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  1. Earthsea: Book 1

    A Wizard of Earthsea

    by Ursula K. Le Guin

    Ged was the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, but once he was called Sparrowhawk, 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,... (learn more about this book)

  2. Hainish Cycle: Book 4

    The Left Hand of Darkness

    by Ursula K. Le Guin

    Ursula K. Le Guin's award-winning, groundbreaking science fiction classic takes us to the world of Winter, and introduces us to its inhabitants, the Gethenians-whose society is not based on gender roles.

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  3. Earthsea: Book 2

    The Tombs of Atuan

    by Ursula K. Le Guin

    WHEN YOUNG TENAR is chosen as high priestess to the ancient and nameless Powers of the Earth, everything is taken away -- home, family, possessions, even her name. For she is now Arha, the Eaten One, guardian of the ominous Tombs of Atuan. While she is learning her way through the dark... (learn more about this book)

  4. Hainish Cycle: Book 5

    The Dispossessed

    by Ursula K. Le Guin

    Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. he will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family... (learn more about this book)

  5. Earthsea: Book 4

    Tehanu

    by Ursula K. Le Guin

    Years before, they had escaped together from the sinister Tombs of Atuan -- she, an isolated young priestess, he, a powerful wizard. Now she is a farmer's widow, having chosen for herself the simple pleasures of an ordinary life. And he is a broken old man, mourning the powers lost to him not... (learn more about this book)

  6. The Lathe of Heaven

    by Ursula K. Le Guin

    George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being -- for better or for worse. In desperation, he consults a psychotherapist who promises to help him -- but who, it soon becomes clear, has his own plans for George and his dreams. The Lathe of Heaven is... (learn more about this book)

  7. Annals of the Western Shore: Book 1

    Gifts

    by Ursula K. Le Guin

    Scattered among poor, desolate farms, the clans of the Uplands possess gifts. Wondrous gifts: the ability--with a glance, a gesture, a word--to summon animals, bring forth fire, move the land. Fearsome gifts: They can twist a limb, chain a mind, inflict a wasting illness. The Uplanders live in... (learn more about this book)

  8. Legends: Book 1

    Legends I (collective work)

    by Robert Silverberg

    Here they are, the writers and the worlds that have satisfied millions of avid readers. Now, in a big, lavish volume enhanced with color and illustrative materials, each of them returns to their compelling special places to tell a new story that enriches and illuminates their most famous... (learn more about this book)

  9. Lavinia

    by Ursula K. Le Guin

    In a richly imagined, beautiful new novel, an acclaimed writer gives an epic heroine her voice 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. Now, Ursula K. Le Guin gives Lavinia a... (learn more about this book)

  10. Earthsea

    The Earthsea Quartet (collective work)

    by Ursula K. Le Guin

    A superb four-part fantasy, comparable with the work of Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, the "Earthsea" books follow the fortunes of the wizard Ged from his childhood to an age where magic is giving way to evil. As a young dragonlord, Ged, whose use-name is Sparrowhawk, is sent to the island of Roke to... (learn more about this book)

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