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The Vanishing Half
By: Brit Bennett
Narrated by: Shayna Small
Length: 11 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES • THE WASHINGTON POST • NPR • PEOPLE • TIME MAGAZINE • VANITY FAIR • GLAMOUR
New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
2021 WOMEN'S PRIZE FINALIST
“Bennett’s tone and style recalls James Baldwin and... Read more


Light From Uncommon Stars
By: Ryka Aoki
Narrated by: Cindy Kay
Length: 13 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
"Cindy Kay masterfully narrates this unique audiobook, which combines a variety of genres to tell a moving story of self-acceptance and finding safety even in the bleakest of times." - AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award review
Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in Ryka Aoki's Light From Uncommon Stars, a defiantly joyful... Read more


How Far the Light Reaches
By: Sabrina Imbler
Narrated by: Sabrina Imbler
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
A fascinating tour of creatures from the surface to the deepest ocean floor: this "miraculous, transcendental book" invites us to envision wilder, grander, and more abundant possibilities for the way we live (Ed Yong, author of An Immense World). A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation... Read more
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Detransition, Baby
By: Torrey Peters
Narrated by: Renata Friedman
Length: 12 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The lives of three women—transgender and cisgender—collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires in “one of the most celebrated novels of the year” (Time)
“Reading this novel is like holding a live wire in your hand.”—Vulture
One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st... Read more


Infinity Alchemist
By: Kacen Callender
Narrated by: Wes Haas
Length: 13 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Infinity Alchemist is a spellbinding fantasy novel about a quest that leads three young alchemists toward dangerous truth, legendary love, and extraordinary power.
With their signature "prowess" (FIYAH) and "unbridled creativity" (New York Times Book Review), acclaimed author Kacen Callender turns their formidable skill to young adult fantasy... Read more


The Thirty Names of Night
By: Zeyn Joukhadar
Narrated by: Samy Figaredo & Lameece Issaq
Length: 9 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction
Winner of the ALA Stonewall Book Award—Barbara Gittings Literature Award
Named Best Book of the Year by Bustle
Named Most Anticipated Book of the Year by The Millions, Electric Literature, and HuffPost
From the award-winning author of The Map of Salt and Stars, a new novel about three... Read more


The In-Between Bookstore
By: Edward Underhill
Narrated by: Shaan Dasani
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
“What would you tell your teen self if you could go back in time? Underhill’s tender, innovative debut is the smartest take on this trope I’ve ever read. . . and for the record, I read it in a single sitting. A beautiful, thoughtful study of how we find our truest selves, and whom we choose to trust with that gift.” — Jodi Picoult, #1 New York... Read more
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Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars
By: Kai Cheng Thom
Narrated by: Adri Almeida
Length: 4 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
At once a love letter and challenge to the traditional transgender memoir, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars is a playful, surrealist dance through queer coming of age.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... Read more
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Mutual Aid
By: Dean Spade
Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
Length: 4 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Around the globe, people are faced with a spiraling succession of crises, from the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change-induced fires, floods, and storms to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, racist policing, brutal immigration enforcement, endemic gender violence, and severe wealth inequality. As governments fail to respond to—or... Read more
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Transgender History, second edition
By: Susan Stryker
Narrated by: Emily Cauldwell
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events. Chapters cover the transsexual and transvestite communities in the years following World War II; trans... Read more
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The Sunbearer Trials
By: Aiden Thomas
Narrated by: André Santana
Length: 13 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
"Listeners will be captivated by the detailed descriptions of the cities within Reino del Sol and the fantastical beings who inhabit them. Santana keeps the tension in his narration taut as Teo wrestles with both physical challenges and his own feelings of inferiority." - AudioFile Magazine
Welcome to The Sunbearer Trials, where teen semidioses... Read more


Celestial Monsters
By: Aiden Thomas
Narrated by: André Santana
Length: 12 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
"Listeners will be captivated...André Santana keeps the tension in his narration taut as Teo wrestles with both physical challenges and his own feelings of inferiority." —AudioFile on The Sunbearer Trials
New York Times-bestselling author Aiden Thomas returns to the beloved world of The Sunbearer Trials in Celestial Monsters, a heart-stopping... Read more


Cemetery Boys
By: Aiden Thomas
Narrated by: Avi Roque
Length: 13 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
This program includes a bonus conversation with the author.
A trans boy determined to prove his gender to his traditional Latinx family summons a ghost who refuses to leave in Aiden Thomas's paranormal YA debut Cemetery Boys, described by Entertainment Weekly as "groundbreaking."
Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can't get rid of him.
When... Read more


