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Turning green [videorecording] : by Aimett, Michael,scriptwriter,film director.; Hofmann, John,scriptwriter,film director.; Hutton, Timothy,1960-actor.(CARDINAL)785963; Meaney, Colm,1953-actor.(CARDINAL)824699; Nivola, Alessandra,actor.; Gallery, Donal,actor,.; Curbside Pictures (Firm),production company.; Image Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.(CARDINAL)328010;
Music supervisor, Jim Black ; editor, John G. Hofmann ; director of photography, Tim Fleming.Timothy Hutton, Colm Meaney, Alessandro Nivola, Donal Gallery.Sixteen-year-old James Powers finds himself lost after his mother dies and he is forced to live with his three Irish aunts. Displaced and distressed, he longs to come back to America. One lucky weekend, desperate for cash after learning the ropes with bookies, gamblers, and crooks, James starts a wildly successful business of selling illegal magazines on the black market. Tough, street smart, and with cash in his pocket, he must now decide where home really is.MPAA rating: R; for sexual content, nudity, language, underage drinking and some violence.DVD, NTSC, widescreen (1.78:1) aspect ratio enhanced for 16x9 TVs, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround.
Subjects: Book-making (Betting); Pornography;
© [2010], Curbside Pictures,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Sports betting and bookmaking : an American history / by Lang, Arne K.,author.(CARDINAL)558001;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-280) and index.Leonard Jerome : the towering pillar of the horsey set -- Saratoga and Jerome Park : the fountainheads -- Pool sellers, bookmakers, and pari-mutuels -- Off-track betting : the poolroom scene -- New York's racetrack-building boom -- Bookmakers and their modus operandi -- Tipsters and touts -- Big plungers and outlaws -- The reformers crank up the heat -- Racetracks in the crosshairs -- New York racing : feast and famine -- The good-bye years -- Reanimation -- A verdant depression -- A side trip to the Windy City -- Mid-century reformers : La Guardia, Kefauver, and Kennedy -- The tax man cometh -- Multiple-horse wagering takes flight -- Pro football corrodes the racing game -- New York welcomes OTB -- A side trip to old Nevada -- Simulcasting -- Lotteries, casinos, and racinos -- Offshore and online -- Whales -- Pushing the envelope.Lang provides a sweeping overview of legal and illegal sports and race betting in the United States, from the first thoroughbred meet at Saratoga in 1863 through the modern day. The cultural war between bookmakers and their adversaries is a recurring theme, as bookmakers were often forced into the shadows during times of social reform, only to bloom anew when the time was ripe. While much of bookmaking's history takes place in New York, other locales such as Chicago, Las Vegas, and Atlantic City-not to mention Cyberspace-are also discussed in this volume.
Subjects: Horse racing; Sports betting; Book-making (Betting);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Blood at the bookies : a Fethering mystery / by Brett, Simon.(CARDINAL)349287;
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Seddon, Carole (Fictitious character); Jude (Fictitious character : Brett); Women detectives; Female friendship; Retired women; Immigrants; Book-making (Betting); Women's friendships.;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 7
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Blood at the bookies [large print] a Fethering mystery / by Brett, Simon,author.(CARDINAL)349287;
Jude has never been averse to a bit of a flutter; her friend Carole, on the other hand, thinks that the local betting shop is a den of iniquity. But when Jude stumbles upon the body of Polish immigrant Tadeusz Jankowski, the race is on to find his killer. As they question the local residents, Carole finds an unexpected friend in an inveterate gambler and Jude finds herself in potentially more trouble than she can handle with a lecherous drama professor.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Large print books.; Book-making (Betting); Female friendship; Immigrants; Jude (Fictitious character : Brett); Jude (Fictitious character : Brett); Retired women; Seddon, Carole (Fictitious character); Seddon, Carole (Fictitious character); Women Detective and mystery stories; Women detectives; Women's friendships.;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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Making promises / by Monkou, Michelle.;
Subjects: Fiction.; Delaney, Amber (Ficticious character);
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Ready? You bet! [electronic resource] by Findaway World, LLC,distributor.(CARDINAL)345268; Playaway Launchpad (Firm),publisher.;
"Children will prepare for kindergarten with games and exercises selected to introduce them to kindergarten learning concepts from letters to numbers, colors and more. Perfect for leading into the kindergarten school year.."--Publisher description.Ages 3-5.Grades Pre K to K.Title from Playaway Lauchpad label.
