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A Digest of Patriotic History and Civil Government is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1889. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

A Flock of Ferocious Monsters for 5th Edition! DM: "Inside the chest, you find a handful of potions." ROGUE: "Ooh! I'm going to take a taste. Let's see what these--" DM: "As you unstopper the first one, the potion itself leaps free of the bottle and attaches to your face." WIZARD: "Gah! I should have listened to my father and become a rug merchant!" Whether you need creepy crawlies to clamber from the dark places or sinister visitors to make your favorite fantasy city come alive, Tome of Beasts 3 has what you're looking for! From swamps to arctic tundra, mountains to deserts, and coastlines to badlands, every region is fully represented. Tome of Beasts 3 brings you: +Void knights and breakwater trolls +Musk deer and fiend lords +Prismatic dragons and royal chimeras +Stained glass moths and voidclaw zombies +Tar golems and witchwillows +Kobold drake riders and hellfire giants Terrify and delight your players with a whole host of new, exotic, and deadly opponents! This beautiful, alternate version of the full book shows off a gorgeous foil-stamped cover, deluxe endpapers, and a ribbon bookmark.

Tome of Beasts 2 Lairs brings you 14 standalone, single-map adventures for the 5th edition of the world's first roleplaying game. Each adventure features new monsters from the Tome of Beasts 2! Some adventures also feature monsters from the first Tome of Beasts and the Creature Codex, and all three books are required for maximum playability. Each adventure is intended to take one or two sessions to complete and includes a map, adventure hooks, and treasures for your adventurers. The adventures include: To Track a Thief, Level 1 The Forsaken Fort, Level 3 The Twisted Wreath, Level 3 Tragedy at Thyrdun Outpost, Level 3 Shrine of the Hungry Dead, Level 4 Caverns of the Crystal Monolith, Level 5 Fight for Horseshoe Rock Oasis, Level 5 The River Tomb, Level 6 House of the Worm God, Level 7 Terror at the Mountain Lotus Temple, Level 8 Tunnels Below Skulltop Tor, Level 9 Crucible of Golems, Level 10 Fire and Fury, Level 13 Towers of the Three Regents, Level 15

A Flock of Ferocious Monsters for 5th Edition! DM: "Inside the chest, you find a handful of potions." ROGUE: "Ooh! I'm going to take a taste. Let's see what these--" DM: "As you unstopper the first one, the potion itself leaps free of the bottle and attaches to your face." WIZARD: "Gah! I should have listened to my father and become a rug merchant!" Whether you need creepy crawlies to clamber from the dark places or sinister visitors to make your favorite fantasy city come alive, Tome of Beasts 3 has what you're looking for! From swamps to arctic tundra, mountains to deserts, and coastlines to badlands, every region is fully represented. Tome of Beasts 3 brings you: +Void knights and breakwater trolls +Musk deer and fiend lords +Prismatic dragons and royal chimeras +Stained glass moths and voidclaw zombies +Tar golems and witchwillows +Kobold drake riders and hellfire giants Terrify and delight your players with a whole host of new, exotic, and deadly opponents!

In the Pulitzer prize–winning classic The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara created the finest Civil War novel of our time. In the bestselling Gods and Generals, Shaara’s son, Jeff, brilliantly sustained his father’s vision, telling the epic story of the events culminating in the Battle of Gettysburg. Now, Jeff Shaara brings this legendary father-son trilogy to its stunning conclusion in a novel that brings to life the final two years of the Civil War. As The Last Full Measure opens, Gettysburg is past and the war advances to its third brutal year. On the Union side, the gulf between the politicians in Washington and the generals in the field yawns ever wider. Never has the cumbersome Union Army so desperately needed a decisive, hard-nosed leader. It is at this critical moment that Lincoln places Ulysses S. Grant in command—and turns the tide of war. For Robert E. Lee, Gettysburg was an unspeakable disaster—compounded by the shattering loss of the fiery Stonewall Jackson two months before. Lee knows better than anyone that the South cannot survive a war of attrition. But with the total devotion of his generals—Longstreet, Hill, Stuart—and his unswerving faith in God, Lee is determined to fight to the bitter end. Here too is Joshua Chamberlain, the college professor who emerged as the Union hero of Gettysburg—and who will rise to become one of the greatest figures of the Civil War. Battle by staggering battle, Shaara dramatizes the escalating confrontation between Lee and Grant—complicated, heroic, deeply troubled men. From the costly Battle of the Wilderness to the agonizing siege of Petersburg to Lee’s epoch-making surrender at Appomattox, Shaara portrays the riveting conclusion of the Civil War through the minds and hearts of the individuals who gave their last full measure. Full of human passion and the spellbinding truth of history, The Last Full Measure is the fitting capstone to a magnificent literary trilogy.

