Centers on the eighth son of the eighth son who is, of course, a wizard.

Unlike most teenaged boys, Teppic isn't chasing girls and working at the mall. Instead he's just inherited the throne of the desert kingdom of Djelibeybi-a job that's come a bit earlier than he expected (a turn of fate his recently departed father wasn't too happy about either). It's bad enough being new on the job, but Teppic hasn't a clue as to what a pharaoh is supposed to do. After all, he's been trained at Ankh-Morpork's famed assassins' school,...

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 photography, some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes. William just wants to get at the truth. Unfortunately,...

Provides a comprehensive guide to the imaginary world of Discworld, including locations, characters, histories, and plot details gathered from the over forty fiction books based within the Discworld setting.

Thirteen-year-old Johnny Maxwell acquires the neighborhood homeless woman's shopping cart when she is injured and discovers that its contents have the ability to send him back in time from 1996 to 1941 England.

The prophecies of witch Agnes Nutter come true more often than not--it's just that deciphering them can be a bit of a problem. So when Agnes forsees the end of the world, people do what they always shouldn't--they ignore her. And this time that might be just as well, because a demon's bubmling of a baby swap involving the Antichrist does little more than invoke mass confusion

A new visit to the satiric Discworld involves a search for the missing elephant from the five who support Discworld on their backs, as a stolen scone, a dwarf coronation, and ruby tights get into the act.

"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"--

Discworld's pesky alchemists are up to their old tricks again. This time, they've discovered how to get gold from silver -- the silver screen that is. Hearing the siren call of Holy Wood is one Victor Tugelbend, a would-be wizard turned extra. He can't sing, he can't dance, but he can handle a sword (sort of), and now he wants to be a star. So does Theda Withel, an ambitious ingénue from a little town (where else?) you've probably never heard of....

When the myriad tribes in the miniscule world of Carpet are threatened by the destructive forces of Fray, two brothers embark on a perilous adventure in the aftermath of their village's flattening to combat power-hungry mouls and save their people. A revised edition of the original work published in 1971 that includes updated text, original color and black-and-white illustrations, and an exclusive story (a forerunner to The Carpet People) written...