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Equal Rites

Name: Equal Rites
Rating: 4.07 (198268 reviews)
Author: Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett January 15, 1987

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The last thing the wizard Drum Billet did, before Death laid a bony hand on his shoulder, was to pass on his staff of power to the eighth son of an eighth son. Unfortunately for his colleagues in the chauvinistic (not to say misogynistic) world of magic, he failed to check on the newborn baby’s sex…

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