- Literature & Fiction (5,254)
Best Sellers
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The House of Hidden Meanings
- A Memoir
- Written by: RuPaul
- Narrated by: RuPaul
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Central to RuPaul’s success has been his chameleonic adaptability. From drag icon to powerhouse producer of one of the world’s largest television franchises, RuPaul’s ever-shifting nature has always been part of his brand as both supermodel and supermogul.
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Excellent Listen
- By Tracey on 2024-03-13
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Burke's Law
- A Life in Hockey
- Written by: Brian Burke, Stephen Brunt - contributor
- Narrated by: Brian Burke
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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The gruffest man in hockey opens up about the challenges, the feuds, and the tragedies he's fought through....
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Wow
- By David Smith on 2020-11-22
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In the Form of a Question
- The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life
- Written by: Amy Schneider
- Narrated by: Amy Schneider
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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An inspirational and bold memoir from the most successful woman ever to compete on Jeopardy!—and an exploration of what it means to ask questions of the world and of yourself....
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A disappintment
- By Heather B on 2024-04-19
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This Much Is True
- Written by: Miriam Margolyes
- Narrated by: Miriam Margolyes
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Award-winning actor, creator of a myriad of memorable characters from Lady Whiteadder to Professor Sprout, Miriam Margolyes is a national treasure....
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Really enjoyable
- By MR A B GILBERT on 2023-11-12
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Amateur
- Written by: Thomas Page McBee
- Narrated by: Thomas Page McBee
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In this groundbreaking new book, the author, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity match at Madison Square Garden while struggling to untangle the vexed relationship between masculinity and violence....
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Wow
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-02-06
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Untamed
- Written by: Glennon Doyle
- Narrated by: Glennon Doyle
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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There is a voice of longing inside each woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good partners, daughters, mothers, employees, and friends. We hope all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed, and underwhelmed....
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Not what I expected
- By Pretty Pretty Pretty Pretty Good on 2020-03-11
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The House of Hidden Meanings
- A Memoir
- Written by: RuPaul
- Narrated by: RuPaul
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Central to RuPaul’s success has been his chameleonic adaptability. From drag icon to powerhouse producer of one of the world’s largest television franchises, RuPaul’s ever-shifting nature has always been part of his brand as both supermodel and supermogul.
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Excellent Listen
- By Tracey on 2024-03-13
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Burke's Law
- A Life in Hockey
- Written by: Brian Burke, Stephen Brunt - contributor
- Narrated by: Brian Burke
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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The gruffest man in hockey opens up about the challenges, the feuds, and the tragedies he's fought through....
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Wow
- By David Smith on 2020-11-22
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In the Form of a Question
- The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life
- Written by: Amy Schneider
- Narrated by: Amy Schneider
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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An inspirational and bold memoir from the most successful woman ever to compete on Jeopardy!—and an exploration of what it means to ask questions of the world and of yourself....
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A disappintment
- By Heather B on 2024-04-19
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This Much Is True
- Written by: Miriam Margolyes
- Narrated by: Miriam Margolyes
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Award-winning actor, creator of a myriad of memorable characters from Lady Whiteadder to Professor Sprout, Miriam Margolyes is a national treasure....
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Really enjoyable
- By MR A B GILBERT on 2023-11-12
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Amateur
- Written by: Thomas Page McBee
- Narrated by: Thomas Page McBee
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In this groundbreaking new book, the author, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity match at Madison Square Garden while struggling to untangle the vexed relationship between masculinity and violence....
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Wow
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-02-06
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Untamed
- Written by: Glennon Doyle
- Narrated by: Glennon Doyle
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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There is a voice of longing inside each woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good partners, daughters, mothers, employees, and friends. We hope all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed, and underwhelmed....
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Not what I expected
- By Pretty Pretty Pretty Pretty Good on 2020-03-11
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Care Of
- Letters, Connections, and Cures
- Written by: Ivan Coyote
- Narrated by: Ivan Coyote
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Writer and performer Ivan Coyote has spent decades on the road, telling stories around the world. For years, Ivan has kept a file of the most special communications received from readers and audience members....
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Incredible storytelling
- By Casey Smith on 2022-11-18
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Yours Cruelly, Elvira
- Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark
- Written by: Cassandra Peterson
- Narrated by: Cassandra Peterson
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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The woman behind the icon known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, the undisputed Queen of Halloween, reveals her full story, filled with intimate bombshells - and told by the bombshell herself....
