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“Albion explores the complexities of family, trauma, nature, human nature, landscape and escape in language that is as provocative as it is tender.”—Miranda Cowley Heller, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Paper Palace A finely crafted, propulsive, and nuanced story of family...

We arrive in Albion, AD 490. Once spirits of both light and darkness ruled the land, now tribes of Britons stand alone as Saxon invaders threaten the vulnerable shores. But that’s the least of their worries, the Old Gods are returning from the shadows, bringing their magic with them. Albion: The Legend of Arthur pushes friendships and family loyalties to the test in a world of warlords, witchcraft, heroism and betrayal as we join Arthur on an adventure like no other and witness the birth of one of our greatest legends.

This fascinating audiobook is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time.

Join Zakia Sewell on a journey across Britain, uncovering hidden stories, ancient rituals, and a side of the nation you've never heard before Zakia Sewell is on a quest for another Britain. Traversing the length and breadth of our island from Somerset to Scotland, she's seeking out a different...

Experience a world both ancient and timeless in The Song of Albion Trilogy, a sweeping historical fantasy that blurs the lines between our world and the Otherworld. Rooted in Celtic myth and packed with heart-stopping adventure, this epic series follows an unlikely hero whose journey of destiny...

The kingdom of Albion was thrown into complete chaos after the death of King Nadir. All kinds of evil are practiced indiscriminately on the streets of the capital. Naron, the usurper king and murderer of the former king, his brother, now transforms the lands of Albion into an extension of the underworld. Without the beings of the deep, Naron would never have been able to defeat King Nadir, the chosen by the God Fazuza and the most powerful elemental in the realm. All seems lost, and the reign of darkness seems to last for eternity. The only hope for better days for the kingdom is the weak ...

Experience the dazzling brilliance of a world like ours—yet infinitely bolder and brighter: a place of kings and warriors, bards and battles, feats of glory and honour. It is a place you will forever wish to be. It is Albion. "When I opened my eyes, I was no longer in the world I knew." Lewis...

The magicians went with it, stepping into the Gates to Mystic Albion and leaving OldeWorld—Earth—forever. Since then, the two worlds have remained separate, until now. Three young magicians, experimenting with dangerous spells, find themselves accidentally transported to the world their ancestors fled. Finding friends and allies, they try to blend in as they struggle to find a way back to their home, unaware that danger lurks in the shadows of a very alien world...And that they are already running out of time.

The first fictional memoir ever written by an African-American, The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man influenced a generation of writers during the Harlem Renaissance and served as eloquent inspiration for Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, and Richard Wright. In the 1920s and since, it has also given white readers a startling new perspective on their own culture, revealing to many the double standard of racial identity imposed on black Americans. Told by a bi-racial man whose light skin allows him to "pass" for white, the novel describes a pilgrimage through America's color lines....

Imagine a culture using reason to better understand our world. Imagine a wise land living in harmony with irreplaceable nature. Imagine the blessing of grace to realize our fullest potential. Imagine a nation born in loyalty between people wanting better. Imagine New Albion: The Rebirth of the West. New Albion is an active project to create a new Atlantic homeland in the northeastern quarter of North America, a united effort between Americans and Canadians to restore Western Civilization, honor our European heritage, and defend the timeless values that settled this continent. A peaceful ...

Zack and his younger sister, Zara, have had to fight for every scrap of food and luck that has ever come their way. All of that changes when Zack awakens as a Traveler. Zack holds the key to changing his small family’s fractured fate, and for his sister, he’ll risk everything. The dangers that await him in the mystic realm of the portals, where ancient powers still linger, aren’t the only thing he needs to be wary of. Nobles, both good and bad, have learned of them as well.

The king’s watch needs you.... Because there’s a Dragon on the loose. Conrad Clarke is ready to claim his reward. He’s saved the girl, so surely he can rest on his laurels? Just a bit? Not a chance. First, he has to pass a new test. A magickal test. And then there’s a missing Dragon’s egg to investigate.... Even with a new partner, Conrad is soon in deep trouble. Deep Dragon-shaped trouble. It’s time to use his secret weapons: Charm and humor. Armed with them, who needs a fire-resistance spell? Dragons? Bring them on.

MI6 operative Duncan Grant has been officially missing in action for the last six months. Going on deep-cover to hunt down those responsible for the death of a close ally. Half a world away, enjoying sedate retirement under new identities, former Albion agents are being murdered. And now there's only one left. Given an ultimatum to save the last Albion or face expulsion from the agency he's sacrificed so much for, Grant has no choice but to pursue both missions at the same time.

Imagine a much stronger Bill of Rights. Couple that with a Bill of Responsibilities. Return most power to the community. Have our legislature reflect our counties. Work together under one leader for all. Our New Albion: Rebirth of the West This second book in the New Albion quartet covers the laws and planned governance for the Atlantic Kingdom.

Brought to you by Penguin. FROM THE AUTHOR OF EXPECTATION The Brooke family are gathering in their eighteenth-century ancestral home – twenty bedrooms of carved Sussex sandstone – to bury Philip: husband, father and the blinding sun around which they have all orbited for as long as they can...

Doctor Miriam is the true story of a woman's life as a small town physician. Television portrays women doctors as sacrificing their personal lives for their careers. Miriam Shamer Daly's life was far different than the doctor's portrayed on TV. She married a classmate as a 23-year-old medical school student, practiced medicine and had four children, all of whom earned at least one graduate degree. On television, each episode involves new patients whom the doctor meets for the first time. Practicing medicine for 44 years, Dr. Daly sometimes met her patients as toddlers, delivered their ...

When Conrad died, they uploaded him to New Albion, a digital afterlife system. It’s an adults only VRMMO game, created to indulge users' fantasies within a fully immersive, classic fantasy setting. Now he stalks the forests of Tinshire as Vandal Lionheart, adventuring barbarian. His rusty gladius may be small and his loincloth revealing, but his six-pack is pronounced, his biceps bulging, and his most treasured weapon is as mighty as his chest measurement. Vandal is level one and on his first quest, when he picks up a side quest to rescue a prisoner.

The Spine of Albion, by Gary Biltcliffe and Caroline Hoare, is the in-depth research of a middle axis line that runs through Britain from the mystical Isle of Wight to Durness at the top of Scotland and connects the ancient capitals of both countries. This hidden axis has associated with it a yin and yang – female and male – energy force that weaves around the alignment and crosses at key places of power within the British landscape. The book reveals the significance of these mystical leys and networks of light, also called Dragon paths, and how we can interact with them and help to ...

Book three in an epic historical fantasy series that blurs the lines between this world and the Otherworld. Fires rage in Albion: strange, hidden fires, dark-flamed, invisible to the eye. Llew Silver Hand is High King of Albion, but now the Brazen Man has defied his sovereignty and Llew must...

When they found themselves trapped on Earth, Richard, Brains, and Helen befriended Janet and Steve, a brother and sister growing up in a poverty-stricken estate, and taught them the basics of magic before discovering that sinister forces were slowly moving against them. Now, Richard and Brains have taken Janet back to Mystic Albion to study magic, while Helen and Steve remain behind to track down the rogue magicians and stop them before it is too late.