Judge a Book by it's Cover

My books. A great collection of Covers. August, it's the new July!

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AUTHOR: Terry Pratchett and Melvyn Grant TITLE: Where's My Cow? ISBN: 0-06-087267-5

This is a book about reading a book, which turns into a different book. But it all ends happily!

Illustrated By Melvyn Grant

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AUTHOR: Terry Pratchett TITLE: Johnny and the Bomb ISBN: 0-552-52968-0

There was a flash of light, the air flickered... and the world changed.  It's May 21, 1941, thought Johnny.  It's War.

Johnny Maxwell and his friends have to do something when they find Mrs Tachyon, the local bag lady, semi-conscious in an alley... as long as it's not the kiss of life.

But there's more to Mrs Tachyon than a squeaky trolley and a bunch of dubious black bags.  Somehow she holds the key to different times, different eras - including the Blackbury Blitz in 1941.  Suddenly now isn't the safe place Johnny once thought it was as he finds himself bound up more and more with them...

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AUTHOR: Terry Pratchett TITLE: I Shall Wear Midnight

"I'm feared for the big wee hag..."

Tiffany Aching is a witch.  And she thinks she's doing a good job for the people of the Chalk.  Even if the job does seem to involve a lot of bandaging legs and cutting old ladies' toenails and not much, well, magic.

Or sleep.

But somewhere - some time - there's a tangled ball of evil and spite, of hatred and malice, that has woken up.  And it's waking up all the old stories too - stories about evil old witches.

Suddenly Tiffany isn't so sure she's doing the right thing.  And her tiny allies - the fightin' Nac Mac Feegles - are only making things more difficult.

Things are supposed to look better after a good night's sleep.

But they won't.

They're about to get a lot, lot worse.

And a witch has to deal with what is in front of her ...

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AUTHOR: Terry Pratchett TITLE: Johnny and the Dead ISBN: 0-552-52740-8

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 learned 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...

Cover illustration by John Avon

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AUTHOR: Terry Pratchett TITLE: Maskerade ISBN: 0-552-14236-0

THE SHOW MUST GO ON, AS MURDER, MUSIC AND MAYHEM RUN RIOT IN THE NIGHT ...

The Opera House, Ankh-Morpork...a huge, rambling building, where innocent young sopranos are lured to their destiny by a strangely-familiar evil mastermind in a hideously-deformed evening dress...

At least, he homes so.  But Granny Weatherwax, Discworld's most famous witch, is in the audience.  And she doesn't hold with that sort of thing.

So there's going to be trouble (but nevertheless a good evening's entertainment with murders you can really hum...)

Cover illustration by Josh Kirby

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AUTHOR: Terry Pratchett TITLE: Moving Pictures ISBN: 0-552-13463-5

The alchemists of the Discworld have discoveredt he magic of the silver screen.  But what is the dark secret of Holy Wood hill?

It's up to Victor Tugelbend ("Can't sing.  Can't dance.  Can handle a sword a little") and Theda Withel ("I come from a little town you've probably never heard of") to find out...

Cover illustration by Josh Kirby

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AUTHOR: Terry Pratchett TITLE: Small Gods ISBN: 0-552-13890-8

In the beginning was the Word...

And the Word was: "Hey, you!"

For Brutha the novice is the Chosen One. He wants peace and justice and brotherly love.

He also wants the Inquisition to stop torturing him now, please...

Cover illustration by Josh Kirby

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AUTHOR: Terry Pratchett TITLE: Hogfather ISBN: 0-552-14542-4

IT'S THE NIGHT BEFORE HOGSWATCH, AND IT'S TOO QUIET.

Where is the big jolly fat man?  Why is Death creeping down chimneys and trying to say Ho Ho Ho?  The darkest night of the year is getting a lot darker...

Susan the gothic governess has got to sort it out by morning, otherwise there won't be a morning. Ever again...

The 20th Discworld novel is a festive feast of darkness and Death (but with jolly robins and tinsel too).

As they say:  You'd better watch out...

Cover illustration Josh Kirby

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AUTHOR: Terry Pratchett TITLE: Lords and Ladies ISBN: 0-552-13891-6

THE FAIRIES ARE BACK - BUT THIS TIME THEY DON'T JUST WANT YOUR TEETH...

Granny Weatherwax and her tiny coven are up against real elves.

It's Midsummer Night. No time for dreaming...

With full supporting cast of dwarfs, wizards, trolls, Morris dancers and one orang-utan.  And lots of hey-nonny-nonny and blood all over the place.

Cover illustration by Josh Kirby

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AUTHOR: Terry Pratchett TITLE: Men at Arms ISBN: 0-552-14028-7

'Be a MAN in the City Watch!  The City Watch needs MEN!'

