Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284260to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gifts Series: #1 of Annals of the Western Shore Author: Ursula K. Le Guin Narrator: Jim Colby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 5 minutes Release date: February 20, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: In this beautifully crafted novel, the first of the Annals of the Western Shore trilogy, Ursula K. Le Guin writes of the proud cruelty of power, of how hard it is to grow up, and of how much harder still it is to find, in the world's darkness, gifts of light.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 to bring animals to their death in the hunt. The other, a boy, wears a blindfold lest his eyes and his anger kill.'A brilliant exploration of the power and responsibility of gifts.'—Publishers Weekly, starred review

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