In the Absence of Men
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Philippe Besson
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From the author of the international bestseller Lie with Me comes the tale of an affair between an aristocratic teenager and a soldier, as they discover the possibilities and perils of first love.
Summer, 1916. With German Zeppelins on the skyline, the men of Paris are off at war. For Vincent, sixteen and still too young to fight, this moment of dread is also a moment of possibility. An electrifying encounter with Marcel, an enigmatic middle-aged writer, draws Vincent’s desires out into the light. As he’s taken under Marcel’s wing, Vincent begins a dangerous affair with Arthur, the son of his governess and a young soldier on leave. Together, they share a secret that everyone seems to know and yet everyone remains silent about.
In this stunning portrait of young love, Philippe Besson depicts a young man who plays by his own rules and is not afraid of who he is. In the afternoons, Vincent is mentored by Marcel, the great novelist, in the city’s opulent cafés as they draw the judgment of society. And at night, he hides Arthur in his bedroom as the two risk everything to be together. Their affair initiates them into a world of pleasure and shields them from the encroaching war. During this magical week away from the trenches, Vincent shelters Arthur with happiness, reassuring him, “Nothing will happen to you.”
Tender and harrowing, In the Absence of Men captures how exhilarating and heart-crushing it is to fall in love for the first time. Besson’s award-winning novel “beautifully captures the romance and amorality of gilded youth” (The Independent).
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As his family falls apart day by day, Robin finds himself pulling away from the unquestioned, unexamined life that has been carefully laid out for him. Small acts of rebellion lead to larger questions of what it means to stand on his own. Falling into a fevered triangle with two other outcasts, Todd Spicer and Scott Schatz, Robin embarks on an explosive odyssey of sexual self-discovery that will take him beyond the spring-green lawns of suburbia, beyond the fraying fabric barely holding together his quickly unraveling family, and into a complex future, beyond the world of normal boys.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sad and Amazing
- De Shaun England en 04-13-24
De: K.M. Soehnlein
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The New Life
- A Novel
- De: Tom Crewe
- Narrado por: Freddie Fox
- Duración: 13 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 75
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 75
In the summer of 1894, John Addington and Henry Ellis begin writing a book arguing that homosexuality, which is a crime at the time, is a natural, harmless variation of human sexuality. Though they have never met, John and Henry both live in London with their wives, Catherine and Edith, and in each marriage, there is a third party: John has a lover, a working-class man named Frank, and Edith spends almost as much time with her friend Angelica as she does with Henry.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant historical fiction
- De Shrewsie Shrew en 01-15-23
De: Tom Crewe
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A Language of Limbs
- A Novel
- De: Dylin Hardcastle
- Narrado por: Zoe Terakes, Aisha Dee, Sonya Cullingford
- Duración: 7 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia3 out of 5 stars 3
A Language of Limbs is a breathtaking spin on a will-they-won’t-they love story; it is a tender epic that explores the weight of a choice, the love of community, and how joy is found in even the darkest corners.
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1 out of 5 stars
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NOT a sliding doors story
- De JG, Shreveport, LA en 07-05-25
De: Dylin Hardcastle
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Just by Looking at Him
- A Novel
- De: Ryan O'Connell
- Narrado por: Ryan O'Connell
- Duración: 6 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 196
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 176
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 176
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, he can’t seem to stop cheating on his boyfriend with various sex workers, and his cerebral palsy is making him feel like gay Shrek.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must read
- De Matthew Walker en 06-08-22
De: Ryan O'Connell
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Swimming in the Dark
- A Novel
- De: Tomasz Jedrowski
- Narrado por: Will Watt
- Duración: 6 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,255
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,119
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,112
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 - a stunningly poetic and heartrending literary debut for fans of Andre Aciman, Garth Greenwell, and Alan Hollinghurst.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the Best Contemporary Novels Ever
- De Jeffrey veals en 05-11-20
De: Tomasz Jedrowski
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Florenzer
- De: Phil Melanson
- Narrado por: Krysten Peck
- Duración: 12 h
- Versión completa
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General0 out of 5 stars 0
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Narración:0 out of 5 stars 0
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Historia0 out of 5 stars 0
Leonardo da Vinci, twelve years old and a bastard, leaves the Tuscan countryside to join his father in Florence with dreams of becoming a painter. Francesco Salviati, also a bastard and scorned for his too-dark skin, dedicates himself to the Catholic Church with grand hopes of salvation. Towering above them both is Lorenzo de' Medici, barely a man, yet soon to be the patriarch of the world's wealthiest and most influential bank. Each of these young men harbors profound ambition, anxious to prove their potential to their superiors—and to themselves.
De: Phil Melanson
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Fellow Travelers
- De: Thomas Mallon
- Narrado por: Christian Barillas
- Duración: 14 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 142
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 126
In a world of bare-knuckled ideology and secret dossiers, Timothy Laughlin, a recent college graduate and devout Catholic, is eager to join the crusade against Communism. An encounter with a handsome State Department official, Hawkins Fuller, leads to Tim's first job and, after Fuller's advances, his first love affair.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The tying together of the story threads at the end.
