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Bestsellers
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
- A Novel
- By: Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Narrated by: Alma Cuervo, Julia Whelan, Robin Miles
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life....
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Glucose Gluttony
- By W Perry Hall on 03-17-18
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The Little Stranger
- By: Sarah Waters
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 15 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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follows the strange adventures of Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country doctor....
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First, pour yourself a mug of hot tea or cocoa
- By Rose on 07-03-09
By: Sarah Waters
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Fellow Travelers
- By: Thomas Mallon
- Narrated by: Christian Barillas
- Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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AWFUL Snooze Fest
- By JWH on 12-27-23
By: Thomas Mallon
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The Wildes
- A Novel in Five Acts
- By: Louis Bayard
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers, Damian Lynch, P.J. Ochlan, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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From the bestselling author of The Pale Blue Eye comes a brilliantly profound and empathetic story about Oscar Wilde's wife Constance and their two sons in the aftermath of the famous playwright's imprisonment for homosexuality, told against the backdrop of Victorian England and World War I.
By: Louis Bayard
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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 Paying Guests
- By: Sarah Waters
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 21 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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From the best-selling author of The Little Stranger, an enthralling novel about a widow and her daughter who take a young couple into their home in 1920s London....
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Difference of Opinion
- By Mel on 12-17-14
By: Sarah Waters
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
- A Novel
- By: Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Narrated by: Alma Cuervo, Julia Whelan, Robin Miles
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life....
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Glucose Gluttony
- By W Perry Hall on 03-17-18
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The Little Stranger
- By: Sarah Waters
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 15 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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follows the strange adventures of Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country doctor....
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First, pour yourself a mug of hot tea or cocoa
- By Rose on 07-03-09
By: Sarah Waters
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Fellow Travelers
- By: Thomas Mallon
- Narrated by: Christian Barillas
- Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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AWFUL Snooze Fest
- By JWH on 12-27-23
By: Thomas Mallon
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The Wildes
- A Novel in Five Acts
- By: Louis Bayard
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers, Damian Lynch, P.J. Ochlan, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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From the bestselling author of The Pale Blue Eye comes a brilliantly profound and empathetic story about Oscar Wilde's wife Constance and their two sons in the aftermath of the famous playwright's imprisonment for homosexuality, told against the backdrop of Victorian England and World War I.
By: Louis Bayard
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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 Paying Guests
- By: Sarah Waters
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 21 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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From the best-selling author of The Little Stranger, an enthralling novel about a widow and her daughter who take a young couple into their home in 1920s London....
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Difference of Opinion
- By Mel on 12-17-14
By: Sarah Waters
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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 Mercies
- By: Kiran Millwood Hargrave
- Narrated by: Jessie Buckley
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Finnmark, Norway, 1617. Twenty-year-old Maren Magnusdatter stands on the craggy coast, watching the sea break into a sudden and reckless storm. Forty fishermen, including her brother and father, are drowned and left broken on the rocks below....
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The Mercies is a Strong and Moving Story, Not to be Missed
- By Lenore Poyer on 02-29-20
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The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
- By: Natasha Pulley
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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1883. Thaniel Steepleton returns home to his tiny London apartment to find a gold pocket watch on his pillow. Six months later, the mysterious timepiece saves his life, drawing him away from a blast that destroys Scotland Yard....
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I enjoyed the book very much.
- By Darryll Collins on 11-29-22
By: Natasha Pulley
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The New Life
- A Novel
- By: Tom Crewe
- Narrated by: Freddie Fox
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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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.
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Brilliant historical fiction
- By Shrewsie Shrew on 01-15-23
By: Tom Crewe
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The Boy in the Rain
- By: Stephanie Cowell
- Narrated by: Philip Battley
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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It is 1903 in the English countryside when Robbie, a shy young art student, meets the twenty-nine-year-old Anton who is running from memories of his brutal childhood and failed marriage. Within months, they begin a love affair that will never let them go....
