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: 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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Summary: "There is often trouble of a mythical sort in Bath. The booksellers who police the Old World keep a careful watch there, particularly on the entity that inhabits the ancient hot spring. This time trouble comes from the discovery of a sorcerous map, leading left-handed bookseller Merlin into great danger, requiring a desperate rescue attempt from his sister, the right-handed bookseller Vivien,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Summary: Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC PULWomack, Marian
Summary: "1901. After the death of Queen Victoria, England heaves with the uncanny. Seances are held and the dead are called upon from darker realms. Helena Walton-Cisneros, known for her ability to find the lost and the displaced, is hired by the elusive Lady Matthews to solve a twenty-year-old mystery: the disappearance of her three stepdaughters who vanished without a trace on the Norfolk Fens. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult- Fantasy, Call number: Fantasy Womack 2020Harrison, Michelle
Summary: Now living at Elvesden Manor under her real name of Rowan, Red attempts to put her past behind her, while fairy messengers try to convince her to participate once more in the changeling trade and she is haunted by dreams of an old enemy who is determined to exact his revenge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HARArcher, C. J.
Summary: "A curated collection of magic…and murder. When a set of bound manuscripts written on magician-made paper is brought to the Glass Library, Sylvia and the professor send the owner away. After all, the library collects books about magic, not containing it. But the murder of the bookbinder who bound them sees the books returned to the library, along with Gabe in his role as consultant for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: C.J. Archer 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ARCKidd, Jess
Summary: Bridie Devine--female detective extraordinaire--is confronted with the most baffling puzzle yet: the kidnapping of Christabel Berwick, secret daughter of Sir Edmund Athelstan Berwick, and a peculiar child whose reputed supernatural powers have captured the unwanted attention of collectors trading curiosities in this age of discovery. Winding her way through the labyrinthine, sooty streets of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Kidd 2020Citro, 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 CITReid, Ava
Summary: Entering a contest to redesign late author Emrys Myrddin's estate, aspiring architect Effy Sayre arrives at Hiraeth Manor where she meets a stodgy young literature scholar who draws her into a battle against dark forces - both mortal and magical - that threatens to consume them both.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC REIBeaty, Erin
Summary: "In Erin Beaty's fantasy mystery-thriller, Blood and Moonlight, an orphan with a secret, magical sight gets caught between a mysterious genius and the serial killer he's hunting. "--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BEARuby, Laura
Summary: It was only a few days ago that Tess Biedermann, Theo Biedermann, and Jaime Cruz, along with a mysterious figure from the past, managed to survive an assault on the location of the latest clue in the Morningstarr cipher -- and, in the process, made a shocking discovery about their own connection to this one-hundred-sixty-year-old enigma. Now the friends are divided. Tess and Theo have no idea...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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Summary: "Aidan disappeared for six days. Six agonizing days of searches and police and questions and constant vigils. Then, just as suddenly as he vanished, Aidan reappears. Where has he been? The story he tells is simply. . . impossible. But it's the story Aidan is sticking to. His brother, Lucas, wants to believe him. But Lucas is aware of what other people, including their parents, are saying: that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEVCitro, Asia
Summary: "Oh no! There's a big problem with the forest roses . . . magical roses that are very important because they are the first food for newborn hippogriffs. Can Zoey, Pip, and Sassafras use their science know-how to fix the magical roses before the hippogriff eggs hatch?"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Innovation Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Citro 2020Stead, Rebecca
Summary: "When a mysterious little free library (guarded by a large orange cat) appears overnight in the small town of Martinville, eleven-year-old Evan plucks two weathered books from its shelves, never suspecting that his life is about to change. Evan and his best friend Rafe quickly discover a link between one of the old books and a long-ago event that none of the grown-ups want to talk about. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2023
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Summary: Following the one clue her friend Sylvie left behind before she went missing, Ema seeks to infiltrate the mysterious Midnight Guild to rescue Sylvie, despite a peculiar fear of shadows and the ability to predict events before they happen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TOOFforde, 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 FFOPotter, Ellen
Summary: Hugo, a young sasquatch, and his friend Gigi use a Monster Detector to find a Green Whistler, but when Hugo's human friend, Boone, joins in, surprises are in store.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED POTHatzopoulou, Kika
Summary: In a world where the children of the gods inherit their powers, Io, a descendant of the Greek Fates, must solve a series of impossible murders to save her sisters, her soulmate, and her city.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HATMurphy, Emily Bain
Summary: "In nineteenth-century Copenhagen, an orphaned seamstress goes to work for a retired ballerina and uses her magic to investigate her father's mysterious death while working for the same family years ago"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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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
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BISGemeinhart, Dan
Summary: In the dead of night, a truck arrives in Slaughterville, a small town curiously named after its windowless slaughterhouse. Seven mysterious kids with suitcases step out of the vehicle and into an abandoned home on a dead-end street, looking over their shoulders to make sure they aren't noticed. But Ravani Foster covertly witnesses their arrival from his bedroom window. Timid and lonely, Ravani...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GEMTorres, Jennifer
Summary: Eight-year-old Catalina Castañeda uses Tía Abuela's sewing kit to turn ordinary clothing into a magical disguise, enabling her to uncover a thief at the local library.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2022
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Summary: Lizbeth Rose is hired onto a new crew for a seemingly easy protection job, transporting a crate into Dixie, just about the last part of the former United States of America she wants to visit. But what seemed like a straight-forward job turns into a massacre as the crate is stolen. Up against a wall in Dixie, where social norms have stepped back into the last century, Lizbeth has to go...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2020