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The thirteenth novel in the Wheel of Time series - one of the most influential and popular fantasy epics ever published. The Last Battle has started. The seals on the Dark One's prison are crumbling. The Pattern itself is unravelling, and the armies of the Shadow have begun to spill out of the Blight. Perrin Aybara is haunted by spectres from his past. To prevail, he must find a way to master the wolf within him or lose himself to it for ever. Meanwhile, Matrim Cauthon prepares for the most difficult challenge of his life. The Tower of Ghenjei awaits, and its secrets will reveal the fate of a friend long lost. The end draws near. It's time to roll the dice. 'Epic in every sense' Sunday Times 'With the Wheel of Time, Jordan has come to dominate the world that Tolkien began to reveal' New York Times '[The] huge ambitious Wheel of Time series helped redefine the genre' George R. R. Martin 'A fantasy phenomenon' SFX The Wheel of Time The Eye of the World The Great Hunt The Dragon Reborn The Shadow Rising The Fires of Heaven Lord of Chaos A Crown of Swords The Path of Daggers Winter's Heart Crossroads of Twilight Knife of Dreams The Gathering Storm Towers of Midnight A Memory of Light New Spring (prequel) The Wheel of Time Companion

The final novel in the Wheel of Time series - one of the most influential and popular fantasy epics ever published. 'And it came to pass in those days, as it had come before and would come again, that the Dark lay heavy on the land and weighed down the hearts of men, and the green things failed, and hope died.' - Charal Drianaan te Calamon, The Cycle of the Dragon. In the Field of Merrilor the rulers of the nations gather to join behind Rand al'Thor, or to stop him from his plan to break the seals on the Dark One's prison - which may be a sign of his madness, or the last hope of humankind. Egwene, the Amyrlin Seat, leans toward the former. In Andor, the Trollocs seize Caemlyn. In the wolf dream, Perrin Aybara battles Slayer. Approaching Ebou Dar, Mat Cauthon plans to visit his wife Tuon, now Fortuona, Empress of the Seanchan. All humanity is in peril - and the outcome will be decided in Shayol Ghul itself. The Wheel is turning, and the Age is coming to its end. The Last Battle will determine the fate of the world . . 'Epic in every sense' Sunday Times

The twelfth novel in the Wheel of Time series - one of the most influential and popular fantasy epics ever published. Tarmon Gai'don, the Last Battle, looms. And mankind is not ready. Rand al'Thor struggles to unite a fractured network of kingdoms and alliances in preparation for the Last Battle, as his allies watch in terror the shadow that seems to be growing within the heart of the Dragon Reborn himself. Egwene al'Vere is a captive of the White Tower and subject to the whims of their tyrannical leader. She works to hold together the disparate factions of Aes Sedai, as the days tick toward the Seanchan attack she knows is imminent. Her fight will prove the mettle of the Aes Sedai, and her conflict will decide the future of the White Tower - and possibly the world itself. 'Epic in every sense' Sunday Times 'With the Wheel of Time, Jordan has come to dominate the world that Tolkien began to reveal' New York Times '[The] huge ambitious Wheel of Time series helped redefine the genre' George R. R. Martin 'A fantasy phenomenon' SFX The Wheel of Time The Eye of the World The Great Hunt The Dragon Reborn The Shadow Rising The Fires of Heaven Lord of Chaos A Crown of Swords The Path of Daggers Winter's Heart Crossroads of Twilight Knife of Dreams The Gathering Storm Towers of Midnight A Memory of Light New Spring (prequel) The Wheel of Time Companion

Speak again the ancient oaths: Life before death. Strength before weakness. Journey before Destination. Return to men the Shards they once bore. The Knights Radiant must stand again. Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Cities are built only where the topography offers shelter. It has been centuries since the fall of the ten consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate remain: mystical swords and suits of armor that transform ordinary men into near-invincible warriors. Men trade kingdoms for Shardblades. Wars were fought for them, and won by them. One such war rages on a ruined landscape called the Shattered Plains. There, Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear to protect his little brother, has been reduced to slavery. In a war that makes no sense, where ten armies fight separately against a single foe, he struggles to save his men and to fathom the leaders who consider them expendable. Brightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. Like his brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called The Way of Kings. Troubled by over-powering visions of ancient times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun to doubt his own sanity. Across the ocean, an untried young woman named Shallan seeks to train under an eminent scholar and notorious heretic, Dalinar's niece, Jasnah. Though she genuinely loves learning, Shallan's motives are less than pure. As she plans a daring theft, her research for Jasnah hints at secrets of the Knights Radiant and the true cause of the war.

The Stormlight Archive saga continues in Rhythm of War, the eagerly awaited sequel to Brandon Sanderson's #1 New York Times bestselling Oathbringer, from an epic fantasy writer at the top of his game. After forming a coalition of human resistance against the enemy invasion, Dalinar Kholin and his Knights Radiant have spent a year fighting a protracted, brutal war. Neither side has gained an advantage, and the threat of a betrayal by Dalinar's crafty ally Taravangian looms over every strategic move. Now, as new technological discoveries by Navani Kholin's scholars begin to change the face of the war, the enemy prepares a bold and dangerous operation. The arms race that follows will challenge the very core of the Radiant ideals, and potentially reveal the secrets of the ancient tower that was once the heart of their strength. At the same time that Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with his changing role within the Knights Radiant, his Windrunners face their own problem: As more and more deadly enemy Fused awaken to wage war, no more honorspren are willing to bond with humans to increase the number of Radiants. Adolin and Shallan must lead the coalition's envoy to the honorspren stronghold of Lasting Integrity and either convince the spren to join the cause against the evil god Odium, or personally face the storm of failure.

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 turned against his team and attacked them. Spensa is sure there's more to the story. And she's sure that whatever happened to her father in his starship could happen to her. When she made it outside the protective shell of her planet, she heard the stars - and it was terrifying. What she learned turned her world upside down. Everything Spensa's been taught is a lie. But Spensa also learned a few things about herself - and she'll travel to the end of the galaxy to save humankind if she needs to.

Spense se podařilo získat si respekt. Už se nepotuluje po jeskyních a neživí se potkaním masem, ale jako zručná pilotka svádí boj s Krelly, kteří usilují o vyhlazení lidstva na planetě Detritus. Teď ji ale čeká další náročný úkol. V přestrojení za mimozemšťanku Alanik se musí dostat mezi úhlavní nepřátele, kteří se nacházejí o mnoho světelných let dál, na umělé planetě Výhled na hvězdy. Tady se má pod velením Nejvyšší instance připravovat na boj proti pátračům, děsivé síle, která se tu a tam vynoří z území nikoho a dokáže pohltit všechno živé. Netuší ovšem, že celý výcvik je jen zástěrka pro něco mnohem strašlivějšího. A pokud bude chtít přežít, musí se nejen spojit s mimozemskými bytostmi, ale naučit se využívat své cytonické schopnosti.

Zdrcený a zbavený síly se Kenton snaží udržet dunmistry pohromadě proti politickým i osobním soupeřům, kteří se proti nim spikli. Rozhoduje jediný okamžik, v němž si musí sáhnout až na dno svých schopností, aby se mohl postavit protivníkům z vlastních řad a objevit pravdu o přepadení, které připravilo o život jeho otce a téměř zničilo dunmistrovství jako takové. Bílý písek představuje nový, rychle se vyvíjející a akcí nabitý segment úžasné kosmírské série Brandona Sandersona, nejprodávanějšího autora New York Times.

Planeta Taldain je rozdělená na dvě poloviny - jedna strana se trvale koupe v paprscích žhavého slunce, zatímco druhá zůstává stále zahalená temnotou. Denní strana tradičně uctívala legendární dunmistry pro jejich magickou schopnost ovládat bílý písek, dominující celé krajině. Potom, co jejich řady zdecimoval brutální útok, se dunmistri semkli pod vedením nezkušeného Kentona, aby čelili tajným spiklencům i neskrývaným odpůrcům na Denní straně v boji o holou existenci. Magie, intriky a tajemství provázejí Kentona na každém kroku ipotom, co spojí síly s Khriss, vévodkyní z Noční strany, jejíž zájmy se zdánlivě prolínají s jeho. Do jaké míry jí ovšem může důvěřovat?

Na planetě Taldain ovládají legendární dunmistři tajemné umění manipulace s pískem, jímž dosahují ohromujících efektů. Když se však stanou cílem vražedného spiknutí, přežije jenom jeden z nich, ten nejslabší, Kenton. Ze všech stran obklopen nepřáteli, uzavírá Kenton zvláštní partnerství s tajemnou ženou z Noční strany Khriss, která je sama plná svých tajemství.

Háromszáz évvel a Ködszerzet-trilógia után Scadrial a modern kor küszöbén áll - vasútvonalak egészítik ki a csatornákat, elektromos világítás ad fényt az utcákon és a vagyonosok otthonaiban, az első acélvázas felhőkarcolók pedig egymással versenyezve törnek az ég felé. Az Elmúlás Pántjai az Uralkodó legendás fémelméi; a történetek szerint az Uralkodó hatalmával ruházzák fel viselőjüket. Létezésükben csupán maroknyian hisznek. Egy napon aztán egy kandra kutató tér vissza Elendelbe, és az általa készített képek mintha a Pántokat ábrázolnák, valamint szövegeket egy olyan nyelven, amelyet senki sem ismer. Waxillium Ladrian feladata, hogy délre utazzon Új-Seran városába és nyomozni kezdjen a titokzatos felfedezéssel kapcsolatban. Az úton azonban olyan információk birtokába jut, amelyek nagybátyja, Edwarn, és a Pakli nevű rejtélyes szervezet valódi céljaira vethetnek fényt...

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 turned against his team and attacked them. Spensa is sure there's more to the story. And she's sure that whatever happened to her father in his starship could happen to her. When she made it outside the protective shell of her planet, she heard the stars - and it was terrifying. What she learned turned her world upside down. Everything Spensa's been taught is a lie. But Spensa also learned a few things about herself - and she'll travel to the end of the galaxy to save humankind if she needs to.

Série Spousta je trojicí příběhů Stefana Leedse, přezdívaného Spousta vzhledem k tomu, že jeho unikátní psychika dokáže v halucinacích vytvořit spoustu samostatně existujících aspektů jeho osobnosti, které s ním vytvářejí funkční tým. Je geniálním řešitelem záhad, protože každý jeho aspekt je specialistou v určité odbornosti, a proto je také - ke své značné nelibosti - středem pozornosti psychiatrů a vědců, kteří ho stíhají na každém kroku.

Série Spousta je trojicí příběhů Stefana Leedse, přezdívaného Spousta vzhledem k tomu, že jeho unikátní psychika dokáže v halucinacích vytvořit spoustu samostatně existujících aspektů jeho osobnosti, které s ním vytvářejí funkční tým. Je geniálním řešitelem záhad, protože každý jeho aspekt je specialistou v určité odbornosti, a proto je také - ke své značné nelibosti - středem pozornosti psychiatrů a vědců, kteří ho stíhají na každém kroku.

Spensa's world has been under attack for hundreds of years. An alien race called the Krell leads onslaught after onslaught from the sky in a never-ending campaign to destroy humankind. Humanity's only defense is to take to their ships and fight the enemy in the skies. Pilots have become the heroes of what's left of the human race. Spensa has always dreamed of being one of them; of soaring above Earth and proving her bravery. But her fate is intertwined with her father's - a pilot who was killed years ago when he abruptly deserted his team, placing Spensa's chances of attending flight school somewhere between slim and none. No one will let Spensa forget what her father did, but she is still determined to fly. And the Krell just made that a possibility. They've doubled their fleet, making Spensa's world twice as dangerous . . . but their desperation to survive might just take her skyward . . .

Planety, na kterých může žít člověk, jsou obdařeny atmosférou. Ale Detritus má ještě něco navíc. Suťový pás, který pokrývá nebe od obzoru k obzoru. Jen občas se v jednom místě rozestoupí a jsou vidět hvězdy. A někdo je i slyší... Dospívající dívka Spensa vyrůstá ve všeobecném opovržení, její otec se v historické bitvě proti invazním Krellům údajně zachoval jako zbabělec a její sny, že by ho následovala v kariéře pilotky hvězdné stíhačky, jsou značně nereálné. Přesto se však nehodlá vzdát. Snaží se dívat dál a výš než ostatní. Snaží se pochopit, co se kdysi stalo jejímu otci. Proč lidstvo muselo hledat azyl na téhle odlehlé planetě. A kdo jsou Krellové, kteří se snaží zlikvidovat jejich civilizaci. Její cesta ji postupně vede k závěru, že vysoko nad suťovým pásem se nacházejí odpovědi na její otázky. Musí se však naučit naslouchat řeči hvězd.