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Mona of the Manor by Armistead Maupin
Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of the City
Mona is the eccentric Lady of Easley House, running a bed and breakfast to keep her inherited English manor afloat. Wilfred is Mona's 26-year-old adopted son who spends his weekends in London, looking for love in the gay bars of Soho while pining after his pen pal, Michael 'Mouse' Tolliver. The current ...Show more
More Tales Of The City: Tales of the City 2 by Armistead Maupin
Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of the City - Old covers
The divinely human comedy that began with "Tales of the City" rolls recklessly along as Michael Tolliver pursues his favourite gynaecologist, Mona Ramsey uncovers her roots in a desert whorehouse, and Mary Ann Singleton finds love at sea with the amnesiac of her dreams.
More Tales of the City (#2 Tales of the City) US PB by MAUPIN ARMISTEAD
Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of the City Ser.
US paperback edition 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 ...Show more
Paris Metro Tales by Helen Constantine
Category: Travel | Series: City Tales
Following on from Helen Constantine's hugely successful Paris Tales, the twenty-two short stories included in More Metro Tales take the reader on an fascinating journey around Paris by metro. The journey begins at the Gare du Nord, stops at twenty underground stations along the way, and ends at Lamarck- ...Show more
Paris Street Tales by Helen Constantine
Category: Travel | Series: City Tales
Paris Street Tales contains eighteen newly translated stories related to particular streets in Paris, and one newly written tale of the city. The stories range from the nineteenth century to the present day, and include tales by well-known writers such as Colette, Maupassant, Didier Daeninckx, and Simen ...Show more
Significant Others (#5 Tales of the City) by Armistead Maupin
Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of the City Ser.
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. Signif ...Show more
Significant Others: Tales of the City 5 by Armistead Maupin
Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of the City - Old covers
"Significant Others", the fifth self-contained chronicle in the "Tales of the City" saga, is a cunningly observed class comedy that's sure to be relished by the cognoscenti and by new readers alike. A holiday in the redwoods goes uproariously awry when the opposing sexes camp out rather too close to eac ...Show more
Sure of You by MAUPIN ARMISTEAD
Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of the City Ser.
Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City The sixth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin's best-selling San Francisco saga. A fiercely ambitious TV talk show host finds she must choose between national stardom in New York and a husband and child in San Fran ...Show more
Sure of You (#06 Tales of the City) by Armistead Maupin
Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of the City - Old covers
In this, the sixth and final self-contained volume of Armistead Maupin's epic chronicle of modern life, 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. Wistful and compassionate yet subversively funny, "Sure of Y ...Show more
Tales Of The City (#1) by Armistead Maupin
Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of the City - Old covers
San Francisco, 1976. A naive young secretary, fresh out of Cleveland, tumbles headlong into a brave new world of laundromat Lotharios, pot-growing landladies, cut throat debutantes, and Jockey Shorts dance contests. The saga that ensues is manic, romantic, tawdry, touching, and outrageous - unmistakably ...Show more
The Black Book of Secrets: Tales From the Sinister City Bk01 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
The Bone Magician by F E Higgins
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Tales from the Sinister City Ser.
Pin Carpue is on his own in the world. His mother is dead and his father is missing after being labeled a suspect in a rash of murders. Pin finds a job working for the local undertaker as a body watcher, making sure people are really dead before they're buried. The body he's supposed to be watching toni ...Show more