The Crystal City: The Tales of Alvin Maker Book Six: 6 (Alvin Maker 6)

The Tales of Alvin Maker continue in The Crystal City the sixth book in the historical fantasy series from the Hugo and Nebula award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Enders Game. . 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 persons future--or their heart.. In this world where knacks abound Alvin the seventh son of a seventh son is a very special man indeed. Hes a Maker; he has the knack of understanding how things are put together how to create them repair them keep them whole or tear them down. He can heal hearts as well as bones he build a house he can calm the waters or blow up a storm. And he can teach his knack to others to the measure of their own talent.. 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 Barcelona as they call it under Spanish occupation. Alvin doesnt know exactly why hes there but when he and his brother-in-law Arthur Stuart find lodgings with a family of abolitionists who know Peggy he suspects hell find out soon. . But Nueva Barcelona is about to experience a plague and Alvins efforts to protect his friends by keeping them healthy will create more danger than he could ever have suspected. And in saving the poor people of the city Alvin will be put to the greatest test of his life--a test that will draw on all his power. For the time has come for him to turn to his old friend Tenskwa-Tawa the Red Prophet who controls the lands to the west of the Mizzippy. . Now Alvin must take the first steps on the road to the Crystal City that was shown to him in a vision so long ago.. The Tales of Alvin Maker seriesSeventh SonRed ProphetPrentice AlvinAlvin JourneymanHeartfireThe Crystal City