Una novela del Ciclo Ecumen. En el planeta Eltanin, una colonia de terráqueos de la Liga Planetaria está al borde de la extinción debido a las duras condiciones de vida del planeta y a una amenaza inesperada. No tienen otros vecinos que los nómadas primitivos, que, aunque temen a los terrestres, se instalan en las cercanías de la colonia durante los crueles inviernos que duran quince años. En el invierno que se avecina, un riesto hasta ahora...

Going vegan is easy, and even easier if you have the tools at hand to make it work right. In the second edition of this informative and practical guide, two seasoned vegans help you learn to love your inner vegan freak. Loaded with tips, advice, and stories, this book is the key to helping you thrive as a happy, healthy, and sane vegan in a decidedly non-vegan world that doesn't always get what you're about. In this sometimes funny, sometimes irreverent,...

¡Déjate llevar por la magia de Terramar! El archipiélago de Terramar sufre una grave crisis: la magia está desapareciendo. Ged el Archimago deberá abandonar su amada Roke para descubrir el origen de la desgracia y restaurar el equilibrio. Junto al joven príncipe Arren, emprenderá un arriesgado viaje que los llevará hasta los confines del mundo, hasta la costa más lejana. La segunda entrega del emblemático ciclo de Terramar, en nuestra colección...

¡Déjate llevar por la magia de Terramar! Al hechicero Aliso le aterra conciliar el sueño, pues hacerlo significa trasladarse a la tierra de los muertos para encontrarse con su esposa. Ella falleció muy joven y desea tanto regresar a él que lo besó a través del bajo muro de piedra que separa nuestro mundo de la Tierra Seca, donde la hierba está marchita, las estrellas, siempre quedas, y los amantes se cruzan sin reconocerse. Cada noche, los...

Le Guin's Hainish series begins with the assumption that centuries ago humanoids from the planet Hain ventured through the solar system establishing colonies on various planets including Earth. For mysterious reasons these colonies lose all contact and knowledge of each other until the 21st century when an attempt is made to establish a galactic league. Individual stories in this loosely organized series explore the inherent communication difficulties...

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.

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

Presents advice on the basic elements of narrative prose, covering point of view, sentence length and complex syntax, indirect narration, grammar, punctuation, and the sound of writing.

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.

"Hard times are coming, when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We'll need writers who can remember freedom — poets, visionaries — realists of a larger reality. . . ."
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