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Books and reading Fiction Characters and characteristics in literature Fiction Literary historians England Fiction Next, Thursday (Fictitious character) Next, Thursday (Fictitious character) Fiction Time travel Fiction Women detectives Women detectives England Fiction Women detectives Fiction Women detectives Great Britain FictionFforde, Jasper.
Summary: The Bookworld's leading enforcement officer, Thursday Next, has been forced into a semiretirement following an assassination attempt, returning home to Swindon and her family to recuperate. But Thursday's children have problems that demand she become a mother of invention: Friday's career struggles in the Chronoguard, where he is relegated to a might-have-been; Tuesday's trouble perfecting the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFOFforde, Jasper.
Summary: The threat of all-out Genre war looms over BookWorld. But with the real Thursday Next retired in the real world, the Council of Genres has no other choice than to tap the fictional Thursday to save the day. Her mission as emissary is to prevent the brewing war--but her task is made more difficult by a hidden foe manipulating events.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FFOHood, Morag
Summary: "Sophie Johnson is a self-proclaimed expert. She knows everything about unicorns and detective work, and now she's sure she knows everything about athletics, too. Preparing for a fun run, Sophie is so busy with her Excellent Race Plan that she doesn't have time to listen to anyone's advice about how to prepare or even where to run! Can she stay on course to win gold, or will her perfect plan go...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOOKidd, Jess
Summary: Bridie Devine--female detective extraordinaire--is confronted with the most baffling puzzle yet: the kidnapping of Christabel Berwick, secret daughter of Sir Edmund Athelstan Berwick, and a peculiar child whose reputed supernatural powers have captured the unwanted attention of collectors trading curiosities in this age of discovery. Winding her way through the labyrinthine, sooty streets of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Kidd 2020Bennett, Robert Jackson
Summary: In Daretana's most opulent mansion, a high Imperial officer lies dead--killed, to all appearances, when a tree spontaneously erupted from his body. Even in this canton at the borders of the Empire, where contagions abound and the blood of the Leviathans works strange magical changes, it's a death at once terrifying and impossible. Called in to investigate this mystery is Ana Dolabra, an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENGailey, Sarah
Summary: "When a gruesome murder is discovered at The Osthorne Academy of Young Mages, where her estranged twin sister teaches Theoretical Magic, reluctant detective Ivy Gamble is pulled into the world of untold power and dangerous secrets. She will have to find a murderer and reclaim her sister--without losing herself" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Gailey 2019Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M GAICarey, Jacqueline
Summary: Daughter of a demon and supernatural liaison to the Pemkowet Police Department, Daisy Johanssen discovers that a high-ranking official in town is descended from sorcerers who want him back home in Jamaica or they will unleash their dire magic on the town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARFforde, Jasper.
Summary: Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection in a time-altered Great Britain in which messing with the classics is a punishable offense, sets out to find out who drowned her husband of a month thirty-eight years ago while interacting with classic literature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFOFforde, Jasper.
Summary: The Bookworld's leading enforcement officer, Thursday Next, has been forced into a semiretirement following an assassination attempt, returning home to Swindon and her family to recuperate. But Thursday's children have problems that demand she become a mother of invention: Friday's career struggles in the Chronoguard, where he is relegated to a might-have-been; Tuesday's trouble perfecting the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC FFOFforde, Jasper.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FFOFforde, Jasper.
Summary: The Bookworld's leading enforcement officer, Thursday Next, has been forced into a semiretirement following an assassination attempt, returning home to Swindon and her family to recuperate. But Thursday's children have problems that demand she become a mother of invention: Friday's career struggles in the Chronoguard, where he is relegated to a might-have-been; Tuesday's trouble perfecting the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FFOFforde, Jasper.
Summary: Thursday Next, Head of JurisFiction and ex-SpecOps agent, returns to her native Swindon accompanied by a child of two, a pair of dodos and Hamlet, who is on a fact-finding mission in the real world. Thursday has been dispatched to capture escaped Fictioneer Yorrick Kaine but even so, now seems as good a time as any to retrieve her husband Landen from his state of eradication at the hands of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hodder & Stoughton 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFOFforde, Jasper.
Summary: Literary sleuth Thursday Next is once again out to make the world safe for fiction in the fifth installment of Fforde's wildly popular series. Packed with word play, bizarre and entertaining subplots, and old-fashioned suspense, Thursday's newest adventure will be celebrated by fans and critics alike.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFOFforde, Jasper.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FFOHamilton, Laurell K.
Summary: Faerie princess Meredith Gentry is heir to a throne--if she can stay alive long enough to claim it. Her cousin, Prince Cel, is determined to see that she doesn't. As long as they both live, they are in a race: Whichever one of them reproduces first gets the throne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS HAMCornell, Paul.
Summary: "Police officers Quill, Costain, Sefton, and Ross know the worst of London--or they think they do. While investigating a mobster's mysterious death, they come into contact with a strange artifact and accidentally develop the Sight. Suddenly they can see the true evil haunting Londons streets"--Dust jacket flap.While investigating a mobster's mysterious death, police officers Quill, Costain,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORHatzopoulou, Kika
Summary: As their search continues for the god at the end of the golden thread, Io and Bianca travel to new lands, face powerful enemies, and uncover an appalling plot that traces back centuries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill 2024