It's hard to fight wizards and demons when all you have is a gun and a badge.The use of magic in the Sovereign City of Dracoheim is regulated by the Lord Mayor's Committee For Public Safety. From the licensing of magi, to the health and safety requirements for magical manufacturing, to the import and export of goods to the Realms of Nightmare, dedicated civil servants ensure that the metropolitan area stays safe from magical mayhem.Most of the time, anyway.My name is Erik Rugar. I'm an agent of the Criminal Investigation Division of CPS. We operate outside of the authority of Parliament and are answerable only to the Lord Mayor himself. We get involved when the regular beat cops are out of their depth. If a magic shop gets robbed by junkies, or someone gets vaporized by a fireball, or shapechanging creatures start infiltrating the city, I get the call.But I'm not a mage; I'm just a cop. I face down magical threats with my keen investigative skills and a trusty revolver.Welcome to my world.Includes the short story "In the City of Dreadful Joy," third-place winner of the 2019 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award!

Bad Dreams and Broken Hearts: The Case Files of Erik Rugar

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Burnett, Misha

Fantasy

Lagrange Books

Who Will Have My Back is a powerful collection of short stories that describe the often-overlooked, sometimes-invisible sacrifice and devotion of our nation's caregivers. Based upon personal interviews and firsthand observations, Who Will Have My Back is a testament to the work these men, women, and organizations perform on behalf of America's wounded warriors and fallen first responders.The real images, feelings and memories captured in these stories offer a deeper understanding of what it means to accept the mantle of caregiver--and provide an intimate, personal glimpse into the real, everyday life experiences of actual caregivers.No parent ever imagines standing by a son's bedside, and having to tell him that he has lost both legs and a hand. But when that son whispers through lips still swollen from battlefield wounds that he wants to walk again, it takes more than a parent's love to make--and keep--the promise to do everything possible to help him walk; it takes a caregiver's heart.Who Will Have My Back lays bare, for all to see and feel, the caregiver's heart.

Who Will Have My Back: Stories of Love and Care for Those Who Have Served and Sacrificed

Biographies & Memoirs

Farina, Ron

Community & Culture

Leaders & Notable People

Not just scenery-use your setting's politics to supercharge your story's conflict! Are you dissatisfied with your invented settings? Do you want to do better than Yet Another Standard Medieval Land? Do you want to build gripping story conflict right into the fabric of your world? Learn how your setting can escape the usual clichés-or take the usual clichés and put a bold new twist on them, that readers or players will love! In Beyond Kings and Princesses: Governments for Worldbuilders, you will use fundamental concepts of politics to take the conflict in your story to a whole new level, delighting readers and leaving them wanting more. Inside, you will discover how the Tripod of Power, the four main Regime Actors, and key principles of social conflict can make your setting bold and original, or familiar yet compelling. Most importantly, your setting will be built from the ground up to evoke your story's unique vision. Most books about worldbuilding are written by authors or game designers who know a little bit about everything, including politics. This is the only worldbuilding resource written by a scholar of political science who is also a skilled fiction writer and editor. Beyond Kings and Princesses: Governments for Worldbuilders provides a crash course in the most important ideas from politics, carefully selected and presented to help worldbuilders like you solve your key problem: how can setting be used to tell a powerful story?

Beyond Kings and Princesses: Governments for Worldbuilders (Politics for Worldbuilders)

Litwin, Oren

Legal Theory & Systems

Out of the Shadows: Voices of American Women Soldiers (Sacrifice)

In this sequel to Who Will Have My Back, discover the stories of nine remarkable American women soldiers wounded while serving in Iraq or Afghanistan. Based on hours of personal interviews, Out of the Shadows: Voices of American Women Soldiers pieces together the unique lives of these women who served side by side with their male counterparts in war-torn Iraq and Afghanistan.\nOut of the Shadows honors the legacy and inconceivable sacrifice of each of these women. This tribute is meant to honor all of America's women soldiers, their inarguable bravery and heroism-and to lay bare for all the world to see the heart, courage, and sacrifices of the American Woman Soldier.

Out of the Shadows: Voices of American Women Soldiers

Obeying the powerful is easy. To resist takes courage.When interests collide-between countries, or social classes, or different notions of right and wrong-power and violence lurk close by. Do you submit out of fear? Or because it's the smart move? Fight to defend your honor or your home? Or do you fight because that is all you have ever known?In For the Good of the Realm: Stories of Power and Defiance, experience eight fantasy short stories by skilled authors-each with a different take on power and obedience. The succession to a noble title depends on the cunning of an underworld fixer. Wizards and common folk struggle for supremacy in a parliamentary democracy. A famous mercenary general returns to the village that he once conquered, with an unknown purpose. Cultures clash as a barbarian princess arrives at the court of a neighboring king with a shocking request. And more!For the Good of the Realm features the following short stories: <ul><li>"Dinja Duwar," by S.R. Crickard</li><li>"A Well-Placed Word," by Derek Des Anges</li><li>"Magic and Steel," by Liam Hogan</li><li>"Scars," by Jake Lithua</li><li>"Birthstones," by Marshall J. Moore</li><li>"For the Sake of a Dandelion," by Jennifer R. Povey</li><li>"The Silk Code," by Samantha Rich</li><li>"The Warrior Princess of Mogtesa," by JM Williams</li></ul> With an introduction by editor Oren Litwin.

For the Good of the Realm: Stories of Power and Defiance

Hogan, Liam

Povey, Jennifer R.

Rich, Samantha

Williams, JM

Moore, Marshall J.

Crickard, S.R.

Des Anges, Derek

Lithua, Jake

Sacrifice: The Final Chapter

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