Russell's ebook Library
1 - The Colour of Magic
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [1]: Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the Discworld. Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant idiot.Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell ve...
2 - The Light Fantastic
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [2]: What shall we do?' said Twoflower.'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 immi...
3 - Equal Rites
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [3]: Plodding through the eternal void is the great turtle A'Tuin. On his back (or hers - the question is unresolved) stand four elephants.And supported on the elephants' shoulders is... Discworld, planet of magic and misadventure!Predictin...
4 - Mort
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [4]: Mort is an unpromising, gangling teenager who becomes as apprentice toDeath, but proves less than gifted at his new task of ushering souls out of the world. In fact, when it comes to the rather attractive Princess Keli (due to be assas...
5 - Sourcery
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [5]: There was an eighth son of an eighth son. He was, quite naturally, a wizard. And there it should have ended. However (for reasons we'd better not go into), he had seven sons. And then he had an eighth son... a wizard squared... a sourc...
6 - Wyrd Sisters
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [6]: Kingdoms wobble, crowns topple and knives flash on the magical Discworld as the statutory three witches meddle in royal politics. But Granny Weatherwax (of Equal Rites) and her fellow coven members find it's all a lot more difficult th...
7 - Pyramids
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [7]: It isn't easy, being a teenage pharoah. You're not allowed to carry money, uninhibited young women peel your grapes for you, everyone thinks you're responsible for making the sun rise and the corn grow, you keep dreaming about seven th...
8 - Guards! Guards!
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [8]: "Of all the cities in the world it could have flown into, it flew into mine..."Some night-time prowler is turning the citizens of Ankh-Morpork, greatest city of the fantasy Discworld*, into something resembling small charcoal biscuits....
9 - Eric
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [9]: Eric is the Discworld's only demonology hacker. The trouble is, he's not very good at it. All he wants is the usual three wishes: to be immortal, rule the world and have the most beautiful woman fall madly in love with him. The usual s...
10 - Moving Pictures
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [10]: Cameras roll - which means the imps inside have to paint really fast - in 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 clich's of Tinsel...
11 - Reaper Man
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [11]: Death is missing - presumed... er... gone.Which leads to the kind of chaos you always get when an important public service is withdrawn.Ghosts and poltergeists fill up the Discworld. Dead Rights activist Reg Shoe - 'You Don't Have to ...
12 - Witches Abroad
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [12]: It seemed an easy job... After all, how difficult could it be to make sure that a servant girl doesn't marry a prince? But for the witches Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick, travelling to the distant city of Genua, thing...
13 - Small Gods
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [13]: In the beginning was the Word.And the Word was: "Hey, you!"For Brutha the novice is the Chosen One. He wants peace and justice and brotherly love. He also wants the Inquisition to stop torturing him now, please...
14 - Lords and Ladies
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [14]: It's a hot Midsummer Night. The crop circles are turning up everywhere -- even on the mustard-and-cress of Pewsey Ogg, aged four. And Magrat Garlick, witch, is going to be married in the morning... Everything ought to be going like a ...
15 - Men at Arms
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [15]: "Be a MAN in the City Watch! The City watch needs MEN!"But what it's "got" includes Corporal Carrot (technically a dwarf),Lance-constable Cuddy (really a dwarf), Lance-constable Detritus(a troll), Lance-constable Angua (a woman... mos...
16 - Soul Music
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [16]: When her dear old Granddad - the Grim Reaper himself - goes missing, Susan takes over the family business. The progeny of Death's adopted daughter and his apprentice, she shows real talent for the trade. That is until a little string ...
17 - Interesting Times
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [17]: "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...
18 - Maskerade
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [18]: THE SHOW MUST GO ON, AS MURDER, MUSIC AND MAYHEM RUN RIOT IN THE NIGHT...The Opera House, Ankh-Morpork... a huge, rambling building, where innocent young sopranos are lured to their destiny by a strangely-familiar eveil mastermind in ...
19 - Feet of Clay
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [19]: Who's murdering harmless old men? who's poisoning the Patrician?As autumn fogs hold Anhk-Morpork in their grip, the City Watch have to track down a murderer who can't be seen.Maybe the golems know something - but the solemn men of cla...
20 - Hogfather
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [20]: IT'S THE NIGHT BEFORE HOGSWATCH. AND IT'S TOO QUIET.Where is the big jolly fat man? Why is Death creeping down chimneys and trying to say Ho Ho Ho? The darkest night of the year is getting a lot darker...Susan the gothic governess has...
21 - Jingo
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [21]: DISCWORLD GOES TO WAR, WITH ARMIES OF SARDINES, WARRIORS, FISHERMEN, SQUID AND AT LEAST ONE VERY CAMP FOLLOWER.As two armies march, Commander Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch faces unpleasant foes who are out to get him... and that's ...
22 - The Last Continent
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [22]: The Last Continent, is a lighthearted tour of the fantasy land of Fourecks, a very Australian sort of place, with brief courses in theoretical physics and evolution thrown in for good measure.Pratchett returns to his first Discworld p...
23 - Carpe Jugulum
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [23]: Mightily Oats has not picked a good time to be priest. He thought he'd come to Lancre for a simple ceremony. Now he's caught up in a war between vampires and witches.There's Young Agnes, who is really in two minds about everything. Ma...
24 - The Fifth Elephant
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [24]: 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....
25 - The Truth
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [25]: William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first newspaper. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist's life - people who want him dead, a recovering vampire with a suicidal fascination for flash p...
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