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An entrancing, unforgettable journey into the past
- By echolocation345 on 09-08-23
By: Stephanie Cowell
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Our Evenings
- A Novel
- By: Alan Hollinghurst
- Narrated by: Prasanna Puwanarajah
- Length: 16 hrs
- Unabridged
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From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Booker Prize, a piercing novel of modern England through the lens of one man’s acutely observed experiences.
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The Binding
- A Novel
- By: Bridget Collins
- Narrated by: Carl Prekopp
- Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Young Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a strange letter arrives summoning him away from his family. He is to begin an apprenticeship as a bookbinder - a vocation that arouses fear, superstition, and prejudice among their small community....
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Just wow
- By RUKiddingMee on 05-18-19
By: Bridget Collins
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The World of Normal Boys
- A Novel
- By: K.M. Soehnlein
- Narrated by: Blake Kevin Dwyer
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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Sweet but maybe a little too sexy
- By Richard Stewart on 04-27-23
By: K.M. Soehnlein
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My Policeman
- A Novel
- By: Bethan Roberts
- Narrated by: Piers Hampton, Emma Powell
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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In this evocative portrait of midcentury England, Bethan Roberts reimagines the real-life relationship the novelist E. M. Forster had with a policeman, Bob Buckingham, and his wife....
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Just beautiful
- By Leighann Litcher on 09-19-22
By: Bethan Roberts
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A Sweet Sting of Salt
- A Novel
- By: Rose Sutherland
- Narrated by: Aven Shore
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Once a young woman uncovers a dark secret about her neighbor and his mysterious new wife, she’ll have to fight to keep herself—and the woman she loves—safe in this stunning queer reimagining of the classic folktale....
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Exciting and Romantic
- By Lissa Sloan on 06-08-24
By: Rose Sutherland
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Backwards to Oregon
- By: Jae
- Narrated by: Hayden Bishop
- Length: 15 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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“Luke” Hamilton has always been sure she’d never marry. She accepted that she would spend her life alone when she chose to live her life disguised as a man....
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Backwards to Oregon
- By Lynette on 03-24-19
By: Jae
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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
- By: Jeanette Winterson
- Narrated by: Jeanette Winterson
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Jeanette is a bright and rebellious orphan who is adopted into an evangelical household in the dour, industrial North of England and finds herself embroidering grim religious mottoes and shaking her little tambourine for Jesus. But she insists on listening to truths of her own heart....
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quirky and odd
- By Kelly on 01-06-20
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Disorderly Men
- A Novel
- By: Edward Cahill
- Narrated by: Eric Fox
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Three gay men in pre-Stonewall New York City find their fates thrown together in the police raid of a Village bar.
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A Sneailky Relatable Book!
- By John Latona on 10-09-23
By: Edward Cahill
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The Gangster
- Magic & Steam, Book 2
- By: C.S. Poe
- Narrated by: Declan Winters
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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1881 - Special Agent Gillian Hamilton, magic caster for the Federal Bureau of Magic and Steam, has recovered from injuries obtained while in Shallow Grave, Arizona. Now back in New York City, Gillian makes an arrest on New Year’s Eve that leads to information on a gangster....
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Why...
- By Manduh on 04-25-23
By: C.S. Poe
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The Queen of Fourteenth Street
- By: Barrie Kreinik
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik, Orlagh Cassidy, Imani Jade Powers, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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New York City, 1932: Eva Le Gallienne is trying to save her theatre company from the jaws of the Depression by mounting an innovative new production of Alice in Wonderland. She agrees to give a radio interview for the sake of publicity....
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Engaging and thoughtful
- By Briana Yacavone on 07-07-24
By: Barrie Kreinik
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Our Hideous Progeny
- A Novel
- By: C.E. McGill
- Narrated by: Florence Howard
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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The 1850s are a time of discovery, and London is ablaze with the latest scientific theories and debates, especially when a spectacular new exhibition of dinosaur sculptures opens at the Crystal Palace.
