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Winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor
National Bestseller • Wall Street Journal Bestseller • USA Today Bestseller
An NPR Book of the Year
Finalist for the 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards
From the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus and The Editor comes a warm and deeply funny novel about a once-famous gay sitcom star whose unexpected family tragedy leaves him with his niece and nephew for the summer.
Patrick, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP, for short), has always loved his niece, Maisie, and nephew, Grant. That is, he loves spending time with them when they come out to Palm Springs for weeklong visits, or when he heads home to Connecticut for the holidays. But in terms of caretaking and relating to two children, no matter how adorable, Patrick is, honestly, overwhelmed.
So when tragedy strikes and Maisie and Grant lose their mother and Patrick's brother has a health crisis of his own, Patrick finds himself suddenly taking on the role of primary guardian. Despite having a set of "Guncle Rules" ready to go, Patrick has no idea what to expect, having spent years barely holding on after the loss of his great love, a somewhat-stalled acting career, and a lifestyle not-so-suited to a six- and a nine-year-old. Quickly realizing that parenting—even if temporary—isn't solved with treats and jokes, Patrick's eyes are opened to a new sense of responsibility, and the realization that, sometimes, even being larger than life means you're unfailingly human.
With the humor and heart we've come to expect from bestselling author Steven Rowley, The Guncle is a moving tribute to the power of love, patience, and family in even the most trying of times.
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OMG WHY!!???!??? last hour redeemed the first 7
- De Amazon Fan en 03-21-18
De: Steven Rowley
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The Celebrants
- A Novel
- De: Steven Rowley
- Narrado por: Steven Rowley
- Duración: 9 h y 43 m
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It’s been a minute—or five years—since Jordan Vargas last saw his college friends, and twenty-eight years since their graduation from Berkeley when their adult lives officially began. Now Jordan, Jordy, Naomi, Craig, and Marielle find themselves at the brink of a new decade, with all the responsibilities of adulthood, yet no closer to having their lives figured out. Though not for a lack of trying. Over the years they’ve reunited in Big Sur to honor a decades-old pact to throw each other living “funerals,” celebrations to remind themselves that life is worth living.
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Just okay
- De kristine Barnes en 06-27-23
De: Steven Rowley
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Lie a Little
- A Heart-Warming Victorian Family Saga (The Faredene Trilogy, Book 1)
- De: Debra Delaney
- Narrado por: Alex Lee
- Duración: 13 h y 31 m
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Endless years of a lonely, childless spinster’s life stretching ahead, Victoria Kavanagh finds an abandoned baby. She knows it’s the answer to her prayers. Or is it? Has she stolen him in a moment of madness? She’s come close to it before. Desperate to keep him, she creates a past of her own design and moves to Faredene, but is her new life far enough away from the past she’s trying to escape? What a framework on which to build - one of lies and deceit.
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5 stars Lie a Little
- De H. Justice Turner en 04-26-23
De: Debra Delaney
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The Editor
- De: Steven Rowley
- Narrado por: Michael Urie
- Duración: 10 h y 21 m
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After years of trying to make it as a writer in 1990s New York City, James Smale finally sells his novel to an editor at a major publishing house: none other than Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Jackie - or Mrs. Onassis, as she's known in the office - has fallen in love with James' candidly autobiographical novel, one that exposes his own dysfunctional family. But when the book's forthcoming publication threatens to unravel already fragile relationships, both within his family and with his partner, James finds that he can't bring himself to finish the manuscript.
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Great story
- De Amazon Customer en 04-18-19
De: Steven Rowley
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A Star Is Bored
- A Novel
- De: Byron Lane
- Narrado por: Noah Galvin
- Duración: 11 h y 38 m
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Charlie Besson is tense and sweating as he prepares for an insane job interview. His car is idling, like his life, outside the Hollywood mansion of Kathi Kannon. The Kathi Kannon, star of stage and screen and People Magazine’s worst dressed list. She needs an assistant. He needs a hero. Kathi is an icon, best-selling author, and an award winning actress, most known for her role as Priestess Talara in a blockbuster sci-fi film. She’s also known in another role: crazy. Admittedly so. Famously so. Fabulously so, as Charlie quickly discovers.
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Funny and heartfelt
- De Paige en 08-21-20
De: Byron Lane
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No Road Home
- A Novel
- De: John Fram
- Narrado por: Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Travis Tonn, Jade Wheeler
- Duración: 11 h y 29 m
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For years, single father Toby Tucker has done his best to keep his sensitive young son, Luca, safe from the bigotry of the world. But when Toby marries Alyssa Wright—the granddaughter of a famed televangelist known for his grandiose, Old Testament preaching—he can’t imagine the world of religion, wealth, and hate that he and Luca are about to enter. A trip to the Wright family’s compound in sun-scorched Texas soon turns hellish when Toby realizes that Alyssa and the rest of her brood might have some very strange plans for Toby and his son.
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uniqueness & unexpected twists
- De MississippiMuse en 03-01-25
De: John Fram
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The Red House Mystery
- De: A. A. Milne
- Narrado por: John Rayburn
- Duración: 6 h y 20 m
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The author’s birth name was Alan Alexander Milne, but his pen name used only the initials A. A. Milne. He eventually won worldwide acclaim for his renowned youth-oriented stories about Winnie-the-Pooh. However, he tried something different a few years before that, a story based on parental devotion.
De: A. A. Milne
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The Rosie Project
- A Novel
- De: Graeme Simsion
- Narrado por: Dan O'Grady
- Duración: 7 h y 32 m
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Don Tillman, professor of genetics, has never been on a second date. So when an acquaintance informs him that he would make a "wonderful" husband, his first reaction is shock. Yet he must concede to the statistical probability that there is someone for everyone, and Don sets out to find the perfect partner. She will be punctual and logical - most definitely not a barmaid, a smoker, a drinker, or a late-arriver. Yet Rosie Jarman is all these things. She is also beguiling, fiery, intelligent - and on a quest of her own....
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Not a typical romance - so much more
- De Gretchen en 10-03-13
De: Graeme Simsion
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The Dogs of Venice
- De: Steven Rowley
- Narrado por: Neil Patrick Harris
- Duración: 1 h y 21 m
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New Yorkers Paul and Darren have planned a winter holiday in Venice. But when their five-year marriage suddenly unravels, Paul endeavors to make the trip alone, despite his heartbreak and anxiety. Far outside his comfort zone, Paul has a mission: to see if he can be adventurous, fearless, free. In short, to become someone new. Soon after arriving in Italy, he notices a small, scruffy, self-assured dog trotting alongside a canal with the confidence he so desperately wants for himself. This street dog and his instincts for survival lend Paul’s trip a singular purpose.
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Paul is every man and every woman. He is HUMAN
- De Lisa C en 12-30-20
De: Steven Rowley
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Less (Booktrack Edition)
- A Novel
- De: Andrew Sean Greer
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 8 h y 17 m
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Who says you can't run away from your problems? 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. You can't say yes—it would be too awkward—and you can't say no—it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world. Question: How do you arrange to skip town? Answer: You accept them all. What would possibly go wrong?
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Less is not more. Plus a Pulitzer?
- De Seth en 03-24-20
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Big Gay Wedding
- A Novel
- De: Byron Lane
- Narrado por: Noah Galvin
- Duración: 10 h y 30 m
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Barnett Durang has a secret. No, not THAT secret. His widowed mother has long known he’s gay. The secret is Barnett is getting married. At his mother’s farm. In their small Louisiana town. She just doesn’t know it yet. It’ll be an intimate affair. Just two hundred or so of the most fabulous folks Barnett is shipping in from the “heathen coasts,” as Mom likes to call them, turning her quiet rescue farm for misfit animals into a most unlikely wedding venue.
