New Releases by Alex Harvey

This book tells the story of the Viking Age and its enduring impact through fifty carefully chosen treasures, trinkets, and finds.

Before England, Wales, and Scotland were created, before Alfred the Great and the Great Viking Army, before even a raid on Lindisfarne, the kingdoms that made up the British Isles were a squabbling, kaleidoscopic mosaic of realities. Some centred their livelihood around rivers, others dug deep to harvest resources from the ground beneath them. There were kingdoms that straddled the sea, others divided by marshes, and some that stuck to rugged mountainsides, or even caves. All these places, remembered now in place-names, artefacts, and obscure chronicles, have become obscured and forgotten, in many cases lost entirely. Little Kingdoms peels back the veil on sixty-two unique realms, listed alphabetically like a travelogue, showcasing the most diverse corners of Early Medieval England, sandwiched in that tantalising gap between the Roman and Viking periods. By using a mixture of disciplines, folklore, and a little imagination, all sixty-two (and many more besides) are brought to life through careful detective work, inventive illustrations, and detailed maps, highlighting the multicultural people of this island and their many, many origins. * Imagine a time when Harrow-on-the-Hill was crowned with a pagan temple, when the commercial heart of London beat not in the City but at the Aldwych, when giant zombies patrolled Strathclyde, and when the Fenlands of Cambridgeshire were a single swamp and the home of eel-wranglers, egret-catchers, and bog-miners. This is the world to which Alex Harvey transports us in this powerfully evocative and clever account of Britain in the centuries after the Roman withdrawal. Made up of more than sixty micro-histories of the places which flourished between the fifth and tenth centuries, his book is both a time machine and an A to Z of a lost age. But it is much more besides. By starting with the little kingdoms, Alex Harvey reverses the standard narrative which interprets Dark Age Britain through the lens of what it was to become. You will never see the Anglo-Saxon world in the same light and you will probably never again describe it as Anglo-Saxon but instead as a multiplicity of overlapping cultures, languages, and myths of origin. - Martyn Rady, Masaryk Professor Emeritus of Central European History at UCL and author of The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe * Much of the early medieval period can seem impenetrable - place-names difficult to pin down now, snippets of fact immersed in a soup of myth and legend - and it would take a brave person to try and make sense of it all. Alex Harvey has taken on the challenge and produced a book, in my opinion, like no other, and furthermore a book that is easy to read and digest. - David Johnson, author of New Light on the "Dark Ages" in North Craven * This book is a veritable treasure hoard of information, derived from archaeology and historical chronicles, place-name studies and folklore, Old English poetry and saints' lives. Alex Harvey dispels the myth that early medieval Britain was a heptarchy, the home of a people easily categorizable by ethnicity or nationality. Instead, Harvey breathes life into a sweeping miscellany of little kingdoms, some familiar and prominent in our early medieval histories, others mysterious and elusive. Whether it's in reports of strange weather (mole rain) or references to undead islands (a misinterpreted place-name), the reader of Little Kingdoms will find more than a little to explore in a richly complex medieval Britain. - Hana Videen, author of The Deor Hord: An Old English Bestiary * Post-Roman Britain is a land of myth, legend and wonder for many, and a true dark age for others. A place which could easily sit in the Middle Earth of J.R.R. Tolkien, not surprising given it was the inspiration for many of his best-known plot lines. Yet here Alex Harvey skilfully brings this little-known period of British history to vibrant life, showing in striking detail how events then set in place the multiple identities of Britain today. Using true academic rigour, matched with a wonderful ability to tell a story, he introduces readers to kingdoms large and small, some only short-lived but many still recognisable today within the political geography of Britain. In that sense, this is also an important book for our age, when self-identification is at the forefront of the national debate. - Simon Elliott, author of Sea Eagles of Empire * Fun, readable and informative, Alex Harvey's Little Kingdoms is a celebration of some of the most obscure and odd kingdoms, fiefdoms, territories, and settlements of British history. Infused with enthusiasm and written in a conversational tone, this is the type of pop history I love to read. - Steve Brusatte, professor of palaeontology at the University of Edinburgh, and New York best-selling author of The Rise & Fall of the Dinosaurs * I really liked the decision to structure the book in sixty-two alphabetical entries. It could so easily have been shaped thematically with endless case studies, but that would have made the book less accessible to the general reader and taken the focus off the kingdoms and their stories. And yet, while reading this only as a gazetteer is a delight -with its intriguing pen portraits of long forgotten little realms teased out of clues in charters, old poems and traces in the landscape - it would be a missed opportunity. Read together in sequence the entries allow the reader to watch Alex Harvey use his furious curiosity to puzzle out a much more complete portrait of this fascinating period of history, its people and places. In fact, Little Kingdoms invites different readings: by all means begin with a pick and mix approach, then read it through in alphabetical order while making sure to jump backwards and forwards between the cross references. Harvey is not afraid to ask questions that are impossible to answer, but his attempts not only make for an enjoyable read, but gradually form answers to much bigger questions about the past: about settlement, identity, change and continuity - how these kingdoms emerged and disappeared and why that matters. Process is an important part of the reading experience, the story of how we know what we know about these lost kingdoms is half the pleasure. Little Kingdoms shows what can be achieved with a combination of archaeological expertise, a way with words, an enquiring mind and an imagination fed on manuscripts and long barrows. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the period, in what can be made of the traces that remain, in how to do history well. Essential and absorbing. - Christopher Hadley, author of The Road

