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Price: $11.99

ISBN: 9780064406970

Summary: Lanky lizards! The slinkster-cool novels in Francesca Lia Block's Weetzie Bat series have finally been compiled into one delicious volume. All of the ethereal, mesmerizing titles are here--"Weetzie Bat", "Witch Baby", "Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys", "Missing Angel Juan", and "Baby Be-Bop"--together like the big, beautiful family described on their pages. Block's unique, poetic style immediately draws readers into an intoxicating magical-realist world populated by empathetic, original characters (as well as a few ghosts, fairies, and genies): "He kissed her. A kiss about apple pie à la mode with the vanilla creaminess melting in the pie heat. A kiss about chocolate, when you haven't eaten chocolate in a year. A kiss about palm trees speeding by, trailing pink clouds when you drive down the Strip sizzling with champagne. A kiss about spotlights fanning the sky and the swollen sea spilling like tears all over your legs."
We cheer for these young women and men as they struggle with the universal trials of growing up, finding love, and letting go--all within the vivid, glittering, urban embrace of Los Angeles. Block's stories about finding yourself, being true to your dreams, and believing in what might seem impossible will inspire teens and adults alike with the resounding messages of hope and the transformative power of love. "--Brangien Davis"

Price: $14.89

ISBN: 9780060281281

Summary: Part myth, part dream, and all enchantment, Francesca Lia Block has blessed her glitter fans with another darkly fantastical tale of Los Angeles, "a city of magicians, movie queens, love-struck clowns." On this particular magic carpet ride, Block follows the sad footsteps of Echo, a Hollywood baby born of a dark-souled artist father and an effervescent mother whose impossible beauty likens her to an angel. Echo, who believes that "the only things I know how to do well are shoplift, kiss and dance," feels excluded from her extraordinary parents' perfect love for each other. So she sets out alone to try and fill the cavernous void inside. During her travels, Echo meets a broken angel, iron-pumping vampires, and the fairy daughter of a rock star. Are these figures real? Echo believes in them, and so will the reader, as Block's melodious prose leaves no choice but to accept them as true. Echo finally finds her own true "love-boy" when she learns to look for love within instead of searching for validation through her drugs of choice: food, sex, or doomed relationships. Told in a myriad of voices that belong to Echo, her parents, lovers, and friends, these interconnected short stories are a visual feast of intoxicatingly hip images where the city of Los Angeles is as much a character as the outrageous people that populate its movie-star mansions. Echo's story of salvation will appeal not only to eyeliner-wearing club kids, but to any older teen who's ever felt insecure and lonely in a world full of kissing couples and Hallmark holidays. (Ages 13 and older) "--Jennifer Hubert"

Price: $7.99

ISBN: 9780064471879

Summary: Movie stars, rock stars, pond nymphs, intergalactic superheroes . . . who are the real goddesses in Francesca Lia Block's world? Real young women--the kind who ache, bleed, dance, and talk to blue ghosts in closets. Famous for her lyric Weetzie Bat books, Block blossoms in this collection of short stories about love: straight, gay, familial, and otherworldly. Very few young adult authors talk as frankly as Block about sex and some of the other yearnings we feel in this world, yet she guides her readers toward the self-respect and courage necessary to make smart choices about those yearnings.

Price: $16.95

Edition: 1st ed

ISBN: 0066213673

Summary:
The author of the critically acclaimed, award–winning Weetzie Bat books offers a compelling celebration of the first year of her child's life.
"Guarding the Moon" chronicles the joys and terrors of motherhood, from the early stages of the author's pregnancy through her baby's first birthday. This unique but far–reaching story makes for a gem of a book.

Price: $21.95

ISBN: 9780060777517

Summary: "


Where were the kisses? Weetzie Bat wondered. And so begins a magical journey of discovery. As she turns forty and the relationship with her secret-agent lover-man Max falls apart, Weetzie packs up her lime green and bright orange bikini, orange suede sneakers, and Pucci tunic, jumps in her '65 mint green Thunderbird, and leaves.
Weetzie finds herself at the enchanted pink hotel in sparkling Los Angeles, where she once shied away from a kiss that may have led her to the love of her life. Now she returns, perhaps in search of her lost passion, and meets an otherworldy cast of characters, among them a blue-skinned receptionist, an invisible cleaning lady, a seductive fawn, and a sushi-eating mermaid who gives her a kiss that sets the wheel of self-discovery in motion.
Block invests every scene with equal shots of magic and realism, rendering her heroine and supporting players in vivid, poetic detail. In Necklace of Kisses the fans that have grown up with Weetzie Bat will be able to meet her in adulthood and find that life is still no less trying and no less full of wonder."

