
Queer Stories by
Queer Voices
Queer Voices
Memoirs by Queer Canadian Authors
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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 her life searching for the safety to be herself. As an Ahmadi Muslim growing up in Pakistan, she faced regular threats from Islamic extremists who believed the small, dynamic sect to be blasphemous. From her parents, she internalized the lesson that revealing her identity could put her in grave danger. When her family came to Canada as refugees, Samra encountered a whole new host of challenges: Bullies, racism, the threat of poverty, and an arranged marriage.
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Terrible Narration!
- By Kiran Fatima on 2020-01-30
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I'm Afraid of Men
- Written by: Vivek Shraya
- Narrated by: Vivek Shraya
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Vivek Shraya has reason to be afraid. Throughout her life she's endured acts of cruelty and aggression for being too feminine as a boy and not feminine enough as a girl. In order to survive childhood, she had to learn to convincingly perform masculinity. As an adult, she makes daily compromises to steel herself against everything from verbal attacks to heartbreak. Now, with raw honesty, Shraya delivers an important record of the cumulative damage caused by misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia, releasing trauma from a body that has always refused to assimilate.
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amazing, must read feminist text
- By Jade Da Costa on 2018-09-04
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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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Overall
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Performance
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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 in residential school. Bertha taught him to be fiercely proud of his heritage and to listen to the birds that would return to watch over and guide him at key junctures of his life. However, in a spiral of events, Darrel's mother turned wild and unstable, and their home life became chaotic.
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Engaging Memoir
- By Trish on 2018-10-10
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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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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Ivan Coyote is a celebrated storyteller and the author of 10 previous books, including Gender Failure (with Rae Spoon) and One in Every Crowd, a collection for LGBT youth. 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, and how they learned to embrace their tomboy past while carving out a space for those of us who don't fit neatly into boxes or identities or labels.
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Insightful. And lovely
- By kadi on 2020-11-21
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High School
- Written by: Sara Quin, Tegan Quin
- Narrated by: Sara Quin, Tegan Quin
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
First loves, first songs, and the drugs and reckless high school exploits that fueled them - meet music icons Tegan and Sara as you’ve never known them before in this intimate and raw account of their formative years. A transcendent story of first loves and first songs, it captures the tangle of discordant and parallel memories of two sisters who grew up in distinct ways even as they lived just down the hall from one another. This is the origin story of Tegan and Sara.
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It may win you over
- By Natalie on 2019-10-30
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This Wound Is a World
- Written by: Billy-Ray Belcourt
- Narrated by: Billy-Ray Belcourt
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound Is a World is an invitation to “cut a hole in the sky / to world inside”. Belcourt issues a call to turn to love and sex to understand how Indigenous peoples shoulder their sadness and pain without giving up on the future. His poems upset genre and play with form, scavenging for a decolonial kind of heaven where “everyone is at least a little gay”.
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This Wound is a World
- By Melanie Craig on 2020-09-24
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This One Looks Like a Boy
- My Gender Journey to Life as a Man
- Written by: Lorimer Shenher
- Narrated by: Lorimer Shenher
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Since he was a small child, Lorimer Shenher knew something for certain: he was a boy. The problem was, he was growing up in a girl’s body. In this candid and thoughtful memoir, Shenher shares the story of his gender journey, from childhood gender dysphoria to teenage sexual experimentation to early-adult denial of his identity - and finally the acceptance that he is trans, culminating in gender reassignment surgery in his 50s. Along the way, he details his struggles with alcohol and becoming the first detective assigned to the case of serial killer Robert Pickton....
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Me, Myself, They
- Life Beyond the Binary
- Written by: Joshua M. Ferguson
- Narrated by: Joshua M. Ferguson
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Me, Myself, They: Life Beyond the Binary chronicles Joshua M. Ferguson’s extraordinary story of transformation to become the celebrated non-binary filmmaker, writer, and advocate for trans rights they are today. Beginning with their birth and early childhood years of gender creativity, Ferguson recounts the complex and challenging evolution of their identity, including traumatizing experiences with gender conversion therapy, bullying, depression, sexual assault, and violent physical assault. But Ferguson’s story is above all about survival, empathy, and self-acceptance.
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Amazing book
- By Under Ether on 2020-01-15
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Misfit
- Autistic. Gay. Immigrant. Changemaker.
- Written by: Andreas Souvaliotis
- Narrated by: Andreas Souvaliotis
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Andreas Souvaliotis was raised at a time when being on the autism spectrum wasn't easily diagnosed or even discussed. Minds like his were simply considered odd. He also knew from an early age he was gay, and it terrified him as he was growing up with openly homophobic parents in one of Europe's least tolerant societies. Andreas' differences made him an outsider, right through to his mid-40s. And then suddenly, everything changed. Misfit is the extraordinary memoir of a man who realized there was strength in his strangeness, that it could be used as a force for good.
