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Unseen Academicals: Adapted for the Stage by Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratings‘Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Ankh-Morpork, where we lay our scene…’Football divides the city. Each area has its own team – and rivalry means supporters never mix. Until a Dimwell fan falls for a Dolly Sisters girl.And now an ancient bequest means the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match, without using magic... -
![Die Känguru-Offenbarung by Marc-Uwe Kling]()
Die Känguru-Offenbarung by Marc-Uwe Kling
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsEndlich: Es geht weiter! Nach dem Manifest folgt die Offenbarung! Hier kommt die fulminante Fortsetzung der Fortsetzung: der »Känguru-Chroniken« dritter Teil. Das Beuteltier und der Kleinkünstler auf der Jagd nach dem mysteriösen Pinguin... -
![5 Novels: Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars / Slaves of Spiegel / The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death / The Last Guru / Young Adult Novel by Daniel Pinkwater, Jules Feiffer]()
5 Novels: Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars / Slaves of Spiegel / The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death / The Last Guru / Young Adult Novel by Daniel Pinkwater, Jules Feiffer
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings5 Novels contains five classic novels by Daniel Pinkwater, who has been quietly, subversively producing books for the most intelligent and creative children and young people in America for more than twenty-five years. (Adults may know him as a frequent commentator on National Public Radio, essayist, book reviewer, and the author of The Afterlife Diet)... -
![I'm No Angel by Mark Cain]()
I'm No Angel by Mark Cain
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“Steve Minion is back! For Good. Mostly." Following the lead of Florence Nightingale, Steve’s partner in Eternity, he has returned to Hell to ease the suffering of the Damned. Yet Steve is faced with a dilemma... -
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![Unsong by Scott Alexander]()
Unsong by Scott Alexander
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAaron Smith-Teller works in a kabbalistic sweatshop in Silicon Valley, where he and hundreds of other minimum-wage workers try to brute-force the Holy Names of God. All around him, vast forces have been moving their pieces into place for the final confrontation. An overworked archangel tries to debug the laws of physics... -
![Making Money: The Play by Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett]()
Making Money: The Play by Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPlay based on Terry Pratchett's book, Making Money.Lord Vetinari wants to overhaul the banks of Ankh-Morpork so he appoints former con-man Albert Spangler, aka Moist von Lipwig, to the position of Mater of the Royal Mint, attached to a senior post at the Bank of Ankh-Morpork... -
![Holymoly by Heide Goody, Iain Grant]()
Holymoly by Heide Goody, Iain Grant
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsStephen and his friends spent their teenage years immersed in the fantasy gaming worlds of wizards and warriors, undertaking quests to fight evil occultists, vanquish terrible monsters and rescue damsels in distress. Now, twenty-something years later, there is a real-life quest. Life as a monk has hardly prepared Brother Stephen for the mission ahead... -
![Hooflandia by Heide Goody, Iain Grant]()
Hooflandia by Heide Goody, Iain Grant
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Jeremy Clovenhoof decides to set himself up as President for Life of his own breakaway country, he knows he'll need money, lots and lots of money. That might be a bit difficult, particularly since the Inland Revenue have just presented him with an enormous tax bill and Heaven and Hell have sent Joan of Arc and Rutspud of the Sixth Circle to bring him under control... -
![Critters from the Poo Lagoon : A 24/7 Demon Mart Creature Feature (24/7 Demon Mart Stories Book 2) by D.M. Guay]()
Critters from the Poo Lagoon : A 24/7 Demon Mart Creature Feature (24/7 Demon Mart Stories Book 2) by D.M. Guay
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne loser, one talking cockroach, and one karate-chopping bombshell stand between YOU and the creatures who just crawled out of the toilet at Jennifer Wallace's charity luau. Wait, what? Back up.It's Friday night, and the Wallace family is hosting a charity pool party at Caroline Ford Vanderbilt's super snooty Country Club... -
![It's a Miracle! by H. Claire Taylor]()
It's a Miracle! by H. Claire Taylor
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt would take a miracle for Jessica to live a normal life. Miracles happen when you least expect them. And if you’re Jessica McCloud, God’s only begotten daughter, they happen when you least want them. Is an uneventful senior year of high school too much for Jessica to hope for? Yes. Yes it is... -
![The Reluctant Demon by Mark Cain]()
The Reluctant Demon by Mark Cain
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSatan has made a new demon, and he’s a doozy, maybe the most powerful ever created. There’s just one problem … this freshly-minted hellion isn’t sure he wants the job. In the wacky final volume of the Circles in Hell series, Steve Minion attends Beast Barracks, where he learns both the arcane and mundane arts of being a servant of the Devil... -
![Satan's Shorts by Heide Goody]()
Satan's Shorts by Heide Goody
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCurious about the day that Saint Christopher found out he'd been declared non-existent by the pope? What exactly is a cat in Hell's chance? How would an annual Christmas present exchange between Heaven and Hell work out? Find out the answers to these and other pressing questions in this collection of short stories from the world of Clovenhoof... -
