When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there's more to making a baby then meets the eye. Help arrives in the form of a grieving gay neighbor, a visiting monarch, and the dashing young lieutenant who defects from her yacht. Bittersweet and profoundly affecting, Babycakes was the first work of fiction to acknowledge the arrival of AIDS.

Follows the lives of the hapless residents of Mrs. Madrigal's apartment house on Russian Hill as the excesses of the 1970s give way to the deceit and ambition of the 1980s

Product Description: You have always wondered about the gifted people who have the most brilliant brain and are clever than most of us. Here is the book to tell you how they differ from us.

Thirty-two inches tall, the acid-tongued actress Cadence Roth survives in Hollywood doing 'infomercials' and B-grade horror flicks. By the author of Tales of the City. Simultaneous.

Cadence Roth, a short woman who starred as an alien in a top-grossing Hollywood film, teams up with her friend Jeff, a gay writer, to break out of her dwarf image and find stardom. Reprint. 50,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo.

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, the tender alliances that sustain him in the hardest of times. This book follows its protagonist as he finds love with a younger man, attends to his dying fundamentalist mother in Florida, and finally reaffirms his allegiance to a wise octogenarian who was once his landlady. This stand-alone novel is accessible to new readers, while fans of Tales of the City will find a reassuring number of familiar faces.--From publisher description.Reaching his mid-fifties in San Francisco, gay gardener Michael Tolliver cherishes his life after losing many of his friends and lovers to AIDS, finds romance with a younger partner, and attends to his dying fundamentalist mother in Florida.

The lives of the colorful residents of a San Francisco boarding house are comically intertwined as they search for themselves, their lovers, and families

Product Description: Enjoy this BBC full-cast radio drama of the second novel in the groundbreaking series following the tenants of 28 Barbary Lane.The divinely human comedy that began with Tales of the City rolls recklessly along as Michael Tolliver pursues his favorite gynecologist, Mona Ramsey uncovers her roots in a desert whorehouse, and Mary Ann Singleton finds love at sea with the amnesiac of her dreams...read more

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.