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Creative, simple, and sweet.
- De Jonathan Hurst en 08-01-23
De: Byron Lane
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We Could Be So Good
- A Novel
- De: Cat Sebastian
- Narrado por: Joel Leslie
- Duración: 11 h y 46 m
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Nick Russo has worked his way from a rough Brooklyn neighborhood to a reporting job at one of the city’s biggest newspapers. But the late 1950s are a hostile time for gay men, and Nick knows that he can’t let anyone into his life. He just never counted on meeting someone as impossible to say no to as Andy. Andy Fleming’s newspaper-tycoon father wants him to take over the family business. Andy, though, has no intention of running the paper. He’s barely able to run his life.
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Be still, my cynical heart.
- De Kelsey Riddle en 06-09-23
De: Cat Sebastian
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The Things We Carry
- De: Kate Anslinger
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
- Duración: 8 h y 14 m
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A page-turning, domestic drama that tells the gripping story of two families faced with a tragedy that could change them forever. Two couples. Two daughters. Two sons. One tragedy. Too many secrets. Lauren Rivers has it all. Two beautiful daughters, a doting husband, and a home that belongs on the cover of a magazine. She also has roots that run deep in the esteemed beach town of Flagport, Massachusetts. When Evie Sullivan moves across the street, the two become fast friends. Evie is nothing like Lauren’s other friends. She’s quiet, contemplative, and holds steady to her modest ...
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AI Generated Voice - Terrible
- De Suzan Knese en 04-17-25
De: Kate Anslinger
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Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style
- A Novel
- De: Paul Rudnick
- Narrado por: Daniel Henning
- Duración: 14 h y 18 m
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Devastatingly handsome and insanely rich, Farrell Covington is capable of anything and impossible to resist. He’s a clear-eyed romantic, an aesthete but not a snob, self-indulgent yet wildly generous. As the son of one of the country’s most powerful and deeply conservative families, the world could be his. But when he falls for Nate Reminger, an aspiring writer from a nice Jewish family in Piscataway, New Jersey, the results are passionate and catastrophic. Together, the two embark on a unique romance that spans half a century.
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Great audiobook
- De Ryan Macht en 11-30-23
De: Paul Rudnick
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The Sweeney Sisters
- A Novel
- De: Lian Dolan
- Narrado por: Brittany Pressley
- Duración: 10 h y 38 m
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Maggie, Eliza, and Tricia Sweeney grew up as a happy threesome in a seaside town in Connecticut. But after their mother’s death from cancer 15 years ago, the sisters drifted apart. Their one touchstone is their father, Bill Sweeney, a famous literary lion universally adored by critics, publishers, and book lovers. When Bill dies unexpectedly one cool June night, his shell-shocked daughters return to their childhood home. They aren’t quite sure what the future holds without their larger-than-life father, but they do know how to throw an Irish wake to honor a man of his stature.
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Is Netflix next?
- De Grace Smith en 05-03-20
De: Lian Dolan
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The Comedians
- De: Philip Dawkins
- Narrado por: Alejandro Antonio Ruiz, Ana Isabel Dow, Drew Droege, y otros
- Duración: 1 h y 55 m
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Stop me if you’re heard this one: Veteran comic Chauncy and social-media star José are the very definition of “opposites attract”. But sparks, and jokes, fly after the two of them embark upon a beautiful romance for the ages...two vastly different ages. Starring Drew Droege and Gabe Gonzalez, The Comedians is a modern queer love story, told through individual stand-up acts. We hear the ups and downs of their journey—from falling hard to failing harder than a botched punchline—in this hilariously relatable play about love, loss, and, above all, "The Laugh".
