Russell's ebook Library
Always Coming Home
Ursula K Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin's Always Coming Home is a major work of the imagination from one of America's most respected writers. More than five years in creation, it is a novel unlike any other. A rich and complex interweaving of story and fable, poem, artwor...
The Beginning Place
Ursula K Le Guin
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 yea...
The Birthday of the World and Other Stories
Ursula K Le Guin
For more than four decades, Ursula K. Le Guin has enthralled readers with her imagination, clarity, and moral vision. The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and five Hugo and five Nebula Awards,...
City of Illusions
Ursula K Le Guin
Hanish [3]: This is the story of a journey of discovery - a story full of riddles, allegories and echoes of ancient cultures; of Utopia, a fantastic city. It is a story of the discovery of many alien cultures in a "far-future Earth", of identity and ...
The Compass Rose
Ursula K Le Guin
From dream worlds to nightmare planets, through mazes of madness to tiny time holes in space, down Pathways of Desire to a New Atlantis, THE COMPASS ROSE points the way to the wonder-filled mind-country of a remarkable writer.The Author of the Acacia...
The Dispossessed
Ursula K Le Guin
Hanish [5]: The Principle of Simultaneity is a scientific breakthrough which will revolutionize interstellar civilization by making possible instantaneous communication. It is the life work of Shevek, a brilliant physicist from the arid anarchist wor...
The Eye of the Heron
Ursula K Le Guin
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...
The Farthest Shore
Ursula K Le Guin
Earthsea [3]: In this third book in the Earthsea series, darkness threatens to overtake Earthsea: The world and its wizards are losing their magic. But Ged Sparrohawk — Archmage, wizard, and dragonlord — is determined to discover the source of this d...
Four Ways to Forgiveness
Ursula K Le Guin
Hanish [7]: This book contains four linked novellas set in the same part of the galaxy over slightly different moments in its history. The stories revolve around the inhabitants of Werel, a slave-owning male-dominated planet, and those of its colony ...
Gifts
Ursula K Le Guin
Chronicles of the Western Shore [1]: Orrec, the son of the Brantor of Caspromant, and Gry, daughter of the Brantors of Barre and Rodd, have grown up together, running half-wild across the Uplands. The people there are like their land: harsh and fierc...
The Lathe of Heaven
Ursula K Le Guin
George Orr has dreams that come true - dreams that change reality.He dreams that the aunt who is sexually harassing him is killed in a car crash, and wakes to find that she died in a wreck six weeks ago, in another part of the country. But a far dark...
Lavinia
Ursula K Le Guin
An exceptional combination of history and mythology'Like Spartan Helen, I caused a war. She caused hers by letting men who wanted her take her. I caused mine because I wouldn't be given, wouldn't be taken, but chose my man and my fate. The man was fa...
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K Le Guin
Hanish [4]: Genly Ai is a diplomat of sorts, sent to observe the inhabitants of the snowbound planet of Winter. But the isolated, androgynous people are suspicious of this strange, single-gendered visitor. Tucked away in a remote corner of the univer...
The Other Wind
Ursula K Le Guin
Earthsea [5]: The sorcerer Alder fears sleep. He dreams of the land of death, of his wife who died young and longs to return to him so much that she kissed him across the low stone wall that separates our world from the Dry Land-where the grass is wi...
Planet of Exile
Ursula K Le Guin
Hanish [1]: The Earth colony of Landin has been stranded on Werel for ten years � and ten of Werel's years are over 600 terrestrial years, and the lonely and dwindling human settlement is beginning to feel the strain.Every winter a season that lasts ...
Powers
Ursula K Le Guin
Chronicles of the Western Shore [3]: The final part in the story that started with GIFTS, and the tale of Gry Barre of Roddmant and Orrec Caspro of Caspromant, two children with extraordinary powers.They play a part in VOICES too, the sequel to GIFTS...
Rocannon's World
Ursula K Le Guin
Hanish [2]: A world shared by three native humanoid races - the cavern - dwelling Gdemiar, elvish Fiia, and warrior clan, Liuar - is suddenly invaded and conquered by a fleet of ships from the stars.Earth scientist Rocannon is on that world, and he s...
Tehanu
Ursula K Le Guin
Earthsea [4]: Years ago, 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 ...
The Telling
Ursula K Le Guin
Hanish [8]: 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...
The Tombs of Atuan
Ursula K Le Guin
Earthsea [2]: In this second novel in the Earthsea series, Tenar is chosen as high priestess to the ancient and nameless Powers of the Earth, and everything is taken from her — home, family, possessions, even her name. She is now known only as Arha, ...
Very Far Away From Anywhere Else
Ursula K Le Guin
Owen is seventeen and smart. He knows what he wants to do with his life. But then he meets Natalie and he realizes he doesn't know anything much at all.A slender, realistic story of a young man's coming of age, Very Far Away from Anywhere Else is one...
Voices
Ursula K Le Guin
Chronicles of the Western Shore [2]: Memer is a child of rape; when the Alds took the beautiful city of Ansul, they descecrated or destroyed everything of beauty. The Waylord they imprisoned and tortured for years until finally he is freed to return ...
The Wild Girls
Ursula K Le Guin
This Nebula Award-winning story tells of two captive "dirt children" in a society of sword and silk, whose determination to find a glimpse of justice leads to a violent and loving end.Also included is the nonfiction essay Staying Awake While We Read,...
A Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula K Le Guin
Earthsea [1]: 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...
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