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Incredible
- By M on 07-19-23
By: C.E. McGill
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Orphan Number Eight
- A Novel
- By: Kim van Alkemade
- Narrated by: Andi Arndt, Ginny Auer
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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In 1919, Rachel Rabinowitz is a vivacious four-year-old living with her family in a crowded tenement on New York City's Lower East Side....
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Stopped after a few hours
- By Tamara on 01-03-20
By: Kim van Alkemade
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Briefly, a Delicious Life
- By: Nell Stevens
- Narrated by: Ferdelle Capistrano
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1473, fourteen-year-old Blanca dies in a hilltop monastery in Mallorca. Nearly four hundred years later, when George Sand, her two children, and her lover Frederic Chopin arrive in the village, Blanca is still there....
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Solid book
- By Jeremy K on 11-19-22
By: Nell Stevens
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Last Barrel
- A Speakeasy Novel, 3
- By: Stacy Lynn Miller
- Narrated by: Lori Prince
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Three years after Whiskey War, Dax and Rose live the high life at the Foster House, running the poshest speakeasy on the west coast. Half Moon Bay is about to claim its place as the top tourist destination in Northern California.
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Great
- By Sab on 07-14-24
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The World Unseen
- By: Shamim Sarif
- Narrated by: Lisa Ray
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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In apartheid South Africa, free-spirited young Amina has broken all the rules of her own conventional community by running a café....
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Wayvdifferet then the film!! Awesome
- By keishie23 on 04-09-18
By: Shamim Sarif
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The Power of the Dog
- A Novel
- By: Thomas Savage, Annie Proulx - afterword
- Narrated by: Chad Michael Collins, Annie Proulx
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Now an Academy Award-winning Netflix film by Jane Campion, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst: Thomas Savage's acclaimed Western is "a pitch-perfect evocation of time and place" (Boston Globe) for fans of East of Eden and Brokeback Mountain....
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Abrupt Ending and Hard to Follow Story
- By Trevor on 09-08-21
By: Thomas Savage, and others
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Eryx: A Spartan Tale
- By: Jaclyn Osborn
- Narrated by: Adam Stubbs
- Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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My father once told me, above all else...Live and die for Sparta. Honor. Loyalty. Duty. These were the things that mattered most. And then Axios came into my life, teaching me other lessons: Humility, brotherhood...love....
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I cried a river
- By Cole on 02-20-21
By: Jaclyn Osborn
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The Soldier's Scoundrel
- By: Cat Sebastian
- Narrated by: Gary Furlong
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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A scoundrel who lives in the shadows. A soldier untarnished by vice. Two men meant only for each other....
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So well written!
- By Cate F. on 12-31-16
By: Cat Sebastian
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The Prophets
- By: Robert Jones Jr.
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Isaiah was Samuel's and Samuel was Isaiah's. That was the way it was since the beginning, and the way it was to be until the end....
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LOVED IT
- By Des on 04-18-21
By: Robert Jones Jr.
New releases
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Beautiful Dreamers
- By: Minrose Gwin
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s 1953 when Memory Feather and her mother, Virginia, are welcomed back home to the Mississippi Gulf Coast community of Belle Cote by Virginia’s childhood friend Mac McFadden, whose verve and energy buoy the recently divorced Virginia to embrace this new chapter. Memory (“Mem”) is unlike other girls: she is attuned to the voices of plants and animals and is missing two fingers on her twisted left hand. The three of them knit their lives together and become a close, though unconventional, family.
By: Minrose Gwin
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Song of the Sea Witch
- By: Will Forest
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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In the seventeenth-century Caribbean, there aren’t many reasons to wear clothes, but there are plenty of reasons to fight the slavers who profit from cotton. When Eddie Fife’s old flame Susanna appears in Port Royal with her landowner father, the trials and tribulations steam and spark to a smoking-hot finale. Eddie and his growing family, Oshuna and her courageous community, and Captain Barlo with his crew of bare buccaneers are all back in Song of the Sea Witch, the rollicking, frolicking sequel to Skinners by Will Forest. Will Forest, a Nude Scribe, is the author of the naturist ...
