Francesca Lia Block, Author HarperCollins Publishers $14.95 (116p) ISBN 978-0-06-020269-9
Fans of Weetzie Bat and Witch Baby will be delighted with this latest opportunity to reenter Block's magical vision of Los Angeles. With the grown-ups who make up the Bat household off making a film in South America, Cherokee and her ``almost-sister'
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Francesca Lia Block, Author . HarperCollins/Cotler $14.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-028127-4
Block (The Rose and the Beast) moves to a new level of complexity—without sacrificing accessibility—for this exquisitely wrought coming-of-age story. The subjects, settings and semi-magical tone will be familiar to Block's readers...
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Francesca Lia Block, Author HarperTrophy $4.5 (96p) ISBN 978-0-06-447068-1
An offbeat heroine shares a Hollywood cottage with three equally quirky companions; in PW 's words, ``Block's first book is related in a breezy, knowing voice; her strange and sparkling tribute to growing up in L.A. is a rare treat for those...
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Francesca Lia Block, Author Joanna Cotler Books $14.95 (169p) ISBN 978-0-06-027749-9
Block (the Weetzie Bat novels) sets herself new challenges and meets them with consummate grace in this resonant novel. Violet and Claire, best friends, are polar opposites: Violet is angry and intense, with a fierce ambition to write and direct...
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Francesca Lia Block, Author Joanna Cotler Books $14.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-027747-5
This disarming new book by the ever-inventive Block (the Weetzie Bat books) seems at once more fantastic and more of a YA ""problem novel"" than her previous titles. At about the same time that her ex-beauty queen mom pushes her into modeling, 11-yea
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Francesca Lia Block, Author Harper Teen $14.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-028129-8
Block's (Weetzie Bat) contemporary novels have invariably borrowed elements from classic fairy tales; this time, the author pulls a switch. Setting out to revisit nine fairy tales, she fills her stories with gritty, even headline-grabbing issues. ""C
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Francesca Lia Block, Author HarperCollins Publishers $7.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-059434-3
Francesca Lia Block's Weetzie Bat books divide down gender lines in two paperback collections: Beautiful Boys (which contains Missing Angel Juan and Baby Be-Bop) and Goat Girls (which consists of Witch Baby and Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys.
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Francesca Lia Block, Author HarperCollins Publishers $7.99 (290p) ISBN 978-0-06-059435-0
Francesca Lia Block's Weetzie Bat books divide down gender lines in two paperback collections: Beautiful Boys (which contains Missing Angel Juan and Baby Be-Bop) and Goat Girls (which consists of Witch Baby and Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys.
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Francesca Lia Block, Author HarperCollins Publishers $14.95 (103p) ISBN 978-0-06-020547-8
Readers of Weetzie Bat , Block's effervescent first novel, will recall that Witch Baby is the daughter of My Secret Agent Lover Man and the villainess Vixanne Wigg--leader of the sinister Jayne Mansfield Fan Club. Left as an infant on the doorstep...
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Francesca Lia Block, Author Harper Teen $7.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-440862-2
In a postmodern fairy tale, a teen model's friendship with a fairy helps her overcome abuse. ""The prose sustains steady crescendos of insight,"" said PW's starred review. Ages 12-up. (May)
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Francesca Lia Block, Author HarperCollins Publishers $13.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-024879-6
Embroidering her prose with lushly romantic imagery, Block returns to the world of Weetzie Bat for this keenly felt story. A prequel of sorts to Weetzie Bat, the novel opens while Weetzie's best friend Dirk is still a child, lying on his mat at...
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Francesca Lia Block, Author HarperCollins Publishers $14 (137p) ISBN 978-0-06-024536-8
Though its cast is new and its tone considerably more somber, this intoxicating if painful work shares with Block's ( Weetzie Bat ) earlier novels a magic-tinged Los Angeles setting; emotionally charged, hip writing; and a stylized narrative...
