Bestsellers
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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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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 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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The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
- Wayfarers, Book 1
- By: Becky Chambers
- Narrated by: Rachel Dulude
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space - and one adventurous young explorer who discovers the meaning of family in the far reaches of the universe - in this lighthearted debut space opera from a rising sci-fi star....
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Unbearable narrator.
- By Christian Woolley on 06-18-19
By: Becky Chambers
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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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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.
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The accents were amazing.
- By Karen Santos on 02-26-25
By: Graham Norton
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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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Overall
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Performance
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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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Martyr!
- A Novel
- By: Kaveh Akbar
- Narrated by: Arian Moayed
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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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 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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The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
- Wayfarers, Book 1
- By: Becky Chambers
- Narrated by: Rachel Dulude
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space - and one adventurous young explorer who discovers the meaning of family in the far reaches of the universe - in this lighthearted debut space opera from a rising sci-fi star....
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Unbearable narrator.
- By Christian Woolley on 06-18-19
By: Becky Chambers
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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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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.
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The accents were amazing.
- By Karen Santos on 02-26-25
By: Graham Norton
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Bury Your Gays
- By: Chuck Tingle
- Narrated by: André Santana, Charlie Jane Anders, CJ Leede, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Misha knows that chasing success in Hollywood can be hell. But finally, after years of trying to make it, his big moment is here: an Oscar nomination. And the executives at the studio for his long-running streaming series know just the thing to kick his career to the next level....
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The hype is real.
- By Dan Bugbee on 10-03-24
By: Chuck Tingle
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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 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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Tramps Like Us
- A Novel
- By: Joe Westmoreland, Eileen Myles - introduction
- Narrated by: Nick Monteleone
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Tramps Like Us is an ode to a nearly lost generation, an autofictional chronicle of America between gay liberation and the AIDS crisis, and an evergreen testament to the force of friendship.
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The descriptive prose that places the listener in the moment with the narrator. The story is real, honest, and heartfelt.
- By cheryl l lyon on 06-24-25
By: Joe Westmoreland, and others
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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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My Darling Dreadful Thing
- A Novel
- By: Johanna van Veen
- Narrated by: Jess Nesling
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Roos Beckman has a spirit companion only she can see. Ruth—strange, corpse-like, and dead for centuries—is the light of Roos' life. That is, until the wealthy young widow Agnes Knoop visits one of Roos' backroom seances, and the two strike up a connection.
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Holds Out Until the Last Minute
- By Andy on 12-19-24
By: Johanna van Veen
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Less
- By: Andrew Sean Greer
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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You are a failed novelist about to turn 50. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: Your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else....
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Endearing, funny, but sometimes overly clever
- By Lili on 07-30-17
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The Home
- By: Judith Sonnet
- Narrated by: Lila Kerry
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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In the early '60s, in a seemingly more "innocent" time, a group of teenagers were lured into a supposedly haunted house. The place on Sycamore Lane has a morbid history, but that's just hearsay and rumor, isn't it?
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What a disappointment
- By Howdy Partner on 03-18-25
By: Judith Sonnet
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Woodworking
- By: Emily St. James
- Narrated by: L. Morgan Lee, Saoirse Ní Shúilleabháin, Emily St. James
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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An unforgettable and heartwarming book-club debut following a trans high school teacher from a small town in South Dakota who befriends the only other trans woman she knows: one of her students.
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Love the story/ buy the physical book if you hate grating noises!
- By elanni sherick on 06-22-25
By: Emily St. James
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A Boy's Own Story
- A Novel
- By: Edmund White
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Originally published in 1982 as the first of Edmund White's trilogy of autobiographical novels, A Boy's Own Story became an instant classic for its pioneering portrayal of homosexuality....
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The upper middle class gay white man
- By Tuesdays music on 12-04-20
By: Edmund White
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Our Evenings
- A Novel
- By: Alan Hollinghurst
- Narrated by: Prasanna Puwanarajah
- Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Booker Prize, “an engrossing tale of one man’s personal odyssey as he grows up, framed in exquisite language” (The New York Times Book Review)
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Sublime Collaboration
- By Phip Herrick on 11-20-24
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A Sharp Endless Need
- A Novel
- By: Marisa Crane
- Narrated by: Dani Martineck
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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A vibrant and intimate novel about growing up, first love, and all the joy and heartbreak of competitive high school basketball, from the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself.
