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Thank You for Calling the Lesbian Line

by Elizabeth Lovatt ...

Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize for NonfictionA narrative blend of history, cultural criticism, and memoir in celebration of everyday queer women, based on a lesbian helpline that existed in North London in the nineties, and "a clear-eyed and moving addition to the still-expanding record of lesbian lives" (Publishers Weekly).With warmth and humour, Elizabeth Lovatt reimagines the women who ... Read more

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Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize for NonfictionA narrative blend of history, cultural criticism, and memoir in celebration of everyday queer women, based on a lesbian helpline that existed in North London in the nineties, and "a clear-eyed and moving addition to the still-expanding record of lesbian lives" (Publishers Weekly).With warmth and humour, Elizabeth Lovatt reimagines the women who
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Thank You For Calling the Lesbian Line

by Elizabeth Lovatt ...

Narrated by Roshaan Riyahi-Boni ...

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12 hours 12 min

An author creates a narrative blend of history, cultural criticism, and memoir in celebration of everyday queer women, based on a lesbian helpline that existed in North London in the nineties.With warmth and humour, Elizabeth Lovatt reimagines the women who called and volunteered for the Lesbian Line in the 1990s, whilst also tracing her own journey from accidentally coming out to disastrous dates ... Read more

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An author creates a narrative blend of history, cultural criticism, and memoir in celebration of everyday queer women, based on a lesbian helpline that existed in North London in the nineties.With warmth and humour, Elizabeth Lovatt reimagines the women who called and volunteered for the Lesbian Line in the 1990s, whilst also tracing her own journey from accidentally coming out to disastrous dates
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Speak, Okinawa

A Memoir

by Elizabeth Miki Brina ...

Narrated by Sachi Lovatt ...

Unabridged

8 hours 29 min

A “hauntingly beautiful memoir about family and identity” (NPR) and a young woman's journey to understanding her complicated parents—her mother an Okinawan war bride, her father a Vietnam veteran—and her own, fraught cultural heritage.Elizabeth's mother was working as a nightclub hostess on U.S.-occupied Okinawa when she met the American soldier who would become her husband. The language barrier ... Read more

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A “hauntingly beautiful memoir about family and identity” (NPR) and a young woman's journey to understanding her complicated parents—her mother an Okinawan war bride, her father a Vietnam veteran—and her own, fraught cultural heritage.Elizabeth's mother was working as a nightclub hostess on U.S.-occupied Okinawa when she met the American soldier who would become her husband. The language barrier
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Wreck and Order

A Novel

by Hannah Tennant-Moore ...

Narrated by Nicol Zanzarella ...

Unabridged

10 hours 57 min

A boldly candid, raw portrait of a young woman's search for meaning and purpose in an indifferent worldPurposefully aimless, self-destructive, and impulsively in and out of love, Elsie is a young woman who feels lost. She's in a tumultuous relationship, is stuck in a dead-end job, and has a relentless, sharp intelligence that’s at odds with her many bad decisions. When her initial attempts to ... Read more

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A boldly candid, raw portrait of a young woman's search for meaning and purpose in an indifferent worldPurposefully aimless, self-destructive, and impulsively in and out of love, Elsie is a young woman who feels lost. She's in a tumultuous relationship, is stuck in a dead-end job, and has a relentless, sharp intelligence that’s at odds with her many bad decisions. When her initial attempts to
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Holly Jolly July

by Lindsay Maple ...

Narrated by Lauren Sweet, Angelina Rocca ...

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10 hours 27 min

"We want to wrap this book up with a bow and leave it under everyone's tree this year. Lindsay Maple delivers a confection of holiday charm, small town quirk, tenderly sketched characters, and scorching heat." —Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone, USA TODAY bestselling authors of A Merry Little Meet CuteIt's the hottest Christmas on record...Like naughty and nice, Mariah and Ellie are complete ... Read more

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"We want to wrap this book up with a bow and leave it under everyone's tree this year. Lindsay Maple delivers a confection of holiday charm, small town quirk, tenderly sketched characters, and scorching heat." —Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone, USA TODAY bestselling authors of A Merry Little Meet CuteIt's the hottest Christmas on record...Like naughty and nice, Mariah and Ellie are complete
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City of a Thousand Gates

A Novel

by Bee Sacks ...

Narrated by Lameece Issaq ...

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13 hours 49 min

Anovel of great humanity, compassion and astonishing immediacy, this uniquedebut portrays the emotional reality of contemporary life in the West Bank andthe irreconcilable Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A collage of narrative voicesand different points of view are woven around the murder of two young people,one Israeli and one Palestinian.Brave and bold, this gorgeouslywritten work of fiction ... Read more

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Anovel of great humanity, compassion and astonishing immediacy, this uniquedebut portrays the emotional reality of contemporary life in the West Bank andthe irreconcilable Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A collage of narrative voicesand different points of view are woven around the murder of two young people,one Israeli and one Palestinian.Brave and bold, this gorgeouslywritten work of fiction
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State of Emergency

by Jeremy Tiang, Jeremy Tiang ...

Narrated by Chio Su Ping ...

