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When young Gavir's sister is brutally killed, he escapes from slavery and sets out to explore the world and his …
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When young Gavir's sister is brutally killed, he escapes from slavery and sets out to explore the world and his …

At the far end of our universe, on the twin planets of Werel and Yeowe, all humankind is divided into …

A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to …


When Jane, a cat with wings, leaves the safety of her farm to explore the world, she falls into the …

Mrs. Jane Tabby could not explain why all four of her children had wings. But it meant that her dreams …


The award-winning stories in this book range from the everyday to the outer limits of experience, where the quantum uncertainties …

The Tao Te Ching (UK: , US: ; simplified Chinese: 道德经; traditional Chinese: 道德經; pinyin: Dàodé Jīng [tâʊ tɤ̌ tɕíŋ] …

Young adult story about finding one's place in the world.
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Wishing to visit their mother, two winged cats leave their new country home to return to the city, where they …

In this final episode of "The Earthsea Cycle", the widowed Tenar finds and nurses her aging friend, Sparrowhawk, a magician …

The star-spanning story of humanity's colonization of other planets, Ursula K. Le Guin's visionary Hainish novels and stories redrew the …
An excellent start to this epic fantasy series. The world has a lovely texture without paragraphs of history, the characters are realistic without too much exposition and there is plenty left unexplained, as yet, to allow the reader to speculate and wonder.
I would heartily recommend this, together with Connolly's Twenty Palaces novels.
An excellent start to this epic fantasy series. The world has a lovely texture without paragraphs of history, the characters are realistic without too much exposition and there is plenty left unexplained, as yet, to allow the reader to speculate and wonder.
I would heartily recommend this, together with Connolly's Twenty Palaces novels.

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