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Bestsellers
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Martyr!
- A Novel
- By: Kaveh Akbar
- Narrated by: Arian Moayed
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum
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One of the best novels I have ever read/heard.
- By James on 04-06-24
By: Kaveh Akbar
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
- A Novel
- By: Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Narrated by: Alma Cuervo, Julia Whelan, Robin Miles
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life....
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Glucose Gluttony
- By W Perry Hall on 03-17-18
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The Guncle
- By: Steven Rowley
- Narrated by: Steven Rowley
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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From the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus and The Editor comes a warm and deeply funny novel about a once-famous gay sitcom star whose unexpected family tragedy leaves him with his niece and nephew for the summer....
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In two words . . . Loved it!!
- By Donna Rauch Lanford on 06-05-21
By: Steven Rowley
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This Is How It Always Is
- A Novel
- By: Laurie Frankel
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Laurie Frankel's This Is How It Always Is is an audiobook about revelations, transformations, fairy tales, and family. And it's about the ways this is how it always is....
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Story mirrors our life -- to a point -- spoilers
- By 1mom3kids on 11-14-17
By: Laurie Frankel
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The Guncle Abroad
- The Guncle
- By: Steven Rowley
- Narrated by: Steven Rowley
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Celebrants comes the much-anticipated sequel, in which Patrick O’Hara is called back to his guncle duties…at a big family wedding in Lake Como, Italy....
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Perfect Summer Read!!
- By Chandra M on 07-05-24
By: Steven Rowley
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The Celebrants
- A Novel
- By: Steven Rowley
- Narrated by: Steven Rowley
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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A Big Chill for our times, celebrating decades-long friendships and promises—especially to ourselves—by the bestselling and beloved author of The Guncle....
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Just okay
- By kristine Barnes on 06-27-23
By: Steven Rowley
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Martyr!
- A Novel
- By: Kaveh Akbar
- Narrated by: Arian Moayed
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum
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One of the best novels I have ever read/heard.
- By James on 04-06-24
By: Kaveh Akbar
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
- A Novel
- By: Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Narrated by: Alma Cuervo, Julia Whelan, Robin Miles
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life....
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Glucose Gluttony
- By W Perry Hall on 03-17-18
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The Guncle
- By: Steven Rowley
- Narrated by: Steven Rowley
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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From the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus and The Editor comes a warm and deeply funny novel about a once-famous gay sitcom star whose unexpected family tragedy leaves him with his niece and nephew for the summer....
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In two words . . . Loved it!!
- By Donna Rauch Lanford on 06-05-21
By: Steven Rowley
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This Is How It Always Is
- A Novel
- By: Laurie Frankel
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Laurie Frankel's This Is How It Always Is is an audiobook about revelations, transformations, fairy tales, and family. And it's about the ways this is how it always is....
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Story mirrors our life -- to a point -- spoilers
- By 1mom3kids on 11-14-17
By: Laurie Frankel
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The Guncle Abroad
- The Guncle
- By: Steven Rowley
- Narrated by: Steven Rowley
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Celebrants comes the much-anticipated sequel, in which Patrick O’Hara is called back to his guncle duties…at a big family wedding in Lake Como, Italy....
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Perfect Summer Read!!
- By Chandra M on 07-05-24
By: Steven Rowley
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The Celebrants
- A Novel
- By: Steven Rowley
- Narrated by: Steven Rowley
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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A Big Chill for our times, celebrating decades-long friendships and promises—especially to ourselves—by the bestselling and beloved author of The Guncle....
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Just okay
- By kristine Barnes on 06-27-23
By: Steven Rowley
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Girl, Woman, Other
- By: Bernardine Evaristo
- Narrated by: Anna-Maria Nabirye
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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From one of Britain's most celebrated writers of color, Girl, Woman, Other is a magnificent portrayal of the intersections of identity and a moving and hopeful story of an interconnected group of Black British women....
