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Bestsellers
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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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Such a fun read.
- By CAT1943 on 05-22-24
By: Steven Rowley
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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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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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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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The Bump
- By: Sidney Karger
- Narrated by: Ryan Spahn, Michael Urie
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Two men expecting a baby via surrogate go on the road trip of a lifetime in this hilarious and poignant novel by Sidney Karger, author of Best Men....
By: Sidney Karger
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Milk Fed
- By: Melissa Broder
- Narrated by: Melissa Broder
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Rachel is 24, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control through obsessive food rituals while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency....
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Funny and uncomfortable
- By Kayla on 04-01-21
By: Melissa Broder
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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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Such a fun read.
- By CAT1943 on 05-22-24
By: Steven Rowley
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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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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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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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The Bump
- By: Sidney Karger
- Narrated by: Ryan Spahn, Michael Urie
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Two men expecting a baby via surrogate go on the road trip of a lifetime in this hilarious and poignant novel by Sidney Karger, author of Best Men....
By: Sidney Karger
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Milk Fed
- By: Melissa Broder
- Narrated by: Melissa Broder
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Rachel is 24, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control through obsessive food rituals while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency....
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Funny and uncomfortable
- By Kayla on 04-01-21
By: Melissa Broder
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Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
- A Novel
- By: Emily Austin
- Narrated by: Emily Tremaine
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Gilda, a 20-something, atheist, animal-loving lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Desperate for relief from her panicky mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a local Catholic church....
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Gilda & Eleanor Would be Friends
- By K Duffy on 07-14-21
By: Emily Austin
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Less Is Lost
- By: Andrew Sean Greer
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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For Arthur Less, life is going surprisingly well: he is a moderately accomplished novelist in a steady relationship with his partner, Freddy Pelu. But nothing lasts: the death of an old lover and a sudden financial crisis has Less running away from his problems yet again....
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dead end
- By Joe Puzzo on 09-23-22
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Mona of the Manor
- A Novel (Tales of the City, Book 10)
- By: Armistead Maupin
- Narrated by: Mara Wilson
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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When Mona Ramsey married Lord Teddy Roughton to secure his visa—allowing him to remain in San Francisco to fulfill his wildest dreams—she never imagined she would, by age 48, be the sole owner of Easley House, Teddy’s grand, romantic country manor in the UK....
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loved Monas life in UK
- By mike on 03-06-24
By: Armistead Maupin
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Interesting Facts About Space
- A Novel
- By: Emily Austin
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Enid is obsessed with space. She can tell you all about black holes and their ability to spaghettify you without batting an eye in fear. Her one major phobia? Bald men. But she tries to keep that one under wraps....
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Interesting Facts About Enid
- By Maryanne T. on 03-21-24
By: Emily Austin
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You Only Call When You're in Trouble
- A Novel
- By: Stephen McCauley
- Narrated by: André Santana
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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After a lifetime of taking care of his impossible but irresistible sister and his cherished niece, Tom is ready to put himself first. An architect specializing in tiny houses, he finally has an opportunity to build his masterpiece....
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Terrible Narrator
- By Miss B on 01-21-24
By: Stephen McCauley
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Just by Looking at Him
- A Novel
- By: Ryan O'Connell
- Narrated by: Ryan O'Connell
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Elliott appears to be living the dream as a successful TV writer with a doting boyfriend. But behind his Instagram filter of a life, he’s grappling with an intensifying alcohol addiction....
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Must read
- By Matthew Walker on 06-08-22
By: Ryan O'Connell
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Mostly Dead Things
- A Novel
- By: Kristen Arnett
- Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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One morning, Jessa-Lynn Morton walks into the family taxidermy shop to find that her father has committed suicide, right there on one of the metal tables. Shocked and grieving, Jessa steps up to manage the failing business, while the rest of the Morton family crumbles....
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Animal lovers beware.
- By Megan T on 06-10-19
By: Kristen Arnett
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The Z Word
- By: Lindsay King-Miller
- Narrated by: Mara Wilson
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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The Z Word is a propulsive, funny, emotional horror debut about a found family coming together to fight corporate greed, political corruption, gay drama, and zombies....
