Orson Scott Card
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Tales of Alvin Maker volume 3
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English
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Alvin returns to his birthplace to become the blacksmith's apprentice and also to learn -- hopefully with the help of the Torch-girl -- to be a Maker.
2) Seventh son
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Tales of Alvin Maker volume 1
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English
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Book 1 of The Tales of Alvin Maker.
Young Alvin was born the seventh son of a seventh son. By his birthright, he possesses magical powers and is destined to become something great, perhaps even a Maker. Indeed, Alvin is special. But the boy remains vulnerable to dark forces who reach out to destroy him and are willing to do anything to keep him from growing up. Carefully weaving the lore and the folk-magic of the men and women who settled a continent-...
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In a house he is restoring, builder Don Lark meets a woman squatter who turns out to be a ghost. But Sylvie Delaney does not realize she is a ghost, thinking she is alive. Lark learns she was murdered and goes searching for the killer. As he sinks his teeth into his new project, Lark's new neighborhood starts to work its charms on him. He strikes up a romance with the real estate agent who sold him the house. His neighbors, two charming, chatty old...
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Tales of Alvin Maker volume 4
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English
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The continuing tales of Alvin, a young magician living in an alternate 19th Century America. In this volume, Alvin's brother, Calvin, journeys to France to meet an alternate, victorious Napoleon--the year is 1820--to learn the art of rule. By the author of Prentice Alvin.
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Novel of the Mither mages volume 1
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384 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
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Danny grew up in a family compound in Virginia, believing that he alone of his family had no magical power. But he was wrong. Kidnapped from his high school by a rival family, he learns that he has the power to reopen the gates between Earth and the world of Westil.
7) Red prophet
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311 pages : map ; 18 cm.
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English
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Alvin Maker is drawn into the political manueverings of his visionary brother and a French colonel exiled to Fort Detroit named Napoleon Bonapart, in this tale set in the frontier of a magical alternate America.
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380 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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At the close of Ender's Game, Andrew Wiggin, called Ender by everyone, is told that he can no longer live on Earth, and he realizes that this is the truth. He has become far more than just a boy who won a game: he is the Savior of Earth, a hero, a military genius whose allegiance is sought by every nation of the newly shattered Earth Hegemony. He is offered the choice of living in isolation on Eros, at one of the Hegemony's training facilities, but...
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The Sci-Fi And Fantasy Of Tomorrow Selected By Masters Of Today
28 Award-Winning Authors And Illustrators
Get Ready To Get Carried Away... To Places No One Has Ever Gone Before.
Turn The Page... From Dark Fantasy To Dystopian Nightmare, From Magical Realism To Military Science, From Paranormal Urban Fantasy To Post-Apocalyptic Power Trips... And Beyond.
Take Flight On A Starship Powered By A Godlike Being, Willing To Go To Any Length To Know What...