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Narrated by:
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Emma Love
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By:
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Bronwyn Fischer
About this listen
An addictively gripping queer coming-of-age story about an all-consuming, insidious love affair between a college freshman and a mysterious older woman, from an unforgettable new voice in fiction.
Eighteen-year-old Natalie has just arrived at her first year of university in Toronto, leaving her remote, forested hometown for the big, impersonal city. Everyone she encounters seems to know exactly who they are. She reads advice listicles and watches videos online and thinks about how to fit in, how to really become someone, whoever that might be.
And then she meets Nora, an older woman who takes an unexpected interest in her, and is drawn unstoppably into Nora’s orbit. She begins spending more and more of her time off campus at Nora’s perfect, tidy home. Natalie lies to her floormates about her absence, inventing a fake off-campus boyfriend, and carefully protects this sacred adult relationship. This only deepens her obsession, even as she realizes Nora is hiding something. As the secrets multiply and the intensity of the romance threatens to overwhelm her, Natalie realizes that the new adult identity she had imagined for herself is far from the one she’s actually growing into.
Propelled by atmospheric, electric prose, The Adult is about sex, yearning, poetry, and trying to find yourself in the expectations of others—and ultimately finding parts of yourself despite that. For listeners of Michelle Hart and Alyssa Songsiridej, Bronwyn Fischer is an immensely talented new writer to watch.
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Critic reviews
"All-consuming. The Adult has it all: betrayal, the intensity of inexperienced queer infatuation, and a perceptive and comic voice. A bright and poignant coming-of-age story that will leave you thinking, 'I hope Bronwyn Fischer writes more!'"—Emily Austin, author of Everyone In This Room Will Someday Be Dead
"A haunting tale of love, heartbreak, and deceit. In precise, lyrical prose, Bronwyn Fischer captures Natalie’s growing pains in all their hilarity, devastation, and piercing tenderness. This is an electric debut."—Antonia Angress, author of Sirens & Muses
“Bronwyn Fischer’s The Adult is a gorgeous daydream of a novel. In her immersive and lyrical prose, Fischer unravels a stunning portrait of a young woman’s queer sexual awakening. A tender and sometimes heartbreaking coming-of-age story, The Adult nevertheless shows us how profoundly we can grow when we move past shame and allow ourselves to be vulnerable to love and desire. I adore this book!”—Jennifer Savran Kelly, author of Endpapers
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When sixteen-year-old Shae meets Cam, who is new to their small town in West Virginia, she thinks she has found someone who is everything she has ever wanted in a companion. The two become fast friends, and then more. And when Shae ends up pregnant, Cam begins a different transition—trying on clothes that Shae can no longer fit into and using female pronouns. Shae tries to be fully supportive as Cam becomes the person she wants and needs to be.
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Wow
- By Jessica Long on 05-28-24
By: Mesha Maren
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The Players
- By: Minette Walters
- Narrated by: Emma Gregory
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
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From the author of The Swift and the Harrier comes The Players comes a gripping historical tale of espionage, treason, and surprising alliances set against the backdrop of the Bloody Assizes—the trials that would determine the fate of over one-thousand treasonous rebels.
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Historical Insight
- By Melanie R. Barbarito on 06-19-25
By: Minette Walters
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For Never & Always
- By: Helena Greer
- Narrated by: Mara Wilson, Emil Benjamin
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Hannah Rosenstein should be happy: after a lonely childhood of traipsing all over the world, she finally has a home as the co-owner of destination inn Carrigan’s All Year. But her thoughts keep coming back to Levi "Blue" Matthews: her first love, worst heartbreak, and now, thanks to her great-aunt’s meddling will, absentee business partner.
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Not my thing
- By Vanessa Melendez on 02-15-24
By: Helena Greer
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The View from the Top
- By: Rachel Lacey
- Narrated by: Quinn Riley
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Emily Janssen prefers to play it safe. At thirty-five, she’s still working at the inn her grandmothers own while dreaming of a day when she’s able to support herself fully with her art. And while her friends have all hiked to the summit of the mountain in their hometown of Crescent Falls, Vermont, something has always held Emily back. Diana Devlin has already made it to the top. Well, almost. She’s this close to securing the promotion that will put her in line to take over as CEO of her family’s hotel chain when her father retires.
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It is okay
- By Jenae Pennie on 06-29-25
By: Rachel Lacey
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Child of the River
- By: Irma Joubert
- Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Persomi is young, white, and poor, born the middle child of illiterate sharecroppers on the prosperous Fourie farm in the South African Bushveld. Persomi’s world is extraordinarily small. She has never been to the local village and spends her days absorbed in the rhythms of the natural world around her, escaping the brutality and squalor of her family home through the newspapers and books passed down to her from the main house and through her walks in the nearby mountains.