But what it's got includes Corporal Carrot (technically a dwarf), Lance-constable Cuddy (really a dwarf), Lance-constable Detritus (a troll), Lance-constable Angua (a woman...most of the time) and Corporal Nobbs (disqualified from the human race for shoving).

And they need all the help they can get.  Because they've only got twenty-four hours to clean up the town and this is Ankh-Morpork we're talking about...

Cover illustration by Josh Kirby

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AUTHOR: Terry Pratchett TITLE: Carpe Jugulum ISBN: 0-552-14615-3

MIGHTILY OATS HAS NOT PICKED A GOOD TIME TO BE A PRIEST.  HE THOUGHT HE'D COME TO LANCRE FOR A SIMPLE CEREMONY. NOW HE'S CAUGHT UP IN A WAR BETWEEN VAMPIRES AND WITCHES.

There's Young Agnes, who is really in two minds about everything.  Magrat, who is trying to combine witchcraft and nappies, Nanny Ogg...and Granny Weatherwax, who is big trouble.

And the vampires are intelligent.  They've got style and fancy waistcoats.  They're out of the casket, and want a bite of the future.  Mightily Oats knows he has a prayer, but he wishes he had an axe.

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AUTHOR: Terry Pratchett TITLE: Soul Music ISBN: 0-552-14029-5

OTHER CHILDREN GET GIVEN XYLOPHONES.  SUSAN JUST HAD TO ASK HER GRANDFATHER TO TAKE HIS VEST OFF.

Yes.  There's a Death in the family.

It's hard to grow up normally when Grandfather rides a white horse and wields a scythe - especially when you have to take over the family business, and everyone mistakes you for the Tooth Fairy.

And especially when you have to face the new and addictive music that has entered Discworld.

It's lawless.  It changes people.

It's called Music With Rocks In.

It's got a beat and you can dance to it, but...

It's alive.

And it won't fade away.

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AUTHOR: Terry Pratchett TITLE: Interesting Times ISBN: 0-552-14235-2

MIGHT 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.  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.

Cover illustration by Josh Kirby

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AUTHOR: Terry Pratchett TITLE: The Lost Continent ISBN: 0-552-14614-5

IT'S THE DISCWORLD'S LAST CONTINENT AND IT'S GOING TO DIE IN A FEW DAYS, EXCEPT...

Who is this hero striding across the red desert?  Sheep shearer, beer drinker, bush ranger, and someone who'll even eat a Meat Pie Floater when he's sober.

A man in a hat whose luggage follows him on little legs.  Yes, it's Rincewind, the inept wizard who can't even spell wizard.  He's the only hero left.

Still...no worries, eh?

Cover illustration by Josh Kirby

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TITLE: Star Trek FotoNovel #12 - Amok Time PUBLISHER: Bantam

Spock and Kirk in a fight to the death!!!

One will live...one must die! it is the ancient law of the Vulcans!!!

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AUTHOR: Terry Pratchett, adapted by Stephen Briggs TITLE: Guards Guards ISBN: 0-575-07071-4

'Of all the cities in the world* it could have flown into, it flew into mine...'

A seventy-foot-long fire-breathing dragon is wanted to help with enquiries into the identity of the night-time prowler who is turning the citizens of Ankh-Morpork into something resembling small charcoal biscuits, and the only thing that can prevent the inevitable destruction of the city are the drunken and world-weary Captain Vimes and his forgotten police force - an overweight and cowardly sergeant, a corporal who just about qualifies as human, and the Discworld's tallest dwarf ...

*The world, of course, being the Discworld, which, as everybody knows, is flat and rides through space on the back of four elephants who stand on the shell of an enormous turtle.

Illustrated by Graham Higgins

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AUTHOR: Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos TITLE: Blue Gold ISBN: 0-6710-2217-2

From deep within the Venezuelan rain forest emanates the legend of a white goddess and a mysterious tribe with startling technical accomplishments.  Few believe the tribe exists - and even fewer suspect its deity may hold knowledge that can change the course of history.

For National Underwater & Marine Agency crew leader Kurt Austin, an investigation into the sudden deaths of rare whales leads him to the Mexican coast, where someone tries to put him and his mini-sub permanently out of commission.  Meanwhile, in South American's lush hills a specially assigned NUMA crew turns up the white-goddess legend - and a murderous cadre of bio-pirates intent on stealing medicinal secrets worth millions.  Soon Austin and his crew realize they're working the opposite ends of the same grand scheme.  A billionaire California tycoon is poised to rise to power by monopolizing the earth's vastly depleted freshwater reserves and ultimately dominate the world.

Austin has a hunch Venezuela's mythical tribal goddess has some real roots in science, and may be the key to locating a secret formula that could turn vast amounts of seawater into fresh.  But with each step into the bush, he and his NUMA team feel like fish out of water - and must fight a deadly, twisting trail of enemies through a dense jungle of treachery, blackmail, and murder.