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Zusatztext "Elegiac and comforting! funny and serious." Informationen zum Autor Sir Terry Pratchett was the internationally bestselling author of more than thirty books, including his phenomenally successful Discworld series. His young adult novel, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents , won the Carnegie Medal, and Where's My Cow? , his Discworld book for “readers of all ages,” was a New York Times bestseller. His novels have sold more than seventy five million (give or take a few million) copies worldwide. Named an Officer of the British Empire “for services to literature,” Pratchett lived in England. He died in 2015 at the age of sixty-six. Klappentext A shivering of worlds Deep in the Chalk, something is stirring. The owls and the foxes can sense it, and Tiffany Aching feels it in her boots. An old enemy is gathering strength. This is a time of endings and beginnings, old friends and new, a blurring of edges and a shifting of power. Now Tiffany stands between the light and the dark, the good and the bad. As the fairy horde prepares for invasion, Tiffany must summon all the witches to stand with her. To protect the land. Her land. There will be a reckoning. . . . The final Discworld® novel Zusammenfassung Terry Pratchett's final Discworld novel! and the fifth to feature the witch Tiffany Aching. A SHIVERING OF WORLDS Deep in the Chalk! something is stirring. The owls and the foxes can sense it! and Tiffany Aching feels it in her boots. An old enemy is gathering strength. This is a time of endings and beginnings! old friends and new! a blurring of edges and a shifting of power. Now Tiffany stands between the light and the dark! the good and the bad. As the fairy horde prepares for invasion! Tiffany must summon all the witches to stand with her. To protect the land. Her land. There will be a reckoning. . . . THE FINAL DISCWORLD® NOVEL ...
About the author
Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) is the acclaimed creator of the globally revered Discworld series. In all, he authored more than fifty bestselling books, which have sold more than one hundred million copies worldwide. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal. He was awarded a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to literature in 2009, although he always wryly maintained that his greatest service to literature was to avoid writing any.
Summary
New York Times Bestseller * Locus Award winner
Threatened with an insidious invasion from Fairyland, Tiffany Aching must bring together every witch—and the tiny-but-tough Wee Free Men—in the final Discworld novel by fantasy grandmaster Sir Terry Pratchett.
“A writer of monumental talent.” —Rick Riordan
A SHIVERING OF WORLDS
Deep in the Chalk, something is stirring. The owls and the foxes can sense it, and Tiffany Aching feels it in her boots. An old enemy is gathering strength. This is a time of endings and beginnings, old friends and new, a blurring of edges and a shifting of power. Now Tiffany stands between the light and the dark, the good and the bad.
As the fairy horde prepares for invasion, Tiffany must summon all the witches to stand with her. To protect the land. Her land.
There will be a reckoning....
The Discworld novels can be read in any order, but The Shepherd's Crown is the fifth book in the fabulous and funny Tiffany Aching series, which is comprised of:
- The Wee Free Men
- A Hat Full of Sky
- Wintersmith
- I Shall Wear Midnight
- The Shepherd’s Crown
Tiffany’s mentors, Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, star in the novels
Equal Rites,
Wyrd Sisters,
Witches Abroad,
Lords and Ladies,
Maskerade, and
Carpe Jugulum.
And don’t miss Terry Pratchett’s hilarious and wise Discworld novel
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents!
