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4650 Ladson Rd.
Summerville, SC
(843) 695-1498


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Here Be Books & Games has been hosting monthly Game Nights since 2007 ...

... and Summer Games since 2009

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Last update: February 1, 2012

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First Saturday of Every Month : Game Night at Here Be Books & Games

Game Night at Here Be Books & GamesHere Be Books & Games has been hosting Game Nights the first Saturday of every month, including holidays, since October 2007 (possibly July 2007). The fun starts at 6:00 p.m. and usually runs until after midnight. We have been known to be here until 3:30 a.m. playing games! A new tradition for the die-hards who stay until we run out of steam is to seek nourishment and refreshment at IHOP after we close. We usually take a light game to play while we wait for our food.

Following are some statistics for past Game Night and Special Event gaming.


Date of Game Night
or Special Event 		Number of
Players Attending		 Number of
Games Played 		Number of
Unique Titles Played 		Games Played
January 7, 2012 * Record Attendance! 35* 21 20 view list
December 3, 2011 24 27 19 view list
November 5, 2011* Record Number of Games Played! 32 45* 25 view list
October 1, 2011 26 35 18 view list
September 3, 2011 18 19 13 view list
August 25 , 2011
Card Night: Pinochle & Cribbage 		13 10 2 view list
August 6, 2011 11 10 10 view list
August 3 , 2011
Summer Afternoon Games: Anything Goes 		14 7 6 view list
July 27, 2011
Summer Afternoon Games: Day of the Living Dead 		14 4 4 view list
July 20, 2011
Summer Afternoon Games: The Lands of Catan & Carcassonne 		14 10 6 view list
July 13, 2011 * Record Summer Games Attendance!
Summer Afternoon Games: Lost in Space 		20* 13 7 view list
July 6, 2011
Summer Afternoon Games: Cooperative Operative 		19 5 5 view list
July 2, 2011 19 23 16 view list
June 29, 2011
Summer Afternoon Games: Ancient History 		5 6 4 view list
June 22, 2011
Summer Afternoon Games: Roll the Dice 		11 6 6 view list
June 15, 2011
Summer Afternoon Games: Anything Goes 		14 5 4 view list
June 4, 2011 * Record Number of Unique Titles Played! 31 28 27* view list
May 7, 2011 29 25 15 view list
April 23, 2011
Charleston Area Gamers Game Day		 16 12 11 view list
April 2, 2011 19 18 14 view list
March 5, 2011 28 22 20 view list
February 5, 2011 26 25 20 view list
January 1, 2011 32 32 23 view list
December 4, 2010 19 20 17 view list
November 27, 2020
Charleston Area Gamers Game Day		 10 14 12 view list
November 6, 2010 25 18 17 view list
October 2, 2010 21 27 18 view list
September 4, 2010 29 25 18 view list
August 7, 2010
5-Year Anniversary Celebration - Prizes distributed to all attendees. We had cake, too! 		31 41 24 view list
July 23, 2010
Summer Afternoon Games: Dungeon Delve 		7 4 2 view list
July 9, 2010
Summer Afternoon Games: Famer in the Dell 		6 4 4 view list
July 3, 2010 34 26 20 view list
July 2, 2010
Summer Afternoon Games: Night of the Living Dead 		11 6 6 view list
June 25, 2010
Summer Afternoon Games: Cooperative Operative 		13 8 7 view list
June 18, 2010
Summer Afternoon Games: Flavors of Fluxx 		15 21 13 view list
June 11, 2010
Summer Afternoon Games: Train Game Junction 		8 4 4 view list
June 5, 2010 18 22 19 view list
May 1, 2010 33 31 22 view list
April 3, 2010 27 16 12 view list
March 6, 2010 17 16 14 view list
February 23, 2010
Steve Jackson Games visit 		14 13 5 view list
February 6, 2010 22 14 13 view list
January 2, 2010 22 23 16 view list
December 5, 2009   25 20 view list
October 3, 2009   16 15 view list
September 5, 2009   16 11 view list
August 1, 2009   20 16 view list
July 4, 2009   11 11 view list
June 6, 2009   19 17 view list

Weekly September 20 thru December 3, 2011: Learn to Play the Designer Game of the Week

PRESS RELEASE: Store Owners Increase Awareness of Designer Board Games
10 Games Will Be Given Away to Lucky Participants

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Summerville, SC - September 8, 2011 - Here Be Books & Games in Summerville today announced their intention to introduce the community to modern designer board games. They’re called Designer Games for acknowledging the name of the game designer on the cover, like the author of a book.

