The Witch S Vacuum Cleaner

Author : Terry Pratchett
Publisher : Random House
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781448197156

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The Witch's Vacuum Cleaner by Terry Pratchett Pdf

Do you believe in magic? Can you imagine a war between wizards, a rebellious ant called 4179003, or a time-travelling television? Can you imagine that poor old Mr Swimble could see a mysterious vacuum cleaner in the morning, and make cheese sandwiches and yellow elephants magically appear by the afternoon? Welcome to the wonderful world of Sir Terry Pratchett, and fourteen fantastically funny tales from the master storyteller. Bursting from these pages are food fights, pirates, bouncing rabbits and magical pigeons. And a witch riding a vacuum cleaner, of course. ‘One of the most consistently funny writers around’ Guardian

Author : Terry Pratchett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 085753484X

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Witch's Vacuum Cleaner by Terry Pratchett Pdf

Author : Terry Pratchett
Publisher : Random House
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781448198504

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Father Christmas's Fake Beard by Terry Pratchett Pdf

A collection of wonderful Christmas stories from the fantastically funny Terry Pratchett. With incredible illustrations from Mark Beech, it's the perfect stocking filler! 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!? Dive into the fantastically funny world of Terry Pratchett, for a festive treat like no other. These ten stories will have you laughing, gasping and crying (with laughter) - you'll never see Christmas in the same way again. 'Funny, action-packed . . . a rip-roaring read' The Sun

Author : Terry Pratchett
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780544466593

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Dragons at Crumbling Castle by Terry Pratchett Pdf

An illustrated collection of 14 short stories—featuring "dragons and wizards, councilors and mayors, an adventurous tortoise and a monster in a lake, along with plenty of pointy hats and a few magic spells"— was written when the author was a teenaged newspaper reporter. 50,000 first printing.

Author : Terry Pratchett
Publisher : Random House
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781787620711

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The Time-travelling Caveman by Terry Pratchett Pdf

*The final collection of short stories from the incredible Sir Terry Pratchett!* Imagination is an amazing thing. It can take you to the top of the highest mountain, or down to the bottom of the deepest depths of the sea. This where it took Doggins on his Awfully Big Adventure: a quest full of magic and flying machines. (And the world's best joke - trust me, it's hilarious.) It took three young inventors to the moon (where they may or may not have left a bottle of lemonade) and a caveman on a trip to the dentist. You can join them on these adventures, and many more, in this incredible collection of stories . . . From the greatest imagination there ever was. Written for local newspapers when Terry Pratchett was a young lad, these never previously published stories are packed full of anarchic humour and wonderful wit. A must-have for Terry fans . . . and young readers looking for a fix of magic.

Author : Terry Pratchett
Publisher : Random House
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781473540460

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Shaking Hands With Death by Terry Pratchett Pdf

Why we all deserve a life worth living and a death worth dying for ‘Most men don’t fear death. They fear those things – the knife, the shipwreck, the illness, the bomb – which precede, by microseconds if you’re lucky, and many years if you’re not, the moment of death.’ When Terry Pratchett was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in his fifties he was angry - not with death but with the disease that would take him there, and with the suffering disease can cause when we are not allowed to put an end to it. In this essay, broadcast to millions as the BBC Richard Dimblebly Lecture 2010 and previously only available as part of A Slip of the Keyboard, he argues for our right to choose - our right to a good life, and a good death too.

Author : Dick King-Smith
Publisher : Wayland
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Goal (Psychology)
ISBN : 0750002034

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The Jolly Witch by Dick King-Smith Pdf

Mrs Jolly is the school caretaker by day and a witch by night

Author : Ruth Chew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Cats
ISBN : 0449815552

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The Wednesday Witch by Ruth Chew Pdf

Read the adventure that started it all Ruth Chew s very first story A Wednesday Witch s magic is best on Wednesdays. On that day, she goes looking for trouble And one Wednesday, Mary Jane hears a knock on her front door. A mysterious old lady with a skinny black cat has come to visit. It must be a witch But what mischief is she up to? For decades, Ruth Chew s classic chapter books full of everyday magic have enchanted early readers. Now that they are in print again, a new generation can fall under her spell and fall in love with reading."

Author : Lucia Berlin
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374712860

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A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin Pdf

"I have always had faith that the best writers will rise to the top, like cream, sooner or later, and will become exactly as well-known as they should be-their work talked about, quoted, taught, performed, filmed, set to music, anthologized. Perhaps, with the present collection, Lucia Berlin will begin to gain the attention she deserves." -Lydia Davis A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With the grit of Raymond Carver, the humor of Grace Paley, and a blend of wit and melancholy all her own, Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday, uncovering moments of grace in the Laundromats and halfway houses of the American Southwest, in the homes of the Bay Area upper class, among switchboard operators and struggling mothers, hitchhikers and bad Christians. Readers will revel in this remarkable collection from a master of the form and wonder how they'd ever overlooked her in the first place.

