Forgotten Ruin

Forgotten Ruin
Author: Jason Anspach
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781949731484

Violence of Action

Violence of Action
Author: Jason Anspach
Publisher: WarGate Books
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2021-08-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9781949731576

Speed, surprise, and aggression... Hit on Jackpot is go. The scourge of the Savage Lands, an ancient dragon allied to a gathering storm of dark forces threatening the world of Ruin, becomes the next target of the most fearsome shock troops ever conceived, prepared, and trained for total war: U.S. Army Rangers. Deep beneath a once-fantastic ruined empire, a creature more terrible, diabolical, and malevolent than any myth ever told lies atop a vast horde of wondrous treasure and deadly magic, dreaming dreams of greed and terror. The Rangers of the Ruin will thread the dangerous trap-laden depths of a deadly desolation sinking into a foul swamp in order to get their hit on the ancient prize. But wyrm be warned, the fight you pick with Rangers... is going to be the last fight you pick. It's Rangers vs. Dragon as the saga of Forgotten Ruin continues!

The Rite

The Rite
Author: Richard Lee Byers
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2010-04-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0786956968

The horde of mad dragons continues to terrorize the realms—bringing all of Faerûn to the edge of cataclysm—in this second adventure starring dragonslayer Dorn Graybrook Rampaging dragons appear in more and more places every day. And if the soulless lich Sammaster gets his way—and there’s every reason to suspect he will—the disaster has only just begun. To defeat him and his curse of madness, the dragons must pay a steep price: their immortal souls in exchange for an eternity of undeath. The knowledge of that unavoidable truth may cause more madness among the dragons of Faerûn than the curse itself. For the dragonslayer Dorn Graybrook, a dragon is a dragon—whether or not it has skin. But what if it wears the skin of a woman he may just be falling in love with?

Lay The Hate

Lay The Hate
Author: Jason Anspach
Publisher: WarGate Books
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2021-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781949731606

The War Begins?The world of Ruin erupts into the flames of war as a great evil rises once more from the Tombs of Eternal Midnight. Werewolves and vampires march from the east, the orcs of Umnoth are on the move, and cities disappear beneath the boots of these savage hordes. Kingdoms field desperate armies in a last desperate bid to stop the tides of darkness, but the truth is clear.The hour of final ruin has come.Yet the wizard Vandahar has one more card to play: Rangers. Allied with elves and dwarves, they set out to strike at the very heart of the evil Lich Pharaoh's domain by attacking from a wholly unexpected direction.Survival. Asymmetrical warfare. Total surprise. This is what the Rangers do best.But first they must survive the Citadel.What the forces of evil have started, the Rangers will finish!

The Russian Job

The Russian Job
Author: Douglas Smith
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2019-11-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0374718385

An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing, little-known story of an American effort to save the newly formed Soviet Union from disaster After decades of the Cold War and renewed tensions, in the wake of Russian meddling in the 2016 election, cooperation between the United States and Russia seems impossible to imagine—and yet, as Douglas Smith reveals, it has a forgotten but astonishing historical precedent. In 1921, facing one of the worst famines in history, the new Soviet government under Vladimir Lenin invited the American Relief Administration, Herbert Hoover’s brainchild, to save communist Russia from ruin. For two years, a small, daring band of Americans fed more than ten million men, women, and children across a million square miles of territory. It was the largest humanitarian operation in history—preventing the loss of countless lives, social unrest on a massive scale, and, quite possibly, the collapse of the communist state. Now, almost a hundred years later, few in either America or Russia have heard of the ARA. The Soviet government quickly began to erase the memory of American charity. In America, fanatical anti-communism would eclipse this historic cooperation with the Soviet Union. Smith resurrects the American relief mission from obscurity, taking the reader on an unforgettable journey from the heights of human altruism to the depths of human depravity. The story of the ARA is filled with political intrigue, espionage, the clash of ideologies, violence, adventure, and romance, and features some of the great historical figures of the twentieth century. In a time of cynicism and despair about the world’s ability to confront international crises, The Russian Job is a riveting account of a cooperative effort unmatched before or since.

The Bones of Ruin

The Bones of Ruin
Author: Sarah Raughley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2021-09-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1534453563

"An African tightrope walker who cannot die gets involved with a mysterious society that's convinced the world is ending and is drafted into the fight-to-the-death Tournament of Freaks, where she learns the terrible truth of who and what she really is"--

Lost Russia

Lost Russia
Author: William Craft Brumfield
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 149
Release: 1995
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0822315688

The twentieth century in Russia has been a cataclysm of rare proportions, as war, revolution, famine, and massive political terror tested the limits of human endurance. The results of this assault on Russian culture are particularly evident in ruined architectural monuments, some of which are little known even within Russia itself. Over the past two decades William Craft Brumfield, noted historian of Russian architecture, has traveled throughout Russia and photographed many of these neglected, lost buildings, haunting in their ruin. Lost Russia provides a unique view of Brumfield's acclaimed work, which illuminates Russian culture as reflected in these remnants of its distinctive architectural traditions.

Ruin and Redemption in Architecture

Ruin and Redemption in Architecture
Author: Dan Barasch
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-04-17
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780714878027

Lost, forgotten, reimagined, and transformed: the compelling beauty of abandoned, reinvented, and rescued architecture This book captures the awe-inspiring drama of abandoned, forgotten, and ruined spaces, as well as the extraordinary designs that can bring them back to life – demonstrating that reimagined, repurposed, and abandoned architecture has the beauty and power to change lives, communities, and cities the world over. The scale and diversity of abandoned buildings is shown through examples from all around the world, demonstrating the extraordinary ingenuity of their transformation by some of the greatest architectural designers of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Beyond the High Road

Beyond the High Road
Author: Troy Denning
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2012-01-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0786962062

When demons bear down on Cormyr with great force, the heir to the Obarskyr throne must assume a different title: heroine The seer Alaundo prophesied that seven scourges would sweep Cormyr away in ruin. For centuries, the royal family has stood watch against that day and devoted their lives to the protection of the realm. But in a time when their ancient guardians slumber and their most loyal servants disappear, when a terrible evil prepares to sweep down upon their home . . . Who will protect the royal family? It falls to Tanalasta, the eldest Obarskyr princess and heir to the throne, to find a way to defeat the ghazneths—the demon forms of old Cormyrean traitors—who now threaten to raze the kingdom to the ground. Under the tutelage of Court Wizard Vangerdhast, Tanalasta has come to hone her magical abilities. But will they be enough to save everyone and everything she has ever loved?

Hudson Valley Ruins

Hudson Valley Ruins
Author: Thomas E. Rinaldi
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2006
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781584655985

An elegant homage to the many deserted buildings along the Hudson River--and a plea for their preservation.