Ursula K Le Guin

Explores further the magical world of Earthsea through five tales of events which occur before or after the time of the original novels, as well as an essay on the people, languages, history and magic of the place. "The tales of this book explore or extend the world established by the first four Earthsea novels. Yet each stands on its own. "The Finder", a novella set a few hundred years before 'A Wizard of Earthsea', presents a dark and troubled...

"Years ago, the young priestess Tenar and powerful wizard Ged helped each other in a time of darkness and danger. Together, they shared an adventure like no other. Tenar has since embraced the simple pleasures of an ordinary life, while Ged mourns the powers lost to him through no choice of his own. Now the two must join forces again and help another in need--the physically, emotionally scarred child whose own destiny has yet to be revealed...." --...

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.

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 in the poem. Now, Ursula K. Le Guin gives Lavinia a voice in a novel that takes the reader to the half-wild world of ancient Italy, when Rome was a muddy village near seven hills.--From amazon.com.

Shevek, a brilliant physicist from the anarchist moon Anarres, risks his life by traveling to the mother planet of Urras in the hope of offering wisdom to its inhabitants and to reunite the two long-alienated worlds.

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.

Young Memer takes on a pivotal role in freeing her war-torn homeland from its oppressive captors.

After being rescued by a flying cat, Alexander the cat decides to make good on a promise to do wonderful things.

Four young cats with wings leave the city slums in search of a safe place to live, finally meeting two children with kind hands.