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Misfit in every way
- By Anonymous User on 2019-04-14
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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
-
Overall
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Performance
-
Story
Samra Habib has spent most of her life searching for the safety to be herself. As an Ahmadi Muslim growing up in Pakistan, she faced regular threats from Islamic extremists who believed the small, dynamic sect to be blasphemous. From her parents, she internalized the lesson that revealing her identity could put her in grave danger. When her family came to Canada as refugees, Samra encountered a whole new host of challenges: Bullies, racism, the threat of poverty, and an arranged marriage.
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Terrible Narration!
- By Kiran Fatima on 2020-01-30
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I'm Afraid of Men
- Written by: Vivek Shraya
- Narrated by: Vivek Shraya
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Vivek Shraya has reason to be afraid. Throughout her life she's endured acts of cruelty and aggression for being too feminine as a boy and not feminine enough as a girl. In order to survive childhood, she had to learn to convincingly perform masculinity. As an adult, she makes daily compromises to steel herself against everything from verbal attacks to heartbreak. Now, with raw honesty, Shraya delivers an important record of the cumulative damage caused by misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia, releasing trauma from a body that has always refused to assimilate.
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amazing, must read feminist text
- By Jade Da Costa on 2018-09-04
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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
-
Overall
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Performance
-
Story
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 in residential school. Bertha taught him to be fiercely proud of his heritage and to listen to the birds that would return to watch over and guide him at key junctures of his life. However, in a spiral of events, Darrel's mother turned wild and unstable, and their home life became chaotic.
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Engaging Memoir
- By Trish on 2018-10-10
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Tomboy Survival Guide
- Written by: Ivan Coyote
- Narrated by: Ivan Coyote
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
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Performance
-
Story
Ivan Coyote is a celebrated storyteller and the author of 10 previous books, including Gender Failure (with Rae Spoon) and One in Every Crowd, a collection for LGBT youth. 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, and how they learned to embrace their tomboy past while carving out a space for those of us who don't fit neatly into boxes or identities or labels.
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Insightful. And lovely
- By kadi on 2020-11-21
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High School
- Written by: Sara Quin, Tegan Quin
- Narrated by: Sara Quin, Tegan Quin
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
-
Story
First loves, first songs, and the drugs and reckless high school exploits that fueled them - meet music icons Tegan and Sara as you’ve never known them before in this intimate and raw account of their formative years. A transcendent story of first loves and first songs, it captures the tangle of discordant and parallel memories of two sisters who grew up in distinct ways even as they lived just down the hall from one another. This is the origin story of Tegan and Sara.
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It may win you over
- By Natalie on 2019-10-30
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This Wound Is a World
- Written by: Billy-Ray Belcourt
- Narrated by: Billy-Ray Belcourt
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
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Performance
-
Story
Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound Is a World is an invitation to “cut a hole in the sky / to world inside”. Belcourt issues a call to turn to love and sex to understand how Indigenous peoples shoulder their sadness and pain without giving up on the future. His poems upset genre and play with form, scavenging for a decolonial kind of heaven where “everyone is at least a little gay”.
-
-
This Wound is a World
- By Melanie Craig on 2020-09-24
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This One Looks Like a Boy
- My Gender Journey to Life as a Man
- Written by: Lorimer Shenher
- Narrated by: Lorimer Shenher
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
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Performance
-
Story
Since he was a small child, Lorimer Shenher knew something for certain: he was a boy. The problem was, he was growing up in a girl’s body. In this candid and thoughtful memoir, Shenher shares the story of his gender journey, from childhood gender dysphoria to teenage sexual experimentation to early-adult denial of his identity - and finally the acceptance that he is trans, culminating in gender reassignment surgery in his 50s. Along the way, he details his struggles with alcohol and becoming the first detective assigned to the case of serial killer Robert Pickton....
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Me, Myself, They
- Life Beyond the Binary
- Written by: Joshua M. Ferguson
- Narrated by: Joshua M. Ferguson
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Me, Myself, They: Life Beyond the Binary chronicles Joshua M. Ferguson’s extraordinary story of transformation to become the celebrated non-binary filmmaker, writer, and advocate for trans rights they are today. Beginning with their birth and early childhood years of gender creativity, Ferguson recounts the complex and challenging evolution of their identity, including traumatizing experiences with gender conversion therapy, bullying, depression, sexual assault, and violent physical assault. But Ferguson’s story is above all about survival, empathy, and self-acceptance.
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Amazing book
- By Under Ether on 2020-01-15
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Misfit
- Autistic. Gay. Immigrant. Changemaker.
- Written by: Andreas Souvaliotis
- Narrated by: Andreas Souvaliotis
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
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Performance
-
Story
Andreas Souvaliotis was raised at a time when being on the autism spectrum wasn't easily diagnosed or even discussed. Minds like his were simply considered odd. He also knew from an early age he was gay, and it terrified him as he was growing up with openly homophobic parents in one of Europe's least tolerant societies. Andreas' differences made him an outsider, right through to his mid-40s. And then suddenly, everything changed. Misfit is the extraordinary memoir of a man who realized there was strength in his strangeness, that it could be used as a force for good.