Thousands of new Designer Games are published every year in the United States and Europe, but few Americans are even aware that they exist. To increase awareness, the store owners, Tina & Tim McDuffie of Goose Creek, will teach visitors to the store a different award-winning Designer Game each week from September 20 through December 3, 2011.

Games to be featured in these weekly events include award-winning: Tsuro, Got 'Em!, Dixit Odyssey, Thunderstone, Ticket to Ride, Pirate Fluxx, Carcassonne, Zombies!!!, Telestrations, Forbidden Island and The Settlers of Catan. A variety of children's games by HABA will make an appearance in December, just in time for the holidays.

The Game of the Week will be set up on a table in the front of the store so visitors can watch a demo, learn how to play, or even sit down and actually play the game. Four tournaments will be held during the store’s monthly Game Nights: October 1, November 5 and December 3. To encourage participation, the McDuffies will be giving away one game a week to a lucky participant of each week's gaming lessons.

About Designer Games

Designer Games have a definite theme: a lot of attention is paid to the artwork and other components, which are more often made of wood than plastic.  The games tend to emphasize player interaction or cooperation so players are engaged all the time instead of just waiting for their turn.

In a Designer Game, players are rarely eliminated. Any randomness or luck from dice rolls or card draws are offset by having the player decide what to do after a random event happens, rather than before. This allows players to make more interesting decisions utilizing tactics and strategy. Competition over resources - like the wood, wool, wheat, clay and ore in Catan - is common in Designer Games. There are often multiple paths to victory.

Designer Games have been created for all age groups, with a variety of playing times, and supporting different numbers of players. Many can be learned in just a few minutes. The themes run the gamut.

About Here Be Books & Games

Tina & Tim McDuffie are the sole traders of Designer Games in Summerville, SC. Their book and game store, Here Be Books & Games, at 4650 Ladson Road, Suite I is open Tuesday thru Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Founded in 2005, the store has been hosting monthly Game Nights since 2007.

Designer Game of the Week Schedule: Learn to Play It Now!

Date

Game(s) of the Week

About the Game
Sept 20-24

Prize:
Pirate Fluxx		 Pirate Fluxx Pirate Fluxx Fluxx is the ever-changing card game. Throughout the game the rules change: how many cards you draw, how many you have to play… Even the goal (winning condition) changes! In Pirate Fluxx there'll be times ye must Talk Like A Pirate and rules about how ye can Plunder from yer mates - even cards that let ye play out of turn, to take yer enemies by Surprise! Fluxx is the winner of 1999 Mensa Select.
Sept 27 - Oct 1
Tournament:
Oct 1

Prizes:
Tsuro
Got ‘Em!		 Tsuro
Got 'Em!		 Tsuro



Got ‘Em!		 Tsuro, the game of the Path, is a gorgeous and beautifully simple tile-laying game. Each turn, you lay a tile before your dragon-embossed pawn to continue its path. The goal: stay the path longer than anyone else. As the board fills up this becomes more difficult: another player's tile may extend your own path in a direction you'd rather not go. Winner of 2010 Major Fun Award and 2009 Preferred Choice Award.

