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  • The Crystal City

  • Alvin Maker (Volume 6)
    Orson Scott Card
    Tor/Forge

  • The Tales of Alvin Maker continue in The Crystal City, the sixth book in the historical fantasy series from the Hugo and Nebula award-winning and New York Times bestselling...

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  • Heartfire

  • Alvin Maker (Volume 5)
    Orson Scott Card
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  • The bestselling Orson Scott Card's The Tales of Alvin Maker series continues with Heartfire
    
    Peggy is a Torch, able to see the fire burning in each person's...

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  • Alvin Journeyman

  • Alvin Maker (Volume 4)
    Orson Scott Card
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  • Orson Scott Card's The Tales of Alvin Maker is a series of fantasy novels set in frontier America.
    
    Alvin is a Maker, the first to be born in a century.
    

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  • Prentice Alvin

  • Alvin Maker (Volume 3)
    Orson Scott Card
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  • The Tales of Alvin Maker series from bestselling author Orson Scott Card continues in volume three, Prentice Alvin. Young Alvin returns to the town of his birth, and begins his...

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  • Red Prophet

  • Alvin Maker (Volume 2)
    Orson Scott Card
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  • Come here to Orson Scott Card's magical America that might have been, and marvel as the tale of Alvin Maker unfolds. The seventh son of a seventh son is a boy of mysterious powers, and he is waking...

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  • Seventh Son

  • Alvin Maker (Volume 1)
    Orson Scott Card
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  • American Library Association "Best Books for Young Adults"
    
    From the author of Ender's Game, an unforgettable story about young Alvin Maker: the seventh son of a seventh son. Born...

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  • The Tales of Alvin Maker

  • Alvin Maker
    Orson Scott Card
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  • New York Times bestselling author Orson Scott Card's The Tales of Alvin Maker “captures the essence of a world where folk magic abounds. A tribute to the art of storytelling,...

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  • Prentice Alvin and Alvin Journeyman

  • Alvin Maker
    Orson Scott Card
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  • Orson Scott Card, author of the bestselling science fiction novel Ender's Game, also created a series to satisfy fantasy readers.
    
    Prentice Alvin...

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  • Seventh Son and Red Prophet

  • Alvin Maker
    Orson Scott Card
    Tor/Forge

  • Collected here in one volume, the first two books in the Alvin Maker series, Seventh Son and Red Prophet.
    
    From Orson Scott Card, the New York Times...

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Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card is best known for his science fiction novel Ender's Game and its many sequels that expand the Ender Universe into the far future and the near past. Those books are organized into the Ender Quintet, the five books that chronicle the life of Ender Wiggin; the Shadow Series, which follows on the novel Ender's Shadow and are set on Earth; and the Formic Wars series, written with co-author Aaron Johnston, which tells of the terrible first contact between humans and the alien "Buggers." Card has been a working writer since the 1970s. Beginning with dozens of plays and musical comedies produced in the 1960s and 70s, Card's first published fiction appeared in 1977--the short story "Gert Fram" in the July issue of The Ensign, and the novelette version of "Ender's Game" in the August issue of Analog. The novel-length version of Ender's Game, published in 1984 and continuously in print since then, became the basis of the 2013 film, starring Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Hailee Steinfeld, Viola Davis, and Abigail Breslin.

Card was born in Washington state, and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s. Besides his writing, he runs occasional writers' workshops and directs plays. He frequently teaches writing and literature courses at Southern Virginia University.

He is the author many science fiction and fantasy novels, including the American frontier fantasy series "The Tales of Alvin Maker" (beginning with Seventh Son), and stand-alone novels like Pastwatch and Hart's Hope. He has collaborated with his daughter Emily Card on a manga series, Laddertop. He has also written contemporary thrillers like Empire and historical novels like the monumental Saints and the religious novels Sarah and Rachel and Leah. Card's work also includes the Mithermages books (Lost Gate, Gate Thief), contemporary magical fantasy for readers both young and old.

Card lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card. He and Kristine are the parents of five children and several grandchildren.

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