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Misfit in every way
- By Anonymous User on 2019-04-14
Fiction by Queer Canadian Authors
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Little Fish
- A Novel
- Written by: Casey Plett
- Narrated by: A. Almeida
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
It's the dead of winter in Winnipeg and Wendy Reimer, a 30-year-old trans woman, feels like her life is frozen in place. When her Oma passes away Wendy receives an unexpected phone call from a distant family friend with a startling secret: Wendy's Opa (grandfather) - a devout Mennonite farmer - might have been transgender himself. At first she dismisses this revelation, but as Wendy's life grows increasingly volatile, she finds herself aching for the lost pieces of her Opa's truth.
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Exquisite Mariposa
- A Novel
- Written by: Fiona Alison Duncan
- Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Given the initials F.A.D. at birth, Fiona Alison Duncan has always had an eye for observing the trends around her. But after years of trying to please others, looking for answers in books and astrological charts, and clocking endless hours as a celebrity journalist just to make rent, Fiona discovers another way of existing: in the Real, a phenomenological state few humans live in.
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Room
- A Novel
- Written by: Emma Donoghue
- Narrated by: Michal Friedman, Ellen Archer, Robert Petkoff, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it's where he lives with his Ma. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it is the prison where Old Nick has held her captive for seven years. Through determination, ingenuity, and fierce motherly love, Ma has created a life for Jack. But she knows it's not enough...not for her or for him. She devises a bold escape plan, but what she does not realize is just how unprepared she is for the plan to actually work.
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Great story
- By Mary-Jane on 2020-01-20
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Monoceros
- A Novel
- Written by: Suzette Mayr
- Narrated by: Ramon De Ocampo
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
A seventeen-year-old boy, bullied and heartbroken, hangs himself. And although he felt terribly alone, his suicide changes everyone around him. His parents are devastated.
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Jonny Appleseed
- A Novel
- Written by: Joshua Whitehead
- Narrated by: Joshua Whitehead
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
A tour-de-force debut novel about a Two-Spirit Indigiqueer young man and proud NDN glitter princess who must reckon with his past when he returns home to his reserve. “You're gonna need a rock and a whole lotta medicine” is a mantra that Jonny Appleseed, a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer, repeats to himself in this vivid and utterly compelling debut novel by poet Joshua Whitehead.
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raw and emotional
- By Kim on 2021-02-25
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Sweetness in the Belly
- Written by: Camilla Gibb
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Lilly, the main character of Camilla Gibb’s stunning new novel, has anything but a stable childhood. The daughter of English/Irish hippies, she was “born in Yugoslavia, breast-fed in the Ukraine, weaned in Corsica, freed from nappies in Sicily and walking by the time [they] got to the Algarve...” The family’s nomadic adventure ends in Tangier when Lilly’s parents are killed in a drug deal gone awry. Orphaned at eight, Lilly is left in the care of a Sufi sheikh, who shows her the way of Islam through the Qur’an.
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The Subtweet
- A Novel
- Written by: Vivek Shraya
- Narrated by: Nisha Ahuja
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Everyone talks about falling in love, but falling in friendship can be just as captivating. When Neela Devaki's song is covered by internet-famous artist Rukmini, the two musicians meet and a transformative friendship begins. But as Rukmini's star rises and Neela's stagnates, jealousy and self-doubt creep in. With a single tweet, their friendship implodes, one career is destroyed, and the two women find themselves at the center of an internet firestorm.
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The Western Alienation Merit Badge
- A Novel
- Written by: Nancy Jo Cullen
- Narrated by: Saffron Henderson
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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Story
Set in Calgary in 1982, during the recession that arrived on the heels of Canada’s National Energy Program, The Western Alienation Merit Badge follows the Murray family as they struggle with grief and find themselves on the brink of financial ruin. After the death of her stepmother, Frances "Frankie" Murray returns to Calgary to help her father, Jimmy, and her sister, Bernadette, pay the mortgage on the family home. When Robyn, a long-lost friend, becomes their house guest, old tensions are reignited.
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Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars
- A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir
- Written by: Kai Cheng Thom
- Narrated by: Adri Almeida
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
A haunted young girl (who happens to be a kung-fu expert and pathological liar) runs away from an oppressive city, where the sky is always grey, in search of love and sisterhood - and finds herself in a magical place known only as the Street of Miracles. There, she is quickly adopted into a vigilante gang of glamorous warrior femmes called the Lipstick Lacerators, whose mission is to scour the Street of violent men and avenge murdered trans women everywhere. Can our intrepid heroine find the truth within herself in order to protect her new family and heal her broken heart?
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Little Fish
- A Novel
- Written by: Casey Plett
- Narrated by: A. Almeida
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
It's the dead of winter in Winnipeg and Wendy Reimer, a 30-year-old trans woman, feels like her life is frozen in place. When her Oma passes away Wendy receives an unexpected phone call from a distant family friend with a startling secret: Wendy's Opa (grandfather) - a devout Mennonite farmer - might have been transgender himself. At first she dismisses this revelation, but as Wendy's life grows increasingly volatile, she finds herself aching for the lost pieces of her Opa's truth.
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Exquisite Mariposa
- A Novel
- Written by: Fiona Alison Duncan
- Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Given the initials F.A.D. at birth, Fiona Alison Duncan has always had an eye for observing the trends around her. But after years of trying to please others, looking for answers in books and astrological charts, and clocking endless hours as a celebrity journalist just to make rent, Fiona discovers another way of existing: in the Real, a phenomenological state few humans live in.
