Neon Dragon

Neon Dragon
Author: John F. Dobbyn
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2007
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781584656142

This explosive first novel brings to life the legal detective team of Michael Knight and Lex Devlin who pursue an investigation that involves drugs, prostitution, human trafficking, and, ultimately, a corruption scandal that could bring down the most powerful people in Boston.

LEGO Magical Ideas

LEGO Magical Ideas
Author: Helen Murray
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2021-09-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0744054133

Add some sparkle to your LEGO® building with more than 50 magical model ideas! Use your LEGO collection to create enchanted forests, mythical creatures, fairies, superheroes, wands, and much more. Plus, the book comes with all the bricks you need to make an exclusive magical LEGO Neon Dragon model. Believing in magic is just the beginning! ©2020 The LEGO Group.

DragonArt Fantasy Characters

DragonArt Fantasy Characters
Author: Jessica Peffer "Neondragon"
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2007-08-13
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1600613705

Give life to the beings that roam your imagination! Dragons may terrorize fantasy worlds, but they need peasants to munch on... heroes to confront... elegant elves, shrewd sorcerers and dreaded demons to battle. Following on the wings of the ferociously popular DragonArt, this book shows you how to conjure up your own fantasy realms by drawing inspiration from fairy tales, legends and (if you dare) things that go bump in the night. • Breathe the life into your beings by basing them upon fundamental human anatomy—proportions, facial expressions and gender-specific characteristics. • Color-coded, step-by-step demonstrations (simple enough that even the dullest of dwarves could follow along!) show you how to create a sordid cast of creatures, including goblins, orcs, sprites, angels, mermaids, centaurs, vampires, werewolves, banshees and more. • Accessorize each being by tailoring them with tusks, wings, hooves, daggers, armor and various apparel, from the fine garb of nobles to peasant rags. Copy each being as-is. Or, better yet, follow your own twisted imaginings to conjure up creatures from fantastic lands.

City of Thieves (Battle Dragons #1)

City of Thieves (Battle Dragons #1)
Author: Alex London
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2021-09-21
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1338770640

In a modern mega-city built around dragons, one boy gets caught up in the world of underground dragon battles and a high-stakes gang war that could tear his family apart. Once, dragons nearly drove themselves to extinction. But in the city of Drakopolis, humans domesticated them centuries ago. Now dragons haul the city’s cargo, taxi its bustling people between skyscrapers, and advertise its wares in bright, neon displays. Most famously of all, the dragons battle. Different breeds take to the skies in nighttime bouts between the infamous kins—criminal gangs who rule through violence and intimidation. Abel has always loved dragons, but after a disastrous showing in his dragon rider’s exam, he's destined never to fly one himself. All that changes the night his sister appears at his window, entrusting him with a secret...and a stolen dragon. Turns out, his big sister is a dragon thief! Too bad his older brother is a rising star in Drakopolis law enforcement... To protect his friends and his family, Abel must partner with the stolen beast, riding in kin battles and keeping more secrets than a dragon has scales. When everyone wants him fighting on their side, can Abel figure out what’s worth fighting for?

The Book of Dragons

The Book of Dragons
Author: Jonathan Strahan
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 625
Release: 2020-07-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0062877178

R.F. Kuang, Kate Elliott, Ken Liu, Todd McCaffrey, Garth Nix, Peter S. Beagle, and other modern masters of fantasy and science fiction put their unique spin on the greatest of mythical beasts—the dragon—in never-before-seen works written exclusively for this fantasy anthology compiled by award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan and with art by Rovina Cai! Here there be dragons . . . From China to Europe, Africa to North America, dragons have long captured our imagination in myth and legend. Whether they are rampaging beasts awaiting a brave hero to slay or benevolent sages who have much to teach humanity, dragons are intrinsically connected to stories of creation, adventure, and struggle beloved for generations. Bringing together nearly thirty stories and poems from some of the greatest science fiction and fantasy writers working today— Garth Nix, Scott Lynch, R.F. Kuang, Ann Leckie & Rachel Swirsky, Daniel Abraham, Peter S. Beagle, Beth Cato, Zen Cho, C. S. E Cooney, Aliette de Bodard, Amal El-Mohtar, Kate Elliott, Theodora Goss, Ellen Klages, Ken Liu, Seanan Maguire, Patricia A McKillip, K. J. Parker, Kelly Robson, Michael Swanwick, Jo Walton, Elle Katharine White, Jane Yolen, Kelly Barnhill, Brooke Bolander, Sarah Gailey, and J. Y. Yang—and illustrated by award-nominated artist Rovina Cai with black-and-white line drawings specific to each entry throughout, this extraordinary collection vividly breathes fire and life into one of our most captivating and feared magical creatures as never before and is sure to become a treasured keepsake for fans of fantasy, science fiction, and fairy tales.

