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Tales of the City volume 2
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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.
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Tales of the City volume 5
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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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Tales of the City volume 4
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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 6
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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 3
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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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Tales of the City volume 1
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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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Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick
The first novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin's best-selling San Francisco saga.
For almost four decades Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City has blazed its own trail through popular culture-from a groundbreaking newspaper serial to a classic novel, to a television event that entranced millions around the world. The first...
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Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City
The third novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin's best-selling San Francisco saga.
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...
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Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City
The second novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin's best-selling San Francisco saga.
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...
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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 plague that took so many of his friends and lovers-for a single day at once mundane and extraordinary . . . and filled with the everyday miracles of living.
11) Babycakes
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Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City
The fourth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin's best-selling San Francisco saga.
When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there's more to making a baby than meets the eye. Help arrives in the form of a grieving gay neighbor, a visiting monarch, and the dashing young lieutenant who defects from her yacht....
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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.
13) Sure of You
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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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"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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The Days of Anna Madrigal, the suspenseful, comic, and touching ninth novel in Armistead Maupin's bestselling "Tales of the City" series, follows one of modern literature's most unforgettable and enduring characters-Anna Madrigal, the legendary transgender landlady of 28 Barbary Lane-as she embarks on a road trip that will take her deep into her past. Now ninety-two, and committed to the notion of "leaving like a lady," Mrs. Madrigal has seemingly...
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Armistead Maupin's uproarious and moving Tales of the City novels-the first three of which are collected in this omnibus volume-have earned a unique niche in American literature and are considered indelible documents of cultural change from the seventies through the first two decades of the new millennium.
Originally serialized in the San Francisco Chronicle, Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City (1978), More Tales of the City (1980), and Further...
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By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Armistead Maupin's bestselling Tales of the City novels-the fourth, fifth and sixth of which are collected in this second omnibus volume-stand as an incomparable blend of great storytelling and incisive social commentary on American culture from the seventies through the first two decades of the new millennium.
Armistead Maupin's uproarious and moving Tales of the City novels have earned a unique niche in American...
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By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Armistead Maupin's bestselling Tales of the City novels-the final three of which are collected in this third omnibus volume-stand as an incomparable blend of great storytelling and incisive social commentary on American culture from the seventies through the first two decades of the new millennium.
The last three novels of Armistead Maupin's bestselling, critically-acclaimed Tales of the City are now available...
19) Clockwork Deus
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Alice, a "Tinkerer" for the Wonderlust brothel has discovered a Prostibot that has become self-aware. Together, they will uncover the secret behind a shadowy organization in Dust's abandoned zone, The Blooming Fields. 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 themes of...
20) 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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