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FROM: Lyn Swafford <[removed]@northnet.org>
REC'D: 1/20/04, 4:19 PM

Hello -
One of my employees has been searching for a book without knowing the
title or the author, and she has very few clues. She thinks it may be
an Ursula LeGuin book, but she's not positive. The only clues she gave
me were these: there is a boundary between two territories, and the
territory one enters is always in night or gray.

I appreciate any help.

Thanks,
Lyn

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Lyn Swafford, MLIS [removed]@northnet.org
Director 315.386.3712 voice
Canton Free Library 315.386.4131 FAX
P. O. Box 150
Canton, NY 13617 www.cantonfreelibrary.org

FROM: "Lisa Colcord" <[removed]@glendaleaz.com>
REC'D: 1/20/04, 4:35 PM

Probably not it, but Tanith Lee had a book called Day by Night in which the world does not rotate and so one side is always daytime and the other side is always night.

Lisa

Lisa Colcord
Librarian
Glendale Public library
Glendale, AZ

....my views are my own....

-The secret to life is enjoying the passage of time- James Taylor

>>> [removed]@northnet.org 01/20/04 03:13PM >>>
Hello -
One of my employees has been searching for a book without knowing the
title or the author, and she has very few clues. She thinks it may be
an Ursula LeGuin book, but she's not positive. The only clues she gave
me were these: there is a boundary between two territories, and the
territory one enters is always in night or gray.

I appreciate any help.

Thanks,
Lyn

--
Lyn Swafford, MLIS [removed]@northnet.org
Director 315.386.3712 voice
Canton Free Library 315.386.4131 FAX
P. O. Box 150
Canton, NY 13617 www.cantonfreelibrary.org

FROM: "ROBIN BEERBOWER" <[removed]@mail.open.org>
REC'D: 1/20/04, 4:41 PM

Kind of sounds like THE GIVER by Lois Lowry, a children's Newbery award
book. The setting for the most part is colorless but I remember near
the end of the book he finds there is another land that has color. I
can't remember much more about the book but here is the Amazon review:

--In a world with no poverty, no crime, no sickness and no
unemployment, and where every family is happy, 12-year-old Jonas is
chosen to be the community's Receiver of Memories. Under the tutelage of
the Elders and an old man known as the Giver, he discovers the
disturbing truth about his utopian world and struggles against the
weight of its hypocrisy. With echoes of Brave New World, in this 1994
Newbery Medal winner, Lowry examines the idea that people might freely
choose to give up their humanity in order to create a more stable
society. Gradually Jonas learns just how costly this ordered and
pain-free society can be, and boldly decides he cannot pay the price.

Robin Beerbower
Salem (OR) Public Library

>>> [removed]@northnet.org 01/20/04 02:13PM >>>
Hello -
One of my employees has been searching for a book without knowing the
title or the author, and she has very few clues. She thinks it may be
an Ursula LeGuin book, but she's not positive. The only clues she
gave
me were these: there is a boundary between two territories, and the
territory one enters is always in night or gray.

I appreciate any help.

Thanks,
Lyn

--
Lyn Swafford, MLIS [removed]@northnet.org
Director 315.386.3712 voice
Canton Free Library 315.386.4131 FAX
P. O. Box 150
Canton, NY 13617 www.cantonfreelibrary.org

FROM: <[removed]@trlib.org>
REC'D: 1/20/04, 7:35 PM

I'm afraid I don't remember The Left Hand of Darkness, by LeGuin, very well. I do remember that there were two territories and it was very cold, so it could seem gray. The reviews I found seemed to focus on the social/gender issues, so I couldn't match the clues you gave.

Thirza
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Thirza Krohn, Reference Librarian
Aberdeen Timberland Library [removed]@trlib.org <[removed]@trlib.org>
121 E Market Fax (360) 533-9771
Aberdeen, WA 98520 Voice (360) 533-2360 ext. 2612
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-----Original Message-----
From: Lyn Swafford [[removed]@northnet.org]
Sent: Tue 1/20/2004 2:13 PM
To: Fiction_L
Cc:
Subject: RE: ID this book?



Hello -
One of my employees has been searching for a book without knowing the
title or the author, and she has very few clues. She thinks it may be
an Ursula LeGuin book, but she's not positive. The only clues she gave
me were these: there is a boundary between two territories, and the
territory one enters is always in night or gray.

I appreciate any help.

