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Discworld volume 15
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HarperPrism
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English
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Affirmative action in fantasy land, starring Captain Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork city police. He investigates a series of murders, while having to put up with a new hiring policy. Police can no longer discriminate against trolls, dwarfs, or female werewolves.
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Discworld volume 23
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English
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A slapstick comedy on a battle between witches and vampires in the fantasy land of Discworld. The action serves as a vehicle for satirizing various aspects of our life. By the author of Interesting Times.
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Discworld volume 3
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English
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A dying wizard tries to pass on his powers to an eighth son of an eighth son, who is just at that moment being born. The fact that the son is actually a daughter is discovered just a little too late...
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Discworld volume 29
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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 1
Publisher
Harper
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English
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A slightly disorganized and somewhat naive interplanetary tourist named Twosome joins up with a bumbling wizard and embarks on a chaotic voyage through a world filled with monsters, dragons, heroes, and knaves.
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Discworld volume 21
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English
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Discworld's ancient rival cities Ankh-Morpork and Al-Khali go to war over an island that rises out of the sea and is claimed by both cities.
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Discworld volume 13
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English
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Brutha is a novice who is content with growing melons for the temple monks until the great god, Om, manifests himself in the form of a tortoise and announces that Brutha is to become the chosen one.
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Discworld volume 28
Publisher
HarperCollins
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English
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Sam Vimes can't tell what kind of day he's having. One moment he's fighting a ruthless murderer on top of the library of the Unseen University. The next, he's thrown back in time. But, the city's on the brink of revolt, and that killer he was after in the future is with him here in the past, which is now the present. Now all Vimes has to do is figure out how to get back home--but first he has to change the outcome of a bloody rebellion.
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Discworld volume 32
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English
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Reprieved confidence trickster Moist von Lipwig, who reorganized the Ankh-Morpork Post Office in 2004's Going Postal, turns his attention to the Royal Mint in this splendid Discworld adventure. It seems that the aristocratic families who run the mint are running it into the ground, and benevolent despot Lord Vetinari thinks Moist can do better. Despite his fondness for money, Moist doesn't want the job, but since he has recently become the guardian...
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Discworld volume 16
Publisher
HarperPrism
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English
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A satirical comedy on the subject of death. It begins when Death decides to take a holiday and turns over the shop to his granddaughter, Susan, with the assistance of Death of Rats, a rat skeleton. Unfortunately, Susan does not have the stomach for such a heartless trade and this threatens the success of the establishment. By the author of The Light Fantastic.
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Discworld volume 30
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English
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Arch-swindler Moist Van Lipwig never believed his confidence crimes were hanging offenses-until he found himself with a noose tightly around his neck, dropping through a trapdoor, and falling into-a government job? By all rights, Moist should have met his maker. Instead, it's Lord Vetinari, supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork, who promptly offers him a job as Postmaster. Since his only other option is a nonliving one, Moist accepts the position-and the...
12) Snuff
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Discworld volume 34
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English
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"The 39th installment in the New York Times bestselling "Discworld" canon from Terry Pratchett, "the purely funniest English writer since Wodehouse." (Washington Post Book World)"--
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Discworld volume 35
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English
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"Change is afoot in Ankh-Morpork--Discworld's first steam engine has arrived, and once again Moist von Lipwig finds himself with a new and challenging job"--
14) Thief of time
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Discworld volume 26
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English
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Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed. And on the Discworld that is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and pump it from the places where it's wasted (like the underwater - how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities, where there's never enough time. But the construction of the world's first truly accurate clock starts a race against, well, time for Lu Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd. Because it will stop...
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Discworld volume 22
Publisher
HarperPrism
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
"Something is seriously amiss at Unseen University, Ankh-Morpork's most prestigious (i.e., only) institution of higher learning."--BOOK JACKET. "A professor is missing - and not just any professor. The Egregious Professor of Cruel and Unusual Geography. Also the University Librarian, who transmuted (you know how things change!) into an ape (a handy configuration for a librarian, don't you think?) so long ago that no one exactly remembers his name,...
16) Lords and ladies
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Discworld volume 14
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English
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A comic tale about people blinded by the superficial. The citizens of a fantasy world let themselves be seduced by the chic and glamour of elves, only to learn that elves are very nasty beings. By the author of Small Gods.
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Series
Discworld volume 18
Publisher
HarperPrism
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
When Discworld's opera house is found to be haunted, a trio of witches is summoned to flush out the unwanted ghost but the results only seem to complicate matters.