By: Will Forest
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Spitting Gold
- A Novel
- By: Carmella Lowkis
- Narrated by: Katherine Press
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Paris, 1866: When Baroness Sylvie Devereux receives a house call from Charlotte Mothe, the sister she disowned, she fears her shady past as a spirit medium has caught up with her. But with their father ill and Charlotte unable to pay his bills, Sylvie is persuaded into one last con. Their marks are the de Jacquinots: dysfunctional aristocrats who believe they are haunted by their great aunt, brutally murdered during the French Revolution.
By: Carmella Lowkis
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Hidden Truths
- By: Jae
- Narrated by: Hayden Bishop
- Length: 16 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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“Luke” Hamilton has been living as a husband and father for the past 17 years. No one but her wife, Nora, knows she is not the man she appears to be. They have raised their daughters to become honest and hard-working young women, but even with their loving foundation, Amy and Nattie are hiding their own secrets. Just as Luke sets out on a dangerous trip to Fort Boise, a newcomer arrives on the ranch - Rika Aaldenberg, who traveled to Oregon as a mail-order bride, hiding that she’s not the woman in the letters.
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Fabulous!
- By MissLynn on 04-08-20
By: Jae
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Wingmen
- By: Ensan Case
- Narrated by: Adam Schulmerich
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Jack Hardigan's Hellcat fighter squadron blew the Japanese Zekes out of the blazing Pacific skies. But a more subtle kind of hell was brewing in his feelings for rookie pilot Fred Trusteau. While a beautiful widow pursues Jack, and another pilot becomes suspicious of Jack and Fred's close friendship, the two heroes cut a fiery swath through the skies from Wake Island to Tarawa to Truk, there to keep a fateful rendezvous with love and death in the blood-clouded waters of the Pacific
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I am speechless
- By Victor C. on 10-23-20
By: Ensan Case
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Fall of Man in Wilmslow
- By: David Lagercrantz
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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June 8, 1954. Several English nationals have defected to the USSR, while a witch hunt for homosexuals rages across Britain. In these circumstances, no one is surprised when a mathematician by the name of Alan Turing is found dead in his home in the sleepy suburb of Wilmslow. It is widely assumed that he has committed suicide, unable to cope with the humiliation of a criminal conviction for gross indecency. But a young detective constable, Leonard Corell, who once dreamed of a career in higher mathematics, suspects greater forces are involved.
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Subtly engaging!
- By Gigeote on 05-26-16
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Beautiful Dreamers
- By: Minrose Gwin
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s 1953 when Memory Feather and her mother, Virginia, are welcomed back home to the Mississippi Gulf Coast community of Belle Cote by Virginia’s childhood friend Mac McFadden, whose verve and energy buoy the recently divorced Virginia to embrace this new chapter. Memory (“Mem”) is unlike other girls: she is attuned to the voices of plants and animals and is missing two fingers on her twisted left hand. The three of them knit their lives together and become a close, though unconventional, family.
By: Minrose Gwin
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Song of the Sea Witch
- By: Will Forest
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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In the seventeenth-century Caribbean, there aren’t many reasons to wear clothes, but there are plenty of reasons to fight the slavers who profit from cotton. When Eddie Fife’s old flame Susanna appears in Port Royal with her landowner father, the trials and tribulations steam and spark to a smoking-hot finale. Eddie and his growing family, Oshuna and her courageous community, and Captain Barlo with his crew of bare buccaneers are all back in Song of the Sea Witch, the rollicking, frolicking sequel to Skinners by Will Forest. Will Forest, a Nude Scribe, is the author of the naturist ...
By: Will Forest
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Spitting Gold
- A Novel
- By: Carmella Lowkis
- Narrated by: Katherine Press
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Paris, 1866: When Baroness Sylvie Devereux receives a house call from Charlotte Mothe, the sister she disowned, she fears her shady past as a spirit medium has caught up with her. But with their father ill and Charlotte unable to pay his bills, Sylvie is persuaded into one last con. Their marks are the de Jacquinots: dysfunctional aristocrats who believe they are haunted by their great aunt, brutally murdered during the French Revolution.
