Terry Pratchett
Author
Series
Discworld (Young adult) volume 2
Carnegie medalist
Tiffany Aching volume 1
Tiffany aching volume Book 1
Carnegie medalist
Tiffany Aching volume 1
Tiffany aching volume Book 1
Language
English
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Description
A young witch-to-be named Tiffany teams up with the Wee Free Men, a clan of six-inch-high blue men, to rescue her baby brother and ward off a sinister invasion from Fairyland.
3) Nation
Author
Language
English
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Description
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.
Author
Series
Discworld volume 2
Publisher
U.S. distributor, Dufour Editions
Pub. Date
1986
Physical Desc
216 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's just one of those days when nothing seems to go right - and a most inopportune time for the first tourist ever to set foot in Discworld - accompanied by the carnivorous Luggage - to extend his already eventful vacation, even if it's not quite by choice. A monstrous red star is on a direct collision course with the Discworld and the future appears uncertain at best. Discworld needs a hero to save it from total destruction. Unfortunately, it's...
5) Thud!
Author
Series
Discworld volume 31
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
373 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch must put a stop to the civil unrest that threatens Discworld on the anniversary of one of its most infamous, and bloody, historical events.
Author
Series
Discworld (Young adult) volume 1
Language
English
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Description
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.
Author
Series
Discworld volume 33
Language
English
Formats
Description
The wizards of Ankh-Morpork's Unseen University attempt to learn the rules of football and win a game without using magic.
Author
Series
Discworld volume 29
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 1
Language
English
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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...
11) Dodger
Author
Series
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged
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.
Author
Series
Discworld volume 30
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
377 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
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...
13) Wintersmith
Author
Series
Publisher
Clarion Books
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
15) Raising steam
Author
Series
Discworld volume 35
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2014], c2013.
Edition
First U.S. Edition.
Physical Desc
365 pages : map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"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"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Unabridged
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.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
502 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After generations of existing in the human-sized world, a group of four-inch-high nomes discover their true nature and origin, with the help of a black square called the Thing.
Author
Series
Discworld volume 27
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Discworld volume 28
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
338 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Duke-detective Sam Vimes is accidentally transported thirty years back in time, where, finding his old mentor dead, he is forced to train his younger self to be a policeman; and where he tries to prevent a bloody revolt in order to save the lives of his friends.