Got ‘Em! is a brand new game of elude and capture. Your goal: trap your opponents while avoiding capture yourself. The reversible board provides two levels of play.
Oct 4-8

Prize:
Catanimals		 The Settlers of Catan Catan In Settlers of Catan, players try to be the dominant force on Catan by building roads, settlements, and cities. Each turn dice are rolled to determine what resources the island produces. Players collect & trade these resources to build up their civilizations, get to 10 victory points, and win the game. Games Magazine Hall of Fame Inductee.
Oct 11-15

Prize:
Forbidden Island		 Forbidden Island Forbidden Island In the cooperative family game Forbidden Island, players work together as a team of fearless adventurers. It’s a do-or-die mission to capture four sacred treasures from the island’s ruins before it sinks beneath them. Awards: 2010 Golden Geek Best Children’s Board Game and 2010 Mensa Select.
Oct 18-22
Prize:
Carcassonne: The Phantom expansion		 Carcassonne 10th Anniversary Special Edition Carcassonne Carcassonne is a deceptively simple tile-laying game. Players develop the area around medieval Carcassonne, deploying their followers on roads, in cities, to cloisters and in the fields to earn points as each feature is completed. The player with the most points wins. 2002 Årets Spel Best Family Game, 2001 Spiel des Jahres, 2000 Meeples’ Choice.
Oct 25-29

Prize:
Zombies!!!		 Zombies!!! Zombies!!! In Zombies!!! players are survivors amid city streets infested with zombies. While conserving bullets and protecting their life counters, players must fight their way through the zombie hoard to the Helipad. Both movement and combat are determined by dice roll. The first to reach the Helipad alive and kill the zombie there - or kill 25 zombies - wins.
Nov 1-5
Tournament: Nov 5
Prize:
Ticket to Ride		 Ticket to Ride Ticket to Ride With elegantly simple gameplay, Ticket to Ride can be learned in 3 minutes, while providing players with intense strategic and tactical decisions every turn. Players collect various types of train cards they then use to claim railway routes. Longer routes earn more points. Longest Route and fulfilled Destination Tickets - goal cards that connect distant cities - earn points, too.  Awards: 2004 Origins Awards Best Board Game, 2004 Spiel des Jahres, 2004 Meeples’ Choice.
Nov 8-12

Prize:
Dixit Odyssey		 Dixit Odyssey
Telestrations
 Dixit Odyssey

 

 

Telestrations		 In Dixit, each turn one player is the storyteller, who secretly chooses a card from his hand and says a word or sentence to describe it. The other players give the storyteller a card from their hand that matches. The storyteller lays out the cards and the other players vote for the card they think is the storyteller’s. If no one or everyone guesses correctly, the storyteller receives 0 points. Players also score for correct guesses and votes received. 2010 Spiel Des Jahres Winner.

In Telestrations, all players sketch a word, then pass their sketch to the next player. Players guess what's been drawn, then pass their guess to the next player who must try to draw the word they see… The revelations of each word’s evolution are the true fun of this award-winning game. 2010 Golden Geek Best Party Game.
Nov 29 - Dec 3
Tournament: Dec 3
Prize:
Thunderstone		 Thunderstone Thunderstone Thunderstone is a fantasy deck-building game. Players hire Heroes in the Village and acquire items, powerful weaponry and spells so they can fight evil monsters in the nearby Dungeon. Defeating the Dungeon’s monsters earns the player experience points - used to level up Heroes - and victory points needed to win the game. 2010 Golden Geek Best Card Game Nominee.

Saturday, November 12 thru 19, 2011 : Semi-Annual $1 Book Sale

Here Be Books & Games will be holding their Semi-Annual $1 Book Sale Saturday, November 12 thru Saturday, November 19.

As usual, there will be 100s of hardback and paperback books on sale, including:

We're pulling 100s of books from our shelves for the sale and will continue to put more books out each day of the sale.

Use Your Trade Credit to Pay 100% of Your Sale Purchases

We will again allow sale-goers to pay 100% of their clearance-sale book purchases with existing trade credit. (Please don't try to trade in a bunch of books during the sale: it's a very busy time and we'll have limited time to process trades. Instead, plan ahead: trade in your books in October so you'll have plenty of trade credit to spend at the sale in November.)

In May, 100s of customers took home full bags of books without opening their wallets! You can do the same this November at our Semi-Annual $1 Book Sale!

Sign Up to Receive Reminders of Our Semi-Annual Sales

If you would like to receive a reminder by email about this and future semi-annual sales, please call us or let us know next time you visit. You can also Like Us on Facebook.