![Hellzapoppin' by Heide Goody, Iain Grant]()
Hellzapoppin' by Heide Goody, Iain Grant
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLife at St Cadfan’s is never dull. There’s the cellar full of unexplained corpses. There’s the struggle to find food when the island is placed under quarantine. And there’s that peculiar staircase in the cellar… Being a demon in Hell has its own problems. There’s the increasingly impossible torture quotas to meet. There’s the entire horde of Hell waiting for you to slip up and make a mistake... -
![Deck the Halls, We're Off the Walls! by Dan Gutman, Jim Paillot]()
Deck the Halls, We're Off the Walls! by Dan Gutman, Jim Paillot
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIt's Christmas, and you know what that means! Santa Claus is coming to town! Or at least to the local mall. But what happens when kid rapper Cray-Z gives a Christmas concert at the same mall and all his fans go bananas? One thing's for sure—if A.J. and his friends from Ella Mentry School want to save the day, they will need a Christmas miracle... -
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![New Teeth by Simon Rich]()
New Teeth by Simon Rich
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLaugh till you cry in this new collection of stories from the award-winning “Serena Williams of humor writing” (New York Times Book Review) about raising babies and trying not to be one. Called a “comedic Godsend” by Conan O’Brien and “the Stephen King of comedy writing” by John Mulaney, Simon Rich is back with New Teeth, his funniest and most personal collection yet... -
![Maskerade: The Play by Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett]()
Maskerade: The Play by Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsA play based on terry pratchett's novel maskerade.All is not well in Ankh-Morpork Opera House. A ghost stalks the corridors, leaving strange letters for the management and killing people. Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, two Lancre witches, investigate. This is an adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel, "Maskerade"... -
![Cockroaches of Stay More by Donald Harington]()
Cockroaches of Stay More by Donald Harington
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith this wonderfully irreverent comic novel, Harington leaves off chronicling the human inhabitants of the Arkansas Ozark town of Stay More and turns his attention to its insect world... -
![Beelzebub: A Memoir by Mark Cain]()
Beelzebub: A Memoir by Mark Cain
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“Do you know me? I am Beelzebub, Lord of the Flies, Prince of Hell, second only to Satan himself in the infernal hierarchy. The Devil, you say? Yes, I’m one of those as well.”Here in one laugh-out-loud volume is the life of Beezy, Satan’s BFF, and one of the most popular characters in the CIRCLES IN HELL universe... -
![John and Dave and the Temple of X'al'naa'thuthuthu by David Wong, Jason Pargin]()
John and Dave and the Temple of X'al'naa'thuthuthu by David Wong, Jason Pargin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe below tale of wonder and horror was written a couple of years ago as a "sequel" to my horror novel John Dies at the End. This unfinished adventure is not included in the print edition of JDatE that is coming out this fall, and right now is an online exclusive.This was part of an early draft of David Wong's totally rad novel This Book Is Full Of Spiders... -
![The Story of God: A Biblical Comedy about Love [and Hate] by Chris Matheson]()
The Story of God: A Biblical Comedy about Love [and Hate] by Chris Matheson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“Part Kurt Vonnegut, part Douglas Adams, but let’s be honest, Matheson had me at ‘Based on the Bible.’” —Dana Gould, comedian and writer The Bible offers some clues to God’s personality—he’s alternately been called vindictive and just, bloodthirsty and caring, all-powerful and impotent, capricious and foresighted, and loving and hateful... -
![A Cold Day In Hell by Mark Cain]()
A Cold Day In Hell by Mark Cain
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"Paranormal humor that can sit on the same shelf with Christopher Moore’s best: madcap lunacy!" Steve and Orson are back in this cracked sequel to Hell's Super, book two in the new satire and humor series, Circles In Hell. This time, the guys must fix Hell's heating and air conditioning (HVAC) system, which has failed... -
![Deal With The Devil by Mark Cain]()
Deal With The Devil by Mark Cain
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA kidnapping, a dangerous new devil: Steve and Orson confront another mystery, involving their closest friends, while Satan tries to recruit Steve to the Demon Corps... -
![Screwtape Proposes A Toast, And Other Pieces by C.S. Lewis]()
Screwtape Proposes A Toast, And Other Pieces by C.S. Lewis
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsScrewtape Proposes a Toast and other... -
![Francis of the Filth by George Miller]()
Francis of the Filth by George Miller
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe tiers are shifting. The omniverses are under attack. And only one man has the chromosomes to make things right. Or does he? Filthy Frank begins life as the harmless creator of extinction level radioactive weapons, but is taken far into the deepest recesses of the omniverses to learn how everything came to be and how everything will be. If it were only that simple... -
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![A Tourist Guide to Lancre by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs]()