NINTH HOUSE and AN EDUCATION IN MALICE meets STRIXHAVEN in this claustrophobically tense sapphic fantasy dark academia novel... After their girlfriend's best friend is wounded in a monster attack, Simone Allard stumbles across a plot much deeper than they anticipated. As they work to find a cure to their own forming illness and find out the truth, one question remains: how was Nadia involved in this? Nadia DuPont doesn't know how much time she has or even what is ailing her, but it all gets more complex after meeting Simone on a field trip. As they both work to find a cure to her ailment, all Nadia is certain of is she's on the path to ruin.

A reappraisal of the Vikings. The ultimate goal of Forgotten Vikings is to add to the corpus of popular history/overview books of the Viking Age.

Since I've been released from prison, I'm not sure what I want to do with my life. The mafia has been the only thing that has ever characterized my existence. Now that my father has passed away, our family has been destroyed by my sister and her FBI fiancé. I can't help but want to start doing it again. I am aware that it is only hassle. I know I shouldn't do it. I am good at it, though, and it's the only thing I know.

Your time is up when death calls, but even death has a flaw. Death is Quinton Richardson, also known as Que. a former Navy SEAL who is still affected by a past event. He joins the Kansas City mob as a hitman after leaving the military. Apart from murdering people, Que leads a simple and peaceable life. That is, until he encounters Raven Arce, a stunning woman who is the only survivor of a massacred family. Que saves Raven from a deadly situation against his better judgment, and as a result, his life is turned around. Because there is now a bounty on Que's head, he changes from being the hunter to the prey. Domo, a merciless gangster who kills anyone who stands in his way, rules the inner city. Que and Raven recently appeared on that list. Domo now wants them killed. Que and Raven rapidly discover that no place is safe for them, despite the fact that he has an army at his disposal and assistance from a very strong ally. Additionally, they learn that someone hates them even more than Domo does. It seems like love is battling to kill him and Raven just as quickly as Que is fighting to keep them alive.

A gritty, smoke-filled, and boozy account of musician Tom Waits’s formative decade in Los Angeles. Song Noir examines the formative first decade of Tom Waits’s career, when he lived, wrote, and recorded nine albums in Los Angeles: from his soft, folk-inflected debut, Closing Time in 1973, to the abrasive, surreal Swordfishtrombones in 1983. Starting his songwriting career in the seventies, Waits absorbed Los Angeles’s wealth of cultural influences. Combining the spoken idioms of writers like Kerouac and Bukowski with jazz-blues rhythms, he explored the city’s literary and film noir traditions to create hallucinatory dreamscapes. Waits mined a rich seam of the city’s low-life locations and characters, letting the place feed his dark imagination. Mixing the domestic with the mythic, Waits turned quotidian, autobiographical details into something more disturbing and emblematic, a vision of Los Angeles as the warped, narcotic heart of his nocturnal explorations.