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It's Been a Pleasure, Noni Blake
- A Novel
- By: Claire Christian
- Narrated by: Ione Butler
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Of all the women and men Noni Blake has pleased in her life, there’s one she’s often overlooked - herself. After the end of a decade-long relationship, Noni decides it’s time for that to change....
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DNF
- By JennStokes on 01-18-23
By: Claire Christian
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Tales of the City Audio Collection
- Tales of the City, Books 1-6
- By: Armistead Maupin
- Narrated by: Armistead Maupin
- Length: 18 hrs and 21 mins
- Abridged
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All six Tales of the City novels available in one audio edition with a special introduction by the author....
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Where's Michael's Letter to his mom?
- By WHB in Burbank on 01-14-19
By: Armistead Maupin
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Idlewild
- A Novel
- By: James Frankie Thomas
- Narrated by: Kristen DiMercurio
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Two adults look back on their intense teenage friendship, in a queer, trans, and early-Internet twist on the Manhattan prep school novel....
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Loved every single part of it
- By Casey on 03-13-24
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Enter the Aardvark
- By: Jessica Anthony
- Narrated by: Matt Amendt
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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At once a ghost story, a love story, and a stunningly prescient political satire, Enter the Aardvark confronts the consequences of repressed male love meeting oppressive male power, and is a searing condemnation of our current American blindness....
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Almost
- By Jessica on 09-07-20
By: Jessica Anthony
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Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style
- A Novel
- By: Paul Rudnick
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style follows the decades-long, rule-breaking romance between the son of one of American’s wealthiest families and a middle-class aspiring author....
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Great audiobook
- By Ryan Macht on 11-30-23
By: Paul Rudnick
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Goldenrod
- By: Ann McMan
- Narrated by: Christine Williams
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Join Syd, Maddie, David, Michael, Henry, Celine, and the irrepressible Roma Jean Freemantle as they band together to navigate the minefields of their ever-changing world....
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The Best of Jericho
- By BV on 08-20-17
By: Ann McMan
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Tales of the City
- Tales of the City, Book 1
- By: Armistead Maupin
- Narrated by: Frances McDormand
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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For more than three decades Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City has blazed its own trail through popular culture....
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Sparkling, Witty and Touching!
- By Nancy J on 01-19-14
By: Armistead Maupin
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Big Gay Wedding
- A Novel
- By: Byron Lane
- Narrated by: Noah Galvin
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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A small town is forever changed by a big gay wedding...and nothing will ever be the same....
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Creative, simple, and sweet.
- By Jonathan Hurst on 08-01-23
By: Byron Lane
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Confidence
- A Novel
- By: Rafael Frumkin
- Narrated by: Em Grosland
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Best friends (and occasional lovers) Ezra and Orson are teetering on top of the world after founding a company that promises instant enlightenment in this thrilling caper about scams, schemes, and the absurdity of the American Dream....
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Disappointed
- By jeremiah letterman johnson on 05-16-23
By: Rafael Frumkin
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Your Driver Is Waiting
- A Novel
- By: Priya Guns
- Narrated by: Priya Guns
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Damani is tired. Her father just died on the job at a fast-food joint, and now she lives paycheck to paycheck in a basement, caring for her mom and driving for an app that is constantly cutting her take....
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Did not deliver
- By Alexis on 05-31-23
By: Priya Guns
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Mr. Loverman
- A Novel
- By: Bernardine Evaristo
- Narrated by: Robin Miles, Ron Butler
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Barrington Jedidiah Walker is 74 and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he's lived in Hackney, London, for years....
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Don’t miss this one.
- By Ruth Johnson on 05-04-21
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The Liar's Dictionary
- A Novel
- By: Eley Williams
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton, Jon Glover
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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In the final year of the nineteenth century, Peter Winceworth is toiling away at the letter S for Swansby’s multivolume Encyclopaedic Dictionary. But his disaffection with his colleagues compels him to assert some individual purpose and artistic freedom....
