New Releases by Peter S. Beagle

The long-awaited sequel to the popular classic The Last Unicorn is the centerpiece of the powerful collection of new tales from a fantasy master. As longtime fans have come to expect, the stories are written with a grace and style similar to fantasy''s most original voices, such as J.R.R. Tolkien, Fritz Leiber, and Kurt Vonnegut. Traditional themes are typically infused with modern sensibilities--reincarnated lovers and waning kings run shoulders with heroic waifs; Schmendrick and Magician returns to adventure, as does the ghost of an off-Broadway actor and a dream-stealing shapeshifter; and Gordon, the delightfully charming "self-made cat," appears for the first time in print, taking his place alongside Stuart Little as a new favorite of the young at heart. This wide-ranging compilation contains sly humor and a resounding depth that will charm fans of literary fantasy.

Jenny, an American girl living on a farm in England befriends a local ghost, a woman dead for 300 years. She is Tamsin and she introduces Jenny to a world of ghosts, good and evil, from her turbulent life.

Even lifelong friendships can''t outlast death...or can they? The deeply personal story is of dreams abandoned and recovered, friends loved and lost, and the strength it takes to let go.

The Magician of Karakosk is a collection of six stories which contain a range of characters from a humble magician who only wants to stay at home and make fireworks, to a man who is captured by giants, to a girl who is befriended by singing fish.''

A collection of stories dealing with such themes as a fish who helps a maiden esacpe from an arranged marriage to the king, a boy who has unusually tall family members, and a magician who must teach a wicked queen all he knows.

This overview of Peter Beagle''s extraordinary career as a fantasist contains seven short stories and three essays as well as a new preface by the author. It also features the original whimsical Chesley Award-winning cover illustration by talented Bay Area artist Michael Dashow. "The Last Unicorn, Beagle''s most beloved novel, was an underground bestseller in the late 1960s and 1970s. This collection includes two of Beagle''s popular unicorn stories, "Professor Gottesman and the Indian Rhinoceros" and "Julei''s Unicorn," as well as "Lila the Werewolf," which is anthologized in the "Oxford Book of Fantasy, and a tribute to J. R. R. Tolkien, "The Naga."

Die 13jährige Joey aus Los Angeles folgt dem Jungen Indigo, der auf seinem Horn zauberhafte Melodien spielen kann, in das Märchenland Shei''rah. Die dort lebenden Einhörner drohen durch eine rätselhafte Krankheit zu erblinden. Joey versucht ihnen zu helfen.

In Los Angeles a thirteen-year-old girl follows haunting music across an invisible border into an enchanted land known as Shei''rah that is inhabited by satyrs, unicorns, and phoenixes.

While attending the revels of the League for Archaic Pleasurs, a group dedicated to the pleasures of the medieval period, Joe Farrell comes face-to-face with Nicholas Bonner, a spirit from the past and an ancient evil.

The author of the classic fable The Last Unicorn presents here a tale of delusion and illusion, wherein Joe Farrell encounters the members of The League for Archaic Pleasures--a group that enjoys the jests and jousts of bygone eras, but who are all too real as the characters of yore they portray.

Studie over drie drieluiken van de Brabantse schilder Jeroen Bosch (±1453- 1516).

One short story, one novella, and two complete movies populated by ghosts, unicorns and werewolves are included.

A charming, historically-important, and well-produced book from 1975 that highlights the work of about 50 denim artists. The concept is simple: these men and women took denim garments and changed them. There''s a wide range of techniques here: applique, embroidery and other needlepoint techniques, distressing, integration of other fabrics, painting, studding. The intentions of the artists here are varied. Some of them are coming straight out of the hippie "I drew on my dirty jeans" school. Others are clearly fabric artists interested in seeing how they can transform garments into something new. Some of them are fashion designers, looking to take street wear to a fashion-conscious and upscale place. And some are just pure folk artists -- "I wanted to have two naked chicks with pubic hair on my jacket so I made this." Whatever their intentions, the work exhibited in this book is remarkable. And every stereotype you might have in your head about the mid-70''s being a stylistic nadir will be challenged by the groovy stuff here. Applique jeans with flowers and butterflies aren''t automatically a joke. They can be an object of great beauty. Almost all color photography with many detail shots and a few fold-out pages. Interspersed are black and white photos of famous people looking famous in denim (the usual suspects like Peter Fonda and Olivia Newton-John are here as well as Marlene Dietrich and Frank Sinatra wearing a truly horrendous bell-bottomed number.) Interspersed through the book is the essay by Peter Beagle which is a free-flowing and personal reflection on the spirit of the time, the fashionable past, crafting, the history of the Levi brand, life in a post-1960''s realities, and how he really, really liked fur when he was a kid. Really.

In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. articulated his dream, JFK was assassinated, and zip codes were first introduced to the US. The world was monumentally changing and changing fast. But in the eyes of future fantasy author Peter Beagle and his best friend Phil, it wasn''t changing fast enough. For these two twenty-something beatnik Jews from the Bronx, change was something you chased after night and day across the country on the trembling seat of a motor scooter.