Color By Number Stained Glass Coloring Book This Color By Number Coloring Book for men, women and even youths is great for someone who just likes to relax coloring flowers, landscapes. Every Color By Numbers picture is printed on its own 8.5 x 11 inch page. Make one of the best decisions this year and get your copy of this fantastic Color By Number Stained Glass Coloring Book while you still can now.

200+ PAGES 🐨 NOUVELLE VERSION 🐶 ACTIVITÉS ARTISTIQUES Les livres de coloriage ne sont plus faits uniquement pour les enfants. Aujourd'hui, nos vies deviennent de plus en plus remplies et compliquées. Le développement des technologies entraîne des vagues d'emails et de notifications sur les réseaux sociaux. Cette stimulation constante de certaines attentes, d'obligations et de stress nous épuise et nous éloigne des joies du présent. Trouver un moment de calme peut devenir un véritable challenge. Récemment, le coloriage est devenu une activité formidable pour tous ceux qui veulent se relaxer, déstresser et libérer leur esprit de pensées envahissantes. Caractéristiques: ✓ 200 beaux modèles anti-stress, conçus pour solliciter et susciter l'imagination et pour libérer votre créativité intérieure. ✓ Différents niveaux de détails, de facile à difficile (pour des yeux différents). Choisissez une image en fonction de votre humeur et commencez votre voyage déstressant. ✓ Imprimé sur du grand papier de haute qualité. Vous aurez beaucoup d'espace pour être créatif et travailler les détails. ✓ Parfait pour être décoré avec des crayons de couleurs, stylos à encre gel, marqueurs, stylos à pointes poreuses ou crayons. Partagez votre passion pour le coloriage. Donnez à un ami un cadeau pour se détendre où profitez-en ensemble. Vous n'avez pas besoin d'expérience créative. Même si vous trouvez qu'il est difficile de découvrir votre artiste intérieur - vous profiterez tout de même du plaisir de créer. Le coloriage à lui seul est calmant, alors coloriez! 🛍️ Acheter maintenant & Se détendre... 🛍️ Faites défiler vers le haut de la page et cliquez sur le bouton Ajouter au panier. 💳

SpongeBob is a sea sponge who lives with his pet snail, Gary, in a two-bedroom pineapple in the town of Bikini Bottom. SpongeBob's dream in life is to be the ocean's ultimate fry cook, and thanks to his job flipping Krabby Patties at the Krusty Krab, he lives that dream every day. SpongeBob is as optimistic and earnest as a sea-dwelling sponge gets, but he can't seem to avoid getting himself, and usually everyone else around him, into trouble. SpongeBob's hobbies include blowing bubbles, catching (and releasing) jellyfish with his best friend, Patrick, and practising karate.

Experience God's goodness through Faith. Faith is as real as your next breath. It is vital for life's challenging circumstances and difficulties. You have overcoming Faith abiding in YOU! His Truth has stood the test of time and has delivered many before us and will continue to deliver many after us. Take hold of Faith by the horns, become resilient, except nothing less, FAITH WORKS!

Dora and Diego prepare to go on a camping trip by getting sleeping bags, flashlights, and binoculars, but when Swiper steals their campfire snacks, they have to find them.

"Olivia is throwing a kite party. By the time she makes her kite, the wind is gone. How do you fly a kite without wind? Olivia will find a way!"--P. [4] of cover.

Olivia is super excited to have her best friend come along on her family camping trip. However Francine is not a huge fan of the Great Outdoors and is less than excited about the mud, the bugs, and the idea of sleeping in a tent. It's up to Olivia to help Francine get in touch with her inner nature lover.