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Love
- By Tessa on 2023-10-02
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How Far the Light Reaches
- A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
- Written by: Sabrina Imbler
- Narrated by: Sabrina Imbler
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journalist Sabrina Imbler has always been drawn to the mystery of life in the sea, and particularly to creatures living in hostile or remote environments....
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Beautifully written
- By Al Bailey on 2023-10-17
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The Risk It Takes to Bloom
- On Life and Liberation
- Written by: Raquel Willis
- Narrated by: Raquel Willis
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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A passionate, powerful memoir by trailblazing Black transgender activist Raquel Willis, The Risk It Takes to Bloom traces her life of transformation and her work towards collective liberation....
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Ten Steps to Nanette
- A Memoir Situation
- Written by: Hannah Gadsby
- Narrated by: Hannah Gadsby
- Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Gadsby grew up as the youngest of five children in an isolated town in Tasmania, where homosexuality was illegal until 1997....
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A thoughtful and affecting memoir
- By Notmyrealname on 2022-04-06
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Peyakow
- Reclaiming Cree Dignity
- Written by: Darrel J. McLeod
- Narrated by: William C. Wanzi, Wikcemna Yamni ake
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Brutally frank but buoyed throughout by McLeod’s unquenchable spirit, Peyakow is an inspiring account of triumph against unimaginable odds. McLeod’s perspective as someone whose career path has crossed both sides of the Indigenous/White chasm resonates with particular force....
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Compelling narrative
- By Margaret Michaels on 2022-06-20
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We Have Always Been Here
- A Queer Muslim Memoir
- Written by: Samra Habib
- Narrated by: Parmida Vand
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Samra Habib has spent most of their life searching for the safety to be themself. As an Ahmadi Muslim growing up in Pakistan, they faced regular threats from Islamic extremists who believed the small, dynamic sect to be blasphemous....
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Captivating Listen
- By Donald on 2020-07-29
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The Secrets of My Life
- A History
- Written by: Caitlyn Jenner
- Narrated by: Caitlyn Jenner - exclusive introduction, Erin Bennett
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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In this remarkable memoir, former Olympian and Kardashian family member Caitlyn Jenner reveals shocking and heartbreaking stories from her journey to become a transgender woman and fight for the LGBTQ+ community....
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Vanity Project
- By SunshineInPink on 2018-07-06
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The T in LGBT
- Everything You Need to Know About Being Trans
- Written by: Jamie Raines
- Narrated by: Jamie Raines, Shaaba Lotun
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Hey, I'm Jamie, a 29-year-old trans guy from the UK. I've been transitioning for 12 years now after realising I was trans (by accident!) at sixteen years old. I knew I was a boy since the age of four, but realised whilst growing up that I was different....
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Amazing
- By Jess on 2023-11-11
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Dry
- A Memoir
- Written by: Augusten Burroughs
- Narrated by: Augusten Burroughs
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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You may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs. You've seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants...
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One of the best
- By Sara Morrison on 2023-06-22
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Baggage
- Tales from a Fully Packed Life
- Written by: Alan Cumming
- Narrated by: Alan Cumming
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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There is absolutely no logical reason why I am here. The life trajectory my nationality and class and circumstances portended for me was not even remotely close to the one I now navigate. But logic is a science and living is an art....
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Brilliant…
- By Barbara M. on 2022-12-21
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Tranny
- Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout
- Written by: Laura Jane Grace, Dan Ozzi
- Narrated by: Laura Jane Grace
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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One of Billboard's 100 Greatest Music Books of All Time: The provocative transgender advocate and lead singer of the punk rock band Against Me! provides a searing account of her search for identity and her true self. It began in a bedroom in Naples, Florida....
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TSR
- By Anonymous User on 2023-11-17
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I Felt the End Before It Came
- Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah's Witness
- Written by: Daniel Allen Cox
- Narrated by: Daniel Allen Cox
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Daniel Allen Cox grew up with firm lines around what his religion considered unacceptable: celebrating birthdays and holidays, voting in elections, pursuing higher education, and other forays into independent thought....
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Marvelous
- By BlackWidow on 2023-06-18
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My Name's Yours, What's Alaska?
