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-- Twenty-one.By Brunetti, Dana Spacey, Kevin De Luca, Michael, 1965- Steinfeld, Peter Loeb, Allan Luketic, Robert, 1973- Sturgess, Jim Bosworth, Kate, 1983- Fishburne, Larry Mezrich, Ben, 1969-. Bringing down the house Columbia Pictures Relative Media Trigger Street Productions Michael De Luca Productions (Firm) Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)c2008., General, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T. Wanting to transfer to the Harvard School of Medicine, he learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the tuition. Then Ben is introduced into a small but secretive club by his math professor, Micky Rosa. The club has four other students: Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy; and they are being trained by Mickey in the skill of blackjack card counting. Intrigued by the desire to make money, Ben joins his new friends on secret weekend trips to Las Vegas where, using the skills of code talk and hand signals, Ben makes hundreds of thousands of dollars winning blackjack at casino after casino.
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2018., Adolescent, Simon Pulse Call No: YOUNG ADULT FIC CHA Edition: 1st Simon Pulse hardcover ed. February 2018. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A freshman at MIT, seventeen-year-old Mei Lu tries to live up to her Taiwanese parents' expectations, but no amount of tradition, obligation, or guilt prevent her from hiding several truths--that she is a germaphobe who cannot become a doctor, she prefers dancing to biology, she decides to reconnect with her estranged older brother, and she is dating a Japanese boy"--Provided by publisher.
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2018., Adolescent, Simon Pulse Call No: Teen Fiction FIC CHA Edition: First Simon Pulse hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A freshman at MIT, seventeen-year-old Mei Lu tries to live up to her Taiwanese parents' expectations, but no amount of tradition, obligation, or guilt prevent her from hiding several truths--that she is a germaphobe who cannot become a doctor, she prefers dancing to biology, she decides to reconnect with her estranged older brother, and she is dating a Japanese boy.
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2018., Adolescent, Simon Pulse Call No: REALISTIC F CHA Edition: First Simon Pulse hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Mei, an MIT freshman, is on track to fulfill her parents' dreams for her to become a doctor and marry a Taiwanese Ivy Leaguer---except for her germophobia and crush on a boy who is decidedly not Taiwanese.
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2019., Adolescent, Simon Pulse Call No: Realistic FIC Chao Edition: First Simon Pulse paperback edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: A freshman at MIT, seventeen-year-old Mei Lu tries to live up to her Taiwanese parents' expectations, but no amount of tradition, obligation, or guilt prevent her from hiding several truths--that she is a germaphobe who cannot become a doctor, she prefers dancing to biology, she decides to reconnect with her estranged older brother, and she is dating a Japanese boy.
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-- Story of six MIT students who took Vegas for millionsc2002., Free Press Call No: Realistic 364.1 Mez Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes how a group of overachieving, anarchist MIT students joined a decades-old underground blackjack club dedicated to counting cards and beating the system at major casinos around the world, managed to legally take several Las Vegas casinos for more than three million dollars.
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2023., Adolescent, Scribner Call No: B ZER Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In 1999, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology admitted to discriminating against women on its faculty, forcing institutions across the country to confront a problem they had long ignored: the need for more women at the top levels of science. Written by the journalist who broke the story for The Boston Globe, The Exceptions is the untold story of how sixteen highly accomplished women on the MIT faculty came together to do the work that triggered the historic admission"--Provided by the publisher.