Thanks,
Lyn


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Lyn Swafford, MLIS [removed]@northnet.org
Director 315.386.3712 voice
Canton Free Library 315.386.4131 FAX
P. O. Box 150
Canton, NY 13617 www.cantonfreelibrary.org



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FROM: [removed]@wepl.lib.oh.us
REC'D: 1/20/04, 7:47 PM

The Sabriel (Garth Nix) books have a border with one territory being dark and forboding, but I'm not sure it's the right one...

Sarah
----- Original Message -----
From: Lyn Swafford <[removed]@northnet.org>
Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 5:13 pm
Subject: RE: ID this book?

> Hello -
> One of my employees has been searching for a book without knowing the
> title or the author, and she has very few clues. She thinks it
> may be
> an Ursula LeGuin book, but she's not positive. The only clues she
> gaveme were these: there is a boundary between two territories,
> and the
> territory one enters is always in night or gray.
>
> I appreciate any help.
>
> Thanks,
> Lyn
>
>
> --
> Lyn Swafford, MLIS [removed]@northnet.org
> Director 315.386.3712 voice
> Canton Free Library 315.386.4131 FAX
> P. O. Box 150
> Canton, NY 13617 www.cantonfreelibrary.org
>
>
>
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FROM: Rachel Thern <[removed]@mail.pratt.lib.md.us>
REC'D: 1/21/04, 8:46 AM

This might be "The Beginning Place" by Ursula LeGuin, it was also
published under another title I think but I forgot what. A boy and a
girl find a place where they can enter another world that has a town in
it where it is always the same time of day, I think twilight, and if you
look you can see some other time of day farther on. They have to kill
some sort of monster there before leaving. I read this a long time ago
and it wasn't very well worked out by her standards - I guess that's why
it's not one of her better known books.
Rachel

Lyn Swafford wrote:

>Hello -
>One of my employees has been searching for a book without knowing the
>title or the author, and she has very few clues. She thinks it may be
>an Ursula LeGuin book, but she's not positive. The only clues she gave
>me were these: there is a boundary between two territories, and the
>territory one enters is always in night or gray.
>
>I appreciate any help.
>
>Thanks,
>Lyn
>
>
>--
>Lyn Swafford, MLIS [removed]@northnet.org
>Director 315.386.3712 voice
>Canton Free Library 315.386.4131 FAX
>P. O. Box 150
>Canton, NY 13617 www.cantonfreelibrary.org
>
>
>
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FROM: "Hogan, Jean E." <[removed]@nvcc.edu>
REC'D: 1/21/04, 8:52 AM

Veronica Chapman, Senior Editor

I was thinking that maybe it was a Piers Anthony title from his Xanth
series, maybe Night Mare, but I couldn't really confirm. I read the book
YEARS ago. This is what I got from Amazon:


Book Description
Although the Nextwave of barbarian warriors was invading Xanth, Mare Imbrium
discovered that ever since she had gained the half soul, the night mare had
begun to mishandle her job of delivering bad dreams. Exiled to the day world
with a message for King Trent, Mare met the relentless, unforgiving
Horseman. For the night mare, it began to be all a horrible nightmare!

-----Original Message-----
From: Lyn Swafford [[removed]@northnet.org]
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 5:13 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: RE: ID this book?

Hello -
One of my employees has been searching for a book without knowing the
title or the author, and she has very few clues. She thinks it may be
an Ursula LeGuin book, but she's not positive. The only clues she gave
me were these: there is a boundary between two territories, and the
territory one enters is always in night or gray.

I appreciate any help.

Thanks,
Lyn

--
Lyn Swafford, MLIS [removed]@northnet.org
Director 315.386.3712 voice
Canton Free Library 315.386.4131 FAX
P. O. Box 150
Canton, NY 13617 www.cantonfreelibrary.org

FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 1/22/04, 5:15 PM

At 05:13 PM 1/20/04 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello -
>One of my employees has been searching for a book without knowing the
>title or the author, and she has very few clues. She thinks it may be
>an Ursula LeGuin book, but she's not positive. The only clues she gave
>me were these: there is a boundary between two territories, and the
>territory one enters is always in night or gray.
>
>I appreciate any help.
>
>Thanks,
>Lyn

Aside from the suggestions already made -- if it is LeGuin, is it a
reference to the Land of the Dead in the Earthsea books? I can't
recall if that land (which is reached by stepping over a low wall)
is always in twilight or not, but it feels as though it ought to be.

If it isn't LeGuin, another outside possibility is Roger Zelazny's
JACK OF SHADOWS, which has one sunlit hemisphere and one in
perpetual darkness (like the old idea of conditions on Mercury).

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

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