A series of poems that examines ways we can free ourselves through self-knowledge, creative expression and friendship.

A novella and short stories about love, sex, death, disaster and transendence in Los Angeles.

Nine short stories that examine growing up, using both gritty realism and the magic of centaurs, fairies, vampires, ghosts and more.

A coming of age story told partly in prose and partly in poetry and based on characters from Greek mythology.

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.

Weetzie Bat grows up and leaves home to stay in a magical pink hotel filled with strange creatures who will help her find herself.

Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the original Weetzie Bat with this new anniversary edition.

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]

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]

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.

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.

"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.

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.