Douglas Adams
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Hitchhiker series volume 1
Hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy volume 1
The hitchhiker volume 1
Hitchhiker's trilogy volume 1
Hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy volume 1
The hitchhiker volume 1
Hitchhiker's trilogy volume 1
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Shrewsbury - Grade 12: Finding Your Way
Shrewsbury - Grade 7: Using Your Voice
Shrewsbury - Grade 9: Facing Adversity
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Shrewsbury - Grade 7: Using Your Voice
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Overview: How shall we begin? This is the story of a book called The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy-not an Earth book, never published on Earth and, until the terrible catastrophe occurred, never seen or even heard of by any Earthman. Nevertheless, a wholly remarkable book. -Or- This is the story of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a number-one best seller in England, a weekly radio series with millions of fanatic listeners, and soon to...
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The third installment of the zany Hitchhiker series finds Arthur Dent, reluctant space and time traveler, and his wacky entourage on a mission to prevent the destruction of the universe by killer robots. 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 five individuals stand between the white killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total...
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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 to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription, the mysterious disappearance of Earth's dolphins, and the discovery of his battered copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy all conspire...
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Hitchhiker series volume 5
Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy volume pt. 5
Hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy volume pt. 5
Hitchhiker's trilogy volume 5
Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy volume pt. 5
Hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy volume pt. 5
Hitchhiker's trilogy volume 5
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Vascillating between two realities--one in which Earth exists and one in which it has been destroyed by the Vogons--bizarre adventures arise for Ford Prefect and Arthur Dent, including Ford's discovery that the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" headquarters have been overtaken, and Arthur's discovery that he has a teenage daughter
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Dirk Gently volume 2
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When a check-in desk at London's Heathrow Airport disappears in a ball of orange flame, the event is said to be an act of God. But which god? wonders holistic detective Dirk Gently. And how is this connected to Dirk's battle with his cleaning lady over his filthy refrigerator ... or to the murder of his latest client? Or are these events just another stretch of coincidences in the life of the world's most off-kilter private investigator?
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Dirk Gently volume 3
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A collection of writings by Douglas Adams, creator of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," including short stories, speeches, articles, interviews, letters, and the unfinished novel "The Salmon of Doubt."
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Dirk Gently volume 1
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Quirky and bumbling private investigator Dirk Gently stumbles upon a ghost, millions of years old, wandering the earth and disturbing its people. Dirk soon discovers this phantom yearns for more than a good haunting: it is desperately trying to go back in time to prevent its own death. But this ghost was no ordinary person, and helping it save itself just might change the modern world as we know it. And not in a good way!
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Compactos volume 514
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En este libro prosiguen las cósmicas y cómicas aventuras iniciadas en la Guía del autoestopista galáctico y El restaurante del fin del mundo, la universalmente aclamada «trilogía en cinco partes» que tuvo su continuación en Hasta luego, y gracias por el pescado e Informe sobre la Tierra: fundamentalmente inofensiva. En este libro encontramos a intrépidos y conocidos personajes: Arthur Dent, el único humano que sobrevivió a la demolición...
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Phoenix Books, Inc
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Rescued from his beloved Macintosh, The Salmon of Doubt provides us with the opportunity to linger and frolic one last time in the uniquely entertaining and richly informative mind of Douglas Adams. For the millions of readers who expressed their grief and shock at his untimely death, this is a treasure; his final book and our last chance to see new work from an acknowledged comic genius.
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Hitchhiker series volume 1
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One night in 1995, author Douglas Adams kidnapped an audience and held them hostage for 70 minutes at London's Almeida Theatre. The audience members were subjected to Adams's dramatic solo performances of excerpts and scenes from his wildly funny, wildly popular books The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, and Life, the Universe and Everything. LEARN how to fly! HEAR about Arthur and the Irrational Sofa! GROAN...
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Armados de la Guía del autoestopista galáctico, los protagonistas del libro más divertido que se recuerda continúan sus disparatadas aventuras, que les conducirán al asombroso Restaurante del Fin del Mundo. En esta segunda entrega de la «trilogía en cinco partes» de Douglas Adams (que gracias a las paradojas espaciales permite ser leída en cualquier orden), Ford Prefect, Arthur Dent, Trillian, Zaphod Beeblebrox y Marvin, el Androide Paranoide,...
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Un jueves a la hora de comer, la Tierra es inesperadamente demolida para poder construir una nueva autopista hiperespacial. Arthur Dent, un tipo de lo más corriente que esa misma mañana ha visto cómo echaban abajo su propia casa, considera que eso supera lo que una persona puede soportar. Pero, desgraciadamente, el fin de semana no ha hecho más que empezar, y la galaxia es un lugar extraño y sorprendente.
Arthur huirá de la Tierra junto a un...
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Hitchhiker series volume 2
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childrensElibrary
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"There is a theory which states that if anyone discovers exactly what the universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
Thus begins the next adventure of the intrepid occupants of the Heart of Gold: Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Zaphod Beeblebrox, Trillian, and Marvin the Paranoid Android in the first...
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childrensElibrary
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This is a story about two friends who've known each other for a while. At least Arthur Dent thinks so until Ford Prefect reaveals that he's actually an alien and that the world is about to end!
Not long after their conversation, a Vogon spaceship appears and announces that earth will be destroyed shortly because it is in the way of a new intergalactic highway bypass that is being built through our galaxy. Ford and Arthur manage to board the ship...
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Hitchhiker series volume 2
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childrensElibrary
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Ford Prefect's theories to account for the peculiar human habit of continually stating the very, very obvious: 1.) If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, their mouths will seize up; 2.) If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, their brains start working.
So stop moving your lips, get your brains in gear, and find out why Arthur Dent keeps stating the painfully obvious fact that: "We're all going to die!", in the second installment...
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childrensElibrary
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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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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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"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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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...