Ursula K. Le Guin
Author
Series
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
[ctober 2018]
Language
English
Description
"Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the timeless and beloved A Wizard of Earthsea --"...reads like the retelling of a tale first told centuries ago," (David Mitchell)--comes this complete omnibus edition of the entire Earthsea chronicles, including over fifty illustrations illuminating Le Guin's vision of her classic saga. Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea novels are some of the most acclaimed and awarded works in literature--they have received prestigious...
2) Gifts
Author
Series
Annals of the Western Shore volume 1
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
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.
3) Cat dreams
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
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
Publisher
Small Beer Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Where on Earth explores Le Guin's earthbound stories which range around the world from small town Oregon to middle Europe in the middle of revolution to summer camp.Companion volume Outer Space, Inner Lands includes Le Guin's best known nonrealistic stories.
6) Tom Mouse
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tom Mouse hides on the train he has boarded for travel and adventure, but an old woman finds and befriends him.
7) The unreal and the real: Volume two,Outer space, inner lands :selected stories of Ursula K. Le Guin
Author
Publisher
Small Beer Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Presents a selection of many of the author's best known non realistic stories, including "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," "Semley's Necklace," and "She Unnames Them."
11) The telling
Author
Series
Hainish series volume 8
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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...
15) Catwings return
Author
Series
Catwings series volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"As kittens, James, Thelma, Harriet, and Roger took advantage of their wings by flying away from the busy city where they were born. Now the cats live comfortably in the country with two human friends. But a big adventure is in store for James and Harriet when they decide to return to the city to visit their mother. So much has changed! The dumpster where the kittens grew up is gone. All the buildings in their old alley are being torn down. And inside...
16) Jane on her own
Author
Series
Catwings series volume 4
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Jane, the youngest of the Catwings, thinks that life on the farm is absolutely boring. Looking for adventure, she takes to the skies to explore all the world has to offer. But when she flies through the window of a friendly-seeming human, Jane finds herself captured—and forced to make TV appearances as Miss Mystery, the fabulous winged cat. How can she possibly explore the world now? Is there anywhere Jane can be truly free?"--
17) Catwings
Author
Series
Catwings series volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
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.
''A litter of winged kittens flee the city for the countryside in this first "small gem of a book" (Publishers Weekly) in legendary author Ursula K. Le Guin's bestselling Catwings chapter book series, now with a new look! Mrs. Jane Tabby can't explain why her four kittens - Thelma, Roger, James, and Harriet - were born...
Author
Series
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In Gifts, Orrec and Gry will inherit both their families' domains and their "gifts," the ability to communicate with animals, or control a mind, or maim or kill with only a word and gesture. Both discover their gifts are not what they thought. In Voices, Memer lives in a city conquered by fundamentalist and superstitious soldiers who have made reading and writing forbidden. But in Memer's house there is a secret room where the last few books in the...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
“I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind,” writes Ursula Le Guin in her introduction to Dancing at the Edge of the World. But she has, and here is the record of that change in the decade since the publication of her last nonfiction collection, The Language of the Night. And what a mind — strong, supple, disciplined, playful, ranging over the whole field of its concerns, from modern literature to menopause, from...