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Love and Basketball: W4W edition
- By Kiernan on 06-27-25
By: Marisa Crane
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Eat the Ones You Love
- By: Sarah Maria Griffin
- Narrated by: Barry McStay, Lauren O’Leary
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a story about desire, dreams, decay—and working retail at the end of the world.
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Like Little Shop of Horrors but much creepier
- By Bookwalker on 06-23-25
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Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke
- By: Eric LaRocca
- Narrated by: Laurie Catherine Winkel
- Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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A whirlpool of darkness churns at the heart of a macabre ballet between two lonely young women in an internet chat room in the early 2000s - a darkness that threatens to forever transform them once they finally succumb to their most horrific desires....
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Meh...
- By Chrystal on 07-25-21
By: Eric LaRocca
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Nowhere
- A Novel
- By: Allison Gunn
- Narrated by: Leanne Woodward
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Mare of Easttown meets The Outsider in this spine-tingling and twisty debut about a series of disappearances in a small fundamentalist town and what one broken family must do to remain together as dark forces close in.
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Creepy
- By Amazon Customer on 06-15-25
By: Allison Gunn
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Camp Damascus
- By: Chuck Tingle
- Narrated by: Mara Wilson
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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From beloved internet icon Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus is a searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community face in America, the price of keeping secrets, and finding the courage to burn it all down.
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A Horror That Hits Home
- By P Parker on 11-09-23
By: Chuck Tingle
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Choke
- By: Chuck Palahniuk
- Narrated by: Chuck Palahniuk
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Victor Mancini, a medical school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: He pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants....
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Oh please, not another abridged!!!
- By Pamela on 10-26-03
By: Chuck Palahniuk
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Fellow Travelers
- By: Thomas Mallon
- Narrated by: Christian Barillas
- Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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In a world of bare-knuckled ideology and secret dossiers, Timothy Laughlin, a recent college graduate and devout Catholic, is eager to join the crusade against Communism....
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The tying together of the story threads at the end.
- By Oscar Davila on 12-29-23
By: Thomas Mallon
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Manhunt
- By: Gretchen Felker-Martin
- Narrated by: Katherine Pucciariello
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Beth and Fran spend their days traveling the ravaged New England coast, hunting feral men and harvesting their organs in a gruesome effort to ensure they'll never face the same fate. Robbie lives by his gun and one hard-learned motto: other people aren't safe....
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Gross, fun, gutsy pulp at its best.
- By Rain on 03-04-22
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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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We Could Be Rats
- A Novel
- By: Emily Austin
- Narrated by: Candace Thaxton
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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A “one-sitting-read" (Laurie Frankel, New York Times bestselling author) about two very different sisters, and a love letter to childhood, growing up, and the power of imagination—from the bestselling author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead and Interesting Facts About Space.
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I cried
- By Hannah Putna on 05-12-25
By: Emily Austin
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Of Monsters and Mainframes
- By: Barbara Truelove
- Narrated by: Gail Shalan, Emana Rachelle, Chris Devon, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Spaceships aren’t programmed to seek revenge—but for Dracula, Demeter will make an exception in this space odyssey about what it means to be one of society's monsters.
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Not what you would think
- By Sid (yes the one from Toy Story) on 06-18-25
By: Barbara Truelove
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Mothers and Sons
- A Novel
- By: Adam Haslett
- Narrated by: Andrew Gibson, Janet Metzger
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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A mother and son, estranged but yearning for reunion, reckon at last with the secret that has kept them apart for decades.
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Good multiple narrators. Tiresome characters.
- By CoastalReader on 02-20-25
By: Adam Haslett
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The Wildes
- A Novel in Five Acts
- By: Louis Bayard
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers, Damian Lynch, P.J. Ochlan, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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From the bestselling author of The Pale Blue Eye comes a brilliantly profound and empathetic story about Oscar Wilde's wife Constance and their two sons in the aftermath of the famous playwright's imprisonment for homosexuality, told against the backdrop of Victorian England and World War I.
