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Author: Allan Goodall Publisher: ISBN: 9780985317577 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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The Courtyard of Hell is an adventure campaign for GODLIKE, the acclaimed roleplaying game of deadly action and superheroic courage in World War II. It focuses on one brutal week of urban combat in the Italian campaign: the Battle of Ortona in December 1943. The player characters are Canadian, American, and British “Talents,” or superpowered commandos trained to combat Hitler’s prized “Übermenschen.” The Talents accompany determined, veteran Canadian units as they attempt to wrest the town of Ortona from a regiment of elite German paratroopers. The Canadians have an advantage in tanks and artillery, but the Germans have turned the town into a virtual fortress. Unknown to either side, the two forces are equal in number. It was for good reason that British Prime Minister Winston Churchill dubbed Ortona “Little Stalingrad.” “It wasn’t hell. It was the courtyard of hell. It was a maelstrom of noise and hot, splitting steel... the rattling of machine guns never stops... wounded men refuse to leave, and the men don’t want to be relieved after seven days and seven nights... the battlefield is still an appalling thing to see, in its mud, ruin, dead, and its blight and desolation.” —Matthew Halton, War Correspondent, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation The Courtyard of Hell includes: * Fifteen scenes of suspenseful action, enough for months of adventure. * Details on character creation for the Ortona campaign. * The weapons, equipment, vehicles, and organizations of the Allied and Axis forces. * Dozens of enemy characters. * “One Roll Cityfight,” a new system for generating instant missions of urban combat to surprise and challenge players.
Author: Allan Goodall Publisher: ISBN: 9780985317577 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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The Courtyard of Hell is an adventure campaign for GODLIKE, the acclaimed roleplaying game of deadly action and superheroic courage in World War II. It focuses on one brutal week of urban combat in the Italian campaign: the Battle of Ortona in December 1943. The player characters are Canadian, American, and British “Talents,” or superpowered commandos trained to combat Hitler’s prized “Übermenschen.” The Talents accompany determined, veteran Canadian units as they attempt to wrest the town of Ortona from a regiment of elite German paratroopers. The Canadians have an advantage in tanks and artillery, but the Germans have turned the town into a virtual fortress. Unknown to either side, the two forces are equal in number. It was for good reason that British Prime Minister Winston Churchill dubbed Ortona “Little Stalingrad.” “It wasn’t hell. It was the courtyard of hell. It was a maelstrom of noise and hot, splitting steel... the rattling of machine guns never stops... wounded men refuse to leave, and the men don’t want to be relieved after seven days and seven nights... the battlefield is still an appalling thing to see, in its mud, ruin, dead, and its blight and desolation.” —Matthew Halton, War Correspondent, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation The Courtyard of Hell includes: * Fifteen scenes of suspenseful action, enough for months of adventure. * Details on character creation for the Ortona campaign. * The weapons, equipment, vehicles, and organizations of the Allied and Axis forces. * Dozens of enemy characters. * “One Roll Cityfight,” a new system for generating instant missions of urban combat to surprise and challenge players.
Author: Rosemary Clement-Moore Publisher: Delacorte Press ISBN: 0375849076 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 322
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Maggie Quinn, girl reporter. Honors student, newspaper staffer, yearbook photographer. Six weeks from graduation and all she wants to do is get out of Avalon High in one piece. A sensible nerd would have kept her head down, done her drive-by photo shoot of the prom, and continued the countdown to Deploma Day. But fate seems to have different plans for Maggie. High school may be a natural breeding ground for evil, but the scent of fire and brimstone is still a little out of the ordinary. It's the distinct smell of sulfur that makes Maggie suspect that something's a bit off. And when real Twilight Zone stuff starts happening to the school's ruling clique—the athletic elite and the head cheerleader and her minions, all of whom happen to be named Jessica—Maggie realizes it's up to her to get in touch with her inner Nancy Drew and ferret out who unleashed the ancient evil before all hell breaks loose. Maggie has always suspected that prom is the work of the devil, but it looks like her attendance will be mandatory. Sometimes a girl's got to do some pretty undesirable things if she wants to save her town from soul-crushing demons from hell. And the cheerleading squad. "Dripping with wit on nearly every page."-School Library Journal "Smart (and smart-ass)."-KLIATT "There is a lot to like in this story that takes on magic, romance, and even clique politics."-Publisher's Weekly "Fans of shows like Charmed and Buffy the Vampire Slayer will relish the unflappable, edgy humor Maggie brings to her fight against supernatural evil."-The Horn Book Magazine "Sharp, sarcastic wit...[This book] will appeal to supernatural fans of Meg Cabot's Mediator series."-VOYA
Author: Derek Smith Publisher: Earlham Books ISBN: 1909804339 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 304
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A fantasy that begins with Toby in a dungeon, due to be executed for murdering his father, the king. His escape results in a hue and cry, instigated by his step-mother, the Queen. Toby must be caught and executed along with any who assist him. While on the run, he rescues a peasant, Far, and an aristocratic young woman, Orly, both of whom have had their families slaughtered. Class and passion complicate their relationship as they struggle to escape the marauding soldiers. Exhausted and battered, they find sanctuary in the cavern of a magician. There, Toby is told he must go down to the Underworld, via Hell’s Chimney, to find the truth of his father’s death.
