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La cuarta novela protagonizada por Tiffany Dolorido y los Nac Mac Feegle, cierre de esta encantadora subserie del Mundodisco pensada para los lectores más jóvenes (y para los no tan jóvenes), que se inicio conLos pequeños hombres libres y siguio enUn sombrero de cielo yLa corona de hielo.Con casi dieciseis años, Tiffany Dolorido ya es una bruja en pleno derecho. Ha pasado varios años estudiando con brujas veteranas y ahora ejerce el oficio sola en su tierra natal, la Caliza. Lleva a cabo esas partes de la brujeria que no son nada divertidas ni glamurosas, no hacen saltar chispas, no tienen nada que ver con varitas, y de las que rara vez se oye hablar: cuida a los necesitados.Pero alguien, o algo, esta fomentando el miedo, inculcando oscuras ideas contra las brujas y resucitando rumores muy desagradables sobre ellas. De repente, el simple hecho de llevar un sombrero puntiagudo puede traer muchos problemas. Aun peor, todo apunta a que el culpable sea un misterioso fantasma que esta persiguiendo a una joven bruja en especial. Y ya casi ha dado con ella...Con la ayuda de sus diminutos aliados azules, Tiffany debera encontrar y acabar con este malestar atacando su raiz. Porque si Tiffany cae, la Caliza entera caera con ella.La critica ha dicho...Tiffany, la bruja adolescente, es una de las creaciones [de Pratchett] mas extraordinarias hasta el momento.Time OutAunque sabe bien como tejer una historia, lo realmente divertido en los libros de Pratchett es su inventiva, que la podemos ver linea a linea [...] Y, escribiendo mejor que nunca, nos hace reir unmonton.The Sunday Times

Dodger is a tosher - a sewer scavenger living in the squalor of Dickensian London. Everyone who is nobody knows Dodger. Anyone who is anybody doesn't. But when he rescues a young girl from a beating, suddenly everybody wants to know him. And Dodger's tale of skulduggery, dark plans and even darker deeds begins...

#Zas! es el golpe de un mazo de troll cayendo en seco sobre el casco de un enano, tambi#n es un juego de mesa y la 34# entrega de Mundodisco. #Zas! es el golpe de un mazo de troll cuando cae en seco sobre el casco de un enano; tambi#n es un juego de mesa en el que se enfrentan las dos tribus... Y es la historia de una descomunal bronca milenaria que amenaza con estallar de nuevo. Terry Pratchett se confirma una vez m#s como un narrador #nico, m#s divertido, agudo y brillantemente original que nunca.

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, things are never that simple... Servant girls have to marry the prince. That's what life is all about. You can't fight a Happy Ending. At least - up until now…

A beautiful gift-edition hardback of the classic Discworld novel.MIGHTY BATTLES! REVOLUTION! DEATH! WAR! (AND HIS SONS TERROR AND PANIC, AND DAUGHTER CLANCY).The oldest and most inscrutable empire on the Discworld is in turmoil, brought about by the revolutionary treatise: What I did on My Holidays. Workers are uniting, with nothing to lose but their water buffaloes. Warlords are struggling for power. War (and Clancy) are spreading throughout the ancient cities.And all that stands in the way of terrible doom for everyone is:Rincewind the Wizard, who can't even spell the word 'wizard'...Cohen the barbarian hero, five foot tall in his surgical sandals, who has had a lifetime's experience of not dying......and a very special butterfly.

On a world supported on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown), a gleeful, explosive, wickedly eccentric expedition sets out. There's an avaricious but inept wizard, a naive tourist whose luggage moves on hundreds of dear little legs, dragons who only exist if you believe in them, and of course THE EDGE of the planet...

This time, 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...

It is known as the Discworld. It is a flat planet, supported on the backs of four elephants, who in turn stand on the back of the great turtle A'Tuin as it swims majestically through space. And it is quite possibly the funniest place in all of creation...As it moves towards a seemingly inevitable collision with a malevolent red star, the Discworld has only one possible saviour. Unfortunately, this happens to be the singularly inept and cowardly wizard called Rincewind, who was last seen falling off the edge of the world.

Imagine, if you will . . .a flat world sitting on the backs of four elephants who hurtle through space balanced on a giant turtle. In truth, the Discworld is not so different from our own. Yet, at the same time, very different . . . but not so much.In this, the maiden voyage through Terry Pratchett's divinely and recognizably twisted alternate dimension, the well-meaning but remarkably inept wizard Rincewind encounters something hitherto unknown in the Discworld: a tourist! Twoflower has arrived, Luggage by his side, to take in the sights and, unfortunately, has cast his lot with a most inappropriate tour guidea decision that could result in Twoflower's becoming not only Discworld's first visitor from elsewhere . . . but quite possibly, portentously, its very last. And, of course, he's brought Luggage along, which has a mind of its own. And teeth.