A Tourist Guide to Lancre by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNot only an artistic and breathtaking view of Lancre but also an interesting and informative guide to one of the Discworld's more, er, picturesque kingdoms.Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick live there. Lancre could hardly be somwhere ordinary, could it?Magic glues the Discworld together and a lot of it ends up in Lancre, principal Kingdom of the Ramtop Mountains... -
![Fake Dating a Human 101 by Jennifer Kropf]()
Fake Dating a Human 101 by Jennifer Kropf
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe High Court of the Coffee Bean is back again! Only this time there aren't even any cookies.In this fantasy rom com series finale, things take a sinister turn for the Coffee Bean Crew when Shayne Lyro disappears to the Ever Corners to face the family he once knew and assassinate a dreamslipper who's been sending him nightmares and calling him home... -
![Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins]()
Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsThis is a gutsy, fun-loving, and provocative novel in which a bean can philosophises, a dessert spoon mystifies, a young waitress takes on the New York art world, and a rowdy redneck welder discovers the lost god of Palestine... -
![Squids Will be Squids: Fresh Morals, Beastly Fables by Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith]()
Squids Will be Squids: Fresh Morals, Beastly Fables by Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA collection of new and wacky fables with fresh morals, which are about all kinds of bossy, sneaky, funny and annoying people. A general moral offered by the book is, "If you are planning to write fables, don't forget to change people's names and avoid places with high cliffs"... -
![The Flying Sorcerers: More Comic Tales of Fantasy by Peter Haining, Roald Dahl]()
The Flying Sorcerers: More Comic Tales of Fantasy by Peter Haining, Roald Dahl
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis sparkling sequel to WIZARDS OF ODD once again turns logic on its head, with a galaxy of star writers and stories. Terry Pratchett, the arch-priest of the genre, leads off with the eccentric figure of DEATH, on new and curious mission, Roald Dahl plays havoc with country superstition, and Arthur C. Clarke shows the funny side of cosmic doom... -
![The Devil's Storybook by Natalie Babbitt]()
The Devil's Storybook by Natalie Babbitt
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThere are more ways than one to view the Devil and his works. In this collection of ten original stories, Natalie Babbitt offers us a middle-aged Old Scratch with a tender ego, proud of Hell and anxious for his reputation; a plotter at once pompous and naive who has a way of losing as often as he wins. Nothing metaphysical here--this devil, rather, has an all-too-human nature... -
![Lady of Dreams by W.R. Gingell]()
Lady of Dreams by W.R. Gingell
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTo dream from a distance, or wake and risk losing it all? Confined to her couch, Clovis Sohn spends her days and nights dreaming, drifting further away from the outside world with each passing day. But Clovis' dreams are also real, giving her a glimpse into the lives of those around her.. -
![I Knocked Up Satan's Daughter: A Demonic Romantic Comedy by Carlton Mellick III]()
I Knocked Up Satan's Daughter: A Demonic Romantic Comedy by Carlton Mellick III
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJonathan Vandervoo lives a carefree life in a house made of legos, spending his days building lego sculptures and his nights getting drunk with his only friend-an alcoholic sumo wrestler named Shoji. It's a pleasant life with no responsibility, until the day he meets Lici. She's a soul-sucking demon from hell with red skin, glowing eyes, a forked tongue, and pointy red devil horns.. -
![Mythfits by Heide Goody, Iain Grant]()
Mythfits by Heide Goody, Iain Grant
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWHAT are the dangers of getting directions from a fairy tale frog? WHERE do archangels go to kick back and relax? HOW can a garden gnome mend a broken heart? WHO is the last person you’d expect to visit you at Christmas? WHY shouldn’t you let Satan organise your funeral? Find out the answers to these and other pressing questions in this collection of short stories from the authors of the... -
![The Second Coming by John Niven]()
The Second Coming by John Niven
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsGOD'S COMING - LOOK BUSY!God really is coming, and he is going to be pissed. Having left his son in charge, God treated himself to a well-earned break around the height of the Renaissance. A good time to go fishing. He returns in 2011 to find things on earth haven't gone quite to plan.. -
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![Clovenhoof by Heide Goody, Iain Grant]()
Clovenhoof by Heide Goody, Iain Grant
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCharged with gross incompetence, Satan is fired from his job as Prince of Hell and exiled to that most terrible of places: English suburbia... -
![The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs]()
The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsFor more than two decades, Terry Pratchett has been regaling readers with tales of Discworld—a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants, which are standing on the back of a giant turtle, flying through space... -
![The Afterlife of Walter Augustus by Hannah M. Lynn, Rafe Beckley]()
The Afterlife of Walter Augustus by Hannah M. Lynn, Rafe Beckley
