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Arthurian romances Adaptations Books and reading Fiction Characters and characteristics in literature Fiction Demonology Fiction Great Britain Fiction Knights and knighthood Great Britain Fiction Magic 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFOStross, Charles
Summary: "The arrival of vast, alien, inhuman intelligences reshaped the landscape of human affairs across the world, and the United Kingdom is no exception. Things have changed in Britain since the dread elder god Nyarlathotep ascended to the rank of Prime Minister. Mhari Murphy, recently elevated to the House of Lords and head of the Lords Select Committee on Sanguinary Affairs (think vampires), finds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A Tom Doherty Associates Book 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STRLawhead, Stephen R.
Summary: King Arthur rises from the dead to save the British monarchy. It happens after a future English king with no heirs commits suicide and a prime minister schemes to establish a republic with himself as president.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon-EOS 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAWStross, Charles.
Summary: "For outstanding heroism in the field (despite himself), computational demonologist Bob Howard is on the fast track for promotion to management within the Laundry, the supersecret British government agency tasked with defending the realm from occult threats. Assigned to External Assets, Bob discovers the company--unofficially--employs freelance agents to deal with sensitive situations that may...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STRKuang, R. F. (Rebecca F.)
Summary: "From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire. Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager 2022
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Summary: "Sunyi Dean's The Book Eaters is a contemporary fantasy debut. It's a story of motherhood, sacrifice, and hope; of queer identity and learning to accept who you are; of gilded lies and the danger of believing the narratives others create for you. Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book's content after eating it. To them, spy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOR/Tom Doherty Associates 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DEAMitchell, David (David Stephen)
Summary: "Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions are exactly right, you'll find the entrance to Slade House: a surreal place where visitors see what they want to see, including some things that should be impossible. Every nine years, the house's residents--an odd brother and sister--extend a unique invitation to someone who's different...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MITCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MITCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MITBradley, Marion Zimmer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRAHand, Cynthia
Summary: When two masterminds--Mary, the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, and Ada, the daughter of Lord Byron--are brought together by fate, they make a shocking--and magical--discovery that draws the attention of a mad scientist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HANFforde, 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: Viking 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS FFOLawhead, Stephen R.
Summary: When Kit Livingstone learns that Britain's "ley lines" are not legends but pathways to other worlds, he's determined to find a map tattooed on a piece of skin in order to travel to the dangerous realms. But are the intricate codes more than they seem--can they really begin a quest to regain paradise?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAWWhite, T. H. (Terence Hanbury)
Summary: The complete The Once and Future King, White's retelling of the Arthurian legend, is made up of five books: The sword in the stone, The witch in the wood, The ill-made knight, The candle in the wind, and The Book of Merlyn. In the first book, Merlyn instructs Arthur and his brother Sir Kay in the ways of the world. One of them will need it-- the king has died leaving no heir, and a rightful one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos AudioBooks Ltd. 2008
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Summary: Arthur is king, but darkest evil has descended upon Britain's shores in many guises. Fragile alliances fray and tear, threatening all the noble liege has won with his wisdom and his blood. In this black time of plague and pestilence, Arthur's most trusted counselor Myrddin -- the warrior, bard, and kingmaker whom legend will name Merlin -- is himself to be tested on a mystical journey through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAWFforde, 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 FFOLawhead, Stephen R.
Summary: Drought, plague, and war have left the isle of the Mighty battered, and its beloved liege Arthur gravely wounded--until a remarkable relic, the Holy Grail, miraculously heals the ailing King. But when evil in the guise of a beautiful maiden steals the sacred Grail, Arthur faces the greatest challenge of his sovereignty: a quest of recovery that leads him through realms of magic and the undead...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAWFforde, 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 FFOMiro, J. M.
Summary: "England, 1882. In Victorian London, two children with mysterious powers are hunted by a figure of darkness-a man made of smoke. Sixteen-year-old Charlie Ovid, despite a brutal childhood in Mississippi, doesn't have a scar on him. His body heals itself, whether he wants it to or not. Marlowe, a foundling from a railway freight car, shines with a strange bluish light. He can melt or mend flesh....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIRSanderson, Brandon
Summary: "A man awakes in a clearing in what appears to be medieval England with no memory of who he is, where he came from, or why he is there. Chased by a group from his own time, his sole hope for survival lies in regaining his missing memories, making allies among the locals, and perhaps even trusting in their superstitious boasts. His only help from the "real world" should have been a guidebook...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Publishing Group 2023
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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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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FFOClare, Cassandra
Summary: Engaged to marry James Herondale, Cordelia Carstairs seems to have everything she ever wanted. But James and Cordelia's marriage is a lie, arranged to save Cordelia's reputation. James is in love with Grace Blackthorn whose brother, Jesse, died years ago in a terrible accident. The sword Cortana burns Cordelia's hand when she touches it, while her father has grown bitter and angry. And a serial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CLANovik, Naomi.
Summary: "Naomi Novik's beloved series returns, with Capt. Will Laurence and his fighting dragon Temeraire once again taking to the air against the broadsides of Napoleon's forces and the friendly--and sometimes not-so-friendly--fire of British soldiers and politicians who continue to suspect them of divided loyalties, if not outright treason. For Laurence and Temeraire, put out to pasture in Australia,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2012
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Summary: Captain Will Laurence and his noble dragon Temeraire battle against Bonaparte's invading forces. When China discovers that their rare gift, meant for Napoleon, is now in the hands of the British forces, they demand the return of the dragon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2006
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Summary: "A magnificent collection of short fiction--including two never-before-published novellas--featuring Jamie Fraser, Lord John Grey, Master Raymond, and many more, all extending the story of Outlander in thrilling new directions "The Custom of the Army" begins with Lord John Grey being shocked by an electric eel and ends at the Battle of Quebec. Then comes "The Space Between," where it is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017