$1 Book Sale Details

Sale Hours: 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Sale Dates:

Look for extra special deals the last day of the sale!

Don't miss this incredible sale! It only happens twice a year. You're sure to find something good! Books make great stocking stuffers, too!

Saturday, October 29, 4:00 p.m.: Pathfinder Beginner Box Bash

The Pathfinder RPG Beginner Box is scheduled for release on October 26th and should arrive at Here Be Books & Games the same day!

Thanks to the help of SCARAB, we are able to celebrate the arrival of the highly anticipated Pathfinder Beginner Box with an afternoon of Pathfinder roleplaying.

You can get a first-hand look at all the cool stuff Paizo packed into the box and play it yourself. Those who participate can earn some very unique and powerful boons (special bonuses that augment your new or existing Pathfinder Society character).

We'll be utilizing pregenerated characters so we can spend more time playing. Newbies to Pathfinder roleplaying are welcome.

We still have a few seats open. Call us now to reserve your spot if you want to play. (843) 695-1498

Thursday, August 25, 6:00 p.m.: Card Night at Here Be Books & Games

Tudor Euchre deck by Tina Spain McDuffieJoin us for an evening of cards, playing classic games with regular playing cards, including games such as Double Deck Pinochle, Euchre, Cribbage, Spades, Hearts, Rummy, Canasta...

I've been meaning to establish a Card Night for ages. It seems we hardly ever get to play cards anymore. There are so many awesome games you can play with a simple deck of cards, the possibilities are endless.

However, to kick off what I hope will become a regular thing, we'll stick to Double Deck Pinochle, Cribbage and maybe Euchre for the first run on Thursday, August 25 from 6 pm to 9 pm. Reservations are necessary for this event. Please RSVP by phone to Tina at (843) 695-1498. Admission is FREE.

I'll be looking for lots of feedback, including:

Please contact Tina with your comments or post them on our Facebook Wall. We want to know what you think, even if you won't be able to attend our first Card Night. Other nights are being considered.

Saturday, August 27, 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. to : Sarah Renee Book Signing - author of the Saderia series of Young Adult books: Tiger Princess, Dash...

The Tiger Princess by Sarah ReneeTen years ago, a devastating fire took the lives of Queen Karenisha and King Makero leaving a young Saderia orphaned. Nobody knows how the fire started but it ignited quickly. Too quickly. In ten years the truth has never been discovered...

Saderia is a curious 10-year old tiger Princess. Her Aunt Cia and Uncle Jash have taken over the duties of Queen and King and raising Saderia since her parents' death, but don't understand Saderia, something she resents. When Saderia begins having dreams about the past and the fire that killed her parents, she becomes determined to know the truth. Could her parents have been murdered?

Young adult writer Sarah Renee will be here signing copies of her books The Tiger Princess and Dash, Saturday, August 27 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Please drop by and meet this accomplished and lovely young lady.

Sarah Renee, author of the Saderia series of young adult booksAbout the Author

Local author Sarah Renee began writing at an early age. She has been writing short stories since she was four. At the age of ten she came up with the idea for The Tiger Princess, writing and publishing the novel when she was twelve. Sarah is fascinated with wild animals and the wild world outside her home, and has an obvious great love of tigers. She enjoys spending time with her cats, reading, drawing and playing her violin when she is not writing. In her free time, she is constantly daydreaming about the many characters in her books, creating new ones, and developing interesting adventure story ideas. Sarah is thirteen years old. For more information about the author and her works, visit www.TheTigerPrincess.com.

Wednesdays, Summer 2011 : Summer Afternoon Games at Here Be Books & Games

Summer is here. What better way to while away the hot afternoon hours than playing board games in air conditioned comfort? So, to help you have fun and stay cool this summer, we resumed our Summer Afternoon Games at Here Be Books & Games. We teach you how to play!

