Average customer rating:
|
The Last Unicorn
Peter S. Beagle Manufacturer: Roc Trade ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0451450523 |
Amazon.com
The Last Unicorn is one of the true classics of fantasy, ranking with Tolkien's The Hobbit, Le Guin's Earthsea Trilogy, and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Beagle writes a shimmering prose-poetry, the voice of fairy tales and childhood:
The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. She was very old, though she did not know it, and she was no longer the careless color of sea foam but rather the color of snow falling on a moonlit night. But her eyes were still clear and unwearied, and she still moved like a shadow on the sea.
The unicorn discovers that she is the last unicorn in the world, and sets off to find the others. She meets Schmendrick the Magician--whose magic seldom works, and never as he intended--when he rescues her from Mommy Fortuna's Midnight Carnival, where only some of the mythical beasts displayed are illusions. They are joined by Molly Grue, who believes in legends despite her experiences with a Robin Hood wannabe and his unmerry men. Ahead wait King Haggard and his Red Bull, who banished unicorns from the land.
This is a book no fantasy reader should miss; Beagle argues brilliantly the need for magic in our lives and the folly of forgetting to dream. --Nona Vero
Customer Reviews:
My friend loved the book.......2007-10-05
Timeless Story.......2007-09-13
the last unnniiiicccooorrrnnnn!!!! I'M ALIIIIIIIIVEEEEE!!!!.......2007-09-06
My favorite fantasy novel of all time. .......2007-09-02
Pretty good for a fairy tale.......2007-08-28
Average customer rating:
|
The Last Unicorn: The Lost Version
Peter S. Beagle Manufacturer: Subterranean Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1596060832 Release Date: 2007-01-10 |
Product Description
Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn has sold at least six million copies around the world since it was published in 1968, and tens of millions of viewers have delighted in the animated film version (for which Peter also wrote the screenplay). But none of the fans of this amazing work have ever known the full story of how The Last Unicorn came to be. In 1962, the 23 year-old Beagle was at a career crossroads. His fantasy novel A Fine and Private Place had been released to great critical acclaim in 1960, but his mainstream second book had been flatly rejected by his publisher. What Peter wrote next was an 80-page fragment about a unicorn, the last of her kind, lost in the modern world of superhighways and Kodak cameras, with only a banished demon from Hell for a traveling companion. This first take on the beloved classic -- so much the same, so very different -- is now available to readers for the first time, with an introduction and commentary by the author.Customer Reviews:
Facinating.......2007-06-12
So thankful for the opportunity to see this version........2007-06-08
Average customer rating:
|
The Andorians: Among the Clans (Star Trek: the Original Series)
Last Unicorn Games Manufacturer: Unicorn Publishing House ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0671040170 |
Customer Reviews:
At last! A "semi-official" history of Andorians.......2000-04-21
Finally, we have a "real" book about Andorians. Sadly, for copyright reasons, LUG was not permitted to incorporate ANY of Trek fandom's Andorian "lore". Because none of the various Star Trek TV series, or movies, have given us much in the way of canonical information about the blue-skinned, antennaed aliens called Andorians, it had been left to fandom to fill in the blanks through fanzines. This manual actually debunks such non-canonical works as mythology.
This book offers a quite different, but quite intriguing, background for the Andorians. Three sub-races of Andorians are identified: the predominant Thalassan, with high, knobby antennae (as seen in the original Trek); the Talish (of ST:TMP), who have forward, tendril-like antennae; and the Bish'ee (of TNG), who have diminishing antennae standing straight out from their head.
LUG's thoughtful and richly detailed material is a great source for introducing these warriors into Trek roleplays.
Average customer rating:
|
Narrator's Toolkit: Player Aid (Star Trek: the Original Series)
Last Unicorn Games Manufacturer: Last Unicorn ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0671040154 |
Customer Reviews:
star trek rpg ds9 toolkit.......2000-06-12
Average customer rating: |
The Last Unicorn
Peter S. Beagle Manufacturer: Ballatine Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: 0345254848 |
Product Description
Mass market paperback. "...A story of a quest, the search by the unicorn--immortal, infinitely beautiful--for her lost fellows. She is assisted in her mission by Schmendrick, the Magician, a kind of poor man's Merlin whose devotion to the exquisite creature he follows is exceed only by his mediocrity in magic. A third traveler, fiercely loyal Molly Grue, tries to bring some semblance of order and practicality into the lives of her two mad charges in this wonderfully imaginative and touching tale."
