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Bestsellers
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The Rachel Incident
- A Novel
- By: Caroline O'Donoghue
- Narrated by: Tara Flynn
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Rachel is a student working at a bookstore when she meets James, and it’s love at first sight. Effervescent and insistently heterosexual, James soon invites Rachel to be his roommate and the two begin a friendship that changes the course of both their lives forever....
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Best narration
- By LG on 01-12-24
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Boyfriend Material
- By: Alexis Hall
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Luc O'Donnell is tangentially - and reluctantly - famous. His rock-star parents split when he was young, and the father he's never met spent the next 20 years cruising in and out of rehab. Now that his dad's making a comeback, Luc's back in the public eye....
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The right material!
- By Cranky Reader on 07-08-20
By: Alexis Hall
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How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund?
- A Novel
- By: Anna Montague
- Narrated by: Cynthia Nixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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For fans of Less and Remarkably Bright Creatures comes a funny and moving novel about love, loss, and new beginnings found on an unlikely road trip.
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Refreshing to have older character as protagonist
- By Lisamarie on 12-19-24
By: Anna Montague
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The Knockout Queen
- A Novel
- By: Rufi Thorpe
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Bunny Lampert is the princess of North Shore - beautiful, tall, blond, with a rich real-estate-developer father and a swimming pool in her backyard. Michael - with a ponytail down his back and a septum piercing - lives with his aunt in the cramped stucco cottage next door....
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Loved this book!
- By Vernice Favor on 05-17-20
By: Rufi Thorpe
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When Ben Loved Tim
- He Loved Him, Book 1
- By: Jay Bell
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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I never thought I’d find love. I spent all of high school watching others pair up, my little gay heart slowly withering in despair… until the fateful summer night that I met Tim. His meaty muscles and smoldering silver eyes already haunt my dreams.
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Tim is useless
- By Anonymous User on 11-05-24
By: Jay Bell
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The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers
- A Novel
- By: Samuel Burr
- Narrated by: Penelope Keith, Russell Tovey
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Clayton Stumper might be in his twenties, but he dresses like your grandpa and fusses like your aunt. Abandoned at birth on the steps of the Fellowship of Puzzlemakers, he was raised by a group of eccentric enigmatologists and now finds himself among the last survivors of a fading institution....
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Incredibly thoughtful and brilliantly crafted
- By MaineMom on 08-31-24
By: Samuel Burr
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The Rachel Incident
- A Novel
- By: Caroline O'Donoghue
- Narrated by: Tara Flynn
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Rachel is a student working at a bookstore when she meets James, and it’s love at first sight. Effervescent and insistently heterosexual, James soon invites Rachel to be his roommate and the two begin a friendship that changes the course of both their lives forever....
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Best narration
- By LG on 01-12-24
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Boyfriend Material
- By: Alexis Hall
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Luc O'Donnell is tangentially - and reluctantly - famous. His rock-star parents split when he was young, and the father he's never met spent the next 20 years cruising in and out of rehab. Now that his dad's making a comeback, Luc's back in the public eye....
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The right material!
- By Cranky Reader on 07-08-20
By: Alexis Hall
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How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund?
- A Novel
- By: Anna Montague
- Narrated by: Cynthia Nixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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For fans of Less and Remarkably Bright Creatures comes a funny and moving novel about love, loss, and new beginnings found on an unlikely road trip.
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Refreshing to have older character as protagonist
- By Lisamarie on 12-19-24
By: Anna Montague
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The Knockout Queen
- A Novel
- By: Rufi Thorpe
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Bunny Lampert is the princess of North Shore - beautiful, tall, blond, with a rich real-estate-developer father and a swimming pool in her backyard. Michael - with a ponytail down his back and a septum piercing - lives with his aunt in the cramped stucco cottage next door....
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Loved this book!
- By Vernice Favor on 05-17-20
By: Rufi Thorpe
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When Ben Loved Tim
- He Loved Him, Book 1
- By: Jay Bell
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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I never thought I’d find love. I spent all of high school watching others pair up, my little gay heart slowly withering in despair… until the fateful summer night that I met Tim. His meaty muscles and smoldering silver eyes already haunt my dreams.