By: Carmella Lowkis
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Hidden Truths
- By: Jae
- Narrated by: Hayden Bishop
- Length: 16 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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“Luke” Hamilton has been living as a husband and father for the past 17 years. No one but her wife, Nora, knows she is not the man she appears to be. They have raised their daughters to become honest and hard-working young women, but even with their loving foundation, Amy and Nattie are hiding their own secrets. Just as Luke sets out on a dangerous trip to Fort Boise, a newcomer arrives on the ranch - Rika Aaldenberg, who traveled to Oregon as a mail-order bride, hiding that she’s not the woman in the letters.
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Fabulous!
- By MissLynn on 04-08-20
By: Jae
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Wingmen
- By: Ensan Case
- Narrated by: Adam Schulmerich
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Jack Hardigan's Hellcat fighter squadron blew the Japanese Zekes out of the blazing Pacific skies. But a more subtle kind of hell was brewing in his feelings for rookie pilot Fred Trusteau. While a beautiful widow pursues Jack, and another pilot becomes suspicious of Jack and Fred's close friendship, the two heroes cut a fiery swath through the skies from Wake Island to Tarawa to Truk, there to keep a fateful rendezvous with love and death in the blood-clouded waters of the Pacific
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I am speechless
- By Victor C. on 10-23-20
By: Ensan Case
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Fall of Man in Wilmslow
- By: David Lagercrantz
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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June 8, 1954. Several English nationals have defected to the USSR, while a witch hunt for homosexuals rages across Britain. In these circumstances, no one is surprised when a mathematician by the name of Alan Turing is found dead in his home in the sleepy suburb of Wilmslow. It is widely assumed that he has committed suicide, unable to cope with the humiliation of a criminal conviction for gross indecency. But a young detective constable, Leonard Corell, who once dreamed of a career in higher mathematics, suspects greater forces are involved.
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Subtly engaging!
- By Gigeote on 05-26-16
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Skybound
- By: Aleksandr Voinov
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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The Third Reich is on its knees as Allied forces bomb Berlin to break the last resistance. Yet on an airfield near Berlin, the battle is far from over for a young mechanic, Felix, who's attached to a squadron of fighter pilots. He's especially attached to fighter ace Baldur Vogt, a man he admires and secretly loves. But there's no room for love at the end of the world, never mind in Nazi Germany.
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Something Completely Different But Just As Good
- By HP Reader on 09-18-16
By: Aleksandr Voinov
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The Devil That Broke Us
- The Devil Series, Book 3
- By: S.C. Wilson
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Saydah
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Jesse McGinnis has it all - the woman she loves, two beautiful children, a successful career. But when news comes of the massacre on Mount Perish, will it lead her on a collision course with disaster? Will Jesse reach the mountain in time to save any members of the Ponak tribe? Will she come to her senses and return home, or will she walk away, protecting her children from her safely guarded secret?
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Outstanding Story!!
- By Kindle Customer on 03-09-24
By: S.C. Wilson
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Mike and the Spring Awakening
- By: Bonnie Dee, Summer Devon
- Narrated by: Cornell Collins
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Young Micah "Mike" Cordett's privileged life explodes when he is caught naked with a schoolmate. Running away from disgrace, he blunders into a trap in a seamy part of London and endures months of abuse before escaping. But with the help of the Andrews family, he's begun to climb out of his fear. Yet, when a reminder of his happier past erupts into his life in the form of Lucas Spring, Mike's not certain he's ready to face the remnants of the charmed life he'd once enjoyed. He's certainly not ready for love.
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Oh, poor Mike!
- By Kay on 04-16-23
By: Bonnie Dee, and others
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The Winkler Case
- Elliot Blake Novels, Book 1
- By: David Greene
- Narrated by: Kale Williams
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1940s Chicago, when insurance salesman Elliot Blake calls at the home of fight promoter Walt Winkler to sell him a new insurance policy, it's handsome boxer Vito who comes to the door. Vito wants something from Elliot, but it's not car insurance. In this gay story inspired by the classic noir novel Double Indemnity, obsessive desire unfolds in an unexpected direction. It's not a remake. You'll never see what's coming.