Average customer rating:
|
The First Line: Starfleet Intelligence Manual (Stra Trek, the Next Generation)
Last Unicorn Games , and Isaacs Manufacturer: Last Unicorn ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0671040057 |
Customer Reviews:
Secrets revealed.......2001-02-06
Top Secret !!.......1999-06-15
Average customer rating:
|
Core Game Book (Star Trek: The Next Generation Role Playing Game)
Last Unicorn Games Manufacturer: Last Unicorn Games ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1889533009 |
Customer Reviews:
Great begning, but short on the follow thru........2002-05-26
Average customer rating:
|
Holodeck Adventures (Star Trek: the Next Generation Roleplaying Game)
Last Unicorn Games Manufacturer: Last Unicorn ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0671040103 |
Customer Reviews:
With this book, you give fun to characters and players.......2000-06-08
Average customer rating: |
Last Of The Fairies Book One; Dragon Helpers
Graham Billings Manufacturer: Trafford Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1412073715 Release Date: 2006-06-30 |
Product Description
This is a chapter book for believing children ages 5-10, who enjoy fantasy without dark magic or sorcery. But there is plenty of naughtiness and danger! It's one surprize after another if you're one of the 10 year-old twins or their 5 year-old little brother in this book:
- you wake up and you're not where you thought was home
- the gigantic dragon you meet doesn't eat you
-you find out you're fairy royalty
-you have a sister you didn't even know about
-and the dinosaur people are holding your mother for ransom!
"Don't worry; the story has a happy ending. You and your loved ones may enjoy it," says Will, age eight.
Average customer rating:
|
A Fragile Peace: The Neutral Zone Campaign (Star Trek Next Generation: Role Playing Game)
Last Unicorn Games Manufacturer: Last Unicorn ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0671040022 |
Customer Reviews:
Here Come the Romulans!.......2000-07-03
The intention of the book is to offer four adventures featuring Romulans which can be played individually or as a series. I don't want to give away any details of the episodes themselves, but I will say that they involve traditional romulan sneakiness. Each adventure is well written and includes troubleshooting sections that give narrator's "what-if" solutions. A Narrator will also find stats and descriptions of NPC's througout the Neutral Zone.
The only thing which keeps me from giving this book five stars is the cheaply done artwork. It really does the rest of the book a disservice.
Great RPG Tool.......1999-06-22
Short on Information, but tells a good story.......1999-04-17
Average customer rating:
|
Brown-Eyed Girl
Mariah Stewart Manufacturer: Pocket ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0671785885 |
Book Description
"Certain to delight readers everywhere" (Romantic Times), award-winning author Mariah Stewart expertly blends tantalizing romance and thrilling intrigue for a life-affirming novel about the healing power of love....
As co-owner and features editor of a popular magazine, Leah McDevitt loves exploring exotic locales while she tracks fashion and social trends across the globe. Yet despite her devotion to her fast-paced career, Leah is haunted by the memory of her cherished younger sister Melissa, who years ago disappeared without a trace. So when convicted serial killer Raymond Lambert contacts her, Leah is more than willing to pay him the long-standing reward for information leading to the recovery of Melissa's body.
But before Lambert can turn over all his information, he himself is killed. Devastated but determined to finally uncover the truth, Leah heads to the Maine woods to seek out Ethan Sanger, the author of a book about Lambert. A private investigator, Ethan had written the killer's story in exchange for yet another of Lambert's terrible secrets. Working together to discover the truth about Melissa's disappearance, Leah and Ethan come to realize that even amid the ashes of tragedy, love can bloom. But someone harboring secrets of his own is about to enter their lives...someone who knows more about Leah than he should...someone who won't be satisfied until his own deadly game is played out.
Customer Reviews:
Brown Eyed Girl.......2006-09-02
A very intriguing and engaging story. .......2005-08-29
Tender Romance With A Hint Of Suspense,.......2004-07-06
Surprises Surprises.......2003-07-04
A good romantic suspense..............2003-01-22
Leah McDevitt is a Feature Editor for Trends, which is a magazine based in NY. Upon returning home from working on an article abroad she finds a letter from a serial killer who is being exectued, stating that he knows where to find her sister Melissa who has been missing for seven years. Leah makes a deal with him, but before she finds out where her sister is, he dies in prison. Dejected and grieving all over again, Leah turns to the one person who may be able to help...
Ethan Sanger wrote the book on Raymond Lambert, dubbed The Vagrabond Killer. When Leah first comes to Ethan and asks to see his notes for the book, he wants to turn her down. However he finds that he can't. He knows what it's like to have a loved one missing and not know where to look. Together Leah and Ethan embark on a journey to find out what happened to Melissa.
This book has just the right amount of romance and suspense. The secondary characters are great and I can't wait to read Genna and Michael's story next.
It's defintley worth the time to read this book!
Average customer rating:
|
Brown-Eyed Girl
Virginia Swift Manufacturer: Avon ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0061030309 Release Date: 2001-04-03 |
Amazon.com
The Prodigal Daughter is coming home. Bring on the fatted calf--or at the very least an order of onion rings and a stiff shot of Kentucky bourbon. Sally Alder, once the hard-living, hard-drinking, better-than-average singing star of the Laramie, Wyoming, country-and-western bar scene is back in her hometown for the first time in 17 years. And to the amazement (and horror) of many, she's back as a respected scholar and holder of the Dunwoodie Distinguished Chair in American Women's History at the University of Wyoming. It's a career move that doesn't sit well with many of her new colleagues, as police chief Dickie Langham muses: "He decided that she would be making more than enough to infuriate the average chronically underpaid Wyoming history professor.... How much worse that Sally was somebody who had once put herself through a master's program in history by singing songs like 'Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mothers.'"Sally has been hired, in part, to write the biography of Margaret Dunwoodie, a well-known frontier poet whose work is troubling, seductive, and hilarious (Sally's favorite poem is "Still Life of Fascists with Herefords"). As Sally makes her way slowly through a lifetime's worth of papers, poems, letters, and shopping lists, she finds her attention drifting more toward the present than the past; how to reposition herself in Laramie society, how to negotiate a newly explosive courtship with former lover Hawk Green--these seem far more pressing than Dunwoodie's story. Brown-Eyed Girl is no fast-paced thriller; Swift is content to let her story drift as peacefully as spring snow moving across the plains.