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Lost in the beautiful writing
- By Sharon Love on 01-22-25
By: Louis Bayard
New releases
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Of Monsters and Mainframes
- By: Barbara Truelove
- Narrated by: Gail Shalan, Emana Rachelle, Chris Devon, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Demeter just wants to do her job: shuttling humans between Earth and Alpha Centauri. Unfortunately, her passengers keep dying—and not from equipment failures, as her AI medical system, Steward, would have her believe. These are paranormal murders, and they began when one nasty, ancient vampire decided to board Demeter and kill all her humans. To keep from getting decommissioned, Demeter must join forces with her own team of monsters. Together, this motley crew will face down the ultimate evil—Dracula.
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Not what you would think
- By Sid (yes the one from Toy Story) on 06-18-25
By: Barbara Truelove
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These Heathens
- A Novel
- By: Mia McKenzie
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Where do you get an abortion in 1960 Georgia, especially if your small town’s midwife goes to the same church as your parents? For seventeen-year-old Doris Steele, the answer is Atlanta, where her favorite teacher, Mrs. Lucas, calls upon her brash, wealthy childhood best friend, Sylvia, for help. While waiting to hear from the doctor who has agreed to do the procedure, Doris spends the weekend scandalized by, but drawn to, the people who move in and out of Sylvia’s orbit.
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love this author!
- By Shenelle Williams on 06-26-25
By: Mia McKenzie
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Tramps Like Us
- A Novel
- By: Joe Westmoreland, Eileen Myles - introduction
- Narrated by: Nick Monteleone
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Abused by his father and stifled by closeted life as a teenager in Kansas City, Joe, the wide-eyed narrator of Tramps Like Us, graduates from high school in 1974 and hits the road hitchhiking. But it isn't until he reunites with Ali, his hometown's other queer outcast, that Joe finds a partner in crime. When the two of them finally wash up in New Orleans, they discover a hedonistic paradise of sex, drugs, and music, a world that only expands when they move to San Francisco in 1979.
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The descriptive prose that places the listener in the moment with the narrator. The story is real, honest, and heartfelt.
- By cheryl l lyon on 06-24-25
By: Joe Westmoreland, and others
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Girls Girls Girls
- By: Shoshana von Blanckensee
- Narrated by: Rachel F. Hirsch, Shoshana von Blanckensee
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s the summer of ’96 and best friends (and secret girlfriends) Hannah and Sam are driving across the country from Long Beach, New York, to the fabled queer paradise of San Francisco, free from the harsh gazes of their neighbors and the stifling demands of Hannah’s devout Orthodox Jewish mother. In San Francisco, they will finally be together as a real couple, out in the open, around other queer people . . . even if the move means leaving behind Hannah’s beloved Bubbe.
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It's Not the End of the World
- A Novel
- By: Jonathan Parks-Ramage
- Narrated by: André Santana
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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It's 2044 and life is bleak for many Americans, but not for Mason Daunt. Safe in his Los Angeles mansion, Mason can remain blissfully unaware of the relentless wildfires engulfing California, the proliferation of violent right-wing militias, and the rampant authoritarianism destroying American society. He's so rich, in fact, that he and his partner Yunho Kim are throwing a 100-person, $100,000 baby shower to celebrate their newborn-on-the-way.
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Discombobulated
- By Marquis Vincent on 06-27-25
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The South
- A Novel
- By: Tash Aw
- Narrated by: Windson Liong
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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When his grandfather dies, Jay travels south with his family to the property they’ve inherited, a once flourishing farm that has fallen into disrepair. The trees are diseased, the fields parched from months of drought. Jay’s father, Jack, sends him out to work the land, or whatever land is left. Over the course of these hot, dense days, Jay finds himself drawn to Chuan, the son of the farm’s manager, different from him in every way except for one.
By: Tash Aw
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Of Monsters and Mainframes
- By: Barbara Truelove
- Narrated by: Gail Shalan, Emana Rachelle, Chris Devon, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Demeter just wants to do her job: shuttling humans between Earth and Alpha Centauri. Unfortunately, her passengers keep dying—and not from equipment failures, as her AI medical system, Steward, would have her believe. These are paranormal murders, and they began when one nasty, ancient vampire decided to board Demeter and kill all her humans. To keep from getting decommissioned, Demeter must join forces with her own team of monsters. Together, this motley crew will face down the ultimate evil—Dracula.
