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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, who completed Robert Jordan's bestselling Wheel of Time? sequence, come a Mistborn adventure which combines ancient magic, a dangerous faction operating from he shadows, political intrigue and magical, martial-arts action. The Bands of...

As a Knight of Crystallia, I, Bastille, swore to protect the Smedry clan from the Evil Librarians. (And believe me, screwups like them constantly need protecting.) But when Alcatraz Smedry got strapped to an altar of outdated encyclopedias to be sacrificed to the dark gods, I arrived too late—and instead his father took his place. Now Alcatraz is a blubbering mess, so it's up to me lead the charge against his father's killer: Biblioden, founder of the Evil Librarians—I was sure he died centuries ago!—who's back to complete his goal of world domination.

Hace años tenía compañeros de armas y una causa en la que creer, pero ahora el hombre que se hace llamar Nómada solo conoce la vida a la fuga. Obligado a saltar de un mundo a otro en el Cosmere cada vez que la implacable Brigada Nocturna le gana demasiado terreno, Nómada acaba en un nuevo planeta y de inmediato se ve implicado en la trifulca entre un tirano y los rebeldes que solo pretenden evitar que los conviertan en esclavos sin mente. Y todo bajo la amenaza constante de un amanecer cuyo calor derrite la misma piedra.

As a Knight of Crystallia, I, Bastille, swore to protect the Smedry clan from the Evil Librarians. (And believe me, screwups like them constantly need protecting.) But when Alcatraz Smedry got strapped to an altar of outdated encyclopedias to be sacrificed to the dark gods, I arrived too late—and instead his father took his place. Now Alcatraz is a blubbering mess, so it’s up to me lead the charge against his father’s killer: Biblioden, founder of the Evil Librarians—I was sure he died centuries ago—who’s back to complete his goal of world domination.

Stephen Leeds is perfectly sane. It's his hallucinations who are mad. A genius of unrivaled aptitude, Stephen can learn any new skill, vocation, or art in a matter of hours. However, to contain all of this, his mind creates hallucinatory people - Stephen calls them aspects - to hold and manifest the information. Wherever he goes, he is joined by a team of imaginary experts to give advice, interpretation, and explanation. He uses them to solve problems...for a price. Then a company hires him to recover stolen property - a camera that can allegedly take pictures of the past....

In his second skirmish against the Evil Librarians who rule the world, Alcatraz and his ragtag crew of freedom fighters track Grandpa Smedry to the ancient and mysterious Library of Alexandria. Hushlanders - people who live in the Librarian-controlled lands of Canada, Europe, and the Americas - believe the Library was destroyed long ago. Free Kingdomers know the truth: the Library of Alexandria is still around, and it’s one of the most dangerous places on the planet. For it is the home of the scariest Librarians of them all: a secret sect of soul-stealing Scriveners. 

Elantris was built on magic, and it thrived. But then the magic began to fade, and Elantris began to rot. Now its shattered citizens face domination by a powerful Imperium. Can a young Princess unite the people of Elantris and lead a rebellion against the imperial zealots? Brandon Sanderson's debut fantasy showed his skill as a storyteller and an imaginer of baroque magical systems to be fully developed from the start.

El mundo lleva siglos en guerra; la humanidad está atrapada en un planeta constantemente atacado por unos alienígenas decididos a destruirla. Los pilotos son los únicos héroes dispuestos a combatir al enemigo. Spensa es una joven que siempre ha soñado con convertirse en piloto y defender a la Tierra. Pero su destino se cruza con el de su padre,un piloto que fue asesinado tras abandonar a su equipo, anulando sus opciones de asistir a la escuela de vuelo. De pronto, el ataque alienígena ha hecho duplicar la flota aérea de los humanos, facilitando que Spensa ahora sí pueda volar al espacio...

All her life, Spensa has dreamed of becoming a pilot. Of proving she's a hero like her father. She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned about her father were crushing. The rumours of his cowardice are true - he deserted his flight during battle against the Krell. Worse, though, he...

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 can only be collected one unit at a time from individual people.

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 can only be collected one unit at a time from individual people.

