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Summary: "Leaving Swindon behind her, to hide out in the Well of Lost Plots - the place where all fiction is created - Thursday Next, Literary Detective and soon-to-be one parent family, ponders her next move from inside an unpublished novel of dubious merit entitled Caversham Heights. Her husband, Landen, exists only in her memories and with Goliath and the Chronoguard on her tail in the real world,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hodder & Stoughton 2003
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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 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.
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: "There are 1.2 million human-size rabbits living in the UK. They can walk, talk, drive cars, and they like to read Voltaire, the result of an Inexplicable Anthropomorphizing Event fifty-five years before. A family of rabbits is about to move into Much Hemlock, a cozy little village in Middle England where life revolves around summer fetes, jam making, gossipy corner stores, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: 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: 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.
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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: Jack Spratt and Mary Mary return in their second Nursery Crime adventure.--From publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFOFforde, Jasper.
Summary: It is a time of unrest in the BookWorld. Only the diplomatic skills of ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war. But a week before the peace talks, Thursday vanishes. Has she simply returned home to the RealWorld or is this something more sinister?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2011
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFOFforde, Jasper.
Summary: Welcome to Chromatacia, where for as long as anyone can remember society has been ruled by a Colortocracy. Social hierachy is based upon one's limited color perception. society is dominated by color. In this world, you are what you can see, and Eddie Russett, a better-than-average red perception wants to move up.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009
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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 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.
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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 FFOAster, Alex
Summary: "WELCOME TO THE CENTENNIAL. Every hundred years, the island of Lightlark appears for only one hundred days to host a deadly game, where the rulers of six realms fight to break their curses and win unparalleled power. Each ruler has something to hide. Each curse is uniquely wicked. To break them, and save themselves and their realms, one ruler will die. To survive, Isla Crown must LIE. CHEAT....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Tor, Engle, and Melda must stop a band of cursed pirates from taking over their home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ASTAster, Alex
Summary: After breaking ancient curses and becoming the leader of two realms, Isla Crown faces the aftermath of a devastating betrayal, but as old secrets unravel and her kingdom is threatened, Isla must confront her past as her future hurtles towards two possible fates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ASTAster, Alex
Summary: Isla Crown has secured the love of two powerful rulers and broken the curses that plagued the six realms for centuries, but few know the true origins of her powers. Now, in the wake of a crushing betrayal, Isla finds herself hungry for distraction, preferring to frequent Lightlark's seductive haunts instead of embracing her duties as the newly crowned leader of two separate realms. Worse, her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: In order to break a curse on her kingdom, Isla Crown, the young ruler of Wilding, must compete in the Centennial, a deadly game that only the rulers of six realms are invited to play, and to survive she must lie, cheat, and betray--even as love threatens to undo everything.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2022
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Summary: A journey through a land where Milo learns the importance of words and numbers and finds a cure for his boredom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2008
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Summary: "Armed with a super-suit with the amazing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, Scott Lang and his mentor, Dr. Hank Pym, plan and pull off a heist that will save the world"--
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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 IRVChristo, Alexandra
Summary: Sixteen-year-old witch Selestra Somniatis, bound to steal souls for an immortal king, discovers her fate is tied to Nox Laederic, a reckless doomed boy who is trying to bring down her kingdom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction ChristoMonir, Alexandra
Summary: "Jasmine thought that she had earned her happily ever after when she and Aladdin defeated Jafar. Then her beloved father dies and, overnight, all her plans for the future change. Instead of her wedding, she's now planning a funeral and a coronation--her coronation, to become the first woman to rule Agrabah. But before the sultan's crown is placed on her head, her claim to the throne is called...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2023