Orson Scott Card’s Stories of Alvin Maker have created a moving illusion globe from the dream of America and the simple magics of the people who settled her. Here is a world where folk magic is really as much an integral part of lifestyle as hard work and religious beliefs, and where the reddish colored man and the white still possess hope for surviving in peace with the land and each other. It really is a fantasy unique to literature, yet as inevitable as breathing. It is a work that will live forever inside your heart.

Alvin’s mortal enemy, the Unmaker, has found hearts and hands ready to do its bidding, while Alvin as well as the Prophet’s people were making their last stand. Now young Alvin results to the city of his birth and starts his apprenticeship with Makepeace Smith, committing seven years of his existence in trade for the abilities and knowledge of a blacksmith. But Alvin must figure out how to control and use his own talent, that of a Manufacturer, if not his destiny will become unfulfilled.