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Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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A collection of short fiction from Terry Pratchett, spanning the whole of his writing career from schooldays to Discworld and the present day. In the four decades since his first book appeared in print, Terry Pratchett has become one of the world's best-selling and best-loved authors. Here for the first time are his short stories and other short-form fiction collected into one volume. A Blink of the Screen charts the course of Pratchett's long writing...
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English
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Deep in the Chalk, something is stirring. The owls and the foxes can sense it, and Tiffany Aching feels it in her boots. An old enemy is gathering strength. This is a time of endings and beginnings, old friends and new, a blurring of edges and a shifting of power. Now Tiffany stands between the light and the dark, the good and the bad. As the fairy horde prepares for invasion, Tiffany must summon all the witches to stand with her. To protect the land....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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New York Times Bestseller!
This never-before-published collection of fourteen funny and inventive tales by acclaimed author Sir Terry Pratchett, creator of the beloved and bestselling Discworld fantasy series, features a memorable cast of inept wizards, sensible heroes, and unusually adventuresome tortoises.
Including more than one hundred black-and-white illustrations, the appealingly designed book celebrates Pratchett's
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Science of Discworld volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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The Science of Discworld is a creative, mind-bending mash-up of fiction and fact, that offers a wizard’s-eye view of our world that will forever change how you look at the universe. Can Unseen University’s eccentric wizards and orangutan Librarian possibly shed any useful light on hard, rational Earthly science? In the course of an exciting experiment, the wizards of Discworld have accidentally created a new universe. Within this universe is a...
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Series
Discworld volume 7
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
1989
Physical Desc
272 p. ; 23 cm.
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English
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It isn't easy, being a teenage pharoah. You're not allowed to carry money, uninhibited young women peel your grapes for you, everyone thinks you're responsible for making the sun rise and the corn grow, you keep dreaming about seven thin cows and seven fat cows and, on top of everything else, the Great Pyramid has just exploded because of paracosmic instability. And then you've got to deal with all these assassins, sphinxes, huge wooden horses, mad...
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Publisher
Corgi Books
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
235 pages
Language
English
Description
DOM SALABOS HAD A LOT OF ADVANTAGESAs heir to a huge fortune, he had an excellent robot servant (with Man-Friday subcircuitry), a planet (the First Syrian Bank) as godfather, a security chief who even ran checks on himself, and on Dom's home world even death was not always fatal. Why, then, in an age when prediction was a science, was his future in doubt?
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Series
Discworld volume 17
Publisher
HarperTorch
Pub. Date
2008, c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
368 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
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A fantasy featuring the wizard Rincewind on a mission to an empire undergoing a cultural revolution reminiscent of the one in China. The novel's title is a play on the Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times." By the author of Men at Arms.
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Discworld volume 31
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
353 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Running the family inn despite dwindling resources while her brother is away at war, Polly cuts off her hair to join the army and notices that her fellow recruits seem to be hiding secrets of their own.
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Discworld volume 26
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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On Discworld, the managent of time is entrusted to the venerable Monks of History, who store it and pump it from where it's wasted, like underwater, to cities, where citizens are forever asking, "Oh where does the time go?" Going against everything known, a young horologist has been commissioned to build the world's first truly accurate clock, but if the Perfect Clock starts ticking, time as we know it will stop. History Monk Lu-Tze and his apprentice...
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Series
Discworld volume 13
Publisher
HarperTorch
Pub. Date
20038, c1992
Physical Desc
357 p. ; 18 cm.
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English
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Brutha is the Chosen One. His god has spoken to him, admittedly while currently in the shape of a tortoise. Brutha is a simple lad. He can't read. He can't write. He's pretty good at growing melons. And his wants are few. He wants to overthrow a huge and corrupt church. He wants to prevent a horrible holy war. He wants to stop the persecution of a philosopher who has dared to suggest that, contrary to the Church's dogma, the Discworld really does...
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Discworld volume 16
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
373p ; 18 cm.