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7 hours 44 min

Siew Li leaves her husband and children in Tiong Bahru to fight for freedom in the jungles of Malaya. Decades later, a Malaysian journalist returns to her homeland to uncover the truth of a massacre committed during the Emergency. And in Singapore, Siew Li's niece Stella finds herself accused of being a Marxist conspirator. Jeremy Tiang's debut novel dives into the tumultuous days of leftist ... Read more

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Siew Li leaves her husband and children in Tiong Bahru to fight for freedom in the jungles of Malaya. Decades later, a Malaysian journalist returns to her homeland to uncover the truth of a massacre committed during the Emergency. And in Singapore, Siew Li's niece Stella finds herself accused of being a Marxist conspirator. Jeremy Tiang's debut novel dives into the tumultuous days of leftist
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Shoutin' in the Fire

An American Epistle

by Danté Stewart ...

Narrated by Danté Stewart ...

Unabridged

6 hours 54 min

**A stirring meditation of being Black and learning to love in a loveless, anti-Black world“Only once in a lifetime do we come across a writer like Danté Stewart, so young and yet so masterful with the pen. This work is a thing to make dungeons shake and hearts thunder.”—Robert Jones, Jr., New York Times bestselling author of The Prophets**In Shoutin’ in the Fire, Danté Stewart gives breathtaking ... Read more

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**A stirring meditation of being Black and learning to love in a loveless, anti-Black world“Only once in a lifetime do we come across a writer like Danté Stewart, so young and yet so masterful with the pen. This work is a thing to make dungeons shake and hearts thunder.”—Robert Jones, Jr., New York Times bestselling author of The Prophets**In Shoutin’ in the Fire, Danté Stewart gives breathtaking
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Tides

by Sara Freeman ...

Narrated by Amy Rutherford ...

Unabridged

4 hours 21 min

Henfield Prize–winner and brilliant newcomer Sara Freeman debuts with an intoxicating, compact novel about a woman who walks out of her life and washes up in a seaside town.After a sudden, devastating loss, Mara flees her family and ends up adrift in a wealthy seaside town. Mired in her grief, Mara detaches from the outside world and spends her days of self-imposed exile scrounging for food and ... Read more

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Henfield Prize–winner and brilliant newcomer Sara Freeman debuts with an intoxicating, compact novel about a woman who walks out of her life and washes up in a seaside town.After a sudden, devastating loss, Mara flees her family and ends up adrift in a wealthy seaside town. Mired in her grief, Mara detaches from the outside world and spends her days of self-imposed exile scrounging for food and
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The Watermen

The Birth of American Swimming and One Young Man's Fight to Capture Olympic Gold

by Michael Loynd ...

Narrated by Will Damron ...

Unabridged

12 hours 36 min

**The feel-good underdog story of the first American swimmer to win Olympic gold, set against the turbulent rebirth of the modern Games, that “bring[s] to life an inspiring figure and illuminate[s] an overlooked chapter in America’s sports history” (The Wall Street Journal)“Once or twice in a decade, one of these stories . . . like Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken [or] Daniel Brown’s The Boys in the ... Read more

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**The feel-good underdog story of the first American swimmer to win Olympic gold, set against the turbulent rebirth of the modern Games, that “bring[s] to life an inspiring figure and illuminate[s] an overlooked chapter in America’s sports history” (The Wall Street Journal)“Once or twice in a decade, one of these stories . . . like Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken [or] Daniel Brown’s The Boys in the
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Motherest

A Novel

by Kristen Iskandrian ...

Narrated by Lauren Fortgang ...

Unabridged

9 hours 52 min

Marrying the sharp insights of Jenny Offill with the dark humor of Maria Semple, Motherest is an inventive and moving coming-of-age novel that captures the pain of fractured family life, the heat of new love, and the particular magic of the female friendship -- all through the lens of a fraying daughter-mother bond.It's the early 1990s, and Agnes is running out of people she can count on. A new ... Read more

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Marrying the sharp insights of Jenny Offill with the dark humor of Maria Semple, Motherest is an inventive and moving coming-of-age novel that captures the pain of fractured family life, the heat of new love, and the particular magic of the female friendship -- all through the lens of a fraying daughter-mother bond.It's the early 1990s, and Agnes is running out of people she can count on. A new
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So Many Stars

An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color

by Caro De Robertis ...

Narrated by Caro De Robertis ...

Unabridged

11 hours 37 min

From an acclaimed novelist, a first-of-its-kind, deeply personal, and moving oral history of a generation of trans and gender nonconforming elders of color—from leading activists to artists to ordinary citizens—who tell their own stories of breathtaking courage, cultural innovations, and acts of resistance.So Many Stars knits together the voices of trans, nonbinary, genderqueer, and two-spirit ... Read more

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From an acclaimed novelist, a first-of-its-kind, deeply personal, and moving oral history of a generation of trans and gender nonconforming elders of color—from leading activists to artists to ordinary citizens—who tell their own stories of breathtaking courage, cultural innovations, and acts of resistance.So Many Stars knits together the voices of trans, nonbinary, genderqueer, and two-spirit
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