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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.
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 3
Pub. Date
©1982.
Description
"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 a San Francisco park."--WorldCat.
4) 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.
5) 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.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
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Description
In the distant future, when cities move about and consume smaller towns, a fifteen-year-old apprentice is pushed out of London by the man he most admires and must seek answers in the perilous Out-Country, aided by one girl and the memory of another.
Author
Series
Three girls in the city volume 1
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Sometimes the road to friendship takes you the long way around. Sometimes the trip is worth it.
Author
Series
Three girls in the city volume 2
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Joy: Now living at her mom's full time. She thinks she'll have more freedom, no one watching over her and it will be great, right? Maybe, maybe not. Maya: Struggling with a difficult choice. Can she make her oldest friend Shana understand that their friendship has to grow -- or go? Carolyn: Still dealing with dad. His over-protective ways have her keeping secrets -- but now she's got the feeling he's keeping secrets of his own. Three friends sharing...
11) Black and White
Author
Series
Three girls in the city volume 3
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
About three girls sharing good times, hassles, and laughter. Friendship, like the color black, goes with everything.
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 7
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Description
Michael Tolliver, the sweet-spirited Southerner in Armistead Maupin's classic Tales of the City series, lives on in this novel about growing older joyfully. Almost twenty years after ending his saga of San Francisco life, author Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero, letting the 55-year-old gardener tell his own story. Having survived the plague that took so many of his friends and lovers, Michael has learned to embrace the random pleasures of life,...
Author
Series
Tales from the sinister city volume 2
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 9
Description
With his father, a fugitive, falsely accused of multiple murders and the real serial killer stalking the wretched streets of Urbs Umida, Pin Carpue, a young undertaker's assistant, investigates and soon discovers that all of the victims mayhave attended the performance of a stage magician who claims to be able to raise corpses and make the dead speak.
Author
Series
Tales from the sinister city volume 3
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Although Hector Fitzbaudly has always lived a plush life on the posh side of the River Foedus, he's yearned to slip away from his comfortable home and see the seedy side of Urbs Umida. Unfortunately, he gets his chance when a blackmail artist confronts his father with a terrible secret from his past, and Hector finds himself penniless and on the streets. He is determined to get his revenge against the man responsible, who has been a pauper, a gentleman,...
15) Something new
Author
Series
Plain City bridesmaids volume 2
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Return to Plain City, Ohio, where Mennonite Lil Landis gets caught up in her dreams--and problems. But will it blind her to what matters most?
16) The storm
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Series
Dogs of the drowned city volume 1
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
When a hurricane forces his family to evacuate without him, Shep the German shepherd is confused. Where is his boy? And what is Shep supposed to do now that the extra food is gone? Then another dog shows up at Shep's window and convinces him to escape. There's food and water outside, and a whole empty city to explore. Shep just wants to go home - but the adventure of a lifetime is about to begin.
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! A deadly virus killed every adult on Earth, leaving only the kids behind. With her parents gone, Lisa is responsible for her little brother, Todd. She has to make sure they stay alive. Many kids are sick or starving, and fierce gangs are stealing and destroying everything they find. Lots of people have given up, but on Grand...
18) The pack
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Series
Dogs of the drowned city volume 2
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Fans of WARRIORS and WOLVES OF THE BEYOND have a new animal adventure series to sink their teeth into!The thrilling DOGS OF THE DROWNED CITY trilogy continues! Shep the German shepherd doesn't know why his family has left him alone, nor does he understand the terrible, shrieking storm that has torn apart his city. He just knows that the new dogs he's met are his best chance at survival -- especially now that they've made enemies of the wild dogs in...
19) City of Stairs
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Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
The city of Bulikov once wielded the powers of the gods to conquer the world, enslaving and brutalizing millions--until its divine protectors were killed. Now Bulikov has become just another colonial outpost of the world's new geopolitical power, but the surreal landscape of the city itself--first shaped, now shattered, by the thousands of miracles its guardians once worked upon it--stands as a constant, haunting reminder of its former supremacy....
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 9
Pub. Date
[2014]
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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.