Stephen Briggs
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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...
2) Nation
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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.
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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 this man's...
5) Dodger
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"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"--
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Amazingly, former arch-swindler turned Postmaster General Moist von Lipwig has somehow managed to get the woefully inefficient Ankh-Morpork Post Office running like, well, not a government office at all. Now the surpreme despot Lord Vetinari is asking Moisty if he'd like to make some real money. Vetinari wants Moist to resuscitate the venerable Royal Mint so that perhaps it will no longer cost considerably more than a penny to make a penny. Moist...
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Witch-in-training Tiffany Aching hadn't expected magic to involve chores and ill-tempered nanny goats! But as Tiffany pursues her calling, a sinister monster pursues Tiffany, and neither Mistress Weatherwax (the greatest witch in the world) nor the 6 inch high Wee Free Man (the greatest thieves in the world) can defeat it. When the monster strikes, Tiffany will have to save herself - if she can be saved at all!
8) Wintersmith
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When the Spirit of Winter takes a fancy to Tiffany Aching, he wants her to stay in his gleaming, frozen world. Forever. It will take a young witch's skill and cunning, as well as help from the legendary Granny Eatherwax and the irrepressible Wee Free Men, to survive until spring. Because if Tiffany doesn't make it to spring, spring won't come.
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A seemingly routine day in the life of City Watch commander Sam Vimes is abruptly interrupted by an unsolved murder, an impending war, an unwanted new recruit, and a pesky government inspector. By the author of Going Postal. It's a game of Trolls and Dwarfs where the player must take both sides to win. It's the noise a troll club makes when crushing in a dwarf skull, or when a dwarfish axe cleaves a trollish cranium. It's the unsettling sound of history...
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Mister Simnel has produced a great clanging monster of a mchine that harnesses the power of all the elements - earth, air, fire, and water, and soon it's drawing astonished crowds. To the consternation of Ankh-Morpork's formidable Patrician, Lord Vetinari, no one is in charge of this new invention. Who better to take the lead than the man he has already appointed master of the Post Office, the Mint, and the Royal Bank? Moist von Lipwig is not a man...
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Deep 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 dark, the good and the bad. As the fairy horde prepares for invasion. Tiffany must summon all the witches to stand with her. To protect the land....
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At long last, Lady Sybil has lured her husband, Sam Vimes, on a well-deserved holiday away from the crime and grim of Ankh-Morpork. But for the commander of the City Watch, a vacation in the country is anything but relaxing. The balls, the teas, the muck - not to mention all the fresh air and birdsong - are more than a bit taxing on a cynical city-born and bred copper. Yet a policeman will find crim anywhere if he decides to look hard enough, and...
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Bad Blintz is not like other towns. Something evil lurks here, something that can drive even the most educated rodents out of their minds with fear. Enter the Amazing Maurice; talking cat, genius con artist, and mastermind behind the greatest Pied Piper scheme in Discworld's history. With the help of a pipe-playing kid and a troupe of strangely intelligent rats, Maurice is prepared to turn this town upside down as only a clever cat can. But it will...
14) The Wee Free Men
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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.
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As the witch of the Chalk, Tiffany Aching performs the distinctly unglamorous work of caring for the needy. But someone or something is inciting fear, generating dark thoughts and angry murmurs against witches. Tiffany must find the source of unrest and defeat the evil at its root. Aided by the tiny but tough Wee Free Men, Tiffany faces a dire challenge, for if she falls, the whole Chalk falls with her...