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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
This book is told in first person narrative by Huckleberry Finn, friend of Tom Sawyer, and is the direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It follows Huck as he escapes from the confines of small town, religious, southern life to float on a…
Fire in the Lake: Insurgency in Vietnam
Volume IV in the COIN Series
Players: 1-4
Playing time: 180 mins
Age: 14 and up
Game overview: Fire in the Lake is a 1-to-4-player board game depicting insurgent and counterinsurgent (COIN) conflict during the main US period in Vietnam,…
Players: 1-4
Playing time: 180 mins
Age: 14 and up
Game overview: Fire in the Lake is a 1-to-4-player board game depicting insurgent and counterinsurgent (COIN) conflict during the main US period in Vietnam,…
Tags: 1-4 players, 14+, 180 mins, Board game, Economics, Faction, Games, large, Military, Politics, United States, Vietnam
1 - Desbarats The Academic Journalist
2 - Desbarats at Centre of Storm
London, Ontario
(Features two articles)
1 - Zych's interview with Desbarats discusses how he arrived to this position as Dean of UWO's School of Journalism, his impressions and revelations whilst working at UWO, while also discussing some of the…
(Features two articles)
1 - Zych's interview with Desbarats discusses how he arrived to this position as Dean of UWO's School of Journalism, his impressions and revelations whilst working at UWO, while also discussing some of the…
This One Summer
"This graphic novel captures Rose's summer on the cusp of adolescence, caught between her younger friend's childish interests and the compelling (but confusing) adult world. Episodic vignettes, contextualizing flashbacks, and Rose's own musings-all…
Splendor
Players: 2-4
Playing time: 30 minutes
Ages: 10+
Description: Splendor - The Greatest Gemstone Merchants of the Renaissance
As the leader of a merchant guild, you invest in mines, send your ships to the new world, and recruit the most renowned…
Playing time: 30 minutes
Ages: 10+
Description: Splendor - The Greatest Gemstone Merchants of the Renaissance
As the leader of a merchant guild, you invest in mines, send your ships to the new world, and recruit the most renowned…
Tags: 10+, 2-4 players, 30 mins, Board game, Games, large
nunami
Players: 2 or 4 players
Playing Time: 15-45 minutes
Age: 10+
Description: "Experience arctic exploration through nunami; start each game emulating arctic life in different regions. Create balance in regions of the land and win through…
Playing Time: 15-45 minutes
Age: 10+
Description: "Experience arctic exploration through nunami; start each game emulating arctic life in different regions. Create balance in regions of the land and win through…
Tags: 10+, 15-45 minutes, 2 or 4 players, Board game, Games
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…
Peter Desbarats - He's Been 'Discovered' Again: Montreal's Top TV Journalist Off to Greener Fields
Montreal, Quebec
Details on Peter’s departure from The Gazette to work for the Toronto Star as an “Ottawa based, nationally syndicated political columnist.” He was very determined to develop a high-quality, widely read column. The article gives…
Details on Peter’s departure from The Gazette to work for the Toronto Star as an “Ottawa based, nationally syndicated political columnist.” He was very determined to develop a high-quality, widely read column. The article gives…
A Must Tonight - the CBC Look at Separatism
Montreal, Quebec
A positive review of Desbarats’ CBC documentary entitled “Separatism- A Decade in Perspective.” It is described as being the first true, rather unbiased, look at Quebec separatism. It includes rare footage of the controversial…
A positive review of Desbarats’ CBC documentary entitled “Separatism- A Decade in Perspective.” It is described as being the first true, rather unbiased, look at Quebec separatism. It includes rare footage of the controversial…
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textures of your pandemic experience

A collaborative zine made about the FIMS community experience with the COVID19 pandemic.