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
Publisher
Tor Essentials, A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Worlds of Exile and Illusion contains three novels in the Hainish Series from Ursula K. Le Guin, one of the greatest science fiction writers and many times the winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Her career as a novelist was launched by the three novels contained here. These books, Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile, and City of Illusions, are set in the same universe as Le Guin's groundbreaking classic, The Left Hand of Darkness"-- Provided by...
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...
5) 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.
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.
12) 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.
15) 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
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In Victoria on a former prison colony, two exiled groups-the farmers of Shantih and the City dwellers-live in apparent harmony. All is not as it seems, however. While the peace-loving farmers labor endlessly to provide food for the City, the City Bosses rule the Shantih with an iron fist. When a group of farmers decide to form a new settlement further away, the Bosses retaliate by threatening to crush the "rebellion." Luz understands what it means...
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
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Le Guin's sharp and witty voice is on full display in this collection of twenty-four essays, revised by the author a decade after its initial publication in 1979. The collection covers a wide range of topics and Le Guin's origins as a writer, her advocacy for science fiction and fantasy as mediums for true literary exploration, the writing of her own major works such as A wizard of Earthsea and The left hand of darkness, and her role as a public...
Author
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin was lauded by millions for her groundbreaking science fiction and fantasy novels, though she began her career as a poet. "I still kind of twitch and growl when I'm reduced to being the science fiction writer. I'm a novelist and increasingly a poet. And sometimes I wish they'd call me that," Le Guin said in a 2015 interview with NPR. In this clarifying and sublime collection--written shortly before her death...
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...
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