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Boxcars

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Players: 2-6
Playing time: 2-4 hours
Age: 13+

Game overview: In Boxcars, the players take the roles of rail barons. As rail barons, the players deliver freight from city to city, collecting money for their efforts. They use the money earned to…

The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America

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Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, The Inconvenient Indian distills the insights gleaned from Thomas King's critical and personal meditation on what it means to be "Indian" in North America, weaving the curiously circular tale of the…

Valley of the Kings: A deck-building game of ancient Egypt

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Players: 2-4
Playing time: 45 minutes
Age: 14 and up

Game overview: Players are Egyptian nobles at the time of the pharaohs, preparing for their death and burial in the Valley of the Kings. In the Egyptian religion, when you die you can take it…

Beloved

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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…

Peter Desbarats ... Man on the Move

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Brief biographical summary which includes mention of Desbarats' literary works, and discussions on his television career.

Knightmare Chess2

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This is an English 1st Edition

Players: 2
Playing time: 60 minutes
Age: 10 and up

Game objective:
This is chess... with a difference! The goal remains the same: to checkmate the enemy King. But the moves may be a bit unusual...

Each…

Mrs. Trimmer's Spelling Book OR The Little Spelling Book for Young Children [original]

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Binding: good to very good ; bound in paper (marbled paper, perhaps over a more sturdy brown paper) ; the front cover seems to have become partially detached and then been reattached ; back cover is separating from spine (at head) ; front cover…

Favourite Books

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This zine contains quotes, illustrations, comics, and lists.
This zine is bound with coloured yarn.

mit zine: an alternative student publication

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This zine contains opinion pieces, poetry, a comic, and essays related to the topic of activism.