Each week we've featured a different theme. For attendance and number of games played, see stats above. Here are the themes we've already done this summer:

Anything Goes (August 3, 2011)
Open Gaming. Learn to play anything in our Game Library.
Day of the Living Dead (July 27, 2011)
Zombies, vampires, and ghosts have taken over the world. So send them back from whence they came! Learn to play: Last Night on Earth: The Zombie Game, Zombies!!!, Zombie Dice, Zombie Fluxx, The Stars Are Right, Cutthroat Caverns, Thunderstone, Ghost Stories, Witch of Salem, Shadow Hunters and more.
The Lands of Catan & Carcassonne (July 20, 2011)
Learn to play the most famous Euro games of them all: The Settlers of Catan and Carcassonne. We'll also teach you how to play Catan's many offshoots, including: Catan Geographies: Germany, Settlers of the Stone Age, Catan Histories: Struggle for Rome, and Catan: The Dice Game. We'll also introduce you to the famous tile-laying game, Carcassonne, some of its numerous expansions, and a few offshoots, New World, Carcassonne: The Dice Game, and Carcassonne: The City.
Lost in Space (July 13, 2011)
Explore the far reaches of the galaxy, colonize planets, and fight off invaders from outer space! Learn to play: Galaxy Trucker, Ad Astra, Invaders from Outer Space: The Martian Game, Conquest of Planet Earth: The Space Alien Game, Star Trek: Expeditions, Mission: Red Planet, Space Beans, and Doom: The Boardgame.
Cooperative Operative (July 6, 2011)
It's all for one and one for all during the Cooperative Operative which includes cooperative games in which all players work together against the board and semi-cooperative games of one player against the rest. Learn to play: Star Trek: Expeditions, The Three Musketeers: The Queen's Pendants, Pandemic, Pandemic: On the Brink, Incredibles Pandemic, Castle Panic, Forbidden Island, Ghost Stories, Battlestar Gallactica, Defenders of the Realm, Shadows Over Camelot, Onirim, and Red November.
Ancient History (June 29, 2011)
Build one of the 7 Ancient Wonders of the World, a temple for Cleopatra or simple huts in the Stone Age. Produce a grand spectacle in the Roman Colosseum for Ceasar. It's all ancient history. Learn to play: 7 Wonders, Cleopatra, Stone Age, Egizia, Colosseum, Ra, Ra: The Dice Game, Roll Through the Ages, Nanuk, Beowulf: The Legend, Tribune, Primordial Soup, Catan Histories: Struggle for Rome, and Settlers of the Stone Age.
Roll the Dice (June 22, 2011)
I'll bet most of the games you grew up with included two six-sided dice. That's nice. Dice add randomness and chance, which is why they are often absent from most designer games. Luckily for those of us who like to roll the dice, there are designer games that make good use of dice - though they may not be the dice you're used to playing with. Here are a few of the games we have slotted for Roll the Dice: Lords of Vegas, Dice Town, Ra: The Dice Game, Roll Through the Ages, Zombie Dice, Catan: The Dice Game, Carcassonne: The Dice Game, Ticket to Ride with the Dice Expansion, Stone Age, SET Cubed, and old-fashioned Six-Dice.
Anything Goes (June 15, 2011)
Open Gaming. Learn to play anything in our Game Library.

Saturday, May 14 thru 21, 2011 : Semi-Annual $1 Book Sale

Here Be Books & Games will be holding their Semi-Annual $1 Book Sale Saturday, May 14 thru Saturday, May 21, 2011.

As usual, there will be 100s of hardback and paperback books on sale, including:

We're pulling 100s of books from our shelves for the sale and will continue to put more books out each day of the sale.

Use Your Trade Credit to Pay 100% of Your Sale Purchases

Because it was so successful last November and May, we will again allow sale-goers to pay 100% of their clearance-sale book purchases with existing trade credit. (Please don't try to trade in a bunch of books during the sale: it's a very busy time and we'll have limited time to process trades.) Last November, 100s of customers took home bagfulls of books without opening their wallets! You can do the same this May at our Semi-Annual $1 Book Sale!

Sign Up to Receive Reminders of Our Semi-Annual Sales

If you would like to receive a reminder by email about this and future semi-annual sales, please call us or let us know next time you visit. You can also Like Us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter.

$1 Book Sale Details

Sale Hours: 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Sale Dates:

Look for extra special deals the last day of the sale!

