Douglas Adams
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series!
“Wild satire . . . The feckless protagonist, Arthur Dent, is reminiscent of Vonnegut heroes.”—Chicago Tribune
The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads—so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only...
“Wild satire . . . The feckless protagonist, Arthur Dent, is reminiscent of Vonnegut heroes.”—Chicago Tribune
The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads—so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series!
“Douglas Adams is a terrific satirist.”—The Washington Post Book World
Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons? Time for a cup of tea! Join the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his uncommon comrades in arms in their desperate search for a place to eat,...
“Douglas Adams is a terrific satirist.”—The Washington Post Book World
Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons? Time for a cup of tea! Join the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his uncommon comrades in arms in their desperate search for a place to eat,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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“A fitting eulogy to the master of wacky words and even wackier tales . . . Salmon leaves no doubt as to Adams’s lasting legacy.”—Entertainment Weekly
With an introduction to the introduction by Terry Jones
Douglas Adams changed the face of science fiction with his cosmically comic novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and its classic sequels. Sadly for his countless admirers, he...
With an introduction to the introduction by Terry Jones
Douglas Adams changed the face of science fiction with his cosmically comic novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and its classic sequels. Sadly for his countless admirers, he...
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English
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From Douglas Adams, the legendary author of one of the most beloved science fiction novels of all time, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, comes a wildly inventive novel of ghosts, time travel, and one detective's mission to save humanity from extinction.
DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY
We solve the whole crime
We find the whole person
Phone today for the whole solution to your problem
(Missing...
DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY
We solve the whole crime
We find the whole person
Phone today for the whole solution to your problem
(Missing...
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English
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Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series!
“A madcap adventure . . . Adams’s writing teeters on the fringe of inspired lunacy.”—United Press International
Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent is ready...
“A madcap adventure . . . Adams’s writing teeters on the fringe of inspired lunacy.”—United Press International
Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent is ready...
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English
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Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series!
“Hitchhiker fans rejoice! . . . [Here’s] more of the same zany nonsensical mayhem.”—The New York Times Book Review
It’s easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up and the woman you love has vanished due to a misunderstanding about space/time....
“Hitchhiker fans rejoice! . . . [Here’s] more of the same zany nonsensical mayhem.”—The New York Times Book Review
It’s easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up and the woman you love has vanished due to a misunderstanding about space/time....
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Random House Worlds
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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This beautifully illustrated edition of the New York Times bestselling classic celebrates the 42nd anniversary of the original publication—with all-new art by award-winning illustrator Chris Riddell.
SOON TO BE A HULU SERIES • “An astonishing comic writer.”—Neil Gaiman
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
It’s...
SOON TO BE A HULU SERIES • “An astonishing comic writer.”—Neil Gaiman
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
It’s...
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English
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New York Times bestselling author Douglas Adams and zoologist Mark Carwardine take off around the world in search of exotic, endangered creatures.
Join them as they encounter the animal kingdom in its stunning beauty, astonishing variety, and imminent peril: the giant Komodo dragon of Indonesia, the helpless but loveable Kakapo of New Zealand, the blind river dolphins of China, the white rhinos of Zaire, the rare birds of Mauritius...
Join them as they encounter the animal kingdom in its stunning beauty, astonishing variety, and imminent peril: the giant Komodo dragon of Indonesia, the helpless but loveable Kakapo of New Zealand, the blind river dolphins of China, the white rhinos of Zaire, the rare birds of Mauritius...
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English
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Don't panic! The Hitchhiker's saga continues with a full-cast dramatisation of Life, the Universe and Everything, the third book in Douglas Adams's famous 'trilogy in five parts'
'The pitch here at Lord's is blackened, lightly smoking down towards square leg – and two men have just materialised on a Chesterfield sofa...'
And so the scene is set for the Tertiary Phase of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,
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English
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Don't panic! The Hitchhiker's saga returns once again with a full-cast dramatisation of So Long and Thanks For All the Fish, the fourth book in Douglas Adams's famous 'trilogy in five parts'.
'At the risk of being controversial, it's better than the book... Hitchhiking is back – long may it continue.' Guy Clapperton, Radio Times
The Earth has miraculously reappeared
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Publisher
Random House Worlds
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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In one complete volume, here are the five classic novels from Douglas Adams’s beloved Hitchhiker series.
Now celebrating the pivotal 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series!
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read)
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Now celebrating the pivotal 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series!
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read)
Seconds...
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Ebury Publishing
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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The hugely powerful Key to Time has been split into six segments, all of which have been disguised and hidden throughout time and space. Now the even more powerful White Guardian wants the Doctor to find the pieces.
With the first segment successfully retrieved, the Doctor, Romana and K-9 trace the second segment of the Key to the planet Calufrax. But when they arrive at exactly the right point in space, they find themselves on exactly the
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Phoenix Books, Inc
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English
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On a hot night in August 1995 Douglas Adams gave a barnstorming performance to an invited audience at the Almeida Theatre in London. This compact disc is a record of that remarkable event. Douglas gives dramatic solo performances of episodes and passages from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, and Life, the Universe and Everything. Including: How to Fly! Arthur and the Irrational Sofa and much, much...more.
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childrensElibrary
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English
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Arthur Dent...superhero? Is it possible? Yes!
In the final installment of the comic ebook series, Life, the Universe and Everything, you will see the mild-mannered victim Arthur Dent turn distinctly heroic; Trillian unraveling the mystery enshrouding the planet Krikkit; and Marvin the Paranoid Android taking great pleasure - no, really! - in destroying the Krikkit robots. Adapted from the third novel of Douglas Adams's classic sci-fi satire series,...
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childrensElibrary
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English
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"Prehistoric castaways Ford Prefect and Arthur Dent have escaped from prehistoric Earth on a Chesterfield sofa...only to find the Universe is about to be destroyed by the obsessive people of Krikkit."
So begins the second installment of the comic ebook series, Life, the Universe and Everything. Adapted from the third novel of Douglas Adams's classic sci-fi satire series, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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childrensElibrary
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English
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Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect, after being thrown out of a Vogon spaceship, are quickl picked up by another ship called the "Heart of Gold", which houses the stolen Infinite Improbability Drive - a device that make the improbable happen. They arrive on the long, lost planet Magrathea to figure out what to do about their non-existent planet Earth.
Douglas Adams' wildly funny, wickedly clever sci-fi novel is collected here as a three-installment, comic...
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childrensElibrary
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English
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On the long, lost planet Magrathea, Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, and their space-traveling friends discover that the earth was really a giant organic computer that was working on finding the meaning of life. But 5 minutes before the program was done, the planet was destroyed. Ah, the irony!
Douglas Adams' wildly funny, wickedly clever sci-fi novel is collected here as a three-installment, comic ebook series. So grab your towel, stick a babel fish...
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childrensElibrary
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English
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From a quiet morning on prehistoric Earth to a war-torn cricket field to the fastest spaceship in existence - what's a temporally displaced Earthman to do?
Join Arthur Dent, Ford, Zaphod, Trillian, Slartibartfast, and yes, Marvin the Paranoid Android on their obviously hilarious journeys in the first installment of the comic ebook series, Life, the Universe and Everything. Adapted from the third novel of Douglas Adams's classic sci-fi satire series,...