- De Oscar Davila en 12-29-23
De: Thomas Mallon
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The Loves of My Life
- A Sex Memoir
- De: Edmund White
- Narrado por: Joel Froomkin
- Duración: 6 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 30
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 25
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 25
Written with White’s signature honesty, irreverence, and wit, The Loves of My Life is the culmination of a legend's life and work, a delightful and moving tour of over seventy years of being unabashedly gay and in love with love in all its forms.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Does not compare favorably to White's other books
- De Reader X en 04-03-25
De: Edmund White
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Holding the Man
- De: Timothy Conigrave
- Narrado por: Stephen Phillips
- Duración: 9 h y 51 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 243
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 223
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 223
The mid-'70s: at an all-boys Catholic school in Melbourne, Timothy Conigrave falls wildly and sweetly in love with the captain of the football team. So begins a relationship that weathers disapproval, separation and ultimately death. With honesty and insight, Holding the Man explores the highs and lows of any partnership and the strength of heart both men have to find when they test positive for HIV. This is a book as refreshing and uplifting as it is moving - a funny and sad and celebratory account of growing up gay.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Beautiful Love Story!
- De Lee Kelly en 09-08-16
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Deep House
- The Gayest Love Story Ever Told
- De: Jeremy Atherton Lin
- Narrado por: Jeremy Atherton Lin
- Duración: 10 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7
It’s 1996, and Jeremy Atherton Lin has met the boy of his dreams—a mumbling, starry-eyed Brit—just as, amid a media frenzy, US Congress prepares the Defense of Marriage Act, denying same-sex couples federal rights including immigration. The pair steals away to remote forests and vast deserts, London fashion shows and Berlin sex clubs, dinner parties, back alleys, East Village hotel rooms, and San Francisco dives. Finding no other way to stay together, they shack up illicitly among unlikely allies in a “city of refuge.”
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3 out of 5 stars
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Informative and intriguing
- De Adam Harper en 07-13-25
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Disorderly Men
- A Novel
- De: Edward Cahill
- Narrado por: Eric Fox
- Duración: 14 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 37
Three gay men in pre-Stonewall New York City find their fates thrown together in the police raid of a Village bar. The three men find themselves in a police wagon together, their hidden lives threatened to be revealed to the world. Blackmail, a private investigator, Gus’s disappearance, and Danny’s quest for retribution propel Disorderly Men to its piercing conclusion, as each man meets the boundaries of his own fear, love, and shame. The stakes for each are different, but all of them confront a fundamental question: How much happiness is he allowed to have . . .
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Sneailky Relatable Book!
- De John Latona en 10-09-23
De: Edward Cahill
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In Memoriam
- A Novel
- De: Alice Winn
- Narrado por: Christian Coulson
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 333
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 296
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 295
It’s 1914, and World War I is ceaselessly churning through thousands of young men on both sides of the fight. The violence of the front feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, safely ensconced in their idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. News of the heroic deaths of their friends only makes the war more exciting. Gaunt, half German, is busy fighting his own private battle—an all-consuming infatuation with his best friend, the glamorous, charming Ellwood—without a clue that Ellwood is pining for him in return
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing
- De Henry en 03-21-23
De: Alice Winn
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It's Not the End of the World
- A Novel
- De: Jonathan Parks-Ramage
- Narrado por: André Santana
- Duración: 11 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General3 out of 5 stars 9
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Narración:3 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia2.5 out of 5 stars 8
It's 2044 and life is bleak for many Americans, but not for Mason Daunt. Safe in his Los Angeles mansion, Mason can remain blissfully unaware of the relentless wildfires engulfing California, the proliferation of violent right-wing militias, and the rampant authoritarianism destroying American society. He's so rich, in fact, that he and his partner Yunho Kim are throwing a 100-person, $100,000 baby shower to celebrate their newborn-on-the-way.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Discombobulated
- De Marquis Vincent en 06-27-25
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Pioneer Summer
- A Novel
- De: Katerina Silvanova, Elena Malisova, Anne O. Fisher - translator
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 16 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General0 out of 5 stars 0
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Narración:0 out of 5 stars 0
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Historia0 out of 5 stars 0
Cowritten by a Ukrainian–Russian duo, Pioneer Summer reached such heights of popularity that Putin stepped in to ban it. Now this swoony romance will transport American listeners to another place and time and introduce them to one of the most memorable relationships of their lives.
De: Katerina Silvanova, y otros
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How We Named the Stars
- De: Andrés N. Ordorica
- Narrado por: Christian Barillas
- Duración: 10 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 22
When Daniel de La Luna arrives as a scholarship student at an elite East Coast university, he bears the weight of his family’s hopes and dreams—and the burden of sharing his late uncle’s name. Daniel flounders at first, but then Sam, his roommate, changes everything. As their relationship evolves from brotherly banter to something more intimate, Daniel soon finds himself in love with a man who helps him see himself in a new light. But just as their relationship takes flight, Daniel is pulled away, first by Sam’s hesitation and then by a brutal turn of events that changes Daniel’s life forever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Such a Beautifully written Book!!
- De Jayson Torres en 01-02-25
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These Violent Delights
- A Novel
- De: Micah Nemerever
- Narrado por: Michael Crouch
- Duración: 14 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 465
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 410
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 409
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. When he meets the worldly Julian in his freshman ethics class, Paul is immediately drawn to his classmate’s effortless charm. Paul sees Julian as his sole intellectual equal — an ally against the conventional world he finds so suffocating.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book. Hated it.
- De Abby en 06-18-21
De: Micah Nemerever
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Alec
- A Novel
- De: William di Canzio
- Narrado por: John Sackville
- Duración: 9 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 150
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 129
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 129
Di Canzio follows their story past the end of Maurice to the front lines of battle in World War I and beyond. Forster, who tried to write an epilogue about the future of his characters, was stymied by the radical change that the Great War brought to their world. With the hindsight of a century, di Canzio imagines a future for them and a past for Alec—a young villager possessed of remarkable passion and self-knowledge.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful continuation of Maurice
- De michaelforrest en 07-25-21