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Moist will have to grapple with gallons of grease, goblins, a fat controller with a history of throwing employees down the stairs and some very angry dwarfs if hes going to stop it all. Read raising steam discworld novel 40 by terry pratchett available from rakuten kobo. I could tell which of my fellow tube passengers had downloaded it to their ereaders by the bouts. The first discworld novel, the colour of magic, was published in 1983, after which pratchett wrote an average of two books a year. In all, he was the author of fifty bestselling books.
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