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDeath isn’t quite the end, after all. After two centuries stuck in the Interim, a post-death limbo where souls must stay until they’ve been entirely forgotten by the living, Walter Augustus is finally about to move on to whatever comes next. But when Letty Ferguson uncovers the last remaining copy of Walter’s book of poetry, he finds himself in a race against time... -
![One Night with the Prince by T.M. Mendes]()
One Night with the Prince by T.M. Mendes
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe rules were simple.15 girls were chosen from royal bloodlines to be with the Prince. They are given one night each with him, and in the end he shall choose a bride and make her Queen.So how did someone from Montana, USA get involved in something that was supposed to be for those chosen? Anna sure doesn’t know, but she knew that she had to stay away from the Prince as much as she could... -
![The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump by Harry Turtledove]()
The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump by Harry Turtledove
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDavid Fisher, a humble but dedicated bureaucrat of the Environmental Perfection Agency, finds that an evil ancient deity (the sort that likes human sacrifices) is about to take over L.A. -- unless he can stop it... -
![The Management Style of the Supreme Beings by Tom Holt]()
The Management Style of the Supreme Beings by Tom Holt
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsManagement Style of the Supreme... -
![Castle for Rent by John DeChancie]()
Castle for Rent by John DeChancie
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOnce upon a time, the king of a mysterious castle found himself out of place. The odd thing was that the time was the future and the place was New York City! Castle Perilous had been a universe unto itself until it started living up to its name. Now it is a gateway to thousands of universes, each increasingly bizarre and more bewildering... -
![A Collegiate Casting-Out of Devilish Devices by Terry Pratchett]()
A Collegiate Casting-Out of Devilish Devices by Terry Pratchett
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFree online fiction... -
![Mercury Begins by Robert Kroese]()
Mercury Begins by Robert Kroese
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTravel to ancient Troy with the irrepressible angel Mercury as he masterminds the most unnecessarily complicated sneak attack in history! Never read any of the Mercury books? Start here! Already read one or more of the books? Also OK! There's no wrong way to read this story, unless you're using a spatula and a bowl full of goose feathers... -
![The Golem of Brooklyn by Adam Mansbach]()
The Golem of Brooklyn by Adam Mansbach
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn Ashkenazi Jewish folklore, a golem is a humanoid being created out of mud or clay and animated through secret prayers. Its sole purpose is to defend the Jewish people against the immediate threat of violence. It is always a rabbi who makes a golem, and always in a time of crisis... -
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![The Limpet Syndrome by Tony Moyle]()
The Limpet Syndrome by Tony Moyle
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhat happens to us when we die? What if the religious and scientific beliefs are wrong. Perhaps there's some truth in both view points...or none at all. Imagine there was a politician whose only ambition was to corrupt and manipulate the very people who elected him, without them even knowing it. This was Byron T Casey’s ambition... -
![The Second Tom Holt Omnibus: My Hero - Who's Afraid of Beowulf? by Tom Holt]()
The Second Tom Holt Omnibus: My Hero - Who's Afraid of Beowulf? by Tom Holt
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo fantastic comic fantasies - MY HERO and WHO'S AFRAID OF BEOWULF? - reissued with brilliant new cover style.This omnibus brings together two of Tom Holt's best-loved stories. In My Hero, Jane thinks writing novels is a piece of cake. Until hers starts writing back. At which point, she really should stop. The one thing she should not do is go into the book herself... -
![Downfall of the Gods by K.J. Parker]()
Downfall of the Gods by K.J. Parker
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIf you visit the Temple and ask nicely for forgiveness, you might get it — assuming you aren’t Lord Archias and you haven’t killed the Goddess’s favorite musician, Lysippus. But even goddesses are expected to follow certain rules, and as much as she wants to punish Lord Archias it seems her troublesome, all-powerful father forbids it... -
![The Cabal of Thotash by J. Zachary Pike]()
The Cabal of Thotash by J. Zachary Pike
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Cabal of Thotash has languished for years within their poorly-ventilated Manhattan lair. All of their rituals to summon an ancient malice and help it unmake reality have accomplished little beyond annoying the upstairs neighbor... -
![As One Devil to Another by Richard Platt]()
As One Devil to Another by Richard Platt
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"As One Devil to Another" is an astonishing debut work that C. S. Lewis's biographer and foremost Lewis authority Walter Hooper calls "a stunning achievement, the finest example of the genre of diabolical correspondence to appear since this genre was popularized by C. S. Lewis." Enter into this chilling and diabolical tale, one that reveals the very tricks and strategies of Hell...
![The Story of God: A Biblical Comedy about Love [and Hate] by Chris Matheson](https://48f-1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/books/small/6240ec8da911d2c3cdd96a9b.jpg)
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