- A Memoir
- Written by: Alaska Thunderf--k 5000
- Narrated by: Alaska Thunderf--k 5000
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Alaska spills the tea on her meteoric rise from timid Pennsylvania kid to drag superstar in this intimate photographic memoir that will appeal to diehard Alaska admirers and broader drag fans alike....
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All the Alaska tea we wanted
- By Pelzbelz on 2021-11-12
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Tomboy Survival Guide
- Written by: Ivan Coyote
- Narrated by: Ivan Coyote
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Tomboy Survival Guide is a funny and moving memoir told in stories, in which Ivan recounts the pleasures and difficulties of growing up a tomboy in Canada's Yukon....
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Gratitude
- By Joseph on 2019-12-01
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Unbearable Lightness
- A Story of Loss and Gain
- Written by: Portia de Rossi
- Narrated by: Portia de Rossi
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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de Rossi weighed only 82 pounds when she collapsed on the set of the Hollywood film....
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Heartbreaking but insightful
- By B K on 2024-02-04
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Mean
- Written by: Myriam Gurba
- Narrated by: Myriam Gurba
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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True crime, memoir, and ghost story, Mean is the bold and hilarious tale of Myriam Gurba’s coming-of-age as a queer, mixed-race Chicana. Blending radical formal fluidity and caustic humor, Gurba takes on sexual violence, small towns, and race, turning what might be tragic into piercing, revealing comedy....
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How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
- Essays
- Written by: Alexander Chee
- Narrated by: Daniel K. Isaac
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is the author's manifesto on the entangling of life, literature, and politics, and how the lessons learned from a life spent reading and writing fiction have changed him....
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Boy Erased
- A Memoir
- Written by: Garrard Conley
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small-town Arkansas, as a young man Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about his sexuality....
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Beautifully written but the story was a bit slow.
- By Tracy on 2018-11-17
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Hijab Butch Blues
- A Memoir
- Written by: Lamya H
- Narrated by: Ashraf Shirazi
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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When fourteen-year-old Lamya H realizes she has a crush on her teacher—her female teacher—she covers up her attraction, an attraction she can’t yet name, by playing up her roles as overachiever and class clown....
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Cheffe d'oeuvre
- By Gaby Gagné on 2023-08-20
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Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies
- A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Other Four-Letter Words
- Written by: Michael Ausiello
- Narrated by: Michael Ausiello
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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For the past decade, TV fans of all stripes have counted upon Michael Ausiello's insider knowledge to get the scoop on their favorite shows and stars....
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BOGO audiobook (& movie review )
- By Jo-Ann L on 2022-12-24
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Mamaskatch
- A Cree Coming of Age
- Written by: Darrel J. McLeod
- Narrated by: William C. Wikcemna Yamni ake Wanzi
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Growing up in the tiny village of Smith, Alberta, Darrel J. McLeod was surrounded by his Cree family's history. In shifting and unpredictable stories, his mother, Bertha, shared narratives of their culture, their family, and the cruelty that she and her sisters endured....
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Engaging Memoir
- By Trish on 2018-10-10
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Naturally Tan
- A Memoir
- Written by: Tan France
- Narrated by: Tan France
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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In this heartfelt, funny, and touching memoir, one of the stars of Netflix’s Emmy Award-winning smash-hit Queer Eye reveals how an Englishman raised in a traditionally religious home became a fashion icon - and the first openly gay, South Asian man on television....
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Not exceptional
- By Daniel Snow on 2019-08-19
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Release the Beast
- A Drag Queen's Guide to Life
- Written by: Bimini Bon Boulash
- Narrated by: Bimini Bon Boulash
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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A hilarious and inspiring guide to transforming your life through lessons from drag, by the UK's favourite drag queen and star of RuPaul's Drag Race UK, Bimini Bon Boulash....
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bimini rocks!
- By tania on 2021-12-09
New Releases
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Homoflexible
- A Memoir on Polyamory
- Written by: Matthew James
- Narrated by: Matthew James
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Homoflexible opens with me finding my footing at the age of nineteen and takes the listener on an expedition spanning a decade worth of new beginnings, love, loss, and overall triumph. The journey is the destination as I met my husband and moved to Washington, DC where our open relationship evolved and we formed a thruple: three person relationship, with a female. I discover a belonging in the polyamorous community and find a new identity as homoflexible; primarily homosexual but with a limited amount of attraction to the opposite sex or willingness to take part in heterosexual activity.