Pet
By: Akwaeke Emezi
Narrated by: Christopher Myers
Length: 5 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
National Book Award Finalist
Stonewall Book Award Winner
"[A] beautiful, genre-expanding debut...Pet is a nesting doll of creative possibilities." (The New York Times)
The award-winning, genre-defying novel by the New York Times best-selling author of The Death of Vivek Oji that explores themes of identity and justice and asks: How do you share the... Read more


Falling Back in Love with Being Human
By: Kai Cheng Thom
Narrated by: Kai Cheng Thom
Length: 1 hour 34 minutes
Abridged: No
A national bestseller in Canada, hailed by The New York Times as an “intimate expression of self-acceptance and forgiveness, tenderly written to fellow trans women and others.”
“Required reading.”—Glennon Doyle, #1 bestselling author of Untamed
A THEM AND AUTOSTRADDLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • FINALIST FOR THE PAT LOWTHER MEMORIAL AWARD
What happens... Read more


The Death of Vivek Oji
By: Akwaeke Emezi
Narrated by: Yetide Badaki & Chukwudi Iwuji
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
A Good Morning America Buzz Pick
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Electrifying." — O: The Oprah Magazine
Named a Best Book of 2020 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, USA TODAY, Vanity Fair, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Marie Claire, Shondaland, Teen Vogue, Vulture, Lit Hub, Bustle, Electric Literature, and BookPage
What does it mean for a... Read more


The Transgender Child: Revised & Updated Edition
By: Stephanie A. Brill & Rachel Pepper
Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
Length: 12 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Ever since its initial publication in 2008, The Transgender Child has been lauded as the most trusted source of information for families wanting to understand and affirm their transgender, gender-expansive, or nonbinary child. Utilized around the world and translated into multiple languages, The Transgender Child has won accolades from medical... Read more
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Für jede Liebe ein Problem (ungekürzt)
By: Anita Kelly
Narrated by: Funda Vanroy
Length: 10 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Die queere RomCom des Jahres: Wie viele Köch:innen verträgt die Liebe? Dahlia Woodson, frisch geschieden und fast pleite, ist mehr als bereit, sich neu zu erfinden – sie kündigt ihren sicheren, aber nicht erfüllenden Job, um endlich ihrem großen Traum nachzugehen und die TV-Kochshow »Chef's Special« zu gewinnen. Doch als allererstes stolpert... Read more
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Between Perfect and Real
By: Ray Stoeve
Narrated by: M.W. Cartozian Wilson
Length: 7 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
A moving YA debut about a trans boy finding his voice—and himself.
Dean Foster knows he’s a trans guy. He’s watched enough YouTube videos and done enough questioning to be sure. But everyone at his high school thinks he’s a lesbian—including his girlfriend Zoe, and his theater director, who just cast him as a “nontraditional” Romeo. He wonders if... Read more


Felix Ever After
By: Kacen Callender
Narrated by: Logan Rozos
Length: 8 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
A Stonewall Honor Book * A Time Magazine Best YA Book of All TimeFrom Stonewall and Lambda Award–winning author Kacen Callender comes a revelatory YA novel about a transgender teen grappling with identity and self-discovery while falling in love for the first time.Felix Love has never been in love—and, yes, he’s painfully aware of the irony. He... Read more
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If I Was Your Girl
By: Meredith Russo
Narrated by: Samia Mounts
Length: 7 hours
Abridged: No
Meredith Russo's award-winning, big-hearted novel If I Was Your Girl is about being seen for who you really are, with a love story you can't help but root for!
Amanda Hardy is the new girl in school. Like anyone else, all she wants is to make friends and fit in. But Amanda is keeping a secret, and she’s determined not to get too close to... Read more


Obie Is Man Enough
By: Schuyler Bailar
Narrated by: Schuyler Bailar
Length: 6 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
A coming-of-age story about transgender tween Obie, who didn't think being himself would cause such a splash. For fans of Alex Gino's George and Lisa Bunker's Felix Yz.
Obie knew his transition would have ripple effects. He has to leave his swim coach, his pool, and his best friends. But it’s time for Obie to find where he truly belongs.
As Obie... Read more


Victories Greater Than Death
By: Charlie Jane Anders
Narrated by: Hynden Walch
Length: 12 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
"This is the first audiobook narrated by Hynden Walch, who is famous for her voice acting. Her expertise with voicing all different types of characters is a perfect match for this production and keeps listeners engaged." -- Booklist
Buckle up your seatbelt for Victories Greater Than Death, a thrilling YA sci-fi adventure set against an... Read more


Gender Euphoria
By: Laura Kate Dale
Narrated by: Laura Kate Dale
Length: 8 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
GENDER EUPHORIA: a powerful feeling of happiness experienced as a result of moving away from one's birth-assigned gender. So often the stories shared by trans people about their transition center on gender dysphoria: a feeling of deep discomfort with their birth-assigned gender, and a powerful catalyst for coming out or transitioning. But for... Read more
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