In these three short novels, Le Guin takes us to the Western Shore, where people of magic and people of war and people of books all try to make their lives together. In Gifts, a young man comes to terms with his family’s heritage, the terrible power of unmaking. In Voices, a girl finds shelter in a library that harbors a secret presence. And in Power, a child raised as a slave must walk the perilous path to freedom, as the visions he doesn’t understand show him the way. In each novel, the people make the halting, deadly, and difficult journey of liberty, never sure if they will make it, carried along by the greatest power and gift any of them will ever know—the story.