DragonArt

DragonArt
Author: Jessica Neon Dragon Peffer
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2005-09-25
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1581806574

How to Draw a Dragon: "Cautiously approach the dragon, offer it a piece of candy or a little sister, and draw while it happily munches away." From the artist behind the wildly popular NeonDragonArt.com, DragonArt will help you create mythical beasts that awe, delight, and disturb the sweet dreams of little ones. Armed only with your trusty pencil and ink pen, you will begin your artistic quest by conquering a super-easy dragon that even the densest of wyvern could draw. With pace quickened by this cool achievement, you shall forge bravely onward to discover simple secrets and spiffy tricks for making your creature friendly or fierce, sorrowful or cynical—drawing them from all different perspectives, in flight or at rest (so vain, those dragons—they love to strike a pose!) and incorporating various styles of heads, limbs, wings, horns, frills, scales, tails and other details to make your particular beast original, believable and so darn groovy. Because dragons enjoy having others around to terrorize, disembowel and occasionally hang out with, this book will also teach you how you to populate your alternate universe with a whole cast of fantastic creatures, including mythical griffins, guardian gargoyles and deadly basilisks. All this within the curiously compelling, beautifully beastly, and brightly colored pages you hold in your hands, which by now are no doubt trembling with keen anticipation. So quit dragon your feet! (Ugh, wyrms hate puns!) Buy this book now and make your wildest, wickedest, fire-breathingest fantasies come true!

Duel of Dragons

Duel of Dragons
Author: Michael Dahl
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2012-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1434240398

Sam Stevens has grown since the days when his parents chained him up at night, and when he returns to the tower in the forest he meets three other teenagers with dragonblood.

DragonArt Color Workbook

DragonArt Color Workbook
Author: J. "NeonDragon" Peffer
Publisher: IMPACT
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2012-05-18
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781440318641

Coloring that Makes Magical Creatures Come Alive! Enter the realm of fantastic dragons and magical creatures. Here best-selling artist J "NeonDragon" Peffer takes you on an adventure, showing you step-by-step how to make fantasy drawings come to life with bold color and vibrant texture. These techniques are fun, fast and easy to follow. Simply color these amazing drawings, and watch your favorite creatures leap off the page! Inside you'll find: 45 mind-blowing dragon drawings you can color Awesome techniques for capturing textures like fur, feathers and scales Simple steps for realistic shading and 3D effects Color palettes for capturing fantasy creatures of all kinds Throughout this inspiring book, NeonDragon shares her vast knowledge of the fantasy world, offering you special insights and information on a range of imaginary creatures, including griffins, gargoyles and of course, dragons. She also shares quick tips for getting all the colorful details just right. In no time, you'll be coloring fantastic creatures better than you ever have before. The possibilities are endless. Take this guide and fly where your imagination takes you!

Mary Weatherford

Mary Weatherford
Author: Robert Faggen
Publisher: DelMonico Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Neon
ISBN: 9783791355887

"This is the first major publication of Mary Weatherford, who is quickly becoming one of the most prominent artists of her generation, and surveys the artist's neon paintings. Since the beginning of her career she has rooted her abstract painting in subjective experience and brought a feminist perspective to what is perhaps the defining category of modern and contemporary art, breaking down preconceived notions of scale, technical achievement, and formal progress. Weatherford accents the surface of her recent luminous paintings and installations with neon lighting fixtures to evoke the dynamic nature of city life. This beautifully illustrated book presents all of Weatherford's neon works to date, along with essays by Robert Faggen, Katy Siegel, Jennifer Peterson, and an interview with the artist."--Book jacket.

Thunderbook

Thunderbook
Author: John Rain
Publisher: Birlinn
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2020-01-07
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 178885327X

The creator of SMERSH Pod explores his favorite Bond films (and the other ones, too) in this irreverent celebration of the spy thriller franchise. The Bond films have entertained annoyed, excited, bored, aroused and invigorated moviegoers for generations. Who hasn’t wanted to kick a big bloke with metal teeth in the groin? Fly a small plane out of a pretend horse’s bottom? Or push a middle-aged man into space? No one, that’s who. John Rain, host of the Bond podcast SMERSH Pod, affectionately examines Bond with tongue firmly in cheek in Thunderbook. With a chapter devoted to every Bond film from Dr. No to Spectre, Thunderbook examines all the moments that are funny, silly, rubbish, nonsensical, bizarre and interesting. An irreverent celebration of Agent 007, this is the go-to companion book for Bond fans.