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Bestsellers
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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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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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How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund?
- A Novel
- By: Anna Montague
- Narrated by: Cynthia Nixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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For fans of Less and Remarkably Bright Creatures comes a funny and moving novel about love, loss, and new beginnings found on an unlikely road trip.
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Painfully Boring!
- By Michael on 12-14-24
By: Anna Montague
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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
- By: Jeanette Winterson
- Narrated by: Jeanette Winterson
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Jeanette is a bright and rebellious orphan who is adopted into an evangelical household in the dour, industrial North of England and finds herself embroidering grim religious mottoes and shaking her little tambourine for Jesus. But she insists on listening to truths of her own heart....
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quirky and odd
- By Kelly on 01-06-20
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Lie with Me
- A Novel
- By: Philippe Besson, Molly Ringwald - translator
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first love. What follows is a look back at the relationship he’s never forgotten, a hidden affair with a gorgeous boy named Thomas during their last year of high school....
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Memoir or fiction, either way it's enthralling.
- By Keith G on 05-08-19
By: Philippe Besson, and others
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Pride High, Book 1
- Red
- By: Jay Bell
- Narrated by: Talia Carver
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Perfect for mature teens and nostalgic adults, this LGBTQ+ series celebrates authentic intimacy, realistic relationships, and the beautiful chaos of growing up queer. Rewind to the nineties and join a group of teenagers as they try to figure out who they are, and who they want to love.
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He did it again!
- By Stanley Craver on 11-28-22
By: Jay Bell
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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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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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How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund?
- A Novel
- By: Anna Montague
- Narrated by: Cynthia Nixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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For fans of Less and Remarkably Bright Creatures comes a funny and moving novel about love, loss, and new beginnings found on an unlikely road trip.
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Painfully Boring!
- By Michael on 12-14-24
By: Anna Montague
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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
- By: Jeanette Winterson
- Narrated by: Jeanette Winterson
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Jeanette is a bright and rebellious orphan who is adopted into an evangelical household in the dour, industrial North of England and finds herself embroidering grim religious mottoes and shaking her little tambourine for Jesus. But she insists on listening to truths of her own heart....
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quirky and odd
- By Kelly on 01-06-20
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Lie with Me
- A Novel
- By: Philippe Besson, Molly Ringwald - translator
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first love. What follows is a look back at the relationship he’s never forgotten, a hidden affair with a gorgeous boy named Thomas during their last year of high school....
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Memoir or fiction, either way it's enthralling.
- By Keith G on 05-08-19
By: Philippe Besson, and others
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Pride High, Book 1
- Red
- By: Jay Bell
- Narrated by: Talia Carver
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Perfect for mature teens and nostalgic adults, this LGBTQ+ series celebrates authentic intimacy, realistic relationships, and the beautiful chaos of growing up queer. Rewind to the nineties and join a group of teenagers as they try to figure out who they are, and who they want to love.
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He did it again!
- By Stanley Craver on 11-28-22
By: Jay Bell
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The Rachel Incident
- By: Caroline O'Donoghue
- Narrated by: Clara Harte
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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The Rachel Incident is an all-consuming love story. But it's not the one you're expecting. It's unconventional and messy. It's young and foolish. It's about losing and finding yourself. But it is always about love.
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Disappointingly and surprisingly explicit
- By Not My Name :) on 10-09-24
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When Ben Loved Tim
- He Loved Him, Book 1
- By: Jay Bell
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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I never thought I’d find love. I spent all of high school watching others pair up, my little gay heart slowly withering in despair… until the fateful summer night that I met Tim. His meaty muscles and smoldering silver eyes already haunt my dreams.
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Tim is useless
- By Anonymous User on 11-05-24
By: Jay Bell
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Housemates
- A Novel
- By: Emma Copley Eisenberg
- Narrated by: Marin Ireland
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in a fractured America, by the award-winning author of The Third Rainbow Girl
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A gutting love story for today.
- By Kitty on 09-23-24
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The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers
- A Novel
- By: Samuel Burr
- Narrated by: Penelope Keith, Russell Tovey
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Clayton Stumper might be in his twenties, but he dresses like your grandpa and fusses like your aunt. Abandoned at birth on the steps of the Fellowship of Puzzlemakers, he was raised by a group of eccentric enigmatologists and now finds himself among the last survivors of a fading institution....
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Incredibly thoughtful and brilliantly crafted
- By MaineMom on 08-31-24
By: Samuel Burr
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Invisible Life
- A Novel
- By: E. Lynn Harris
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Invisible Life is the story of a young man's coming of age. Law school, girlfriends, and career choices were all part of Raymond Tyler's life, but there were other, more terrifying issues for him to confront....
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Amazing!!!
- By Trevon on 05-27-14
By: E. Lynn Harris
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The Sapling Cage
- Daughters of the Empty Throne, Book 1
- By: Margaret Killjoy
- Narrated by: Jackie Meloche
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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In the gripping first novel in the Daughters of the Empty Throne trilogy, author Margaret Killjoy spins a tale of earth magic, power struggle, and self-invention in an own-voices story of trans witchcraft.
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The book I wish I had as a baby Queer.
- By Dante on 09-24-24
By: Margaret Killjoy
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The City and the Pillar
- A Novel
- By: Gore Vidal
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Jim, a handsome, all-American athlete, has always been shy around girls. But when he and his best friend, Bob, partake in “awful kid stuff,” the experience forms Jim’s ideal of spiritual completion....
