Brandon Sanderson
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2008
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn series is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts action.
For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the "Sliver of Infinity," reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when hope was
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Stormlight archive volume 1
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, Book One of the Stormlight Archive begins an incredible new saga of epic proportion.
Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless
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Secret projects volume 3
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2023.
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"Yumi comes from a land of gardens, meditation, and spirits, while Painter lives in a world of darkness, technology, and nightmares. When their lives suddenly become intertwined in strange ways, can they put aside their differences and work together to uncover the mysteries of their situation and save each other's communities from certain disaster? "--
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Landing on a new planet where he's instantly caught up in the struggle between a tyrant and the rebels, Nomad, in a world under constant threat of a sunrise whose heat will melt the very stones, must gain enough power to leap offworld before he pays the ultimate price.
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"The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, with the simple pleasures of collecting cups brought by sailors from faraway lands and listening to stories told by her friend Charlie. But when his father takes him on a voyage to find a bride and disaster strikes, Tress must stow away on a ship and seek the Sorceress of the deadly Midnight Sea. Amid the spore oceans where pirates abound, can Tress...
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2021
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As Brandon Sanderson's #1 bestselling Skyward series celebrates its third volume, Cytonic, travel back in time to the origin of Cytonics in the novella Defending Elysium.
Centuries before Spensa looked skyward from the planet Detritus—back on Old Earth before it was lost—Jason Write faced a crucial question: was humanity ready to join galactic society?
When faster-than-light communications were discovered by a small telephone
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Secret projects volume 2
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"A man awakes in a clearing in what appears to be medieval England with no memory of who he is, where he came from, or why he is there. Chased by a group from his own time, his sole hope for survival lies in regaining his missing memories, making allies among the locals, and perhaps even trusting in their superstitious boasts. His only help from the "real world" should have been a guidebook entitled The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval...
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Brandon Sanderson's best-selling Alcatraz books feature an unconventional hero and his battles with the forces of evil-Librarians. Traveling to the Free Kingdom city of Crystallia, Alcatraz is shocked to learn that he is a local legend thanks to being kidnapped as a child by his Evil Librarian mother. Soon the city comes under siege by the Librarians, and Alcatraz, his father, his friend Bastille, and his always late-to-the-party grandpa are the only...
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New York Times best-selling author Brandon Sanderson's previous three Alcatraz books have set the stage for this, the epic conclusion to reluctant hero Alcatraz Smedry's conflict with the Evil Librarians- whose ranks include his own mother. The fate of Mokia and the Free Kingdoms rests in the hands of Alcatraz and his cadre of loyal friends. But their fight is made all the more harrowing when the Librarians unleash their army of giant killer robots...
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2008
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn series is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts action.
The impossible has been accomplished. The Lord Ruler — the man who claimed to be god incarnate and brutally ruled the world for a thousand years — has been vanquished. But Kelsier, the hero who masterminded that triumph, is dead too, and now the awesome task of building
11) The alloy of law
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Mistborn novel volume 4
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2011
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332 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
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"Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the wealthy, and the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds. Kelsier, Vin, Elend, Sazed, Spook, and the rest are now part of history--or religion.Yet even as science and technology are reaching new heights, the old magics of Allomancy and Feruchemy...
12) Skyward
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Skyward (Brandon Sanderson) volume 1
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[2018]
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513 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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When a long-term attack against her world by the alien Krell escalates, Spensa's dream of becoming a pilot may come true, despite her deceased father being labeled a deserter.
13) Cytonic
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Skyward (Brandon Sanderson) volume 3
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[2021]
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415 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
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Fighter pilot Spensa Nightshade has been embroiled in an alien empire's war and now, to figure out what she really is, she must leave her world behind to enter the Nowhere, a mysterious realm from which those who enter rarely ever return.
14) Starsight
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Skyward (Brandon Sanderson) volume 2
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[2019]
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461 pages ; 24 cm
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"As if the threat of huge, raging monsters from hyperspace isn't scary enough, hotshot fighter pilot Spensa Nightshade becomes embroiled in an alien empire's politics"--
15) Defiant
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Skyward (Brandon Sanderson) volume 4
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2023.
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420 pages : 24 cm.
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Spensa needs all the knowledge she gathered in the Nowhere to end the Superiority's quest for galactic dominance, but first she must determine how far she is willing to go for victory.
16) Warbreaker
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Warbreaker is the story of two sisters, who happen to be princesses, the God King one of them has to marry, the lesser god who doesn't like his job, and the immortal who's still trying to undo the mistakes he made hundreds of years ago. Their world is one in which those who die in glory return as gods to live confined to a pantheon in Hallandren's capital city and where a power known as BioChromatic magic is based on an essence known as breath that...
17) Awakening
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Trained from birth in swordplay and combat, a young knight named Siris has journeyed to the Dark Citadel with a single purpose: fight through the army of Titans to face the tyrannical God King in one-on-one combat. This was his father's sacred mission, and his father's before him, going back countless generations in an effort to free their people from enslavement. But when Siris somehow succeeds where all those from his bloodline previously have failed,...
18) Redemption
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Long months have passed since Siris and the God King, enemies betrayed together, were left to rot in the prison at the Vault of Tears. Their true enemy -- the Worker of Secrets, creator of the Infinity Bladeitself -- now reigns.
Upon finally obtaining freedom, Siris must unravel plots that seem to make no sense, lead a rebellion with no direction, and fight against the division within his very heart. The secrets unraveled will dig backward in time...
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Después de irrumpir en la escena de la fantasía con su aclamada novela debut, Elantris, y seguir con su exitosa trilogía Mistborn, Brandon Sanderson demuestra una vez más que es el principal maestro de lo que Tolkien llamó "creación secundaria", la invención de mundos enteros, con magias y mitos propios. Warbreaker es la historia de dos hermanas, que resultan ser princesas, el Dios Rey con una de ellas tiene que casarse, el dios menor al que...
20) Edgedancer
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Three years ago, Lift asked a goddess to stop her from growing older-a wish she believed was granted. Now, in Edgedancer, the barely teenage nascent Knight Radiant finds that time stands still for no one. Although the young Azish emperor
granted her safe haven from an executioner she knows only as Darkness, court life is suffocating the free-spirited Lift, who can't help heading to Yeddaw when she hears the relentless Darkness is there hunting people...