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Tim is useless
- By Anonymous User on 11-05-24
By: Jay Bell
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The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers
- A Novel
- By: Samuel Burr
- Narrated by: Penelope Keith, Russell Tovey
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Clayton Stumper might be in his twenties, but he dresses like your grandpa and fusses like your aunt. Abandoned at birth on the steps of the Fellowship of Puzzlemakers, he was raised by a group of eccentric enigmatologists and now finds himself among the last survivors of a fading institution....
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Incredibly thoughtful and brilliantly crafted
- By MaineMom on 08-31-24
By: Samuel Burr
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Frankie
- A Novel
- By: Graham Norton
- Narrated by: Graham Norton
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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From internationally bestselling author and host of The Graham Norton Show, a dazzling and decades-sweeping story about love, bravery, and what it means to live a significant life.
By: Graham Norton
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The Sapling Cage
- Daughters of the Empty Throne, Book 1
- By: Margaret Killjoy
- Narrated by: Jackie Meloche
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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In the gripping first novel in the Daughters of the Empty Throne trilogy, author Margaret Killjoy spins a tale of earth magic, power struggle, and self-invention in an own-voices story of trans witchcraft.
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The book I wish I had as a baby Queer.
- By Dante on 09-24-24
By: Margaret Killjoy
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Lie with Me
- A Novel
- By: Philippe Besson, Molly Ringwald - translator
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first love. What follows is a look back at the relationship he’s never forgotten, a hidden affair with a gorgeous boy named Thomas during their last year of high school....
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Memoir or fiction, either way it's enthralling.
- By Keith G on 05-08-19
By: Philippe Besson, and others
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In Tongues
- A Novel
- By: Thomas Grattan
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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A young gay man upends the lives of a powerful art-world couple in this steamy novel of self-discovery.
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Engaging, smart and witty storytelling!
- By Bruce Cannella on 09-30-24
By: Thomas Grattan
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Pride High, Book 1
- Red
- By: Jay Bell
- Narrated by: Talia Carver
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Perfect for mature teens and nostalgic adults, this LGBTQ+ series celebrates authentic intimacy, realistic relationships, and the beautiful chaos of growing up queer. Rewind to the nineties and join a group of teenagers as they try to figure out who they are, and who they want to love.
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He did it again!
- By Stanley Craver on 11-28-22
By: Jay Bell
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Milk Fed
- By: Melissa Broder
- Narrated by: Melissa Broder
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Rachel is 24, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control through obsessive food rituals while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency....
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Funny and uncomfortable
- By Kayla on 04-01-21
By: Melissa Broder
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Swimming in the Dark
- A Novel
- By: Tomasz Jedrowski
- Narrated by: Will Watt
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Set in early 1980s Poland against the violent decline of communism, a tender and passionate story of first love between two young men who eventually find themselves on opposite sides of the political divide....
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One of the Best Contemporary Novels Ever
- By Jeffrey veals on 05-11-20
By: Tomasz Jedrowski
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How We Named the Stars
- By: Andrés N. Ordorica
- Narrated by: Christian Barillas
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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When Daniel de La Luna arrives as a scholarship student at an elite East Coast university, he bears the weight of his family’s hopes and dreams—and the burden of sharing his late uncle’s name. Daniel flounders at first, but then Sam, his roommate, changes everything....
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Beautiful Coming of Age
- By Ironcharles on 08-30-24
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Tipping the Velvet
- By: Sarah Waters
- Narrated by: Juanita McMahon
- Length: 19 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Nan King, an oyster girl, is captivated by the music hall phenomenon Kitty Butler, a male impersonator extraordinaire treading the boards in Canterbury....
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Did not disappoint!
- By TENA on 01-25-15
By: Sarah Waters
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The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
- By: Michael Chabon
- Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Michael Chabon masterfully renders the funny, tender, and captivating first-person narrative of Art Bechstein, whose confusion and heartache echo the tones of literary forebears like The Catcher in the Rye's Holden Caulfield and The Great Gatsby's Nick Carraway....
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Disappointing
- By George S. Pichon Jr. on 04-13-18
By: Michael Chabon
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Anyone's Ghost
- A Novel
- By: August Thompson
- Narrated by: Lee Osorio
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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The transforming love and friendship between two young men during one unforgettable teenage summer in rural New England haunts them into adulthood.
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No redeeming characters - they're all awful
- By C. on 09-26-24
By: August Thompson
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I Make Envy on Your Disco
- A Novel
- By: Eric Schnall
- Narrated by: Charlie Carver
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s the new millennium and the anxiety of midlife is creeping up on Sam Singer, a thirty-seven-year-old art advisor. Fed up with his partner and his life in New York, Sam flies to Berlin to attend a gallery opening.
