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Books narrated by Alan Downs

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  • The Velvet Rage

    Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World

    In this moving guide, a gay man shares his personal journey of letting go of shame and moving forward with self-compassion and healing.Even though an entire generation of men have openly and freely come out of the closet, gay men still struggle with self-acceptance. Sexually transmitted diseases, depression, and suicide occur more frequently for gay men than straight men. It doesn’t have to be ... Read more

    R155,35

  • The Half-Empty Heart

    A Supportive Guide to Breaking Free from Chronic Discontent

    by Alan Downs ...
    Finally, a book of insightful and practical advice for the millions of people suffering from low-grade depression, also known as dysthymia or chronic discontentFrustrated. Stressed. Irritable. Discouraged. Cynical. Fed up. These are among the feelings experienced by millions of people. Whether they realize it or not, their feelings are not caused by a negative attitude, a lack of gratitude, or ... Read more

    R257,82

  • Montegue Blister’s Strange Games

    and other odd things to do with your time

    A hilarious compendium of weird, wonderful, warped classic and new games.Taken from the brilliant website http://strange-games.blogspot.com/, Montegue Blister's Strange Games is a pocket-sized compendium of the most hilarious, noisy, messy, and often vomit-inducing games ever written.Finally, the official rules for all the games you played at school as a kid, such as Finger Jousting, Peanuts, ... Read more

    R83,25

  • Audiobook

    The Velvet Rage

    Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World

    Narrated by Alan Downs ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 14 min

    The most important issue in a gay man’s life is not “coming out,” but coming to terms with the invalidating past. Despite the progress made in recent years, many gay men still wonder, “Are we better off?” The byproduct of growing up gay in a straight world continues to be the internalization of shame, rejection, and anger—a toxic cocktail that can lead to drug abuse, promiscuity, alcoholism, ... Read more

    R383,02

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    Out of the Shadows

    The Psychology of Gay Men's Lives

    by Walt Odets ...
    Narrated by Will Damron ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 28 min

    Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Out of the Shadows: Re imagining Gay Men's Lives by Walt Odets read by Will Damron.Even in our modern progressive world, it's not easy to be a gay man. While young men often come out more readily, even those from the most liberal of backgrounds still struggle to accept themselves and experience stigma, shame and difficulties with intimate ... ... Read more

    R260,15

  • Straight Jacket

    by Matthew Todd ...
    'This is an essential read for every gay person on the planet' - Elton John'A really brilliant and moving read for everybody, especially LGBTQI+ people' - Olly Alexander, star of It's A SinStraight Jacket is a revolutionary clarion call for gay men, the wider LGBT community, their friends and family. Part memoir, part ground-breaking polemic, it looks beneath the shiny facade of contemporar... ... Read more

    R202,62

  • Out of the Shadows

    The Psychology of Gay Men's Lives

    by Walt Odets ...
    **'A gay man could read this book as if his life depended on it - and perhaps it does' Andrew Holleran, author of Dancer from the Dance'Poignant and achingly beautiful' The New York TimesEven in our modern progressive world, it's not easy to be a gay man. While young men often come out more readily, even those from the most liberal of backgrounds still struggle to accept themselves and experience ... Read more

    R202,62

  • The 10 Best-Ever Depression Management Techniques: Understanding How Your Brain Makes You Depressed and What You Can Do to Change It

    Understanding How Your Brain Makes You Depressed and What You Can Do to Change It

    A strategy-filled handbook to understand, manage, and conquer your depression, modeled after its best-selling counterpart on anxiety.Why is depression one of the most pervasive of all mental health complaints? What makes the lethargy, mental rumination, loss of concentration, unassuageable negativity, and feelings of inadequacy so stubbornly resistant to treatment and so hard to shake off? What ... Read more

    R276,91

  • Becoming a Man

    Half a Life Story

    by Paul Monette ...
    The National Book Award–winning coming-out memoir. "One of the most complex, moral, personal, and political books to have been written about gay life" ( LA Weekly).Paul Monette grew up all-American, Catholic, overachieving . . . and closeted. As a child of the 1950s, a time when a kid suspected of being a "homo" would routinely be beaten up, Monette kept his secret throughout his adolescence. He ... Read more

    R240,91 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Savage

    Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics

    by Dan Savage ...
    Celebrated sex advice columnist and founder of the Emmy-winning It Gets Better campaign, Dan Savage delivers “powerful messages for both the head and heart” (Entertainment Weekly)From the moment he began writing his syndicated sex-advice column, Savage Love, Dan Savage has never been shy about expressing his opinion on controversial topics—political or otherwise. In the height of his activism, he ... Read more

    R93,02

  • Don't Let Me Go

    by J.H. Trumble ...
    Gay high school sweethearts struggle to maintain their relationship when one of them relocates for a job in this witty, heartfelt debut.Some people spend their whole lives looking for the right partner. Nate Schaper found his in high school. In the eight months since their cautious flirting became a real, heart-pounding, tell-the-parents relationship, Nate and Adam have been inseparable. Even when ... Read more

    R212,85

  • Call Me By Your Name

    Discover the internationally bestselling love story that inspired the award-winning film

    by Andre Aciman ...
    THE BELOVED COMING-OF-AGE CLASSIC, NOW A WORLDWIDE BESTSELLERDuring a restless summer on the Italian Riviera, a powerful romance blooms between seventeen-year-old Elio and his father's house guest, Oliver. Unrelenting currents of obsession and fear, fascination and desire threaten to overwhelm the lovers who at first feign indifference to the charge between them.What grows from the depths of their ... Read more

    R169,15