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The liar’s Dictionary
- By phyllis howe on 01-19-21
By: Eley Williams
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Getting Clean with Stevie Green
- By: Swan Huntley
- Narrated by: Emily Tremaine, Allyson Ryan, Amanda Carlin, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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The author of the “sparkling dark romance” (Redbook) We Could Be Beautiful brings her “wit and verve” (The New York Times Book Review) to this quirky, feel-good novel about one woman’s messy journey from self-delusion to self-acceptance....
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Deceptively light read, packs a punch
- By Lisa Bloom on 03-30-24
By: Swan Huntley
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Single Dad Sundays
- A Dadchat Compilation (Single Dad Support Group, Book 7)
- By: Piper Scott
- Narrated by: Michael Ferraiuolo
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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KnotMyProblem: Guess who’s back, b*tches?! TeenDad2: Who?? KnotMyProblem: US. Duh. TeenDad2: Oh. TeenDad2: Where did we go? GlitterDoctor: It’s complicated, TD. I think this ties into Knot believing we’re characters in some book....
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A wholesome listen!
- By RACHEL REED on 10-27-21
By: Piper Scott
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The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse
- A Nancy Clue and Cherry Aimless Mystery, Book 1
- By: Mabel Maney
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Nurse Cherry Aimless's first vacation from her hectic career in a big-city hospital takes her to visit her spinster Aunt Gertrude in thrilling San Francisco....
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Gloriasly funny
- By Tapioca on 07-12-12
By: Mabel Maney
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The Fall
- By: Robin Alexander
- Narrated by: Lisa Cordileone
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Noel Savino has no problems attracting women. After several failed relationships, she's more than happy to keep it casual. Sunny Chase is willing to be another notch on Noel's bedpost....
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Simply delightful
- By Meredith on 07-06-16
By: Robin Alexander
New releases
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Drama King
- Nicky and Noah Mysteries, Book 18
- By: Joe Cosentino
- Narrated by: Brian Cheney
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s summertime at Treemeadow College and the living isn’t easy. Theatre professors and adorable couple Nicky, Noah, and their thespian troupe stage an original musical adaptation of the King Arthur Legends entitled, Knights in Tights. Queens blissfully shout, “King me,” until critics drop like their scathing reviews.
By: Joe Cosentino
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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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Patrick O’Hara is back. It’s been five years since his summer as his niece Maisie and nephew Grant’s caretaker after their mother’s passing. The kids are back in Connecticut with their dad, and Patrick has relocated to New York to remain close by and relaunch his dormant acting career. After the run of his second successful sit-com comes to a close, Patrick feels on top of the world . . . professionally. But some things have had to take a back seat. Looking down both barrels at fifty, Patrick is single again after breaking things off with Emory.
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Such a fun read.
- By CAT1943 on 05-22-24
By: Steven Rowley
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The Bump
- By: Sidney Karger
- Narrated by: Ryan Spahn, Michael Urie
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Wyatt Wallace is a practical, super organized director of TV commercials. Biz Petterelli is a child-actor-turned-magazine-writer who thrives on spontaneity. Though polar opposites, they are fully committed to their relationship and their life in Brooklyn with their dog, Matilda. They’re also about to have a baby together. And they’re freaking out. They’ve both dreamed of becoming parents, but now that it’s happening, they’re doubting everything. Their baby is due in a few weeks and instead of flying to California just before the birth as planned, Biz has a better idea.
By: Sidney Karger
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The Z Word
- By: Lindsay King-Miller
- Narrated by: Mara Wilson
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Chaotic bisexual Wendy is trying to find her place in the queer community of San Lazaro, Arizona, after a bad breakup—which is particularly difficult because her ex is hooking up with some of her friends. And when the people around them start turning into violent, terrifying mindless husks, well, that makes things harder. Especially since the infection seems to be spreading.
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Henry Henry
- By: Allen Bratton
- Narrated by: Sebastian Humphreys
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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London, 2014. Hal Lancaster – twenty-two, gay, Catholic, chops lines of cocaine with his myWaitrose card – is the reluctant heir of his father Henry, the sixteenth Duke of Lancaster. Henry is half tyrant, half martyr, with an investment in his eldest son that has grown into an obsession. While Hal floats between internships and drinking sessions, Henry keeps him in check with passive-aggression, religious guilt, and a cruelty that Hal sometimes confuses for tenderness.
