Mistborn, The Final Empire: For a thousand years, the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years Skaa slaved in miseru and lived in fear. For a thousand years, the Lord Ruler, the "Sliver of Infinity," reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred, heartbroken hlf-Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Ruler's most hellish prison. Kelsier "snapped" and found in himself the powers of a Mistborn. A brilliant theif and natural leader, he turned his talents to the ultimate caper, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark.

Kelsier recruits the underworld's elite, the smartest and most trustworth allomancers, each of whom shares one of his many powers. and all of whom relish a high-stakes challange. Then Kelsier reveals his ultamite dream, not just the greatest heist in history, but the downfall of the divie desoit.

But even with the best criminal crew ever assambled, Kel's plan looks more like the ultimate long shot, until luck brings a ragged girl named Vin into his life. Like ime, she's a half-Skaa orphan, but she's lived a much harsher life. Vin has learned to expect betrayak from everyone she meets. She will have to learn trust if Kel is to help her master powers of which she never dreamed.

Brandon Sanderson, [a] master tale-spinner and author of the acclaimed debut Elantris, dares to turn a genre on its head by asking a simple question: What if the prophesied hero failed to defeat the Dark Lord? The answer will be found in the Mistborn Trilogy, a saga of surpises that begins with with the book in your hands. Fantasy will never be the same again.
--summary from Mistborn, The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson

MistBorn, The Well of Ascension: The impossible has ben accomplished. The Lord Ruler --the man who claimed to be god incarnate and brutally ruled the world for a thousand years--has been vanquished. But Kelsier, the hero who masterminded that triumph, is dead, too. The awesome task of building a new world has been left to his young protégée, Vin, the former street urchin who is now the most powerful Mistborn in the land, and to Elend Venture, the idealistic yuong nobleman who loves her.

The Lord Ruler's empirenhas broken into its component parts. In the formal imperial capital of Luthadel, Elend is the new king of the Central Dominance, ruling with the help of an elected assembly he insisted on, a body with the power to depose him. The new kings of the oher Dominances --most notably Elend's ruthless father, Straff Venture-- aren't waiting on that chance, and assassination attempts are frequent.

Vin is wearing herself out trying to protect Elend. Stopping assassins does kepp her Mistborn skills sharp, but it is not her only problem. As Kelsier's heir and slayer of the Lord Ruler, Vin is venerated by a rapidly growing new religion, a distinction that makes her intensely uncomfortable. Even more disturbing, the mists have begun behaving ominously since the Lord Ruler died and harbor a strange vaporous entity that seems to be haunting her.

Three armies--one composed of ferocious giants--are approching to vie for Luthadel's conquest. The city's half- trained forces are insufficent to man lengthy walls never ment to foil a real attack. As the siege of Luthadel tightens, an ancient legend seems to offer a glimmer of hope. But even if it realy exists, no one knows where to find the Well of Ascension or exactly what manner of power it bestows.

All of these troubles whisper a single, chilling fact. Killing the Lord Ruler was the easy part. Surviving the aftermath of his fall is going to be the real challenge.
--summary from Mistborn, The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson

Eclipse: As Seattle is raveged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friedship with Jacob--knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death. But which is which?
--summary from Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer

Eragon: When Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy; perhaps it will buy his family meat for the winter. But when the stone brings a dragon hatchling, Eragon soon realizes he has stumbled upon a legacy nearly as old as the Empire itself.

Overnight his life is shattered, and he is thrust into a perilous new world of destiny, magic, and power. With only an ancient sword and the advice of an old storyteller for guidence, Eragon and the fledgling dragon must nevigate the dangerous terrain and dark enemies of an Empire ruled by a king whose evil knows no bounds.

Can Eragon take up the mantle of the legendary Dragon Riders? The fate of the Empire may rest in his hands.
--summary from Eragon by Christopher Paolini

Eldest: Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state from destruction by the mighty forces of King Galbatorix, cruel ruler of the Empire. Now Eragon must trabel to Ellesméra, land of the elves, for further training in magic and swordsmanship, the vital skills of the Dragon Rider. it is the journey of a lifetime, filled with awe-inspiring new places and people, each day a fresh adventure. But chaos and betrayal plague him at every turn, and Eregon isn't sure whom he can trust.