Set in Lewes on the Delaware Bay 1955, Myers meets James Ellroy's characterization of Noir as the the wrong man and the wrong woman in perfect misalliance. It's the nightmare of flawed souls with big dreams and the precise how and why of the all-time sure thing that goes bad ... it canonizes the inherent human urge toward self-destruction. Former Marine and small-town police chief, Karl Myers is one of four principal characters, each of whom hurtle headlong toward personal demolition; the others are Jerry and Vivian Peterman and their 12-year-old son, Greg. Myers' marriage had dissolved before The War, and the life that has followed has been a life lived in the strange world of uniforms where a man, surrounded by hundreds of other souls, can find himself sucked into an unyielding vortex of loneliness, which threatens to drown his soul. Jerry's abuse of Greg and Vivian, and Vivian's rationalizations for accepting it, have created a dysfunctional family that is on the brink of collapse when Greg's best friend, Moses, is brutally murdered. Greg, along with the reader, knows what has happened, and the boy is fearful of his father's certain retribution, but the boy successfully hides the truth from his family and from Myers until the chief resolves the mystery almost too late to save the victim's sister, who is the only witness to the murder in addition to Greg (and the reader). Complicating Myers' challenges is the attitude of too many White residents toward their Black neighbors--like Moses' mother--in a county where schools, many public places, and accommodations are still segregated in 1955. The Crucible of World War II produced a generation of heroes who understood manhood as a stoic duty that demanded complete intolerance of weakness. Many returned from battle eager to raise sons who would be prepared to bear the responsibilities of a hard world. Drill instructors had forged warrior personas by replacing personal will with unquestioned obedience, the denial of which threatened pain and humiliation or worse. Many veterans returned from the war believing their sons would benefit from the same demanding discipline that they had followed on the battlefields of Europe and the Pacific; unfortunately, unyielding expectations communicated through clenched teeth or china-rattling shouts, often reinforced with untempered smacks from calloused hands, or worse, a father's disdain applied to the soft underbelly of a child's' ego, spawned a cadre of boys in the 1950s who were terrified of their fathers. Myers is a murder mystery that is less about "who done it" than about exploring the trauma of a world still reeling from the fallout of World War II and a world that has yet to resolve the fallout of the Civil War. The author writes with an excellent sense for tension and humanity with such attention to detail that readers can imagine the choking, claustrophobic lives lead by wives of war-traumatized veterans. There is a distinct sense of time in the book, which works to its overall advantage. In Myers, 1955 comes to life in a profound way. As a warning to more squeamish readers, there are points of serious brutality in the book, but they are necessary to the plot, rather than gratuitous violence. All the same, this brutality may offend some readers...overall, Myers is a highly readable, tension-filled novel that will hold readers through to the very end.

A Flock of Ferocious Monsters for 5th Edition! DM: "Inside the chest, you find a handful of potions." ROGUE: "Ooh! I'm going to take a taste. Let's see what these--" DM: "As you unstopper the first one, the potion itself leaps free of the bottle and attaches to your face." WIZARD: "Gah! I should have listened to my father and become a rug merchant!" Whether you need creepy crawlies to clamber from the dark places or sinister visitors to make your favorite fantasy city come alive, Tome of Beasts 3 Pocket Edition has what you're looking for! From swamps to arctic tundra, mountains to deserts, and coastlines to badlands, every region is fully represented. Tome of Beasts 3 Pocket Edition brings you: - Void knights and breakwater trolls - Musk deer and fiend lords - Prismatic dragons and royal chimeras - Stained glass moths and voidclaw zombies - Tar golems and witchwillows - Kobold drake riders and hellfire giants Terrify and delight your players with a whole host of new, exotic, and deadly opponents!