Catorce historias fantásticamente divertidas llenas de viajes en el tiempo, monstruos, tortugas y caos de la mano del maestro del relato Terry Pratchett.Los dragones han invadido el castillo Ruinoso cuando todos los caballeros de Arturo estan de vacaciones o visitando a sus abuelas... ¡Es un desastre!Por suerte, queda una armadura extra y hay un chico llamado Ralph que esta dispuesto a ponersela. Hara todo lo que pueda para apagarles los humos a los dragones, pero... se va a encontrar con una pequeña sorpresilla.Esta inedita coleccion de catorce cuentos increibles contiene un elenco memorable de disparatados personajes: magos ineptos, heroes sensibles, tortugas excepcionalmente aventureras...Los dragones del castillo Ruinoso (y otros cuentos alocados) es un recopilatorio ideal para introducir a los lectores jovenes en el universo de Terry Pratchett y para que sus lectores mas mayorcitos saboreen la magia de las ideas de este queridisimo autor.La opinion de los lectores:Este libro es perfecto para los niños, aporta diversion y aprendizaje. Ademas, puede motivarlos en su crecimiento a leer el resto de la obra del autor (mas madura). Tambien lo disfrutaran los amantes del Mundodisco, puesto que pueden emocionarse con los comienzos imaginativos, disparados y juiciosos del Gran Terry Pratchett... Siempre a tus pies milord.Pangea Libros

The fairies are back but this time they dont just want your teethIt's Midsummer Night - no time for dreaming. Because sometimes, when there's more than one reality at play, too much dreaming can make the walls between them come tumbling down. Unfortunately there's usually a damned good reason for there being walls between them in the first place - to keep things out. Things who want to make mischief and play havoc with the natural order.Granny Weatherwax and her tiny coven are up against real elves. And even in a world of dwarfs, wizards, trolls, Morris dancers and the odd orang-utan, this is going to cause real trouble. With lots of hey-nonny-nonny and blood all over the place.

2045-2059. After the cataclysmic upheavals of Step Day and the Yellowstone eruption humanity is spreading further into the Long Earth, and society, on a battered Datum Earth and beyond, continues to evolve.Now an elderly and cantankerous AI, Lobsang lives in disguise with Agnes in an exotic, far-distant world. Hes convinced theyre leading a normal life in New Springfield they even adopt a child but it seems they have been guided there for a reason. As rumours of strange sightings and hauntings proliferate, it becomes clear that something is very awry with this particular world.Millions of steps away, Joshua is on a personal journey of discovery: learning about the father he never knew and a secret family history. But then he receives a summons from New Springfield. Lobsang now understands the enormity of whats taking place beneath the surface of his earth a threat to all the worlds of the Long Earth.To counter this threat will require the combined efforts of humankind, machine and the super-intelligent Next. And some must make the ultimate sacrifice...

Terry Pratchett's final Discworld novel, and the fifth to feature the witch Tiffany Aching.A SHIVERING OF WORLDSDeep 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. . . .

Un trouble malaise s’est emparé du Causse. Les chouettes et les renards le perçoivent, et Tiphaine Patraque aussi à travers ses chaussures. Un vieil ennemi rassemble ses forces. Or, comme le dit l

All this books and stuff, that isn't what it should all be about. What we need is real wizardry.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 source of magic...a Sourcerer.Unseen University has finally got what it wished for: the most powerful wizard on the disc. Which, unfortunately, could mean that the death of all wizardry is at hand. And that the world is going to end, depending on whom you listen to. Unless of course one inept wizard can take the University's most precious artefact, the very embodiment of magic itself, and deliver it halfway across the disc to safety...

2045-2059. After the cataclysmic upheavals of Step Day and the Yellowstone eruption humanity is spreading further into the Long Earth, and society, on a battered Datum Earth and beyond, continues to evolve.Now an elderly and cantankerous AI, Lobsang lives in disguise with Agnes in an exotic, far-distant world. Hes convinced theyre leading a normal life in New Springfield they even adopt a child but it seems they have been guided there for a reason. As rumours of strange sightings and hauntings proliferate, it becomes clear that something is very awry with this particular world.Millions of steps away, Joshua is on a personal journey of discovery: learning about the father he never knew and a secret family history. But then he receives a summons from New Springfield. Lobsang now understands the enormity of whats taking place beneath the surface of his earth a threat to all the worlds of the Long Earth.To counter this threat will require the combined efforts of humankind, machine and the super-intelligent Next. And some must make the ultimate sacrifice . .