Summary: "A gripping noir crime thriller set in late 1930s Bay City centers around a brooding, down-on-his-luck detective; Philip Marlowe, played by Liam Neeson, who is hired to find the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress, daughter of a well-known movie star. The disappearance is the first twist in a series of bewildering events, and soon Marlowe is embroiled in a deadly investigation and web of lies that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie MarloweLabatut, Benjamín
Summary: "A story centered around one of the great geniuses of the modern age, the Hungarian polymath John von Neumann, tracing the uncanny circuit of his mind deep into our own time's most haunting dilemmas. A prodigy whose gifts terrified the people around him, John von Neumann transformed every field he touched, inventing game theory and the first programable computer, and pioneering AI, digital...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction LabatutSummary: The world famous thief, Carmen Sandiego, plays an intricate game of cat and mouse with teen ACME detectives, Zack and Ivy. Based on the award-winning line of educational computer games, the energizing series is rich in both excitement and education as Carmen Sandiego attempts to steal the most valuable objects in the world. It's up to the detectives and the audience to figure out where in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cookie Jar 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WHEDuane, Diane.
Summary: While Nita grieves over her mother's death, Kit tackles a challenge as dangerous as it is strange: Rescue a young wizard who has vanished on his first assignment. This new wizard is unlike any other—he's autistic and he's a magical prodigy. His power is enormous. Now Kit and his dog, Ponch, must track down the missing boy before the Lone Power finds him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2003
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Duane, Diane.
Summary: While Nita's sister and her dad host three young alien wizards, teenage wizards Nita and Kit travel halfway across the galaxy as part of an exchange program and find themselves again caught up in the dark doings of their nemesis, the Lone Power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DUAHarper, Benjamin
Summary: In this retelling of a Brothers Grimm tale, Frankie Flip Phone is joined by other tossed-out devices eager to become famous musicians in the town of Bremen, but they soon visit a repair shop and discover hackers trying to shut down the internet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 FARSummary: After being gone for a decade, a country star returns home to the love he left behind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2018
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Summary: When her younger sister uses the family computer with its special wizard software to travel to worlds light years away, Nita uses her wizardry to try to find her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Carpet Books Harcourt, Inc. 2001
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Summary: Young wizards Nita and Kit face their most terrifying challenge yet: Nita's little sister, Dairine. Not only is Dairine far too smart for a ten-year-old, she also has recenlty become a wizard, and worse yet, a wizard with almost limitless power. When Dairine's computerized wizard's manual glibly sends her off on her novice adventure—her Ordeal—Kit and Nita end up chasing her across the galaxy,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2003
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Duane, Diane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Byron Preiss Multimedia Co. 1995
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Summary: Nita and Kit return from their wizardly holiday looking forward to getting back to their everyday routine. But there's trouble brewing. A strange darkness of the mind and heart is about to befall the older wizards of the world, stealing away their power. Soon, the young wizards find themselves forced to defend wizards and nonwizards alike against an invasion of a kind they've never imagined....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2007
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Duane, Diane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1997
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Summary: Something stopped Nita's hand as it ran along the bookshelf. She looked and found that one of the books had a loose thread at the top of its spine. It was one of those So You Want to Be a . . . books, a series on careers. So You Want to Be a Pilot, and a Scientist . . . a Writer. But his one said, So You Want to Be a Wizard. I don't belive this, Nina thought. She shut the book and stood there...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2003
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Duane, Diane.
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Nita, tormented by a gang of bullies because she won't fight back, finds the help she needs in a library book on wizardry which guides her into another dimension.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam's 1994
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Summary: To give Nita a vacation from magic, her parents pack her off for a stay with her eccentric aunt in Ireland. But Nita soon finds herself with a host of Irish wizards battling creatures from a nightmare land.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2005
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Duane, Diane.
Summary: Rest and relaxation—that's what Nita thinks she's going to get when she and her partner-wizard Kit go on a wizardly "cultural exchange" program. But nothing about wizardry—not even vacation—is ever quite that simple!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2005
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Labatut, Benjamín
Summary: "A fast-paced, mind-expanding literary work about scientific discovery, ethics and the unsettled distinction between genius and madness.Albert Einstein opens a letter sent to him from the Eastern Front of World War I. Inside, he finds the first exact solution to the equations of general relativity, unaware that it contains a monster that could destroy his life's work.The great mathematician...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pushkin Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction LabatutMills, DiAnn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2008
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Summary: While Nita mourns her mother's death, teenage wizard Kit and his dog Ponch set out to find a young autistic boy who vanished in the middle of his Ordeal, pursued by the Lone Power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2002
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Summary: Young wizards Kit Rodriguez and Nita Callahan manage to wrangle their way onto an elite team sent to investigate the mysterious, long-sought "message in a bottle" that holds the first clues to the secrets of the ancient Martian race.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2010
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Summary: "How do you fix what can't be fixed? Only the Transcendent Pig knows, and it's not telling. . . But Nita Callahan needs to find out—and soon . Her wizardly partnership with Kit has fallen apart. Much worse, her mother has gotten sick . . . so sick she may never leave the hospital. Only one person can help Nita—the One she's devoted her life to fighting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2002
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Duane, Diane.
Summary: Nita and Kit rejoin forces when a strange darkness of the mind overcomes the older wizards, stealing away their power, and forcing the younger wizards to go to war to save the world. Nita and Kit come home from their "vacation" to find that all of Earth's higher-up wizards have vanished--and worse, they've disappeared at a time when very strange events are taking place in every corner of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1983