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Narrated by:
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Lauren Ambrose
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Vikas Adam
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Michael Crouch
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By:
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Abdi Nazemian
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A 2020 Audie Awards finalist - young adult
“A love letter to queerness, self-expression, and individuality (also Madonna) that never shies away from the ever-present fear within the queer community of late '80s New York, Like a Love Story made me feel so full - of hope, love, courage, pride, and awe for the many people who fought for love and self-expression in the face of discrimination, cruelty, and death.
"A book for warriors, divas, artists, queens, individuals, activists, trend setters, and anyone searching for the courage to be themselves.” (Mackenzi Lee, New York Times best-selling author of The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue)
It’s 1989 in New York City, and for three teens, the world is changing.
Reza is an Iranian boy who has just moved to the city with his mother to live with his stepfather and stepbrother. He’s terrified that someone will guess the truth he can barely acknowledge about himself. Reza knows he’s gay, but all he knows of gay life are the media’s images of men dying of AIDS.
Judy is an aspiring fashion designer who worships her uncle Stephen, a gay man with AIDS who devotes his time to activism as a member of ACT UP. Judy has never imagined finding romance...until she falls for Reza and they start dating.
Art is Judy’s best friend, their school’s only out and proud teen. He’ll never be who his conservative parents want him to be, so he rebels by documenting the AIDS crisis through his photographs.
As Reza and Art grow closer, Reza struggles to find a way out of his deception that won’t break Judy’s heart - and destroy the most meaningful friendship he’s ever known.
This is a bighearted, sprawling epic about friendship and love and the revolutionary act of living life to the fullest in the face of impossible odds.
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A letter from my first kiss and my childhood everything...from prison. He may be nicknamed Saint, but this sweet, sexy biker most definitely has a wild streak. Hearing from him draws me right back into the Knights of Fury motorcycle club - the people I’ll always think of as family. He’s still the only man I’ve ever wanted. Each good, old-fashioned letter from my “prison pen pal” has my heart racing. Which is nothing compared to how I feel when Saint surprises me in person, as a free man.
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Ugh just no
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By: Chantal Fernando
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Empire High Bundle, Books 1-3
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This audiobook box set collects the first three books in the new-adult romance series Empire High: Empire High Untouchables, Empire High Elite, and Empire High Betrayal. At a high-school where the wealthy, beautiful kids are on top, a new student comes in and shakes everything up.
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Like it but the main character drives me nuts!
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The Southern Education of a Jersey Girl
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Jaime Primak Sullivan, a Jersey-bred, tough-as-nails PR maven - and unlikely transplant in an upscale suburb of Birmingham, Alabama - has spent her entire life crossing the line: whether she's pushing the boundaries of what proper Southern ladies consider to be "polite behavior" or literally traversing the Mason-Dixon line in the name of love. She isn't afraid to say what everyone is thinking when it comes to love, sex, friendship, and many other topics that are all too often sugar-coated in polite Southern company.
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Awesome book
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Twenty-three-year-old aspiring artist Sophie Walker can think of no better place than the exotic paradise of the Maldives Islands to escape the wrath of her controlling parents, the monotony of her boring legal work, and her passionless boyfriend. With her two best friends along for the ride and to help her find herself again, Sophie is not prepared for the enigmatic Clayton Sinclair. Clayton comes from a world of privilege that seems like a fantasy to Sophie.
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A fun romp in paradise
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Oto leaves for boarding school with one plan: Excel and escape his cruel home. Falling in love with his roommate was certainly not on the agenda, but fear and shame force him to hide his love and true self. Back home, weighed down by the expectations of their wealthy and powerful family, the love of Oto's twin sister wavers, and, as their world begins to crumble around them, Oto must make drastic choices that will alter the family's lives for ever.
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Jasmine and Chelsea are best friends on a mission - they’re sick of the way women are treated even at their progressive NYC high school, so they decide to start a Women's Rights Club. They post their work online - poems, essays, videos of Chelsea performing her poetry, and Jasmine's response to the racial microaggressions she experiences - and soon go viral. But with such positive support, the club is also targeted by trolls. When things escalate, the principal shuts the club down. Not willing to be silenced, Jasmine and Chelsea will risk everything for their voices to be heard.
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Girls Coming of Age Story for Generation Y
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By: Renée Watson, and others
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Sixteen-year-old Tessa Johnson has never felt like the protagonist in her own life. She’s rarely seen herself reflected in the pages of the romance novels she loves. The only place she’s a true leading lady is in the swoony love stories she shares only with Caroline, her best friend. When Tessa is accepted into the creative writing program of a prestigious art school, she’s excited to finally let her stories shine. But when she goes to her first workshop, the words are just...gone. Caroline has a solution: Tessa needs to find some inspiration in a real-life love story of her own.
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The longest disappointment
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God-Shaped Hole
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When Beatrice Trixie Jordan replies to a personal ad, she meets Jacob Grace, a charming, effervescent 30-something free-spirit writer passionately seeking life. He possesses his own turns of phrase and ways of thinking and feeling that dissonantly harmonize with Trixie's off-center vision. As they rollercoaster through the joys and furies of their wrenching romance, they try to come to terms with the hurt brought about by both of their distant fathers who, in different ways, forsook them.
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To see a fortune teller or not to see one...