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Poignant Drama Unfolds on Stand-Up Comedy Stage
- De Philip D. Hughes-Luing en 09-18-22
De: Philip Dawkins
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The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp
- Agnes Sharp Murder Mysteries, Book 1
- De: Leonie Swann, Amy Bojang - translator
- Narrado por: Moira Quirk
- Duración: 12 h y 4 m
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It has been an eventful morning for Agnes Sharp and the other inhabitants of Sunset Hall, a house share for the old and unruly in the sleepy English countryside. Although they have had some issues (misplaced reading glasses, conflicting culinary tastes, decreasing mobility, and unruly grandsons), nothing prepares them for an unexpected visit from a police officer with some shocking news. A body has been discovered next door. Everyone puts on a long face for show, but they are secretly relieved the body in question is not the one they’re currently hiding in the shed (sorry, Lillith).
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A fun geriatric romp!
- De Barbara S en 09-09-23
De: Leonie Swann, y otros
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If This Gets Out
- A Novel
- De: Sophie Gonzales, Cale Dietrich
- Narrado por: Ramon de Ocampo
- Duración: 12 h y 57 m
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Eighteen-year-olds Ruben Montez and Zach Knight are two members of the boy-band Saturday, one of the biggest acts in America. Along with their bandmates, Angel Phan and Jon Braxton, the four are teen heartbreakers in front of the cameras and best friends backstage. But privately, cracks are starting to form: their once-easy rapport is straining under the pressures of fame, and Ruben confides in Zach that he’s feeling smothered by management’s pressure to stay in the closet. How can they hold tight to each other when the whole world seems to want to come between them?
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Slow Romance, and true Friendship
- De Lockerkm en 12-08-21
De: Sophie Gonzales, y otros
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- Anonymous User
- 07-24-23
I ended up loving this book
I’m gay. I tend NOT to cozy to cliché gayness, and this book started off - well, a bit cliché; flaming characters. But I warmed up to the story, and the kids - especially Grant. In the end this is a story about the old Rolling Stones song, “you can’t always get what you want but sometimes you get what you need“. This is what happens when a gay Asian sitcom actor living in Palm Springs ends up, caring for his college best friend’s kids after she dies, and her husband goes into rehab. It’s a summer of discovery and recovery. It left me smiling and happy in the end.
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- M. C. Ayers
- 06-10-21
Delightful
A surprisingly tender comedy which is worth the read. If you love Auntie Mame, you'll love this modern day Patrick as he navigates grief and raising children.
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- Matthew Parker
- 08-06-21
Absolutely Must Read
Fantastic read, fantastic performance. This could NOT have been read better and the book itself it precious. Excited to read more!
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- Monte
- 12-17-21
An absolute delight!
This was a joy to listen to! How could I not fall in love with Guncle, how can anyone not fall in love with him?! Laugh out loud while tears streamed down both together and separately, I enjoyed every moment. It was just the right touch of everything, perfection! Thank you for sharing the story, and so beautifully❤️
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-22-22
Loved it!!
I wasn’t sure if I was going to like it at the beginning, but I realized that I needed to slow it down a little bit, so I listened to it 0.9x and it was FABULOUS!!!
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- RandomReviewer
- 10-15-22
The perfect combo
It has been a long time since I laughed out loud at a book. The writing is witty and fresh- no tired jokes or predictable tropes. The storyline is heartfelt, sad, and somehow- light. I wish I could read it for the first time over and over. The narration is one of the best I’ve ever heard. Perfect performance from start to finish. Already waiting for his next novel!
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- Stephanie Anne Graham
- 04-25-23
Listened to three times now
So love this book. Set in my home town of Palm Springs. A wonderful funny sad story. Captures the heart with a story that touches the heart.
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- M. Flanagan
- 04-17-23
Absolutely Delightful!
Great story, characters, and narrator. This was one of the best books I’ve listened to in quite some time. Not a dull moment!
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- Shannon
- 05-13-23
Delightful!
This is a delightful book. The narrator is outstanding and the story will make you laugh and will touch your heart.
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- Reneé Gatewood
- 05-21-23
This story is Funcle
I thoroughly enjoyed this book it was timely, realistic and funny as heck! I would listen to it again.
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