Howe, Murray (Murray A.)
Summary: Gordie Howe may have been the greatest player in the history of hockey, but greatness was never defined by goals or assists in the Howe household. Greatness meant being the best person you could be, not the best player on the ice. Unlike his two brothers, Murray Howe failed in his attempt to follow in his father's footsteps to become a professional athlete. Yet his failure brought him to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Canada 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 HOWCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOWE, MURRAY HOWSummary: It's 2046 and in the frontier town of Defiance, a drifter-turned-lawkeeper and the newly-appointed mayor attempt to lead the human and alien residents through the prejudices and politics that threaten the fragile peace they've fought for.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DEFSummary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATSummary: A celebrated military contractor returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs, the US Space program in Honolulu, Hawaii, and reconnects with a long-ago love while unexpectedly falling for the hard-charging Air Force watchdog assigned to him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AlCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Aloha 2015Summary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OSummary: Follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. He is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, some of them of his own making.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA INSMurray, Charles A.
Summary: A critique of the white American class structure argues that the paths of social mobility that once advanced the nation are now serving to further isolate an elite upper class while enforcing a growing and resentful white underclass.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Forum 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 MURMurray, Les A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.914 MURSummary: A streetwise charmer who loses his friends' money in a rigged game comes up with a plan to make everything come out right, but ends up in a comedy of errors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PolyGram Video 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LOCCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LOCMurray, Charles A.
Summary: The controversial author of "The Bell Curve" returns with a groundbreaking manifesto to transform American education. He presents the four simple truths that parents and educators should confront to precipitate change--that ability varies, that half of the children are below average, that too many people are going to college, and that America's future depends on how we educate the academically...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Forum 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 370.973 MURSperber, Murray A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.043 SPESummary: A contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare's epic story of passion, betrayal and revenge. The president of the Denmark Corporation is dead, and already his wife is remarried to the man suspected of his murder. No one is more troubled by this than her son, Hamlet. Now, after this hostile takeover, trust is impossible, passion is on the rise and vengeance is in the air.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HAMMurray, Charles A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.454 MURMurray, Charles A.
Summary: "The charges of white privilege and systemic racism that are tearing the country apart fIoat free of reality. Two known facts, long since documented beyond reasonable doubt, need to be brought into the open and incorporated into the way we think about public policy: American whites, blacks, Hispanics, and Asians have different violent crime rates and different means and distributions of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encounter Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 MURMurray, Charles A
Summary: All people are equal but, as Human Diversity explores, all groups of people are not the same -- a fascinating investigation of the genetics and neuroscience of human differences. The thesis of Human Diversity is that advances in genetics and neuroscience are overthrowing an intellectual orthodoxy that has ruled the social sciences for decades. The core of the orthodoxy consists of three dogmas:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.5 MURMurray, Charles A.
Summary: "The heart of Human Accomplishment is a series of descriptive chapters: on the giants in the arts and what sets them apart from the merely great; on the differences between great achievement in the arts and in the sciences; on the meta-inventions, 14 crucial leaps in human capacity to create great art and science; and on the patterns and trajectories of accomplishment across time and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 908.7 MURMurray, John A.
Contents: Fables and Distances: an Introduction to Filmmaking in the Southwest -- California: Natural State -- Santa Monica National Recreation Area -- Gunfight at the O.K. Corral -- Alabama Hills -- Joe Kidd -- Death Valley National Park -- Mono Lake -- High Plains Drifter -- Algodones Dune Fields -- Other Locations in Southern California -- Nevada: The Land of Little Rain -- Northern Nevada -- The Iron...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Northland Pub. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 MURMurray, Stuart A. P.
Summary: Throughout the history of the world, libraries have been constructed, burned, discovered, raided, and cherished--while the treasures they housed evolved from early stone tablets, to beautifully illumined vellum, and to the mass-produced, bound paper books and the digital formats of our present day. This book opens doors to the libraries of ancient Greece, early China, Renaissance England, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 027.009 MURSperber, Murray A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.332 SPESummary: A sinister thriller from the fractured 1960s that concerns a middle-aged businessman dissatisfied with his suburban existence, who is urged (and blackmailed) to undergo a strange and elaborate procedure that will grant him a new life as a reborn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY SCI-FI SECSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWIMurray, Charles A.
Summary: "In the bestselling tradition of Eats, Shoot and Leaves, a gently curmudgeonly but invaluable guide to the dos and don'ts of the workplace. Bestselling social historian Charles Murray has written a delightfully fussy -- and entertaining -- book on the hidden rules of the road in the workplace, and in life, from the standpoint of an admonishing, but encouraging, workplace grouch and taskmaster....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Business 2014