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,...
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 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 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...
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...
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,...