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A War of Gifts: An Ender Story

By: Orson Scott Card

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Macmillan Audio: October 2007

Seller ID: 66794

ISBN: 1593976313

Binding: Audio CD

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Orson Scott Card offers a Christmas gift to his millions of fans with "A War of Gifts," a short novel set during Ender's first years at the Battle School where it is forbidden to celebrate religious holidays. The children come from many nations, many religions; while they are being trained for war, religious conflict between them is not on the curriculum. But Dink Meeker, one of the older students, doesn't see it that way. He thinks that giving gifts isn't exactly a religious observation, and on Sinterklaas Day he tucks a present into another student's shoe. This small act of rebellion set...
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Ender's Game

By: Card, Orson Scott

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Tor Teen: May 2013

Seller ID: 258804

ISBN: 0765337541

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The worldwide bestseller, Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, with featured cover art from the major motion picture starring Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley and Asa Butterfield as Ender Wiggin.Once again, the Earth is under attack. An alien species is poised for a final assault. The survival of humanity depends on a military genius who can defeat the aliens. But who? Ender Wiggin. Brilliant. Ruthless. Cunning. A tactical and strategic master. And a child. Recruited for military training by the world government, Ender's childhood ends the moment he enters his new home: Battle School. Amon...
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Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1)

By: Orson Scott Card

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Tor Science Fiction: July 1994

Seller ID: 257847

ISBN: 0812550706

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut--young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training. Ender's skills make him a leader...
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Keeper of Dreams

By: Orson Scott Card

Price: $16.99

Publisher: Tor Books: April 2010

Seller ID: 10487

ISBN: 0765324148

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

This huge collection of short stories by one of science fiction's most beloved and popular writers is sure to please his millions of fans. The volume contains 22 stories written since 1990.From the opening science fiction tale, "The Elephants of Poznan," we see the hand of a master at work making a familiar idea new, strange, and wonderful. "Angles" takes a sideways look at alternate universes. "Geriatric Ward" is published here for the first time; it was originally written for the legendary "Last Dangerous Visions." "Keeper of Dreams "contains science fiction, fantasy, and several of C...
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Lovelock

By: ORSON SCOTT CARD, KATHERINE KIDD, KATHY H. KIDD

Price: $15.99

Publisher: St Martins Pr: January 2001

Seller ID: 10486

ISBN: 031287751X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Lovelock is a capuchin monkey engineered to be the perfect servant--intelligent, agile, pliant, and devoted to his owner. He is a Witness--privileged to spend his days and nights observing the life of one of Earth's most brilliant scientists through digital recording devices behind his eyes. In his heart is the desire to please, not just to avoid the pain his owner can inflict with a word, but because he loves her. Lovelock is on a voyage he did not choose. What human would consider the feelings of a capuchin monkey, no matter how enhanced? But Lovelock is something special among Witnesses...
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Speaker for the Dead (Ender, Book 2) (Ender Quartet)

By: Orson Scott Card

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Tor Books: August 1994

Seller ID: 102253

ISBN: 0812550757

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: New - New

In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War. Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery...and the truth. "Speaker for the Dead," the second novel in Orson Scott Card's Ender Quintet, is the winner of the 1986 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1987 Hugo Awar...
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The Crystal City (Tales of Alvin Maker, Book 6)

By: Orson Scott Card

Price: $12.98

Publisher: Tor Books: October 2003

Seller ID: 98541

ISBN: 0312864833

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Using the lore and the folk-magic of the men and women who settled North America, Orson Scott Card has created an alternate world where magic works, and where that magic has colored the entire history of the colonies. Charms and beseechings, hexes and potions, all have a place in the lives of the people of this world. Dowsers find water, the second sight warns of dangers to come, and a torch can read a person's future---or their heart.In this world where "knacks" abound, Alvin, the seventh son of a seventh son, is a very special man indeed. He's a Maker; he has the knack of understanding h...
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