Going Postal by Terry Pratchett Publisher: Harper Year: 2004 Hardcover Paperback Audiobook Kindle

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A splendid send-up of government bureaucracy, corruption, the postal system, and everything in between in this ingenious entry in Sir Terry Pratchett’s internationally bestselling Discworld series.

By all rights, Arch-swindler Moist von Lipwig should be meeting his maker at the end of a noose. Instead, Lord Vetinari, supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork, has made him the city’s Postmaster General. Death may be preferable to fixing the Postal Service - a creaky, outdated institution beset by eccentric employees, mountains of old, undelivered mail Moist swears is talking to him, and a dangerous secret order. To restore the postal service to its former glory, Moist accepts the help of the tough talking and very attractive activist Adora Belle Dearheart.

But to succeed, Moist must overcome two formidable foes - new technology and the greedy chairman of a communication monopoly who will stop at nothing to delay Ankh-Morpork’s post for good . . .

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• Jim Acosta
• Margot Adler
• H. P. Albarelli Jr.
• Madeleine Albright
• Steve and Karen Alexander
• Svetlana Alexievich
• Joseph Minton Amann
• Ted Andrews
• Anonymous
• Delores Ashcroft Norwicki
• Isaac Asimov
• Margaret Atwood
• John Avlon