PRATCHETT TERRY

(P/B) THE LONG MARS
2040-2045: In the years after the cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption there is massive economic dislocation as populations flee Datum Earth to myriad Long Earth worlds. Sally, Joshua, and Lobsang are all involved in this perilous work when, out of the blue, Sally is contacted by her long-vanished father and inventor of the original Stepper device, Willis Linsay. He tells her he is planning a fantastic voyage across the Long Mars and wants her to accompany him. But Sally soon learns that Willis has ulterior motives ... Meanwhile U. S. Navy Com...
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(P/B) GOING POSTAL
Moist von Lipwig is a con artist... and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork's ailing postal service back on its feet. It's a tough decision. But he's got to see that the mail gets through, come rain, hail, sleet, dogs, the Post Office Workers' Friendly and Benevolent Society, the evil chairman of the Grand Trunk Semaphore Company, and a midnight killer. Getting a date with Adora Bell Dearheart would be nice, too... (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) MONSTROUS REGIMENT
It began as a sudden strange fancy ... Polly Perks had to become a boy in a hurry. Cutting off her hair and wearing trousers was easy. Learning to fart and belch in public and walk like an ape took more time ... And now she's enlisted in the army, and searching for her lost brother. But there's a war on. There's always a war on. And Polly and her fellow recruits are suddenly in the thick of it, without any training, and the enemy is hunting them. All they have on their side is the most artful sergeant in the army and a vampire with a lust ...
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(P/B) THE LONG WAR
A generation after the events of The Long Earth, mankind has spread across the new worlds opened up by Stepping. Where Joshua and Lobsang once pioneered, now fleets of airships link the stepwise Americas with trade and culture. Mankind is shaping the Long Earth - but in turn the Long Earth is shaping mankind ... A new 'America', called Valhalla, is emerging more than a million steps from Datum Earth, with core American values restated in the plentiful environment of the Long Earth - and Valhalla is growing restless under the control of the...
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(P/B) THE AMAZING MAURICE AND HIS EDUCATED RODENTS
Even wizards produce leftovers. But a wizard's rubbish is laced with magic, and for the rats that forage this rubbish, the magic has changed them - they can speak and read, and have rather grand ambitions for a comfortable retirement. Which is perfect for a con-cat like Maurice. He has his own magical talents, and wants to get rich quick. Together with the rats, and young (rather simple) Keith, the 'piper', they work the towns to create their very own plague of rats - then lure them away for cash. But in the run-down town Bad Blintz, this ...
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(P/B) ERIC
Eric is the Discworld's only demonology hacker. Pity he's not very good at it. All he wants is his three wishes granted. Nothing fancy: to be immortal, to rule the world and have the most beautiful woman in the world fall madly in love with him. The usual stuff. But instead of a tractable demon, Eric calls up Rincewind, the most incompetent wizard in the universe, and his extremely intractable and hostile travel accessory, the Luggage. With them on his side, Eric's in for a ride through space and time that is bound to make him wish (quite...
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(P/B) SOUL MUSIC
OTHER CHILDREN GET GIVEN XYLOPHONES. SUSAN JUST HAD TO ASK HER GRANDFATHER TO TAKE HIS VEST OFF. Yes. There's a Death in the family. It's hard to grow up normally when Grandfather rides a white horse and wields a scythe - especially when you have to take over the family business, and everyone mistakes you for the Tooth Fairy. And especially when you have to face the new and addictive music that has entered Discworld. It's lawless. It changes people. It's called Music With Rocks In. It's got a beat and you can dance to it, but... It's alive...
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(P/B) NATION
On the day the world ends... Mau is on his way home from the Boys' Island. Soon he will be a man. And then the wave comes - a huge wave, dragging black night behind it and bringing a schooner which sails over and through the island rainforest. The village has gone. The Nation as it was has gone. Now there's just Mau, who wears barely anything, a trouserman girl who wears far too much, and an awful lot of big misunderstandings... Wise, witty and filled with Terry Pratchett's inimitable comic satire, this is a terrific adventure that - quite...
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(P/B) THE WEE FREE MEN
Tiffany wants to be a witch when she grows up. A proper one, with a pointy hat. And flying, she's always dreamed of flying (though it's cold up there, you have to wear really thick pants, two layers). But she's worried Tiffany isn't a very 'witchy' name. And a witch has always protected Tiffany's land, to stop the nightmares getting through. Now the nightmares have taken her brother, and it's up to her to get him back. With a horde of unruly fairies at her disposal, Tiffany is not alone. And she is the twentieth granddaughter of her Granny...