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Room
- A Novel
- Written by: Emma Donoghue
- Narrated by: Michal Friedman, Ellen Archer, Robert Petkoff, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it's where he lives with his Ma. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it is the prison where Old Nick has held her captive for seven years. Through determination, ingenuity, and fierce motherly love, Ma has created a life for Jack. But she knows it's not enough...not for her or for him. She devises a bold escape plan, but what she does not realize is just how unprepared she is for the plan to actually work.
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Great story
- By Mary-Jane on 2020-01-20
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Monoceros
- A Novel
- Written by: Suzette Mayr
- Narrated by: Ramon De Ocampo
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
A seventeen-year-old boy, bullied and heartbroken, hangs himself. And although he felt terribly alone, his suicide changes everyone around him. His parents are devastated.
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Jonny Appleseed
- A Novel
- Written by: Joshua Whitehead
- Narrated by: Joshua Whitehead
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
A tour-de-force debut novel about a Two-Spirit Indigiqueer young man and proud NDN glitter princess who must reckon with his past when he returns home to his reserve. “You're gonna need a rock and a whole lotta medicine” is a mantra that Jonny Appleseed, a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer, repeats to himself in this vivid and utterly compelling debut novel by poet Joshua Whitehead.
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raw and emotional
- By Kim on 2021-02-25
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Sweetness in the Belly
- Written by: Camilla Gibb
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Lilly, the main character of Camilla Gibb’s stunning new novel, has anything but a stable childhood. The daughter of English/Irish hippies, she was “born in Yugoslavia, breast-fed in the Ukraine, weaned in Corsica, freed from nappies in Sicily and walking by the time [they] got to the Algarve...” The family’s nomadic adventure ends in Tangier when Lilly’s parents are killed in a drug deal gone awry. Orphaned at eight, Lilly is left in the care of a Sufi sheikh, who shows her the way of Islam through the Qur’an.
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The Subtweet
- A Novel
- Written by: Vivek Shraya
- Narrated by: Nisha Ahuja
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Everyone talks about falling in love, but falling in friendship can be just as captivating. When Neela Devaki's song is covered by internet-famous artist Rukmini, the two musicians meet and a transformative friendship begins. But as Rukmini's star rises and Neela's stagnates, jealousy and self-doubt creep in. With a single tweet, their friendship implodes, one career is destroyed, and the two women find themselves at the center of an internet firestorm.
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The Western Alienation Merit Badge
- A Novel
- Written by: Nancy Jo Cullen
- Narrated by: Saffron Henderson
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Set in Calgary in 1982, during the recession that arrived on the heels of Canada’s National Energy Program, The Western Alienation Merit Badge follows the Murray family as they struggle with grief and find themselves on the brink of financial ruin. After the death of her stepmother, Frances "Frankie" Murray returns to Calgary to help her father, Jimmy, and her sister, Bernadette, pay the mortgage on the family home. When Robyn, a long-lost friend, becomes their house guest, old tensions are reignited.
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Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars
- A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir
- Written by: Kai Cheng Thom
- Narrated by: Adri Almeida
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
A haunted young girl (who happens to be a kung-fu expert and pathological liar) runs away from an oppressive city, where the sky is always grey, in search of love and sisterhood - and finds herself in a magical place known only as the Street of Miracles. There, she is quickly adopted into a vigilante gang of glamorous warrior femmes called the Lipstick Lacerators, whose mission is to scour the Street of violent men and avenge murdered trans women everywhere. Can our intrepid heroine find the truth within herself in order to protect her new family and heal her broken heart?
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YA & Children's Titles by Queer Canadian Authors
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Unicorn Power!
- Lumberjanes, Book 1
- Written by: Mariko Tamaki
- Narrated by: Amanda Leigh Cobb
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Welcome to Miss Qiunzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet's Camp for Hardcore Lady Types. The five scouts of Roanoke cabin - Jo, April, Molly, Mal, and Ripley - love their summers at camp. They get to hang out with their best friends, earn Lumberjane scout badges, annoy their no-nonsense counselor Jen...and go on supernatural adventures. That last one? A pretty normal occurrence at Miss Qiunzella's, where the woods contain endless mysteries.
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When Everything Feels Like the Movies
- Written by: Raziel Reid
- Narrated by: Tom Picasso
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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School is just like a film set: there's The Crew, who make things happen; The Extras, who fill the empty desks; and The Movie Stars, whom everyone wants tagged in their Facebook photos. But Jude doesn't fit in. He's not part of The Crew because he isn't about to do anything unless it's court-appointed; he's not an Extra because nothing about him is anonymous; and he's not a Movie Star because even though everyone knows his name like an A-lister, he isn't invited to the cool parties.
