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From one of America's best-loved storytellers, The Waiting Time is an ambitious, romantic, historically rich epic, sure to delight new and loyal readers alike Spirited Abigail Banes dreams her newly married life coastal Georgia will be lived amid spreading magnolia trees, where lovers walk and whisper along blossom-lined paths. But her dreams are shattered when a fatal accident claims her husband, Eli, leaving her sole proprietor of their rice plantation-and...

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 Maupin's Dickensian gift to be able to render love convincingly."— Edmund White, Times Literary Supplement

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Armistead Maupin's uproarious and moving Tales of the City series has earned a unique niche in American literature, not only as matchless entertainment, but as an indelible document of cultural change in the 70s and 80s. In this, the second novel of the series, Maupin continues to eavesdrop on the tenants at 28 Barbary Lane.

"Traveling from the corporeal to the cosmic, from life to death and back again, [this book] is a full-throated performance of humanity in search of truth, ancestry, and artistic authenticity. Moving through themes of lineage, twinship, femininity and masculinity, reclamation of Indigeneity, dance, gender roles, and longing, Gonzalez's poems are a crescendo of the page. part ecstatic elegy, part spell, this is a betwixt poetics, a kaleidoscopic, disruptive,...

An old woman who was too busy to travel with the Wise Men to find the Child now searches endlessly for Him each Christmas season.

Mommy wants all her little frogs to take swimming lessons. Hop tries his best, but often makes a mess of things. One day, he surprises even himself.

Three Shaolin princesses are separated at birth, trained in the arts of supernatural and physical combat, and transported as reincarnated warriors into the present day to battle evil.