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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.
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Unpretentious, classical in form, resolved and plot-driven.
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Brandon Sanderson
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 322
- Publisher
- Akil Çelen Kitaplar, Orion Children's Books (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), MANGO
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- Polish, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9781444006735
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Brandon Sanderson (born December 19, 1975) is an American author known for his intricate and imaginative works in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, Sanderson developed a passion for writing at a young age. He attended Brigham Young University, where he studied English and later earned a master's degree in creative writing. Sanderson is best known for creating the Cosmere, a vast fictional universe that encompasses many of his fantasy novels, where they share subtle connections and a common mythology, including the *Mistborn* series and *The Stormlight Archive*. The *Mistborn* trilogy, starting with the novel [*Mistborn: The Final Empire*][3], is a thrillin
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