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Average all the way round
- By Atldeuce on 05-30-23
By: David Greene
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Letters Never Sent
- By: Sandra Moran
- Narrated by: Lisa Larsen
- Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Three women, united by love and kinship, struggle to conform to the social norms of the times in which they live. In 1931 Katherine Henderson leaves behind her small town in Kansas and the marriage proposal of a local boy to live on her own and work at the Sears & Roebuck glove counter in Chicago. There she meets Annie - a bold, outspoken feminist who challenges Katherine's idea of who she thinks she is and what she thinks she wants in life.
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Wonderful
- By jeepsteeler on 05-02-15
By: Sandra Moran
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The Wife in the Attic
- By: Rose Lerner
- Narrated by: Elsa Lepecki Bean
- Length: 16 hrs and 18 mins
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Goldengrove’s towers and twisted chimneys rose at the very edge of the peaceful Weald, a stone’s throw from the poisonous marshes and merciless waters of Rye Bay. Young Tabby Palethorp had been running wild there, ever since her mother grew too ill to leave her room. I was the perfect choice to give Tabby a good English education: thoroughly respectable and far too plain to tempt her lonely father, Sir Kit, to indiscretion. I knew better than to trust my new employer with the truth about my past. But knowing better couldn’t stop me from yearning for impossible things.
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MEH
- By Pamela Hepburn on 02-14-21
By: Rose Lerner
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All the World Beside
- A Novel
- By: Garrard Conley
- Narrated by: Pete Cross, Garrard Conley
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Cana, Massachusetts: a utopian vision of 18th-century Puritan New England. To the outside world, Reverend Nathaniel Whitfield and his family stand as godly pillars of their small-town community, drawing Christians from across the New World into their fold. One such Christian, physician Arthur Lyman, discovers in the minister’s words a love so captivating it transcends language. As the bond between these two men grows more and more passionate, their families must contend with a tangled web of secrets, lies, and judgments which threaten to destroy them in this world and the next.
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Couldn't listen to any more preaching!
- By Swellguy22 on 04-20-24
By: Garrard Conley
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Inga's Zigzags
- By: Vica Miller
- Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Inga Belova leaves NYC for post-perestroika Moscow to launch her own business. She falls in love with two women along the way. Gary Shteyngart says, “If you're going to read one bisexual management consulting Russian novel this year, please, dear god, make it this one."
By: Vica Miller
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The Book of Salt
- By: Monique Truong
- Narrated by: J. Paul Boehmer
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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In Paris, 1934, Bính has accompanied his employers, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, to the train station for their departure to America. His own destination is unclear: will he go with "the Steins", stay in France, or return to his native Vietnam? Bính has fled his homeland in disgrace, leaving behind his malevolent charlatan of a father and his self-sacrificing mother. For five years, he has been the live-in cook at the famous apartment at 27 rue de Fleurus.
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Beautiful novel, poor reading
- By Kate Georgia on 10-27-20
By: Monique Truong
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O Pioneers!
- By: Willa Cather
- Narrated by: Barbara McCulloh
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Life was hard on the Nebraska prairie, but for Alexandra Bergson, daughter of a Swedish immigrant family, her love of the land gave her courage and strength. When Alexandra's father dies, she takes over the care of her family and management of the farm, so that the Bergsons can stay in the place they've chosen for their home. O Pioneers! tells the story of a remarkable heroine, and draws on Cather's own experience growing up on the lonely and wild American prairies.
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Lifted and carried lightly by some one very strong
- By Darwin8u on 03-24-13
By: Willa Cather
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Orlando
- A Biography
- By: Virginia Woolf
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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At the beginning of Virginia Woolf's fantastical and satirical 1928 novel, Orlando is a young nobleman in Elizabethan, England. At the age of 30, Orlando awakens to have found he's now a woman. Moving through the following centuries, the novel stretches over 300 years, during which time Orlando meets several key figures of English literary history.