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Francesca Lia Block, Author Circlet Press $16.95 (128p) ISBN 978-1-885865-30-4
The author of the beloved Weetzie Bat books and other popular YA titles offers a slim collection of adult stories, erotica for grown-up goth maidens and sexpots who like their tales of passion infused with witchy magic. These nine interconnected...
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Francesca Lia Block. HarperTeen, $17.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-06-156598-4
In this prequel to her genre-shifting 1989 debut Weetzie Bat, Block peels back the glittering surface of that hip teen fairy tale to reveal a heartfelt portrait of the artist as a grieving seventh-grader. After Louise’s father abruptly decamps for...
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Francesca Lia Block. Holt/Ottaviano, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9627-9
A post-apocalyptic setting awash with danger brings an exhilarating twist to Block’s signature mashup of rock-and-roll urchins and high literature. After an earthquake and tidal wave destroy much of Los Angeles, Penelope—now going by Pen—sets out to
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Francesca Lia Block. HarperTeen, $17.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-200809-1
Poetry and pop culture, life and death—these are just two of the polarities that pulse through Block’s elegantly crafted novel. When Julie’s beloved grandmother Miriam dies, Julie’s life turns upside down. After she and her mother move from their...
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Francesca Lia Block. Holt/Ottaviano, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9631-6
Though filled with Block’s characteristically lush language and gorgeous imagery, this follow-up to Love in the Time of Global Warming lacks the adrenaline-charged urgency of its predecessor. Whereas the previous book drew inspiration from the...
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Francesca Lia Block. St. Martin’s, $24.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-250-03312-3
In this fast-paced, if shallow, erotic thriller from Block (The Elementals), L.A. hair stylist Catt struggles with alcoholism and with the departure of her husband, Dash, who leaves her for “starlet du jour” Darcy London. Meanwhile, a serial killer...
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Francesca Lia Block, Author Harper Teen $5.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-06-447120-6
In this sequel to Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys, Witch Baby goes to New York City in search of her boyfriend; ``seamlessly artless text drifts from the concrete to the surreal and back again,'' said PW in a starred review. Ages 12-up. (Oct.)
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Francesca Lia Block, Author . HarperCollins $6.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-440744-1
"Block moves to a new level of complexity without sacrificing accessibility for this exquisitely wrought coming-of-age story," wrote PW
in a starred review. All ages. (Aug.)
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Francesca Lia Block, Author . Harper Resource $16.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-621367-5
This slight volume belies the depth of emotion conveyed within, as children's and YA author Block (Dangerous Angels, etc.) invites the reader to peer into her heart and mind during the first year after the birth of her first child. She's...
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Francesca Lia Block, Author . HarperCollins/ Cotler $15.99 (150p) ISBN 978-0-06-028644-6
From the author of Weetzie Bat
comes a picture-perfect vision of mid-1970s Los Angeles, shimmering with Block's signature California-style magical realism and delicately overlaid with allusions to T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land
. Marina's...
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Francesca Lia Block, Author . HarperCollins/Cotler $7.99 (150p) ISBN 978-0-06-440839-4
Teenaged Marina must come to terms with her brother's death. In a starred review, PW
called this novel "a picture-perfect vision of mid-1970s Los Angeles, shimmering with magical realism and delicately overlaid with allusions to T.S. Eliot&
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Francesca Lia Block, Author . HarperCollins $21.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-077751-7
Readers who remember Weetzie Bat and My Secret Agent Lover Man's first kiss (a "kiss about apple pie à la mode with the vanilla creaminess melting in the pie heat") from their YA incarnation may be crushed to learn that they've
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Francesca Lia Block, Author . HarperCollins/ Cotler $15.99 (116p) ISBN 978-0-06-076372-5
Narrated in luminous free verse, Block's (Weetzie Bat
) magically compassionate novel traces a girl's sinuous path through love, into adulthood and eventually into the fullness of her powers as a mother and a woman. The author deftly weaves...
