Equal Rites

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B OOKS BY T ERRY P RATCHETT
    The Carpet People
    The Dark Side of the Sun
    Strata · Truckers
    Diggers · Wings
    Only You Can Save Mankind
    Johnny and the Dead · Johnny and the Bomb
    The Unadulterated Cat (with Gray Jollife)
    Good Omens (with Neil Gaiman)
    T HE D ISCWORLD ® S ERIES :
    Going Postal • Monstrous Regiment • Night Watch
    The Last Hero • The Truth • Thief of Time
    The Fifth Elephant • Carpe Jugulum
    The Last Continent · Jingo
    Hogfather • Feet of Clay • Maskerade
    Interesting Times · Soul Music · Men at Arms
    Lords and Ladies · Small Gods
    Witches Abroad · Reaper Man
    Moving Pictures · Eric (with Josh Kirby)
    Guards! Guards! · Pyramids
    Wyrd Sisters · Sourcery · Mort · Equal Rites
    The Light Fantastic · The Color of Magic
    Mort: A Discworld Big Comic (with Graham Higgins)
    The Streets of Ankh-Morpork (with Stephen Briggs)
    The Discworld Companion (with Stephen Briggs)
    The Discworld Mapp (with Stephen Briggs)
    The Pratchett Portfolio (with Paul Kidby)

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    This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
    E QUAL R ITES . Copyright © 1987 by Terry Pratchett. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
    Epub Edition © FEBRUARY 2007 ISBN: 9780061804830
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