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Not what you would think
- By Sid (yes the one from Toy Story) on 06-18-25
By: Barbara Truelove
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These Heathens
- A Novel
- By: Mia McKenzie
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Where do you get an abortion in 1960 Georgia, especially if your small town’s midwife goes to the same church as your parents? For seventeen-year-old Doris Steele, the answer is Atlanta, where her favorite teacher, Mrs. Lucas, calls upon her brash, wealthy childhood best friend, Sylvia, for help. While waiting to hear from the doctor who has agreed to do the procedure, Doris spends the weekend scandalized by, but drawn to, the people who move in and out of Sylvia’s orbit.
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love this author!
- By Shenelle Williams on 06-26-25
By: Mia McKenzie
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Tramps Like Us
- A Novel
- By: Joe Westmoreland, Eileen Myles - introduction
- Narrated by: Nick Monteleone
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Abused by his father and stifled by closeted life as a teenager in Kansas City, Joe, the wide-eyed narrator of Tramps Like Us, graduates from high school in 1974 and hits the road hitchhiking. But it isn't until he reunites with Ali, his hometown's other queer outcast, that Joe finds a partner in crime. When the two of them finally wash up in New Orleans, they discover a hedonistic paradise of sex, drugs, and music, a world that only expands when they move to San Francisco in 1979.
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The descriptive prose that places the listener in the moment with the narrator. The story is real, honest, and heartfelt.
- By cheryl l lyon on 06-24-25
By: Joe Westmoreland, and others
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Girls Girls Girls
- By: Shoshana von Blanckensee
- Narrated by: Rachel F. Hirsch, Shoshana von Blanckensee
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s the summer of ’96 and best friends (and secret girlfriends) Hannah and Sam are driving across the country from Long Beach, New York, to the fabled queer paradise of San Francisco, free from the harsh gazes of their neighbors and the stifling demands of Hannah’s devout Orthodox Jewish mother. In San Francisco, they will finally be together as a real couple, out in the open, around other queer people . . . even if the move means leaving behind Hannah’s beloved Bubbe.
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It's Not the End of the World
- A Novel
- By: Jonathan Parks-Ramage
- Narrated by: André Santana
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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It's 2044 and life is bleak for many Americans, but not for Mason Daunt. Safe in his Los Angeles mansion, Mason can remain blissfully unaware of the relentless wildfires engulfing California, the proliferation of violent right-wing militias, and the rampant authoritarianism destroying American society. He's so rich, in fact, that he and his partner Yunho Kim are throwing a 100-person, $100,000 baby shower to celebrate their newborn-on-the-way.
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Discombobulated
- By Marquis Vincent on 06-27-25
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The South
- A Novel
- By: Tash Aw
- Narrated by: Windson Liong
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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When his grandfather dies, Jay travels south with his family to the property they’ve inherited, a once flourishing farm that has fallen into disrepair. The trees are diseased, the fields parched from months of drought. Jay’s father, Jack, sends him out to work the land, or whatever land is left. Over the course of these hot, dense days, Jay finds himself drawn to Chuan, the son of the farm’s manager, different from him in every way except for one.
By: Tash Aw
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Pioneer Summer
- A Novel
- By: Katerina Silvanova, Elena Malisova, Anne O. Fisher - translator
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 16 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Cowritten by a Ukrainian–Russian duo, Pioneer Summer reached such heights of popularity that Putin stepped in to ban it. Now this swoony romance will transport American listeners to another place and time and introduce them to one of the most memorable relationships of their lives.
By: Katerina Silvanova, and others
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A Language of Limbs
- A Novel
- By: Dylin Hardcastle
- Narrated by: Zoe Terakes, Aisha Dee, Sonya Cullingford
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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A Language of Limbs is a breathtaking spin on a will-they-won’t-they love story; it is a tender epic that explores the weight of a choice, the love of community, and how joy is found in even the darkest corners.
By: Dylin Hardcastle
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Midnight at the Cinema Palace
- A Novel
- By: Christopher Tradowsky
- Narrated by: Max Meyers
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
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Walter Simmering is searching for love and purpose in a city he doesn’t realize is fading away—San Francisco in 1993, at the height of the AIDS epidemic and the dawn of the tech revolution. Out of college, out of the closet, and transplanted from the Midwest, Walter is irresistibly drawn from his shell when he meets Cary Menuhin and Sasha Stravinsky, a dynamic couple who live blithely beyond the boundaries of gender and sexuality.
