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1) Gifts
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Series
Annals of the Western Shore volume 1
Language
English
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Scattered among poor, desolate farms, the clans of the Uplands possess gifts. Wondrous gifts: the ability-with a glance, a gesture, a word-to summon animals, bring forth fire, move the land. Fearsome gifts: They can twist a limb, chain a mind, inflict a wasting illness. The Uplanders live in constant fear that one family might unleash its gift against another. Two young people, friends since childhood, decide not to use their gifts. One, a girl, refuses...
2) Voices
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Annals of the Western Shore volume 2
Language
English
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Ansul was once a peaceful town filled with libraries, schools, and temples. But that was long ago, and the conquerors of this coastal city consider reading and writing to be acts punishable by death. And they believe the Oracle House, where the last few undestroyed books are hidden, is seething with demons. But to seventeen-year-old Memer, the house is the only place where she feels truly safe. Then an Uplands poet named Orrec and his wife, Gry, arrive,...
3) Powers
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English
Description
Ursula K. Le Guin's haunting epic of survival, self-discovery, and hope is third in a sequence that begins with her PEN Award-winning Gifts. Young Gavie sometimes "remembers" the future. But as a slave living among those who feel threatened by the powers of the Marsh people, Gavie must hide his abilities. And then tragic events force the grief-stricken Gavie to flee the only world he's ever known. In his perilous quest for freedom, Gavie must learn...
Author
Series
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Gifts: 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.
Voices: Young Memer takes on a pivotal role in freeing her war-torn homeland from its oppressive captors.
Powers: When young Gavir's sister is brutally killed, he escapes from...