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Author
Series
Publisher
HarperPrism
Pub. Date
1980
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
355p. 18cm.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Guards! Guards!, the eighth book in Terry Pratchett's legendary Discworld series. 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...). How did it get there? How...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperPrism
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
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 and dragons, heroes and knaves.
3) Equal rites
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A dying wizard hopes to pass his wisdom on to the eighth son of an eighth son, but when the child comes out female, the future of magic could be in jeopardy.
4) Mort
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestseller in England, where they have catapulted him into the highest echelons of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.
In this Discworld installment, Death comes to Mort with an offer he can't refuse -- especially since being, well, dead isn't compulsory.
As Death's apprentice, he'll have free board and lodging, use of the company...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Group
Pub. Date
c1990
Physical Desc
254 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discworld's pesky alchemists are up to their old tricks again. This time, they've discovered how to get gold from silver -- the silver screen that is. Hearing the siren call of Holy Wood is one Victor Tugelbend, a would-be wizard turned extra. He can't sing, he can't dance, but he can handle a sword (sort of), and now he wants to be a star. So does Theda Withel, an ambitious ingénue from a little town (where else?) you've probably never heard of....
7) Reaper man
Author
Series
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
1992
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
They say there are only two things you can count on ...But that was before DEATH started pondering the existential. Of course, the last thing anyone needs is a squeamish Grim Reaper and soon his Discworld bosses have sent him off with best wishes and a well-earned gold watch. Now DEATH is having the time of his life, finding greener pastures where he can put his scythe to a whole new use.
But like every cutback in an important public service, DEATH's...
Author
Series
Publisher
HaperPrism
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
It's murder in Discworld! -- which ordinarily is no big deal. But what bothers Watch Commander Sir Sam Vimes is that the unusual deaths of three elderly Ankh-Morporkians do not bear the clean, efficient marks of the Assassins' Guild. An apparent lack of any motive is also quite troubling. All Vimes has are some tracks of white clay and more of those bothersome "clue" things that only serve to muck up an investigation. The anger of a fearful populace...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperPrism
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
"May you live in interesting times" is the worst thing one can wish on a citizen of Discworld -- especially on the distinctly unmagical sorcerer Rincewind, who has had far too much perilous excitement in his life. But when a request for a "Great Wizzard" arrives in Ankh-Morpork via carrier albatross from the faraway Counterweight Continent, it's he who's sent as emissary. Chaos threatens to follow the impending demise of the Agatean Empire's current...
10) Maskerade
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperPrism
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
The Ghost in the bone-white mask who haunts theAnkh-Morpork Opera House was always considered a benign presence -- some would even say lucky -- until he started killing people. The sudden rash of bizarre backstage deaths now threatens to mar the operatic debut of country girl Perdita X. (nee Agnes) Nitt, she of the ample body and ampler voice.
Perdita's expected to hide in the chorus and sing arias out loud while a more petitely presentable soprano...
11) Hogfather
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperPrism
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
292p. 24cm.
Language
English
Description
Who would want to harm Discworld's most beloved icon? Very few things are held sacred in this twisted, corrupt, heartless -- and oddly familiar -- universe, but the Hogfather is one of them. Yet here it is, Hogswatchnight, that most joyous and acquisitive of times, and the jolly old, red-suited gift-giver has vanished without a trace. And there's something shady going on involving an uncommonly psychotic member of the Assassins' Guild and certain...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Prism
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
It isn't much of an island that rises up one moonless night from the depths of the Circle Sea -- just a few square miles of silt and some old ruins. Unfortunately, the historically disputed lump of land called Leshp is once again floating directly between Ankh-Morpork and the city of Al-Khali on the coast of Klatch -- which is spark enough to ignite that glorious international pastime called "war." Pressed into patriotic service, Commander Sam Vimes...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperPrism
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
296p. 25cm.
Language
English
Description
It is rare and splendid event when an author is elevated from the underground into the international literary establishment. In the case of England's best-known and best-loved modern satirist, that event has been long overdue.
Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent Discworld novels satirize and celebrate every aspect of life, modern and ancient, sacred and profane. Consistent number-one bestsellers in England, they have garnered him a secure...
Author
Series
Discworld volume s. 1, 2, 5, 9
Publisher
SFBO Fantasy
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
649 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperPrism
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
321p. 25cm.
Language
English
Description
Everyone knows that the world is flat, and supported on the backs of four elephants. But weren't there supposed to be five? Indeed there were. So where is it? ...When duty calls. Commander Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork constabulary answers. Even when he doesn't want to. He's been "invited" to attend a royal function as both detective and diplomat. The one role he relishes; the other requires, well, ruby tights. Of course where cops (even those clad in...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
324p. 25cm.
Language
English
Description
The denizens of Ankh-Morpork fancy they've seen just about everything. But then comes the Ankh-Morpork Times, struggling scribe William de Worde's upper-crust, newsletter turned Discworld's first paper of record.
An ethical joulnalist, de Worde has a proclivity for investigating stories -- a nasty habit that soon creates powerful enemies eager to stop his presses. And what better way than to start the Inquirer, a titillating (well, what else would...
17) Thief of time
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
323p. 25cm.
Language
English
Description
Everybody wants more time, which is why on Discworld only the experts can manage it -- the venerable Monks of History who store it and pump it from where it's wasted, like underwater (how much time does a codfish really need?), to places like cities, where busy denizens lament, "Oh where does the time go?"
While everyone always talks about slowing down, one young horologist is about to do the unthinkable. He's going to stop. Well, stop time that...
18) Night watch
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
338p. 25cm.
Language
English
Description
One moment, Sir Sam Vimes is in his old patrolman form, chasing a sweet-talking psychopath across the rooftops of Ankh-Morpork. The next, he's lying naked in the street, having been sent back thirty years courtesy of a group of time-manipulating monks who won't leave well enough alone. This Discworld is a darker place that Vimes remembers too well, three decades before his title, fortune, beloved wife, and impending first child. Worse still, the murderer...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
353p. 25cm.
Language
English
Description
War has come to Discworld ... again. And, to no one's great surprise, the conflict centers around the small, arrogantly fundamentalist duchy of Borogravia, which has long prided itself on its unrelenting aggressiveness. A year ago, Polly Perks's brother marched off to battle, and Polly's willing to resort to drastic measures to find him. So she cuts off her hair, dons masculine garb, and -- aided by a well-placed pair of socks -- sets out to join...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
377p. 25cm.
Language
English
Description
Suddenly, condemned arch-swindler Moist von Lipwig found himself with a noose around his neck and dropping through a trapdoor into ... a government job?
By all rights, Moist should be meeting his maker rather than being offered a position as Postmaster by Lord Vetinari, supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork. Getting the moribund Postal Service up and running again, however, may prove an impossible task, what with literally mountains of decades-old undelivered...