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Author Beagle's Book Reviews

A Fine and Private Place
A man who can communicate with ghosts hides out in a cemetery for 19 years, and helps one of the departed solve the mystery of his own death. Nineteen years ago Jonathan Rebeck lost his pharmacy due to bankruptcy, got massively drunk as a result and woke up in a cemetery. He has lived there ever since, hiding from the world. A talking raven brings him stolen sandwiches and scraps, plus the occasional paperback to pass the time. He's also discovered th...
I See by My Outfit: Cross-Country by Scooter, an Adventure 
This is a classic road adventure. In the early 1960's, author Peter S. Beagle and his good friend Phil set out on a cross-country trip from New York to San Francisco, on two motor scooters. The story tells of people and places they visited along the way, and their friendship. They deal with all kinds of weather, good and bad, make frequent stops at repair shops to fix their ailing scooters, meet all kinds of interesting people and see interesting places ...
Tamsin
Thirteen year old Jenny's family moves to a farm where she befriends a ghost and solves a three hundred year old mystery. Jenny is a thirteen year old girl happily living in New York when her mother decides to move them both to Dorset, England to live with her new husband and his two sons. Jenny is understandably less than thrilled with the move, particularly because her pet Mister Cat has to spend six months in quarantine. She narrates the book in the f...
The Folk of the Air
Joe Farrell returns to his hometown and discovers that his old friends in the League for Archaic Pleasures medieval reenactment group are actually dabbling in real magic. Joe Farrell is a musician and a bit of a drifter who has spent the last decade or so driving around the country and working odd jobs. He returns to his hometown of Avicenna, in the San Francisco Bay Area, and crashes with his old college buddy Ben Kassoy. Ben is living with an older...

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The Last Unicorn
One day a solitary unicorn overhears a conversation between two humans and realizes that she is the last of her breed. Setting out to find out what happened to the others, she soon picks up a couple of human companions. She is rescued from a travelling carnival by the inept magician Schmendrick, who has great potential for magic, but cannot control it, and when they meet a group of outlaws, the outlaw's cook, Molly Grue, decides to go with them. They...