Urgent quick 2 page layout.

Design details: I am having my team create a book from my word documents, they are however not understanding what I mean for the design and I am in urgent need for them to get to work on this for my class.

Not being a designer it is hard to say. I need someone super fast to send me just a 2 page spread idea that I might like that I can pass to them.

I like this book which is similar content ( attached)

This is what they came up with https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B35KJ2V65v8qXzdYdWxWdG1yOVk/view?usp=sharing

This is the content in word - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B35KJ2V65v8qVFN3cHlRQktUdzg?usp=sharing

Maybe its the font, the background colour, i'm not sure but it doesn't look good to me.

Look forward to seeing the results! Just a 2 page spread I think would help. If images contain watermarks it is fine i.e if stock images
Ideas for the visual style: See attachment
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