Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians

Brandon Sanderson · 2007

On his thirteenth birthday Alcatraz gets a bag of sand and learns the world is secretly run by a cult of librarians. His talent is breaking things.

The first Alcatraz book, and Sanderson at his most deliberately silly. On his thirteenth birthday Alcatraz Smedry receives a bag of sand and learns that the world’s libraries are a front for a cult of Evil Librarians who have been quietly editing reality. His family’s magical Talents are all uselessly specific; his is breaking things. Narrated by Alcatraz himself, who spends much of the book insisting he is not a hero and lying to you about the plot.

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