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I Was a Teenage Fairy
E-bok, 2009
51 kr
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Maybe Mab was real. Maybe not. Maybe Mab was the fury. Maybe she was the courage. Maybe later on she was the sex . . . A tiny fairy winging her way through the jasmine-scented L.A. night. A little girl caught in a grown-up glitz-and-glitter world of superstars and supermodels. A too beautiful boy …
Dangerous Angels
Five Weetzie Bat Books
E-bok, 2009
64 kr
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The Weetzie Bat series, by acclaimed author Francesca Lia Block, was listed among NPR''s 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels. This collection brings together all five luminous novels of the series in one. Spinning a saga of interwoven lives and beating hearts, these postmodern fairy tales take us to a Los …
How Beautiful the Ordinary
Twelve Stories of Identity
Av Michael Cart, Francesca Lia Block m. fl.
Häftad, 2027
122 kr
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A dozen original stories of love, sexual orientation, and gender identity from twelve of the most acclaimed authors of young adult literature.A girl thought to be a boy steals her sister's skirt, while a boy thought to be a girl refuses to wear a cornflower blue dress. One boy's love of a soldier …
Beautiful Boys
Missing Angel Juan and Baby Be-Bop
E-bok, 2008
57 kr
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Two darkly magical Weetzie Bat stories about the search for self from Francesca Lia Block: Missing Angel Juan and Baby Be-Bop .
Blood Roses
E-bok, 2008
57 kr
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What shall we do, all of us? All of us passionate girls who fear crushing the boys we love with our mouths like caverns of teeth, our mushrooming brains, our watermelon hearts? What''s real is what''s imagined in nine tales of transformation by Francesca Lia Block.
Guarding the Moon
A Mother''s First Year
E-bok, 2008
113 kr
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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 …
Girl Goddess #9
Nine Stories
E-bok, 2008
57 kr
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Meet Tweetie Sweet Pea and Peachy Pie, Jacaranda and Rave and Desiree... Meet Lady Ivory and Alabaster Dutchess, who interview their favorite rock star, Nick Agate, only to discover the magic and power in themselves. Meet Tuck Budd, who is happy living in Manhattan with her two moms, Izzy and …
Goat Girls
Witch Baby and Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys
E-bok, 2008
57 kr
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Two magical-realist coming-of-age Weetzie Bat stories from Francesca Lia Block: Witch Baby and Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys .
Missing Angel Juan
E-bok, 2008
57 kr
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Lonely City A tangly-haired, purple-eyed girl named Witch Baby lives in glitzy L.A. She loves a guy named Angel Juan. When he leaves for New York she knows she must find him. Looking For Love So she heads for the city of glittery buildings and garbage and Chinese food and drug dealers and subways …
Necklace of Kisses
A Novel
E-bok, 2009
91 kr
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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 …
Ruby
A Novel
E-bok, 2009
102 kr
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From the beloved author of Necklace of Kisses comes a modern-day fairy tale of a willful and intuitive heroine and a world of shocking realism and transcendent magic. Francesca Lia Block, this time with co-writer Carmen Staton, introduces readers to Ruby, a Midwestern girl named for the jewel that …
Echo
E-bok, 2009
91 kr
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Acclaimed author Francesca Lia Block weaves pure magic into this deftly constructed tale殮e girl′s path to womanhood told in linked short stories. Written in her uniquely poetic, carefully crafted style, Echo is a tour-de-force from one of our most exciting contemporary writers. Ages 11+
Psyche in a Dress
E-bok, 2009
57 kr
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But this is what I could not give up: I could not give up myself Psyche has known Love—scented 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 …
Rose and The Beast
Fairy Tales Retold
E-bok, 2009
64 kr
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With language that is both lyrical and distinctly her own, Francesca Lia Block turns nine fairy tales inside out. Escaping the poisoned apple, Snow frees herself from possession to find the truth of love in an unexpected place. A club girl from L.A., awakening from a long sleep to the memories of …
Violet & Claire
E-bok, 2009
45 kr
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This is the story of two girls, racing through space like shadow and light. A photo negative, together they make the perfect image of a girl. Violet is the dark one, dressed in forever black, dreaming Technicolor dreams of spinning the world into her very own silver screen creation. Claire is like …
Wasteland
E-bok, 2009
100 kr
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When you were a baby I sat very still to hold you. I could see the veins through your skin like a map to inside you. I stopped breathing so you wouldn''t ... You were just a boy on a bed in a room, like a kaleidoscope is a tube full of bits of broken glass. But the way I saw you was pieces …
Waters & the Wild
E-bok, 2009
102 kr
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When Bee woke up, there was a girl standing in her room. "You are me," the girl said. Then she was gone. I am a thirteen-year-old double Gemini. I get bad grades, write poetry with my left hand, dance in my room, surf the net. I Google images of the tattoos my mom won''t let me get. . . . But my …
Pretty Dead
E-bok, 2009
58 kr
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People pity me, but mostly they feel envy. I have all the luxury and freedom a girl my age could want. Something is happening to Charlotte Emerson. Like the fires that are ravaging the hills of Los Angeles, it consumes her from the inside out. But whether it is her eternal loneliness, the memory of …
How Beautiful the Ordinary
Twelve Stories of Identity
Av Emma Donoghue, William Sleater m. fl.
E-bok, 2009
113 kr
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A girl thought to be a boy steals her sister''s skirt, while a boy thought to be a girl refuses to wear a cornflower blue dress. One boy''s love of a soldier leads to the death of a stranger. The present takes a bittersweet journey into the past when a man revisits the summer school where he had …
Hanged Man
E-bok, 2009
64 kr
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After the death of her father, Laurel is haunted by a legacy of family secrets, hidden shame, and shattered glass. Immersing herself in the heady rhythms of a city that is like something wild, caged, and pacing, Laurel tries to lose herself. But when she runs away from the past, she discovers a …
How to (Un)cage a Girl
E-bok, 2009
57 kr
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A celebration of girls and women in a three part poetry collection that is powerful, hopeful, authentic, and universal.
Weetzie Bat
E-bok, 2009
77 kr
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“Transcendent.” — New York Times Book Review “Magnificent.” — Village Voice “Sparkling.” — Publishers Weekly Francesca Lia Block’s dazzling debut novel, Weetzie Bat , is not only a genre-shattering, critically acclaimed gem, it''s also widely recognized as a classic of young adult literature, …
Witch Baby
E-bok, 2009
57 kr
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Once upon a time in the city of Shangri-L.A., someone left a baby on a doorstep. She had wild, dark hair and purple eyes and looked at the world in a special way. The family that took her in called her Witch Baby and raised her as their own. But even though she tried to fit in, Witch Baby never …
