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A Thursday Next novel Repairman Jack novels Sisters Grimm #3 Sisters Grimm ; #3 Sookie Stackhouse novels Sookie Stackhouse southern vampire mystery Sookie Stackhouse southern vampire mystery (Recorded Books, Inc.) Thorndike Press large print adventure series Thursday Next 4 Thursday Next novel (Audio) ; bk. 7Fforde, Jasper.
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is created - Thursday Next, Literary Detective and soon-to-be one parent family, ponders her next move from inside an unpublished novel of dubious merit entitled Caversham Heights.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 FFOHooper, Kay
Summary: Months ago Sarah Gallagher woke from a coma with psychic abilities she couldn't control. They changed her life and cost her the man she loved. And now, someone is playing games with Sarah's mind. It begins with Sarah's home being destroyed by fire, an act of arson that draws novelist Tucker Mackenzie into Sarah's confidence. Tucker has other reasons to pursue Sarah but so does a mysterious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOOFforde, 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 FFOCitro, 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 CITLincoln, Beth
Summary: "On the day they are born, every Swift child is brought before the sacred Family Dictionary. They are given a name, and a definition. A definition it is assumed they will grow up to match. Meet Shenanigan Swift: Little sister. Risk-taker. Mischief-maker. Shenanigan is getting ready for the big Swift Family Reunion and plotting her next great scheme: hunting for Grand-Uncle Vile's long-lost...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LINSummary: The secrets of desire are unlocked in this collection of paranormal passion and suspense that features a new Eve Dallas novella by J.D. Robb, as well as works by Mary Blayney, Ruth Ryan Langan, and Mary Kay McComas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBFforde, Jasper.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS FFOMurakami, Haruki
Summary: This magnificent new novel has a similarly extraordinary scope and the same capacity to amaze, entertain, and bewitch the reader. A tour de force of metaphysical reality, it is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MURHarris, Charlaine.
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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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARFforde, 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 FFOWilson, F. Paul (Francis Paul)
Summary: Repairman Jack is enlisted to search for a missing teenage girl, a seemingly innocent request that draws him into the most dangerous quest of his life and into the middle of a conflict between two supernatural forces vying for control of all human life on Earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILButcher, Jim
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP SF BUTHarris, Charlaine.
Summary: After an unfortunate incident, Sookie finds herself beholden to a group of Louisiana vampires. So she agrees to travel to Dallas with her undead boyfriend Bill and track down a missing vamp, but only if the vampires promise to let local humans go unharmed. That seems easier said than done when an upstart religious cult threatens to destroy all things vampire-- including Sookie, who is quickly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARBuckley, Michael.
Summary: With the help of a long lost relative, and a little magic, Sabrina Grimm and her sister Daphne try to find out who has kidnapped their parents and rescue them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BUCCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC BUCButcher, Jim
Summary: Assigned to investigate the deaths of several magic practitioners, all of whom lacked the ability to become full-fledged wizards, professional Chicago wizard Harry Dresden is shocked when the evidence points to his half-brother Thomas as the killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roc 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BUT DF 9Hamilton, Laurell K.
Summary: Meredith Gentry, princess and heir apparent to the throne in the realm of faerie and onetime private investigator in the mortal world, must continue the royal bloodline in order to be crowned queen. If she fails, her aunt, Queen Andais, will install her twisted son, Cel, as monarch--and put Meredith to death. Meredith and her bodyguards have slipped back into Los Angeles, hoping to outrun the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS HAMFforde, 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.
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 FFOMarmell, Ari.
Summary: Working as a private detective, Fae Mick Oberon is hired to find a gangster's daughter sixteen years after she had been replaced by a changeling, and Mick encounters Fae politics and mob power struggles as he investigates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Marmell 2014Murphy, Shirley Rousseau.
Summary: Joe Grey, a cat who lives with his human housemate Clyde, goes undercover as a volunteer cuddle-kitty at a local nursing home in order to prove the home is harboring a criminal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPrism 1997