Author: Alan Moore Publisher: Avatar Press ISBN: 9781592910601 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 0
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FBI agent Aldo Sax investigates a series of ritual murders committed by unlikely and unrelated killers, and gets too close to the supernatural source of their madness. A Lovecraftian horror tale by Alan Moore, the Hugo-Award winning author of WATCHMEN. The most celebrated writer in the comic book industry, Alan Moore, teams up with brilliant artist Jacen Burrows to unleash this timeless tale of Lovecraftian psychological horror. FBI agent Aldo Sax is a highly skilled detective, assigned to the most baffling case of his career. A series of murders, each featuring bizarre ritual dismemberment, appear to be committed by unlikly and unrelated suspects. Descending into Brooklyn's Club Zothique for clues, Sax meets a dealer of hallucinogenic drugs that unlock the barriers of the mind... and allow a terrible, evil force to enter. Featuring an introduction by writer Garth Ennis (Preacher).
Author: Taylor Anderson Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0593200764 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 481
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Major Lewis Cayce will need to use every weapon in his arsenal to keep his stranded men alive on a deadly alternate Earth in this gripping new adventure set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Destroyermen series. It is 1847, and almost a full year after being shipwrecked on another, far stranger and more dangerous Earth on their way to fight Santa Anna in the Mexican-American War, Lewis Cayce and his small group of artillerymen, infantrymen, and dragoons have made friends in the Yucatán, helped build an army, and repulsed the first efforts of the blood-drenched Holy Dominion to wipe their new friends out. As an even more radical cult of Blood Priests arises and begins to pursue its own path to power, the Dominion can’t let its defeat stand. It must crush the heretics and expel them from the land it has claimed. Fortunately, Lewis Cayce is a professional. He understands defense can only result in a stalemate at best, and a stalemate with the more populous Dominion will only lead to defeat in the end. The lucky few will be enslaved. The rest will be sacrificed in the most horrific way imaginable. The only hope his new allies have is to win—and to do that, his little army must attack the most powerful and diabolical enemy on the planet in its own territory. Achieving victory will take all Lewis’s imagination, the courage and trust of his soldiers—and all the round shot and canister his tiny band of artillerymen can slam out.
Author: James Axler Publisher: Harlequin ISBN: 0373638868 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 316
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A dark and ruthless alien goddess rises up out of postapocalyptic Spain to reign terror down on Earth, challenging an alliance of warriors trying to reclaim humanity's birthright. Ereshkigal and her army of Terror Priests may prove stronger than the Cerberus warriors and it will take all of their will to keep her from total domination of the world.
Author: Diarmuid Jeffreys Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 0805078134 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 498
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The remarkable rise and shameful fall of one of the twentieth century’s greatest conglomerates At its peak in the 1930s, the German chemical conglomerate IG Farben was one of the most powerful corporations in the world. To this day, companies formerly part of the Farben cartel—the aspirin-maker Bayer, the graphics supplier Agfa, the plastics giant BASF—continue to play key roles in the global market. IG Farben itself, however, is remembered mostly for its infamous connections to the Nazi Party and its complicity in the atrocities of the Holocaust. After the war, Farben’s leaders were tried for crimes that included mass murder and exploitation of slave labor. In Hell’s Cartel, Diarmuid Jeffreys presents the first comprehensive account of IG Farben’s rise and fall, tracing the enterprise from its nineteenth-century origins, when the discovery of synthetic dyes gave rise to a vibrant new industry, through the upheavals of the Great War era, and on to the company’s fateful role in World War II. Drawing on extensive research and original interviews, Hell’s Cartel sheds new light on the codependence of industry and the Third Reich, and offers a timely warning against the dangerous merger of politics and the pursuit of profit.
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