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Tales of the city volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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Tranquillity reigns in the ancient redwood forest until a women-only music festival sets up camp downriver from an all-male retreat for the ruling class. Among those entangled in the ensuing mayhem are a lovesick nurseryman, a panic-stricken philanderer, and the world's most beautiful fat woman. Significant Others is Armistead Maupin's cunningly observed meditation on marriage, friendship, and sexual nostalgia.
2) Sure of You
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Tales of the city volume 6
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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A fiercely ambitious TV talk show host finds she must choose between national stardom in New York and a husband and child in San Francisco. Caught in the middle is their longtime friend, a gay man whose own future is even more uncertain. Wistful and compassionate, yet subversively funny, Sure of You could only come from Armistead Maupin.
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Tales of the city volume 7
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The seventh novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin's best-selling San Francisco saga, soon to return to television as a Netflix original series once again starring Laura Linney and Olympia Dukakis. Nearly two decades after ending his groundbreaking Tales of the City saga of San Francisco life, Armistead Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero Michael Tolliver-the fifty-five-year-old sweet-spirited gardener and survivor of the...
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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"An enormously talented writer ... By writing about what's seemingly different, Armistead Maupin always manages to capture what's so hilariously, painfully true for all of us." -Amy Tan, author of The Bonesetter's Daughter "Maupin writes with warmth, acuity and tremendous wit ... Read him." - Publishers Weekly Following the success of his New York Times bestseller Michael Tolliver Lives, Armistead Maupin's Mary Ann in Autumn is a touching portrait...
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A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick
The first novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s bestselling San Francisco saga, and inspiration for the Netflix original series, Tales of the City
“A consummate entertainer who has made a generation laugh. . . . It is Maupin’s Dickensian gift to be able to render love convincingly.”— Edmund White, Times
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The tenants of 28 Barbary Lane have fled their cozy nest for adventures far afield. Mary Ann Singleton finds love at sea with a forgetful stranger, Mona Ramsey discovers her doppelgänger in a desert whorehouse, and Michael Tolliver bumps into his favorite gynecologist in a Mexican bar. Meanwhile, their venerable landlady takes the biggest journey of all-without ever leaving home.
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Tales of the City volume 5
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English
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DeDe broaches the idea of having a baby with Beauchamp. Brian and Mouse hang out together, while Jon defends Mouse to his friends and later gets a surprise at the bathhouse. Mary Ann celebrates Norman's birthday with him, and Anna reveals her secret to Edgar.
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San Francisco, 28 Barbary Lane, Anna Madrigal runs a boarding house. She wel-comes people who have nowhere else to go: the misfits. This matriarch is known for her unending kindness and her superb marijuana crop. The novel starts with the arrival of Mary Ann Singleton, a prudish, naïve, young woman who escaped her dull Ohio hometown for San Francisco. She settles in with her other fellow tenants: Michael "Mouse," a personable young gay man, Brian...
Author
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Tales of the City volume 2
Language
English
Description
Mary Ann's affair with Beauchamp heats up as DeDe's relationship with her husband cools. While Brian sleeps around, Michael "Mouse" Tolliver searches for Mr. Right and bumps into dreamy gynecologist Jon Fielding at the roller rink.
Author
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Tales of the City volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Clevelander Mary Ann Singleton visits San Francisco, she decides to move to the city permanently. Her apartment search ends at 28 Barbary Lane, home to bohemian landlady Anna Madrigal and new friend Mona Ramsey.
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Tales of the City volume 6
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English
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Anna throws a Christmas party for her Barbary Lane family, and Mona invites D'orothea's parents to dinner. Mary Ann uncovers the truth about Norman, and Edgar says goodbye to Anna and DeDe.
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Tales of the City volume 4
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English
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After a tragedy at the suicide hotline, Mary Ann turns to Brian for comfort and a joint. DeDe receives news that threatens her reconciliation with Beauchamp, while Mona's reunion with D'orothea takes off. Edgar romances Anna, and Mouse's parents come to visit.
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Tales of the City volume 3
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English
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Mary Ann volunteers at a suicide hotline and meets her odd upstairs neighbor, Norman. DeDe confronts Mary Ann and then checks in to a fat farm. Mouse enters the Mr. EndUp contest but jeopardizes his chances with Jon.
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The calamity-prone residents of 28 Barbary Lane are at it again in this deliciously dark novel of romance and betrayal. While Anna Madrigal imprisons an anchorwoman in her basement, Michael Tolliver looks for love at the National Gay Rodeo, DeDe Halcyon Day and Mary Ann Singleton track a charismatic psychopath across Alaska, and society columnist Prue Giroux loses her heart to a derelict living in a San Francisco park.
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Mortise Locke, the Machine City, last bastion of mankind in all its fallen glory, where the sum total of life is cheaper than in part.A poor kid wrung from the city's dregs has been abducted.His family's lost all hope.Enter Detective Shakteel, gumshoe legend in his own mind and maybe - just maybe - a few others. He's the bloodhound loosed on the kid's trail, and it's clear from the get-go that someone wants this hound put down. And they ain't shy...
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Join Harl-ut and the noble pegasus Vispushin on this Epic Audio Adventure filled with epic cinematic music and dramatic narration!
Experience the thrilling story and experience the exotic and mystical world of Tir'Whol with its three suns and myriads of imaginative creatures. Discover the compelling characters who inhabit The Ocean City!
Explore the exotic and mystical world of Tir'Whol with its three suns and myriads of imaginative creatures. Discover...
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Join Harl-ut and the noble pegasus Vispushin on this Epic Audio Adventure filled with epic cinematic music and dramatic narration!
Experience the thrilling story and experience the exotic and mystical world of Tir'Whol with its three suns and myriads of imaginative creatures. Discover the compelling characters who inhabit The Ocean City!
Tales Of The Ocean City is the epic tale of a young civilization forced to confront THE VORM, a terrible enemy...
18) The Darkest Part
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Laila, a mysterious Saudi Arabian woman has escaped an event known as "The Opaque", a consuming void that destroyed her former city. Now in Dust, she must face the darkest part of herself before she unleashes a new cataclysmic incident. Strange Tales From The City Of Dust is a serial story done in episodic "short reads". Each story is a tale of action, adventure, and horror within the city of Dust. Set in futuristic Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, it incorporates...
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A new serial killer has surfaced in Dust dubbed "The Sleeper". Several women's bodies have begun to appear in alleyways, their arms crossed and skin cut from their backs to form wings from their shoulders. Who would commit such a horrific act? The answer may surprise you. Strange Tales From The City Of Dust is a serial story done in episodic "short reads". Each story is a tale of action, adventure, and horror within the city of Dust. Set in futuristic...
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With the Nightfallen in full control of the city, Alice and her friends will face off against the creator of the Dead Letters Prophecy. Now, in Dust's final hours, the darkest of decisions will need to be made. Who will sacrifice themselves as the prisoner of the night? Strange Tales From The City Of Dust is a serial story done in episodic "short reads". Each story is a tale of action, adventure, and horror within the city of Dust. Set in futuristic...
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