Grab your magical sword and take the place of your favorite fantasy character with this fun and historically accurate how-to guide to solving epic quests. What should you ask a magic mirror? How do you outwit a genie? Where should you dig for buried treasure? Fantasy media’s favorite clichés get new life from How to Slay a Dragon: A Fantasy Hero’s Guide to the Real Middle Ages, a historically accurate romp through the medieval world. Each entry presents a trope from video games, books, movies, or TV—such as saving the princess or training a wizard—as a problem for you to solve, as if you were the hero of your own fantasy quest. Through facts sourced from a rich foundation of medieval sources, you will learn how your magical problems were solved by people in the actual Middle Ages. Divided into thematic subsections based on typical stages in a fantastical epic, and inclusive of race, gender, and continent, How to Slay a Dragon is perfect if you’re curious to learn more about the time period that inspired some of your favorite magical worlds or longing to know what it would be like to be the hero of your own mythical adventure.

A collection of fantasy stories, many from New York Times–bestselling authors, featuring mythical dragons. Dragons are creatures of legend. Of magic. Of wisdom, nature, and the power of creation. They have been in every culture and mythology since the beginning of time. Writers are creatures of legend. With magic, wisdom, and the power of creation at their fingertips. They, too, are in every culture and have been creating their own mythologies since the beginning of time. Within each writer is the power of a dragon. . . . The power of creation. Gathered together are twenty-six stories from writers who dared to tame this power, including New York Times–bestselling authors Brandon Sanderson, Jody Lynn Nye, Todd McCaffrey, and David Farland. Through fantasy, sci-fi, romance, and poetry, this anthology celebrates the magic and majesty of dragons, writers, and creativity. Within these pages, you’ll find dragons who fly through space, who raise hatchlings, who carry the power of life and death. Some dragons are even featured as swords, planes, and origami creatures. Dragon Writers is a special collection where magic and myth combine to create something legendary.

"Trust me, Kitten. I've done this before." Evie has embedded trust issues. Maddox is an honorable Navy SEAL. When their steamy encounters become too intense, Evie's instincts want her to flee while Maddox holds her in place. Her SEAL to Slay Dragons is the first, 'Discover my Heat', interracial romance in the SEALs N Sorority Girls Series.

As a family of dragon slayers, the Quenches of Ashby have always been burning successes...until the evil Black Count invades, and the family's fortunes go into a downward spiral. Then a dragon unexpectedly arrives and Lily, the last of the Quenches, is called upon to fight it. Soon she finds herself on a desperate, magical quest to save Ashby from destruction-and restore the lost heir to his throne...

Arlian was winning his war against the dragons -- but he was discovering the costs of that victory might be far higher than he had expected, and more than he was willing to pay. Could he find a way to save humanity from both the dragons, and the wild magic the dragons had kept at bay?

Adult content / Complete standalone story Prepare to get down and dirty with a spicy spin on the tale of Romeo and Juliet when a dragonslayer on a mission falls for the dragoness of his dreams. Astrid Drakenstone is a unique half-dragoness with the magical talent of the immortals and the temperament of a human. On the day she’s gifted the legendary sword Ascalon, she’s also dealt an inescapable destiny — in her hands, the sword may either save or doom their kind. Lieutenant Nathaniel Kirkpatrick lives a dual life. Among his fellow sailors, he’s a dependable Naval officer, but to the Knights of Merlin, he’s the reincarnation of Sir Galahad. As one of many old souls reborn each generation, he trains for a single purpose — to slay dragons. With orders to infiltrate the paranormal world, he meets his match when Astrid becomes the target of his next mission. While the discovery of Astrid’s existence introduces a new threat to the knighthood, Nate’s drawn to her in a forbidden attraction. They call her a monster, but he sees a woman with a compassionate soul. Torn between duty or forsaking his brothers, he soon realizes investigating the Drakenstone family for the knights will come at a price: his heart. KEYWORDS: Strong female character, dragon shifter, dragons, paranormal romance, Arthurian legend, knights, ghosts, romeo and juliet

Dragon for a Day Mr. Frankie always wanted to be a substitute teacher. After the last incident with the accidental blob, though, no school will hire him! And that’s when he sees an ad. Wanted: Substitute Dragon. Being a substitute dragon shouldn’t be harder than being a substitute teacher . . . right?

For fans of unheralded women’s stories, a captivating look at Sigrid Schultz—one of the earliest reporters to warn Americans of the rising threat of the Nazi regime “No other American correspondent in Berlin knew so much of what was going on behind the scene as did Sigrid Schultz.” — William L. Shirer, author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich We are facing an alarming upsurge in the spread of misinformation and attempts by powerful figures to discredit facts so they can seize control of narratives. These are threats American journalist Sigrid Schultz knew all too well. The Chicago Tribune's Berlin bureau chief and primary foreign correspondent for Central Europe from 1925 to January 1941, Schultz witnessed Hitler’s rise to power and was one of the first reporters—male or female—to warn American readers of the growing dangers of Nazism. In The Dragon From Chicago, Pamela D. Toler draws on extensive archival research to unearth the largely forgotten story of Schultz’s years spent courageously reporting the news from Berlin, from the revolts of 1919 through the Nazi rise to power and Allied air raids over Berlin in 1941. At a time when women reporters rarely wrote front-page stories and her male colleagues saw a powerful unmarried woman as a “freak,” Schultz pulled back the curtain on how the Nazis misreported the news to their own people, and how they attempted to control the foreign press through bribery and threats. Sharp and enlightening, Schultz's story provides a powerful example for how we can reclaim truth in an era marked by the spread of disinformation and claims of “fake news.”