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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.
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. 2012
Contains five tales providing background to Le Guin's Earthsea novels. The short novella, "Finder," reveals how the school on Roke…
was founded. Another tale relates the story of a young man who would rather be a musician than a mage. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2001
Sequel to Tehanu (DB 32958). Alder, a sorcerer, has been having terrible dreams since the death of his wife, Lily--he…
sees her and others reaching out to him. His dreams will lead to the transformation of Earthsea. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2001
Tenar, once priestess of Atuan and now the middle-aged widow of a Gontish farmer, lives quietly, caring for her foster…
daughter Therru, an abused child. Soon another needs Tenar's care; Ged, no longer Archmage of Earthsea, returns home, borne half-conscious on a dragon's back. Follows The Wizard of Earthsea (DB 25315, BR 7742), The Tombs of Atuan (DB 24584, BR 7771), and The Farthest Shore (DB 32957, BR 7772). For grades 6-9
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. 1971
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 language
A young prince joins forces with the Master Wizard on a journey to discover a cause and remedy for the…
loss of magic in Earthsea. Sequel to "The tombs of Atuan". Followed by "Tehanu". Junior High. 1994.
As a talented, but arrogant, student of wizardry, Sparrowhawk summons an evil spirit who threatens the entire world of Earthsea.…
Contains "Wizard of Earthsea", "Tombs of Atuan", and "Farthest shore". For Junior High readers. 1979. (Earthsea)
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.
Therru, the child Tenar has rescued, has burns not even the dying mage Ogion can heal. Ged, once Archmage of…
Earthsea also returns to be nursed. Tenar sets her mind on the white summer star, Tehanu, but the dark forces that cast Therru into fire are still abroad and the source of this evil can only be challenged by a new kind of power. Grades 5-8. Sequel to "Farthest shore", followed by "Other wind". 1992.
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. For junior and senior high readers. 2017.
When young Gavir's sister is brutally killed, he escapes from slavery and sets out to explore the world and his…
own psychic abilities. Sequel to "Voices". 2008 Nebula Award winner. Junior High. 2007.
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.
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. Sequel to "Wonderful Alexander and the catwings". Grades 2-4. 2008.
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. Some violence. For junior high readers and older. 2004.
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.
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 boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to…
the Master Wizard. Followed by "The tombs of Atuan". Junior High. 1992.
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.