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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Friends of Dorothy
- By: Sandi Toksvig
- Narrated by: Sandi Toksvig
- Length: 10 hrs
- 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.
By: Sandi Toksvig
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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 Desirae Blackstone on 06-23-24
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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How to Leave the House
- A Novel
- By: Nathan Newman
- Narrated by: Christian Coulson, Imogen Wilde
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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It's Natwest's last day before he leaves for university, and there's only one thing on his mind: the deeply embarrassing package he ordered to his house—which still hasn't arrived. He won't leave town without it. Any alternative is too distressing to consider.
By: Nathan Newman
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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 Girls
- By: John Bowen
- Narrated by: Christine Rendel
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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A wry, macabre tale of simple living, brutal murder, and a reasonably happy couple.
By: John Bowen
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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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Beowulf for Cretins
- A Love Story
- By: Ann McMan
- Narrated by: Christine Williams
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Dumped by her longtime girlfriend, Grace meets the engaging and mysterious Abbie on a cross-country flight. Sparks fly, and the two strangers give in to one night of reckless passion. Back home at St. Albans, the college rocks Grace's world when it appoints a new president: Abbie....
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Funny
- By vondee on 08-03-18
By: Ann McMan
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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When Katie Met Cassidy
- By: Camille Perri
- Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Katie Daniels, a 28-year-old Kentucky transplant with a strong set of traditional values, has just been dumped by her fiancé when she finds herself seated across a negotiating table from native New Yorker Cassidy Price, a sexy, self-assured woman wearing a man's suit....
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Not too original
- By Judith on 07-09-18
By: Camille Perri
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The Dirty Girls Social Club
- By: Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
- Narrated by: Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
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A vibrant and absorbing novel of six friends - each an unforgettable Latina in her late twenties...
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Go unabridged!
- By Lyn on 02-16-04
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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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Sellevision
- By: Augusten Burroughs
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Darkly funny and gleefully mean-spirited, Sellevision explores greed, obsession and third tier celebrity, in the world of a fictional home shopping network....
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A Peek behind the Scenes..
- By Nadine on 05-03-08
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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
- Unabridged
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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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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 Smith on 08-30-24
By: Ryan Love
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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