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Amsterdam Tales by Helen Constantine
Category: Fiction | Series: City Tales
In this volume Paul Vincent presents a compelling collection of prose fiction, memoirs and anecdotes centring on Amsterdam from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century. His selection offers a rare insight into the history and culture of the city. The subjects range from Rembrandt to the persecution ...Show more
Babycakes by MAUPIN ARMISTEAD
Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of the City Ser.
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 meet ...Show more
Babycakes (#4 Tales of the City) by Armistead Maupin
Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of the City - Old covers
The characters that filled the pages of the three earlier "Tales of the City" books with love and laughter are at it again, as an ordinary house-husband and his ambitious wife discover there's more to making a baby than meets the eye. Unexpected help arrives in the form of a British monarch, a grieving ...Show more
Back to Barbary Lane (Tales of the City Books 4-6) by Armistead Maupin
Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of the City Omnibus
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 throug ...Show more
Black Book of Secrets (Tales from the Sinister City #1) by F.E. Higgins
Category: Children's fantasy | Series: Tales from the Sinister City
When Ludlow Fitch's parents cruelly betray him, he steals away on the back of a carriage and leaves behind the stinking City. He arrives in the dead of night at a remote village, where he crosses paths with the tall and limping figure of Joe Zabbidou - a pawnbroker with a difference. For Joe trades secr ...Show more
Copenhagen Tales by Helen Constantine
Category: Travel | Series: City Tales
Exploring the many moods of the Danish capital. From the narrow twisting streets of the old town centre to the shady docklands, this rich anthology captures the essence of Copenhagen and its many faces. Through seventeen tales by some of the very best of Denmark's writers past and present, we travel the ...Show more
Further Tales Of The City (#3 Tales of the City) by Armistead Maupin
Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of the City - Old covers
The residents of 28 Barbary Lane are back again in this racy, suspenseful and wildly romantic sequel to "Tales of the City" and "More Tales of the City". DeDe Halcyon Day and Mary Ann Singleton track down a charismatic psychopath, Michael Tolliver looks for love, landlady Anna Madrigal imprisons an anch ...Show more
Further Tales of the City (#3 Tales of the City) by Armistead Maupin
Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of the City Series
"An extended love letter to a magical San Francisco." -- "New York Times Book Review" 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 ...Show more
Goodbye Barbary Lane (Tales of the City Books 7-9) by Armistead Maupin
Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of the City Omnibus
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 t ...Show more
Mary Ann in Autumn by Armistead Maupin
Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of the City
'Everything around her was familiar but somehow foreign to her own experience, like a place she had seen in a movie but had never actually visited. She had climbed these weathered steps - what? - thousands of times before, but there wasn't a hint of homecoming, nothing to take her back to where she used ...Show more
Mary Ann in Autumn (#08 Tales of the City) by Armistead Maupin
Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of the City - Old covers
Twenty years have passed since Mary Ann Singleton left her husband and child in San Francisco to pursue her dream of a television career in New York. Now, a pair of personal calamities has driven her back to the city of her youth and into the arms of her oldest friend, Michael "Mouse" Tolliver, a gay ga ...Show more
Michael Tolliver Lives (#7 Tales of the City) by Armistead Maupin
Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of the City - Old covers
Michael Tolliver, the sweet-spirited Southerner in Armistead Maupin's classic "Tales of the City" series, is arguably the most beloved gay character in fiction. Now, almost twenty years after ending his groundbreaking saga of San Francisco life, Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero, letting the 55-yea ...Show more