruiting the worst while bribing the rest.

The history of the Boston Tea Party is a hidden one. Why? Since it was a clandestine operation, all sorts of rumors and legends grew up around the event—many collected decades after the American Revolution had ended. At its core, however, the night of December 16, 1773, when colonials dumped tea from British ships into Boston Harbor, was more than a fight over tea and taxes. It was a struggle over the very nature of democracy and self-governance.

After the journey to Emporium that was wrought with secrets and devastating alien attacks, Alex and his family hunger for more knowledge. He's desperate to find out more about his own people—the reclusive Atlanteans who were once chased off Earth by primitive humans. Alex and his family travel to the border planet of Crossroads, where they can begin their search for answers. Their arrival at Crossroads leads to turmoil from the very beginning. With danger around every corner, Alex must contend with deadly assassins and alien gangsters in his quest to reach Atlantis.

Vesta Colony has a problem, aliens are snatching men until they disappear for good. Humanity's defensive forces are stretched too thin to help a distant outpost, and so, the desperate founders, as well as their investors, are given the bad option of recruiting the worst while bribing the rest. When Alex's wife was murdered, he turned full vigilante. After years of having a sterling record, he found himself willingly incarcerated to exact his vengeance. His incarceration eats at his soul until an offer too good to refuse from Vesta Colony changes his fate.

How did the United States become the country it is today? What led to its creation? Adapted from Pulitzer Prize–winner Rick Atkinson’s deeply researched and stunningly vivid The British Are Coming, the young readers edition explores these questions and so much more as it delves into the...

William Penn acquired a large section of American land in a debt settlement and transformed it into a thriving colony. He wrote this tract (and others) to recruit British colonists to Pennsylvania. In it, he praises the quality of the weather, the abundance of agricultural opportunities, and their good relations with the native people. His persuasive words capture a sense of “America the beautiful” that drove thousands to seek a new life in the land of opportunity.

In an untitled article in The Boston Gazette of February 27, 1769, Samuel Adams defends the right of the people of Boston to bear arms. He argues that citizens need to have a means of defending themselves and cites several instances of the military in the city having violated the rights of citizens. "Rights of the Colonists" is an essay of November 20, 1772 in which he defends the natural rights of the colonists.

Ситуация проясняется, но от этого не легче. Вопрос выживания становится наиболее актуальным. Справятся ли герои, объявленные изгоями, не только с дикими тварями Хруста и марами, но и специальным отрядом коменданта, цель которого - уничтожение группы Мика. Шансы мизерны. А если учесть, что где-то затаился опаснейший враг, уже доказавший свою силу, можно смело говорить, что шансов нет. Остается только надеяться на чудо.

На отдаленных планетах всегда требуются люди. Если ты не специалист и не хочешь стать пушечным мясом в войнах с чужими, то выбор прост: или прозябаешь на Земле, работая от заката до рассвета за копейки, либо летишь к новой планете. Там у тебя шансы 50 на 50. Не повезет—умрешь от клыков и когтей диких животных, или будешь убит более удачливыми коллегами. Ну а если повезет—станешь вполне себе респектабельным и уважаемым человеком в новом, строящемся мире. Мире, который строил в том числе и ты.

Новая планета не оправдала надежд. Начать жизнь с нуля вроде как удалось, но теперь моя жизнь стала куда опаснее, чем прежде. Благо, пару раз повезло, обзавелся полезными знакомствами и даже нашел верных товарищей. Вот только попал в переплет я вместе с ними. И как нам теперь выпутываться—совершенно непонятно...

Unsettled tells the story of two hundred Highlanders who flee the Scottish Clearances in 1813 to establish a settlement on the Red River in what eventually became Winnipeg. They are sponsored by the Earl of Selkirk, a man who has never been west of Montreal. Families who have never left their Highland crofts take an epic journey over ocean, up wild rivers, and through boundless wilderness, surviving disease and brutal winter only to face the determined opposition of fur barons who want no sodbusters threatening their trade and are prepared to stop at nothing to destroy their dream.

Every schoolchild knows the story of how Pocahontas saved the life of Captain John Smith, but that's not the whole story. The Native American princess Pocahontas was born near the end of the sixteenth century as the daughter of Powhatan, chief of the Powhatan confederacy. It was Pocahontas, known as Matoaka by her clan, who interceded on behalf of John Smith in 1608 and then persuaded her father to bring food to the starving colonists at Jamestown.