Ursula K. Le Guin
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Earthsea series volume 1
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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.
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Earthsea series volume 2
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English
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Arha's isolated existence as high priestess in the tombs of Atuan is jarred by a thief who seeks a special treasure.
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Le Guin's Hainish series begins with the assumption that centuries ago humanoids from the planet Hain ventured through the solar system establishing colonies on various planets including Earth. For mysterious reasons these colonies lose all contact and knowledge of each other until the 21st century when an attempt is made to establish a galactic league. Individual stories in this loosely organized series explore the inherent communication difficulties...
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Earthsea series volume 3
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English
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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.
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Earthsea series volume 5
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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.
6) Tehanu
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Earthsea series volume 4
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English
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When Sparrowhawk, The archmage of Earthsea, returns from the dark land stripped of his magic powers, he finds refuge with the aging widow, Tenar, and a crippled girl who carries an unknown destiny.
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Earthsea series volume 6
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English
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The sorcerer Alder fears sleep because the dead are pulling Alder to them at night.
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A classic science fiction novel by one of the greatest writers of the genre, set in a future world where one man's dreams control the fate of humanity. In a future world racked by violence and environmental catastrophes, George Orr wakes up one day to discover that his dreams have the ability to alter reality. He seeks help from Dr. William Haber, a psychiatrist who immediately grasps the power George wields. Soon George must preserve reality itself...
9) Catwings
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Catwings series volume 1
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English
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Four young cats with wings leave the city slums in search of a safe way to live, finally meeting two children with kinds hands.
10) Gifts
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Annals of the Western Shore volume 1
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English
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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) Lavinia
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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.
13) Voices
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Annals of the Western Shore volume 2
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English
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Young Memer takes on a pivotal role in freeing her war-torn homeland from its oppressive captors.
14) Catwings return
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Catwings series volume 2
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English
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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 to be demolished.
15) Powers
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Annals of the Western Shore volume 3
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English
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When young Gavir's sister is brutally killed, he escapes from slavery and sets out to explore the world and his own psychic abilities.
16) The Dispossessed
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HarperAudio
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2010
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English
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"One of the greats....Not just a science fiction writer; a literary icon." – Stephen King
From the brilliant and award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin comes a classic tale of two planets torn apart by conflict and mistrust — and the man who risks everything to reunite them.
A bleak moon settled by utopian anarchists, Anarres has long been isolated from other worlds, including its mother
...17) Tom Mouse
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Roaring Brook
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uuuu
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English
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Tom Mouse hides on the train he has boarded for travel and adventure, but an old woman finds and befriends him.
18) Changing planes
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English
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Sita Dulip has missed her flight. But instead of listening to garbled announcements in the airport, she has found a method of bypassing the crowds at the desks, the long lines at the toilets, the nasty lunch, the whimpering children and punitive parents, the bookless bookstores, and the blue plastic chairs bolted to the floor. This method - changing planes - enables Sita to visit fifteen societies not found on Earth. She will encounter cultures where...
20) The Telling
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Series
Hainish series volume 8
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2000
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English
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Sutty, an Observer from Earth for the interstellar Ekumen, has been assigned to a new world—a world in the grips of a stern monolithic state, the Corporation. Embracing the sophisticated technology brought by other worlds and desiring to advance even faster into the future, the Akans recently outlawed the past, the old calligraphy, certain words, all ancient beliefs and ways; every citizen must now be a producer-consumer. Their state, not unlike...