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This is fantasy served with a twist of Monty Python, parody that works by never taking itself too seriously." --Publishers WeeklyMurder! Mahem! Bacon sandwiches! People are dying suspiciously in Ankh-Morpork, and Sam Vimes of the City Watch will find the truth. Another brilliant and hilarious Discworld adventure from beloved New York Times bestselling author Terry PratchettFor Commander Sam Vimes, Head of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, life cons...

Unadulterated fun."--San Francisco ChronicleThe fate of Ankh-Morpork and the Discworld itself rests on the unlikely shoulders of newly promoted Corporal Carrot and his hapless charges in the City Watch in this wildly wacky Discworld novel from the legendary New York Times bestselling author Terry Pratchett.Corporal Carrot has been promoted and is now in charge of the new recruits guarding Ankh-Morpork from Barbarian Tribes, Miscellaneous Marau...

Patchett demonstrates just how great the distance is between one- and two-joke writers and the comic masters whose work will be read into the next century." --LocusMagic, mayhem, and a marauding dragon combine for extraordinary fun in this cheeky Discworld novel from New York Times bestselling author Terry Pratchett.Insurrection is in the air in the city of Ankh-Morpork. The Haves and Have-Nots are about to face off. Again.It's old news to Cap...

6 Highlights der Scheibenwelt-Klassiker Sechs der besten Scheibenwelt-Romane Terry Pratchetts, gelesen von den besten Sprechern: Rufus Beck, Stefan Kaminski und Volker Niederfahrenhorst. "Alles Sense", "Schweinsgalopp" und "Gevatter Tod" drehen sich um den vielleicht vielschichtigsten Charakter der Schweibenwelt: den Tod, das sensentragende Skelett in schwarzer Robe. Im Mittelpunkt von "Helle Barden", "Wachen! Wachen!" und "Hohle Köpfe" ste...

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ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults * ALA Booklist Editors' Choice * ALA Notable Children's Book"Pratchett's unique blend of comedy and articulate insight is at its vibrant best. Full of rich humor, wisdom, and eventfulness." --Horn Book (starred review)By the beloved and bestselling grandmaster of fantasy, Sir Terry Pratchett, this is the third in a series of Discworld novels starring the young witch Tiffany Aching.When the Spirit of Winter tak...

Fantasy grandmaster Sir Terry Pratchett's final Discworld novel, and the fifth to feature the witch Tiffany Aching.A SHIVERING OF WORLDSDeep 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 d...

A delightfully funny, fantastically inventive collection of twenty newly unearthed short stories by Sir Terry Pratchett, the award-winning and bestselling author of the phenomenally successful Discworld fantasy series. This special trove is a must-have for Pratchett fans of all ages and includes a foreword by Neil Gaiman. The audiobook is narrated by a stunning cast that includes David Tennant, Claire Foy, Paterson Joseph, Indira Varma, and mo...

ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults * ALA Notable Children's Book * Horn Book Fanfare Book * Kirkus Reviews Editor's Choice * SLJ Best Book of the Year By the beloved and bestselling grandmaster of fantasy, Sir Terry Pratchett, this is the first in a series of Discworld novels starring the young witch Tiffany Aching.A nightmarish danger threatens from the other side of reality. . . .Armed with only a frying pan and her common sense, young witch-...

Nobody writes fantasy funnier than Pratchett." --BooklistDiscworld lives on in Unseen Academicals, the 37th novel in Sir Terry Pratchett's beloved fantasy series. Discword has succumbed to a powerful magic that could tear it apart. Soon colleague is pitted against colleague, brother against brother, sons against fathers as all become infected with a frightening condition know as football fever. This new recording is narrated by Colin Morgan (M...

Pratchett's fantastic imagination and satirical wit are on full display." -- Publishers WeeklyThe 31st novel in the Discworld series from beloved New York Times bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett. This new recording is narrated by Jon Culshaw, Peter Serafinowicz (Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace), and Bill Nighy (Love Actually, Pirates of the Carribean).Once, in a gods-forsaken hellhole called Koom Valley, trolls and dwarfs met in...

New York Times BestsellerFrom acclaimed author Sir Terry Pratchett, hailed as the "purely funniest English writer since Wodehouse" (Washington Post Book World), with a "satirist's instinct for the absurd and a cartoonist's eye for the telling detail" (Daily Telegraph, London), comes the 39th novel in the Discworld series, an enthralling tale of crime, class, prejudice, and punishment. This new recording is narrated by impressionist and actor J...

Unadulterated fun. . . witty, frequently hilarious."--San Francisco ChronicleChaos and hilarity ensue when a young woman becomes the first female wizard, upending the Discworld in this bitingly funny tale from internationally bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett.A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not half so bad as a lot of ignorance.Everyone knows there's no such thing as a female wizard. So when a dying wizard accidentally p...

His spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction."--Mail on Sunday (UK)An invasion of elves threatens to disrupt a perfectly dreamy Midsummer Night in the Discworld--and throws the world of the witches into chaos in this cheeky tale from internationally bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett.On an incandescent Midsummer Night in the Kingdom of Lancre, the Discworld celebrates the wedding of K...

Terry Pratchett is the most fascinating teacher you ever had."--Harlan EllisonMasks, magic, and murder take center stage in this Discworld comedy of operatic proportions from internationally bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett.The Opera House in Ankh-Morpork is home to music, theatrics, and a harmless masked Ghost. But the seemingly benign spirit may be a psychopathic phantom responsible for a series of bizarre backstage deaths. Now, the op...

One of our greatest fantasists, and beyond a doubt the funniest."--George R. R. Martin A trio of witchy godmothers discovers just how difficult it can be to prevent a servant girl from marrying a prince and save a kingdom in this brilliantly funny Discworld novel from internationally bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett.Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother named Desiderata who had a good heart, a wise head, and poor planning skills--...

Superb."--Washington Post Book WorldA cauldron of fun is brewing when a trio of the Discworld's witches, led by the delightfully iconoclastic Granny Weatherwax, turn their wands to royal politics in internationally bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett's brilliant satire that echoes some of William Shakespeare's best-loved works.Three witches on a lonely heath.A king cruelly murdered, his throne usurped by his ambitious cousin.A child heir an...

The novel exudes the curious feel of old-fashioned vampire and Frankenstein legends. . . . Pratchett lampoons everything from Christian superstition to Swiss Army knives here, proving that the fantasy satire of Discworld 'still ate'nt dead.'"--Publishers WeeklyAn invasion of fashionable blood-sucking vampyres are no match for the wacky wands and zany spells of a coven of rural witches in this wonderfully entertaining Discworld novel from New Y...

These rediscovered tales were written by Terry Pratchett under a pseudonym for British newspapers during the 1970s and 1980s. The stories have never been attributed to him until now, and might never have been found, were it not for the efforts of a few dedicated fans. As Neil Gaiman writes in his introduction, 'through all of these stories we watch Terry Pratchett becoming Terry Pratchett.' Though none of the short works are set in the Discwor...