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And Introducing Dexter Gaines
- A Novel of Old Hollywood
- By: Mark B. Perry
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
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Blessed with the smoldering good looks that destine him for the silver screen, the unfortunately named Dan Root arrives on the scene as a naïve but ambitious twenty-one-year-old. Mentored and exploited by a powerful and dashing Svengali-like producer and his beguiling wife (a movie star whose career is on the tragic cusp between fame and fade out), Dan is transformed into the promising young actor, Dexter Gaines.
By: Mark B. Perry
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Songs of No Provenance
- A Novel
- By: Lydi Conklin
- Narrated by: Kristin James
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
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Songs of No Provenance tells the story of Joan Vole, an indie folk singer forever teetering on the edge of fame, who flees New York after committing a shocking sexual act onstage that she fears will doom her career. Joan seeks refuge at a writing camp for teenagers in rural Virginia, where she's forced to question her own toxic relationship to artmaking—and her complicated history with a friend and mentee—while finding new hope in her students and a deepening intimacy with a nonbinary artist and fellow camp staff member.
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Interesting story, unlikable protagonist
- By Madeline on 06-24-25
By: Lydi Conklin
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Sleeping Children
- A Novel
- By: Anthony Passeron, Frank Wynne - translator
- Narrated by: Ben Caplan
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s 1981. As a wave of mysterious infections sweeps across the United States, a doctor in Paris encounters something unexpected: a case of a disease long thought to have been eradicated. It matches what is happening across the Atlantic—and thus begins a race to make sense of a deadly virus, one that will define a generation. Miles away, in rural France, Anthony Passeron’s family is dealing with a crisis of their own. Their small village is gripped by another epidemic: heroin addiction. Anthony’s uncle Désiré, once the pride of the family, has become one of the “sleeping children.”
By: Anthony Passeron, and others
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Secrets at the Ambrose Café
- By: Carryl Church
- Narrated by: Willow Nash
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
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Exeter, 1925. Della Wilde has set aside her dream of moving to Paris to study at the renowned Le Cordon Bleu, choosing instead to support her family torn apart by war. By night, she works at the prestigious Ambrose Café, serving the city's elite - she feels utterly invisible. Until a chance encounter with rebellious Alice Winters, the daughter of a powerful MP, upends Della's world. Alice is a woman caught between duty and desire. She secretly yearns to be an artist but is expected to marry a respectable suitor and raise a family.
By: Carryl Church
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Demon Engine
- By: Marten Norr
- Narrated by: Marten Norr
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Sally Delavega, the best demon-binder the world has ever seen, would do anything to banish the two hundred ghosts trapped in his head—even if it means swimming up from the bottom of his tankard. When the Navy that destroyed his life comes sailing back to offer enough coin to get the job done, Sally agrees. All he has to do is help the crew of the Steadfast track down the ancient abyssal that lies sleeping at the heart of their drowned world. Why the Navy wants the demon isn’t Sally’s problem.
By: Marten Norr
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Sing, I
- A Novel
- By: Ethel Rohan
- Narrated by: Patricia Burgos
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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Inside Half Moon Bay, a sparkling California coastal town, Ester Prynn is dulled and diminished by struggles with work, money, marriage, her senile father, a troubled teenage son, and old guilt she can't assuage. When a masked gunman robs the convenience store where Ester works, he upends her fraught life and propels her toward passions buried, like singing; desires discovered, like a same-sex infatuation; and wrongs righted, like bringing the violent assailant to justice.
By: Ethel Rohan
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Her Name Is Grace
- By: J Hirtle
- Narrated by: Cathi Colas
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
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In a small, Texas town where tradition reigns supreme, 14-year-old Grayson has always been told who he is supposed to be. But the world inside his heart doesn't match the world he's been born into. Struggling to embrace his true self while living under the watchful eye of his conservative, opinionated grandfather, Grayson finds himself caught in a tug-of-war between identity and expectation. As secrets unravel and courage takes root, Grayson discovers allies in unexpected places—and challenges his own perception of love, family, and what it means to live authentically.
By: J Hirtle
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The Default World
- By: Naomi Kanakia
- Narrated by: Nicky Endres
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Years after fleeing San Francisco and getting sober, Jhanvi has made a life for herself working at a grocery co-op and saving for her surgeries. But when her friend (and sometimes more) Henry mentions that he and his techie festival-goer friends spent $100,000 to transform a warehouse basement into a sex dungeon, Jhanvi starts wondering if there's a way to exploit these gullible idiots. She returns to San Francisco, hatching a plan to marry Henry for his company's generous healthcare benefits.
