The #1 New York Times bestselling author returns to the world of Mistborn with the follow-up to Shadows of Self With The Alloy of Law and Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson surprised readers with a New York Times bestselling spinoff of his Mistborn books, set after the action of the trilogy, in a period corresponding to late 19th-century America. Now, with The Bands of Mourning, Sanderson continues the story. The Bands of Mourning are the mythical metalminds owned by the Lord Ruler, said to grant
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Rune has always lived her life in the safety of anonymity, staying away from the public eye. Now, when her secret relationship to a national hero is discovered, she is thrown into the spotlight and caught at the center of a public outcry. In a world where ten percent of the population possesses super powers, and the strong are idolized as heroes and celebrity elite by the press, an unprecedented attack on a military power plant threatens to forever change the status quo. Rune finds
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Pac is a ‘weed killer’ of the economy: a financial promoter whose business mission is to visit and eliminate apparently harmless micro-economic enterprises which are considered a potential threat to the interests of the global market. The destruction of these small enterprises is to be achieved by various swindles aimed at smothering them in debt, or at gaining their control. Pac is firmly convinced that the world as we know it is about to collapse, and that we are about to face the inevitable Apocalypse.
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Secrets and deception, bubbling just below the surface of an idyllic resort town. A secretive group conspiring to do harm. An ongoing assault to life, as we know it. No one was seeking answers, until an outsider arrived. A devastating crisis thrusts a group of new found friends into the midst of an cunningly arranged international incident. A typical teen, living a normal life, is thrust into a disastrous showdown. Lucas Logan is committed to discovering the answer to a perplexing, mysterious substance, before it
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In 2023 the Singularity will arrive. Biotech, nanotech, and artificial intelligence will advance and merge. Mankind’s scientific powers will advance exponentially. Blindness, paralysis, and nearly every other disability will be eliminated and mankind will rejoice in its accomplishments. But there will be a dark side to this scientific leap. In just a few years the world is in chaos. Vicious human-animal hybrids, cybernetic soldiers, and out of control nanotech run wild. Hundreds of thousands of people die and millions are threatened. Then the Embodied appear.
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In the far distant future only the wealthy are protected – by Troops, soldiers in enhanced mechanical suits who protect them from the wild animalistic rovers known as the Mob. Citizens huddle in skyscrapers afraid to to go out after dark and controlled by an omniscient computer. A disillusioned scientist idolizes Templars, a start up military that rose from the post apocalyptic ruins to protect survivors. He builds a time portal to retrieve a Templar to save his world. But if everything he learned about
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In this third book of the Substrate Wars series, ten years have passed since the student rebels invented quantum gateways and tamed the world’s governments. Replicators have ended hunger and need, and colony planets have allowed everyone who wanted independence to settle new worlds. This peace and prosperity is threatened when scientists discover evidence that other civilizations have been destroyed by the planet-scouring Shrivers, who intercept an Earth probe and discover Earth’s location in its memory. The rebels and Earth governments have to cooperate to
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James spent his whole life just trying to be normal, to be accepted, to fit in, and now he finds out that he and his family are freaks. Just having Asperger’s syndrome had been bad enough, but according to what his father told him, he, his brother David, and James himself were all alien hybrids. His father had managed to escape from a military base with this unwelcome information. People with Asperger’s descended from an alien species, so the government wanted to track down, monitor,
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Is it ever too late to do what is right?
A fusion of steampunk and superheroics... this is the Rail. Mix in a healthy dose of human foibles, and you are in for a reading on the ups and downs of paranormals, how people react to them, and how their actions shape (and destroy) the world around them.
Alison Gregory is a beautiful 34 year old woman living alone in rural West Virginia. Never feeling like she fit in anywhere, it became a place where she finally found peace after the tragedy of losing her parents in the disaster of 9/11. That is, until a cryptic message turned her world upside down, and made her question everything she had ever believed in.
Six billion identical clones make up the entire population of Earth, and William 790-6 (57th Iteration) is exactly like everybody else. In his one year of life he will toil in suburban mediocrity and spend as much cash as possible in order to please his corporate masters. When 790’s first birthday (and scheduled execution) finally rolls around, a freak accident spares his life.
Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Job loss has forced them to live in their car, leaving them vulnerable to roving gangs. They desperately need to turn their situation around—and fast. The Positron Project in the town of Consilience seems to be the answer to their prayers. No one is unemployed and everyone gets a comfortable, clean house to live in . . . for six months out of the year. On alternating months, residents of Consilience must leave their homes and function as inmates in the Positron prison system. Once their month of service in the prison is completed, they can return to their "civilian" homes.
The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS.
Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines—puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The second Death Star has been destroyed, the Emperor killed, and Darth Vader struck down. Devastating blows against the Empire, and major victories for the Rebel Alliance. But the battle for freedom is far from over.
