false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169433285m/40290.jpg 40290 21 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 into an alternative frontier America where life is hard and folk magic is real, Alvin is gifted with the power. He must learn to use his gift wisely. But dark forces are arrayed against Alvin, and only a young girl with second sight can protect him. 2771466 1987 Seventh Son (Tales of Alvin Maker #1) total:5140|5:1487|4:2007|3:1288|2:291|1:67| 5140 19976 6102 387 4 4 false false Sun Feb 10 10:13:45 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 10 10:29:27 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 3 false false Wed Apr 09 08:31:51 -0700 2008 Thu Feb 21 14:57:14 -0800 2008 Wed Apr 09 08:31:17 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Jan 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 11 18:53:28 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 09 06:37:24 -0800 2009
Alvin is a maker, a strong and potentially powerful forc...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1988 Sat Jan 05 14:32:59 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 05 14:46:14 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Thu Jan 24 17:21:51 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 24 17:36:51 -0800 2008
This story introduces us to a world that is different than ours. A past that changed and was different than our history. The Indians have taken ba...more...]]> 0 1 false false Tue Sep 04 15:20:34 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 04 15:20:34 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 2 false false Mon Jan 28 05:57:55 -0800 2008 Fri May 02 01:46:24 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 2 false false Sat Feb 28 17:30:14 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 28 17:31:53 -0800 2009 5 2 false false Thu Aug 06 05:51:28 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 22 05:19:35 -0800 2008 Thu Aug 06 05:51:28 -0700 2009 Dogs in the Vineyard game.

Settlers on a frontier, with folk-magic and religous fundamentalism, and richly-...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jan 12 07:53:28 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 07:54:09 -0800 2009
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What I've read of Orson Scott Card has ranged from brilliant (Ender) to plodding (Shadow), so I figured I'd try some of his non-Ender material. This series tells an alternate history of the U.S., in which, among other things, the Iroquois posess their own state in th...more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Oct 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 13:49:56 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 18:40:54 -0700 2009
Nothing about this book really wow’d me or stood out enough for me to say “here friend, you’d love this book,” The selling feature of this book to me was that it was written by Orson Scott Card, which only makes the fact that it didn’t do anything f...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Nov 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 20:39:35 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 18:59:27 -0800 2009
But if you are like me, and ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Apr 05 07:29:02 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 06:35:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 08:56:27 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 09:08:24 -0700 2009
A knowledge of American History (post Revolutionary War era) and Mormon history makes the read a little more interesting. Card does a good job of taking historic eve...more...]]> 1 0 false false Sun Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 18:32:36 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 18:55:41 -0700 2009 Seventh Son. However, it is not a book I would recommend to others. Most of the fantasy books I have read leave out religion, but here the antagonists see magic abilities as superstition to...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun May 20 23:30:44 -0700 2007 Tue May 29 22:09:29 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Thu Oct 30 08:36:07 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 02 07:47:24 -0800 2008 1 Enjoyable, intriguing.
However, the ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 08:48:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 08:52:08 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 19:32:16 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 18:13:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=40290