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Kens
- Written by: Raziel Reid
- Narrated by: Raziel Reid
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Every high school has the archetypical Queen B and her minions. In Kens, the high school hierarchy has been reimagined. Willows High is led by Ken Hilton, and he makes Regina George from Mean Girls look like a saint. Ken Hilton rules Willows High with his carbon-copies, Ken Roberts and Ken Carson, standing next to his throne. It can be hard to tell the Kens apart. There are minor differences in each edition, but all Kens are created from the same mold, straight out of Satan's doll factory. Soul sold separately.
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The Goat
- Written by: Anne Fleming
- Narrated by: Michelle Monteith
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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When Kid accompanies her parents to New York City for a six-month stint of dog-sitting and home-schooling, she sees what looks like a tiny white cloud on the top of their apartment building. Rumor says there’s a goat living on the roof, but how can that be? As Kid soon discovers, a goat on the roof may be the least strange thing about her new home, whose residents are both strange and fascinating.
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10 Things I Can See From Here
- Written by: Carrie Mac
- Narrated by: Susannah Jones
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the poignant and uplifting story of Maeve, who is dealing with anxiety while falling in love with a girl who is not afraid of anything. Think positive. Don't worry; be happy. Keep calm and carry on. Maeve has heard it all before. She's been struggling with severe anxiety for a long time, and as much as she wishes it was something she could just talk herself out of, it's not.
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Mila and Laura
- Two Girls, Three Lesbian Romance Shorts
- Written by: Foxglove Lee
- Narrated by: Madeleine Mayfair
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Ever fall in love with your best friend? It turns your world upside down. Just ask Mila and Laura, two teens who realize they want to be more than just friends. But even if they surrender to love, can they ever find the courage to tell the world?
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Fruit
- A Novel About a Boy and His Nipples
- Written by: Brian Francis
- Narrated by: Brian Francis
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Peter Paddington is 13, overweight, the subject of his classmates' ridicule, and the victim of too many bad movie-of-the-week storylines. When Peter's nipples begin speaking to him one day and inform him of their diabolical plan to expose his secret desires to the world, Peter finds himself cornered in a world that seems to have no tolerance for difference. Peter's only solace is "The Bedtime Movies" - perfect-world fantasies that lull him to sleep every night.
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A good quick read
- By Joshua on 2019-12-03
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Scars
- Written by: Cheryl Rainfield
- Narrated by: Emily Bauer
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Fifteen-year-old Kendra hasn't felt safe since she began to recall devastating memories of childhood sexual abuse, especially because she still can't remember the most important detail: her abuser's identity. Frightened, Kendra believes someone is always watching and following her, leaving menacing messages only she understands. If she lets her guard down even for a minute, it could cost Kendra her life. To relieve the pressure, Kendra cuts; aside from her brilliantly expressive artwork, it's her only way of coping.
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Stained
- Written by: Cheryl Rainfield
- Narrated by: Emily Bauer, Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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An intensely powerful account of a teen, bullied for herport-wine stain, who must summon her personal strength to survive abduction andhorrific abuse at the hands of a deranged killer
Sixteen-year-old Sarah Meadows longs for "normal."Born with a port-wine stain covering half her face, she has beenplagued by stares, giggles, bullying, and disgust all her life. But when she's abducted onthe way home from school, Sarah is forced to uncover the courage she never knewshe had, become a hero rather than a victim, and learn to look beyond her faceto find the beauty and strength she has inside. It's that - or succumb to akiller.
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Unicorn Power!
- Lumberjanes, Book 1
- Written by: Mariko Tamaki
- Narrated by: Amanda Leigh Cobb
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Welcome to Miss Qiunzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet's Camp for Hardcore Lady Types. The five scouts of Roanoke cabin - Jo, April, Molly, Mal, and Ripley - love their summers at camp. They get to hang out with their best friends, earn Lumberjane scout badges, annoy their no-nonsense counselor Jen...and go on supernatural adventures. That last one? A pretty normal occurrence at Miss Qiunzella's, where the woods contain endless mysteries.
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When Everything Feels Like the Movies
- Written by: Raziel Reid
- Narrated by: Tom Picasso
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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School is just like a film set: there's The Crew, who make things happen; The Extras, who fill the empty desks; and The Movie Stars, whom everyone wants tagged in their Facebook photos. But Jude doesn't fit in. He's not part of The Crew because he isn't about to do anything unless it's court-appointed; he's not an Extra because nothing about him is anonymous; and he's not a Movie Star because even though everyone knows his name like an A-lister, he isn't invited to the cool parties.
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Kens
- Written by: Raziel Reid
- Narrated by: Raziel Reid
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Every high school has the archetypical Queen B and her minions. In Kens, the high school hierarchy has been reimagined. Willows High is led by Ken Hilton, and he makes Regina George from Mean Girls look like a saint. Ken Hilton rules Willows High with his carbon-copies, Ken Roberts and Ken Carson, standing next to his throne. It can be hard to tell the Kens apart. There are minor differences in each edition, but all Kens are created from the same mold, straight out of Satan's doll factory. Soul sold separately.
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The Goat
- Written by: Anne Fleming
- Narrated by: Michelle Monteith
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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When Kid accompanies her parents to New York City for a six-month stint of dog-sitting and home-schooling, she sees what looks like a tiny white cloud on the top of their apartment building. Rumor says there’s a goat living on the roof, but how can that be? As Kid soon discovers, a goat on the roof may be the least strange thing about her new home, whose residents are both strange and fascinating.