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Francesca Lia Block, Author . Manic D Press $22.95 (210p) ISBN 978-1-933149-23-3
Beloved YA author Block, creator of Weetzie Bat and other indelible characters, returns to her familiar Venice, Calif., setting for this set of four adult short stories and title novella. They follow a depressed Katrina, five years single and...
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Francesca Lia Block, Author . HarperTeen/Cotler $15.99 (129p) ISBN 978-0-06-076384-8
This imaginative but uneven short story collection blends fantasy and reality in Block's (Weetzie Bat
) characteristic style. A schizophrenic girl explains that her boyfriend is an alien and that she wants to have his “alien babies with...
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Francesca Lia Block, Author . HarperCollins/Cotler $15.99 (119p) ISBN 978-0-06-135836-4
In what reads like confessional verse, Block (Weetzie Bat
) explores her trademark themes (like not feeling pretty “in [a] city of movie-star beauties”) and more individual concerns (such as the nameless speaker's father's...
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Francesca Lia Block, Author . HarperTeen $16.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-06-145244-4
Awash in a bruised and aching adolescent sensibility, Weetzie Bat
author Block's new novel doesn't waste a word. Doubles abound: doppelgängers, past lives and dual worlds in which poetic truths can exist alongside the banal details...
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Francesca Lia Block, Author HarperTeen $16.99 (195p) ISBN 978-0-06-154785-0
Known for lyrical, intoxicating prose and magical realism, Block delves into the vampire mythos with a racy story that sizzles and satisfies. While the story she spins (century-old vampire lives as Charlotte, a 17-year-old girl who has everything...
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Francesca Lia Block, HarperTeen, $16.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-192666-2
Having offered her twist on the vampire mythos in Pretty Dead, Block sets her sights on lycanthropy. When Liv turned 13, she knew she had changed, but not "what I had become." The hair that grows all over her body and her inner rage still mark her...
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Francesca Lia Block, Author, Wendy Braun, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $14.95 (138p) ISBN 978-0-06-023004-3
After nearly stealing the show from her almost-sister Cherokee in Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys , the tormented photographer and drummer Witch Baby returns to star in her own adventure. Devastated when her boyfriend/muse Angel Juan leaves Los...
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Francesca Lia Block, Author, Carmen Staton, Author . HarperCollins $21.95 (209p) ISBN 978-0-06-084057-0
YA author Block (the Weetzie Bat books) collaborates on a novel yet maintains her trademarks: fairy tale simplicity combined with wrenching emotional realism, served with a hefty side of over-the-top romance. It's told mostly from the...
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Francesca Lia Block, Author, Steve Scott, Illustrator Harper Teen $14.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-027211-1
Writing with the same sense of wonder that gives such magic to Weetzie Bat and her other novels, Block turns out nine short stories that share a similar theme. Here, as in her previous work, the author sets about deflating the oppositions that most...
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Francesca Lia Block, illus. by Barbara McClintock, Harper, $15.99 (80p) ISBN 978-006-113094-6
Fans of Block's edgy novels and admirers of McClintock's traditional artwork will be equally surprised by this unusual yet successful pairing. Turning away from her usual subject matter and unabashedly evoking Rumer Godden's The Doll's House, Block...
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Francesca Lia Block, Author, Block, Author Harper Teen $8.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-06-440832-5
""Block's novel is structured upon the conventions of a tarot reading, adding another layer of meaning and mystery to the hypnotic prose,"" said PW's starred review of this tale of a girl grappling with her abusive father's death. ""Disturbing but...
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Francesca Lia Block, Author, Suza Scalora, Illustrator . HarperCollins $6.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-440745-8
In a starred review, PW
wrote, "Block sets out to revisit nine fairy tales, filling her stories with gritty, even headline-grabbing issues. The darkness of these conflicts and subjects proves the strength of the magic she describes: the...
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Francesca Lia Block. St. Martin’s, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-00549-6
Block (Pink Smog) skillfully weaves an occult thread throughout her thrilling new bildungsroman. Ariel, a freshman at UC Berkeley, has moved to the California college in order to uncover the fate of her best friend, Jeni, who disappeared in the area
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