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Fifty Shades Trilogy
This series follows the story of recent graduate Ana Steele as she contemplates a relationship with an older, successful man, Christian Grey. After she interviews him for a friend's newspaper piece, she finds herself attracted to him. He asks her for…
Hacking the Future: Stories for the Flesh-Eating 90s
"Hacking the Future" tells the story of what happens when information technology escapes the high tech labs of Silicon Valley and invades the sites of everyday culture. It includes some of the survival tales of people who just want to "feel" again in…
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
This book is about Constance Chatterly, a young, married, upperclass woman, whose husband has become paralyzed from the waist down due to a war injury. After becoming sexually frustrated, Constance starts an affair with their gamekeeper, Oliver…
Lizzy’s Lion
This rhyming children's book is about a young girl, Lizzy, and the lion she keeps in her bedroom. When a robber sneaks in one night, the lion proceeds to eat him. Lizzy then wakes up to find bits of the robber strewn about her room. She and her lion…
To Kill a Mockingbird
Set in the 1930s in the fictional town Maycomb, Alabama, this book focuses on Scout Finch who lives with her older brother, Jem, and their widowed, lawyer father, Atticus. Scout, Jem, and their friend Dill are interested in the reclusive neighbour,…
A Wrinkle in Time
This book is about Meg Murry, a fourteen year-old girl who is transported on an adventure through time and space with her younger brother Charles Wallace and her friend Calvin O'Keefe to rescue her father, a gifted scientist, from the evil forces…
The Giver
The book starts in a seemingly Utopian world where there is no war, pain, suffering, or difference of choice. However, it becomes clear that society has given up all of its memories of the time before this "Sameness", and have also lost colour,…
Beloved
Set after the American Civil War this book was inspired by the true life story of an African-American slave, Margaret Garner. The book follows the story of Sethe, an slave who escaped slavery from Sweet Home in Kentucky to Cincinnati where she would…
Fallen Angels
When seventeen year old Richie Perry realizes he cannot afford to go to college he joins the army. He leaves the US for Vietnam with idealized ideas of war, which are soon shattered upon arrival. He witnesses increasing levels of destruction and…
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7 Wonders
Players: 2-7
Playing time: 30 minutes
Ages: 10+
Description: Lead one of the seven great cities of the Ancient world. Exploit the natural…