Block, Francesca Lia

Jealous of her perfect mother and ignored by her artist father, Echo seeks attention and healing from a variety of people living in beautiful Los Angeles.

After a devastating earthquake destroys the West Coast, causing seventeen-year-old Penelope to lose her home, her parents, and her ten-year-old brother, she navigates a dark world, holding hope and love in her hands and refusing to be defeated.

An overprotective mother, an unfriendly older sister, and a friend-stealing school bully are some of the challenges faced by thoughtful ten-year-old Ben Hunter of Filmland, California.

An overprotective mother, an unfriendly older sister, and a friend-stealing school bully are some of the challenges faced by thoughtful ten-year-old Ben Hunter of Filmland, California.

A collection of post-modern fairy tales that chronicle the interwoven lives of Weetzie Bat, her friend Dirk, and their lovers Duck and My Secret Agent Man.

After the Earth Shaker, a massive quake that left her home city of Los Angeles destroyed in all but name, Pen sets out into a wasted, post-apocalyptic Earth, guided by only a batted copy of Homer's "Odyssey." Genetically mutated and cloned giants, a madman, and the wasted world itself stand in the way of survival, but with friends she makes along the way, Pen determines to outlast the apocalypse.

Nine classic fairy tales set in modern, mystical landscapes and retold with a twist.

Pen, Hex, Ash, Ez, and Venice are living on hard work, companionship, and dreams in the pink house by the sea until a foreboding ship arrives and all start having strange visions of destruction and violence, and then, trancelike, they head for the ship and their new battles, with Pen using Virgil's epic Aeneid as her guide.

A collection of four novellas which follow the experiences of Katrina, a middle-aged, Los Angeles, preschool teacher who is best friends with a cancer patient and dating a yoga instructor who isn't faithful.