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1 - Seventh Son
Orson Scott Card
Alvin Maker [1]: From the award-winning Ender's Game on, each of Card's last three novels has featured a secular saint, less a character than a catalyst to galvanize those around him into reexamining the thorny moral tangles in which they live.This f...
2 - Red Prophet
Orson Scott Card
Alvin Maker [2]: "Red Prophet" is but a section of a vast American fantasy epic. It is vividly written, and the principal actors - Alvin, Ta-Kumsaw, the Prophet, and Alvin's Gandalfesque mentor Taleswapper - are all complete and memorable characters....
3 - Prentice Alvin
Orson Scott Card
Alvin Maker [3]: Young Alvin returns to the town of his birth, and begins his apprenticeship with Makepeace Smith, committing seven years of his life in exchange for the skills and knowledge of a blacksmith. But Alvin must also learn to control and u...
4 - Alvin Journeyman
Orson Scott Card
Alvin Maker [4]: Using the lore and the folk magic of the men and women who settled the North American continent, Card has created an alternate frontier America: a world where folk magic really works, and where that magic has colored the entire histo...
5 - Heartfire
Orson Scott Card
Alvin Maker [5]: Peggy is a Torch, able to see the fire burning in each person's heart. She can follow the paths of each person's future, and know each person's most intimate secrets. From the moment of Alvin Maker's birth, when the Unmaker first str...
6 - The Crystal City
Orson Scott Card
Alvin Maker [6]: Alvin has been trying to avert the terrible war that his wife, Peggy, a torch of extraordinary power, has seen down the life-lines of every American. Now she has sent him down the Mizzippy to the city of New Orleans, or Nueva Barcelo...