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Books and reading Fiction Characters and characteristics in literature Fiction Family secrets Family secrets Fiction Friendship Fiction Mothers and daughters Fiction Next, Thursday (Fictitious character) Fiction Police England Derbyshire Fiction Secrecy Fiction Women detectives England FictionFforde, Jasper.
Summary: In the Well of Lost Plots, Thursday discovers a linguistic free-for-all where grammasites run rampant, lousy books are scrapped for salvage, and a murderer is stalking Jurisfiction personnel. Once again, it's up to Thursday to track down the killer, save her pulp novel-slash-temporary abode, and get back to her "real" life with her body and memory intact.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FfordHyde, Elisabeth.
Summary: When Diana Duprey, a female doctor and director of the Center of Reproductive Choice, is found murdered two weeks before Christmas, the crime threatens to reveal the small Colorado town's long-buried secrets and animosities.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HYDHyde, Elisabeth.
Summary: Diana Duprey, a doctor in a small town who also performs abortions, is found murdered. She had many enemies, thus, many of the townspeople are implicated in the murder, including her husband and daughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2006
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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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FFOFforde, Jasper.
Summary: Detective Jack Spratt, recently unable to convict three wily pigs in he murder of a certain wolf, meets the challenge of a new case when Humpty Dumpty is found shattered to death beneath a wall in a shady part of town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 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 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 Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FFOFforde, Jasper.
Summary: Jasper Fforde unfolds the tale of Eddie Russett, a boy living in a world without color. As he works for the Color Control Agency, the very entity that oppresses society's ability to see colors, Eddie falls in love with Jane, a girl from the unlit side of the village. However, when the two start to discuss rebelling against their oppressors, they undertake an adventure of a lifetime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Fforde, 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 FFOCullen, Lynn.
Summary: After a scandal ends her apprenticeship with Michelangelo in 1559, artist Sofonisba Anguissola accepts an invitation from King Felipe II to become lady-in-waiting and painting teacher to his teenage bride Elisabeth. And though Sofi's developing affair may be risky, Elisabeth's dalliance with the king's brother Don Juan could be deadly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CULLagercrantz, David
Summary: "From the author of the #1 international best seller The Girl in the Spider's Web: the new book in the Millennium series, which began with Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Lisbeth Salander, the girl with the dragon tattoo, the brilliant hacker, the obstinate outsider, the volatile seeker of justice for herself and others--even she has never been able to uncover the most telling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LAGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LAGAdler, Elizabeth (Elizabeth A.)
Summary: Two years after her husband's unexpected death, landscape architect Lamour Harrington suffers more heartbreak when she learns of his infidelity. So she sells her apartment and, along with her dear friend Jammy, leaves windswept Chicago for balmy Italy, where she hopes not only to alleviate her recent grief but also face other ghosts of her past. When she was 17, her father, a novelist, died in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Audiobooks America 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ADLAtkinson, Elizabeth.
Summary: Growing up near Boston with her free-spirited mother and old-world grandfather, twelve-year-old Emma has always felt out of place but when she attends the family reunion her father's family holds annually in Wisconsin, she is in for some surprises.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in JT Audio Books, Call number: JT CD Fiction AtkinsonBerg, Elizabeth
Summary: A novel about surprising friendships, community, and the way small acts of kindness can change a life. Lucille is getting on in years, but she stays busy. Thanks to the inspiration of her dearly departed friend Arthur, she has begun to teach baking classes. Her classes have become so popular that she's hired Iris, a new resident of Mason, Missouri, as an assistant. In these difficult times, the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, LLC 2018
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BERBerg, Elizabeth.
Summary: A short story collection that explores women's lives, from every woman's struggle with food and eating, to love and relationships, to life and aging, to small acts of rebellion along the way.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BERGeorge, Elizabeth
Summary: Inspector Thomas Lynley of Scotland Yard and detective sergeant Barbara Havers are approached by a member of Parliament with a request to investigate the supposed suicide of a constituent's son.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GEOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GEOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GEOKostova, Elizabeth
Summary: "From the #1 bestselling author of The Historian comes an engrossing novel that spans the past and the present--and unearths the dark secrets of Bulgaria, a beautiful and haunted country. A young American woman, Alexandra Boyd, has traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, hoping that life abroad will salve the wounds left by the loss of her beloved brother. Soon after arriving in this elegant East European...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KOSKostova, Elizabeth.
Summary: His ordered life thrown into disarray when he begins treating an unstable genius artist who has recently attacked a canvas at the National Gallery of Art, psychiatrist and art hobbyist Andrew Marlowe struggles to understand the secret that torments the artist.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KOSLetts, Elizabeth.
Summary: "This richly imagined novel tells the story behind The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the book that inspired the iconic film, through the eyes of author L. Frank Baum's intrepid wife, Maud. Hollywood, 1938: As soon as she learns that M-G-M is adapting her late husband's masterpiece for the screen, seventy-seven-year-old Maud Gage Baum sets about trying to finagle her way onto the set. Nineteen years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Letts 2019Peters, Elizabeth.
Summary: Amelia Peabody, that indomitable product of the Victorian age, embarks on her first Egyptian adventure armed with unshakable self-confidence, a journal to record her thoughts, and, of course, a sturdy umbrella. Along the way, she meets up with Evelyn Barton-Forbes, the Emerson brothers, and a lively mummy. How Amelia arranges all to her satisfaction is just one of the pleasures of theis...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 2000
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M PETStrout, Elizabeth
Summary: Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husband, William, remains a hard man to read. William, she confesses, has always been a mystery to me. Another mystery is why the two have remained connected after all these years. So Lucy is both surprised and not surprised when William asks her to join him on a trip to investigate a recently uncovered family secret, one of those secrets that rearrange...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC STRStrout, Elizabeth
Summary: "Olive has ... returned, as indomitable as ever, navigating her next decade and the changes--sometimes welcome, sometimes not--in her own life. Here is Olive, strangely confident in her second marriage, in an evolving relationship with her son and his family, and crossing paths with a cast of memorable characters in the seaside town of Crosby, Maine. Whether with a teenager coming to terms with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio, an imprint of the Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STRCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Strout 2019Becka, Elizabeth
Summary: Forensic pathologist Evelyn James visits the murder scene of a Cleveland heiress and finds no trace of the killer. When another young woman from the building is brutally attacked she knows she must find the killer.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BECBerg, Elizabeth
Summary: It all started as a supper club, a group gathering monthly to share homemade dinners, until the night one woman made a startling revelation. After that, the "Confession Club" decided to meet weekly to feast not only on dinner, but on admissions of misdeeds, embarrassments, and insecurities. When Iris Winters and Maddy Harris are invited to the club, they find that it's just what each of them...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019