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English
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When her dear old Granddad -- the Grim Reaper himself -- goes missing, Susan takes over the family business. The progeny of Death's adopted daughter and his apprentice, she shows real talent for the trade. That is until a little string in her heart goes "twang." With a head full of dreams and a pocketful of lint,Imp the Bard lands in Ankh-Morpork, yearning to become a rock star. Determined to devote his life to music, the unlucky fellow soon finds...
13) The long war
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Long Earth volume 2
Language
English
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A generation after the events of The Long Earth, humankind has spread across the new worlds opened up by stepping. Valhalla is emerging more than a million steps from Datum our Earth. Thanks to a bountiful environment, the Valhallan society mirrors the core values and behaviors of colonial America. And Valhalla is growing restless under the controlling long arm of the Datum government. Soon Joshua, now a married man, is summoned by Lobsang to deal...
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Series
Discworld volume 27
Publisher
EOS
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
174 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cohen the Barbarian. He's been a legend in his own lifetime. He can remember the good old days of high adventure, when being a Hero meant one didn't have to worry about aching backs and lawyers and civilization. But these days, he can't always remember just where he put his teeth... So now, with his ancient (yet still trusty) sword and new walking stick in hand, Cohen gathers a group of his old -- very old -- friends to embark on one final quest....
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Series
Discworld volume 34
Publisher
HarperTorch
Pub. Date
[2006], c2005
Physical Desc
398 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
A seemingly routine day in the life of City Watch commander Sam Vimes is abruptly interrupted by an unsolved murder, an impending war, an unwanted new recruit, and a pesky government inspector. By the author of Going Postal. It's a game of Trolls and Dwarfs where the player must take both sides to win. It's the noise a troll club makes when crushing in a dwarf skull, or when a dwarfish axe cleaves a trollish cranium. It's the unsettling sound of history...
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Series
Discworld volume 21
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2007, c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
437 p. ; 18 cm.
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English
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It isn't much of an island that rises up one moonless night from the depths of the Circle Sea -- just a few square miles of silt and some old ruins. Unfortunately, the historically disputed lump of land called Leshp is once again floating directly between Ankh-Morpork and the city of Al-Khali on the coast of Klatch -- which is spark enough to ignite that glorious international pastime called "war". Pressed into patriotic service, Commander Sam Vimes...
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Series
Discworld volume 22
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2008], c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
390 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
There is big trouble at the Unseen University, Ankh-Morpork's lone institute of higher learning. And the one person who can remedy the situation is...Rincewind, not only most inept magic-doer the UU ever produced but currently stranded on the unfinished down-under continent of Fourecks. No worries though, the UU faculty is taking steps to bring Rincewind back, traveling magically to his general vicinity...several thousands of years too early. Meanwhile,...
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Series
Discworld volume 40
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
365 pages : map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Steam is rising over Discworld, driven by Mister Simnel, the man with a flat cap and a sliding rule. He has produced a great clanging monster of a machine that harnesses the power of all of the elements — earth, air, fire, and water — and it’s soon drawing astonished crowds. To the consternation of Ankh-Morpork’s formidable Patrician, Lord Vetinari, no one is in charge of this new invention. This needs to be rectified, and who better than...
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Series
Science of Discworld volume 3
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The wizards discover to their cost that it’s no easy task to change history. Roundworld is in trouble again, and this time it looks fatal. Having created it in the first place, the wizards of Unseen University feel vaguely responsible for its safety. They know the creatures that lived there escaped the impending Big Freeze by inventing the space elevator — they even intervened to rid the planet of a plague of elves, who attempted to divert humanity...
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Series
Discworld volume 14
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2008, c1992
Physical Desc
374 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's a hot Midsummer Night. The crop circles are turning up everywhere -- even on the mustard-and-cress of Pewsey Ogg, aged four. And Magrat Garlick, witch, is going to be married in the morning... Everything ought to be going like a dream. But the Lancre All-Comers Morris Team have got drunk on a fairy mound and the elves have come back, bringing all those things traditionally associated with the magical, glittering realm of Faerie: cruelty, kidnapping,...
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