Written by: Matthew James
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My Mother and Other Wild Animals
- An Essay
- Written by: Andrew Sean Greer
- Narrated by: Andrew Sean Greer
- Length: 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Andrew Sean Greer can’t wait to get home to San Francisco after a writer’s residency in Kansas. But when his mother, Sandra, decides to come along for the ride, he has a new goal: get her to crack a smile at every stop, whether breathtaking or breathtakingly kitschy. He’s always known his mother to be as efficient and serious as a chemist (which she happens to be), always in gray, eyebrow cocked, and handling challenges with grace. To mix things up, Andrew develops an elaborate itinerary of planned chaos.
Written by: Andrew Sean Greer
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Won’t Be Silent
- Embracing My Superpowers of Humor and Optimism to Survive Being Second-Generation Holocaust, Coming Out, Addiction, and Endless Unbelievable Obstacles
- Written by: Abe Gurko
- Narrated by: Abe Gurko
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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In his debut memoir, Won’t Be Silent, Abe Gurko invites you to join him in celebrating a life that he calls “finally worth living.” It’s an honest, rollicking ride filled with joyous and life-affirming as well as challenging, daunting, and heartbreaking situations that he navigates with aplomb, though not always.
Written by: Abe Gurko
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Remember Who the F*ck You Are
- Who Were You, Before the World Told You What to Be?
- Written by: Katie Dickieson
- Narrated by: Katie Dickieson
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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In the turbulent voyage of life, where traumas weigh like anchors and relationships often drift, Remember Who the F*ck You Are raises a clarion call: Keep Going. The message? Amidst life’s tempests, resilience is your compass, and tenacity, your sail. Expect a profound mix of raw vulnerability, tales that might sting with their familiarity, emotional peaks and valleys, and a sprinkle of humor to lighten the darkest corners.
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So real! So many beautiful insights and thought provoking ideas
- By olivia london on 2024-04-23
Written by: Katie Dickieson
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I Hope We Choose Love
- A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
- Written by: Kai Cheng Thom
- Narrated by: Nicky Endres
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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In a heartbreaking yet hopeful collection of personal essays and prose poems, blending the confessional, political, and literary, Kai Cheng Thom dives deep into the questions that haunt social movements today. With the author's characteristic eloquence and honesty, I Hope We Choose Love proposes heartfelt solutions on the topics of violence, complicity, family, vengeance, and forgiveness.
Written by: Kai Cheng Thom
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Big, Bold & Blunt
- Sexy Entertainer Sitdown, Book 1
- Written by: Justin Pyfrom, Jaxton Wheeler
- Narrated by: Jordan Chambers
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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An extensive interview with a veteran who has more than a decade in the adult industry. Learn about the brains behind the brawn as Jaxton Wheeler talks about his past, present, and future.
Written by: Justin Pyfrom, and others
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Homoflexible
- A Memoir on Polyamory
- Written by: Matthew James
- Narrated by: Matthew James
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Homoflexible opens with me finding my footing at the age of nineteen and takes the listener on an expedition spanning a decade worth of new beginnings, love, loss, and overall triumph. The journey is the destination as I met my husband and moved to Washington, DC where our open relationship evolved and we formed a thruple: three person relationship, with a female. I discover a belonging in the polyamorous community and find a new identity as homoflexible; primarily homosexual but with a limited amount of attraction to the opposite sex or willingness to take part in heterosexual activity.
Written by: Matthew James
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My Mother and Other Wild Animals
- An Essay
- Written by: Andrew Sean Greer
- Narrated by: Andrew Sean Greer
- Length: 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Andrew Sean Greer can’t wait to get home to San Francisco after a writer’s residency in Kansas. But when his mother, Sandra, decides to come along for the ride, he has a new goal: get her to crack a smile at every stop, whether breathtaking or breathtakingly kitschy. He’s always known his mother to be as efficient and serious as a chemist (which she happens to be), always in gray, eyebrow cocked, and handling challenges with grace. To mix things up, Andrew develops an elaborate itinerary of planned chaos.