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smart, compassionate, confronting and enjoyable
- By Kelly on 12-20-19
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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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Rubyfruit Jungle
- A Novel
- By: Rita Mae Brown
- Narrated by: Anna Paquin
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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In bawdy, moving prose, Rita Mae Brown tells the story of Molly Bolt, the adoptive daughter of a dirt-poor Southern couple who boldly forges her own path in America. With her startling beauty and crackling wit, Molly finds that women are drawn to her wherever she goes....
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Worth Every Moment
- By Kristena C on 01-02-23
By: Rita Mae Brown
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Honey
- A Novel
- By: Victor Lodato
- Narrated by: Carrington McDuffie
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Meet a woman as tenacious as Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge and as irresistible as Andrew Sean Greer’s Arthur Less: Honey Fasinga, the glamorous daughter of a notorious New Jersey mobster, is returning home at last, ready to reckon with her violent past....
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Poignant and relateable
- By L. McDonald on 08-27-24
By: Victor Lodato
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The Lions' Den
- By: Iris Mwanza
- Narrated by: Chi Mhende
- Length: 7 hrs
- Unabridged
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When young queer dancer Wilbess “Bessy” Mulenga is arrested by corrupt police, fresh-from-the-village rookie lawyer Grace Zulu takes up his cause in her first pro bono case.
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David
- By David7441 on 09-28-24
By: Iris Mwanza
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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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The Sons of El Rey
- By: Alex Espinoza
- Narrated by: Gisela Chípe, Tony Chiroldes, Lee Osorio, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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A timeless, epic novel about a family of luchadores contending with forbidden love and secrets in Mexico City, Los Angeles, and beyond....
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A Nontraditional story of a very traditional family.
- By Michele on 07-19-24
By: Alex Espinoza
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The Skin and Its Girl
- A Novel
- By: Sarah Cypher
- Narrated by: Victoria Nassif, Haneen Arafat Murphy
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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A young, queer Palestinian American woman pieces together her great-aunt’s secrets in this “enchanting, memorable” (Bustle) debut, confronting questions of sexual identity, exile, and lineage.
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Beautiful
- By Hope on 08-29-24
By: Sarah Cypher
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The Devil You Know
- Cain Casey Series, Book 8
- By: Ali Vali
- Narrated by: Paige McKinney
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Cain Casey has much to be thankful for—a loving wife in Emma, three beautiful children, and an ever-expanding family. Her business continues to grow, giving her the power to keep it all safe, but is it?
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captivating..... Once I started listening to it I didn't want to stop
- By Snnicki on 10-28-24
By: Ali Vali
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The World of Normal Boys
- A Novel
- By: K.M. Soehnlein
- Narrated by: Blake Kevin Dwyer
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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As his family falls apart day by day, Robin finds himself pulling away from the unquestioned, unexamined life that has been carefully laid out for him. Small acts of rebellion lead to larger questions of what it means to stand on his own....
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Sweet but maybe a little too sexy
- By Richard Stewart on 04-27-23
By: K.M. Soehnlein
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So Long, Chester Wheeler
- A Novel
- By: Catherine Ryan Hyde
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Unlikely road trip companions form an unexpected bond in an uplifting novel about the past—lost and found—by the New York Times and #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author....
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Catherine Ryan Hyde is a phenomenal writer
- By Ken Lewis on 02-05-23
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Doubting Thomas
- A Novel
- By: Matthew Clark Davison
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Thomas McGurrin is a fourth-grade teacher and openly gay man at a private primary school serving Portland, Oregon's wealthy progressive elite when he is falsely accused of inappropriately touching a male student....
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Well rounded story
- By LL on 05-12-23
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Farm Boys
- By: Mark A. Roeder
- Narrated by: Jerry Bradshaw
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Being the middle son is never easy, especially when your brothers are perfect. T.K. is 14 and has a true talent for getting into trouble. He tries to keep his temper under control, but it’s a difficult task with so many freaking jerks around....
