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Wheel of time volume 12
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Tarmon Gaidon, the Last Battle, looms. And mankind is not ready. The final volume of the Wheel of Time, A Memory of Light, was partially written by Robert Jordan before his untimely passing in 2007. Brandon Sanderson, New York Times bestselling author of the Mistborn books, was chosen by Jordans editor---his wife, Harriet McDougal---to complete the final book. The scope and size of the volume was such that it could not be contained...
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Wheel of time volume 3
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Rand Al'Thor is the Dragon Reborn, the leader who will save the world but in the process destroy it. He is able to touch the One Power but cannot control it. He knows only that he must face the Dark One in a battle to the death.
23) Knife of Dreams
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Wheel of time volume 11
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[2005]
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"The dead are walking, men die impossible deaths, and it seems as though reality itself has become unstable: All are signs of the imminence of Tarmon Gai'don, the Last Battle, when Rand al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, must confront the Dark One as humanity's only hope. But Rand dares not fight until he possesses all the surviving seals on the Dark One's prison and has dealt with the Seanchan, who threaten to overrun all nations this side of the Aryth...
24) Briar Rose
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. . . Around the castle there grew a hedge of thorns, which every year grew higher, and at last there was nothing more to be seen, not even the flag upon the roof. But the story of the beautiful sleeping princess, Briar Rose, went about the country so that from time to time the King's sons came and tried to get through the thorny hedge . . . So goes the German fairy tale of Briar Rose, the Sleeping Beauty ... an old, old tale, yet so potent that few...
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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...
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Mistborn novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2008.
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Vin, the former street urchin and protege of Kelsier, is now heir to the Mistborn and the new world Kelsier created. When a mad race of giants attempt to take the former capital, Luthadel, Vin and her rebel allies must save the city and its hidden cache of allomancy metals from siege.
27) The elvenbane
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Halfblood chronicles volume 1
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Raised by dragons, the halfbreed Shana is the fulfillment of the Prophecy that will change the world of Elvenbane.
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Wheel of time volume 6
Pub. Date
1994
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Rand Al'thor, the Dragon Reborn, faces a threat to his throne; Perrin Goldeneyes, Lord of the Two Rivers, prepares to march; and Morgase of Caemlyn finds an unwelcome ally.
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Wheel of time volume 8
Pub. Date
1998
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After Nynaeve and his friends conquer the Seanchan forces they travel to Caemyln to reclaim the throne, but on their way they encounter enemies more powerful than they imagined, and they may have to sacrifice their lives to save the world.
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c1984
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They were the last of the great warrior brotherhoods. Many of them were cruel-men who found, as mercenaries, an outlet for their dark natures; some were men of honor who maintained high standards of professionalism, no matter how foul the deeds they performed; all of them were hard, for warfare hardens men,,, if they are to survive.