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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 Fathers and sons Fiction Gay men Fiction Maupin, Armistead San Francisco (Calif.) Fiction United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 FictionSummary: The story of a three day pass: An African-American soldier stationed in France is granted a promotion and a three-day leave from base and heads to Paris, where he finds whirlwind romance with a white woman--but what happens to their love when his furlough is over?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE MELHarpstead, Milo I.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Iowa State University Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 631.4 HARMaupin, Armistead
Summary: Reflecting on the profound impact those closest to him have had on his life, Maupin shares his candid search for his "logical family," the people he could call his own. "Sooner or later, we have to venture beyond our biological family to find our logical one, the one that actually makes sense for us," he writes. "We have to, if we are to live without squandering our lives." From his loving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAUPIN, ARMISTEAD MAUSummary: Return to ground zero in the fight against Chicago crime in all 23 episodes of this critically acclaimed drama. In Season Three, Hank Voight's intelligence unit is in the final stretch of taking down a powerful kingpin when one of his detectives is severely beaten and kidnapped. In a race against time, Voight makes the difficult decision to bring back one of the disgraced former members of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: Jo Nesbø is known the world over as a consummate mystery/thriller writer. Famed for his deft characterisation, hair-raising suspense and shocking twists, Nesbø's dexterity with the dark corners of the human heart is on full display in these inventive and enthralling stories. A detective with a nose for jealousy is on the trail of a man suspected of murdering his twin, a bereaved father must...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC NESMaupin, 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: Freewheeling to San Francisco, Mary Ann Singleton quickly realizes just how far from Cleveland she really is. Moving into a funky house at Twenty-eight Barbary Lane where her landlord welcomes her with a joint, Mary Ann befriends the other residents and finds a good-natured home amid the drugs, drama, and debauchery. Based on Armistead Maupin's beloved novel, the Peabody Award-winning PBS...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV TALOlmstead, Robert
Summary: "A bankrupt widow embarks on a buffalo hunt in 1873 to try to save her late husband's land, and encounters multiple dangers along the way"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OLMMaupin, 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 New 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 MAUNo Joy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NOOlmstead, Grace
Summary: "Journalist Grace Olmstead wrestles with the question of what we owe the places we come from: How do we square our desire for self-improvement, economic opportunity, and growth with the damage and brain drain left in our wake? She tells the stories of townspeople who no longer know each other, of high schoolers who want to get away, and contrasts them with the struggles of the few stickers who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sentinel 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 OLMOlmstead, Robert.
Summary: When Robey Childs's mother experiences a premonition about her husband, a Civil War soldier, she sends her only son to retrieve his father from the battlefield, accompanied by a horse that becomes his only companion as he makes his way through the destruction of war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC OLMLiu, Jae Soo.
Summary: A story, in pictures and music, of children on their way to school on a rainy day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kane/Miller Book Pub. 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LIUSummary: Jennifer Kroot's documentary about the creator of Tales of the City moves nimbly between playful and poignant and laugh-out-loud funny. Maupin offers a disarmingly frank look at the journey that took him from the jungles of Vietnam to the bathhouses of '70's San Francisco to the front line of the American culture war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wolfe Video 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UNTMaupin, 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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAUSummary: In Pei, a kingdom ruled by a young and unpredictable king, the military commander faces peril both inside and outside the palace walls. But he has a secret weapon: a look-alike who can fool both Pei's enemies and the King himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN SHAOlmstead, Kathleen.
Summary: An abridged retelling of the adventures of a young seaman when he joins the crew of the whaling ship Pequod, led by the fanatical Captain Ahab in pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2010