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Photograph of interaction at SLIS library desk

St. John's, Nfld.

Profiles the life and rise to political power of Quebec’s Social Credit Party leader Real Caouette. Desbarats seems to be a fairly positive profile of Caouette.

"Shape-changing Raven steals the sun from the Sky Chief to light the dark world in this handsome rendering from the fund of lore shared by the Native groups of the northwest coast. "Raven changed himself into a pine needle. He fell down from the tree…

Binding: good ; dark red leather with gold tooling ; wear on edges and hinges ; bumped corners ; gold tooling on inside of covers bordering endpapers ; endpapers are blue fabric ; ribbon bookmark ; miniature

Spine: good to very good ; red leather…

Players: 2-4
Playing time: 30-75 minutes
Age: 13 to adult

Game overview: In this game, you are a quilter. You will collect fabric cards which can be exchanged for block tiles. As you amass block tiles, you will combine them into one or more…

Binding: good ; vellum binding ; bumped corners ; front cover separated from spine

Spine: front cover is separating from spine

Textblock: good to very good ; some discolouration ; a few bent corners

Printer/Binder: "Typis Ludovici Elzevirii"

Players: 3-5
Playing time: 90-150 min
Age: 13 and up

Game overview: Prospector, captain, mayor, trader, settler, craftsman, or builder? Which roles will you play in the new world? Will you own the most prosperous plantations? Will you build the…

London, Ontario

A generally positive review on Desbarats's "Looking Forward in Anguish: Canada Lost, Canada Found". Craig praises Desbarats on his level of critical overview of the key points leading up to Canada's political environment during the…

photograph of man using a printing maching

Players: 2-4
Playing time: 30-60 min
Age: 14+

Game overview: Welcome to Tres Yummy, the hottest new restaurant to hit town in years, and tonight is opening night. Unfortunately, management has not yet hired a chef. Players take the role of chefs…