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(Fictitious character) Madrigal, Anna Fiction (Fictitious character) Singleton, Mary Ann Fiction (Fictitious character) Tolliver, Michael Fiction City and town life California San Francisco Fiction City and town life Fiction Gay men Fiction Man-woman relationships San Francisco (Calif.) Fiction Science fiction, American WeddingsSummary: A darkly mysterious tale of two lesbian ex-cons, Victoria and Florence, trying to make a new life in the backwoods of Quebec. Seeking peace and quiet, the couple slowly begin to feel under siege as Vic's probation officer keeps unexpectedly popping up and a strange woman in the neighborhood soon turns out to be a sinister force from Flo's past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VICMartin, Melissa
Summary: Bear Cub spies a pair of underpants hanging from a tree branch and sets out to find their owner, but they belong to none of his forest friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: Mild-mannered businessman Sandy Patterson travels from Denver to Miami to confront the deceptively harmless-looking woman who has been living it up after stealing Sandy's identity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2013
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY IDECopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Identity 2013Summary: As the alien Xenovirus reaches Britain, Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, now gifted with extraordinary longevity, joins with Alan Turing to set up a special organization, the Order of the Silver Helix, to outmaneuver the terrifying mutations of the virus in Britain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KNASummary: Carrie Mathison, a brilliant but volatile CIA agent, suspects that a rescued American POW may not be what he seems. Is Marine Sgt. Nicholas Brody a war hero or an Al Qaeda sleeper agent plotting a spectacular terrorist attack on U.S. soil? Following her instincts, Mathison will risk everything to uncover the truth - her reputation, her career, and even her sanity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOMMaupin, Armistead.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAUMaupin, Armistead.
Summary: All of 31 inches tall, Cady is a true survivor in a town where -- as she says -- "you can die of encouragement." Her early starring role as a lovable elf in an immensely popular American film proved a major disappointment, since moviegoers never saw the face behind the stifling rubber suit she was required to wear. Now, after a decade of hollow promises from the Industry, she is reduced to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 1992
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "An alien virus ravages the world, its results as random as a hand of cards. Those infected either draw the black queen and die, draw and ace and receive superpowers, or draw the joker and are bizarrely mutated. Nevertheless, human nature reigns supreme. And one fo the most enduring human drives is the search for love. Aces and jokers alike both want to find it, or have lost it...or perhaps...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILMeyer, Marissa
Summary: A collection of Lunar chronicles stories explore how Cinder arrived in New Beijing, how Wolf became a brooding soldier, and when Princess Winter and Jacin realized their destinies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MEYSummary: Thicker than water: A faded photograph leads powerful attorney Natalie Jones to the bittersweet secrets of her father's past--where horses run free, families are bound by honor, and true love really exists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A young boy rediscovers the magic of friendship when his pony gives birth to Nico, a unicorn. Based on the young adult novel by Frank Sacks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NICMartin, George R. R.
Summary: A collection of Wild Cards tales finds veteran ace John Fortune assembling a team of powerful mutants to assist the world's troubled regions, in a volume that includes contributions by such writers as Melinda Snodgrass, Carry Vaughn, and Stephen Leigh.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUSMaupin, Armistead.
Summary: After suffering personal calamities in New York, Mary Ann Singleton moves back to San Francisco after being gone for twenty years and begins to slowly rebuild her life, only to confront fresh terrors when her past comes back to haunt her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAUMaupin, Armistead.
Summary: 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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAUMaupin, Armistead.
Summary: The lives of the colorful residents of a San Francisco boarding house are comically intertwined as they search for themselves, their lovers, and families.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAUMaupin, Armistead.
Summary: Popular late-night radio host Gabriel Noone befriends a troubled listener, a thirteen-year-old boy who has endured a childhood of traumatic sexual abuse and who sees Gabriel as a surrogate father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAUMaupin, Armistead.
Summary: A naive young secretary forsakes Cleveland for San Francisco, tumbling headlong into a brave new world of laundromat lotharios and cutthroat debutantes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2007
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAUMaupin, Armistead
Summary: "The long-awaited tenth novel in Maupin's beloved and bestselling Tales of the City series, Mona of the Manor follows the adventures of Mona Ramsey--now the widowed Lady of a glorious old manor in the Cotswolds--and her fabulous butler-slash-adopted-son Wilfred, as they work to help an American visitor who has gotten herself in trouble"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAU1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
Maupin, Armistead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MaupiMaupin, Armistead.
Summary: 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. Mary Ann, a TV show host, must choose between national...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAUSchmid, Susan Maupin
Summary: Darling Dimple, a young orphan, must use the enchanted dresses to find the ghost that is haunting the castle she calls home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION SCHMora, Julissa
Summary: Black and white illustrations of common garden insects are paired with different sayings to greet them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Duo Press 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on William Brinkley's popular novel, it chronicles a global catastrophe that nearly decimates the world's population. Because of its positioning, the Navy destroyer U.S.S. Nathan James avoided falling victim to the devastating tragedy. But now the crew and its captain must confront the reality of their new existence in a world where they may be among the few remaining survivors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018