Ursula K. Le Guin
Author
Series
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"After the extraordinary success of the Earthsea novels, Ursula K. Le Guin returned in late career to the young adult fantasy genre with a trilogy of coming-of-age novels set in the far-flung Western Shore. These tales of teenagers struggling to come to terms with their own mysterious and magical gifts showcase the imaginative generosity and abiding human concerns that mark Le Guin's work, and together they form an elegant anthem to the transformative...
Author
Series
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
This second volume in a definitive two-volume edition gathers Le Guin's final two Hainish novels, The Word for World Is Forest, in which Earth enslaves another planet to strip its natural resources, and The Telling, the harrowing story of a society which has suppressed its own cultural heritage. Rounding out the volume are seven short stories and the story suite Five Ways to Forgiveness, published here in full for the first time. The endpapers feature...
Author
Series
Earthsea series volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
The sorcerer Alder has the power of mending, but it may have become the power of destruction: every night he dreams of the wall between the land of the living and the land of the dead, and the wall is being dismantled. If the wall is breached, the dead will invade Earthsea. Ged, once Archmage of Earthsea, sends Alder to King Lebannen. Now Alder and the king must join with a burned woman, a wizard of forbidden lore, and a being who is woman and dragon...
4) Catwings
Author
Series
Catwings series volume 1
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
Four young cats with wings leave the city slums in search of a safe place to live, finally meeting two children with kind hands.
Author
Series
Catwings series volume 2
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
Wishing to visit their mother, two winged cats leave their new country home to return to the city, where they discover a winged kitten in a building about to be demolished.
9) Gifts
Author
Series
Annals of the Western Shore volume 1
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
When a young man in the Uplands blinds himself rather than use his gift of "unmaking"--a violent talent shared by members of his family--he upsets the precarious balance of power among rival, feuding families, each of which has a strange and deadly talent of its own.
11) Cat dreams
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Presents a feline dreamland where it rains mice, all the dogs have run away, and a big bowl of kibbles and cream is waiting.
Author
Series
Catwings series volume 3
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
After being rescued by a flying cat, Alexander the cat decides to make good on a promise to do wonderful things.
14) Powers
Author
Series
Annals of the Western Shore volume 3
Publisher
Harcourt, Inc
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
When young Gavir's sister is brutally killed, he escapes from slavery and sets out to explore the world and his own psychic abilities.
Author
Series
Catwings series volume 4
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
When Jane, a cat with wings, leaves the safety of her farm to explore the world, she falls into the hands of a man who keeps her prisoner and exploits her for money.
Author
Publisher
PM Press
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
There is no writer with an imagination as forceful and delicate as Ursula K. Le Guin's. --Grace Paley Late in the Day, Ursula K. Le Guin's new collection of poems (2010-2014) seeks meaning in an ever-connected world. In part evocative of Neruda's Odes to Common Things and Mary Oliver's poetic guides to the natural world, Le Guin's latest give voice to objects that may not speak a human language but communicate with us nevertheless through and about...
18) Collected poems
Author
Series
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"'The poet's measures serve anarchic joy. / The story-teller tells one story: freedom.' Throughout a celebrated career that spanned genres, Ursula K. Le Guin was first and last a poet. This sixth volume in the definitive Library of America Le Guin edition presents for the first time an authoritative gathering of her verse -- from the earliest collection, Wild Angels, through her final publication, So Far So Good, which she delivered to her editor...
19) Voices
Author
Series
Annals of the Western Shore volume 2
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen years ago, the city of Ansul was besieged by the Alds. They massacred citizens. They ransacked temples, libraries, universities, and homes. They also destroyed all the books they could find. But Memer lives in the house of the Oracle, with its hidden library -- and she has learned how to read. She lives in fear of the Alds discovering her secret, until one day, an uplands poet named Orrec and his wife, Gry, arrive and everything in Memer's...
Author
Series
Earthsea series volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1971.
Language
English
Description
When young Tenar is chosen as high priestess to the ancient and nameless Powers of the Earth, everything is taken away -- home, family, possessions, even her name. For she is now Arha, the Eaten One, guardian of the ominous Tombs of Atuan. While she is learning her way through the dark labyrinth, a young wizard, Ged, comes to steal the Tombs' greatest hidden treasure, the Ring of Erreth-Akbe. But Ged also brings with him the light of magic, and together,...
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