The Beginning Place
Title | The Beginning Place PDF eBook |
Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 2005-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0765346257 |
Two young people who cross over from everyday reality and meet in the magical village of Tembreadbrezi volunteer to take on and destroy the unknown malevolent force that is threatening the village with destruction.
The Beginning Place
Title | The Beginning Place PDF eBook |
Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
Publisher | Tor Teen |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2005-03-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1466824468 |
From multi-award-winning, literary legend Ursula K. Le Guin comes a speculative fiction classic, The Beginning Place. Fleeing from the monotony of his life, Hugh Rogers finds his way to "the beginning place"—a gateway to Tembreabrezi, an idyllic, unchanging world of eternal twilight. Irena Pannis was thirteen when she first found the beginning place. Now, seven years later, she has grown to know and love the gentle inhabitants of Tembreabrezi, or Mountaintown, and she sees Hugh as a trespasser. But then a monstrous shadow threatens to destroy Mountaintown, and Hugh and Irena join forces to seek it out. Along the way, they begin to fall in love. Are they on their way to a new beginning...or a fateful end? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Beginning Place
Title | The Beginning Place PDF eBook |
Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
Publisher | Spectra |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780553262827 |
Hugh and Irena assummed that they had just stumbled upon Tembraebrezi, a beginning place, but Tembraebrezi has a secret dark fear that is threatening the kingdom and Hugh and Irena were led to the beginning place for a purpose.
A Wizard of Earthsea
Title | A Wizard of Earthsea PDF eBook |
Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 267 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0547851391 |
Originally published in 1968, Ursula K. Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea marks the first of the six now beloved Earthsea titles. Ged was the greatest sorcerer in Earthsea, but in his youth he was the reckless Sparrowhawk. In his hunger for power and knowledge, he tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tumultuous tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death's threshold to restore the balance.
Shelter in Place
Title | Shelter in Place PDF eBook |
Author | David Leavitt |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 391 |
Release | 2020-10-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1620404893 |
“Very funny and unexpected, a material response to our times, plush as velvet.” –Rachel Cusk “A wickedly funny and emotionally expansive novel about all the bewildering ways we seek solace from the people and things that surround us.” – Jenny Offill David Leavitt returns with his signature “coolly elegant prose” (O, The Oprah Magazine) to deliver a comedy of manners for the Trump era. It is the Saturday after the 2016 presidential election, and in a plush weekend house in Connecticut, an intimate group of friends, New Yorkers all, has gathered to recover from what they consider the greatest political catastrophe of their lives. They have just sat down to tea when their hostess, Eva Lindquist, proposes a dare. Who among them would be willing to ask Siri how to assassinate Donald Trump? Liberal and like-minded-editors, writers, a decorator, a theater producer, and one financial guy, Eva's husband, Bruce-the friends have come to the countryside in the hope of restoring the bubble in which they have grown used to living. Yet with the exception of one brash and obnoxious book editor, none is willing to accept Eva's challenge. Shelter in Place is a novel about house and home, furniture and rooms, safety and freedom and the invidious ways in which political upheaval can undermine even the most seemingly impregnable foundations. Eva is the novel's polestar, a woman who moves through her days accompanied by a roving, carefully curated salon. She's a generous hostess and more than a bit of a control freak, whose obsession with decorating allows Leavitt to treat us to a slyly comic look at the habitués and fetishes of the so-called shelter industry. Yet when, in her avidity to secure shelter for herself, she persuades Bruce to buy a grand if dilapidated apartment in Venice, she unwittingly sets off the chain of events that will propel him, for the first time, to venture outside the bubble and embark on a wholly unexpected love affair. A comic portrait of the months immediately following the 2016 election, Shelter in Place is also a meditation on the unreliable appetites-for love, for power, for freedom-by which both our public and private lives are shaped.
The Eye of the Heron
Title | The Eye of the Heron PDF eBook |
Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2003-09-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780765346124 |
In Victoria on a former prison colony, two exiled groups--the farmers of Shantih and the City dwellers--live in apparent harmony. All is not as it seems, however. While the peace-loving farmers labor endlessly to provide food for the City, the City Bosses rule the Shantih with an iron fist. When a group of farmers decide to from a new settlement further away, the Bosses retaliate by threatening to crush the "rebellion." Luz understands what it means to have no choices. Her father is a Boss and he has ruled over her life with the same iron fist. Luz wonders what it might be like to make her own choices. To be free to choose her own destiny. When the crisis over the new settlement reaches a flash point, Luz will have her chance.
The Dispossessed
Title | The Dispossessed PDF eBook |
Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
Publisher | Turtleback Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Anarchism |
ISBN | 9780785764038 |
A brilliant physicist attempts to salvage his planet of anarchy.