{ "item_title" : "The Defiant Exodus", "item_author" : [" Graham Graff "], "item_description" : "Twenty-five people walked out of Meridian into an empty Martian valley. Everyone expected them to fail.Two years after the discovery that changed everything, the Turner family has found something almost as dangerous as the ancient chamber itself: a way out of a stifling, controlling culture.Alex Turner is eighteen now, an engineer's apprentice with grease permanently under his fingernails. His twin sister Jane leads the team translating the chamber's stranger secrets. Their little brother Sam, fifteen and still hard to fool, notices things the adults would rather he didn't.Then someone finds the clause.Buried in Meridian's colonial charter is an old, untested right: any group of citizens may found a settlement of their own. So twenty-five colonists, fed up with oppression, load eleven rovers and walk south into the empty valley, leaving a comfortable life in the domes behind them. There is no road, no shelter, no rescue, and nothing built. Governor Bailey lets them go, certain they will fail without him.They don't.What begins as a desperate march becomes a town, then a city, then something Meridian never imagined: a free society, growing past a hundred thousand, powered by technology born from the ancient chamber's schematics. But freedom has a price, and the men and women left behind in Meridian's offices have long memories. Seventeen years on, the man who let a thriving settlement slip away regrets it, and starts wondering how to bring it back.THE DEFIANT EXODUS is a gripping, character-driven science-fiction adventure about courage, independence, and the true cost of building a home worth keeping. Grounded in real science and written in the tradition of classic science fiction, it will keep you turning pages long after you meant to stop.Is a colony ever really free to leave?Book Two of The Great Mars Migration. Best enjoyed after Book One, Children of the Red Planet. Scroll up and grab your copy now.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/816/525/9798165250750_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "10.99", "online_price" : "10.99", "our_price" : "10.99", "club_price" : "10.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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