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A
modern-day adult fairy tale of a willful and intuitive heroine,determined
to fulfill her destiny in a world of shockingly brutal realism
and transcendent magic
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NOW
IN PAPARBACK!
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Celebrate
the 10th anniversary of the original Weetzie Bat with
this new anniversary edition.
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Includes
two Weetzie Bat books, both with female protagonists’
point of views.
Witch
Baby ::: Once
upon a time in the city of Shangri-L.A., someone left a mysterious
baby on a doorstep. The purple-eyed changeling named Witch Baby
grew up wondering what time are we upon and where do I belong.
In this story she finds the answer. [Foreign
Translations—UK: Little Brown; Czech: BB/Art; German: Rowohlt;
Japanese: Sogensha; Norwegian: Gyldendal Tiden]
Cherokee
Bat and the Goat Guys ::: When
Cherokee Bat and her friends, Witch Baby, Raphael Chong Jah-Love,
and Angel Juan Perez, form a rock 'n' roll band called the Goat
Guys, they discover that with success comes a dangerous power.
[Foreign Translations—UK: Little Brown; Czech:
BB/Art; German: Rowohlt; Japanese: Sogensha; Norwegian: Gyldendal
Tiden]
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Includes
two Weetzie Bat books, both with male protagonists’
point of views.
Missing
Angel Juan ::: A
tangly-haired, purple-eyed girl named Witch Baby searches for
her beloved Angel Juan in the sinister and enchanted wilderness
of New York City. [Foreign Translations—UK: Little
Brown; Czech: BB/Art; Japanese: Sogensha; Norwegian: Gyldendal
Tiden]
Baby
Be-Bop ::: Dirk
McDonald's life was almost perfect. He lived with his grandmother,
Fifi, in a gingerbread cottage in Hollywood. He had the beach
and his surfboard, and Fifi's red and white 1955 Pontiac convertible.
But
not until the night the spirits of Fifi's magic lamp appeared
to him did Dirk begin to accept who he really was. This coming-of-age
punk fairy tale is the fifth and final installment in the Weetzie
Bat series. [Foreign
Translations—UK: Little Brown; Czech: BB/Art; Italian:
Elle; Japanese: Sogensha; Norwegian: Gyldendal Tiden]
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One
of two highly sought-after, recently re-released tales of myth,
magic, music and love set in a possibly post-apocalyptic mystical
other-world.
Rafe,
his sister Calliope and their friends Paulo and Dionisio are
Ecstasia, the most popular band in Elysia, a city of pleasure
where the only crime is growing old. But then Rafe and Calliope
are both powerfully drawn Under to find the mysterious substances
that will bring back the dead or make the dead earth flower.
And that is when rapture turns to nightmare.
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The
second of two highly sought-after, recently re-released tales
of myth, magic, music and love set in a possibly post-apocalyptic
mystical other-world.
Her
voice brought life to the barren desert. Her songs made water
flow and flowers blossom from the very moment she was born.
But even in paradise there are dreams that connot be fulfilled.
Primavera, in love with a man who can never be hers, sets out
on a journey of beauty and pain that will take away her childhood
forever and from which she may never return.
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"Your whole life you can be told something is wrong and
so you believe it." In the vast barren waste of the San
Fernando Valley in the early 1980s, Lex and his sister Marina
struggle to create their own private, perfect world. Then, when
the one relationship that felt whole shatters irrevocably, Marina
needs her friend West to help piece the fragments of herself
back together. But Marina will never be truly complete until
she faces the past that is haunting her.
A refined and sensitive story about love's ability to tear apart
and, finally, its ability to transcend.
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Francesca's
meditation on the anxieties and elations of her first year as
a mother are lovingly told in this treasure of a book. Block
writes with raw and tender emotion about the joys and fears
in her new life with her Silky-Milky, Girly-Swirl Moon Baby. |
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An
interconnected series of unconventional erotica—short stories
of love, loss, and life—about the healing power of sex
and bonding. Smoky, kaleidoscopic fables. Released
in paperback, May, 2003.
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Through shifting points of view, Block
weaves pure magic into this deftly constructed tale—a novel
told in the form of linked stories. One girl's life emerges
from a tapestry of voices, lives, and loves—lost and found—that
deliver her to herself, triumphant, ever-changing.
Foreign Translations—German: Arena |
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Beauty, Snow White, Rose Red—you've
met them all in many incarnations. But you haven't met Charm
or Snow or Tiny, not as Francesca has imagined them. Within
her singular, timeless landscapes, the brutal and the beautiful
collide. Here, the heroine triumphs because of the strength
she finds in a pen, a paintbrush, a lover, a friend, a mother,
and, finally, herself.
Foreign Translations—Japanese: Tokyo Sogensha |
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Model-child
Barbie dreams of shattering the plastic-doll-like silence of
her life. Too-beautiful Griffin fears his true desires. They're
trapped in a world of glitter, glitz, and secret pain—until
a feisty red-headed fairy named Mab helps them break free and
discover who they really are.
Foreign Translations—Danish Audio: DBC Medier; Danish:
Host & Son; German: Ravensburger
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VIOLET: the dark one, dressed forever
in black, longing to spin the world into her own silver-screen
creation. CLAIRE:a real-life Tinker Bell, radiating love, wearing
wings of glitter, writing poetry to keep away the darkness.
Within the landscape of L.A., a city as beautiful as it is dangerous,
Violet and Claire vow to make their own movie. They will show
the world the way they want it to be.
Foreign Translations—Danish: Host & Son; German: Ravensburger;
Italian: Sperling & Kupfer;
Japanese: Shufu-no-tomo-sha |
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After her father's death, a young woman
discovers a passion so powerful it brings her face to face with
the secret demons of her past, and threatens to send her spiraling
out of control.
Foreign Translations—Danish: Gyldendal; German: Rowohlt;
Swedish: Replik |
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Girls with blue elves in their closets,
girls with two mothers, girls loving rock stars, girls finding
their voices for the first time. Zingingly bright and dreamily
dark, full of wonder and gritty reality, these stories show
the reader that in every girl there truly is a goddess.
Foreign Translations—French: L'Ecole de Loisirs; German:
Ravensburger; Japanese: Rironsha; Norwegian: Gyldendal Tiden
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Together for the first time in a single
volume, Block's luminous saga of interwoven lives chronicles
the thin line between fear and desire, pain and pleasure, cutting
loose and holding on in a world where everyone is vulnerable
to the most beautiful and dangerous angel of all: love.
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The book that started it all follows the
adventures of the bleached blonde punk pixie and her fiends
Dirk, Duck and My Secret Agent Lover Man, as they discover the
power of love to overcome fear.
Foreign Translations—UK: Little Brown; Czech: BB/Art; Danish:
Gyldendal; Finnish: Otava; German: Rowohlt; Japanese: Sogensha;
Norwegian: Gyldendal Tiden |
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Everyone can learn from and be inspired
by the funky, funny, fertile ideas set forth in Zine Scene.
Co-written with Hillary Carlip, author of Girl Power: Young
Women Speak Out, Zine Scene is both a tribute and
a how-to guide to zines. |
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