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Discworld Series Book 10: Moving Pictures
Author: Terry Pratchett
Series: Discworld, Book 10
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Nigel Planer
SeriesDiscworld, Book 10
Duration 10h 10m
'Holy wood is a different sort of place. People act differently here. Everywhere else the most important things are gods or money or cattle. Here, the most important thing is to be important.' People might say that reality is a quality that things possess in the same way that they possess weight. Sadly alchemists never really held with such a quain...
View BookDiscworld Series Book 29: Night Watch
Author: Terry Pratchett
Series: Discworld, Book 29
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Stephen Briggs
SeriesDiscworld, Book 29
Duration 10h 40m
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...
View BookDiscworld Series Book 6: Wyrd Sisters
Author: Terry Pratchett
Series: Discworld, Book 6
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Celia Imrie
SeriesDiscworld, Book 6
Duration 10h 11m
Three witches gathered on a lonely heath. A king cruelly murdered, his throne usurped by his ambitious cousin. A child heir and the crown of the kingdom, both missing. The omens are not auspicious for the new incumbent, for whom ascending this tainted throne is a more complicated affair than you might imagine, particularly when the blood on your ha...
View BookRevelation Space Series Book 3: Absolution Gap
Author: Alastair Reynolds
Series: Revelation Space, Book 3
Author Alastair Reynolds
Narrator John Lee
SeriesRevelation Space, Book 3
Duration 27h 11m
The Inhibitors were designed to eliminate any life-form reaching a certain level of intelligence---and they've targeted humanity. War veteran Clavain and a ragtag group of refugees have fled into hiding. Their leadership is faltering, and their situation is growing more desperate. But their little colony has just received an unexpected visitor: an...
View BookDiscworld Series Book 23: Carpe Jugulum
Author: Terry Pratchett
Series: Discworld, Book 23
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Nigel Planer
SeriesDiscworld, Book 23
Duration 9h 44m
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. There's the witches - young Agnes who is really in two minds about everything, Magrat, who is trying...
View BookAuthor: William R. Forstchen
Series: John Matherson, Book 3
Author William R. Forstchen
Narrator Bronson Pinchot
SeriesJohn Matherson, Book 3
Duration 12h 20m
The highly anticipated follow-up to William R. Forstchen's New York Times bestsellers, One Second After and One Year After, The Final Day immerses listeners once more in the story of our nation's struggle to rebuild itself after an electromagnetic pulse wipes out all electricity and plunges the country into darkness, starvation, and terror. After d...
View BookDiscworld Series Book 8: Guards! Guards!
Author: Terry Pratchett
Series: Discworld, Book 8
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Nigel Planer
SeriesDiscworld, Book 8
Duration 10h 10m
An aura of mean-minded resentfulness is thick in the streets of Ankh-Morpork. Insurrection is in the air. The Haves and Have-Nots are about to fall out all over again. The Have-Nots want some of their own magic. But magic in the hands of amateurs is a dangerous thing. The City Watch is the last line of defence against such unnatural goings-on. But...
View BookDiscworld Series Book 32: A Hat Full of Sky
Author: Terry Pratchett
Series: Discworld, Book 32
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Stephen Briggs
SeriesDiscworld, Book 32
Duration 7h 45m
A real witch never casually steps out of her body, leaving it empty. Eleven-year-old Tiffany does. And there's something just waiting for a handy body to take over. Something ancient and horrible, which can't die . . .Wise, witty and wonderful, A Hat Full of Sky is Terry Pratchett's second novel about Tiffany and the Wee Free Men - the rowdiest, to...
View BookDiscworld Series Book 21: Jingo
Author: Terry Pratchett
Series: Discworld, Book 21
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Nigel Planer
SeriesDiscworld, Book 21
Duration 10h 55m
Throughout history, there's always been a perfectly good reason to start a war. Never more so if it is over a 'strategic' piece of old rock in the middle of nowhere. It is after all every citizen's right to bear arms to defend what they consider to be their own. Even if it isn't. And in such pressing circumstances, you really shouldn't let small de...
View BookDiscworld Series Book 2: The Light Fantastic
Author: Terry Pratchett
Series: Discworld, Book 2
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Nigel Planer
SeriesDiscworld, Book 2
Duration 6h 49m
As it moves towards a seemingly inevitable collision with a malevolent red star, the Discworld could do with a hero. What it doesn't need is a singularly inept and cowardly wizard, still recovering from the trauma of falling off the edge of the world, or a well-meaning tourist and his luggage which has a mind (and legs) of its own. Which is a shame...
View BookAuthor: William R. Forstchen
Series: John Matherson, Book 2
Author William R. Forstchen
Narrator Bronson Pinchot
SeriesJohn Matherson, Book 2
Duration 9h 51m
The thrilling follow-up to the New York Times bestselling novel One Second AfterMonths before publication, One Second After was cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read, a book discussed in the corridors of the Pentagon as a truly realistic look at the dangers of EMPs. An EMP is a weapon with the power to destroy the entir...
