{"product_id":"the-way-of-kings-book-one-of-the-stormlight-archive-the-stormlight-archive-1","title":"The Way of Kings: Book One of the Stormlight Archive (The Stormlight Archive, 1)","description":"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, Book One of the Stormlight Archive, begins an incredible new saga of epic proportion.\n\nRoshar 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.\n\nIt 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.\n\nOne 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.\n\nBrightlord 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.\n\nAcross 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.\n\nThe result of over ten years of planning, writing, and world-building, The Way of Kings is but the opening movement of the Stormlight Archive, a bold masterpiece in the making.\n\nSpeak again the ancient oaths:\n\nLife before death.\nStrength before weakness.\nJourney before Destination.\n\nand return to men the Shards they once bore.\n\nThe Knights Radiant must stand again.\n\nOther Tor books by Brandon Sanderson\n\nThe Cosmere\nThe Stormlight Archive\n● The Way of Kings\n● Words of Radiance\n● Edgedancer (novella)\n● Oathbringer\n● Dawnshard (novella)\n● Rhythm of War\n\nThe Mistborn Saga\nThe Original Trilogy\n● Mistborn\n● The Well of Ascension\n● The Hero of Ages\n\nWax and Wayne\n● The Alloy of Law\n● Shadows of Self\n● The Bands of Mourning\n● The Lost Metal\n\nOther Cosmere novels\n● Elantris\n● Warbreaker\n● Tress of the Emerald Sea\n● Yumi and the Nightmare Painter\n● The Sunlit Man\n\nCollection\n● Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection\n\nThe Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians series\n● Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians\n● The Scrivener's Bones\n● The Knights of Crystallia\n● The Shattered Lens\n● The Dark Talent\n● Bastille vs. the Evil Librarians (with Janci Patterson)\n\nOther novels\n● The Rithmatist\n● Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds\n● The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England\n\nOther books by Brandon Sanderson\n\nThe Reckoners\n● Steelheart\n● Firefight\n● Calamity\n\nSkyward\n● Skyward\n● Starsight\n● Cytonic\n● Skyward Flight (with Janci Patterson)\n● Defiant\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0765376679\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: 4EKGU9009YU2_ns\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Sanderson, Brandon\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This copy has clearly been enjoyed—expect noticeable shelf wear and some minor creases to the cover. Binding is strong, and all pages are legible. May contain previous library markings or stamps.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41500085715002,"sku":"4EKGU9009YU2_ns","price":8.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0765376679-0.jpg?v=1783054606","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/the-way-of-kings-book-one-of-the-stormlight-archive-the-stormlight-archive-1","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}