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Bestsellers
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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.
By: Anna Montague
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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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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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Thank you Jay Bell
- By Donnell Morina on 08-17-24
By: Jay Bell
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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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Major Disappointment!!
- By Anonymous User on 11-18-22
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Nevada
- A Novel
- By: Imogen Binnie
- Narrated by: Imogen Binnie
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Maria Griffiths is almost thirty and works at a used bookstore in New York City while trying to stay true to her punk values. She’s in love with her bike but not with her girlfriend, Steph. She takes random pills, but doesn’t inject anything except, when she remembers, estrogen....
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Soooo Good!!
- By storm baughman on 01-06-23
By: Imogen Binnie
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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.
By: Anna Montague
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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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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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Thank you Jay Bell
- By Donnell Morina on 08-17-24
By: Jay Bell
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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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Major Disappointment!!
- By Anonymous User on 11-18-22
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Nevada
- A Novel
- By: Imogen Binnie
- Narrated by: Imogen Binnie
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Maria Griffiths is almost thirty and works at a used bookstore in New York City while trying to stay true to her punk values. She’s in love with her bike but not with her girlfriend, Steph. She takes random pills, but doesn’t inject anything except, when she remembers, estrogen....
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Soooo Good!!
- By storm baughman on 01-06-23
By: Imogen Binnie
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Hooked from the beginning
- By David Young on 10-24-24
By: Maggie Thrash
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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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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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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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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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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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You Exist Too Much
- A Novel
- By: Zaina Arafat
- Narrated by: Zehra Jane Naqvi
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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On a hot day in Bethlehem, a 12-year-old Palestinian-American girl is yelled at by a group of men outside the Church of the Nativity. She has exposed her legs in a biblical city, an act they deem forbidden, and their judgement will echo on through her adolescence....
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Narrator is distractingly bad
- By K. Tannous on 09-11-20
By: Zaina Arafat
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Thin Girls
- A Novel
- By: Diana Clarke
- Narrated by: Jayme Mattler
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Rose and Lily Winters are twins, so close their bond is magical: They can feel each other’s emotions and taste the way the other is feeling. But their connection can be destructive. The sisters are yin and yang; when Rose stops eating, Lily starts....
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nothing special
- By Drine on 10-11-20
By: Diana Clarke
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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
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The Nothing Mage
- The Saga of the Nothing Mage, Book 1
- By: J. P. Valentine
- Narrated by: Spencer Dillehay
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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"There’s nothing there." The words may as well have been a death sentence to young Declan. Without mana, there could be no studying at the sky-piercing Pinnacle Towers, there could be no great monster hunts, and there could be no following in his father’s legendary footsteps....
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I had to return this book.
- By David R on 08-27-20
By: J. P. Valentine
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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 this sparkling novel of love, friendship, and chosen family 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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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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Pictures of You
- '90s Coming of Age, Book 1
- By: Leta Blake
- Narrated by: Michael Ferraiuolo
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Peter Mandel is an 18-year-old private school senior who’s passionate about photography and bent on keeping his attractions secret. Enter Adam Algedi, a charming, worldly guy who doesn't do labels, but does want to do Peter....
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Excellent coming of age story.
- By Mel on 09-09-23
By: Leta Blake
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Notes of a Crocodile
- By: Qiu Miaojin, Bonnie Huie - translator
- Narrated by: Jo Mei
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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The English-language premiere of Qiu Miaojin's coming-of-age novel about queer teenagers in Taiwan, a cult classic in China and winner of the 1995 China Times Literature Award....
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Heartbreak Like a Thousand Cuts
- By Susie Bright on 04-18-18
By: Qiu Miaojin, and others
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Pride High, Book 2
- Orange
- By: Jay Bell
- Narrated by: Talia Carver
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Welcome back to Pride High, where the delicious drama continues! Ricky tries to sort through his feelings for Diego—the hot guy who has been bullying him—and ends up in the middle of a feud....
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Amazing
- By Gregory Ras on 10-31-23
By: Jay Bell
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Kamikaze Boys
- By: Jay Bell
- Narrated by: Kirt Graves
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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My name is Connor Williams, and people say I’m crazy. But that’s not who I am. They also think I’m straight, mean, and dangerous. But that’s not who I am either....
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BEST BOOK IVE READ YET
- By Jen K. on 12-25-20
By: Jay Bell
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Something Like Stories: Volume Three
- Something Like, Book 12
- By: Jay Bell
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 18 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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"Something like Stars" playfully explores what would happen if someone made a movie about Ben, Tim, and Jace. Harold attempts to befriend Noah and Felix in "Something like Us", unrequited feelings challenging their relationship....
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No positive words for this
- By Bill on 01-24-21
By: Jay Bell
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The Amendments
- By: Niamh Mulvey
- Narrated by: Jessica Regan
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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A sweeping family saga, The Amendments tells the story of three Irish women and their struggles to find love, meaning and freedom against a backdrop of enormous social and cultural change as Ireland marks time with a series of abortion referendums....
By: Niamh Mulvey
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I Will Greet the Sun Again
- A Novel
- By: Khashayar J. Khabushani
- Narrated by: Sean Rohani
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Growing up in the San Fernando Valley with his two brothers, all K wants is to be “a boy from L.A.,” all American. But K—the youngest, named after a Persian king—knows there’s something different about himself....
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A slice of humanity
- By Amazon Customer on 07-06-24