By: Allen Bratton
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DIVAS
- The Saga of Too-Sweet
- By: Ralph Griffith
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Its not easy growing up in lower Alabama tall and ugly with kids picking on you just because you prefer being a girl. Too-Sweet learned early on that the only way to keep kids from picking on her and chucking rocks and shit was to knock fire from their asses. If Too-Sweet hadn't liked being a girl so much, he could of boxed like his older brothers and maybe of turned pro. Tired of lower Alabama Too-Sweet decided to head out to San Francisco and make her fame and fortune. One day while whoring and taking a worthless check, Too-Sweet inadvertently robs a bank and a star is born. Divas is a ...
By: Ralph Griffith
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Drama King
- Nicky and Noah Mysteries, Book 18
- By: Joe Cosentino
- Narrated by: Brian Cheney
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s summertime at Treemeadow College and the living isn’t easy. Theatre professors and adorable couple Nicky, Noah, and their thespian troupe stage an original musical adaptation of the King Arthur Legends entitled, Knights in Tights. Queens blissfully shout, “King me,” until critics drop like their scathing reviews.
By: Joe Cosentino
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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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Patrick O’Hara is back. It’s been five years since his summer as his niece Maisie and nephew Grant’s caretaker after their mother’s passing. The kids are back in Connecticut with their dad, and Patrick has relocated to New York to remain close by and relaunch his dormant acting career. After the run of his second successful sit-com comes to a close, Patrick feels on top of the world . . . professionally. But some things have had to take a back seat. Looking down both barrels at fifty, Patrick is single again after breaking things off with Emory.
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Such a fun read.
- By CAT1943 on 05-22-24
By: Steven Rowley
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The Bump
- By: Sidney Karger
- Narrated by: Ryan Spahn, Michael Urie
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Wyatt Wallace is a practical, super organized director of TV commercials. Biz Petterelli is a child-actor-turned-magazine-writer who thrives on spontaneity. Though polar opposites, they are fully committed to their relationship and their life in Brooklyn with their dog, Matilda. They’re also about to have a baby together. And they’re freaking out. They’ve both dreamed of becoming parents, but now that it’s happening, they’re doubting everything. Their baby is due in a few weeks and instead of flying to California just before the birth as planned, Biz has a better idea.
By: Sidney Karger
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The Z Word
- By: Lindsay King-Miller
- Narrated by: Mara Wilson
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Chaotic bisexual Wendy is trying to find her place in the queer community of San Lazaro, Arizona, after a bad breakup—which is particularly difficult because her ex is hooking up with some of her friends. And when the people around them start turning into violent, terrifying mindless husks, well, that makes things harder. Especially since the infection seems to be spreading.
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Henry Henry
- By: Allen Bratton
- Narrated by: Sebastian Humphreys
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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London, 2014. Hal Lancaster – twenty-two, gay, Catholic, chops lines of cocaine with his myWaitrose card – is the reluctant heir of his father Henry, the sixteenth Duke of Lancaster. Henry is half tyrant, half martyr, with an investment in his eldest son that has grown into an obsession. While Hal floats between internships and drinking sessions, Henry keeps him in check with passive-aggression, religious guilt, and a cruelty that Hal sometimes confuses for tenderness.
By: Allen Bratton
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DIVAS
- The Saga of Too-Sweet
- By: Ralph Griffith
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Its not easy growing up in lower Alabama tall and ugly with kids picking on you just because you prefer being a girl. Too-Sweet learned early on that the only way to keep kids from picking on her and chucking rocks and shit was to knock fire from their asses. If Too-Sweet hadn't liked being a girl so much, he could of boxed like his older brothers and maybe of turned pro. Tired of lower Alabama Too-Sweet decided to head out to San Francisco and make her fame and fortune. One day while whoring and taking a worthless check, Too-Sweet inadvertently robs a bank and a star is born. Divas is a ...
By: Ralph Griffith