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10 Things I Can See From Here
- Written by: Carrie Mac
- Narrated by: Susannah Jones
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the poignant and uplifting story of Maeve, who is dealing with anxiety while falling in love with a girl who is not afraid of anything. Think positive. Don't worry; be happy. Keep calm and carry on. Maeve has heard it all before. She's been struggling with severe anxiety for a long time, and as much as she wishes it was something she could just talk herself out of, it's not.
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Mila and Laura
- Two Girls, Three Lesbian Romance Shorts
- Written by: Foxglove Lee
- Narrated by: Madeleine Mayfair
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Ever fall in love with your best friend? It turns your world upside down. Just ask Mila and Laura, two teens who realize they want to be more than just friends. But even if they surrender to love, can they ever find the courage to tell the world?
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Fruit
- A Novel About a Boy and His Nipples
- Written by: Brian Francis
- Narrated by: Brian Francis
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Peter Paddington is 13, overweight, the subject of his classmates' ridicule, and the victim of too many bad movie-of-the-week storylines. When Peter's nipples begin speaking to him one day and inform him of their diabolical plan to expose his secret desires to the world, Peter finds himself cornered in a world that seems to have no tolerance for difference. Peter's only solace is "The Bedtime Movies" - perfect-world fantasies that lull him to sleep every night.
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A good quick read
- By Joshua on 2019-12-03
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Scars
- Written by: Cheryl Rainfield
- Narrated by: Emily Bauer
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Fifteen-year-old Kendra hasn't felt safe since she began to recall devastating memories of childhood sexual abuse, especially because she still can't remember the most important detail: her abuser's identity. Frightened, Kendra believes someone is always watching and following her, leaving menacing messages only she understands. If she lets her guard down even for a minute, it could cost Kendra her life. To relieve the pressure, Kendra cuts; aside from her brilliantly expressive artwork, it's her only way of coping.
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Stained
- Written by: Cheryl Rainfield
- Narrated by: Emily Bauer, Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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An intensely powerful account of a teen, bullied for herport-wine stain, who must summon her personal strength to survive abduction andhorrific abuse at the hands of a deranged killer
Sixteen-year-old Sarah Meadows longs for "normal."Born with a port-wine stain covering half her face, she has beenplagued by stares, giggles, bullying, and disgust all her life. But when she's abducted onthe way home from school, Sarah is forced to uncover the courage she never knewshe had, become a hero rather than a victim, and learn to look beyond her faceto find the beauty and strength she has inside. It's that - or succumb to akiller.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy Titles by Queer Canadian Authors
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Midnight Robber
- Written by: Nalo Hopkinson
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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It's Carnival time and the Caribbean-colonized planet of Toussaint is celebrating with music, dance, and pageantry. Masked "Midnight Robbers" waylay revelers with brandished weapons and spellbinding words. To young Tan-Tan, the Robber Queen is simply a favorite costume to wear at the festival - until her power-corrupted father commits an unforgiveable crime. Suddenly, both father and daughter are thrust into the brutal world of New Half-Way Tree....
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robin miles!!
- By Mira martini on 2020-09-29
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The Tiger Flu
- A Novel
- Written by: Larissa Lai
- Narrated by: Lisa Truong, Grace Lynn Kung
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai - her first in 16 years - a community of parthenogenic women, sent into exile by patriarchal and corporate Salt Water City, go to war against disease, technology, and an economic system that threatens them with extinction. Kirilow is a doctor apprentice whose lover, Peristrophe, is a "starfish", a woman who can regenerate her own limbs and organs, which she uses to help her clone sisters whose organs are failing.
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Colony
- Written by: Leigh Matthews
- Narrated by: Alex Ford
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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The year is 2036, and Project Arche - an international endeavor to create a self-sustaining settlement on Mars - has sent the first wave of civilians to the planet. Silver Antara, flight engineer aboard the interplanetary transport ship, Octavia, has spent six months on the inhospitable planet, maintaining a roaming fleet of exploratory rovers looking for signs of water and, potentially, life. Almost 34 million miles from home, Silver has learned to shelter from solar storms and guard against radiation.
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Si-Fi Love
- By Dawna Silver on 2020-10-23
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This Is How You Lose the Time War
- Written by: Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
- Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell, Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandment finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, becomes something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future. Except the discovery of their bond would mean the death of each of them. There’s still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win. That’s how war works, right?
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Beautiful and challenging
- By Rachel on 2020-11-09
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Midnight Robber
- Written by: Nalo Hopkinson
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Story
It's Carnival time and the Caribbean-colonized planet of Toussaint is celebrating with music, dance, and pageantry. Masked "Midnight Robbers" waylay revelers with brandished weapons and spellbinding words. To young Tan-Tan, the Robber Queen is simply a favorite costume to wear at the festival - until her power-corrupted father commits an unforgiveable crime. Suddenly, both father and daughter are thrust into the brutal world of New Half-Way Tree....
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robin miles!!
