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Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows ninety-two-year-old Anna Madrigal, the legendary transgender landlady of 28 Barbary Lane, as she joins her former tenant Brian on a road trip to Nevada where she attends to unfinished business she has long avoided.
2) Sure of you
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1990
Edition
1st HarperPerennial ed.
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 1
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
1st HarperPerennial ed.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
All six Tales of the City novels available in one audio edition with a special introduction by the author Armistead Maupin's uproarious and moving Tales of the City novels have earned a unique niche in American literature; not only as matchless entertainment, but as indelible documents of cultural change in the seventies and eighties Among the cast of this groundbreaking saga are the lovelorn residents of 28 Barbary Lane: the bewildered but aspiring...
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 10
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
235 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Mona Ramsey married Lord Teddy Roughton to secure his visa--allowing him to remain in San Francisco to fulfill his wildest dreams--she never imagined she would, by age 48, be the sole owner of Easley House, Teddy's grand, romantic country manor in the UK. She also didn't imagine that she'd need to open the manor's doors to paying guests to afford the electric bill and repair the leaking roof. Yet somehow she and her young friend Wilfred--whom...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The town of Opum Oppidulum is home to the freezing Lake Beluarum and its rumored monster. On an island at the center of the lake is an asylum from which no one has ever escaped. So how will Rex, whose father, Ambrose Grammaticus, has been imprisoned there under false pretenses, prove that Ambrose is not insane? And if Rex can free his father, will his evil stepmother drive them both to madness?
Author
Series
Tales from the Sinister City volume 1
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
viii, 273 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Ludlow Fitch runs away from his thieving parents in the City, he meets up with the mysterious Joe Zabbidou, who calls himself a secret pawnbroker, and who takes Ludlow as an apprentice to record the confessions of the townspeople of Pagus Parvus, where resentments are many and trust is scarce.