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(P/B) THE LIGHT FANTASTIC
'Panic?' said Rincewind hopefully. He always held that panic was the best means of survival. When the very fabric of time and space are about to be put through the wringer - in this instance by the imminent arrival of a very large and determinedly oncoming meteorite - circumstances require a very particular type of hero. Sadly what the situation does not need is a singularly inept wizard, still recovering from the trauma of falling off the edge of the world. Equally it does not need one well-meaning tourist and his luggage which has a mind...
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ΘΑΝΑΤΗΦΟΡΟΣ ΒΟΗΘΟΣ
Ο θάνατος εμφανίζεται αναπόφευκτα σε όλους. Αλλά όταν εμφανίστηκε στον Θάνο, τον ανοικονόμητο έφηβο, ήταν για να του προσφέρει δουλειά. Γιατί στον κόσμο του Δίσκου (ξέρετε τον κόσμο που κουβαλούν στην πλάτη τους τέσσερις ελέφαντες που με την σειρά τους πατούν γερά πάνω στην πλανητικών διαστάσεων χελώνα Α' Τουίν) ακόμα και ο Θάνατος έχει ανάγκη από διακοπές. Αλλά ο Θάνος δεν στέκεται στο ύψος των περιστάσεων. Έχει αυτό το παράξενο πράγμα (που δεν έχουν ο Θάνατος και οι πολιτικοί) που λέγεται συναισθήματα. Ένας βοηθός Χάρου, ευεπηρέαστος απ...
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ΠΙΑΣΤΕ ΤΟΝ ΜΑΓΟ
Είναι φυσικό, ο όγδοος γιος ενός όγδοου γιού να είναι μάγος. Αλλά όταν ακολουθεί ένας όγδοος γιός του όγδοου γιού ενός όγδοου γιού, τότε έχουμε έναν μάγο στο τετράγωνο. Έναν πανίσχυρο Μαγοποιό. Και μπορεί να μοιάζει απλώς σαν μικρό παιδί, αλλά πρόκειται να αναστατώσει για τα καλά το Δίσκο. Και μαντέψτε ποιος είναι ο μόνος που μπορεί να εμποδίσει το Δίσκο από την καταστροφή; Είναι ένας μάγος που δεν μπορεί να πει κανένα απολύτως ξόρκι, εξέχων τεμπέλης, δεξιοτέχνης δειλός, απολύτως ανίκανος. Σωστά το καταλάβατε! Ο Ανεμοβρόχης! Είναι εδώ ξανά...
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(P/B) THE LONG EARTH
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 in the trees. Where has the mud, blood and blasted landscape of No Man's Land gone? 2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Cop Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive (some said mad, others dangerous) scientist when she finds a curious gadget - a box containing some wiring, a three-way switch and a...potato. It is the prototype of an invention that will change the way Mankind views his wor...
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(H/B) LORDS AND LADIES
A beautiful gift-edition hardback of the classic Discworld novel. The fairies are back - but this time they don't just want your teeth. It's Midsummer Night - no time for dreaming. Because sometimes, when there's more than one reality at play, too much dreaming can make the walls between them come tumbling down. And there's usually a damned good reason for there being walls between them in the first place - to keep things out. Things who want to make mischief and play havoc with the natural order. Granny Weatherwax and her tiny coven are u...
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Ο ΕΚΠΛΗΚΤΙΚΟΣ ΜΟΡΙΣ ΚΑΙ ΤΑ ΣΟΦΑ ΤΡΩΚΤΙΚΑ ΤΟΥ
Ο Μορίς ο αλητόγατος έχει σκεφτεί τη μεγαλύτερη απάτη για να κάνει την τύχη του. Ποιος δε γνωρίζει την ιστορία του αγοριού με τον Μαγεμένο Αυλό που γλίτωνε τις πόλεις από τα ποντίκια; Καταπώς φαίνεται, την ξέρει και ο Μορίς, ο οποίος οργανώνει μια δική του στρατιά από ποντίκια, που τα βάζει να εισβάλλουν στις πόλεις και, στη συνέχεια, αναλαμβάνει την εξολόθρευσή τους έναντι αδρής αμοιβής! Τα δικά του τρωκτικά, βέβαια, είναι πανέξυπνα και σπουδαγμένα, μιλούν τη γλώσσα των ανθρώπων και δεν είναι να τα βάζεις και πολύ μαζί τους, γιατί μπορεί ...