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Do not listen to the introduction!!!!!
- By Billmatto on 12-05-19
By: Gore Vidal
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Tipping the Velvet
- By: Sarah Waters
- Narrated by: Juanita McMahon
- Length: 19 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Nan King, an oyster girl, is captivated by the music hall phenomenon Kitty Butler, a male impersonator extraordinaire treading the boards in Canterbury....
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Did not disappoint!
- By TENA on 01-25-15
By: Sarah Waters
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You Are Not Me
- '90s Coming of Age, Book 2
- By: Leta Blake
- Narrated by: Michael Ferraiuolo
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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After a tumultuous final year of high school, Peter Mandel needs a break. It’s the summer of 1991, and his secret relationship with his "best friend" Adam Algedi is put on hold as Adam goes away to Italy for the summer....
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Huge Cliffhanger!!
- By Nova on 08-30-23
By: Leta Blake
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Love in the Big City
- A Novel
- By: Sang Young Park, Anton Hur - translator
- Narrated by: Daniel K. Isaac
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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A funny, transporting, surprising, and poignant novel that was one of the highest-selling debuts of recent years in Korea, Love in the Big City tells the story of a young gay man searching for happiness in the lonely city of Seoul....
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Must listen.
- By Barbie Wu on 09-12-22
By: Sang Young Park, and others
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The Knockout Queen
- A Novel
- By: Rufi Thorpe
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Bunny Lampert is the princess of North Shore - beautiful, tall, blond, with a rich real-estate-developer father and a swimming pool in her backyard. Michael - with a ponytail down his back and a septum piercing - lives with his aunt in the cramped stucco cottage next door....
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Loved this book!
- By Vernice Favor on 05-17-20
By: Rufi Thorpe
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All This Could Be Different
- A Novel
- By: Sarah Thankam Mathews
- Narrated by: Reena Dutt
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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From a brilliant new voice comes an electrifying novel of a young immigrant building a life for herself—a warm, dazzling, and profound saga of queer love, friendship, work, and precarity in twenty-first-century America....
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Generational
- By Kristina on 02-02-23
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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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Ghost Wall
- A Novel
- By: Sarah Moss
- Narrated by: Christine Hewitt
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Silvie's family joins an anthropology course set to reenact life in simpler times. The ancient Britons built ghost walls to ward off enemy invaders, rude barricades of stakes topped with ancestral skulls. When the group builds one of its own, they find a spiritual connection to the past....
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A good read!
- By Chester Johnson on 02-23-19
By: Sarah Moss
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The Thirty Names of Night
- A Novel
- By: Zeyn Joukhadar
- Narrated by: Samy Figaredo, Lameece Issaq
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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From the author of The Map of Salt and Stars, a new novel about three generations of Syrian Americans haunted by a mysterious species of bird and the truths they carry close to their hearts....
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Might be easier to follow in print
- By Kate on 12-30-20
By: Zeyn Joukhadar
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Old Enough
- A Novel
- By: Haley Jakobson
- Narrated by: Jenna Kray, Haley Jakobson
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Savannah "Sav" Henry is almost the person she wants to be, or at least she's getting closer. It’s the second semester of her sophomore year....
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Loved!!
- By Louise Judd on 07-20-23
By: Haley Jakobson
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Rainbow Black
- A Novel
- By: Maggie Thrash
- Narrated by: Hope Newhouse
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Lacey Bond is a 13-year-old girl in New Hampshire growing up in the tranquility of her hippie parents’ rural daycare center. Then the Satanic Panic hits....
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how could anyone's life be this bad?
- By Side_of_fry on 05-31-24
By: Maggie Thrash
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Bellies
- A Novel
- By: Nicola Dinan
- Narrated by: Nathaniel Curtis, Octavia Nyombi
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out with friends at their local university drag night, Tom buys Ming a drink....
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4.5/5 Stars
- By thepostman on 02-10-24
By: Nicola Dinan
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Swimming in the Dark
- A Novel
- By: Tomasz Jedrowski
- Narrated by: Will Watt
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Set in early 1980s Poland against the violent decline of communism, a tender and passionate story of first love between two young men who eventually find themselves on opposite sides of the political divide....
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One of the Best Contemporary Novels Ever
- By Jeffrey veals on 05-11-20
By: Tomasz Jedrowski
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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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These Violent Delights
- A Novel
- By: Micah Nemerever
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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When Paul enters university in early 1970s Pittsburgh, it’s with the hope of moving past the recent death of his father. Sensitive, insecure, and incomprehensible to his grieving family, Paul feels isolated and alone....
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Excellent book. Hated it.
- By Abby on 06-18-21
By: Micah Nemerever
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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.
By: Graham Norton
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A River of Golden Bones
- Book One of the Golden Court
- By: A.K. Mulford
- Narrated by: Vico Ortiz
- Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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No one knows who Calla truly is except for her childhood friend—and sister’s betrothed—the distractingly handsome Prince Grae. But when Calla and Briar journey out of hiding for Briar’s wedding, all of their well-made plans go awry....
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Fun.
- By Noel on 03-14-24
By: A.K. Mulford
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In Tongues
- A Novel
- By: Thomas Grattan
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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A young gay man upends the lives of a powerful art-world couple in this steamy novel of self-discovery.
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Engaging, smart and witty storytelling!
- By Bruce Cannella on 09-30-24
By: Thomas Grattan