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The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.

Les Radieux, à l’exception de Kaladin et Lift, sont plongés dans l’inconscience et la tour d’Urithiru est tombée entre les mains des Fusionnés. Navani, prisonnière de la Fusionnée Raboniel, mène avec l’aide du sprène de la tour des expériences pour percer les secrets de la lumière. Pendant ce temps, à Shadesmar, Adolin tente une manœuvre risquée pour rallier les sprènes d’honneur à ses côtés, en acceptant d’être jugé au nom de toute la race humaine pour les crimes anciens commis à l’encontre des sprènes. L’affrontement contre Abjection se précise, mais, avant cela, l’humanité a besoin de soldats.

The Bands of Mourning are the mythical metalminds owned by the Lord Ruler, said to grant anyone who wears them the powers that the Lord Ruler had at his command. Hardly anyone thinks they really exist. A kandra researcher has returned to Elendel with images that seem to depict the Bands as well as writings in a language that no one can read. Waxillium Ladrian is recruited to travel south to the city of New Seran to investigate.

Un an a passé depuis les événements de Justicière : le conflit entre les humains et " Ceux-qui-chantent " n’en finit pas, et nos héros peinent à se relever de leurs traumatismes. Un tome qui fait la part-belle à l’introspection psychologique des personnages, tout en explorant de nouveaux recoins du Cosmère, tel que le mystérieux monde de Shadesmar.

The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.

Le Seigneur Maître est tombé. La guerre peut commencer. En mettant fin au règne brutal et millénaire du tyran, ils ont réalisé l'impossible. À présent, Vin, la gamine des rues devenue Fille-des-Brumes, et Elend Venture, le jeune noble idéaliste, doivent construire un nouveau gouvernement sur les cendres de l'Empire. Mais trois armées menées par des factions hostiles, dont celle des monstrueux koloss, font le siège de Luthadel. Alors que l'étau se resserre, une légende évoquant le mystérieux Puits de l'Ascension leur offre une lueur d'espoir.

When a ghost ship is discovered, its crew presumed dead after trying to reach the storm-shrouded island Akina, Navani Kholin must send an expedition to make sure the island hasn't fallen into enemy hands. Knights Radiant who fly too near find their Stormlight suddenly drained, so the voyage must be by sea. Shipowner Rysn Ftori lost the use of her legs but gained the companionship of Chiri-Chiri, a Stormlight-ingesting winged larkin, a species once thought extinct. Now Rysn's pet is ill, and any hope for Chiri-Chiri’s recovery can be found only at the ancestral home of the larkin.

Ten years ago, Calamity came. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary men and women extraordinary powers. The awed public started calling them Epics. But Epics are no friend of man. With incredible gifts came the desire to rule. And to rule man you must crush his will. Nobody fights the Epics...nobody but the Reckoners. A shadowy group of ordinary humans, they spend their lives studying Epics, finding their weaknesses, and then assassinating them. And David wants in. He wants Steelheart - the Epic who is said to be invincible. The Epic who killed David's father.

Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now 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 the old magics of Allomancy and Feruchemy continue to play a role in this reborn world....

From number one best-selling author Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson comes the final of three Skyward series novellas, each told from the perspective of a different member of the team back on Detritus. Listen to Jorgen's story along with Cytonic.

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.

The city of the gods. Elantris once stood as the symbol of all that is beautiful. A sprawling metropolis of unrivaled grandeur, it was a symbol of power and strength, built to be as imposing as it was magnificent. The only thing more glorious than the city itself was its inhabitants, Godlike beings, with silvery skin and hair of the purest flowing white. Able to create powerful magics with a mere wave of their hands, the Elantrians were able to heal mortal wounds and create any object they desired. But Elantris fell...10 years ago.

Au champ de Merrilor, les dirigeants de toutes les nations sont réunis pour soutenir Rand al'Thor ou, au contraire, l'empêcher de briser les sceaux de la prison du Ténébreux. La Chaire d'Amyrlin, Egwene, pense que c'est pure folie. D'autres y voient le dernier espoir de l'humanité.

Spensa’s life as a Defiant Defense Force pilot has been far from ordinary. She proved herself one of the best starfighters in the human enclave of Detritus, and she saved her people from extermination at the hands of the Krell - the enigmatic alien species that has been holding them captive for decades. What’s more, she traveled light-years from home as an undercover spy to infiltrate the Superiority, where she learned of the galaxy beyond her small planet home. Now, the Superiority - the governing galactic alliance bent on dominating all human life - has started a galaxy-wide war.

The city of the gods. Elantris once stood as the symbol of all that is beautiful. A sprawling metropolis of unrivaled grandeur, it was a symbol of power and strength, built to be as imposing as it was magnificent. But Elantris fell...10 years ago.

In this third Alcatraz adventure, Alcatraz Smedry has made it to the Free Kingdoms at last. Unfortunately, so have the evil Librarians—including his mother! Now Alcatraz has to find a traitor among the Knights of Crystallia, make up with his estranged father, and save one of the last bastions of the Free Kingdoms from the Evil Librarians.

Les brumes règnent sur la nuit, le Seigneur Maître sur le monde. Vin ne connaît de l'Empire Ultime que les brumes de Luthadel, les pluies de cendres et le regard d'acier des Grands Inquisiteurs. Depuis plus de 1000 ans, le Seigneur Maître gouverne les hommes par la terreur. Seuls les nobles pratiquent l'allomancie, la précieuse magie des métaux. Mais Vin n'est pas une adolescente comme les autres. Et le jour où sa route croise celle de Kelsier, le plus célèbre voleur de l'Empire, elle est entraînée dans un combat sans merci.

Once the godlike rulers of the capital of Arelon, the inhabitans of Elantris have been imprisoned within themselves, unable to die after the city's magic failed years ago. But when a new prince falls victim to the curse, he refuses to accept his fate.

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.

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 rumors of his cowardice are true - he deserted his flight during battle against the Krell. Worse, though, he turned against his team and attacked them.