- By Mira martini on 2020-09-29
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The Tiger Flu
- A Novel
- Written by: Larissa Lai
- Narrated by: Lisa Truong, Grace Lynn Kung
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai - her first in 16 years - a community of parthenogenic women, sent into exile by patriarchal and corporate Salt Water City, go to war against disease, technology, and an economic system that threatens them with extinction. Kirilow is a doctor apprentice whose lover, Peristrophe, is a "starfish", a woman who can regenerate her own limbs and organs, which she uses to help her clone sisters whose organs are failing.
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Colony
- Written by: Leigh Matthews
- Narrated by: Alex Ford
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
The year is 2036, and Project Arche - an international endeavor to create a self-sustaining settlement on Mars - has sent the first wave of civilians to the planet. Silver Antara, flight engineer aboard the interplanetary transport ship, Octavia, has spent six months on the inhospitable planet, maintaining a roaming fleet of exploratory rovers looking for signs of water and, potentially, life. Almost 34 million miles from home, Silver has learned to shelter from solar storms and guard against radiation.
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Si-Fi Love
- By Dawna Silver on 2020-10-23
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This Is How You Lose the Time War
- Written by: Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
- Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell, Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandment finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, becomes something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future. Except the discovery of their bond would mean the death of each of them. There’s still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win. That’s how war works, right?
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Beautiful and challenging
- By Rachel on 2020-11-09
Mysteries & Thrillers by Queer Canadian Authors
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The Middle Ground
- Rapid Reads
- Written by: Zoe Whittall
- Narrated by: Michelle Monteith
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Missy Turner thinks of herself as the most ordinary woman in the world. She has a lot to be thankful for - a great kid, a loving husband, a job she enjoys and the security of living in the small town where she was born. Then one day, everything gets turned upside down - she loses her job, catches her husband making out with the neighbor, and is briefly taken hostage by a young man who robs the local café. With her world rapidly falling apart, Missy finds herself questioning the certainties she's lived with her whole life.
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Pumpkin Eater
- A Dan Sharp Mystery
- Written by: Jeffrey Round
- Narrated by: Steve Cumyn
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Following an anonymous tip, missing persons investigator Dan Sharp makes a grisly find in a burned-out slaughterhouse in Toronto’s west end. Someone is targeting known sex offenders whose names and identities were released on the Internet. When an iconic rock star contacts Dan to keep from becoming the next victim, things take a curious turn.
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The Missing Comatose Woman
- Written by: Sarah Ettritch
- Narrated by: Jessica Geffen
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Private eye Casey Cook lands her first case, and it's a doozy: find a missing comatose woman. Eager to prove herself, Casey does whatever it takes to get answers, from pretending to be pregnant to fawning over a hairless cat. As she runs into one dead end after another, Casey wonders whether she should have left her retail job. Determined to show that she can do the PI thing, Casey refuses to give up, chases down every lead, and snags herself a girlfriend along the way.
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Stained
- Written by: Cheryl Rainfield
- Narrated by: Emily Bauer, Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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Story
An intensely powerful account of a teen, bullied for herport-wine stain, who must summon her personal strength to survive abduction andhorrific abuse at the hands of a deranged killer
Sixteen-year-old Sarah Meadows longs for "normal."Born with a port-wine stain covering half her face, she has beenplagued by stares, giggles, bullying, and disgust all her life. But when she's abducted onthe way home from school, Sarah is forced to uncover the courage she never knewshe had, become a hero rather than a victim, and learn to look beyond her faceto find the beauty and strength she has inside. It's that - or succumb to akiller.
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The Middle Ground
- Rapid Reads
- Written by: Zoe Whittall
- Narrated by: Michelle Monteith
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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Story
Missy Turner thinks of herself as the most ordinary woman in the world. She has a lot to be thankful for - a great kid, a loving husband, a job she enjoys and the security of living in the small town where she was born. Then one day, everything gets turned upside down - she loses her job, catches her husband making out with the neighbor, and is briefly taken hostage by a young man who robs the local café. With her world rapidly falling apart, Missy finds herself questioning the certainties she's lived with her whole life.
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Pumpkin Eater
- A Dan Sharp Mystery
- Written by: Jeffrey Round
- Narrated by: Steve Cumyn
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Following an anonymous tip, missing persons investigator Dan Sharp makes a grisly find in a burned-out slaughterhouse in Toronto’s west end. Someone is targeting known sex offenders whose names and identities were released on the Internet. When an iconic rock star contacts Dan to keep from becoming the next victim, things take a curious turn.
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The Missing Comatose Woman
- Written by: Sarah Ettritch
- Narrated by: Jessica Geffen
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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Story
Private eye Casey Cook lands her first case, and it's a doozy: find a missing comatose woman. Eager to prove herself, Casey does whatever it takes to get answers, from pretending to be pregnant to fawning over a hairless cat. As she runs into one dead end after another, Casey wonders whether she should have left her retail job. Determined to show that she can do the PI thing, Casey refuses to give up, chases down every lead, and snags herself a girlfriend along the way.
