Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 19 results for “jack owen”
Skip side bar filters

  • INTO THE DARK HOUR – 18 Dystopia Classics in One Volume

    Eighteen Classic Visions of Social Control, Technocratic Futures, and Anti-Utopian Warning

    by Ayn Rand, Jack London, H. G. Wells, Owen Gregory, Hugh Benson, Ignatius Donnelly, Ernest Bramah, Milo Hastings, Arthur Dudley Vinton, Francis Stevens, Anthony Trollope, E. M. Forster, Fritz Leiber, Richard Stockham, Irving E. Cox, Samuel Butler ...
    Into the Dark Hour gathers eighteen formative dystopian narratives into a capacious map of modernity's anxieties. Ranging from satirical speculation and imperial nightmare to scientific romance, political allegory, social prophecy, and proto–science fiction, the volume traces how imagined futures expose the pressures of the present. Its selection moves through bureaucratic domination, ... Read more

    Was $1.99 USD Now $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Darkest Hours - 18 Chilling Dystopias in One Edition

    Iron Heel, Meccania the Super-State, Lord of the World, The Time Machine, City of Endless Night…

    by Ayn Rand, Jack London, H. G. Wells, Owen Gregory, Hugh Benson, Ignatius Donnelly, Ernest Bramah, Milo Hastings, Arthur Dudley Vinton, Francis Stevens, Anthony Trollope, E. M. Forster, Fritz Leiber, Richard Stockham, Irving E. Cox, Samuel Butler ...
    'The Darkest Hours - 18 Chilling Dystopias in One Edition' serves as a profound exploration into the terrifying realms of dystopian fiction, weaving together a tapestry rich in thematic complexity and variety in literary styles. From the bleak futuristic societies to cautionary tales about technology and human nature, this collection encapsulates a unique spectrum of perspectives that challenge ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jekyll Island Enigma

    by Jack Owen ...
    Nazi dreams of conquest, plus the greed of a Russian-American industrialist profiteer, partnered to swap munitions for gold at Jekyll Island, weeks before Pearl Harbor propelled the US into WWII.It could have worked except “Murphy's Law”, a crop-duster, a Redneck poacher, a society dame, Club staff and a Royal Navy hero joined forces to thwart the best laid plans of the “Master Race”. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Palm Beach - An Irreverent Guide

    by Jack Owen ...
    I'm tickled pink to reissue Palm Beach – An Irreverent Guide almost three decades after it was penned.Its just as corny and “ineptly illustrated” (according to one early newspaper critic) as ever. However, it entertained visitors and residents alike for 10 seasons before the naughtier, Palm Beach Scandals – An Intimate Guide, bumped it off the shelves. Now they are both available in “tree and E ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Jekyll Island Enigma

    by Jack Owen ...
    Nazi dreams of conquest plus the greed of a Russian-American industrialist profiteer, partnered to swap munitions for gold at Jekyll Island, weeks before Pearl Harbor propelled the US into WWII. It could have worked except "Murphy's Law", a crop-duster, a Redneck poacher, a society dame, Club staff and a Royal Navy hero joined forces to thwart the best laid plans of the "Master Race". ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Yarns from an Old Salt

    Essays, Anecdotes and Short Stories, #1

    by Jack Owen ...
    Series Book 1 - Essays, Anecdotes and Short Stories
    British writer Jack Owen served in the Royal Navy as a boy. Then wised up. He evolved into a local newspaper reporter and feed stop-press snippets to national media in England.Part of that beat ranged from Broadmoor Institute for the Criminally Insane to Sandhurst Military Academy. Difficult to separate, sometimes. Then he spent half a century covering, and uncovering, crime and society in the ... Read more

    $2.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Checkerboard Shoe

    Two Poets in Collaboration

    by Maureen Owen, Jack Collom ...
    Checkerboard Shoe is collaboration in language as primitive as coyotes yip-yap-yodeling together under a Rocky Mountain moon. Or maybe the polymer biting its own tail to enable reproduction back in unicellular times is just a circle of language. In-among-with-from-of humans, it’s as venerable as conversation. Join the magic in this collaborative tap dance through vocabularies!Maureen Owen and Jack ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    PRE-ORDER

  • Audiobook

    Pat Novak For Hire

    Pain Gets Expensive

    Narrated by Jack Webb, Raymond Burr, Tudor Owen, Old Time Radio ...
    Series series Pat Novak For Hire

    Unabridged

    5 hours

    "She sauntered in, moving slowly from side to side like a hundred and eighteen pounds of warm smoke."If you got the idea that Pat Novak was a rather single-minded fellow, you'd be wrong. He appreciated liquor every bit as much as he appreciated women. He could be found most nights popping shots and wisecracks with his saloon-owner pal Jocko Madigan (Tudor Owen). But, most of all, he appreciated ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • David Porter, 'Philadelphia' & The Barbary Pirates

    The Porter Saga

    by Jack Owen, Jack M.D. Owen ...
    Series series The Porter Saga
    One Halloween the US Navy would like to forget, played a terrible trick on LIEUTENANT DAVID PORTER, in 1803.He, along with 306 other shipmates aboard the 38-gun frigate USS Philadelphia, including Captain William Bainbridge, were caught by pirates at Tripoli It took guile and courage to free them from their 18-month slavery in the grip of a murderous, despotic Pasha, and a renegade Scot-turned ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gold on the Glades - A Palm Beach Yarn

    by Jack M.D. Owen ...
    Gold on the Glades – a Palm Beach YarnThis Palm Beach story of thuggery, buggery, society and piracy, hits a record high for seasonal scandal in this tight little town.The date is now securely etched into world history. Indians, drug lords, sugar barons, assassinations and squished Chihuahuas all dwell within this seasonTrue events, (for the most part) real characters, actual greed and debauchery. ... Read more

    $3.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Becoming the Pearl-Poet

    Perceptions, Connections, Receptions

    by Jane Beal, Kristin Abbo, Elizabeth Allen, John M. Bowers, M. W. Brumit, Ethan Campbell, Nancy Ciccone, David Coley, Michael Drout, Joel Fredell0, Jonathan Gerkin1, Grace Hamman2, Kimberly Jack3, Scott Kleinman4, Kenna Olsen5, Corey Owen6, Jonathan Quick7, Mickey Sweeney8 ...
    Series series Studies in Medieval Literature
    Who is the Pearl-poet? How do ideas about his life and interpretations of his poems shape our understanding of his work in late-medieval England—and beyond? In Becoming the Pearl-Poet: Perceptions, Connections, Receptions, readers can explore the world of this extraordinary, fourteenth-century writer. In Part I, “Perceptions,” five scholars give insightful literary analyses of the narrative poems ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • The Yacht America in Florida's Civil War

    by Jack M.D. Owen ...
    The unexpected arrival of America, the most famous yacht in the world, in a Florida backwater creek, imperiled the lives of all within the Confederate community. One false move could bring the wrath of a Union gunboat upon the residents of Walaka. Only the firm leadership of a cavalry captain and plantation owner over his unruly riders, saved lives on both sides of the conflict which tore families ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus