Sanderson, Brandon

After twenty years in the Roughs, Waxillium Ladrian is forced by family tragedy to return to Elendel, where he learns the hard way that the elegant tree-lined streets of the city can be more dangerous than the dusty plains of the Roughs.

As Wild Chalklings threaten the American Isles and Rithmatists are humanity's only defense, Joel can only watch as Rithmatist students learn the magical art that he would do anything to practice.

A new epic series by the best-selling writer of Robert Jordan's final Wheel of Time novels introduces the world of Roshar through the experiences of a war-weary royal compelled by visions, a highborn youth condemned to military slavery and a woman who would save her impoverished house.

In a world where breath and color can be used to create mischief and miracles, two sisters, the king one is supposed to marry, a lesser god, and an immortal are all thrown together as they try to protect their land.

When Emperor Ashravan wife is killed by an assassin, he goes into mourning for a hundred days, and if he does not emerge from his mourning, the Heritage Faction will turn into chaos. Forger Shai, having committed a crime, must forge a soul of the emperor to save her life and the empire, and her only ally is the emperor's most loyal councillor, Gatoona.

The Skaa, having slaved in misery for a thousand years under the corrupt, absolute power of the Lord Ruler, still manage to find hope, which rises once again when a criminal mastermind teams up with an unlikely heroine.

Thirteen-year-old Alcatraz Smedry and his companions seek Al's father and grandfather in the Great Library of Alexandria, where they face undead, soul-stealing wraiths called the Curators of Alexandria, and one of the Scrivener's Bones, a part-human, part-machine mercenary.

Not realizing the consequences of killing the Lord Ruler, Vin is also consumed with guilt over releasing Ruin--a mystic force--from its well-prison; and meanwhile Emperor Elend Venture attempts to decipher the clues left behind by the Lord Ruler in order to save the world.