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The Good Luck of Right Now
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For 38 years, Bartholomew Neil has lived with his mother. When she gets sick and dies, he has no idea how to be on his own. His redheaded grief counselor, Wendy, says he needs to find his flock and leave the nest. But how does a man whose whole life has been grounded in his mom, Saturday Mass, and the library learn how to fly? Bartholomew thinks he's found a clue when he discovers a "Free Tibet" letter from Richard Gere hidden in his mother's underwear drawer. In her final days, Mom called him Richard - there must be a cosmic connection.
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AMAZING
- By JoAnn on 02-17-14
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Mirrored
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Celine's life is the stuff fairy tales are made of. She's beautiful, talented, and brave. Unfortunately, her tale comes complete with a wicked stepmother! When Violet steps into Celine's life, everything changes, and weird things begin to happen to her - bizarre accidents, strange illnesses, and rabid animal attacks. Celine doesn't feel safe anywhere. It's almost as if some hateful witch is out to get her.
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It was pretty good, just not a book that I would listen to over and over again
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Instructions for Dancing
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Evie Thomas doesn't believe in love anymore. Especially after the strangest thing occurs one otherwise ordinary afternoon: She witnesses a couple kiss and is overcome with a vision of how their romance began...and how it will end. After all, even the greatest love stories end with a broken heart, eventually.
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Cute.. but that ending :(
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- ODavidRP
- 07-05-21
Una maravilla
una historia entrañable que coquetea con la realidad y aun así no te cansa ni pierde el ritmo.
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- ShannonVM
- 04-27-21
Highly recommend.
4.5*
I was a sophomore in college during the year this book takes place, and other than seeing the AIDS crisis all over the news, it never really touched my life. So this book really brought home, in a small way, how it must have felt to be a gay teen during those early years, when so much was unknown. It honestly never crossed my mind back then, to wonder how AIDS was affecting younger people, those of my generation at the time. It's not that I lived in a bubble, but small towns in southern MD and WV (for college), in the late 80s, didn't have quite the demographics your larger cities did. Sure, we may have had an inkling a fellow classmate was gay or lesbian, but I can't recall a single classmate who was "out", not until years later.
I had to take a break from this book, with about 2 hours left. I knew what was coming and I just wasn't ready to handle it. I finally picked it back up and powered through. For all the heaviness of this story, it really wasn't until those last couple hours of the audiobook that it all started weighing on me, and I cried pretty much through to the end.
So much in this book is thought-provoking. It really opened my eyes to a time in history that, even though I was alive during, I really had no clue about, except in the most broadest of terms. Like a Love Story is another book that I hope finds its way into school libraries. It might be weird to say this about a young adult novel, but it's a history lesson many could learn from.
A fun thing for me in this book was the mention of the Cap Center here in MD! I don't believe I've ever seen it mentioned in a book before! And I'm pretty sure I was at that same Madonna concert with them!
I forgot to mention anything about the actual audiobook itself! This is one of those books that I'm glad I listened to instead of just reading it- the three narrators really helped bring this story to life. I liked getting 3 points of view from this time in history, even though it was from 3 teens. Art and Reza were my favorites- you really got to see how different they saw the world and what was happening around them.
Michael Crouch is a favorite when it comes to narrators for young adult, he's always terrific. I'm a fan of Vikas Adams, as well. Although he sounded just a little too old for Reza, I did enjoy all the emotions he brought to the character. Lauren Ambrose is a new to me narrator. Her portrayal of Judy was well done. She has a very pleasant sounding voice, age appropriate, and she brought the emotions when needed. I would definitely recommend the audiobook.
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- karina
- 06-17-21
BEAUTIFULLY NEEDED
Character development is outstanding. Such a beautiful story of life and journey and friendship. The narrators were perfect. Loved this book.
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- radiodarcy
- 09-28-20
Excellent!
The writing, the performance, the story are all phenomenal. This is an amazing work! Nazemian writes from multiple points of view with compassion and deep understanding. I was only in grade school during this time and while I understand the references now, hearing them in a different context has been wonderful.
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-22-22
Amazing book! Just don’t listen while eating….
Loved the book. We were assigned this from our high school teacher and the entire class enjoyed it. However, I was listening to this audiobook while eating (the part where Reza talks about art’s sweet).
To conclude:
Amazing book
Amazing narration
Amazing story line
Don’t listen to it while eating
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- Amazon Custome
- 07-31-24
Gggg veg
Gfffv gggg ggg hhh hhh hhh ggg ggg vvv ggg ggg fcbb jjjk dash hhh jig
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- Jose
- 10-31-19
A beautiful and compelling story to read
This book was amazing. Initially it was a little slow pace however once the story developed itself it was well told. Historically beautiful.
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- LATOYA LEWIS
- 10-28-21
Tell Your Story, it can help others
Not what I expected...great read. Speaking from a teens point of view life is broken down about sex, AIDS, homosexuality, friendship, love, virginity, and finding oneself no matter what your family or friends think. What's surprised me more was the Iranian boy( Reza) defying the odds and addressing his feelings and his sexual thoughts even though it's frowned upon in his culture. I loved that uncle Stephen was the teens sounding board because he himself libed through what they are experiencing. Uncle Stephen, an activist, is also a gay man dying from AIDS. Uncle Stephen exposes Madonna to the teens who grew to love her as much as him. This story has so much love, uncertainty and all the feels. Please read this, whether young adult or old hen. #Book33of2021 #bookworm
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- Anonymous User
- 06-13-19
This love story moves me.
I love the story. This era brings so many memories. So life like. Narration awesomeness.
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- Rebecca Nesson
- 05-01-20
My Review on Like a Love Story
This was one of the best books ever! this is a need to read. Though, the book is definitely 12+...👍
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