Don't miss this incredible sale! It only happens twice a year. You're sure to find something good!

Saturday, April 23, 2011, 10 am to 5 pm : Charleston Area Gamers Game Day

Charleston Area Gamers playing a board gameHere Be Books & Games is proud to host the Charleston Area Gamers for a day of unplugged gaming goodness. Who knows what board games and card games will make it to the table this time.

The public is welcome to join in the fun.

Friday thru Sunday, January 14 thru 16, 2011 : SCARAB Gaming Convention, Columbia, SC

Here Be Books & Games is proud to sponsor the SCARAB Gaming Convention at the Scottish Rite Convention Center in Columbia. (I think this near I-77, Exit 9, but don't quote me). Finally, a game con that isn't four or more hours away! Tim and I (Tina) will be there playing games along with all the other Charlestonians we can con into going (we've really had to twist some arms - just kidding).

Pre-registration ($40) was still open last time I checked (1/7/2010), which will lock the registration price in for you for all future SCARAB Cons. At the door the price is $50 for the whole weekend. I've heard that the first 100 to arrive are in for an awesome goodie bag! The doors open at 3 p.m. on Friday.

Can't afford a hotel? Just want to go for a day? No problem. One-day passes will be available at the door for $20. Saturday gaming starts at 8 a.m. and runs until 2 o'clock in the morning! Totally worth the hour-and-a-half drive from Charleston.

Sunday gaming hours are 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Swap & Shop Meet ($1 cost for a table to put the games you want to sell or trade) is scheduled for Sunday from 4 p.m. until 6 p.m.

There's more! Save your SCARAB Badge! You can present it all year long at Here Be Books & Games for a 10% discount*. Hope to see you there!

* SCARAB discount may not be combined with other offers and promotions.

Saturday, November 13 thru 20, 2010 : Semi-Annual $1 Book Sale

Here Be Books & Games will be holding their Semi-Annual $1 Book Sale Saturday, November 13 thru Saturday, November 20.

As usual, there will be 100s of hardback and paperback books on sale, including:

We're pulling 100s of books from our shelves for the sale and will continue to put more books out each day of the sale.

Over 50 Games on Sale, too, for 20% to 70% OFF!

Use Your Trade Credit to Pay 100% of Your Sale Purchases

Because it was so successful in May, we will again allow sale-goers to pay 100% of their clearance-sale book purchases with existing trade credit. (Please don't try to trade in a bunch of books during the sale: it's a very busy time and we'll have limited time to process trades.) In May, 100s of customers took home bagfulls of books without opening their wallets! You can do the same this November at our Semi-Annual $1 Book Sale!

Sign Up to Receive Reminders of Our Semi-Annual Sales

If you would like to receive a reminder by email about this and future semi-annual sales, please call us or let us know next time you visit. You can also Like Us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter.

$1 Book Sale Details

Sale Hours: 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Sale Dates:

Look for extra special deals the last day of the sale!

Don't miss this incredible sale! It only happens twice a year. You're sure to find something good!

August 2010: Here Be Books & Games Celebrates 5 Year Anniversary with a Secret Sale and Drawings for Treasure

August 2, 2010 was Here Be Books & Games 5-year anniversary. We celebrated the event all week long with treasures, treats and a Secret Sale for our customers. We're still celebrating! You can enter to win one of ten more treasures! The drawings for the rest of the treasure will be held August 31. You do not need to be present to win. (Limit one entry per customer per day with purchase.) 5 lucky winners will be drawn from in-store entries, 5 more from among those who Like Us on Facebook.

Yes, we've launched a Facebook page. You can help us get the word out by showing you Like Us. Just click the Facebook button below or on our home page. We'll draw five names from among the people who Like Us on August 31, 2010 and award each a bookish or gamish treasure. Argh!

