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Books and reading Fiction Characters and characteristics in literature Fiction Girls Juvenile fiction Magic Fiction Next, Thursday (Fictitious character) Next, Thursday (Fictitious character) Fiction Repairman Jack (Fictitious character) Fiction Time travel Fiction Vampires 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: 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: 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: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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Summary: Growing up with telepathic abilities, Sookie Stackhouse realized early on that there are things she'd rather not know. And now that she's an adult, she also realizes that some things she knows about, she'd rather not see--like Eric Northman feeding off another woman. A younger one. There's a thing or two she'd like to say about that, but she has to keep quiet--Felipe de Castro, the vampire King...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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Summary: When a vampire asks Sookie Stackhouse to use her telepathic skills to find another missing vampire, she agrees under one condition: the bloodsuckers must promise to let the humans go unharmed. Easier said than done.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS HARAndrews, Ilona.
Summary: "As the mate of the Beast Lord, Curran, former mercenary Kate Daniels has more responsibilities than it seems possible to juggle. Not only is she still struggling to keep her investigative business afloat, she must now deal with the affairs of the pack, including preparing her people for attack from Roland, a cruel ancient being with god-like powers. Since Kate's connection to Roland has come...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ANDHodder, Mark
Summary: The time is 1861; the place, London, England. The country is besieged by loups-garous (werewolves), and Spring Heeled Jack, the notorious (and possibly mythical) creature who appears out of nowhere to accost young women, is causing a bit of a ruckus. To deal with these problems, the prime minister recruits Sir Richard Francis Burton, the noted explorer, linguist, and self-promoter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pyr 2010
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC HODWilson, F. Paul (Francis Paul)
Summary: Hired to find a legendary Japanese sword that had been stolen from the Hiroshima Peace Museum, Jack finds his task complicated by dangerous rivals for the sword and a pregnant teen who is carrying a child of destiny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILHamilton, Laurell K.
Summary: Someone is killing the fey, which has left the LAPD baffled and Merry Gentry, Los Angeles private eye and princess of faerie, determined to get to the bottom of the case even if means going up against Gilda, the Fairy Godmother. But even stranger things are happening. Mortals Gentry once healed with magic are suddenly performing miracles, a shocking phenomenon wreaking havoc on human/faerie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2009
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Summary: "Return to Bon Temps, Louisiana, with these reader favorites featuring spunky telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse and her paranormal friends"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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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 FFOButcher, Jim
Summary: While going undercover on the set of an adult film to investigate the mysterious deaths of several actresses, Chicago wizard Harry Dresden unexpectedly learns the shocking truth about his vampire friend Thomas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roc 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUTCitro, Asia
Summary: Pip shows up with a new look that's just as surprising to him as it is to Zoey and Sassafras. When they retrace Pip's steps in the forest, they see another magical friend change right before their eyes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Innovation Press 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED CITElrod, P. N. (Patricia Nead)
Summary: In this never-before-published novel from The Vampire Files, vampire private investigator Jack Fleming must protect a dangerously unstable vampire mobster from old enemies and rival syndicates, while unraveling the mystery surrounding his charge's undead state.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books/ Berkley Pub Group/ Penguin Group 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELRHamilton, Laurell K.
Summary: In the sequel to A Lick of Frost, Meredith Gentry, whose rightful place on the throne of Faerie is dependent on being able to produce an heir, is overjoyed when she finds herself pregnant after many failed attempts, but her triumph is overshadowed by court plots against her life and those she loves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS HAMWilson, F. Paul (Francis Paul)
Summary: When genius Weezy Connell discovers evidence that the collapse of the World Trade Center was part of an independent plot by a madman who used the September 11 attacks as cover, Jack is challenged to protect his long-time friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILWilson, F. Paul (Francis Paul)
Summary: "Bound by his promise to Glaeken, Jack has refrained from making any direct moves against Rasalom. But things have changed so there's nothing holding Jack in check any longer. Other changes are occurring as well. Jack is healing at an accelerated rate--much like Glaeken did when he was immortal. This can only mean that Glaeken's time is almost up and when he dies, Jack takes his place. Rasalom...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILWilson, F. Paul (Francis Paul)
Summary: Repairman Jack reluctantly agrees to assist Munir Habib, whose family has been kidnapped, in spite of Jack's involvement in the ongoing cosmic shadow war that is forcing him into the role of protector to the Lady.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILCody, Matthew.
Summary: Soon after moving to Noble's Green, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Daniel learns that his new friends have super powers that they will lose when they turn thirteen, unless he can use his brain power to protect them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD CODBishop, Anne
Summary: "In this engrossing and gripping fantasy set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Others series, an inn owner and her friends must find a killer-before it's too late.... Crowbones will gitcha if you don't watch out! Deep in the territory controlled by the Others-shape-shifters, vampires, and even deadlier paranormal beings-Vicki DeVine has made a new life for herself running The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022