Illustrated with breathtaking intricacy, a celebration of swords and swordsmen spans history and cultures to review the ancient warriors who lived by the sword, from Beowulf to medieval knights, and from stealthy ninja and samurai to legendary maidens of war.

Jack is a samurai warrior, whose magical sword is enchanted "with the power of righteousness," who trains his body and his mind to confront Aku. Aku is an evil, shape-shifting wizard who dethroned Jack's emperor father. During their pitched battle, Aku dispatches Jack into the future through a time portal. The solitary warrior's single-minded quest is to find his way back to undo the devastation of Aku's tyrannical rule.

Jack and Annie travel in their magic tree house to the land of the mystical selkies to seek a magical sword for Merlin.

After many years of hiding, Queen Cimorene sends her sixteen-year-old son, Daystar, into the Enchanted Forest with the kingdom's sword to once again stop the evil wizards' magic.

"After rocking the cosmos with her deathly debut, Tamsyn Muir continues the story of the penumbral Ninth House in Harrow the Ninth, a mind-twisting puzzle box of mystery, murder, magic, and mayhem. Nothing is as it seems in the halls of the Emperor, and the fate of the galaxy rests on one woman's shoulders. Harrowhark's health is failing, her magic refuses to cooperate, her sword makes her throw up, and even her mind threatens to betray her. What's...

After twelve-year-old Lark, determined to escape her squalid life, steals a magical sword from the Royal Museum, she reluctantly becomes the next Nightingale, destined to vanquish an ancient evil.

Peer into the dark once more, the Black Swordsman roars again! Branded for death and hunted by demons forevermore, Guts embarks on a journey to escape his fate and get his revenge on the man he once considered a friend. With his monstrous blade, Dragonslayer, he and a band of unlikely allies will face danger unlike any they've ever experienced before. The answers he seeks lie shrouded in the night.

Two eleven-year-olds named Edmund and Elspeth discover that they have been given fantastic gifts to use against the ancient and evil forces that have been awakened by powerful magic during the Dark Ages in Great Britain.

The gang of Mystery Inc. takes a trip to Japan and find themselves circling Asia and the Pacific in search of treasure. They race against the vengeful Black Samurai and his Ninja warriors to find the legendary Sword of Fate, an ancient blade fabled to have extraordinary supernatural powers.

Asperides, an ancient demonic talking sword, tricks Nack Furnival, a bumbling would-be knight, into battling a wicked sorcerer bent on summoning all the evils of the underworld.