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Author
Series
Discworld volume 34
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
"The 39th installment in the New York Times bestselling "Discworld" canon from Terry Pratchett, "the purely funniest English writer since Wodehouse." (Washington Post Book World)"--
Author
Series
Discworld volume 30
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
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...
Author
Series
Discworld volume 31
Publisher
Harper Collins
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Discworld volume 32
Language
English
Description
"Moist von Lipwig, condemned prisoner turned postal worker extraordinaire is now in charge of a different branch of the government: overseeing the printing of Ankh-Morpork's first paper currency. A dream come true for a former arch-swindler-- or is it?"--Cover p. [4].
Author
Series
Discworld volume 33
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
The wizards of Unseen University in the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork must win a football match, without using magic, so they're in the mood for trying everything else. As the match approaches, four lives are entangled and changed forever.
6) The long war
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A new America called Valhalla grows restless under the controlling long arm of the Datum government, while all of the Long Earth is infused by the song of the trolls who are starting to react to humanity's thoughtless exploitation, bringing humankind to the brink of war.
Author
Series
Discworld volume 25
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
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...
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 4
Language
English
Description
Lobsang's pursuit of a human life, Joshua's search for his father, and the adaptation efforts of "the Next" post-humans are challenged by a voracious alien race that would conquer and colonize the Long Earth.
9) Nation
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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.
10) The long Earth
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Finally finding the mecca of isolation in a distant region known as the High Meggas, Larry Lynsey, a recluse who is aggressively protective of his singular solitude, finds his quiet existence shattered by the arrival of two accidental tourists and will do everything in his power to make them leave.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2006, 1993.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell suddenly starts seeing and talking to ghosts, he and his friends become involved in a battle to save the local cemetery.
12) The long cosmos
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 5
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Language
English
Description
"The thrilling conclusion to the internationally bestselling Long Earth series explores the greatest question of all: What is the meaning of life?"--Page [4] of cover.
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