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- Most Popular Guy in the School, Book 1
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High school can be some of the best years of life - and some of the toughest. Mark Mitchell's strategy for surviving is to emulate the mighty turtle: pull back inside his protective shell and keep a low profile to avoid trouble. And it works - nobody bothers him. Of course, nobody really knows him, either, even in a town so small it seems like everybody must know everyone else.
Mark certainly knows Bill Cromwell, whom he meets officially when his father volunteers him for manual labor at the school. Bill is his polar opposite: outgoing, gregarious, athletic. But when a massive snowstorm traps the two boys together for three days, Mark learns that being popular doesn't mean you can't be bullied or abused - or gay. And that bullying doesn't stop at the school doors.
Mark isn't naive. He's seen the news reports of gay teen suicides, and he's determined not to become a statistic. But it's not himself he's worried about.
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Love is blind.
- By Tammy M on 08-15-17
By: Andrew Grey
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The Good Father
- By: Diane Chamberlain
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne, Arielle DeLisle, Emily Durante
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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Four years ago, 19-year-old Travis Brown made a choice: to raise his newborn daughter on his own. While most of his friends were out partying and meeting girls, Travis was at home, changing diapers and worrying about keeping food on the table. But he's never regretted his decision. Bella is the light of his life. The reason behind every move he makes. And so far, she is fed. Cared for. Safe. But when Travis loses his construction job and his home, the security he's worked so hard to create for Bella begins to crumble....
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A must-read tear jerker!
- By Wayne on 12-01-15
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Swear on This Life
- A Novel
- By: Renée Carlino
- Narrated by: Traci Odom
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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A struggling writer must come to terms with her past, present, and future after she discovers that she's the inspiration for a pseudonymously published best-selling novel.
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Outstanding Story!
- By Jen Seagraves on 07-28-20
By: Renée Carlino
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Eliza and Her Monsters
- By: Francesca Zappia
- Narrated by: Caitlin Kelly, Kate Rudd
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
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Eighteen-year-old Eliza Mirk is the anonymous creator of the wildly popular webcomic Monstrous Sea, but when a new boy at school tempts her to live a life offline, everything she’s worked for begins to crumble. In the real world, Eliza Mirk is shy, weird, and friendless. Online, Eliza is LadyConstellation, anonymous creator of a popular webcomic called Monstrous Sea. With millions of followers and fans throughout the world, Eliza’s persona is popular. Eliza can’t imagine enjoying the real world as much as she loves her digital community.
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Just...... Breathtaking
- By Amazon Customer on 06-15-19
By: Francesca Zappia
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Cat About Town
- Cat Cafe Mystery Series, Book 1
- By: Cate Conte
- Narrated by: Amy Melissa Bentley
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
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Maddie James has arrived in Daybreak Island, just off the coast of Massachusetts, eager to settle down and start her own business - and maybe even fall in love. When a stray orange tabby pounces into her life, she's inspired to open a cat cafe. But little does Maddie know that she's in for something a lot more catastrophic when her new furry companion finds the dead body of the town bully. Now all eyes are on Maddie: Who is this crazy cat-whisperer lady who's come to town?
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For once, I prefer to listen to the voices in my head
- By Ann Mi on 01-16-20
By: Cate Conte
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Chasing Perfect
- Fool's Gold, Book 1
- By: Susan Mallery
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
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There is only one thing wrong with the charming community of Fool’s Gold, California: the men don’t stick around! This problem has to be fixed, fast, and Charity Jones may be just the city planner up to the challenge. Charity immediately falls in love with all the storybook town has to offer – except its sexy, famous, world-class cyclist Josh Golden. With her long list of romantic disasters, she’s not about to take a chance on another bad boy…but it may just be what they both need!
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Awful narration
- By Kimberly on 05-17-10
By: Susan Mallery
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Changing the Rules
- Richter, Book 1
- By: Catherine Bybee
- Narrated by: Lori Prince, Joe Arden
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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As an employee of MacBain Securities and Solutions, Claire Kelly can certainly hold her own. Armed with an impressive set of covert skills, she’s more than prepared to tackle any job that comes her way...except one involving Cooper Lockman. Cooper and Claire used to work together before his feelings for her sent him packing to Europe for six long years. But now he’s back and determined to ignore the still-smoldering heat that lingers between them. Their current mission: go undercover together at a California high school to root out the mastermind behind a prostitution ring.
