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Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 1
Description
A naive young secretary forsakes Cleveland for San Francisco, tumbling headlong into a brave new world of laundromat lotharios and cutthroat debutantes.
6) Sure of you
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 6
Pub. Date
c1989
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Appears on list
Description
John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old dispossessed Texan, crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his pal Lacey Rawlins. The two precocious horsemen pick up a sidekick--a laughable but deadly marksman named Jimmy Blevins--encounter various adventures on their way south and finally arrive at a paradisiacal hacienda where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance.
10) Babycakes
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 4
Pub. Date
1994
Description
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.
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 5
Pub. Date
1994
Description
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.
12) Dryland's end
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1995
Description
Five thousand years in the future, life itself is in jeopardy!A rebellion of intelligent Cybernetic servants has left the Females of the galaxy virtually sterile, crippling the controlling political body – the Matriarchy. The race is on to find a solution, but will it be enough to save the Matriarchy as other galactic authorities attempt to dominate them using sabotage and all-out war? Dryland's End is Felice Picano's science fiction adventure for...
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 2
Pub. Date
1998
Description
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...
15) London
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1996]
Description
Describes the history, cultural composition, daily life, and points of interest of London.
16) Rio de Janeiro
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Provides a physical description and history, along with a discussion of the people and customs, of the second largest city in Brazil.
17) Tokyo
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Describes Japan's capital city including its subway system, its streets and buildings, its celebrations of ancient religious traditions, and its sports and theater.
Author
Series
Bailey City monsters. Main series volume 1
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Bailey City is full of some pretty weird grown-ups. It is the perfect place for the spooky Hauntly Manor Inn. Could Dracula, a mad scientist, and Frankenstein's monster be living there?"--P. [4] of cover.
19) Hong Kong
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Examines the land, people, history, economy, and cultural life of this busy international metropolis, a former British colony that was returned to China on July 1, 1997.
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