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(P/B) JOHNNY AND THE DEAD
Sell the cemetery? Over their dead bodies... Not many people can see the dead (not many would want to). Twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell can. And he's got bad news for them: the council want to sell the cemetery as a building site. But the dead have learnt a thing or two from Johnny. They're not going to take it lying down . . .especially since it's Halloween tomorrow. Besides, they're beginning to find that life is a lot more fun than it was when they were...well...alive. Particularly if they break a few rules . . . (From the publisher)...
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ΤΟ ΦΩΣ ΤΗΣ ΦΑΝΤΑΣΙΑΣ
Η τελευταία φορά που είδαμε τον Ανεμοβρόχη ήταν την ώρα που έπεφτε από την Άκρη του Κόσμου. Αλλά, προφανώς, δεν ήρθε ακόμη η ώρα του. Ο Κόσμος τον έχει ανάγκη. Γιατί ποιος άλλος εκτός από έναν ανίκανο μάγο, δειλό και τεμπέλη, θα μπορούσε να τον σώσει από την διαφαινόμενη σίγουρη καταστροφή; Για την περίπτωσή μας, μαζί με τον Ανεμοβρόχη και τον τουρίστα Δίανθο, θα συμπορευτεί και ο Κοέν ο Βάρβαρος, ήρωας με οδοντιατρικά προβλήματα (εκτός φυσικά από τους ρευματισμούς) και η νευρική παρθένα Μπέθαν, απροθύμως διασωθείσα από την τιμητική σφαγή....
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ΤΟ ΧΡΩΜΑ ΤΗΣ ΜΑΓΕΙΑΣ
Για πολύ καιρό υπήρχαν ανόητες ιδέες και προλήψεις, που υποστήριζαν πως ο κόσμος του Δίσκου ήταν σφαιρικός και πως, αν προχωρούσες σταθερά προς την ίδια κατεύθυνση, θα ξαναγύριζες προς το ίδιο σημείο. Η μόνη και αυθεντική αλήθεια, όπως αποδείχθηκε, είναι ότι ο Δίσκος είναι επίπεδος και, αν κατευθυνθείς σταθερά στην ίδια κατεύθυνση, θα πέσεις ανεπανόρθωτα στο κενό του διαστήματος. Πράγμα που έπραξε καταναγκαστικώς ο Ανεμοβρόχης, ο οποίος θα πρέπει να ξέρετε πως είναι ο πλέον ανίκανος μάγος πάνω στο Δίσκο, η τέλεια αποτυχία του Αθέατου Πανεπ...
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ΝΕΥΡΙΚΕΣ ΜΑΓΙΣΣΕΣ
Ο μάγος Ντραμ Μπίλετ, τη στιγμή του θανάτου του, αποφασίζει να περάσει τις μαγικές του ικανότητες στο νεογέννητο όγδοο γιο του. Αλλά ο όγδοος γιος έχει ένα μικρό ελάττωμα: είναι κόρη! Μια γυναίκα στον φρικτά αντροκρατούμενο κόσμο των μάγων; Αδύνατον! Δεν προβλέπεται από καμιά νομοθεσία το αντίθετο, αλλά ένας μάγος είναι πρέπον να τρώει σαν γουρούνι, να πίνει σαν νεροφίδα και να καπνίζει σαν φουγάρο. Κι εκείνη την εποχή, οι γυναίκες δεν είχαν κατορθώσει ακόμη να έχουν ικανοποιητικές επιδόσεις σε αυτά. Αλλά η Εσκαρίνα, με αρωγό τη Γκράνι Γο...
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(P/B) LORDS AND LADIES
'When you start believing in Spirits, you start believing in demons, and then before you know where you are, you're believing in Gods. And then you're in trouble.' Reality is all very well in small doses. It's a perfectly conventional and convenient way of neutralising the imagination. But sometimes when there's more than one reality at play, imagination just won't be neutralised, and the walls between realities come tumbling down. Unfortunately there's usually a damned good reason for there being walls between them in the first place. To ...
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