Roschar ist eine sturmumtoste Welt, die über Jahrtausende von übermenschlichen Kriegern regiert wurde, deren Schwerter jedes Leben auslöschen konnten. Doch die magischen Krieger sind verschwunden und Roschar droht zu zerfallen. Das Schicksal der Welt liegt nun in den Händen derer, die es wagen, die magischen Schwerter zu ergreifen.

THE INTERNATIONAL PHENOMENON BEHIND THE COSMERE A COMPANION STORY TO THE ORIGINAL MISTBORN TRILOGY **** There's always another secret. Mistborn: Secret History is a companion story to the original Mistborn trilogy. As such, it contains HUGE SPOILERS for the books Mistborn (The Final Empire), The...

This outstanding collection of short stories features some of the best of Tor.com original fiction, in audio for the first time. Written for and originally published exclusively on Tor.com, this audiobook includes Nebula and World Fantasy Award-nominated short stories, brand-new fiction from best-selling authors, and tales that feature characters and worlds that listeners already know and love. In this unique story collection, listeners will enjoy fiction from Sylvia Day, John Scalzi, Brandon Sanderson, and many others.

Das Rad der Zeit dreht sich weiter und die Letzte Schlacht beginnt. Die Menschheit ist noch nicht bereit. Rand al' Thor, der Wiedergeborene Drache, setzt alles daran, die Feindseligkeiten zwischen den Königreichen beizulegen und Allianzen zu schmieden. Denn die Bedrohung durch die Anhänger des dunklen Königs wächst. Und die Seanchaner setzen ihren unerbittlichen Feldzug fort.

Das Letzte Reich ist Vergangenheit, der Oberste Herrscher besiegt. Das jetzt freie Volk der Skaa und die Nebelgeborenen blickten hoffnungsvoll in die Zukunft. Doch um wirklich ein neues glückliches Zeitalter herbeizuführen, müssen die Helden um Rebellenanführerin Vin und den neuen König Elant noch einige Prüfungen bestehen. Es gilt Kriege mit neuen Feinden zu bestreiten – und nun muss auch noch ein uraltes Grauen besiegt und das Land von einem tödlichen Fluch befreit werden.

Die Welt Roschar wird von Stürmen und Machtkämpfen erschüttert. Der Krieg zwischen dem Volk von Alethkar und den geheimnisvollen Parshendi tobt bereits jahrelang - ein Krieg, der magische Geheimnisse aus dunkler Vergangenheit heraufbeschwört. Ein Krieg, in dem einfache Menschen als Helden aufstehen, Jäger zu Gejagten werden und sich Magie in Fluch verwandeln kann.

"Vos pouvoirs viendront quand vous serez prêt, pas avant, expliqua le Père-des-tempêtes. On ne peut ni les hâter, ni les forcer. Vous possédez le pouvoir qu’Ishar détenait autrefois. Avant qu’il soit le Héraut de la Chance, on l’appelait Celui-qui-lie-les-dieux. Il fut le fondateur du Pacte Sacré. Aucun Radieux n’est capable d’accomplir davantage que vous. Votre pouvoir est celui du Lien, qui unit les hommes et les mondes, les esprits et les âmes. Vos Flux sont les plus grands de tous, mais ils seront impuissants si vous cherchez à les manier uniquement pour le combat. "

Si la isla de Mokia cae, también podrían caer el resto de los Reinos Libres. Y entonces todo el mundo estaría bajo el dominio de los Bibliotecarios Malvados. ¿Logrará Alcatraz salvarlos a todos una vez más?

Teil 1 des neuen Sturmlicht-Chroniken-Romans von Fantasy-Superstar Brandon Sanderson Auf der Welt Roschar brechen Konflikte auf, die schon seit Tausenden Jahren schwelen. Dalinar Kholin, der Bruder des ermordeten Großkönigs und nun der Anführer der Strahlenden Ritter, hat den bösen Gott Odium zu einem Wettkampf herausgefordert. Jetzt haben die Königreiche Roschars nur zehn Tage Zeit, um sich auf das Schlimmste vorzubereiten. Das Schicksal der gesamten Welt – und das von ganz Kosmeer – steht auf Messers Schneide.