By: Virginia Woolf
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Undiscovered Country
- A Novel Inspired by the Lives of Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok
- By: Kelly O'Connor McNees
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1932, New York City, top reporter Lorena "Hick" Hickok starts each day with a front page byline - and finishes it swigging bourbon and planning her next big scoop. But an assignment to cover FDR's campaign - and write a feature on his wife, Eleanor - turns Hick's hard-won independent life on its ear. Soon, her work, and the secret entanglement with the new first lady, will take her from New York and Washington to Scotts Run, West Virginia, where impoverished coal miners' families wait in fear that the New Deal's promised hope will pass them by.
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Frenzy of Desire
- By: John B. Thompson
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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A forbidden love, a desperate choice, a frenzy of desire... Laurent is torn by her physical desire for Dan, her friend and doctor, and for Elsie, a woman who offers an exciting, forbidden love that makes her tremble just imaginng it. To make a decision, she must discover what her true nature is...which she can only know by experiencing, and satisfying, both of her lusts in a frenzy of desire. And then she meets Johnny...who changes everything. John B. Thompson (1911-1994) was an under-appreciated author of sharply observant, brilliantly-written stories, primarily set in the deep south in ...
By: John B. Thompson
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The Boy I Love
- The Boy I Love, Book 1
- By: Marion Husband
- Narrated by: Ben Elliot
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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The story is set in the aftermath of World War One. Paul Harris, still frail after shellshock, returns to his father’s home and to the arms of his secret lover, Adam. He discovers that Margot, the fiancée of his dead brother, is pregnant and marries her through a sense of loyalty. Through Adam he finds work as a schoolteacher; while setting up a home with Margot he continues to see Adam.
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Well done
- By Delah on 03-03-13
By: Marion Husband
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The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov
- By: Paul Russell
- Narrated by: Ken Kliban
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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In his novel based on the extraordinary life of the gay brother of Vladimir Nabokov, Paul Russell re-creates the rich and changing world in which Sergey, his family, and friends lived; from wealth and position in prerevolutionary Russia, to the halls of Cambridge University, and the Parisian salon of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. But it is the honesty and vulnerability of Sergey, our young gay narrator, that hook the reader.
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Bringng Sergey Nabokov to Light
- By Susie on 01-28-13
By: Paul Russell
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Eryx: A Spartan Tale
- By: Jaclyn Osborn
- Narrated by: Adam Stubbs
- Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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My father once told me, above all else...Live and die for Sparta. Honor. Loyalty. Duty. These were the things that mattered most. And then Axios came into my life, teaching me other lessons: Humility, brotherhood...love. There were moments when the brutal training stripped me of my humanity, where it turned me into a mindless beast of flesh and muscle set to destroy everything in my way. But then Axios stood in my way, ever vigilant, never failing to bring me back to myself. Love had no place in Sparta, they said. It made you weak. So why did I feel stronger with him by my side?
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I cried a river
- By Cole on 02-20-21
By: Jaclyn Osborn
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Where Oblivion Lives
- By: T. Frohock
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Born of daimon and angel, Diago Alvarez is a being unlike all others. The embodiment of dark and light, he has witnessed the good and the horror of this world and those beyond. In the supernatural war between angels and daimons that will determine humankind’s future, Diago has chosen Los Nefilim, the sons and daughters of angels who possess the power to harness music and light. As the forces of evil gather, Diago must locate the Key, the special chord that will unite the nefilim’s voices, giving them the power to avert the coming civil war between the Republicans and Nationalists.
