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The unreal and the real: selected stories of Ursula K. Le Guin
By Ursula K Le Guin, Ursula K. Le Guin. 2012
Two-volume set of selected short stories from Ursula K. Le Guin, both published in 2012. Volume one, Where on Earth,…
focuses on stories of realism with earthly settings. Volume two, Outer Space, Inner Lands, focuses on otherworldly settings and subjects. Some violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2012The found and the lost: the collected novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin
By Ursula K Le Guin. 2016
Every novella by Ursula K. Le Guin, an icon in American literature, collected for the first time--and introduced by the…
legendary author--in one breathtaking volume. Ursula K. Le Guin has won multiple prizes and accolades from the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to the Newbery Honor, the Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy, and PEN/Malamud Awards. She has had her work collected over the years, but never as a complete retrospective of her longer works as represented in this book. 2016.The unreal and the real: selected stories of Ursula K. Le Guin. volume two, Outer space, inner lands
By Ursula K Le Guin. 2012
The second of a two-volume set, this collection of Ursula K. Le Guin's short fiction features stories with otherworldly settings…
and subjects. Includes classic stories such as "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," "Semley's Necklace," and "She Unnames Them."Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2012The lathe of heaven
By Ursula K Le Guin, Úrsula K. Le Guin. 2000
When George Orr realizes that his dreams produce an alternate reality, he is so distraught that he consults a psychiatrist.…
After a few sessions, Dr. Haber wants to manipulate George's dreams to solve the world's political, environmental, and population problems. Some strong language. 1971A fisherman of the inland sea: science fiction stories
By Ursula K Le Guin, Úrsula K. Le Guin. 1994
Eight tales that delve into the relationship between perception and reality, and explore the "churten" effect, a way of moving…
objects and people between distant worlds at the speed of light. In the title story, a churten researcher is flung backward in time to face a choice of alternative futures. Some strong languageThe compass rose: short stories
By Ursula K Le Guin. 1983
A compass of spatial dimensions as well as the usual four directions give a framework to twenty new stories ranging…
from science fiction to fantasy and a magical realism. The author finds comedy as well as tragedy as her satire stretches from a well-known TV series to a totalitarian America of the future. 1983.Lavinia
By Ursula K Le Guin. 2008
Ancient Italy. King Latinus’s daughter Lavinia, from Virgil’s "The Aeneid", is pressured to marry Turnus despite prophecies that she will…
wed a foreigner and cause a war. When Trojan ships arrive bearing hero Aeneas, Lavinia discovers true love - -and her destiny. 2008.City of illusions (The hainish Ser.)
By Ursula K Le Guin. 1996
Scattered here and there, small groups of humans live in a state of semi-barbarism. Lost are the skills, science and…
knowledge that had been Earth's in the golden age of the League of Worlds. And each time a colony of Earthmen tries to rekindle the embers of a half-forgotten technology, the Shing, the mind-despoilers of Terra, crush them out. 1996.Always coming home
By Ursula K Le Guin. 1985
A rich and diffuse portrait of the ethnology and the sexual roles and relationships in a future, vaguely Amerindian society…
in northern California. Based on human values, the group shuns the use of most high technology. The novel chronicles the life of a woman, Stone Telling, and includes folk tales, poems, descriptions of rituals and beliefs, and plays. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1985.A fisherman of the inland sea: science fiction stories
By Ursula K Le Guin. 1996
A collection of stories highlight such objects of the imagination as a starship that sails on the wings of song,…
musical instruments that are played at funerals only, and orbiting arks designed to save a doomed humanity. Some strong language. 1996.The lathe of heaven (Gollancz SF)
By Ursula K Le Guin. 1972
The left hand of darkness (The hainish Ser.)
By Ursula K Le Guin. 1969
An envoy from a galactic community arrives on the world of Winter where all humans are hermaphrodites. Drawn into the…
local politics, the envoy is forced to reconsider attitudes toward human relationships. 1976, c1969.The eye of the heron
By Ursula K Le Guin. 1978
The left hand of darkness
By Ursula K Le Guin. 1976
Confused and afraid, a lone human becomes the pawn in an intrigue on Gethen, a planet inhabited by creatures that…
are neither male nor female. They are not neuters but have the potential to be either man or woman. Originally published in 1969. Hugo and Nebula AwardsFour ways to forgiveness
By Ursula K Le Guin. 1995
Four interconnected novellas that all take place on the twin planets Werel, a slave-owning oligarchy, and Yeowe, Werel's subjugated colony,…
which eventually rebels and wins independence. The protagonist of A Woman's Liberation is a former slave, who escapes one kind of servitude only to discover its existence in another form. Some descriptions of sexFish soup
By Ursula K Le Guin. 1992
The "Thinking Man of Moha" and the "Writing Woman of Maho" are friends. The man is obsessively neat and the…
woman is habitually messy. Nevertheless, they visit each other for conversation and meals of fish soup. The man suggests that they have a child (to carry messages and finish dessert) and the woman agrees. Two nearly grown children materialize, who distinctly manifest the expectations of the man and woman. For grades 3-6 and older readersA ride on the red mare's back
By Ursula K Le Guin. 1992
Long ago, in the cold North, a girl's brother is stolen by trolls. Her parents are too grief- stricken to…
act, so the brave girl gathers up her only toy--a wooden horse--a piece of bread, a scarf that she made for her brother, wooden knitting needles, and a ball of yarn, and she treks into the dark, snowy forest to rescue her brother. Before her journey ends, she learns of the magic possessed by the toy wooden horse. For grades K-3 and older readersSearoad: chronicles of Klatsand
By Ursula K Le Guin. 1991
Most of the characters in these twelve short stories live along Searoad in the Oregon coastal village of Klatsand. The…
tales center mainly around women. The men involved are mostly obtuse husbands, bullies, and misfits. Townspeople include the couple who own a decaying motel, a librarian who has a brief affair with the bookstore owner, and four generations of the Herne women. Strong languageThe farthest shore
By Ursula K Le Guin. 1972
Ged, the archmage of Roke, and Aren, the young prince of Enlad, seek to find and challenge the evil that…
threatens to destroy Earthsea itself. Sequel to "A Wizard of Earthsea" and "The Tombs of Atuan." For grades 6-9A wizard of earthsea
By Ursula K Le Guin. 1975
An intricate fantasy about Sparrowhawk, a talented but arrogant student of wizardry. On a rival's dare, Sparrowhawk summons up a…
shadowy, evil spirit who threatens both the boy's life and the entire world of Earthsea. For grades 6-9