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Tianxia: Blood, Silk & Jade

Tianxia: Blood, Silk & Jade
Introduction: Become Wuxia
Take on the role of wandering Kung Fu masters with skills and abilities that grant them the powers to affect the fates of many, unsung Kung Fu rules designed form the ground up for the Fate Core roleplaying…

Three Little Kittens

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"Three little kittens, they lost their mittens, and they began to cry. The three little kittens may be a bit careless, but they always manage to correct their mistakes in this favorite Mother Goose rhyme exuberantly illustrated in bright and…

Those Pesky Garden Gnomes

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Players: 3-5
Playing time: 45 min
Age: 13+

Game overview: This is a trick-taking card game with a twist - or two! In every hand, each player has her own secret goal - and these changes randomly with each hand. The closer you come to your goal,…

Those anti-Kosygin Incidents: 'Cries From the Heart'

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Montreal, Quebec

Letters to the editor, from readers in response to Desbarats' article on the anti-Kosygin protests in Canada, during the month of October 1971

This, Our Province

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Book review regarding The State of Quebec, Desbarats' commentary on the historical developments which gave rise to the province of Quebec.

This One Summer

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"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…

This Accident of Being Lost: Songs and Stories

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This Accident of Being Lost is the knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. These visionary pieces build upon Simpson's powerful use of the fragment as a tool…

Thirteen Reasons why

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"Everything affects everything," declares Hannah Baker, who killed herself two weeks ago. After her death, Clay Jensen--who had a crush on Hannah--finds seven cassette tapes in a brown paper package on his doorstep. Listening to the tapes, Hannah…

Things that Go Bump in the Flight: For Us White-knuckle Fliers, There's No Replacing Propellers and Open Cockpit Doors

London, Ontario

Desbarats discusses his odd preference for smaller, more cramped propeller planes a opposed to larger passenger jets. He believed that smaller, propeller planes were “more human,” and that he felt more connected to his fellow…

They Tunnelled to Freedom in Wartime Canada: When the Germans Broke out of Camp X - First of Three Parts

St. John's, Nfld.

Desbarats describes an escape attempt made by several German prisoners from a Canadian prisoner of war camp in Angler, Ontario, near Neys Provicial Park in Ontario. Prisoners were very well prepared. They had many rucksacks full…