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  • Values at Play in Digital Games

    by Mary Flanagan, Helen Nissenbaum ...
    A theoretical and practical guide to integrating human values into the conception and design of digital games, with examples from Call of Duty, Journey, World of Warcraft, and more.All games express and embody human values, providing a compelling arena in which we play out beliefs and ideas. “Big ideas” such as justice, equity, honesty, and cooperation—as well as other kinds of ideas, including ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • Critical Play

    Radical Game Design

    by Mary Flanagan ...
    An examination of subversive games like The Sims—games designed for political, aesthetic, and social critique.For many players, games are entertainment, diversion, relaxation, fantasy. But what if certain games were something more than this, providing not only outlets for entertainment but a means for creative expression, instruments for conceptual thinking, or tools for social change? In Critical ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Playing Oppression

    The Legacy of Conquest and Empire in Colonialist Board Games

    by Mary Flanagan, Mikael Jakobsson ...
    A striking analysis of popular board games’ roots in imperialist reasoning—and why the future of play depends on reckoning with it.Board games conjure up images of innocuously enriching entertainment: family game nights, childhood pastimes, cooperative board games centered around resource management and strategic play. Yet in Playing Oppression, Mary Flanagan and Mikael Jakobsson apply the ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

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    Storm at the Capitol

    An Oral History of January 6th

    by Mary Clare Jalonick ...
    Narrated by Mary Clare Jalonick, Lisa Flanagan, Soneela Nankani, Timothy Andrés Pabon, Leon Nixon, Arthur Morey ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 32 min

    The definitive, unbiased account of the twenty-four hours surrounding the historic January 6th attack on the Capitol.Read by Mary Clare Jalonick, Lisa Flanagan, Soneela Nankani, Timothy Andrés Pabon, Leon Nixon and Arthur Morey with archival audio throughout.The January 6th insurrection was a stunning and unprecedented attack on the center of American government. Unlike previous national tra... ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • WORLDBUILDING

    Gaming and Art in the Digital Age

    by Office Ben Ganz, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Anna Anthropy, Kat Benedict, Kathrin Beßen, Giampaolo Bianconi, Dr. Daniel Birnbaum, Irene Bretscher, micha cardenas, troizel carr, Tamar Clarke-Brown, Raphaëlle Cormier, Barbara Cueto, Mehdi Derfoufi, Travis Diehl, Rebecca Edwards, Marion Eisele, Jacob Fabricius, Mary Flanagan, Richard Grayson, Tamara Hart, Kathrin Jentjens, Katarina Klang, Katarina Kloppe, Jasmin Klumpp, Adèle Koechlin, Nóra Kovács, Aude Launay, Malte Lin-Kröger, Ingrid Luquet-Gad, Toke Lykkeberg, Aodhan Madden, Boris Magrini, Maitreyi Maheshwari, Tabea Marschall, Llaura McGee, Aïcha Mehrez, Anika Meier, Darla Migan, Michelle Nicol, Christiane Paul, Anna-Alexandra Pfau, Ada Rook, Tina Rivers Ryan, Elisa Schaar, Stephan Schwingeler, Agnieszka Skolimowska, Zoé Stillpass, Ben Vickers, Elena Vogman, Iaroslav Volovod, Kay Watson, Peter Watts, Dr. Joni Zhu ...
    WORLDBUILDING: Gaming and Art in the Digital Age examines the relationship between gaming and time-based media art. It is the first transgenerational show of this scope to survey how contemporary artists world-wide are appropriating the aesthetics and technology of gaming as their form of expression. Commissioned by the Julia Stoschek Foundation and curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, the exhibition ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

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    The Book Club for Troublesome Women

    A Novel

    by Marie Bostwick ...
    Narrated by Lisa Flanagan ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 10 min

    USA TODAY BESTSELLER · SOUTHERN INDIE BESTSELLER · A BRENDA NOVAK BOOK GROUP PICK · GLOSS BOOK CLUB PICK · THE GIRLFRIEND BOOK CLUB PICK · A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025 (SheReads) · Margaret never really meant to start a book club . . . or a feminist revolution, for that matter in this bold and plucky novel from New York Times bestselling author Marie Bostwick."Ideal for fans of historical ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Burst

    A Novel

    by Mary Otis ...
    Narrated by Lisa Flanagan ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 39 min

    Longlisted for the 2024 Joyce Carol Oates PrizeWinner, Independent Publisher Book Awards, Silver Medal - Literary FictionFeatured on PBS NewsHourNamed by Good Morning America, New York Post, and Los Angeles Daily News as one of the Best Books of Spring 2023A deeply moving novel about becoming—and unbecoming—our mothers, absorbing the past, and bursting int... ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Sandwich

    A Novel

    by Catherine Newman ...
    Narrated by Nan McNamara ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 43 min

    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Sandwich is joy in book form. I laughed continuously, except for the parts that made me cry. Catherine Newman does a miraculous job reminding us of all the wonder there is to be found in life."—Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Tom Lake“If you like my novels, you will love love love this . . . . I stand in awe, it’s just perfect.”—Elin Hilderbrand ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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    The Calamity Club

    by Kathryn Stockett ...
    Narrated by January LaVoy, Jenna Lamia ...

    Unabridged

    28 hours 44 min

    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAN INSTANT GLOBE AND MAIL BESTSELLERA bold, bighearted, and riotously funny novel about a sisterhood of unbreakable women who risk everything to take control of their fates.**Oxford, Mississippi, 1933.Abandoned by her mother one Christmas Eve, eleven-year-old Meg Lefleur has learned the hard way to rely on no one. Now one of the unadoptable “big girls” at the ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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    The Paper Birds

    A Novel

    by Jeanette Lynes ...
    Narrated by Denice Stradling ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 10 min

    NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER Fiction Book Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards | Longlisted for the City of Toronto Book Awards | Toronto Star Bestseller | Globe and Mail BestsellerImagine you have only a pencil, paper, and your puzzle-solving skills to help end the warGemma Sullivan lands a coveted office job in the summer of 1943, only to discover that she’s been hired to work in a top-secret ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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    The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife

    A Novel

    by Anna Johnston ...
    Narrated by Tim Carroll ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 49 min

    INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER“A funny, heartfelt story about found family and seeing the silver lining in life. Fans of A Man Called Ove and Remarkably Bright Creatures will especially enjoy this new novel.”—Library JournalA zany case of mistaken identity allows a lonely old man one last chance to be part of a family.“Would you mind terribly, old boy, if I borrowed the rest of your life? I ... ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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    Ship of Dreams

    by Donna Jones Alward ...
    Narrated by Clementine Medforth, Esmee Cook ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 47 min

    'A dream of a read!’ New York Times bestselling author Kate Quinn 'Emotional, raw, and beautifully written' ★★★★★From the author of the internationally bestselling novel, WHEN THE WORLD FELL SILENT, comes a breathtaking tale of secrets, betrayal, and the enduring power of friendship.Aboard the Titanic, where opulence knows no bounds and the horizon seems limitless, two women fight for the futures ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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