Author : Carl Hiaasen
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385350075

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Bad Monkey by Carl Hiaasen Pdf

A wickedly funny novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Squeeze Me in which the greedy, the corrupt, and the degraders of what’s left of pristine Florida—now, of the Bahamas as well—get their comeuppance. “[A] comedic marvel … [Hiaasen] hasn’t written a novel this funny since Skinny Dip.”—The New York Times Andrew Yancy—late of the Miami Police and soon-to-be-late of the Monroe County sheriff’s office—has a human arm in his freezer. There’s a logical (Hiaasenian) explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its shadowy owner. Yancy thinks the boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and if he can prove murder, the sheriff might rescue him from his grisly Health Inspector gig (it’s not called the roach patrol for nothing). But first—this being Hiaasen country—Yancy must negotiate an obstacle course of wildly unpredictable events with a crew of even more wildly unpredictable characters, including his just-ex lover, a hot-blooded fugitive from Kansas; the twitchy widow of the frozen arm; two avariciously optimistic real-estate speculators; the Bahamian voodoo witch known as the Dragon Queen, whose suitors are blinded unto death by her peculiar charms; Yancy’s new true love, a kinky coroner; and the eponymous bad monkey, who with hilarious aplomb earns his place among Carl Hiaasen’s greatest characters.

Author : Terry Pratchett
Publisher : Random House
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781407042787

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Johnny and the Dead by Terry Pratchett Pdf

Sell the cemetery? Over their dead bodies . . . Not many people can see the dead (not many would want to). Twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell can. And he's got bad news for them: the council want to sell the cemetery as a building site. But the dead have learnt a thing or two from Johnny. They're not going to take it lying down . . . especially since it's Halloween tomorrow. Besides, they're beginning to find that life is a lot more fun than it was when they were . . . well . . . alive. Particularly if they break a few rules . . . The second book in the Johnny Maxwell trilogy.

Author : Terry Pratchett
Publisher : Random House
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781448196258

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The Abominable Snowman by Terry Pratchett Pdf

Captain the Honourable Sir Herbert Stephen Ernest Boring-Tristram-Boring (known to his friends as Bill) is very rich but very bored. When famous explorer Alfred Tence* shows up at his front door, life gets considerably more exciting. Before long, he’s speeding off in a taxi to the mountains of Chilistan in search of the hairiest, most mysterious monster ever known – an ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN! A fantastically funny short story from the collection Dragons at Crumbling Castle. [*Yes, that Alfred Tence – the same man who punted from Brighton to Bombay in the bath. It’s true.]

Author : Alex Bledsoe
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429985024

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The Hum and the Shiver by Alex Bledsoe Pdf

The Hum and the Shiver by Alex Bledsoe is an enchanting tale of music and magic older than the hills, and the first book in the wondrous Tufa series. . . . "Imagine a book somewhere between American Gods and Faulkner. In brief: a good book. Absolutely worth your time."—Patrick Rothfuss, New York Times bestselling author, on The Hum and the Shiver Private Bronwyn Hyatt had left her small town of Needsville for the army to escape the pressures of her mystical Tufa family legacy. She returns a lone survivor after a disastrous attack overseas, wounded in body and spirit. But cryptic omens warn of impending tragedy, and a restless haint lurks nearby, waiting to reveal Bronwyn's darkest secrets. Now Bronwyn finds the greatest battle lies right in her backyard, especially as young minister with too much curiosity arrives in town. If she makes the wrong choice, the consequences could be deadly for all the Tufa. . . . "A sheer delight."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review Enter the captivating world of the fae in Alex Bledsoe's Tufa novels The Hum and the Shiver Wisp of a Thing Long Black Curl Chapel of Ease Gather Her Round At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Ruth Chew
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780449815861

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A Matter-of-Fact Magic Book: Witch in the House by Ruth Chew Pdf

For decades, Ruth Chew’s classic chapter books full of everyday magic have enchanted early readers. Now that they’re in print again, a new generation can fall under her spell and fall in love with reading. How do you keep a witch out of trouble? A witch is coming to stay with Laura and Sally. But taking care of her won’t be easy—this one is more than a little strange! She’s a very picky eater (only bones and eggshells will do). She makes BIG messes. And after a spell gone wrong, she is stuck living upside down! Can the kids keep this little witch out of mischief and keep her a secret from Mom and Dad?

Author : Terry Pratchett
Publisher : Random House
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781407042589

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Truckers by Terry Pratchett Pdf

Imagine that all around you, hidden from sight, there are thousands of tiny people. They are four inches tall, brave, stubborn and resourceful. They are the nomes. The nomes in this story live under the floorboards of a large Department Store and have never been Outside. In fact, they don’t even believe in Outside. But new nomes arrive, from – where else? – and they bring with them terrifying news: the Store is closing down and Everything Must Go . . . The fantastically funny first book of the nomes, from the author of the bestselling Discworld series.