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Books and reading Fiction Characters and characteristics in literature Characters and characteristics in literature Comic books, strips, etc Characters and characteristics in literature Fiction Characters in literature Fiction Conduct of life Fiction Fairy tales Graphic novels Magic Fiction Next, Thursday (Fictitious character) 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 FFOColfer, Chris
Summary: In the highly anticipated continuation of the Land of Stories series, Conner learns that the only place to fight the Masked Man's literary army is "inside his own short stories!"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC COLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J Fiction ColCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fantasy, Call number: JT Fantasy Colfer 2016Bolte, Mari
Summary: When thirteen-year-old Kaita falls into a book, she meets Cinderella and teaches her how to speak up for herself and not let her stepmother and stepsisters treat her so unkindly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a capstone imprint 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BOLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BOLWalls, Jasmine
Summary: After Jake magically falls into the Beauty and the Beast fairy tale he becomes in awe of Belle's kindness and the Beast's demanding and rude attitude, but when he calls out the Beast on his terrible behavior he learns things about how he could become a better person, too.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a capstone imprint 2023
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Summary: In this prequel to Alice in Wonderland, Cath would rather open a bakery and marry for love than accept a proposal from the King of Hearts, especially after meeting the handsome and mysterious court jester.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MEYHarrison, Paul
Summary: "Three blind mice work together with the three little pigs to defeat the Big Bad Wolf and the farmer's wife"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HARKiste, Gwendolyn
Summary: Reluctant Immortals is a historical horror novel that looks at two men of classic literature, Dracula and Mr. Rochester, and the two women who survived them, Bertha and Lucy, who are now undead immortals residing in Los Angeles in 1967 when Dracula and Rochester make a shocking return in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KISAlvarez, Julia
Summary: Alma Cruz doesn't want to end up like her friend, a novelist who fought so long and hard to finish a book that it threatened her sanity. So when Alma inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, her homeland, she has the beautiful idea of turning it into a place to bury her untold stories, literally. She creates a graveyard for the manuscript drafts and revisions, and the characters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC ALVSpringer, Nancy
Summary: Enola Holmes, now independent and pursuing her profession as a scientific perditorian, joins forces with her brother Sherlock to solve the mysterious disappearance of Wolcott Balestier, a friend of Rudyard Kipling, as they uncover the ruthless world of book publishing and seek to bring him back safely.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SPRSchenkel, Katie
Summary: When Ava falls into the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale, she has a chance to teach Briar Rose how important it is to be assertive and question things. Why wait around 100 years for a kiss from a stranger when you can take matters into your own hands?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a capstone imprint 2023
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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 apprehend a criminal who is murdering characters from works of literature and has chosen Jane Eyre as his next victim."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS FFOCapetta, Amy Rose
Summary: Resets the Arthurian legend in outer space, with King Arthur reincarnated as seventeen-year-old Ari, a female king whose quest is to stop a tyrranical corporate government, aided by a teenaged Merlin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CAPWalls, Jasmine
Summary: Sarah is a school bully, but when she falls into the Snow White fairy tale she meets the Evil Queen, and decides that being evil is not really much fun--and sets out to convince the Queen that being nice has its rewards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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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 FFOCapetta, Amy Rose
Summary: "Ari Helix has been running her whole life. A fugitive refugee in the territory controlled by the tyrannical Mercer Corporation, she's always had to hide who she was. Until now. When Ari crash-lands on Old Earth and pulls a magic sword from its ancient resting place, she is revealed to be the forty-second reincarnation of King Arthur. The wizard Merlin has been waiting for centuries for a king...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC CAPBuckley, Michael.
Summary: Although filled with anger over her parents' disappearance, eleven-year-old Sabrina Grimm--along with her grandmother, sister, and several fairy-tale characters--tries to discover who has killed her teacher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BUCCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC BUCFforde, 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 FFOSpringer, Nancy.
Summary: Pursued by her much older brother, famed detective Sherlock Holmes, fourteen-year-old Enola, disguised and using false names, attempts to solve the kidnapping of a baronet's sixteen-year-old daughter in nineteenth-century London.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleuth/Philomel 2007
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Summary: Now that they know the identity of the Adversary, Fabletown prepares to defend itself. That means forming alliances with others who are unconquered by the Adversary's legions, but the arrival of a delegation from the Arabian Homelands shows them how tricky this can prove to be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertigo/DC Comics 2006
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WILFforde, Jasper.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS 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 FFOBuckley, Michael.
Summary: Hoping to save their family and the citizens of Ferryport Landing from the evil plans of Mirror, Sabrina and Daphne Grimm seek counsel from the other magic mirrors, who advise them to join forces with the Scarlet Hand.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2012
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3 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC BUCFforde, Jasper.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002