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The original abridged recordings of the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga, in one collection! For almost four decades Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City has blazed its own trail through popular culture—from a groundbreaking newspaper...

Brought to you by Penguin. 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...

Introduction written and read by Rachel Maddow Narrated by Frances McDormand The first novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s bestselling San Francisco saga, and inspiration for the Netflix original series, Tales of the City “A consummate entertainer who has...

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick The first novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s bestselling San Francisco saga, and inspiration for the Netflix original series, Tales of the City “A consummate entertainer who has made a generation laugh. . . . It is...

Narrated by Alan Cumming "Maupin's San Francisco saga careens beautifully on." —New York Times Book Review The fourth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga. When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a...

Narrated by Eric McCormack "A quietly understated masterpiece." —USA Today The sixth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s bestselling San Francisco saga. A fiercely ambitious TV talk show host finds she must choose between national stardom in New York and a...

The seventh novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga. Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City Nearly two decades after ending his groundbreaking Tales of the City saga of San Francisco life, Armistead Maupin...

Narrated by Cynthia Nixon "Remarkable. . . delectable, addictive." —New York Times Book Review The second novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s bestselling San Francisco saga. The tenants of 28 Barbary Lane have fled their cozy nest for adventures far afield. Mary...

The eighth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga. Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City Following the success of his New York Times bestseller Michael Tolliver Lives, Armistead Maupin’s Mary Ann in Autumn is...

Narrated by Cynthia Nixon Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City The fifth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga. Tranquillity reigns in the ancient redwood forest until a women-only music festival sets up camp...

In this funny, poignant and unflinchingly honest memoir, one of the world's best-loved storytellers explains how he evolved from a conservative son of the Old South into a gay rights pioneer whose novels inspired millions to claim their own lives. It is a journey that leads him from the racism and misogyny of midcentury North Carolina to a homoerotic navy initiation ceremony in the jungles of Vietnam to an awkward conversation about girls with President Richard Nixon in the Oval Office of the White House.

Narrated by Frances McDormand Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City The third novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga. The calamity-prone residents of 28 Barbary Lane are at it again in this deliciously dark...

Narrated by Kate Mulgrew New York Times Bestseller “Wonderful. . . . As compulsively readable and endearing as all the previous novels have been.” — Booklist (starred review) Suspenseful, comic, and profoundly moving, The Days of Anna Madrigal, the ninth installment in Armistead Maupin's...

Set against the 1970s San Fransisco skyline, Maupin's Tales of the City introduces the unconventional tenants of 28 Barbary Lane, the domain of the eccentric, marijuana-growing landlady Anna Madrigal. Mary Ann Singleton, a naive young woman newly arrived from Cleveland, Ohio, moves into an apartment there and soon becomes friends with other tenants of the building....

Armistead Maupin talks to Beth Anderson, Audible's publisher, about the adaptation of his novel The Night Listener. The book and the movie, which stars Robin Williams, Toni Collette, Rory Culkin, and Sandra Oh, were inspired by Maupin's real-life friendship with Anthony Godby Johnson, a young man who'd written a harrowing memoir about being abused, but whose very existence soon came into question. In this interview, Maupin reveals how tricky the overlap between fiction and reality can be.

Narrated by Armistead Maupin "Remarkable. . . delectable, addictive." —New York Times Book Review The second novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s bestselling San Francisco saga. The tenants of 28 Barbary Lane have fled their cozy nest for adventures far afield...

Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City The fifth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga. Tranquillity reigns in the ancient redwood forest until a women-only music festival sets up camp downriver from an all-male...

Mary Ann Singleton kehrt nach San Francisco zurück, leider aus traurigem Anlass: Sie hat Krebs. Zu Hause will sie sich nicht behandeln lassen, erst recht nicht, seit sie bei einem Skype-Chat live miterleben musste, wie ihr Mann sie mit ihrer persönlichen Lebensberaterin betrog. Mary Ann will die Scheidung und findet Trost im Kreis ihrer alten Freunde: Michael Tolliver, Ben, Shawna, DeDe und D'Or. Doch gerade als Mary Ann es sich im Gartenhäuschen von Michael und Ben gemütlich gemacht hat, fliegt ihr ihre bunt schillernde Vergangenheit um die Ohren.

Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City The third novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga. The calamity-prone residents of 28 Barbary Lane are at it again in this deliciously dark novel of romance and betrayal...

"Maupin's San Francisco saga careens beautifully on." —New York Times Book Review The fourth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga. When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover...