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Books and reading Fiction Characters and characteristics in literature Fiction FICTION / Friendship FICTION / Historical / World War II FICTION / Women Great Britain Fiction London (England) History Bombardment, 1940-1941 Fiction Next, Thursday (Fictitious character) Fiction Time travel Fiction Women detectives Great Britain FictionFforde, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFOBennett, Alan
Summary: Obliged to borrow a book when her corgis stray into a mobile library, the Queen discovers a passion for reading, setting the palace upon its head and causing the royal head of Great Britain to question her role in the monarchy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENBennett, Alan
Summary: Discovering the joy of reading widely and intelligently and abetted in her newfound obsession by Norman, a young man from the royal kitchens, the Queen comes to question the prescribed order of the world and loses patience with the routines of her role as monarch.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BENLyons, Annie
Summary: London, 1938: The bookstore just doesn't feel the same to Gertie Bingham ever since the death of her beloved husband Harry. In Germany, Hitler is on the rise, and Jewish families are making the heart-wrenching decision to send their children away from the growing turmoil. After a nudge from her dear friend Charles, Gertie decides to take in one of these refugees, a headstrong teenage girl named...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LYOLyons, Annie
Summary: London, 1938: The bookstore just doesn't feel the same to Gertie Bingham ever since the death of her beloved husband Harry. In Germany, Hitler is on the rise, and Jewish families are making the heart-wrenching decision to send their children away from the growing turmoil. After a nudge from her dear friend Charles, Gertie decides to take in one of these refugees, a headstrong teenage girl named...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC LYOFforde, Jasper.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2008
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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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011