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Cooper & Claire Bring Down A Trafficking Ring!
- By B. Roscoe on 03-24-21
By: Catherine Bybee
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The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane
- By: Julia Nobel
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
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With a dad who disappeared years ago and a mother who's a bit too busy to parent, Emmy is shipped off to Wellsworth, a prestigious boarding school in England, where she's sure she won't fit in. But then she finds a box of mysterious medallions in the attic of her home - medallions that belonged to her father...who may have gone to Wellsworth.
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The magic never came
- By 🔥 Phx17 🔥 on 02-22-23
By: Julia Nobel
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A Skeleton in the Family
- Family Skeleton Mysteries, Book 1
- By: Leigh Perry
- Narrated by: Katina Kalin
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
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Moving back into her parents’ house with her teenage daughter had not been Georgia Thackery’s “Plan A”. But when she got a job at the local college, it seemed the sensible thing to do. So she settled in and began reconnecting with old friends. Including Sid. Sid is the Thackery family’s skeleton. He’s lived in the house as long as Georgia can remember, although no one, including Sid, knows exactly where he came from and how he came to be a skeleton.
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Did
- By springfield40 on 07-10-24
By: Leigh Perry
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The Stuff that Never Happened
- A Novel
- By: Maddie Dawson
- Narrated by: Teri Clark Linden
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
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Annabelle McKay knows she shouldn’t have any complaints. She’s been in a stable marriage that’s lasted almost three decades and has provided her with two wonderful children and thousands of family dinners around a sturdy oak table. Other wives envy the fact that Grant is not the type of man who would ever cheat on her or leave her for a younger woman. The trouble is Annabelle isn’t sure she wants to be married to Grant anymore. The trouble is she’s still in love with someone else.
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Don’t pass this one up.
- By Lauren on 03-10-20
By: Maddie Dawson
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- J. S. Van
- 02-01-19
Great storyline
I am unfamiliar with this author and narrator. I am an avid reader and listener to audiobooks having read/listened to hundreds of books. The story synopsis intrigued me so I took a chance.
The storyline is great. The writing could have used a little more polish, but it seemed to improve as the story progressed. The same goes for the narration. While I am not giving this book a raving review, I will most definitely look for more books from this author. He has definite potential. The narrators have a wonderful voice, and I am quite sure that his inflection and vocal animation will improve as time passes. Maybe the flack of feeling of his reading is reflective of the director more than the narrator. I wasnt there, so that is something on which I can only speculate.
I hope that both the author and the narrator continue to follow their passion and their hearts and I so look forward to reading and listening to both of them in the future.
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- Vicki L.
- 08-01-14
Cheesy Title, Awesome Book
If you could sum up Don't Judge a Book by Its Cover in three words, what would they be?
I was a little leery about getting this book, because I thought the title was very cheesy. I am really glad that I took the chance. I loved the story! Mark and Bill were very believable characters. I became emotionally invested in their relationship. There was a few lulls in the story, but most if it was a complete page turner.
What did you like best about this story?
The characters were very well defined. I felt like I knew these characters.
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- Rob
- 01-03-17
Lovely
This was a lovely book. It begun in typical geek loves the school jock fashion however it developed into way more than that. Albeit a little short, this book won't let down anyone who seeks an easy to listen to, captivating gay novel that does not focus on sex and seduction. It's sweet and quite innocent, with a good story to go with it. Highly recommended.
It says this is book 1. Where are the rest?? I hope they appear on Audible soon.
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- Havan_IronOak
- 08-18-14
Wish fulfillment fantasy at its best and worst
When a snow storm ends up marooning athletic Bill Cromwell, the "most popular boy in school," at the home of (and in the bed of) Mark Mitchell, a gay boy who's made an art of being invisible, a sweet and unlikely relationship is born.
That's the beginning of this book's scenario and it is charming and an intriguing bit of wish fulfillment. The story is told in the first person with Mark as the narrator and voice actor Michael Stellman is a great choice whose voice fits the main character well. The narrator has an odd mix of world weary, angsty teen ennui that Michael Stellman embodies well.
