Orson Scott Card
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455 pages : maps ; 19 cm.
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The city of Hart's Hope, ruled by gods both powerful and indifferent, is riddled with sorcery and revenge. The city is captured by a rebellious lord, Palicrovol, who ovethrows the king, Nasilee. Palicrovol, too, is cruel. He becomes king by forcing Asineth, now queen by her father's death, to marry him, and then sending her into exile. But he is not cruel enough to rule. The queen lives to bear a daughter, to return from exile and to retake the throne...
23) The lost gate
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Novel of the Mither mages volume 1
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384 pages ; 25 cm.
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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.
24) Ender in exile
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380 pages ; 24 cm
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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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Formic Wars volume 1
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368 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
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The mining ship El Cavador, beyond Pluto, detects a fast-moving incoming object headed toward Earth. The crew decides it's probably not important, but they're wrong: it represents the opening wave of the first Formic War.
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Celebrate New Writers; New Winners; New Worlds. Writers of the Future: Volume 30: This is your window into incredible worlds of wizardry, warfare and wonder. This is your escape into fantastic realms of the human mind lurking just beyond your imagination…and reaching deep into your wildest dreams. This is your ticket to tomorrow. Celebrate the future of science fiction and fantasy…now. Included: Bonus short stories by Orson Scott Card, Mike Resnick...
28) Magic street
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397 pages ; 21 cm
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Mack Street, an abandoned child adopted by a Los Angeles neighborhood, discovers that he has strange powers that allow him to dream the dreams of others and to enter a parallel world in which his actions affect the real world.
Teenager Mack Street apparently suffers from strange spells when he simply freezes and stares off into space, but what those around him do not realize is that Mack possesses the ability to see into other people's dreams.
29) Sarah
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Women of Genesis volume 1
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380 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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Forced finally to share her husband Abraham after a lifetime of devotion, rebuked by the Lord for her unbelief, and grappling with fears that her beloved Isaac will be displaced by Hagar's Ishmael, Sarah is nonetheless a triumphant figure.
31) Red prophet
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311 pages : map ; 18 cm.
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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.
32) The crystal city
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Tales of Alvin Maker volume 6
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208 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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First Meetings is a collection of three novellas-plus the original "Enders Game"--That journey into the origins and the destiny of one Ender Wiggin. "The Polish Boy" begins in the wake between the first two Bugger Wars when the Hegemony is desperate to recruit brilliant military commanders to repel the alien invasion. In John Paul Wiggin-the future father of Ender-they believe they may have found their man. Or boy. In "Teacher's Pest"-a novella written...
34) Keeper of Dreams
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This huge collection of short stories by one of science fiction's most beloved and popular writers is sure to please his millions of fans. Keeper of Dreams contains 22 stories written since 1990.
From the opening science fiction tale, "The Elephants of Poznan," we see the hand of a master at work making a familiar idea new, strange, and wonderful. "Angles" takes a sideways look at alternate universes. "Geriatric Ward" is published here for the first...
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Bestselling writer Orson Scott Card founded the online magazine Intergalactic Medicine Show in 2006. It has been a big success, drawing submissions from well-known sf and fantasy writers, as well as fostering some amazing new talents. This collection contains some of the best of those stories from the past year.
There is fiction from David Farber, Tim Pratt, and David Lubar among others, also four new Ender's Game universe stories by Card himself....
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For Step Fletcher, his pregnant wife DeAnne, and their three children, the move to tiny Steuben, North Carolina, offers new hope and a new beginning. But from the first, eight-year-old Stevie's life there is an unending parade of misery and disaster.
Cruelly ostracized at his school, Stevie retreats further and further into himself -- and into a strange computer game and a group of imaginary friends.
But there is something eerie about his loyal,...
37) Saints
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From the bestselling author of the Ender Universe series comes Orson Scott Card's epic historical novel Saints
When ten-year-old Dinah Kirkham saw her father leave their Manchester home in the middle of the night, she basked when he would be back. "Soon," he replied. But he never came back. On that night in 1829, John Kirkham laid the foundation of his daughter's certainty that the only person Dinah could ever really trust was herself.
From that...
39) Hart's Hope
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A dark and powerful fantasy from Orson Scott Card, the bestselling author of Ender's Shadow.
Enter the city of Hart's Hope, ruled by gods both powerful and indifferent, riddled with sorcery and revenge. The city was captured by a rebellious lord, Palicrovol, who overthrew the cruel king, Nasilee, hated by his people.
Palicrovol, too, was cruel, as befitted a king. He took the true mantle of kinghood by forcing Asineth, now Queen by her father's...
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These eleven chilling tales from bestselling author Orson Scott Card, including the author's introductions and afterword comments, provoke the dreaded dark side of the reader's imagination. The Changed Man, the first volume of stories in the Maps in a Mirror series, wonderfully showcases Card's versatility in both genre and form.