Subjects: Educational games.; Video games.; Mobile apps.; Kindergarten; Education, Preschool; Reading (Preschool); Writing; Values; Puzzles;
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Betting on you / by Painter, Lynn,author.(CARDINAL)856962;
"When seventeen-year-old Bailey starts a new job at a hotel waterpark, she is less than thrilled to see an old acquaintance is one of her coworkers. Bailey met Charlie a year ago on the long flight to Omaha, where she moved after her parents' divorce. Charlie's cynicism didn't mix well with Bailey's carefully well-behaved temperament, and his endless commentary was the irritating cherry on top of an already emotionally fraught trip. Now, Bailey and Charlie are still polar opposites, but instead of everything about him rubbing Bailey the wrong way, she starts to look forward to hanging out and gossiping about the waterpark guests and their coworkers--particularly two who keep flirting with each other. Bailey and Charlie make a bet on whether or not the cozy pair will actually get together. Charlie insists that members of the opposite sex can't just be friends, and Bailey is determined to prove him wrong. Bailey and Charlie keep close track of the romantic progress of others while Charlie works to deflect the growing feelings he's developed for Bailey. Terrified to lose her if his crush becomes known, what doesn't help his agenda is Bailey and Charlie "fake dating" in order to disrupt the annoying pleasantries between Bailey's mom and her mom's new boyfriend. Soon, what Charlie was hoping to avoid becomes a reality as Bailey starts to see him as not only a friend she can rely on in the midst of family drama--but someone who makes her hands shake and heart race. But Charlie has a secret--a secret that involves Bailey and another bet Charlie may have made. Can the two make a real go of things... or has Charlie's secret doomed them before they could start?"--Ages 14 up.Grades 10-12.
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Novels.; Young adult fiction.; Interpersonal relations; Friendship; Wagers; Occupations; High school students; Friendships.;
Available copies: 33 / Total copies: 50
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Monster Hunter nemesis / by Correia, Larry.(CARDINAL)342296;
"Agent Franks of the US Monster Control Bureau is a man of many parts--parts from other people. Franks is 6' 5", all muscle, nearly indestructible, animated by a powerful alchemical substance and inhabited by a super-intelligent spirit more ancient than humanity itself. Good thing he's on our side. More or less. Sworn to serve the US from all monsters, Franks has only one condition to the agreement. No matter what, the government is never, ever allowed to try and make more like him. Should they try, the agreement is null and void. Project Nemesis, headed by the director of the very agency Franks works for, is making more like him. And he isn't making one, he's making thirteen. Now all bets are off and Hell hath no fury like a monster betrayed"--800L
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Monsters; Cults;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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X-23. by Tamaki, Mariko.(CARDINAL)353415; Cabal, Juann,1986-(CARDINAL)675741; Fiorito, Márcio.(CARDINAL)427882; Duarte, Georges.(CARDINAL)806636; Woodard, Nolan.(CARDINAL)430015; O'Halloran, Chris(Colorist)(CARDINAL)680492; Petit, Cory.(CARDINAL)340459;
Cloned from a warrior, raised as a killer, Laura Kinney has gone through hell and come out the other side a hero. Now, after a stint following in her "father's" footsteps as the All-New Wolverine, Laura returns to her roots to make sure no one else ever has to go through the horrors she did! With her sister Gabby and their pet wolverine, Jonathan, in tow, Laura forges her own destiny as X-23! But when Gabby becomes a target, all bets are off . As the stakes grow ever higher - and the consequences more dire - Laura must take on the psychic super-threat of the Cuckoos!Parental advisory.
Subjects: Comics (Graphic works); Graphic novels.; Science fiction comics.; Fiction.; Wolverine (Fictitious character); Women superheroes; Good and evil;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Thinking in bets : making smarter decisions when you don't have all the facts / by Duke, Annie,1965-author.(CARDINAL)472597;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-266) and index.Introduction: Why this isn't a poker book -- Life is poker, not chess -- Wanna bet? -- Bet to learn: fielding the unfolding future -- The buddy system -- Dissent to win -- Adventures in mental time travel."Poker champion turned business consultant Annie Duke teaches you how to get comfortable with uncertainty and make better decisions as a result. In Super Bowl XLIX, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll made one of the most controversial calls in football history:With 26 seconds remaining, and trailing by four at the Patriots' one-yard line, he called for a pass instead of a hand off to his star running back. The pass was intercepted and the Seahawks lost. Critics called it the dumbest play in history. But was the call really that bad? Or did Carroll actually make a great move that was ruined by bad luck? Even the best decision doesn't yield the best outcome every time. There's always an element of luck that you can't control, and there is always information that is hidden from view. So the key to long-term success (and avoiding worrying yourself to death) is to think in bets: How sure am I? What are the possible ways things could turn out? What decision has the highest odds of success? Did I land in the unlucky10% on the strategy that works 90% of the time? Or is my success attributable to dumb luck rather than great decision making? Annie Duke, a former World Series of Poker champion turned business consultant, draws on examples from business, sports, politics, and (of course) poker to share tools anyone can use to embrace uncertainty and make better decisions. For most people, it's difficult to say "I'm not sure" in a world that values and, even, rewards the appearance of certainty. But professional pokerplayers are comfortable with the fact that great decisions don't always lead to great outcomes and bad decisions don't always lead to bad outcomes. By shifting your thinking from a need for certainty to a goal of accurately assessing what you know and what you don't, you'll be less vulnerable to reactive emotions, knee-jerk biases, and destructive habits in your decision making. You'll become more confident, calm, compassionate and successful in the long run"--
Subjects: Management games.; Decision making.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 6
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