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  Further Tales of the City (Tales of the City Series, V. 3)

  by Armistead Maupin

  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 San Francisco... (more)
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  Tales of the City (Tales of the City Series, V. 1)

  by Armistead Maupin

  Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City has blazed a singular 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 of six novels about the denizens of the mythic apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane, Tales is both a wry comedy of manners and a deeply involving portrait of a vanished era.
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  Babycakes (Tales of the City Series, V. 4)

  by Armistead Maupin

  "An extended love letter to a magical San Francisco." -- New York Times Book Review When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there's more to making a baby then 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. Bittersweet and profoundly affecting, Babycakes was... (more)
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  Significant Others (The Tales of the City Series, V. 5)

  by Armistead Maupin

  "An extended love letter to a magical San Francisco." -- New York Times Book Review 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... (more)
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  Maybe the Moon: A Novel

  by Armistead Maupin

  Maybe the Moon, Armistead Maupin's first novel since ending his bestselling Tales of the City series, is the audaciously original chronicle of Cadence Roth -- Hollywood actress, singer, iconoclast and former Guiness Book record holder as the world's shortest woman. All of 31 inches tall, Cady is a true survivor in a town where -- as she says -- "you can die of encouragement." Her early starring role as a... (more)
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  Sure of You (Tales of the City Series, V. 6)

  by Armistead Maupin

  "An extended love letter to a magical San Francisco." -- New York Times Book Review 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 trheir longtime friend, a gay man whose own future nis even more uncertain. Wistful and compassionate, yet subversively funny, Sure of You could only come from... (more)
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  The Night Listener: A Novel

  by Armistead Maupin

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  More Tales of the City (Volume 2)

  by Armistead Maupin

  Now Armistead Maupin, a writer who "understands everything about the weird process of becoming Californian," is back with More Tales of The City, bringing with him the irrepresible residents of the rooming house at 28 Barbary Lane, San Francisco. "Magically readable, clever and funny...frothy as California sury, quick as a jazz joint pickup and bitchy as the morning afer brushoff"