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Author
Series
Endgame volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
With one key remaining to win Endgame, the remaining players desperately search for the final key before the destruction of the world is triggered.
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
It was a moment seen by millions on television. During play at the 1999 Phoenix Open, Tiger Woods had a "loose impediment? removed to play his shot -- an everyday occurrence under golf's rules. But that impediment was not a leaf or twig, it was a 350-pound boulder that took six people to move! The gallery and television audience buzzed with disbelief. How could this be legal under the rules?
Indeed it could, says golf legend Arnold Palmer, who throughout...
Author
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
By the bestselling author and XM and Sirius Satellite radio host heard on more than eighty radio stations coast to coast seven days a week. Reveals how the middle class, nurtured as the backbone of democracy by our Founding Fathers, is being undermined by so-called conservatives. Shows how we can reverse the erosion of the middle class and restore the egalitarian vision of the Founders. This expanded edition has a new chapter on immigration and a...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Mathematically trained players also have a decisive edge in backgammon, which trains you to make decisions in highly uncertain conditions. Professor Benjamin explains the rules of the game, the basic strategies for winning, the best ways to play your opening rolls, and how math constantly enters the picture"”from figuring out the safest way to move your checkers to the all-important doubling cube.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Program highlights: Hierarchies are inevitable, so learn the rules of the game. Qualities that create power and why intelligence is not one of them. How we limit ourselves when it comes to acquiring power. Getting a job, having control over your work, and holding on to a job all require more than simply excelling at what you do. They require an understanding of power. According to Professor Pfeffer, individual power comes from political skill, which...
7) Love Rites
Publisher
Cult Epics
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
When Hugo meets Myriam, a prostitute who picks up her clients on the Paris metro, he soon becomes obsessed with her sultry beauty and follows her to a flat owned by the mysterious Sara Sand, where he consummates his passion. Suddenly he finds the rules of the game have changed as Myriam is now in charge of his body and his soul. A macabre love poem from the Director of The Beast and Immoral Tales.
Publisher
Monster Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Today Henry meets an old Tennis racket. Tennis Racket has always dreamed of playing in a real tennis championship match. Henry will become a Tennis player. Tennis racket teaches Henry all the rules of the game and Henry helps win the match.
9) Play Ball! The Rise of Baseball as America’s Pastime: Episode 3,The Era of Amateur Baseball Clubs
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Explore the rise of amateur baseball clubs in the United States. The tour starts with Brooklyn’s Eckford Club, whose outings primarily served as refreshing countryside excursions. Then, go back still further to follow the rise of the Knickerbocker Club of New York City and the significance of their 1845 decision to write down the rules of the game.
10) I Declare War
Publisher
Drafthouse Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A group of 13-year-old friends play an innocent game of Capture the Flag in the neighborhood woods, arming themselves with nothing more than sticks, their imagination and a simple set of rules. One afternoon the game takes on a more serious tone and the quest for victory pushes the boundaries of friendship, as their imaginations take them beyond the rules of the game.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"You gotta know the rules to play the game. Ball is life. Take it to the hoop. Soar. What can we imagine for our lives? What if we were the star players, moving and grooving through the game of life? What if we had our own rules of the game to help us get what we want, what we aspire to, what will enrich our lives? Illustrated with photographs by Thai Neave, The Playbook is intended to provide inspiration on the court of life. Each rule containswisdom...
13) I, Dalio
Publisher
Mark Rappaport
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The great French actor, Marcel Dalio, had the lead role in Jean Renoir’s "The Rules of the Game", and also appeared in Renoir’s "Grand Illusion". In both films he played a character who was Jewish, as Dalio was in real life. In fact, in most of the French films he acted in during the 30s, he almost always played shady Jewish characters —informers, blackmailers, gangsters.. When the Nazis invaded France in 1940, Dialo fled to America and appeared...
14) Michael
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Based upon Herman Bang's 1902 novel, Dreyer's Michael refashions the classical Greek myth of Jupiter and Ganymede into a love triangle between an aging artist, Zoret (director Benjamin Christensen), his protagonist Michael (Walter Slezak, later to play the Nazi villain in Hitchcock's Lifeboat) and Princess Zamikoff (Nora Gregor, Rules of the game), an aristocratic femme fatale as entranced by Michael's youthful beauty as Zoret is. As Michael plunges...
15) Princess
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
עברית
Description
In this bold, stunning film, 12-year-old Adar and her stepfather push their role-playing games into dangerous territory while her workaholic mother is away from home. As Adar attempts to delicately maneuver between the tempestuous and fiery relationships at home, she meets Alan -- a dreamy boy who keenly resembles her -- and brings him into the family. Alan leads Adar through a dark journey between childhood and adolescence, reality and fantasy, which...
Author
Series
Inheritance games volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Rumors spread that Tobias Hawthorne's lost son may still be alive, casting doubt on seventeen-year-old Avery's inheritance and changing the rules of the game.
17) Hokus pokus
Author
Series
Sisterhood series volume 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Not Even An Ocean Can Keep The Sisterhood
From Helping A Friend In Need. . .
There is no match for the Sisterhood--the seven friends who have taken vigilante justice to a new level--not even the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Although the women foiled former FBI director Mitch Riley's plot to frame their friends Judge Nellie Easter and lawyer Lizzie Fox, now they must remain in exile or risk capture. They can't complain about their opulent digs...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac was a triumph from the moment of its premiere on December 28, 1897. It has become the most popular play of the modern French theater, and Cyrano, despite an ugly visage dominated by an enormous nose, has become a world-beloved symbol of generosity, magnanimity of spirit and beauty of soul. The wonderful Cyrano of this film, Pierre Magnier, understudied Coquelin in the original stage production. He toured with Coquelin...
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