For that reason, the brusque demands of plot, action, and mystery seem to strike a foreign chord upon their introduction. When a distant relative of the poet, disgruntled at having been denied what he considers his rightful inheritance, joins forces with reactionary millionaire Teton County rancher Elroy Foote to menace Sally and steal a fortune they are convinced is hidden among the papers, the novel teeters precariously on the verge of trying to become something it isn't. But Swift wisely retreats from overinvesting in a plot that is, it must be said, too weak to support itself. She chooses instead to treat Foote and his henchmen with a sly sense of the absurd: "Most of the Unknown Soldiers were intellectually challenged good ol' boys and mentally rearranged Vietnam vets who thought for various reasons (too many wilderness areas, too many missile silos, the advent of bad cappuccino at the local Diamond Shamrock) that foreigners and the federal government were engaged in a secret plot to take over Wyoming."
Though the capital-M Mystery aspect of Brown-Eyed Girl is perhaps more a distraction than an attraction, the little mysteries of the human personality--the foibles of friends, lovers, and enemies--more than make up for its intrusion. Swift's talent for person and place will easily woo you away from plot. --Kelly Flynn
Book Description
Sally Alder thought she'd left Laramie and outgrown her hard-drinking, guitar playing, hell-raising post for good. After all, this former singer known as Mustang Sally has become a respected history professor. What's more, she's been named to a richly endowed position at the University of Wyoming. But this plum job lands her back in Laramie -- secretly researching the life of one of the town's most famous yet little-known citizens, the late Meg Dunwoodie.
Of course, everyone knows Sally's poking through old Meg's papers, and a lot of people think that buried among them is a treasure map that could leadto a fortune. Most of Laramie is determined to find it, including a bunch of clueless burglars, a curious sheriff, gossipy friends, and greedy faculty colleagues. And, as if that isn't enough to distract Sally, sexy Hawk Green is back to rekindle the romance she thought was gone forever.
As she delves into Meg's romantic past, Sally discovers the forces of good and evil in Laramie are beginning to align in a mysterious way. And if she doesn't learn from the post quickly enough, she may be doomed to repeat deadly mistakes.
Customer Reviews:
Love Jennifer Cruisie? Meet Viginia Swift!.......2001-07-29
fun read.......2001-05-07
Best of Genre.......2001-01-09
The plot careens in several directions. First, Sally renews a relationship with a former boyfriend, whose love-making now combines the mature sophistication of middle age with the stamina of an adolescent. (Perhaps this is plausible. I can only testify to the possibility of the opposite mixture.)
Next, Sally unravels the mysterious background of the poetess. Finally, she survives the self-thwarting schemes of a right-wing militia and a selfish set of sexist professors.
I can curl up with writing like this (p. 100):
"People on the high plains got real squirrelly the week before Thanksgiving. They knew there'd be a snowstorm that would shut down the roads relatives would try to travel, strand thousands in the Denver airport en route to turkey dinners and family feuds, generally [mess] up everyone's plans and leave the world so [dang] silent and beautiful into the bargain that you felt guilty for resenting the inconvenience."
In fact, I can say without hesitation that of all books in the comic-western/mystery-romance/academic-feminist genre, this is the best that I have ever read. But you have to be open to that kind of crazy concoction to enjoy this novel. If you prefer to keep Larry McMurtry, Sara Paretsky, and A.S. Byatt in separate places, then this might not be your cup of tea.
More Thrills in Laramie than L.A.? You bet!.......2000-11-01
What a romp! BIG fun here........2000-08-25
Average customer rating: |
5 Titles By Mariah Stewart : Until Dark Brown-eyed Girl Cold Truth Dark Truth Carolin Mist
Mariah Stewart Manufacturer: various ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: B000RAARRE |
Product Description
multiple books ship as one item. save on shipping/handling charges.
Average customer rating: |
Brown Eyed Girl
Van Morrison Manufacturer: Planet Media & Entertainment ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000IWHXNC |
Average customer rating: |
Brown-Eyed Girl
Mariah Stewart Manufacturer: Pocket Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000MMQHB2 |
Average customer rating: |
Brown Eyed Girl
Van Cdcoll 9349 Morrison Manufacturer: COLLECTABLES RECORDS ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio CD ASIN: 6307820977 |
Average customer rating: |
Brown Eyed Girl/Best of Bang Years
Van Cdscmg 28414 Morrison Manufacturer: SONY CUSTOM MARKETING GROUP ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio CD ASIN: 6307389893 |
Average customer rating: |
Brown-Eyed Girl
Virginia Swift Manufacturer: Avon ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OF4U20 |
Books:
Recommended Books