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Alvin Journeyman
Alvin Maker has completed his indentures and returned to his hometown to attempt to teach others and help them develop power lke his own. Unfortunatel...

Children of the Mind - Ender 4
Two alien cultures and a few human ones are just about getting along on this planet after a couple decades. But suprize! Humanity is en route to des...

Enchantment (Science Fiction)
Young Vanya Smetzki first found out about his Jewish identity when he was a young boy in Russia. When his parents decide to move the family to America...



Enchantment (Science Fiction)
This retelling of the classic story of Sleeping Beauty is certainly not for children. It begins with the hero Ivan, born in Ukraine, learning for the ...

Ender's Game - Ender 1
Earth is being invaded my aliens called buggers. The military has been recruiting children of above the ordinary to attend battle school, in hope of s...

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Ender's Shadow - Ender 5
In this book, a boy named Bean is genetically altered at birth, increasing his intelligence substantially. He is sent to a space station called the ba...

Hart's Hope
Palicroval must commit an atrocity against Queen Beauty when he conquers her tyrant father's kingdom. When she matures, she uses her vast magical pow...

Homebody
Builder Don Lark repairs old houses that are down on their luck and sells them for a profit, never settling, down always moving on. In Greensboro, Nor...

Lovelock
Humanity has finally figured out how to get guilt-free slavery: By making genetically enhanced animals to work for them. Lovelock, an enhanced monkey,...

Magic Street
Mack Street knows he has magic powers, but he doesn't know why or who he really is. He was found in a park by a couple of skateboarders and brought to...

Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction Of The Century
(editor) Ace, Nov 2001, 24.95, 416 pp. ISBN: 044100864X This latest “best ... of the century” actually consists of twenty-six tales from t...

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Pastwatch
In the near future, as the world's resource shortages threaten all of life, scientists have found a way to observe the past. As researchers study the...

Prentice Alvin
Alvin Maker, a young boy with supernatural powers of creation, is sent away from his family to begin his apprenticeship as a blacksmith. His master ch...

Red Prophet
This book takes place in Card's alternate-reality of pioneer america, where the folk-magic of the pioneers and the earth-magic of the indians are powe...

Seventh Son
In this alternate historical view of a magical America of the 1800s that young Alvin Miller is the seventh son of a seventh son giving him powers to "...

Shadow of the Giant
The Shadow of the Giant is the latest installment in the "Shadow" subseries which derived from the popular "Ender quartet". Julian Delphiki(aka:Bean)s...

Shadow of the Hegemon - Ender 6
The war with the Formics is over and all of the children except Ender have returned back to Earth where they are the prized national treasures of thei...

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Shadow Puppets - Ender 7
This is the continuation of the "Shadow of the Hegemon". Peter Wiggin saves Achilles from China and brings him in the compound, which drives away Bean...

Songmaster
Ansset is a young boy with a gift for music greater than anyone has ever seen. He becomes the beloved comapnion of an Emperor, but later loses his mu...

Speaker For The Dead - Ender 2
On a far away planet called Lusitania a new species of aliens are native to that land. They are called Piggies. They kill xenologers thinking that th...

Stone Tablets
This book is an excellent dramatization of the story of Moses and the Children of Isreal from the Bible. Orson Scott Card brings his usual strengths ...

The Crystal City
Tor, Nov 2003, 25.95, 384 pp. ISBN: 0312864833 In a world where magical "knacks" flourish, Alvin as expected of the seventh son of a seventh s...

The Folk Of The Fringe
Tor, Aug 2001, 12.95, 272 pp. ISBN: 0312876637 America as we know it has been destroyed by a combination of nuclear and biological weapons...

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The Memory of Earth
All was not well on the world of Harmony. The powerful artificial inteligence that prevented people from building weapons of mass destruction was fail...

The Worthing Saga
The "Day of Pain" comes to the planet Worthing and to Lared's community which has never before felt and remembered pain. Jason Worthing and his daught...

Treasure Box
As a young boy, Quentin is devistated by the tragic death of his older sister, Lizzy. He grows up and becomes a computer programmer/millionaire, yet ...

Wyrms
Tor, Apr 2003, 14,95, 304 pp. ISBN: 0765305607 Over a millennium ago, humans established a religious colony on Imakulata. The newcomers keep ...

Xenocide - Ender 3
Starways Congress sends a fleet to destroy the planet of Lusitania due to a virus, the descolada, that could wipe out humanity if released. However, ...

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