Central Skagit Library District

In the Mistborn trilogy's middle book, the good guys have won. However, their leader is dead, his apprentice Vin is overwhelmed by his legacy, the idealistic new ruler Elend is beset by those who want power themselves, and the history of Kwaan, who helped the despot to power, emerges portending a terrible power. The Well of Ascension may be the solution to all these problems, but first someone must find it.

"When the King's Courier, Lord Tycho, stops in the small town of Briarlock he is quick to befriend Jax and Callyn, but the town has long been an outpost for the anti-magic Truthbringers, and soon they find themselves embroiled in a world of shifting alliances and ancient magic"-- Magic has been banished in the land of Syhl Shallow for as long as best friends Jax and Callyn can remember. They once loved the stories of the powerful magesmiths and mythical...

Florence, the 1550s. Lucrezia, third daughter of the grand duke, is comfortable with her obscure place in the palazzo - free to wonder at its treasures, observe its clandestine workings and devote herself to her own artistic pursuits. But when her older sister dies on the eve of her wedding to the ruler of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, Lucrezia is thrust unwittingly into the limelight - the duke is quick to request her hand in marriage, and her father...