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(0)Ursula K Le Guin
Author
Series
Earthsea volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea was once a reckless youth, hungry for power and knowledge, who tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death's threshold to restore the balance.
Author
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
"When The Left Hand of Darkness first appeared in 1969, the original jacket copy read, "Once in a long while a whole new world is created for us. Such worlds are Middle Earth, Dune - and such a world is Winter." Twenty-five years and a Hugo and Nebula Award later, these words remain true. In Winter, or Gethen, Ursula K. Le Guin has created a fully realized planet and people. But Gethen society is more than merely a fascinating creation. The concept...
Author
Series
Earthsea volume 6
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
840L
Physical Desc
246 pages : color map ; 24 cm
Language
English
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...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xx, 215 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, and with an introduction by Karen Joy Fowler, a collection of thoughts--always adroit, often acerbic--on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation. Ursula K. Le Guin has taken readers to imaginary worlds for decades. Now she's in the last great frontier of life, old age, and exploring new literary territory: the blog, a forum where her voice -- sharp, witty, as compassionate as it...
Author
Series
Earthsea volume 5
Language
English
Description
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.
"The tales of this book explore or extend the world established by the first four Earthsea novels. Yet each stands on its own. "The Finder", a novella set a few hundred years before 'A Wizard of Earthsea', presents a dark and troubled...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Mariner Books edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 141 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Completely revised and rewritten to address the challenges and opportunities of the modern era, this handbook is a short, deceptively simple guide to the craft of writing. Le Guin lays out ten chapters that address the most fundamental components of narrative, from the sound of language to sentence construction to point of view. Each chapter combines illustrative examples from the global canon with Le Guin's own witty commentary and an exercise that...
9) Lavinia
Author
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
In The Aeneid, Vergil's hero fights to claim the king's daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an empire. Lavinia herself never speaks a word in the poem. Now, Ursula K. Le Guin gives Lavinia a voice in a novel that takes the reader to the half-wild world of ancient Italy, when Rome was a muddy village near seven hills.--From amazon.com.
10) Tehanu
Author
Series
Earthsea volume 4
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
"Years ago, the young priestess Tenar and powerful wizard Ged helped each other in 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 scarred child whose own destiny has yet to be revealed...." --...
11) Powers
Author
Series
Annals of the western shore volume 3
Lexile measure
950L
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
Earthsea volume 3
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
A young prince joins forces with a master wizard on a journey to discover a cause and remedy for the loss of magic in Earthsea. 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 a 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...
14) Gifts
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 22 cm
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.
17) Voices
Author
Series
Annals of the western shore volume 0002
Pub. Date
2006
Lexile measure
890L
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Young Memer takes on a pivotal role in freeing her war-torn homeland from its oppressive captors.
19) Catwings
Author
Pub. Date
1988
Lexile measure
700L
Physical Desc
39 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm
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.