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Stained
- Written by: Cheryl Rainfield
- Narrated by: Emily Bauer, Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
An intensely powerful account of a teen, bullied for herport-wine stain, who must summon her personal strength to survive abduction andhorrific abuse at the hands of a deranged killer
Sixteen-year-old Sarah Meadows longs for "normal."Born with a port-wine stain covering half her face, she has beenplagued by stares, giggles, bullying, and disgust all her life. But when she's abducted onthe way home from school, Sarah is forced to uncover the courage she never knewshe had, become a hero rather than a victim, and learn to look beyond her faceto find the beauty and strength she has inside. It's that - or succumb to akiller.
An Author's Perspective
Essential LGBTQIA+ Fiction
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Juliet Takes a Breath
- A Gabby Rivera Novel
- Written by: Gabby Rivera
- Narrated by: Lillian Claire
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Juliet Milagros Palante is leaving the Bronx and headed to Portland, Oregon. She just came out to her family and isn't sure if her mom will ever speak to her again. But Juliet has a plan, sort of, one that's going to help her figure out this whole "Puerto Rican lesbian" thing. She's interning with the author of her favorite book: Harlowe Brisbane, the ultimate authority on feminism, women's bodies, and other gay-sounding stuff. Will Juliet be able to figure out her life over the course of one magical summer? Find out.
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Damn
- By Jeanette M. on 2021-01-03
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It's Not Like It's a Secret
- Written by: Misa Sugiura
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Sixteen-year-old Sana Kiyohara has too many secrets. Some are small, like how it bothers her when her friends don't invite her to parties. Some are big, like the fact that her father may be having an affair. And then there's the one that she can barely even admit to herself - the one about how she might have a crush on her best friend. When Sana and her family move to California, she begins to wonder if it's finally time for some honesty, especially after she meets Jamie Ramirez.
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Swimming in the Dark
- A Novel
- Written by: Tomasz Jedrowski
- Narrated by: Will M. 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 - a stunningly poetic and heartrending literary debut for fans of Andre Aciman, Garth Greenwell, and Alan Hollinghurst.
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All My Mother's Lovers
- A Novel
- Written by: Ilana Masad
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman, Ilana Masad
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Intimacy has always eluded 27-year-old Maggie Krause - despite being brought up by married parents, models of domestic bliss - until, that is, Lucia came into her life. But when Maggie’s mom, Iris, dies in a car crash, Maggie returns home only to discover a withdrawn dad, an angry brother, and, along with Iris' will, five sealed envelopes, each addressed to a mysterious man she’s never heard of. In an effort to run from her own grief and discover the truth about Iris - who made no secret of her discomfort with her daughter's sexuality - Maggie embarks on a road trip.
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Girl, Woman, Other
- Written by: Bernardine Evaristo
- Narrated by: Anna-Maria Nabirye
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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From one of Britain's most celebrated writers of color, Girl, Woman, Other is a magnificent portrayal of the intersections of identity and a moving and hopeful story of an interconnected group of black British women. Winner of the 2019 Booker Prize and short-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize, Girl, Woman, Other paints a vivid portrait of the state of post-Brexit Britain, as well as looking back to the legacy of Britain's colonial history in Africa and the Caribbean.
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Great book, captivating narrator
- By Sundip on 2020-01-16
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Enter the Aardvark
- Written by: Jessica Anthony
- Narrated by: Matt Amendt
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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It's early one morning on a hot day in August, and millennial congressman Alexander Paine Wilson (R), planning his first reelection campaign and in deep denial about his sexuality, receives a mysterious, over-sized FedEx delivery on his front stoop. Inside is a gigantic taxidermied aardvark. This outrageous, edge-of-your-seat novel hurtles between contemporary Washington, DC, where Wilson tries to get rid of the unsightly beast before it destroys his career, and Victorian England - where we meet Titus Downing, the taxidermist who stuffed the aardvark....
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offbeat, shrewd and hilarious political satire
- By Jackie on 2020-06-25
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The Seep
- Written by: Chana Porter
- Narrated by: Shakina Nayfack
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Trina FastHorse Goldberg-Oneka is a fifty-year-old trans woman whose life is irreversibly altered in the wake of a gentle--but nonetheless world-changing--invasion by an alien entity called The Seep. Through The Seep, everything is connected. Capitalism falls, hierarchies and barriers are broken down; if something can be imagined, it is possible. Trina and her wife, Deeba, live blissfully under The Seep’s utopian influence--until Deeba begins to imagine what it might be like to be reborn as a baby, which will give her the chance at an even better life.
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Docile
- Written by: K. M. Szpara
- Narrated by: Mark Sanderlin, Vikas Adam
- Length: 16 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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To be a Docile is to be kept, body and soul, for the uses of the owner of your contract. To be a Docile is to forget, to disappear, to hide inside your body from the horrors of your service. To be a Docile is to sell yourself to pay your parents' debts and buy your children's future. Elisha Wilder’s family has been ruined by debt, handed down to them from previous generations. His mother never recovered from the Dociline she took during her term as a Docile, so when Elisha decides to try and erase the family’s debt himself, he swears he will never take the drug.
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Great performances, difficult subject matter, a good effort but ultimately somewhat toothless.
- By Fraser Simons on 2020-04-13