Price: $9.95

ISBN: 9781885865434

Summary:

In these erotic stories, magic, fantasy, and otherworldy beings come to life in the harsh reality of adulthood, and nothing about it feels unusual. That is the magic of Francesca Lia Block. She has been one of my favorite authors for many years.

If you can suspend your disbelief, you will find some gorgeous writing and enchanting stories. The oddly-named characters will stay with you long after you read the last word. You will feel suddenly hopeful and elated, despite yourself.

This is one of my favorite collections of erotica. "Mer" is a well-loved story (featured in many erotica collections), but all of these tales are utterly fantastic. At 25, I am no longer a child, but somehow, reading Block's writing always restores that wide-eyed wonder of youth, if only for a little while.

Price: $16.89

ISBN: 9780060763732

Summary:
But this is what
I could not give up:
I could not give up myself
Psyche has known Lovescented with jasmine and tasting of fresh oranges. Yet he is fleeting and fragile, lost to her too quickly. Punished by self-doubt, Psyche yearns to be transformed, like the beautiful and brutal figures in the myths her lover once spoke of. Attempting to uncover beauty in the darkness, she is challenged, tested, and changed by the gods and demons who tempt her. Her faith must be found again, for if she is to love, she must never look back.

Price: $7.99

ISBN: 9780064407458

Summary: Francesca Lia Block, whose Weetzie Bat novels have often been called pop fairy tales, here turns to the real thing for some very different imaginings of Snow White, Thumbelina, Cinderella, Rose Red and Rose White, and other tales. Block's stories are more resonance than retelling, fevered dreams behind which the outlines of the traditional tales move fitfully like figures glimpsed now and then through a summer fog. Veiled references to Block's own Los Angeles appear in the twisty house of the seven dwarfs built into a canyon like Laurel or Topanga, the redwood forest on a seaside cliff through which Beauty travels to her Beast, the tree-darkened canyon houses with French doors that open onto exuberant neglected gardens lush with irises and roses. In these evocations Bluebeard becomes an aging blue-haired producer, Sleeping Beauty pricks her arm with a heroin needle, Red Riding Hood's wolf is a lecherous stepfather, and the Snow Queen is a sex goddess who lives in a marble mansion with her boy toy, possibly in Beverly Hills. Sensuous images enrich these languid and darkly ironic visions: jasmine-scented night gardens, leopard couches with velvet pillows, luscious food flavored with mint, coconut milk, or pomegranate sauce, cool candlelit baths. As always, Block's poetic allegories of adolescence are strikingly original and a bit dangerous, a feast for connoisseurs of YA fiction and savvy older teens. (Ages 14 and older) "--Patty Campbell"

Price: $13.95

ISBN: 9780060840587

Summary:
Once again Francesca Lia Block, this time with co–writer Carmen Staton, introduces readers to the fantastic and magical mind of a true heroine. Ruby, named for the jewel that is believed to ward off evil spirits, is a midwestern girl with a special gift –– a sixth sense that makes her at one with nature and gives her the ability to to know her own destiny. After growing up in an abusive family in midwest, Ruby eventually escapes to Los Angeles where she learns of the man who will eventually fulfill her every dream and, more importantly, make her feel safe, something she never felt as a child. Her soulmate is Orion, an actor who also had an unhappy childhood and has fallen out of the public eye to live a solitary life in England. When Ruby sees him for the first time on screen, her sixth sense tells her he is the man that will complete her life. She eventually jumps on a plane to England, begins working at a potions and herbs shop, and, through a series of coincidental circumstances, ends up nursing him back to health and confessing that she was looking for him all along. They help to solve the great tragedies of each other's lives and live –– of course –– happily ever after.

Price: $7.99

ISBN: 9780064408394

Summary:
An exquisite novel about the consequences of who we choose to love.
Lex and his sister, Marina, are inseparable. The air they share has always been light and boundless, but suddenly it's weighted down. And now Lex is gone. When the one relationship that cradled her turns out to shatter her sense of self, Marina needs her friend West to help put the pieces back together. But Marina won't feel truly complete until she faces the past that is haunting her.
Highly acclaimed and award–winning author Francesca Lia Block tells the tale of a brother and sister whose loving relationship is too intense for them to bear. With the sensitivity and refinement that Block is known for, she manages to weave together her characters and their lives into this beautiful and thought–provoking tale.