Meanwhile, his cousin Roran must fight a new battle back home in Carvahall--one that puts eragon in even graver danger.

Will the kin's dark hand strangle all resistance? eragon may not escape with even his life....
--summary from Eldest by Christopher Paolini

Maximum Ride, The Angel Experiment: Size unforettable kids--with no families, no homes--are running for their lives. Max Ride and her best friends are products of an experiment: they were engineered to fly. And that's just the beginning of thier ammazing power. Now the've escaped, and they need to know who made them, who;s hunting them, and why they were designed to be superior to all other humans.
--summary from Maximum Ride, The Angel Experiment by James Patterson

Maximum Ride, Schools Out, Forever: Meet Max, Fang, Iggy, Gasman, Nudge, and Angel, siz absolutely unforgettable kids. With some major problems. They're being hunted by killers. But Who?

It's even worse than that. Max is sure that a microship has been inserted under her skin--leading freakish forces of evil to ambush them at any moment...and worse!

She and the others are supposed to save the world. But from what? when? and how?

Max will stop at nothing to find answers. One thing she dows know: it's got something to do with an astonishing ability they have that no others can claim. They can fly.

Max's heart stopping quest to protect her "family" and envestigate the mind-blowing mystery of her ultimate destiny continues in the scariest, strangest, and funniest James Patterson thriller yet.
--summary from Maximum Ride, Schools Out, Forever by James Patterson

Maximum Ride, Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports: You're about to join the adventures of Max, Fang,. Iggy, Nudge, Gazzy, and Angel, siz extraordinay kids who have powers like no other: they can fly, and they're being chased--no,hunted--across America and around the world...

This is the end, my friends. But i promise that you'll fly higher than ever before in this wild adventure, witness battles worthy of multiplex movie screens, and laugh until your sides hurt.

Believe it or not, there's even a little romance.

But all good things--and even terrible, unspeakable ones--must come to an end. This is that moment in time, I'm afraid.

Either we save the world, or we crash and burn. And I mean all of us--even you, faithful reader, because you play a very big part in this story.
--Max

--summary from Maximum Ride, Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports by James Patterson

Extras: It's a few years after rebel Tally Youngblood took down the uglies/pretties/specials regime. Without those strict roles and rules, the world is in a complete cultural renaissance. "Tech-heads" flaunt their latest gadgets, "kickers" spread gossip and trends, and "surge monkeys" are hooked on extreme plastic surgery. And it's all monitored on a bazillion different cameras. The world is like a gigantic game of American Idol. Whoever is getting the most buzz gets the most votes. Popularity rules.

As if being fifteen doesn't suck enough, Aya Fuse's rank of 451,369 is so low, she's a total nobody. An extra. Her only change to escape extra-land is to find a big story to kick--something wild and unexpected.

Then Aya meets a clique of girls who pull crazy tricks, yet are deeply secritive of it. but the Sly Firls are hiding something bigger--an explosive discovery that may change the fact of the brave new world forever. If Aya kicks this sotry, she'll be propelled into the world of fame,celebrity...and extreme danger. A world she's not prepared for.
--summary from Extras by Scott Westerfeld

Dangerous Grounds: The US submarine Memphis should have been mothballed decades ago. Instead, she has been charged with one last, secret mission: to locate leaking containers of Russian nuclear fuel on the bottom of the Arctic Ocrean. More than just an environmental nightmare, this radioactive burial ground houses enough nuclear capacity to destroy most of America's major cities.

Lead by the Bligh-like commander Lowell Hardy, Memphis' crew deals with flaring tempers, faulty machinery, raging artic seas, and their newest crewmate, Jerry Mitchell. Mitchell was a naval pilot whose career ended with an unfortunate accedent. Politics got him assigned to the Memphis as a weapons' officer. Now his novice skills may bery well be the ship's greatest liability.

Making matters worse, the President has appointed two civilian scientists to lead the mission. Dr. Joanna Patterson and Dr. Emily Davis soon find out that no matter how much power the president granted has given them, this is still Hardy's ship.

Dangerous Grounds is an excellent Submariners novel, if you liked the Hunt for Red October then you will love this book.