Pioneers in Canada opens with a sweeping account of exploration, conquest, and settlement in North America, told through the daring, flawed, and often tragic lives of the men and women who helped shape the British Empire. Moving from ancient human migrations out of Asia to the first Norse voyages across the North Atlantic, the book traces the peopling of the Americas, the settlement of Iceland and Greenland, and the brief, dramatic Norse reach into Vinland before their colonies collapsed. ...

Pioneers in Australasia is a sweeping history of exploration, discovery, and empire in the southern seas, from Borneo and New Guinea to Australia, New Zealand, and the wider Pacific. It traces the first European encounters with unfamiliar peoples, lands, and creatures, showing how fragile ships, uncertain maps, hunger, disease, storms, imprisonment, and death shaped the making of colonial power. Alongside the drama of adventure, the book insists on honesty about both courage and wrongdoing...

The world is a dangerous place for a child when no one's watching.In post-World War II Scotland, a seven-year-old boy should be walking to school. Instead, he's shipped off to Australia.Trapped in a world of anger and violence with nowhere to turn, young Johno clings to the hope that a policeman might help him. But life has other plans.Decades later, after years of denial by governments and cover-ups by institutions, Johno begins to uncover the trut...

Can he turn one night into forever?After being ditched only weeks before her wedding, Cassie Stackwell wasn’t out looking for a hookup. Then the devastatingly handsome bartender she’d been trying not to obsess over for months offered to give her a ride home. What could one night hurt?When his future was almost taken away after one impulsive decision, wolf-shifter and ex-con Jace Miller waited patiently for months before making a move on the woman he knew to be his destined ...

When I return to Bishop’s Bay after my mother’s death, I’m determined to revitalize our family’s flagging lakeside resort. But my siblings would rather stay on their ranches, the resort staff doubts my every decision, and the one move that could secure its future? It’s blocked by one stubborn strip of land.Enter Jasper Duke—laid-back, charming, and apparently allergic to ambition. When I quite literally drop my grief and my expectations on him, I never imagine offering him a job…or...

Maggie’s a wolf shifter who’s never shifted. She’s blended with humans her whole life, but lately, her shifter side has been restless. But when a hot shifter tracks her down at work and makes outrageous claims about her destiny, she blows him off. Her mother left that world behind for a reason.Porter’s home is in turmoil, and his pack lives in fear of their cruel leader. But there’s one female who can help them. If only she’ll listen. Because he’s not the only one who knows Maggie ...

She wants to destroy the demon possessing her father.He wants to protect his people. But she's the worst thing since holy water: a virgin mate.Calli's good at pretending. Like how she and her father still live like they're the elite of vampire society when they've been destitute for years. But when she suspects her father's been possessed by a demon, there's only one male she can turn to: the one who took everything from them.Demetrius overturned the corrupt vampire...

H. H. Johnston's account of the Kilima-njaro Expedition opens as both travel narrative and scientific inquiry, carrying the reader into eastern equatorial Africa with a scholar's eye and an explorer's urgency. Dedicated to Sir John Kirk and written with a phonetic system for African names, the work is designed to guide readers through a journey that moves from the coast inland to Taita, Mombasa, and at last Kilima-njaro, while also promising chapters on climate, geology, zoology, anthropol...

Odessa’s a nerdy angel who just wants to keep to herself. Her unpopular father works in the government of their realm. She doesn’t get along with her sister, and no one talks about what happened to her mother. So Odessa has no one to turn to for help with the staggering fear she lives under each day, a terror born from childhood trauma. Until she spots the announcement of a gala for a warrior in need of a mate.Bryant would rather chew his wings off than get mated, but orders are or...

Frederick Fife has borrowed someone else’s life – but it might just save his own… A funny, tender and uplifting story about second chances, human connection and the families we find along the way – perfect for fans of Theo of Golden “What a glorious story, I absolutely loved it!” – Ruth Hogan, bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost ThingsThe feel-good runaway bestseller about forgiveness, redemption, and finding family.

Over 100,000 Copies Sold#1 New York Times Bestseller#1 Amazon BestsellerUSA Today BestsellerPublishers Weekly **Bestseller10 Historic Finds That Support the Truth of Christianity**In an age of growing skepticism, many demand hard evidence before believing anything is true--especially when it comes to Jesus and the Bible...

From Edgar Wallace's relentless pacing to John Buchan's espionage classic The Thirty-Nine Steps, this sweeping collection gathers thirty stories of danger, pursuit, and hidden agendas. Erskine Childers's proto-spy intrigue, Louis Joseph Vance's gentleman-crook capers, Mary Roberts Rinehart's had-I-but-known suspense, and William Le Queux's invasion thrillers sit alongside contributions from Henry Rider Haggard, G. K. Chesterton, and Edgar Rice Burroughs, tracing the suspense and thriller s...