Terry Pratchett
2) Nation
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HarperCollins
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English
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After a devastating tsunami destroys all that they have ever known, Mau, an island boy, and Daphne, an aristocratic English girl, together with a small band of refugees, set about rebuilding their community and all the things that are important in their lives.
The sea has taken everything. Thirteen-year-old Mau is the only one left after a giant wave sweeps his island village away. But when much is taken, something is returned, and somewhere in the...
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2004
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English
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Tiffany Aching, a young witch-in-training, learns about magic and responsibility as she battles a disembodied monster with the assistance of the six-inch-high Wee Free Men and Mistress Weatherwax, the greatest witch in the world.
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Discworld volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Terry Pratchett has invented a phantasmagorical universe in which a blissfully naive interplanetary tourist called Two-flower joins up with a drop-out wizard whose spells only seem to work half of the time. Together they undertake a chaotic voyage through a crazy world filled with monsters and dragons, heroes and knaves. Pratchett has taken the sword and sorcery fantasy tradition and turned it in its ear to create an entertaining and bizarre spoof....
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Discworld (Young adult) volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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A talking cat, intelligent rats, and a strange boy cooperate in a Pied Piper scam until they try to con the wrong town and are confronted by a deadly evil rat king.
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Long Earth volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
1916: The Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong and the wind in the leaves. Where have the mud, blood, and blasted landscape of no-man's-land gone? For that matter, where has Percy gone? 2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Police officer Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive--some say mad, others allege dangerous--scientist who seems to have vanished. Sifting through...
7) Wintersmith
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HarperCollins
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English
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At 9, Tiffany Aching defeated the cruel Queen of Fairyland. At 11, she banished an ancient body-stealing evil. At 13, Tiffany faces a new challenge: a boy. And boys can be a bit of a problem when you're thirteen . . . . But the Wintersmith isn't exactly a boy. He is Winter itself--snow, gales, icicles--all of it. When he has a crush on Tiffany, he may make her roses of ice, but his nature is blizzards and avalanches. And he wants Tiffany to stay in...
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Series
Discworld volume 8
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Here there be dragons . . . and the denizens of Ankh-Morpork wish one huge firebreather would return from whence it came. Long believed extinct, a superb specimen of draco nobilis ("noble dragon" for those who don't understand italics) has appeared in Discworld's greatest city. Not only does this unwelcome visitor have a nasty habit of charbroiling everything in its path, in rather short order it is crowned King (it is a noble dragon, after all ....
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Series
Discworld volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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The Discworld is moving towards a seemingly inevitable collision with a malevolent red star, and its only possible savior is Rincewind.
10) Dodger
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Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"In an alternative version of Victorian London, a seventeen-year-old Dodger, a cunning and cheeky street urchin, unexpectedly rises in life when he saves a mysterious girl, meets Charles Dickens, and unintentionally puts a stop to the murders of Sweeny Todd"--Provided by publisher.
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Series
Discworld volume 29
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Polly Perks, fearing that the national deity's decree against female ownership of a business is going to cause her to lose the family's inn, disguises herself as a man in order to join the military and find her brother who she fears has been killed in Borogravia's latest war.
12) Equal rites
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Series
Discworld volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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A dying wizard attempts to pass his powers to an eighth son of an eighth son who is in the process of being born, not realizing until it is too late that the newborn is a girl.
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Tiffany Aching calls upon her fellow witches as the fairy horde prepares a fateful invasion and an old enemy prepares to launch an assault that could destroy the world as Tiffany knows it in this final installment of the Discworld series. Tiffany Aching adventures series, 288pp.
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Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The classic collaboration from the internationally bestselling authors Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, now a Prime original series starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant. Season 2 of Good Omens coming soon!
According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner.
So...
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Series
Discworld volume 33
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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The wizards of Ankh-Morpork's Unseen University attempt to learn the rules of football and win a game without using magic.
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Fifteen-year-old Tiffany Aching, the witch of the Chalk, seeks her place amid a troublesome populace and tries to control the ill-behaved, six-inch-high Wee Free Men who follow her as she faces an ancient evil that agitates against witches.
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Series
Discworld volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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With Death off on a tour of mortal pleasures, it is up to Mort, an incompetent wizard, and Death's adopted daughter to set reality back on its course.
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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An illustrated collection of fourteen short stories featuring "dragons and wizards, councilors and mayors, an adventurous tortoise and a monster in a lake, along with plenty of pointy hats and a few magic spells" written when the author was a teenaged newspaper reporter.
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