FOLLOW UP: Congratulations to the winners of our August 7 Drawing for Treasure: Katie Koch (Zombie Dice), Bea Bryant ($5 Gift Certificate), Heidi Miller ($5 Gift Certificate), and Samuel Welch ($5 Gift Certificate)! Additional congratulations go out to our August 31 Drawing for Treasure winners. In-store drawing: Steven Weiss (Dungeon Crawl RPG module), Bill Iverson (Free Book of his choice), Jason Pockrus (Pocket QuickWord game), Mary McIver (Free Book of her choice), and Sarah Rogers (Pocket QuickWord game). Facebook drawing: Keith Mageau (Ticket to Ride: Europa 1912), Peggyann Walker Veach (Free Book of her choice), Chris Miller (Zombie Dice), Jason Bush ($10 Gift Certificate) and Brandon Bartlett (Quo Vadis game).

Thanks everyone for helping us celebrate our 5th Anniversary in business all month long!

Fridays, June 18 thru August 6, 2010 : Friday Afternoon Games at Here Be Books & Games

Summer is here. What better way to while away the hot afternoon hours than playing board games in air conditioned comfort? So, to help you have fun and stay cool this summer, we’re resuming Afternoon Games at Here Be Books & Games. Admission is FREE. Come by yourself* or bring a friend or two along. Adults and kids 10 and up are welcome. (*Kids under 15 must be accompanied by an adult.) You don’t have to already know the games in order to join in on the fun. We’ll teach you how to play!

Each week we'll feature a different theme. Here are the themes of past Summer Game Days:

Train Game Junction (Friday, June 11, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.)
Train Game Junction, how's that function? We're hooking up routes and making 'em function... The games fitting this theme all involve trains, of course. In Ticket to Ride and its many expansions and spin-offs, players claim routes and place their trains to complete tickets. In TransAmerica and TransEuropa, players lay track to connect their 5 cities across the map as quickly as possible. We've also got two card games involving trains that may hit the table: Express and Ticket to Ride: The Card Game.
Flavors of Fluxx (Friday, June 18, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.)
There are almost as many flavors of Fluxx as there are ice cream flavors, including: Martian Fluxx, Zombie Fluxx, Monty Python Fluxx, Family Fluxx, EcoFluxx and plain old ordinary Fluxx. Fluxx is the hilarious card game of everchanging rules. The game begins with two simple rules - Draw One, Play One - and no way to win. However, as players play their cards, the rules change. Before you know it, you're drawing 5 cards, playing 2 and just when the Goal was in sight, someone changed that, too!
Cooperative Operative (Friday, June 25, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.)
Games in which all players work together against the board. Everyone wins or everyone loses. Games that fit this category include: Pandemic and its expansion On the Brink, Castle Panic, Forbidden Island, Ghost Stories and Red November.
Night of the Living Dead (Friday, July 2, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.)
Zombies, vampires, and ghosts have taken over the world. So send them back from whence they came! Learn to play Last Night on Earth: The Zombie Game, Zombies!!!, Zombie Dice, Fury of Dracula, Zombie Fluxx, Stars Are Right, Ghost Stories, Witch of Salem, Shadow Hunters and more.
Farmer in the Dell (Friday, July 9, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.)
Think of all the critters you can find on a farm... and the crops you can raise! Lighter fare you can learn to play, includes: Zoowaboo, Hey That's My Fish!, Felix The Cat in the Sack, Pickomino, Gloria Pictoria, Zooloretto, and Frank's Zoo. For those seeking heftier fare, we've got: Puerto Rico, Agricola, and The Gates of Loyang. Medium fare includes: Bohnanza and several expansions, San Juan, Finca, If Wishes Were Fishes, Filipino Fruit Market, and Shear Panic.
Ancient History (Friday, July 16, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. canceled due to AC outage)
Build a temple for Cleopatra. Produce a grand spectacle in the Roman Colosseum for Ceasar. It's all ancient history or is it? Learn to play: Stone Age, Cleopatra, Colosseum, Ra, Ra: The Dice Game, Roll Through the Ages, Nanuk, Beowulf: The Legend, Tribune, Nomads of Arabia, Primordial Soup, Catan Histories: Struggle for Rome, and Settlers of the Stone Age.
Dungeon Delve (Friday, July 23, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.)
Take a trip into fantasy: explore musty dungeons, kill the monsters, and take home the treasure... or try to at least. Titles include: Cutthroat Caverns, Thunderstone, Claustrophobia, Dungeon Twister, Munchkin, Munchkin Cthulhu, Dungeon Lords, Cave Troll, Prophecy, etc. We'll also hold a Thunderstone tournament. The winner will receive a free ticket to Gen Con - The Best Four Days of Gaming in Indianapolis, IN August 5 thru 8, 2010!
Dice Are Nice (Friday, July 30, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.)
I'll bet most of the games you grew up with included two six-sided dice. That's nice. Dice add randomness and chance, which is why they are often absent from most designer games. Luckily for those of us who like to roll the dice, there are designer games that make good use of dice - though they may not be the dice you're used to playing with. Here are a few of the games we have slotted for our Dice Are Nice Game Day: Dice Town, Ra: The Dice Game, Roll Through the Ages, Zombie Dice, Cthulhu Dice, and old-fashioned Six-Dice.
Ancient History (Friday, August 6, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.)
Build a temple for Cleopatra. Produce a grand spectacle in the Roman Colosseum for Ceasar. It's all ancient history or is it? Learn to play: Stone Age, Cleopatra, Colosseum, Ra, Ra: The Dice Game, Roll Through the Ages, Nanuk, Beowulf: The Legend, Tribune, Nomads of Arabia, Primordial Soup, Catan Histories: Struggle for Rome, and Settlers of the Stone Age.

