Orson Scott Card
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The human race is at War with the "Buggers," an insect-like alien race. As Earth prepares to defend itself from total destruction at the hands of an inscrutable enemy, all focus is on the development of military geniuses who can fight such a war, and win. The long distances of interstellar space have given hope to the defenders of Earth--they have time to train these future commanders up from childhood, forging them into an irresistible force in the...
2) Enchantment
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850L
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In a Russian forest, a New York scholar awakens a sleeping princess with a kiss and she takes him to the 9th century. They are forced to return to the present, pursued by a witch who hijacks an airliner. One adventure follows another and there is a happy ending. By the author of Heartfire.
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Tales of Alvin Maker volume 3
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Alvin Smith arrives at Hatrack River to take up his apprenticeship to become a blacksmith with the works of the Unmaker close at hand.
4) Magic street
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When Mack Street discovers an entryway into another world, he discovers his own magical powers and realizes his actions have a strange impact on the real world.
5) Seventh son
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Tales of Alvin Maker volume 1
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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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Tales of Alvin Maker volume 4
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Alvin battles the evil Unmaker in an alternate frontier America where magic and charms actually work.
7) Heartfire
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Tales of Alvin Maker volume 5
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Peggy and Alvin are now married, but Alvin's destiny has taken them on separate journeys. Alvin has gone north into New England, which is rife with witchcraft, while Peggy has been drawn south, to the British court of King Arthur Stuart in exile, on a quest to set the world on the path to peace.
9) Songmaster
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Ansset, a nine-year-old orphan, who is also a supremely gifted "songbird" goes to serve the emperor, whose armies have conquered most of the worlds in the Galaxy.
10) Wyrms
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Serving a usurper who has destroyed her family and rules their space-dwelling sphere home, Patience journeys to the heart of her world in order to reclaim her crown, a quest that may spell salvation or destruction for the cosmos.
11) Lost and found
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MicroPowers novels volume 1
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Ezekiel Blast has a superpower, or a micropower, if you will. He can find lost things. The problem is most people think he steals them. When the police ask for help, though, he may have a chance to redeem himself.
What good is finding lost bicycles and hair scrunchies, if when you return them to their owners they think you must have stolen them in the first place? Ezekial Blast's friend Beth thinks there must be some way to use his "micropower" for...
12) Red prophet
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Tales of Alvin Maker volume 2
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Sequel to: Seventh son. Alvin Miller, the seventh son of a seventh son, continues to work his extraordinary talents and magic in the rough frontier of America.
13) Lovelock
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Mayflower trilogy volume 1
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Bestselling author Orson Scott Card teams up with the talented Kathyrn H. Kidd to create a startling look at the ethics of bioengineering
Lovelock is a capuchin monkey engineered to be the perfect servant--intelligent, agile, pliant, and devoted to his owner. He is a Witness--privileged to spend his days and nights observing the life of one of Earth's most brilliant scientists through digital recording devices behind his eyes. In his heart is the...
14) 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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Delilah "Spunky" Spunk is invited to conduct a genome study in a small North Carolina town to discover if there is a genetic influence on one's desire to remain in a community. She unexpectedly finds herself in the cross hairs of a feud between rival Christmas pageants, and along the way discovers she is falling in love.
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MicroPowers novels volume 2
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When he attracts the attention of a group of micropotents--people with micropowers--while coming to the rescue of a girl he is crushing on, Ryan must protect her and her mother from witch hunters from their native country.
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Now that Bean and three of his children have fled to the stars they become cut off from Earth's scientists and are forgotten. But they are about to discover a derelict Formic colony ship on which they find the life support that is failing on their own ship, room to grow, and a mysterious, deadly disease that killed the ship's colony and may now kill them.
18) Keeper of dreams
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This new collection of Card's short fiction contains 22 stories, including two from the Alvin Maker Universe, with new introductions and commentary on his life and work, all written by Card himself.
19) Earthfall
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Homecoming saga volume 4
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The Oversoul, a powerful computer that has the task of watching over the planet Harmony, is failing and must be taken to Earth to be repaired.
20) Rebekah
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Presents a fictionalized account of the life of Rebekah, a woman chosen by God to be the wife of Isaac, who struggled to find her place in the family of Abraham.