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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this sequel to The Lost Gate, bestselling author Orson Scott Card continues his fantastic tale of the Mages of Westil who live in exile on Earth. Here on Earth, Danny North is still in high school, yet he holds in his heart and mind all the stolen outselves of thirteen centuries of gatemages. The Families still want to kill him if they can't control him...and they can't control him. He is far too powerful. And on Westil, Wad is now nearly powerless--he...
2) Seventh son
Author
Series
Tales of Alvin Maker volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[1988]
Physical Desc
241 pages : maps ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
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-...
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"In Gatefather, the third installment in the Mithermages series, New York Times bestselling author Orson Scott Card continues his fantastic tale of the Mages of Westil who live in exile on Earth. Danny North is the first gatemage to be born on Earth in nearly 2000 years, or at least the first to survive to claim his power. Families of Westil in exile on Earth have had a treaty that required the death of any suspected gatemage. The wars between the...
4) Magic street
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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) Earthfall
Author
Series
Homecoming saga volume 4
Publisher
Distributed by St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
1st trade ed.
Physical Desc
350 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Tales of Alvin Maker volume 6
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
384 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the sixth installment in the alternative history in which Alvin Maker, a man who has the magical ability to create, repair, heal, or destroy, travels to New Orleans where he saves his friends from a deadly plague and takes the first steps toward his envisioned destiny in the Crystal City.
Author
Series
Homecoming saga volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Oversoul is the master caretaker of the planet Harmony. Its systems are failing and it must go back to Earth for repair.
Author
Series
Tales of Alvin Maker volume 3
Publisher
T. Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
1989
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 342 p. ; 25
Language
English
Description
Alvin Smith arrives at Hatrack River to take up his apprenticeship to become a blacksmith with the works of the Unmaker close at hand.
9) Xenocide
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1991
Edition
First trade edidtion
Physical Desc
x, 394 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Lusitania's three sapient species are in trouble. The starways congress has decided to wipe out the planet to kept a deadly virus from escaping . A fourth intelligence loyal to Ender and Lusitania causes the fleet to disappear. What is the Starways Congress going to do next?
10) Space Boy
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Is it space travel that children dream of, or merely visiting other worlds? Todd had always set his heart on being an astronaut, but when he meets an alien and travels to another world, he doesn't use a spaceship; he just hangs out in his own backyard.
In Space Boy, Orson Scott Card, author of Ender's Game, takes listeners into a strange and wonderful future, where people from another world regularly visit Earth, usually without being noticed.
...11) Wyrms
Author
Publisher
Arbor House
Pub. Date
c1987
Physical Desc
263 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
12) Ender's shadow
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Series
Homecoming saga volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
A powerful computer, the Oversoul, has the task of governing human affairs on the planet Harmony and needs to be repaired. Moozh, a great warrior, flouts the Oversoul. Can anyone stop him or will the planet fall?
14) Ender in exile
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
380 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
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...
15) Wakers
Author
Series
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
378 pages, 13 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Laz Hayerian wakes up on an abandoned Earth to discover that he and his companion Ivy Downey are clones, and they must work together--combining their talents to sense and step into and out of timestreams--to save humanity from imminent extinction.
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