Written by: Andrew Sean Greer
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Won’t Be Silent
- Embracing My Superpowers of Humor and Optimism to Survive Being Second-Generation Holocaust, Coming Out, Addiction, and Endless Unbelievable Obstacles
- Written by: Abe Gurko
- Narrated by: Abe Gurko
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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In his debut memoir, Won’t Be Silent, Abe Gurko invites you to join him in celebrating a life that he calls “finally worth living.” It’s an honest, rollicking ride filled with joyous and life-affirming as well as challenging, daunting, and heartbreaking situations that he navigates with aplomb, though not always.
Written by: Abe Gurko
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Remember Who the F*ck You Are
- Who Were You, Before the World Told You What to Be?
- Written by: Katie Dickieson
- Narrated by: Katie Dickieson
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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In the turbulent voyage of life, where traumas weigh like anchors and relationships often drift, Remember Who the F*ck You Are raises a clarion call: Keep Going. The message? Amidst life’s tempests, resilience is your compass, and tenacity, your sail. Expect a profound mix of raw vulnerability, tales that might sting with their familiarity, emotional peaks and valleys, and a sprinkle of humor to lighten the darkest corners.
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So real! So many beautiful insights and thought provoking ideas
- By olivia london on 2024-04-23
Written by: Katie Dickieson
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I Hope We Choose Love
- A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
- Written by: Kai Cheng Thom
- Narrated by: Nicky Endres
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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In a heartbreaking yet hopeful collection of personal essays and prose poems, blending the confessional, political, and literary, Kai Cheng Thom dives deep into the questions that haunt social movements today. With the author's characteristic eloquence and honesty, I Hope We Choose Love proposes heartfelt solutions on the topics of violence, complicity, family, vengeance, and forgiveness.
Written by: Kai Cheng Thom
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Big, Bold & Blunt
- Sexy Entertainer Sitdown, Book 1
- Written by: Justin Pyfrom, Jaxton Wheeler
- Narrated by: Jordan Chambers
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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An extensive interview with a veteran who has more than a decade in the adult industry. Learn about the brains behind the brawn as Jaxton Wheeler talks about his past, present, and future.
Written by: Justin Pyfrom, and others
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Becoming Me
- A Collection of Transgender Coming Out Stories
- Written by: Braxton Phoenix Stock
- Narrated by: Isabelle Newcom
- Length: 1 hr and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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“Becoming Me” is a collection of personal accounts of individuals who identify as transgender or non-binary, sharing their unique experiences of coming out to family, friends, and the wider community. This book aims to educate and inspire listeners about the diverse experiences of transgender people and to provide a supportive resource for those who may be struggling with their own gender identity.
Written by: Braxton Phoenix Stock
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The City Is Up for Grabs
- How Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Led and Lost a City in Crisis
- Written by: Gregory Royal Pratt
- Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Chicago is a world-class city, but it is also a city in crisis. Crime is up, schools have repeatedly shut down due to conflict between City Hall and the powerful teachers' union, and COVID-19 only deepened the entrenched poverty, institutional racism, and endless tug of war between the city's haves and have nots. For four years, the person at the center of this storm was Lori Lightfoot.
Written by: Gregory Royal Pratt
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No Son of Mine
- A Memoir
- Written by: Jonathan Corcoran
- Narrated by: Christopher P. Brown
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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In No Son of Mine, Corcoran traces his messy estrangement from his mother through lost geographies as well as the lost relationships with friends and family and the sense of home that were stripped away when she said he was no longer her son. Through grief, anger, questioning, and growth, Corcoran explores the entwined yet separate histories and identities of his mother and himself.
Written by: Jonathan Corcoran
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Outside Voices
- A Memoir of the Berkeley Revolution
- Written by: Joan Gelfand
- Narrated by: Sandy Rustin
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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On election day, Joan Gelfand casts her vote for George McGovern and boards a plane from New York to California. With one introduction to a woman musician, Joan’s journey to become a writer is born. Embraced by a thriving women’s community of artists, filmmakers, musicians, poets, and writers, Joan is encouraged to find her voice. Mentored by paradigm-changing writers, Joan finds the courage to face her darkest fears through poetry and art, mining the trauma she experienced after losing her father and questioning her Jewish identity.
Written by: Joan Gelfand
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Plain
- A Memoir of Mennonite Girlhood
- Written by: Mary Alice Hostetter
- Narrated by: Mary Helen Gallucci
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
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This quietly powerful memoir of longing and acceptance casts a humanizing eye on a little-understood American religious tradition and a woman's striving to grow within and beyond it.