By: Eric Schnall
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Housemates
- A Novel
- By: Emma Copley Eisenberg
- Narrated by: Marin Ireland
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in a fractured America, by the award-winning author of The Third Rainbow Girl
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A gutting love story for today.
- By Kitty on 09-23-24
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The Amendments
- By: Niamh Mulvey
- Narrated by: Jessica Regan
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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A sweeping family saga, The Amendments tells the story of three Irish women and their struggles to find love, meaning and freedom against a backdrop of enormous social and cultural change as Ireland marks time with a series of abortion referendums....
By: Niamh Mulvey
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Pride High
- Book 3: Yellow
- By: Jay Bell
- Narrated by: Talia Carver
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Another year is winding down for the students of Pride High, but the drama is just ramping up....
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Great Listen!
- By alsimvilla on 01-06-24
By: Jay Bell
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GOD OF NOTHING (Book #1 The ALL)
- By: Shane Scott
- Narrated by: Poppy Royana
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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The ALL chronicles four generations of the most powerful immortal family in God’s creation. The Promethean saga spans uncountable years and dozens of worlds. Mortals, gods, devils, dragons, titans, demons, werewolves, vampires, and angels clash in a never-ending battle of love and hate....
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Best story I’ve heard in a long time
- By rebecca123 on 08-14-21
By: Shane Scott
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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
- By: Jeanette Winterson
- Narrated by: Jeanette Winterson
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Jeanette is a bright and rebellious orphan who is adopted into an evangelical household in the dour, industrial North of England and finds herself embroidering grim religious mottoes and shaking her little tambourine for Jesus. But she insists on listening to truths of her own heart....
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quirky and odd
- By Kelly on 01-06-20
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Ghost Wall
- A Novel
- By: Sarah Moss
- Narrated by: Christine Hewitt
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Silvie's family joins an anthropology course set to reenact life in simpler times. The ancient Britons built ghost walls to ward off enemy invaders, rude barricades of stakes topped with ancestral skulls. When the group builds one of its own, they find a spiritual connection to the past....
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A good read!
- By Chester Johnson on 02-23-19
By: Sarah Moss
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These Violent Delights
- A Novel
- By: Micah Nemerever
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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When Paul enters university in early 1970s Pittsburgh, it’s with the hope of moving past the recent death of his father. Sensitive, insecure, and incomprehensible to his grieving family, Paul feels isolated and alone....
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Excellent book. Hated it.
- By Abby on 06-18-21
By: Micah Nemerever
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The Rachel Incident
- By: Caroline O'Donoghue
- Narrated by: Clara Harte
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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The Rachel Incident is an all-consuming love story. But it's not the one you're expecting. It's unconventional and messy. It's young and foolish. It's about losing and finding yourself. But it is always about love.
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So lovely
- By Joslyn on 12-22-24
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Bellies
- A Novel
- By: Nicola Dinan
- Narrated by: Nathaniel Curtis, Octavia Nyombi
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out with friends at their local university drag night, Tom buys Ming a drink....
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4.5/5 Stars
- By thepostman on 02-10-24
By: Nicola Dinan
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Nevada
- A Novel
- By: Imogen Binnie
- Narrated by: Imogen Binnie
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Maria Griffiths is almost thirty and works at a used bookstore in New York City while trying to stay true to her punk values. She’s in love with her bike but not with her girlfriend, Steph. She takes random pills, but doesn’t inject anything except, when she remembers, estrogen....
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Soooo Good!!
- By storm baughman on 01-06-23
By: Imogen Binnie
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Some Strange Music Draws Me In
- A Novel
- By: Griffin Hansbury
- Narrated by: Petey Gibson
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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From an award-winning author, this provocative novel tells an emotionally gripping story about friendship, family, and transgender awakening in a working-class American town.
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Couldn’t Stop Listening
- By Lizzyc on 10-08-24
By: Griffin Hansbury
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The City and the Pillar
- A Novel
- By: Gore Vidal
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Jim, a handsome, all-American athlete, has always been shy around girls. But when he and his best friend, Bob, partake in “awful kid stuff,” the experience forms Jim’s ideal of spiritual completion....
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Do not listen to the introduction!!!!!
- By Billmatto on 12-05-19
By: Gore Vidal