diff --git a/src/webqueue2api/parser/queue.py b/src/webqueue2api/parser/queue.py
index 132d75f..4a54dfa 100644
--- a/src/webqueue2api/parser/queue.py
+++ b/src/webqueue2api/parser/queue.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+import multiprocessing
+import multiprocessing.pool
 import os, re
 from pathlib import Path
 from .item import Item
@@ -77,6 +79,8 @@ def __get_items(self, headers_only: bool) -> list:
                 list: a list of items for this Queue
         """
         items = []
+        valid_items = []
+        multi_item_processes = multiprocessing.Pool(processes=multiprocessing.cpu_count())
 
         for item in os.listdir(self.path):
             item_path = Path(self.path, item)
@@ -84,7 +88,11 @@ def __get_items(self, headers_only: bool) -> list:
             is_file = True if os.path.isfile(item_path) else False
 
             if is_file and is_valid_item_name(item):
-                items.append(Item(self.name, item, headers_only))
+                valid_items.append(item)
+
+        items = multi_item_processes.starmap_async(Item, [(self.name, item, headers_only) for item in valid_items]).get()
+        multi_item_processes.close()
+        multi_item_processes.join()
 
         return items
 
@@ -181,15 +189,33 @@ def get_queue_counts() -> list:
 
     return sorted_queue_info
 
-def load_queues() -> list:
-    """Return a list of Queues for each queue.
+def load_queues(*queues: tuple, headers_only: bool = True) -> list:
+    """Returns a list of queues.
+
+    Args:
+        headers_only (bool, optional): Weather or not the content of items in the queue should be loaded. Defaults to True.
+        *queues (tuple): List of strings that represent Queue names. 
 
     Returns:
-        list: list of Queues for each queue.
+        list: A list of all the queues that were given as arguments, or all of the queues if no queues were specified.
     """
-    queues = []
-
-    for queue in get_valid_queues():
-        queues.append(Queue(queue))
+    # Custom mutliprocessing classes to allow for nested multi-threading.
+    class NoDaemonProcess(multiprocessing.Process):
+        def _get_daemon(self):
+            return False
+        def _set_daemon(self, value):
+            pass
+        daemon = property(_get_daemon, _set_daemon)
+    class MyPool(multiprocessing.pool.Pool):
+        Process = NoDaemonProcess
+
+    if len(queues) == 0: queues_to_load = get_valid_queues()
+    elif len(queues) == 1: return [Queue(name=queues[0], headers_only=headers_only)]
+    else: queues_to_load = queues
+    
+    multi_queue_process = MyPool(processes=multiprocessing.cpu_count())
+    loaded_queues = multi_queue_process.starmap_async(Queue, [(queue, headers_only) for queue in queues_to_load]).get()
+    multi_queue_process.close()
+    multi_queue_process.join()
 
-    return queues
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+    return loaded_queues
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