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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, so they're in the mood for trying everything else.

Als der kleine Willwoll in die Fänge der bösen Feenkönigin gerät, bricht seine Schwester Tiffany, eine junge Hexe in Ausbildung, mit ihren kampfeslustigen Begleitern, den kleinen freien Männern, zu einer gefahrvollen Reise auf.

From Snuff: Vimes looked at the cover. The title was The World of Poo. When his wife was out of eyeshot he carefully leafed through it. Well, okay, you had to accept that the world had moved on and these days’ fairy stories were probably not going to be about twinkly little things with wings. As he turned page after page, it dawned on him that whomever had written this book, they certainly knew what would make kids like Young Sam laugh until they were nearly sick. The bit about sailing down the river almost made him smile.

Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had it all. But now he's back in his own rough, tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in when the lightning struck. Living in the past is hard. Dying in the past is incredibly easy. But he must survive, because he has a job to do. He must track down a murderer, teach his younger self how to be a good copper, and change the outcome of a bloody rebellion. But there's a problem: if he wins, he's got no wife, no child, no future.

Poor Mr. Swimble is having a bad day. Rabbits are bouncing out of his hat, pigeons are flying out of his jacket and every time he points his finger, something magically appears - cheese sandwiches, socks...even a small yellow elephant on wheels! It's becoming a real nuisance - and he's allergic to rabbits. His friends at the Magic Rectangle can't help, but the mysterious vacuum cleaner he saw that morning may have something to do with it....

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Father Christmas's Fake Beard by Terry Pratchett, read by Julian Rhind-Tutt. Have you ever wanted Christmas to be different? Turkey and carols, presents and crackers - they all start to feel a bit...samey. How about a huge exploding mince pie, a pet abominable snowman, or a very helpful partridge in a pear tree? What if Father Christmas went to work at a zoo, or caused chaos in a toy store, or was even arrested for burglary!

Ankh-Morpork, die größte Stadt der Scheibenwelt, war schon immer ein Hexenkessel - andernorts floss das Leben eher gemütlich dahin. Das soll sich ändern: Dank des Erfindungsreichtums eines jungen Ingenieurs hält die Dampflokomotive Einzug. Bald wird überall fleißig am Schienennetz gebaut. Doch nicht jedermann weiß den rollenden Fortschritt zu schätzen: Eine radikal konservative Splittergruppe von Zwergen nutzt das Feuerross, um der herrschenden Schicht mächtig Dampf zu machen.

Ein Fichtenstamm bewahrt den ungeschickten Zauberer Rincewind vor dem Absturz vom Rand der Scheibenwelt. Er findet sich in einem von intelligenten Bäumen bevölkerten Wald wieder und trifft erneut auf den Touristen Zweiblum. Währenddessen droht der Planet von einem roten Stern verschlungen zu werden. Nur ein Zauberspruch kann die Scheibenwelt noch retten, doch der befindet sich ausgerechnet in Rincewinds Kopf.

Im Auftrag des Patriziers reist Sam Mumm von der Stadtwache in das geheimnisvolle Land Überwald...

Durch einen Unfall wird der Kommandeur der Stadtwache, Sam Mumm, dreißig Jahre in die Vergangenheit versetzt...

An exclusive collection of twenty early short stories by one of the world's best loved authors, these are rediscovered tales that Pratchett wrote under a pseudonym for newspapers during the 1970s and 1980s. Whilst none of the stories are set in the Discworld, they hint towards the world he would go on to create in his award-winning and globally bestselling series, containing all of his trademark wit, satirical wisdom and fantastic imagination. These are tales which entertain, enlighten and, most importantly, make you laugh.

Die junge Hexe Magrat Knoblauch steht kurz vor ihrer Vermählung mit dem ehemaligen Hofnarren Verence, der inzwischen König von Lancre geworden ist. Plötzlich sorgen einige übermütige Junghexen dafür, dass die Elfenkönigin Zugang zur Scheibenwelt bekommt. Es drohen Chaos und Unheil, denn Elfen sind alles andere als friedfertig. Oma Wetterwachs und Nanny Ogg nehmen den Kampf gegen die Elfen auf - unterstützt von Zauberern der Unsichtbaren Universität, einem Orang Utan und dem zweitbesten Liebhaber der Scheibenwelt.

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. Her land. There will be a reckoning.

There's nothing like the issue of evolution to get under the skin of academics. Especially when those same academics are by chance or bad judgement deposited at a critical evolutionary turning point when one wrong move could have catastrophic results for the future. Unfortunately, in the hands of such an inept and cussed group of individuals, the sensitive issue of causality is, sadly, only likely to receive the same scant respect that they show to one another.

Das Königreich Lancre erlebt großes Theater: zunächst wird König Verence hinterrücks ermordet, von Herzog Felmet, seinem rücksichtslosen Konkurrenten. Zusammen mit seiner grausamen Frau regiert Felmet das Land fortan mit Unterdrückung und Terror. Ein einziger Fehler unterläuft ihm jedoch: Den kleinen Thronerben können treue Soldaten des alten Königs retten...

Auf der Scheibenwelt wird scharf geschossen. Samuel Mumm, Hauptmann der Wache, steht kurz davor, Lady Sibyl Käsedick zu heiraten und aus dem Amt zu scheiden. Da erschüttert eine Krise die Stadt. Eine furchtbare Waffe, das "Gfähr", zieht eine Spur des Todes durch Ankh-Morpork. Trolle und Zwerge - ohnehin verfeindet - geraten aneinander. Die Ordnung der Gilden wird erschüttert.

Mightily Oats has not picked a good time to be 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.

A real witch never casually steps out of her body, leaving it empty. Eleven-year-old Tiffany Aching does. And there's something just waiting for a handy body to take over. Something ancient and horrible and that can't die. Tiffany returns in this exciting new adventure, helped as before by the Nac Mac Feegle - the rowdiest, toughest, smelliest bunch of fairies ever to be thrown out of Fairyland for being drunk at two in the afternoon. They'll fight anything!

Lords und Ladies - Terry Pratchetts Scheibenwelt als Hörspiel. Mitsommernacht. Alles gerät durcheinander. Kornkreise fallen vom Himmel, die Bienen werden nervös. Sogar Zwerge und Trolle sind besorgt. Im kleinen Scheibenwelt-Königreich Lancre pfuschen ein paar selbsternannte Nachwuchs-Hexen an der Kausalität herum, während die drei gestandenen Hexen von Lancre ihre eigenen Probleme haben...

A man with no eyes. No eyes at all. Two tunnels in his head . . .It’s not easy being a witch, and it’s certainly not all whizzing about on broomsticks, but Tiffany Aching – teen witch – is doing her best.Until something evil wakes up, something that stirs up all the old stories about nasty old witches, so that just wearing a pointy hat suddenly seems a very bad idea.Worse still, this evil ghost from the past is hunting down one witch in particular.