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well-written, moving historical fantasy
- By MC on 05-22-19
By: T. Frohock
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My Policeman
- A Novel
- By: Bethan Roberts
- Narrated by: Piers Hampton, Emma Powell
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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It is in 1950s Brighton that Marion first catches sight of Tom. He teaches her to swim, gently guiding her through the water in the shadow of the city's famous pier, and Marion is smitten - determined her love alone will be enough for them both. A few years later, near the Brighton Museum, Patrick meets Tom. Patrick is besotted, and opens Tom's eyes to a glamorous, sophisticated new world of art, travel, and beauty. The two lovers must share him, until one of them breaks and three lives are destroyed.
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Just beautiful
- By Leighann Litcher on 09-19-22
By: Bethan Roberts
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Swearing Off Stars
- A Novel
- By: Danielle M. Wong
- Narrated by: Charlie Emmeline Albers, Emily Lawrence
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Amelia Cole—Lia for short—is one of the first women studying abroad at Oxford University in the 1920s. Finally free from her overbearing Brooklyn parents, she finds a welcome sense of independence in British college life. Lia quickly falls for Scarlett Daniels, an aspiring actress and hardheaded protester. Scarlett introduces her to an exciting gender-equality movement with high stakes. But when their secret love clashes with political uprising, their relationship is one of the casualties.
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I am Sad...Very Sad in fact
- By Anonymous User on 03-15-24
By: Danielle M. Wong
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The Queen of Steeplechase Park
- By: David Ciminello
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Ashby
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Pregnant at fifteen after gleefully losing her virginity to pansexual neighborhood strongman Francis Anthony Mozzarelli, she is robbed of her baby by a pack of nefarious nuns and her embittered papa has her sterilized without her consent (legal in 1935). With the help of a besotted Francis and her top-secret meatball recipe, a devastated Bella embarks on a riotous quest through Depression-era Coney Island sideshows, the tawdry world of peek-a-boo striptease routines, a queer mob marriage, and a tasty collection of wisdom-filled recipes to find her lost child, herself, and maybe even true love.
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Omg I hav÷ never a Good time with a BOOK!!!!!
- By M. Pinnock on 08-25-24
By: David Ciminello
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The Gentleman and the Rogue
- By: Summer Devon, Bonnie Dee
- Narrated by: Jasper de Montfort
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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When Sir Alan Watleigh goes searching for sex, he never imagines the street rat he brings home for one last bit of pleasure in his darkest hour will be the man who hauls him back from the edge of the grave. A single night of meaningless sex turns into an offer of permanent employment. Jem acts as Alan's valet, but offers him so much more than polished boots and starched cravats.
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Can't get into this
- By Candateshia Pafford on 06-11-13
By: Summer Devon, and others
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Brothers of the Wild North Sea
- By: Harper Fox
- Narrated by: Hamish Long
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Hundreds of years ago, on a wild sea coast, two bold-hearted men met in combat and love...This is the story of Caius, a Christian monk struggling to reconcile his sensual nature with his newfound faith, and of Fenrir, a ferocious Viking raider abandoned by his comrades and left for dead. When Caius takes pity on the wounded man, his brethren are horrified: what kind of wolf has Cai brought into the fold?
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Cai and Fen, Captivating
- By Placeholder on 01-24-18
By: Harper Fox
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A Sweet Sting of Salt
- A Novel
- By: Rose Sutherland
- Narrated by: Aven Shore
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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When a sharp cry wakes Jean in the middle of the night during a terrible tempest, she’s convinced it must have been a dream. But when the cry comes again, Jean ventures outside and is shocked by what she discovers—a young woman in labor, drenched to the bone in the bitter cold and able to speak barely a word of English.
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Exciting and Romantic
- By Lissa Sloan on 06-08-24
By: Rose Sutherland
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The King Must Die
- By: Mary Renault
- Narrated by: Michael York
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
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This is the classic story of the young Theseus - Prince of Troizen, King of Eleusis and Athens, slayer of the Minotaur. Mary Renault's powerful novel captures the modern imagination by weaving myth, legend, history, and fiction into the story of a young hero's search for his destiny, or moira. If you like The King Must Die, try The Bull from the Sea.
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Sad treatment for a classic of historical fiction
- By S Blair on 05-09-03
By: Mary Renault