However the book is flawed in a few ways. While it's clear that the POV is that of a high school senior, the sometimes fussy prose sounds too old for the kid narrator. And hearing that youthful voice describing another high-schooler as a "man" so many times felt inorganic somehow.
Also my "willing suspension of disbelief" is challenged again and again. The domestic abuse intervention described in the plot was unlike anything I've ever heard of. The over-earnest anti-hate assembly segment seemed to morph into a wish fulfillment fantasy/fever-dream more typical of a queer-nation refugee than the author that penned the first part of the story.
When the "fever-dream" ends and the story goes on to other topics, it becomes more engrossing again, however I did also have trouble believing that a guy who suffers that level of domestic abuse is popular at school. This kinda thing does damage to the psyche.
Part way through the book I started to become certain that Robbie Williams was a mother & part time author rather than the man that I first envisioned when I read the name.
Mom led the domestic abuse intervention
Mom led the protest that got Bill reinstated in school after a somewhat preachy anti-hate school assembly
Mom planned the boys' cross country campus visit/trip to UCLA
Another credibility issue... Why doesn't Mom object to her teen son sharing a bed with another boy? Finally, discovering the contents of the steamer trunk made restoring credibility impossible for me. This tale became a complete wish fulfillment fantasy tale.
Only at the very end does the meaning of book's title become clear... and I'm not sure that it was apositive addition to the book as a whole. Though I've still not decided who the author is its clear... the author is clearly a "book lover."
Overall I enjoyed this book and I'll probably even listen to it again but I can't help but feel that the makings of an even better book were here but unrealized.
One last audio-book note: In this book I encountered what has to be my first audio-book equivalent of a typo... the narrator used the word Sutterfuge. I'm assuming that Subterfuge was intended but it was clearly not what was said. A minor point, but for me, a memorable one.
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- Adam
- 12-29-14
Beautiful story.
Some of the conclusion seemed a little bland. Like the author wanted everything to end "happily ever after" and didn't know how to do it within the realms of probability. That aside...it was a very beautifully written and executed story.
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- Billy PS
- 09-15-20
Don't miss this one!!
Wow that was a wonderful story. One of the best gay stories I've listened to since signing up for Audible books.
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- Lifesavr
- 07-30-14
Simply wonderful 😊👍
I was intrigued by the title at first. I purchased this book a while ago. I worked a great deal all my life & I would come home and use my Audible credit to buy a book. I seldom had time to listen. Sorry for the dialogue, but I'm no longer working and I am slowly going through my library, 1500+ books, try to finally listen to them. So, again I was intrigued by the title just recently.
I thought this was going to be a simple coming out high school gay romance 💕. As that, it was good, I liked the characters and even the sex scenes were truly loving, caring and felt real to me.
Then all hell broke lose. I don't know if I would of picked this book up if I knew it was going this way! Bill, one the main characters, came to school all beaten up, though, that is horrible, but it is not unusual in coming out stories, but it was much more than that.
I come from an alcoholic abuses family. I know this behavior because I lived it, along with my two brothers and two sisters. Running into this here caught me emotionally off guard, and brought back memories, I would like to forget.
So I love this book and I love that this subject is here, but I did have to take a break & finish crying.
I truly love this book, and though there seems that the sequel books are not in Audible's library, but they are available in Kindle library and I plan to read those in the future.
I love the narration, it's wonderful. I want to thank Audible for having this book in its library. But I want to thank Robbie Michaels for writing this book and sharing it with me! I do recommend the book. Knowledge is power, but it's not always an easy road. peace and love to all, especially those dealing with abusive families. 💕
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- Zell Oakley
- 10-08-20
Did not finish
So I'm going along, listening to this book, thinking it's a pretty good (if a trifle formulaic) high school coming out nerd/jock thing, when all of a sudden we're hit with The Strangest Plot Development In History™. I'll avoid too many spoilers, but let's just say the protagonist's mother ends up secretly being the president of some sort of weird Intervention Brigade, and they do their thing, and it was so absolutely bizarre and unbelievable that I stopped listening.
Which is a shame, because the first 40% of the book was really good. I liked both characters, I liked the plot, I liked the contrivance that threw them together, and the coming out scene was really good. Oh, and the narrator is excellent.
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