Summary: The object of this game of strategy and skulduggery is to be the pirate with the most stolen treasure when the deck is depleted. and one player is out of cards.
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Gamewright 2019
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1 available in Games, Call number: GAME LOOSummary: "The gripping true story of Stanislav Petrov, a man who single-handedly averted a fullscale nuclear world war, but now struggles to get his life back on track ... before it is too late. An epic and grand Cold War thriller that sends shivers down your spine and shows us just how close we came to apocalypse ... and it's not over yet! With a new Cold War rising and thousands of nuclear weapons on...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MANSummary: Taking turns, each player puts a piece on the board. Since the large cylinders fit over the smaller cylinders, gobble up your opponent's smaller pieces. The first player to align 4 pieces in a row wins. 2 minutes to learn; 5 to 20 minutes to play.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Orange Games Co. 2002
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1 available in STEM Kits, Call number: J STEM KIT 21Summary: In the world of Golarion, explore the stolen lands, a region that has been contested territory for centuries: hundreds of kingdoms have risen and fallen in these lands. Conquer new regions and claim them as your own, carving your kingdom from the wilderness. Create heroes (or villains) and customize your character choosing from more than 1000 different abilities, skills, and features. Expand...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Video Games, Call number: GAME PS4 PATSummary: Player draws a challenge card and places towers on the grid as indicated. The goal is to create a maze that will carry a marble from the start position to the target tower.
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: ThinkFun Inc 2014
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1 available in STEM Kits, Call number: J STEM KIT 9Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in STEM Kits, Call number: JT STEM KIT 13Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in STEM Kits, Call number: S.T.E.M. KIT #21 GRAVITY MAZE FALLING MARBLE LOGIC GAMEMiller, Marie-Therese
Summary: "This guide offers an accessible approach to life with a deployed parent and presents helpful information on how to stay in touch. While routines change, the love for a parent doesn't"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 355.1 MILRossi, Carlo A.
Summary: Queen Benevolence is hosting a celebration to honor her loyal subjects. To thank them, she will give away 12 extraordinary items from her treasure box that she keeps hidden away in a secret chamber in the castle. But when the Queen goes to choose the items that she wants to bestow, she discovers the box is empty! A thief has stolen her treasures and is running away with them! The celebration...
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Peaceable Kingdom 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The challenges and laser make the hugely popular Laser Maze Game fun. The fact that it’s a logic maze game that teaches STEM skills makes it a perfect game for anyone. Laser Maze requires you to use mirrors, beam-splitters, a little science and brainpower to direct the laser through a series of mind-challenging mazes and light up the target. This award-winning maze game is designed for solo...
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: ThinkFun Inc 2014
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1 available in STEM Kits, Call number: J STEM KIT 129Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in STEM Kits, Call number: J STEM KIT 13Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in STEM Kits, Call number: JT STEM KIT 15Summary: "Attack and ... capture the flag! Stratego is the classic game of battlefield strategy where everything depends on capturing the flag. You are the commander-in-chief of an army of pieces with different ranks. Deploy your pieces secretly. Use your strategy to outwit your opponent and break through his lines. Keep an eye out for bombs and enemy spies. Capture the flag and win!"--Container.
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Play Monster 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Vickers, Michael G.
Summary: "A vivid narrative of a life in intelligence and special operations, from the Cold War to the war on terror. In 1984, Michael Vickers took charge of the CIA's secret campaign against the Soviets in Afghanistan. Inheriting a strategy aimed at imposing costs on Russia, Vickers transformed the campaign into an all-out effort to help the Afghans win their war. More than any other American, he was...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: It's the ultimate contest of courage, wits, and endurance when twelve of the world's best survivalists from the series return to take on a grueling survival challenge: 40 days and 40 nights in the Colombian badlands, with no food, no water, no clothes, and no help from the camera crews. Hunting for food and building shelters is only the beginning, as the survivalists confront such dangers as a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NAKSummary: "Pass the sushi! In this fast-playing card game, the goal is to grab the best combination of sushi dishes as they whiz by."--Container.
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Gamewright 2014
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Summary: Dominoes with a Kingdom building twist! Each turn, connect a new domino to your existing Kingdom, making sure at least one of its sides connects to a matching terrain Type already in play. The game mechanics for obtaining the tiles is clever: the order of who picks first depends on which tile was previously chosen. Make sure to secure tiles with crowns- these royal treasures help to multiply...
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Orange USA 2017
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1 available in Games, Call number: GAME KINConroy, James B.
Summary: A character-driven account of the Casablanca Conference of January 1943, an Anglo-American clash over military strategy that produced a winning plan when World War II could have gone either way. Churchill called it the most important Allied conclave of the war. Until now, it has never been explored in a full-length book. In a secret, no-holds-barred, ten-day debate in a Moroccan warzone,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.531 CONKnizia, Reiner
Summary: Players place colored tiles on the hexagonal board, scoring points, blocking opponents' tile placement, and trying to protect themselves from being blocked by their opponents.
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Kosmos LLC. 2018
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1 available in Games, Call number: GAME INGMcAdams, David.
Summary: A business professor at Duke University shows professionals how to become empowered "game-changers" that use circumstances to their best advantage through applying six different techniques to solve a variety of strategic challenges.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 MCABrose, Christian
Summary: "When we think about the future of war, the military and Washington and most everyone gets it backwards. We think in terms of buying single military systems, such as fighter jets or aircraft carriers. And when we think about modernizing those systems, wethink about buying better versions of the same things. But what really matters is not the single system but "the battle network"--the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 BROSimms, Brendan
Summary: "By early December 1941, war and genocide had changed Europe beyond recognition. Nazi Germany had occupied most of the continent and opened concentration camps, while millions of soldiers had died on the front. In Asia, the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War had turned mainland China into a battleground and the Pacific Islands into an armed camp. Still, these far-off conflicts were not...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 SIMContents: American B-29s (3:53) -- Japanese Defense (1:44) -- Tokyo Is Burning (1:50) -- Air Assault on Japan (5:46) -- Japan's Final Defensive Actions (1:56) -- Atom Bombs (3:19) -- Future of Warfare (1:00) -- Credits: 'The Bombing of Japan' (1:06)
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: During the westward migration, stone and wood forts were refuge to tired pioneers. This program looks at Fort Union in New Mexico on the Santa Fe Trail and other outposts of civilization in the West.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Allen, Thomas B.
Summary: Based on newly declassified documents, personal interviews, and a decade of meticulous research, this book traces the progress of the Pacific War and reveals the top-secret details of the plans and preparations, on both the American and Japanese sides, for an invasion that would be far more complex - and costly in human lives - than the D-Day landings in France -- Publisher description.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.544 ALLSun, Lisa
Summary: ""Lisa comes across as young and overly enthusiastic at times. She should seek to have more gravitas." This is what Lisa Sun's boss wrote in her first review as a business analyst at the global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company. Sun knew she wasn't alone in receiving this type of feedback and over the course of the last two decades, she has been on a journey to uncover what it means...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hay House, Inc. 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Two Men At War (1:38) -- Credits: Anzio (0:23) -- Operation Shingle (3:25) -- 6th Army Core in Anzio (2:10) -- Expansion of Anzio Beach Head (2:57) -- The Anzio Front (2:03) -- Surviving Anzio (2:24) -- Hell's Half Acre (2:07) -- Anzio Pocket (1:26) -- Spring Offensive in Italy (3:20) -- German Retreat in Italy (1:31) -- After Anzio (0:39) -- Credits: Anzio (1:06)
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011