A history of games ranging from marbles to chess and drawn from many countries cited on maps which show where each game comes from. Includes projects for making games.

What is a game? A game is an activity engaged upon by one or more individuals in order to maintain his interest in communication in life. -L. Ron Hubbard What is life? Such was the central question Mr. Hubbard posed when setting out to unravel the riddle of human existence. After examining all aspects and elements of existence, he arrived at an altogether startling discovery-one which suddenly clarified all life's various phenomena: Life is a game. In...

When a Connecticut teenager inherits vast wealth and an eccentric estate from the richest man in Texas, she must also live with his surviving family and solve a series of puzzles to discover how she earned her inheritance.

Twelve-year-old Gil Goodson competes against thousands of other children at extraordinary puzzles, stunts, and more in hopes of a fresh start for his family, which has been ostracized since his father was falsely accused of embezzling from Golly Toy and Game Company.

Follows the stormy breakup of a small beach community's "it couple," who succumb to violent past inclinations and a ruthless quest for vengeance after a painful betrayal.

"The year is 2020. It's seventeen years since the Revolution overthrew the last king of the New British Empire, and the newly reconstituted North American Commonwealth is developing rapidly, on course to defeat the French and bring democracy to a troubled world. But Miriam Burgeson, commissioner in charge of the shadowy Ministry of Intertemporal Research and Intelligence--the paratime espionage agency tasked with catalyzing the Commonwealth's great...

A companion guide to Panem, the world in the "Hunger Games," as portrayed in the motion picture based on the novel by Suzanne Collins.

After his second concussion, Zane is taken off the football team and given the chance to compete in the Gollywhopper Games. The kids must complete some tasks alone and pair up for others, and Zane finds himself both befriending and competing against Elijah, who is physically scrawny but also smart and funny.

Ravenskill is hosting the Golden Frog Games, a magical tournament, but somebody is using forbidden hexes to turn contestants into stone; meanwhile Seven Salazar, future "uncle" of Ravenskill, who is supposed to have the power to communicate with animals, has a secret--the only voices she hears belong to the deadly monstruos.