by Ursula K. Le Guin
A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on witches, together foil a witches' plot to destroy the world's children by turning them into mice.
10 books in the main sequence
Ursula K. Le Guin
A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on witches, together foil a witches' plot to destroy the world's children by turning them into mice.
Ursula K. Le Guin
* "Introduction: In Days of Old" (Isaac Asimov) * "Crusader Damosel" (Vera Chapman) * "Divers Hands" (Darrell Schweitzer) * "The Reluctant Dragon" (Kenneth Grahame) * "The Immortal Game" (Poul Anderson) * "The Stainless-Steel Knight" (John T. Phillifent) * "Diplomat-at-Arms" (Keith Laumer) * "Dream Damsel" (Ed McBain [as by Evan Hunter]) * "The Last Defender of Camelot" (Roger Zelazny) * "A Knyght Ther Was" (Robert F. Young) * "Divide and Rule" (L. Sprague de Camp)
Ursula K. Le Guin
Xanth was the enchanted land where magic ruled - where every citizen had a special spell only he could cast. It was a land of centaurs, dragons and basiliks.But poor Bink alone had no magic. And unless he got some - and fast - he would be exiled. The Good Magician Humfrey was convined that Bink did indeed have magic, magic as powerful as any possessed by the King or Good Magician Humfrey himself. But no one could fathom the nature of Bink's very special magic. Bink was in despair. This was worse than having no magic at all...and he would still be exiled.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Three thousand of the most interesting and unusual of fascinating facts plucked from a broad spectrum including the sciences, history, fashion, entertainment, the Universe, and not to forget a veritable smorgasbord of the great eccentrics.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Centaur Fielder for the Yankees - short story by Edward D. Hoch The Ice Dragon - novelette by George R. R. Martin Prince Prigio - novella by Andrew Lang The Gorgon - novelette by Tanith Lee The Griffin and the Minor Canon - short story by Frank R. Stockton The Kragen - novella by Jack Vance The Little Mermaid - novelette by Hans Christian Andersen (trans. of Den Lille Havfrue) Letters from Laura - short story by Mildred Clingerman The Triumph of Pegasus - novelette by Frank A. Javor Caution! Inflammable! - short story by Thomas N. Scortia The Pyramid Project - novelette by Robert F. Young (variant of The Sphinx) The Silken-Swift - short story by Theodore Sturgeon Mood Wendigo - short story by Thomas A. Easton
Ursula K. Le Guin
Dominic Alastair, Marquis of Vidal and fiery son of the notorious Duke of Avon, has established a rakish reputation that rivals his father's, living a life of excess and indulgence. He is a bad lot a rake and seducer, reckless, heedless, and possessed of a murderous temper. He is known by friend and foe alike as the "Devil's Cub." Yet as the handsome and wealthy heir to a Dukedom, he is considered a good prospect on the marriage market. Vidal currently has his eye on the young, lovely, and unintelligent Sophia Challoner, and Sophia's greedy mother is more than happy to encourage his dubious attentions. Banished to the Continent after wounding his opponent in a duel, Vidal decides to abduct the silly aristocrat bent on seducing him into marriage and make her his mistress instead. In his rush, however, he seems to have taken the wrong woman? Intelligent, practical Mary Challoner knew wicked Vidal, wouldn't marry her sister, despite her mother's matchmaking schemes. So Mary coolly prepared to protect her naive sister by deceiving Vidal. Substituting herself for her young sister, she certainly hadn't expected the nobleman to kidnap and take her to France. She had little notion he would grimly hold her to her part of the bargain. Now he had left her, and she was alone, a stranger in a strange land, prey to the intrigues of glittering, heartless, 18th century Paris. Only one person could rescue her--the Marquis himself. But how could she ever trust this man? How could she even hope to overcome the contempt in which he held her? And how could even the sudden flowering of her love ever bridge the terrible gap between them?
Ursula K. Le Guin
Hearts in Atlantis (1999) is a collection of two novellas and three short stories by Stephen King, all connected to one another by recurring characters and taking place in roughly chronological order. The stories are about the Baby Boomer Generation, specifically King's view that this generation (to which he belongs) failed to live up to its promise and ideals. Significantly, the opening epigraph of the collection is the Peter Fonda line from the end of Easy Rider: "We blew it." All of the stories are about the 1960s and the war in Vietnam, and in all of them the members of that generation fail profoundly, or are paying the costs of some profound failure on their part. In this collection: - Blind Willie - Hearts in Atlantis - Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling - Low Men in Yellow Coats - Why We're in Vietnam
Ursula K. Le Guin
Young adult fantasy novel about a young girl who discovers she's not human, but a faerie. Trouble follows.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Mazirian the Magician - short story by Jack Vance Please Stand By - short story by Ron Goulart What Good Is a Glass Dagger? - novelette by Larry Niven The Eye of Tandyla - novelette by L. Sprague de Camp The White Horse Child - short story by Greg Bear Semley's Necklace - short story by Ursula K. Le Guin (variant of The Dowry of Angyar) And the Monsters Walk - novella by John Jakes The Seeker in the Fortress - novelette by Manly Wade Wellman The Wall Around the World - novelette by Theodore R. Cogswell The People of the Black Circle - novella by Robert E. Howard