Summary: The six Angulo brothers have grown up in their Manhattan apartment, home schooled by their parents, rarely if ever leaving their apartment. Their only connection to the outside world is television and the movies they watch and act out, complete with homemade costumes, in the apartment. When one of the brothers sneaks out for a few days on his own, the whole family dynamic is changed when he...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2015
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3 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WOLMcLachlan, Brian
Summary: "Queen Evergreen has been poisoned! To save her, you must pick a team of heroes to travel across a series of perilous fantasy landscapes, from a witch's desert tomb to a giant's palace in the sky. YOU get to choose how they win the day, using the greatest heroic power of all: your imagination. On your journey, you'll meet new heroes, battle a dungeon that's also a dragon, and discover that the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MCLAcimovic, Stras
Summary: Scum and Villainy is a Forged in the Dark game about a spaceship crew trying to make ends meet under the iron-fisted rule of the Galactic Hegemony. Work with the members of your crew to thrive despite powerful criminal syndicates, warring noble families, dangerous aliens, and strange mystics. Explore the ruins of lost civilizations for fun and profit. Can your motley crew hold it together long...
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Evil Hat Productions 2018
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1 available in Games, Call number: GAMES SCURandall, Christen
Summary: When her boyfriend excludes her from participating in a roleplaying game, high school senior Hollie joins an all-girls group where an in-game romance has the potential to be more than just pretend.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC RANRae, Susie
Summary: "Dive into a dozen intricately illustrated Dungeons & Dragons worlds and realms, including the frozen winds of Icewind Dale, Waterdeep and the City of Splendors, Neverwinter, the Jewel of the North, and the legendary Baldur's Gate! Will you be able to discover the Dungeon Master as he guides you to the end, or will you remain lost forever within the Forgotten Realms? Get ready to explore the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Summary: With the Board of Inspectors threatening to shut down Rotten School, Bernie Bridges only has time for one last money-making scheme, but his friends are too obsessed with a role-playing video game to help him.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Children's Books 2007
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED STISummary: Beginning as a penniless street-urchin, your destiny is to become Albion's greatest Hero. But will your power lie in kindness or cruelty? Choose your own path to glory and experience how those choices change you and the world forever.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionhead Studios 2008
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Summary: FIASCO is an award-winning story-telling game inspired by cinematic tales of small-time capers gone disastrously wrong. You’ll tell a story about ordinary people with powerful ambition and poor impulse control! Lives and reputations will be lost, painful wisdom will be gained, and if you are really lucky, you just might end up back where you started. You probably won’t be lucky.
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Bully Pulpit Games and Amusements 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A role playing game based on Terry Pratchett's Discworld for 2-6 players.
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Steve Jackson Games 2016
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Summary: It is Labor Day weekend in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and boy and girl collide on a dark street at two thirty in the morning: Lesh, who wears black, listens to metal, and plays MMOs; Svetlana, who embroiders her skirts, listens to Björk and Berlioz, and dungeon masters her own RPG. They should pick themselves up, continue on their way, and never talk to each other again. But they don't. This is a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BREZub, Jim
Summary: Provides a guide to the wizards, sorcerers, and other magic-makers of the fantasy role-playing franchise Dungeons & Dragons, with information on how spells are created and used in the game.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 793.93 ZUBHoffman, Sarah
Summary: Jacob loves playing dress-up, when he can be anything he wants to be. Some kids at school say he can't wear "girl" clothes, but Jacob wants to wear a dress to school. Can he convince his parents to let him wear what he wants?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOFCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOFCawthon, Scott
Summary: "What are you running from? . . . Sam is afraid of just about anything and everything that's unhealthy ever since his father died. Something about the Springtrap costume in the role-playing area of Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex chills Luca to the core. And Grady's fear of being trapped in small spaces makes working as a Pizzaplex technician extremely challenging. But in the world of Five...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2022
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Summary: "When Disney superfan and hopeless romantic Madison gets the chance to test run Disney's newest fully-immersive vacation destination that allows guests to become their favorite Disney character for a week, the eighteen-year-old college freshman jumps at the opportunity and begs her best friend Lanie to come along"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CESBayron, Kalynn
Summary: Charity Curtis has the summer job of her dreams, playing the "final girl" at Camp Mirror Lake. Guests pay to be scared in this full-contact terror game, as Charity and her summer crew recreate scenes from a classic slasher film, Curse of Camp Mirror Lake. The more realistic the fear, the better for business. But the last weekend of the season, Charity's co-workers begin disappearing. And when...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BAYSummary: Ethereal and elegant, the Folkmanis® Barn Owl is ready to roost with you. This updated version features a feathery plush body accented with exquisitely printed wings that take flight with your expansive imagination.
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Folkmanis 1999
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1 available in Puppet, Call number: PPT 45Summary: Even as Shiroe slowly learns the secrets behind the creation of the World Fraction spell, the origin of the Demi-humans, and how his own actions in the Real World have affected the world in which he now dwells, the seeds of thought he's planted in the minds of others begin to bear fruit. Game strategy and tactics may have been intended for amusement, but their origins were pulled from actual...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME LOGGillen, Kieron
Summary: "No one can escape DIE until everyone agrees to go home. Or rather, no one can escape DIE until everyone who is alive agrees to go home. The second arc of the [...] bleakly romantic fantasy fiction starts to reveal the secrets of the world, and our heroes' pasts. There's always the chance they'll escape DIE. They'll never escape themselves." --
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DIEZub, Jim
Summary: In this illustrated guide, you're transported to the legendary and magical worlds of Dungeons & Dragons where you are presented with one-of-a-kind entries for different types of warriors, as well as the weaponry these fighters need for D&D adventuring. This guide includes detailed illustrations of the weapons, armor, clothing, and other equipment that fighters use, and offers the tools young,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "See Hyrule 100 years before the Legend of 'Zelda: breath of the wild' game and experience the events of the Great Calamity. Join the struggle that brought Hyrule to its knees. Learn more about Zelda, the four Champions, the King of Hyrule and more through dramatic cutscenes as they try to save the kingdom from calamity. The 'Hyrule warriors: age of calamity game' is the only way to see...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Elder Tales has become a global phenomenon, immersing millions of players in its online fantasy world. However, something goes wrong with the twelfth expansion pack. Eight-year veteran Shiroe and 30,000 other players suddenly find themselves trapped in the game's no-longer-fictional universe!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME LOGZub, Jim
Summary: In this illustrated guide for new players, you'll be transported to the mystical and magical worlds of Dungeons & Dragons and given a one-of-a-kind course on the dungeons and deathtraps for which the game (and all its iterations) is known. Featuring maps, cutaway illustrations, and fun insights that show would-be adventurers how to travel and survive in these fantastical settings, along with...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 793.93 ZUBCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 793.93 ZUBSummary: In the far future, Fayt and his friend Sofia evade brutal attacks by the alien Vendeeni and must escape their enemies while finding their way back to human civilization.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Square Enix 2004
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1 available in Video Games, Call number: GAME PS2 STAHenning, Sarah
Summary: When eleven-year old Sylvie joins a monster LARPing (a.k.a. live action role-play) summer camp, she finds herself in the performance of her life after realizing that she is the only human among real monsters.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2023