Ursula K Le Guin
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Series
Earthsea series volume 3
Language
English
Description
Darkness threatens to overtake Earthsea. As the world and its wizards are losing their magic, Ged-powerful Archmage, wizard, and dragonlord-embarks on a sailing journey with highborn young prince, Arren. They travel far beyond the realm of death to discover the cause of these evil disturbances and to restore magic to a land desperately thirsty for it. -- from Amazon.
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Series
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English
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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,...
Author
Series
Earthsea series volume 5
Language
English
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Explores further the magical world of Earthsea through five tales of events which occur before or after the time of the original novels, as well as an essay on the people, languages, history and magic of the place.
Author
Series
Earthsea series volume 1
Language
English
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A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to the Master Wizard.
Author
Series
Earthsea series volume 6
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
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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...
6) Tehanu
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Series
Earthsea series volume 4
Language
English
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In this fourth novel in the Earthsea series, we rejoin the young priestess the Tenar and powerful wizard Ged. Years before, they had helped each other at a time of darkness and danger. Together, they shared an adventure like no other. Tenar has since embraced the simple pleasures of an ordinary life, while Ged mourns the powers lost to him through no choice of his own. Now the two must join forces again and help another in need-the physically, emotionally...
7) 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.
8) 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,...
10) 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.
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