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Mostly Just Tedious and Ploding
- By Regina on 12-15-20
By: Irma Joubert
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Solo
- By: Kwame Alexander, Mary Rand Hess
- Narrated by: Kwame Alexander, Randy Preston - music
- Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
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Blade never asked for a life of the rich and famous. In fact, he’d give anything not to be the son of Rutherford Morrison, a washed-up rock star and drug addict with delusions of a comeback. Or to no longer be part of a family known most for lost potential, failure, and tragedy, including the loss of his mother. The one true light is his girlfriend, Chapel, but her parents have forbidden their relationship, assuming Blade will become just like his father.
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Phenomenal Book
- By Rachael Street on 06-06-18
By: Kwame Alexander, and others
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The Summer We Forgot
- By: Caroline George
- Narrated by: Andi Arndt, Andrew Eiden
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
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Darby and Morgan haven’t spoken for two years, and their friend group has splintered. But when the body of their former science teacher is found in the marsh where they attended camp that summer, they realize they have more questions than answers...and even fewer memories. The group of reunited friends begins to suspect that a murderer is stalking the coastal highway 30A, and they must try to recover their memories as quickly as possible...before the history they can’t remember repeats itself.
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Skip it
- By Pink Amy on 07-12-22
By: Caroline George
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Uneducated
- A Memoir of Flunking Out, Falling Apart, and Finding My Worth
- By: Christopher Zara
- Narrated by: Christopher Zara
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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Boldly honest, wryly funny, and utterly open-hearted, Uneducated is one diploma-less journalist’s map of our growing educational divide and, ultimately, a challenge: in our credential-obsessed world, what is the true value of a college degree? For Christopher Zara, this is the professional minefield he has had to navigate since the day he was kicked out of his New Jersey high school for behavioral problems and never allowed back.
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interesting
- By Leda Adams on 04-28-25
By: Christopher Zara
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Girls Like Her
- By: Melanie Sumrow
- Narrated by: Melanie Sumrow, January LaVoy
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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A wealthy businessman is dead, and fifteen-year-old Ruby Monroe is in a Dallas jail awaiting trial for his murder. Ruby has no one she can count on—no one, except her state-appointed caseworker, a woman named Cadence Ware. In Ruby’s experience, that’s not anyone she can trust. Cadence is familiar with the cold reality of Ruby’s situation, even before Ruby was arrested. Angry and alone, homeless and hungry, breaking the law just to survive, she is the kind of girl no one wants to listen to, especially not the prosecutor who wants to put her away for life.
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Outstanding
- By Pink Amy on 06-29-24
By: Melanie Sumrow
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Furia
- By: Yamile Saied Méndez
- Narrated by: Sol Madariaga
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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In Rosario, Argentina, Camila Hassan lives a double life. At home, she is a careful daughter, living within her mother’s narrow expectations, in her rising-soccer-star brother’s shadow, and under the abusive rule of her short-tempered father. On the field, she is La Furia, a powerhouse of skill and talent. When her team qualifies for the South American tournament, Camila gets the chance to see just how far those talents can take her. In her wildest dreams, she’d get an athletic scholarship to a North American university.
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The title
- By Tanya Montoya on 04-22-25
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Two Truths and a Lie
- A Novel
- By: Meg Mitchell Moore
- Narrated by: Courtney Patterson
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
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Truth: Sherri Griffin and her daughter, Katie, recently moved to the idyllic beach town of Newburyport, Massachusetts. They’ve been welcomed by Rebecca Coleman, unofficial former leader of the Newburyport Mom Squad, and her teenage daughter Alexa, Katie’s new babysitter. Truth: Alexa has time on her hands after a falling-out with her friends involving her popular YouTube channel.
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Really more of a YA novel...
- By Faith W. on 09-04-20
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Throw Like a Girl
- By: Sarah Henning
- Narrated by: Devon Hales
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
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When softball star Liv Rodinsky throws one ill-advised punch during the most important game of the year, she loses her scholarship to her fancy private school, her boyfriend, and her teammates all in one fell swoop. With no other options, Liv is forced to transfer to the nearest public school, Northland, where she'll have to convince its coach she deserves a spot on the softball team, all while facing both her ex and the teammates of the girl she punched.... Every. Single. Day. Enter Grey, the injured star quarterback with amazing hair and a foolproof plan.
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Satisfying, Genuine Story
- By mary warren on 01-28-20
By: Sarah Henning
Poetic queer coming of age
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Need part 2
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Incredible coming of age story
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I kept waiting for something to happen and it just … did not.
Went nowhere
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