By: Naomi Kanakia
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The Orphan from Shepherds Keep
- Three Men, Three Intertwined Lives, One Rightful Place in Each Other's Heart - A Gay Novel
- By: Lindsay Law
- Narrated by: Bolton Marsh
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
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Over a period of thirty years, three gay men struggle to define themselves and make their mark on a turbulent and unwelcoming world that is so filled with anger that love has become a luxury. The townsfolk describe him as “prettier than a boy should be.” ELI APPLE is embarrassed by such remarks but soon learns to celebrate all the pleasures his beauty invites. He possesses the voice of an angel and the sound of his tender falsetto echoes throughout the green forests that surround his New England home.
By: Lindsay Law
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Caged Pride
- Choosing to Remember, Book 2
- By: Makitia Thompson
- Narrated by: James Matthews Vannoy
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
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In the second novel of the 'Choosing to remember' series, Jerome Clarkson takes a swan dive into his past and the trauma he's carried for far too long. Jerome grew up in a very toxic and unloving environment, unable to escape the torture. His mother had him at just 13 and went on to have seven more children, that she took her frustrations out on constantly. Jerome was berated as child for being different and his mother often abused him because she believed that he was gay. From the moment his mother first beat him, Jerome felt the need to please his mother and prove her suspicions to be wrong.
By: Makitia Thompson
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Tudor Secrets
- King Arthur II, Book 1
- By: Y. R. DelaVega
- Narrated by: Y. R. DelaVega
- Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins
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What if Prince Arthur had lived? What if Prince Arthur was gay? Another “What-if” story for lovers of the Tudor history. A mixture of Tudor history and Arthurian Legend
By: Y. R. DelaVega
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The Third Wife
- By: Mike Linden
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
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Ready to meet the Third Wife?' Carl and Gina are both thirty. They live in Newcastle. They've been together since the test was positive when they were both fifteen. They now have three kids. Carl has never been on the dole. He's never been out of work. He's a construction worker and he works six days a week to support his family. Gina has never had a job. Her mother told her to make Carl provide because that's what the man does in 'families like ours'. Carl sees her as the mother-in-law from Hell. She constantly interferes in their lives. And Gina always takes her side over Carl. But when ...
By: Mike Linden
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Uncle Dad
- By: Mike Linden
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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'WELL WORTH YOUR TIME' 'WARNING - TISSUES WILL BE REQUIRED'. 'SO GOOD YOU'LL READ IT IN ONE GO' 'I ENJOYED THIS IMMENSELY' 'AN INTERESTING STORY OF HOW FAMILIES CAN BE'. Sean Matheson has always been close to his nephew and niece. So when their Mum, his sister Nadine, who's brought them up on her own and is now dying of cancer, asks him to adopt them once she passes, he readily agrees without question. The kids want to be with him and he wants to step up and become their 'dad'. But he's shocked by the reaction of his partner Brett. He knew Brett had never wanted kids but he's never told ...
By: Mike Linden
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Adam and His Straight Mates
- By: Mike Linden
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
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ADAM sometimes finds it hard to get time to himself because of all his straight mates who bring their problems to him. MICK just wants to meet the right woman and be happy. DOMINIC has always said that he doesn't want children because of the darkness that seems to be passed through the male members of his family. RICHARD just wants to be a father to his beloved daughters and can't understand why he has to fight for that right when it was his wife who had the extra marital affair. TYLER needs to escape from having been controlled all of his life by someone who says she needed to 'protect' ...
By: Mike Linden
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Harry and Owen
- By: Mike Linden
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
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Harry will be fifty next year. He's had a highly successful career in teaching. He's surrounded by good friends and every Friday night, he sings songs by his idol Stevie Nicks in his friend Tina's bar TJs. with 'The Valley Men' band. He draws quite a crowd. But despite having met lots of folks, he's never met 'the one'. Owen is thirty years younger than Harry. He works in Harry's local butcher's shop, dressed in a pinstripe apron and short sleeved shirt and tie. And a straw hat. His best mate is called Logan. He wants to do something else but doesn't know what. And Harry is crazy about him....
By: Mike Linden