Written by: Mary Alice Hostetter
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Majorly Special Book
- Written by: Joshua Lynch
- Narrated by: Joshua Lynch
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
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This is book about a man with MS who must learn to make light of his life to bring light to life. Josh got MS at the age of 28 and at that moment he was almost 400 lbs married, straight, and was in a dark place where he tried to commit suicide multiple times. But then he turned his life around and lost 200lbs, got a divorce, came out of the closet, and began stand-up comedy. This brought the light back into his life, gave him a platform to share his story and spread awareness about MS.
Written by: Joshua Lynch
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Run!
- My Story of LGBTQ+ Political Power, Equality, and Acceptance in Silicon Valley
- Written by: Ken Yeager Ph.D.
- Narrated by: Dave Cavllaro
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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Run! tells the story of how LGBTQ+ people in San Jose/Silicon Valley progressed from being political outcasts to becoming a force that gained political power, equality, and acceptance. Having lived and breathed queer activism for almost 40 years, Ken Yeager is uniquely positioned to tell the story of how this happened. The strategies he used and the lessons he learned will serve as a guide for activists organizing to counter the current uptick of anti-gay and anti-trans hostilities in their communities.
Written by: Ken Yeager Ph.D.
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Kissing Asphalt: The Courageous True Story of One Child's Unbreakable Spirit—From Kidnapping & Abuse to Self-Love
- ResilientAF, Book 1
- Written by: Delicia Niami
- Narrated by: Delicia Niami
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
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Resilience isn’t inherited. It’s a hard-fought skill forged by our ability to pick up the broken pieces of our past and remake them into something new. Meet four-year-old Delicia, a poor but carefree child who is about to have her world shattered. Along with her seven-year-old brother Nile, she is kidnapped from her Los Angeles home by her estranged father and taken to Iraq, a foreign world she has never known. This is just the beginning of a string of traumas, hardships, and assaults Delicia will endure throughout her tumultuous childhood.
Written by: Delicia Niami
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Candy Darling
- Dreamer, Icon, Superstar
- Written by: Cynthia Carr
- Narrated by: Justin Vivian Bond
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
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Growing up on Long Island, lonely and quiet and queer, she was enchanted by Hollywood starlets like Kim Novak. She found her turn in New York’s early Off-Off-Broadway theater scene, in Warhol’s films Flesh and Women in Revolt, and at the famed nightclub Max's Kansas City. She inspired songs by Lou Reed and the Rolling Stones. She became friends with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, borrowed a dress from Lauren Hutton, posed for Richard Avedon, and performed alongside Tennessee Williams in his own play.
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Breathtaking!
- By smcdonaldpoet on 2024-04-23
Written by: Cynthia Carr
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The House of Hidden Meanings
- A Memoir
- Written by: RuPaul
- Narrated by: RuPaul
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
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From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date—a brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance, found family, and self-acceptance. A profound introspection of his life, relationships, and identity, The House of Hidden Meanings is a self-portrait of the legendary icon on the road to global fame and changing the way the world thinks about drag.
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Excellent Listen
- By Tracey on 2024-03-13
Written by: RuPaul
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Radiant
- The Life and Line of Keith Haring
- Written by: Brad Gooch
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 18 hrs and 34 mins
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In the 1980s, the subways of New York City were covered with art. In the stations, black matte sheets were pasted over outdated ads, and unsigned chalk drawings often popped up on these blank spaces. These temporary chalk drawings numbered in the thousands and became synonymous with a city as diverse as it was at war with itself, beset with poverty and crime but alive with art and creative energy. And every single one of these drawings was done by Keith Haring.
Written by: Brad Gooch
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Strange Bird
- Who Broke Your Wing?
- Written by: Daniel Millard
- Narrated by: Tom Maxwell
- Length: 28 mins
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Strange Bird is a continuation on the very themes of my first 4 books. Addiction, trauma, baring my soul, yearning and searching, finding my way back to myself. Telling my truth even when it may feel like a bitter betrayal of the one I loved the most. Strange Bird is my hope that I can finally turn a corner and a page and an entire chapter and book of my life for something brand new. Strange Bird is a goodbye letter.
Written by: Daniel Millard