Tavenner, Diane
Summary: "Diane Tavenner, founder of Summit Public Schools, offers a blueprint for a better way to educate our children, based on the revolutionary lessons, insights, and methodology she and her faculty developed over 15 years at their famously successful charterschools in California and Washington, which she is now introducing to public school systems across the country that Summit is partnering with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Currency 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.39 TAVTavener, John.
Contents: The Lamb (3:35) -- The Tyger (4:40) -- Song For Athene (5:34) -- Mother Of God, Here I Stand (3:30) -- The Dormition Of The Mother Of God (6:51) -- The Protecting Veil (2:43) -- Today The Virgin (2:42) -- A Hymn To The Mother Of God (2:21) -- What God Is We Do Not Know (3:03) -- Funeral Ikos (7:46) -- Threnos (5:51) -- God Is With Us (A Christmas Proclamation) (5:44) -- A Christmas Round (1:41)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Decca 2014
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Summary: "Readers and fans worldwide know the land of Narnia and the magical beings who dwell there. But few know the genius who created this beloved fantasy. Now meet C.S. Lewis, an extraordinary creative force, in this engaging true life story!"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC C.SDuane, 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 DUAWoods Family Creeps.
Contents: End to end -- Creeps collage -- twisted tongue -- Family -- Howling on howling -- Diamond days -- Spike -- Sleep sleep sleep -- Creeps.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Telstar Records 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK WOODuane, Diane.
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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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DUADuane, Diane.
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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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC DUADuane, Diane.
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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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DUADuane, Diane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam's 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DUADuane, Diane.
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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Duane, Diane.
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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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DUADuane, Diane.
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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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DUADuane, Diane.
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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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DUADuane, Diane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1983
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUADuane, Diane.
Summary: One hundred years after an accident with the dimensional barrier introduced four shipmates to an alternate universe, the sinister members of that universe discover a doorway into Picard's time, and plot to replace his Enterprise with theirs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1993
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DUADuane, Diane.
Summary: During a summer vacation at the beach, thirteen-year-old wizard Nita and her friend Kit assist the whale-wizard S'reee in combating an evil power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Carpet Books/Harcourt 2003
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Summary: A Romulan Commander joins her old enemy, Captain Kirk, in a secret pact to destroy the Romulan research laboratory which has kidnapped Vulcans in order to genetically harness their mind power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1984