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(0)Ursula K. Le Guin
Author
Series
Hainish series volume 6
Language
English
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Description
While on a mission to the planet Gethen, earthling Genly Ai is sent by leaders of the nation of Orgoreyn to a concentration camp from which the exiled prime minister of the nation of Karhide tries to rescue him.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
From acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, a collection of thoughts—always adroit, often acerbic—on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation.
Ursula K. Le Guin on the absurdity of denying your age: "If I'm ninety and believe I'm forty-five, I'm headed for a very bad time trying to get out of the bathtub."
On cultural perceptions of fantasy: "The direction of escape is toward freedom. So...
Ursula K. Le Guin on the absurdity of denying your age: "If I'm ninety and believe I'm forty-five, I'm headed for a very bad time trying to get out of the bathtub."
On cultural perceptions of fantasy: "The direction of escape is toward freedom. So...
Author
Publisher
Small Beer Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
"Hard times are coming, when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We'll need writers who can remember freedom — poets, visionaries — realists of a larger reality. . . ."
Words Are My Matter collects talks, essays, introductions to beloved books,
6) Gifts
Author
Series
Annals of the Western Shore volume 1
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.
7) Catwings
Author
Series
Catwings series volume 1
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.
8) Powers
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
When young Gavir's sister is brutally killed, he escapes from slavery and sets out to explore the world and his own psychic abilities.
Author
Series
Catwings series volume 2
Language
English
Description
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 imminently to be demolished.
11) Voices
Author
Series
Annals of the Western Shore volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Young Memer takes on a pivotal role in freeing her war-torn homeland from its oppressive captors.
Author
Series
Catwings series volume 3
Language
English
Description
After being rescued by a flying cat, Alexander the cat decides to make good on a promise to do wonderful things.
13) Tom Mouse
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Tom Mouse hides on the train he has boarded for travel and adventure, but an old woman finds and befriends him.
14) Cat dreams
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2009
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
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1983, c1978]
Language
English
Description
On an alien planet inhabited by two communities exiled from the Earth, a courageous woman flees her prison-life existence among the vicious denizens of the City to join the free-spirited Shanty towners and to lead them to build a new colony.
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