What to Bring

If you have any folding chairs, please bring them along. While we have about 15 chairs, we often run out. Drinks will be available for purchase at the store.

When

Afternoon Game Days will run Fridays, June 11 thru August 6 from  2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Where

Here Be Books & Games
4650 Ladson Road
Summerville, SC

If you have any comments, questions, suggestions, etc. give Tina a call at (843) 695-1498.

 

May 8 thru May 15, 2010 : Semi-Annual $1 Book Sale

Here Be Books & Games held their Semi-Annual Clearance Book Sale Saturday, May 8 thru Saturday, May 15, 2010.

As usual, there were 100s of hardback and paperback books on sale, including:

We pulled 100s of books from our shelves for the sale and continued to put more books out each day of the sale.

For this sale, we allowed sale-goers to pay 100% of their clearance-sale book purchases with trade credit. In other words, 100s of customers got to take bagfulls of books home without opening their wallets. -Tina

Sale Hours: 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Sale Dates: Saturday, May 8; Tuesday, May 11; Wednesday, May 12; Thursday, May 13; Friday, May 14; Saturday, May 15. Look for extra special deals the last day of the sale!

Saturday, May 15, 2010, 12 pm to 3 pm : Paranormal Author Heather Kuehl Book Signing

Paranormal Writer Heather KuehlWerewolf bounty hunter Sarah Vargas has only one goal in life: kill the Were that attacked and changed her. To do this, Sara has joined a corporation dedicated to protecting the world from rogue supernatural creatures intent on harm. Will she find the bastard who changed her life forever? And if so, will she be able to go through with killing him?

Fade to Black by Heather KuehlFade to Black is an action-packed story with little room for rest:, both for her characters and her readers. Once it starts, it moves at lightning speed as there is always something or someone around the corner.

- Trent Kinsey, Siren Book Reviews

About the Author

Heather Kuehl was born near the Great Lakes, but made her way to South Carolina where she lives to this day. While working at her local library, she earned a Bachelor of Science degree and worked on her writing. In March, Heather released another new paranormal title: Promises to Keep. You can learn more about Heather and her writing at her web site: www.HeatherKuehl.com.

I'm happy to say that this, Heather Kuehl's first book singing, was a great success. Lots of people dropped by to visit with the author, buy her books, and get them signed. Thank you, Heather, for letting us host your book signing.  -Tina

Saturday, February 23, 2010, 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. - New Games Demos by Steve Jackson Games

Randy Scheunemann, Playtest Coordinator for Steve Jackson Games, will be dropping by our store on Tuesday, February 23 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. to introduce some new releases and teach us how to play them. Games likely to come to the table during Randy's visit, include:

We've also received some demo games from Steve Jackson Games. Stop by and check them out:

 

 

 

 

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