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Farm Boys
- By Kindle Customer on 08-21-22
By: Mark A. Roeder
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We Were the Universe
- A Novel
- By: Kimberly King Parsons
- Narrated by: Kristen Sieh, Justis Bolding
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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A young mother, in denial after the death of her sister, navigates the dizzying landscapes of desire, guilt, and grief....
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The author’s use of detail is exceptional
- By Jane Roth on 06-17-24
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Henry Henry
- By: Allen Bratton
- Narrated by: Sebastian Humphreys
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s London, 2014, and Hal Lancaster, son and heir of Henry, Duke of Lancaster, is in a holding pattern: his mother is dead, his father is dying or remarrying or both, his siblings are fighting, his internship is pointless, and nobody will leave him alone....
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Well written -Dissapointing
- By John on 04-22-24
By: Allen Bratton
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Imagine Me Gone
- By: Adam Haslett
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer, Robert Fass
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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When Margaret's fiancé, John, is hospitalized for depression in 1960s London, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans despite what she now knows of his condition, or back away....
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Imagine Your Satisfaction Gone
- By Audio Gra Gra on 01-04-17
By: Adam Haslett
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Stray City
- A Novel
- By: Chelsey Johnson
- Narrated by: Natalie Moore
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Twenty-four-year-old artist Andrea Morales escaped her Midwestern Catholic childhood - and the closet - to create a home and life for herself within the thriving but insular lesbian underground of Portland, Oregon....
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worst book I've ever read
- By Amazon Customer on 09-18-18
By: Chelsey Johnson
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Graceful Burdens
- Out of Line collection
- By: Roxane Gay
- Narrated by: Samira Wiley
- Length: 45 mins
- Unabridged
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From New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay comes an unforgettable tale of nightmarish bureaucracy in which genetic profiling has redefined the unfit mother....
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Wish it would have been longer!
- By Dana Williams on 03-27-23
By: Roxane Gay
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No One Can Pronounce My Name
- A Novel
- By: Rakesh Satyal
- Narrated by: Amol Shah
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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In a suburb outside Cleveland, a community of Indian Americans has settled into lives that straddle the divide between Eastern and Western cultures....
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Difficult to Review
- By Claudine on 10-25-17
By: Rakesh Satyal
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The Garden Party
- By: B P Walter
- Narrated by: Nathaniel Priestley
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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The day of the garden party should’ve been a celebration of love for Raphael and his fiancée, as they toast their engagement with their families. But for someone, it’s an opportunity to unveil the lies that have bound the family together over the years.
By: B P Walter
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The Old Place
- By: Bobby Finger
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Billington, Texas, is a place where nothing changes. Well, almost nothing. For the first time in nearly four decades, Mary Alice Roth is not getting ready for the first day of school at Billington High....
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I heard the author on a podcast and...
- By Brenda on 10-01-22
By: Bobby Finger
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More Happy Than Not
- By: Adam Silvera
- Narrated by: Ramon de Ocampo
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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When it first gets announced, the Leteo Institute's memory-alteration procedure seems too good to be true to Aaron Soto; miracle cure-alls don't tend to pop up in the Bronx projects....
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Oh, my god. Oh, my god. Oh, my god.
- By Eli on 01-17-16
By: Adam Silvera
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Eli Harpo’s Adventure to the Afterlife
- A Novel
- By: Eric Schlich
- Narrated by: Lee Osorio
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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When Eli Harpo was four, he underwent emergency open-heart surgery, flatlined on the operating table, and for a brief time, went to heaven and met Jesus. Or at least that's what his father, a loving but devout Baptist minister, has raised him to believe. Nine years later, Eli isn't so sure.
By: Eric Schlich
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A Place Called Winter
- By: Patrick Gale
- Narrated by: Patrick Gale
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Isolated in a seemingly harsh landscape, under the threat of war, madness, and an evil man of undeniable magnetism, that the fight for survival will reveal in Harry Cane an inner strength....
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Beautiful story by a talented author and narrator
- By Lea Caldwell on 07-12-16
By: Patrick Gale