Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
Happy Hogswatch! Time to hang up your stocking, kidnap the Tooth Fairy (or at least one of her many underpaid …
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Sphenoid rated The cadaver king and the country dentist: 4 stars
Sphenoid rated Feet of Clay (Discworld): 4 stars
Feet of Clay (Discworld) by Terry Pratchett
Nineteenth in the Discworld universe and third entry of the City Watch series, this novel follows Captain Carrot, Commander Vimes, …
Maskerade by Terry Pratchett
The story begins with Agnes Nitt leaving Lancre to seek a career at the Opera House in Ankh-Morpork. When Granny …
Sphenoid rated The Come Up: 4 stars
Sphenoid rated Unmask Alice: 4 stars
Unmask Alice by Rick Emerson
Two teens, two diaries, two sordid scandals. All from the same dark place: a serial con artist who betrayed a …
Sphenoid rated Worse Than Nothing: 4 stars
Worse Than Nothing by Erwin Chemerinsky
Originalism, the view that the meaning of a constitutional provision is fixed when it is adopted, was once the fringe …
Sphenoid rated Dilla Time: 4 stars
Dilla Time by Dan Charnas
Equal parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy of J Dilla, a musical genius …
Sphenoid rated Interesting Times: 4 stars
Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett, Terry Pratchett (Discworld (18))
A fantasy featuring the wizard Rincewind on a mission to an empire undergoing a cultural revolution reminiscent of the one …
Sphenoid rated I Shall Wear Midnight: 4 stars
I Shall Wear Midnight by Paul Kidby, Terry Pratchett (Discworld, #38)
It starts with whispers.
Then someone picks up a stone.
Finally, the fires begin.
When people turn on witches, the …
Sphenoid rated A Hat Full of Sky: 4 stars
A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, #32)
WE SEE YOU. NOW WE ARE YOU.
No real witch would casually step out of their body, leaving it empty. …
Pyramids by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, #7)
It's bad enough being new on the job, but Teppic hasn't a clue as to what a pharaoh is supposed …
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 by Frank Dikotter
Between 1958 and 1962, 45 million Chinese people were worked, starved or beaten to death. Mao Zedong threw his country …