Francesca: 997 books

In The Island of Excess Love, Pen has lost her parents. She's lost her eye. But she has fought Kronen; she has won back her fragile friends and her beloved brother. Now Pen, Hex, Ash, Ez, and Venice are living in the pink house by the sea, getting by on hard work, companionship, and dreams. Until...

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+

Two darkly magical Weetzie Bat stories about the search for self from Francesca Lia Block: Missing Angel Juan and Baby Be-Bop.

A stunning, operatic, epic drama, like no other. Meet Hel, an ordinary teenager - and goddess of the Underworld. Why is life so unfair? Hel tries to make the bets of it, creating gleaming halls in her dark kingdom and welcoming the dead who she is forced to host for eternity. Until eternity itself is threatened. Francesca's first and wonderful foray into teen.

‘Di sognanti e altri eroi’ è una raccolta di racconti fantastici, selezionata dal concorso IncPi, amministrato da Plesio Editore. Ma di cosa parlano questi racconti? Quest’anno abbiamo deciso di lasciare gli autori liberi di mostrarci i loro mondi fantastici e quello che ne è...

Marte non è stato sempre rosso. Un tempo era ricoperto da oceani. Era blu, ospitale, invitante. Poi tutto è cambiato, ma qualcosa è rimasto… in attesa. Questo romanzo è la terza puntata della serie di fantascienza “Deserto rosso”. La gioia per il ritrovamento della piccola...

Sono riusciti a fuggire. E stanno tornando a casa. Ma non sono soli. Ora che l'avventura su Marte è finita, che ne sarà della Terra? Questo romanzo è la puntata finale della serie di fantascienza “Deserto rosso”. La Terra. È la loro casa, vi sono nati e cresciuti, ma allo stesso...

Stazione Alfa: 1000 giorni, 5 persone. Misteriose scoperte. Amicizie, gelosie, odio, tradimento. Morte. Dov’è Anna? Cosa si nasconde in Valles Marineris? Questo romanzo è la seconda puntata della serie di fantascienza “Deserto rosso”. Dopo 995 giorni su Marte l’entusiasmo dell’equipaggio...

Blending expert advice with inspiring designs, Sew What! Skirts will delight both novice and veteran sewers alike. This spiral-bound book lays flat for easy reference and features full-color photographs of 16 sample skirts, with illustrated step-by-step instructions for completing each one. Encouraging...

Fascinating…Unbelievable…Gross! These are just a few of the responses readers will hear when they impress their friends with facts from the quirky new book of body trivia, Why You Shouldn't Eat Your Boogers & Other Useless or Gross Information About Your Body, by Francesca Gould. This...

Connecting to Our Ancestral Past is a pragmatic, spiritual journey that introduces a variety of specific rituals and conversations in connection with Constellations work, an experiential process that explores one's history and powerful events of the past in order to understand and resolve problems...

After the Civil War, many Americans did not identify strongly with the concept of a united nation. Francesca Morgan finds the first stirrings of a sense of national patriotism--of "these United States--in the work of black and white clubwomen in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Morgan...

Twenty-first-century women are called upon to perform any manner of tasks, recall even the most random bits of information, and all the while carry on a charming conversation. Thankfully, from historian and British television personality Francesca Beauman comes this indispensable and authoritative...

In BAD GIRLS ALWAYS EQUALS GOOD SEX, erotica writer Francesca Jolie presents four stories of women who aren’t afraid to get kinky with it to please their men! HIS FATHER KNOWS BEST- Veronica is devastated when her boyfriend dumps her because he’s just not ready to settle down…with...