San Antonio College Library

Mistborn: The Final Empire ? Kelsier, a brilliant thief has turned his talents to the ultimate caper, with the Lord Ruler as the mark. Kel's plan is the ultimate long shot, until luck brings a ragged girl named Vin into the fold. But she will have to learn to trust if she is to master powers of which she never dreamed. The Well of Ascension ? Evil has been defeated; the war has just begun. Vin, the street urchin who has become the most powerful Mistborn...

A full-scale fictional chronicle centered around the fall of the Alamo bristles with historical figures, including Jim Bowie, Santa Anna, and Davy Crockett, among others, as it provides a dramatic re-creation of an event that shaped the history and identity of Texas.

Richard Sharpe is on a suicide mission, to the fortress of Badajoz to retrieve his wife and daughter. Outside the walls waits the vengeance-crazed Sergeant Obadiah Haskewill, a man determined to kill Sharpe.