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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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Perfect Summer Read!!
- By Chandra M on 07-05-24
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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Stop Me If You've Heard This One
- A Novel
- By: Kristen Arnett
- Narrated by: Cameron Esposito
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Cherry Hendricks might be down on her luck, but she can write the book on what makes something funny: she’s a professional clown who creates raucous, zany fun at gigs all over Orlando. Between her clowning and her shifts at an aquarium store for extra cash, she’s always hustling.
By: Kristen Arnett
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Friends of Dorothy
- By: Sandi Toksvig
- Narrated by: Sandi Toksvig
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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A story close to Sandi Toksvig's heart, Friends of Dorothy is a wonderful, funny, touching novel about making a family that is not biological, but logical.
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Outstanding!
- By Sophia Elizabeth on 11-11-24
By: Sandi Toksvig
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Women's Hotel
- A Novel
- By: Daniel M. Lavery
- Narrated by: Mara Wilson
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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From the New York Times bestselling author and advice columnist, a poignant and funny debut novel about the residents of a women’s hotel in 1960s New York City.
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a great story!
- By cathryn vitek on 11-10-24
By: Daniel M. Lavery
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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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Perfect Summer Read!!
- By Chandra M on 07-05-24
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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Stop Me If You've Heard This One
- A Novel
- By: Kristen Arnett
- Narrated by: Cameron Esposito
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Cherry Hendricks might be down on her luck, but she can write the book on what makes something funny: she’s a professional clown who creates raucous, zany fun at gigs all over Orlando. Between her clowning and her shifts at an aquarium store for extra cash, she’s always hustling.
By: Kristen Arnett
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Friends of Dorothy
- By: Sandi Toksvig
- Narrated by: Sandi Toksvig
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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A story close to Sandi Toksvig's heart, Friends of Dorothy is a wonderful, funny, touching novel about making a family that is not biological, but logical.
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Outstanding!
- By Sophia Elizabeth on 11-11-24
By: Sandi Toksvig
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Women's Hotel
- A Novel
- By: Daniel M. Lavery
- Narrated by: Mara Wilson
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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From the New York Times bestselling author and advice columnist, a poignant and funny debut novel about the residents of a women’s hotel in 1960s New York City.
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a great story!
- By cathryn vitek on 11-10-24
By: Daniel M. Lavery
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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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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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I Might Be in Trouble
- By: Daniel Aleman
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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A suspenseful dark comedy about a struggling writer who wakes up to find his date from the night before dead—and must then decide how far he’s willing to go to spin the misadventure into his next big book.
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What a dumpster fire! (Grab some marshmallows, y’all…we’re makin’ S’Mores!)
- By BD on 12-12-24
By: Daniel Aleman
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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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We Could Be Rats
- A Novel
- By: Emily Austin
- Narrated by: Candace Thaxton
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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A moving story about two very different sisters, and a love letter to childhood, growing up, and the power of imagination—from the bestselling author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead and Interesting Facts About Space.
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Sisterhood can be complicated when you are queer
- By zoe on 03-10-25
By: Emily Austin
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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
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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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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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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
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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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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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Slow start to a beautiful ending
- By DesiBlackstone on 06-23-24
By: Emily Austin
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The Last Romeo
- By: Justin Myers
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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James is 34 and fed up. His six-year relationship with Adam has imploded, he hates his job making up celebrity gossip and his best friend, Bella, has just announced she's moving to Russia....
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Im beside myself
- By Nevermorebinding on 09-10-20
By: Justin Myers
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What Is Wrong with You?
- A Novel
- By: Paul Rudnick
- Narrated by: Erin Mallon
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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“The genuinely hilarious Paul Rudnick” (Gary Shteyngart, New York Times bestselling author) returns with a witty, insightful new novel about the joy, delight, pain, and absurdity of love in an age of cynicism, divorce, and digital madness.
By: Paul Rudnick
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Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out
- By: Ryan Love
- Narrated by: Bruce Alexander, Caius Nicholas
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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When 79-year-old Arthur Edwards gathers his family together to share some important news, no one is prepared for the bombshell he drops: he's gay, and after a lifetime in the closet, he's finally ready to come out....
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Unique and Lovely Story
- By Kevin LS on 08-30-24
By: Ryan Love
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Maybe the Moon
- By: Armistead Maupin
- Narrated by: Armistead Maupin
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
- Abridged
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All of 31 inches tall, Cady is a true survivor in a town where, as she says, "you can die of encouragement"....
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short but good
- By Charlene on 08-06-07
By: Armistead Maupin
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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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The Family Man
- By: Elinor Lipman
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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When Thalia and her complicated social life move into the basement of Henry’s Upper West Side townhouse, she finds a champion in her long-lost father, and he finds new life—and maybe even new love....
By: Elinor Lipman
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Dykette
- A Novel
- By: Jenny Fran Davis
- Narrated by: Alex Schmidt
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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For fans of Torrey Peters's Detransition, Baby and HBO’s Search Party—Jenny Fran Davis's Dykette is an addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day getaway with her partner and two older queer couples....
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Classic mfa brooklyn vibes
- By Sasha on 11-19-23
By: Jenny Fran Davis
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The Gay Best Friend
- By: Nicolas DiDomizio
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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The pressure is on. The bride wants Dom to keep things clean. The groom wants Dom to let loose with the guys. And Dom just wants to get out of this whole mess with his friendships intact....
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Amazing!! Didomizio does it again!
- By Bradley S on 07-07-23
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Esta cuerpa mía [This Body of Mine]
- By: Uri Bleier
- Narrated by: Raquel Martínez
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
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Con el nombre de Leonardo a cuestas y una estética andrógina, la protagonista llega a Tijuana, estafada por un grupo de tratantes. Bautizada como Mónica y cobijada por Rosy, una especie de madre adoptiva, se siente plena y aprende los trucos del que será su mundo...
By: Uri Bleier
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Further Tales of the City
- Tales of the City, Book 3
- By: Armistead Maupin
- Narrated by: Frances McDormand
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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The calamity-prone residents of 28 Barbary Lane are at it again in this deliciously dark novel of romance and betrayal....
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Frances McDormand narrates poorly
- By Christopher on 05-30-16
By: Armistead Maupin
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The Usual Family Mayhem
- A Novel
- By: HelenKay Dimon
- Narrated by: Mia Barron
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Revenge is a dish best served cold—especially when it comes in the form of one of Grandma’s “special” pies. Get the best of family hijinks, girl power, and hilariously justifiable crime in the latest novel from award-winning author HelenKay Dimon.
By: HelenKay Dimon
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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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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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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