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It was a sudden strange fancy, and now Polly Perks, in her brother's clothes and with her hair cut off, has joined up to fight for her country, and to search for her lost brother. But who is the enemy? What is she really fighting for? War teaches you a lot, she finds, when it turns out that you have joined the Monstrous Regiment.
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Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork - not the old fashioned, grubby pushing and shoving, but the new, fast football with pointy hats for goalposts and balls that go gloing when you drop them. And now, the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match, without using magic.
23) Hogfather
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The Hogswatchnight yuletide season is disrupted by the evil deeds of the Auditors, who replace the red-suited Hogfather with a scythe-bearing demon, prompting the Unseen University wizards and their monster-bashing nanny to launch a rescue plan.
24) Making money
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It's an offer you can't refuse. Who would not wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpok's Royal Mint and the bank next door? It's a job for life, but, as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning, the life is not necessarily for long.
25) Going postal
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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. Is there a shot at redemption waiting in the mad world of the mail for a man who's prepared to push the envelope?
26) Soul music
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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.
27) Carpe jugulum
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2008
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Mightily Oats has not picked a good time to be a priest. He thought he'd come to the mountain kingdom of Lancre for a simple little religious ceremony. Now he's caught up in a war between vampires and witches, and he's not sure there is a right side.
28) Thud!
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Koom Valley? That was where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls. Anyway, it was far away and a long time ago. But if Commander Sam Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch doesn't solve the case of a murdered dwarf, he could see the whole battle again, fought right outside his office.
29) Lords and ladies
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It's a hot midsummer night. The crop circles are turning up everywhere, and Magrat the witch is going to be married in the morning - everything ought to be going like a dream. Unfortunately, things aren't about to run smoothly.
30) Small gods
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Brutha is a simple lad. He can't read or write, but he's pretty good at growing melons. He would like to overthrow a huge and corrupt church, but what he really wants is for his god to choose someone else to do it.
31) Raising steam
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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.
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Discworld Novels volume 28
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IT'S A RAT-EAT-RAT WORLD . . . Every town on Discworld knows the stories about rats and pipers, and Maurice - a streetwise tomcat - leads a band of educated ratty friends (and a stupid kid) on a nice little earner. Piper plus rats equals lots and lots of money. Until they run across someone playing a different tune. Now he and his rats must learn a new concept: evil . . .
33) Men at arms
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The City Watch needs men. Instead, it has Corporal Carrot (technically a dwarf), Lance-constable Cuddy (really a dwarf), Lance-corporal Detritus (a troll), Lance-constable Angua (a woman), and Corporal Nobbs (disqualified from the human race)!
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Discworld Novels volume 32
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2010
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A real witch never casually steps out of her body, leaving it empty. Eleven-year-old Tiffany does. And there's something just waiting for a handy body to take over. Something ancient and horrible, which can't die . . . Wise, witty and wonderful, A Hat Full of Sky is Terry Pratchett's second novel about Tiffany and the Wee Free Men - the rowdiest, toughest, smelliest bunch of fairies ever. They'll fight anything. And even they might not be enough to...
35) Wintersmith
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Discworld Novels volume 35
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RHCP Digital
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2008
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'Crivens!' Tiffany Aching put one foot wrong, made just one little mistake . . . And now the spirit of winter is in love with her. He gives her roses and icebergs and showers her with snowflakes, which is tough when you're thirteen, but also just a little bit . . . cool. And if Tiffany doesn't work out how to deal with him, there will never be another springtime . . . Crackling with energy and humour, Wintersmith is the third tale in a sequence about...
36) The wee free men
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Discworld Novels volume 30
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RHCP Digital
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2008
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Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching thinks her Granny Aching - a wise shepherd - might have been a witch, but now Granny Aching is dead and it's up to Tiffany to work it all out when strange things begin happening: a fairy-tale monster in the stream, a headless horseman and, strangest of all, the tiny blue men in kilts, the Wee Free Men, who have come looking for the new 'hag'. These are the Nac Mac Feegles, the pictsies, who like nothing better than thievin',...
37) Witches abroad
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Discworld Novels volume 12
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Transworld Digital
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2010
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'Things have to come to an end, see. That's how it works when you turn the world into stories. You should never have done that. You shouldn't treat people like they was characters, like they was things. But if you do, then you've got to know where the story ends.' It seemed an easy job... After all, how difficult could it be to make sure that a servant girl doesn't marry a prince? Quite hard, actually, even for the witches Granny Weatherwax, Nanny...
38) Guards! Guards!
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The Discworld volume 8
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Corgi
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2012
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A night-time prowler is turning the inhabitants of Ankh-Morpork, the greatest city in Discworld, into something resembling charcoal biscuits. Captain Vimes of the City Watch is given the task of tracking down the culprit, a seventy-foot dragon.
39) Moving pictures
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A Discworld novel volume 10
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Corgi
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2012
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Cameras roll on the fantastic Discworld when the alchemists discover the magic of the silver screen. But what is the dark secret of Holy Wood hill? As the alien cliches of Tinsel Town pour in, it's up to Discworld's first film stars to find out.
40) Pyramids
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The Discworld volume 7
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Corgi
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2012
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It isn't easy being a teenage pharaoh, having to deal with assassins, sphinxes, mad high priests, gods, sacred crocodiles and marching mummies. And all you really want is the chance to do something for young people and the inner cities.
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