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

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.

Life can kick us when we are down. In Shawn Speakman's case, he is fighting back. Lacking health insurance and diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2011, Speakman beat the disease as well as the massive medical debt he amassed from its treatment. He did this by publishing Unfettered, an anthology featuring short stories donated by some of the best science fiction and fantasy writers working today. Speakman has again collaborated with celebrated genre authors to publish Unfettered II.

David è solo un bambino quando l'oscurità perpetua cala sulla Terra e in cielo compare Calamity, una misteriosa stella che dona a uomini e donne, prima di allora intrappolati nelle loro ordinarie esistenze, poteri fuori dal comune. Questi esseri straordinari vengono ribattezzati con il nome di Epici e ben presto il loro dono li rende avidi di supremazia sugli altri uomini. Due anni più tardi, a Newcago, la città che una volta era stata Chicago, David assiste all'assassinio di suo padre da parte di uno degli Epici più potenti, Steelheart.

Shadows for Silence in the Forest of Hell is a novella set in the Cosmere. Who names their daughter Silence, and what does it imply? Perfect State sets God-Emperor Kairominas on a date.

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. 

More than anything, Joel wants to be a Rithmatist. Chosen by the Master in a mysterious inception ceremony, Rithmatists have the power to infuse life into two-dimensional figures known as Chalklings. Rithmatists are humanity’s only defense against the Wild Chalklings - merciless creatures that leave mangled corpses in their wake. Having nearly overrun the territory of Nebrask, the Wild Chalklings now threaten all of the American Isles. As the son of a lowly chalkmaker at Armedius Academy, Joel can only watch as Rithmatist students study the magical art that he would do anything to practice. Then students start disappearing....

Lacking health insurance when he was diagnosed with cancer, Shawn Speakman asked friends in the science fiction and fantasy writing community to donate short stories he could use to counter mounting medical debt. The result was Unfettered, an anthology offering tales from some of the best authors working today. Now, in Unfettered III, Speakman continues to pay forward the aid he received, raising money to combat medical debt for SF&F artists and authors.

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 Blade itself - 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 toward the origins of the deathless and the true nature of the world itself....

Alcatraz Smedry, practically the world champion of breaking things, never thought his most boring birthday present - a bag of sand - would get him into this much trouble. Yet now he's fleeing from evil Librarians, releasing dinosaurs to create a diversion in the Fiction section, and learning that clumsiness can be a powerful talent! The first in a gripping and action-packed adventure series featuring an unlikely but immensely likeable hero.

A whole army of evil Librarians! And Alcatraz Smedry has only his friend, Bastille; a few pairs of glasses; and an unlimited supply of exploding teddy bears to help him defend the island of Mokia. Even Alcatraz's extraordinary talent for breaking things may not be enough to defeat the evil Librarians' giant robots. Can Alcatraz find a way to save the Free Kingdoms?

Alcatraz Smedry has made it to the Free Kingdoms. Unfortunately, so have the evil Librarians - including his mother. Now all Alcatraz has to do is find a traitor among the Knights of Crystallia, try to be friends with his very unfriendly father, save one of the last bastions of the Free Kingdoms from the enemy, and get his friend, Bastille, reinstated as a real knight. No pressure!

God-Emperor Kairominas is lord of all he surveys. He has defeated all foes, has united the entire world beneath his rule, and has mastered the arcane arts. He spends his time sparring with his nemesis, who keeps trying to invade Kai's world. Except for today. Today Kai has to go on a date. Forces have conspired to require him to meet with his equal - a woman from another world who has achieved just as much as he has.

Alcatraz Smedry is back with a bang - infiltrating the Library of Alexandria, looking for his not-dead-after-all father and discovering a strange golden sarcophagus that might hold the key to his amazing talent for breaking things. Oh, and his best friend Bastille's come along too - for evil-librarian-bashing purposes, of course.

From New York Times number-one best-selling author Brandon Sanderson comes a detective thriller in a police beat like no other. Anthony Davis and his partner, Chaz, are the only real people in a city of 20 million, sent there by court order to find out what happened in the real world 10 days ago so that hidden evidence can be brought to light and located in the real city today. Within the re-created Snapshot of May 1, Davis and Chaz are the ultimate authorities.

Starautor Brandon Sanderson schreibt "im Magic™: The Gathering"-Universum. Von klein auf hat Tacenda die Gabe, ihre Familie vor den Monstern aus den Wäldern zu schützen. Doch diese Macht ist zugleich ihr Fluch, denn Tacenda ist dazu verdammt, ein Leben in ewiger Finsternis zu führen: Sobald die Sonne aufgeht, verliert sie ihr Augenlicht, bis es wieder dunkel wird. Eines Nachts versagt der Schutzzauber, und Tacendas Familie wird von den Ungeheuern getötet. Tacenda glaubt, dass der neue Lord dafür verantwortlich ist. Angeblich steht er mit Dämonen im Bunde.

Hoch in den Bergen jenseits der Stürme liegt die sagenumwobene Stadt Urithiru. An diesem Ort, nachdem sie Dalinar Kholins Armee hierher geführt hat, versucht die junge Edelfrau Schallan Davar nun, die Geheimnisse eines uralten Ordens zu entschlüsseln. Wer waren die Strahlenden Ritter? Und warum wurde der Orden damals aufgelöst? Schallan enthüllt das dunkle Erbe der Stadt Urithiru. Währenddessen begreift Fürst Dalinar, dass seine einst so dringende Mission, die zerstrittenen Fürstenhäuser des Königreichs Alethkar zu vereinen, viel zu klein gedacht war.

Man nennt sie die Splitterklingen - gewaltige Schwerter, deren magische Kraft jedes Material durchtrennt und die ihren Trägern übermenschliche Stärke verleiht. Doch wer genau hinhört, kann im Flüstern der Klingen das Geheimnis einer ganzen Welt entdecken ... Die Völker von Roschar stehen vor der größten Bedrohung seit vielen Tausend Jahren. Eine neue Wüstwerdung droht, die völlige Zerstörung des ganzen Kontinents durch einen gewaltigen magischen Sturm. Hervorgerufen wurde dieser Sturm durch die Parschendi, eines der Völker, das bislang von allen anderen unterdrückt und versklavt wurde.

Selbst der stärkste Gegner ist verwundbar - du musst nur wissen, wo... Als David sechs ist, zerstört eine gewaltige Explosion die Welt, die er kannte. Einige der Überlebenden erlangen Superkräfte, die sie dazu nutzen, sich die übrigen untertan zu machen. Als David acht ist, muss er miterleben, wie einer dieser Superhelden, ein gewisser Steelheart, seinen Vater ermordet. Von da an kennt David nur ein Ziel: herauszufinden, warum sein Vater sterben musste. Und ihn zu rächen.

Tutto ebbe inizio quando Calamity, l'ardente stella rossa, illuminò il cielo, dando inizio all'era dominata dagli Epici. Il destino di David Charleston è stato legato alla loro malvagità fin da quella storica notte. Steelheart ha ucciso suo padre, Firefight ha segnato per sempre la sua vita. Ora non restano che i nemici che abitano Ildithia, la città di sale, il luogo in cui risiedono tutte le risposte e dove avrà inizio la battaglia finale contro gli oppressori.