View BookRevelation Space Series Book .1: Prefect
Author: Alastair Reynolds
Author Alastair Reynolds
Narrator John Lee
Duration 19h 41m
Award-winning author Alastair Reynolds brings his "true and awesome wide-screen SF imagination" (Locus) to The Prefect, a roller-coaster ride through the dark and turbulent universe of Revelation Space, where nothing-and no one-is what it seems.
View BookDiscworld Series Book 7: Pyramids
Author: Terry Pratchett
Series: Discworld, Book 7
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Nigel Planer
SeriesDiscworld, Book 7
Duration 9h 8m
Wise words in all probability, but a tall order when you have just become the pharaoh of a small and penniless country whose largesse - and indeed treasury - is unlikely to stretch to the building of a monumental pyramid to honour your dead father. And particularly when your only visible means of support is a recently acquired qualification from th...
View BookDiscworld Series Book 11: Reaper Man
Author: Terry Pratchett
Series: Discworld, Book 11
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Nigel Planer
SeriesDiscworld, Book 11
Duration 8h 25m
But it can. And it has. So what happens after death is now less of a philosophical question than a question of actual reality. On the disc, as here, they need Death. If Death doesn't come for you, then what are you supposed to do in the meantime? You can't have the undead wandering about like lost souls. There's no telling what might happen, partic...
View BookRevelation Space Book 2: Redemption Ark
Author: Alastair Reynolds
Series: Revelation Space, Book 2
Author Alastair Reynolds
Narrator John Lee
SeriesRevelation Space, Book 2
Duration 27h 19m
Late in the twenty-sixth century, the human race has advanced enough to accidentally trigger the Inhibitors---alien-killing machines designed to detect intelligent life and destroy it. The only hope for humanity lies in the recovery of a secret cache of doomsday weapons---and a renegade named Clavain who is determined to find them. But other factio...
View BookDiscworld Series Book 13: Small Gods
Author: Terry Pratchett
Series: Discworld, Book 13
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Nigel Planer
SeriesDiscworld, Book 13
Duration 9h 55m
Religion is a controversial business in the Discworld. Everyone has their own opinion, and indeed their own gods. Who come in all shapes and sizes. In such a competitive environment, there is a pressing need to make one's presence felt. And it's certainly not remotely helpful to be reduced to be appearing in the form of a tortoise, a manifestation...
View BookDiscworld Series Book 16: Soul Music
Author: Terry Pratchett
Series: Discworld, Book 16
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Nigel Planer
SeriesDiscworld, Book 16
Duration 10h 8m
There's no getting away from it. From whichever angle, Death is a horrible, inescapable business. But someone's got to do it. So if Death decides to take a well-earned moment to uncover the meaning of life and discover himself in the process, then there is going to be a void of specific dimensions that needs to be occupied, particularly so when the...
View BookDiscworld Series Book 30: The Wee Free Men
Author: Terry Pratchett
Series: Discworld, Book 30
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Stephen Briggs
SeriesDiscworld, Book 30
Duration 7h 14m
A nightmarish danger threatens from the other side of reality . . .Armed with only a frying pan and her common sense, young witch-to-be Tiffany Aching must defend her home against the monsters of Fairyland. Luckily she has some very unusual help: the local Nac Mac Feegle - aka the Wee Free Men - a clan of fierce, sheep-stealing, sword-wielding, six...
View BookDiscworld Series Book 35: Wintersmith
Author: Terry Pratchett
Series: Discworld, Book 35
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Stephen Briggs
SeriesDiscworld, Book 35
Duration 8h 1m
Tiffany Aching put one foot wrong, made one little mistake . . .And now the spirit of winter is in love with her. He gives her roses and icebergs, says it with avalanches and showers her with snowflakes - which is tough when you're 13, but also just a little bit . . . cool.And just because the Wintersmith wants to marry you is no excuse for neglect...
View BookThe Demon Cycle Book 1: The Painted Man
Author: Peter V Brett
Series: The Demon Cycle, Book 1
Author Peter V Brett
Narrator Colin Mace
SeriesThe Demon Cycle, Book 1
Duration 16h 54m
The Painted Man, book one of the Demon Cycle, is a captivating and thrilling fantasy adventure, pulling the reader into a world of demons, darkness and heroes. Eleven-year-old Arlen lives with his parents on their small farmstead. As dusk falls upon Arlen's world, a strange mist rises from the ground; a mist that promises a violent death to any foo...
View BookThe Demon Cycle Book 2: The Desert Spear
Author: Peter V Brett
Series: The Demon Cycle, Book 2
Author Peter V Brett
Narrator Colin Mace
SeriesThe Demon Cycle, Book 2
Duration 24h 59m
Continuing the impressive fantasy series from author Peter V. Brett, The Desert Spear is book two of the Demon Cycle, pulling the reader into a world of demons, darkness and heroes. The Deliverer has returned, but who is he? Arlen Bales, formerly of the small hamlet of Tibbet's Brook, learnt harsh lessons about life as he grew up in a world where h...
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