Rakuten Kobo

Skip side bar filters

The Writer's Library

The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives

by Nancy Pearl, Jeff Schwager ...

NEW & NOTEWORTHY ~ THE NEW YORK TIMESWith a Foreword by Susan Orlean, twenty-three of today's living literary legends, including Donna Tartt, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Andrew Sean Greer, Laila Lalami, and Michael Chabon, reveal the books that made them think, brought them joy, and changed their lives in this intimate, moving, and insightful collection from "American's Librarian" and recipient of the ... Read more

$15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

NEW & NOTEWORTHY ~ THE NEW YORK TIMESWith a Foreword by Susan Orlean, twenty-three of today's living literary legends, including Donna Tartt, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Andrew Sean Greer, Laila Lalami, and Michael Chabon, reveal the books that made them think, brought them joy, and changed their lives in this intimate, moving, and insightful collection from "American's Librarian" and recipient of the
... Read more
Audiobook

Rough and Plenty

A Memorial

by Raymond A. Rogers ...

Narrated by Jeff Schwager ...

Series series Life Writing
Unabridged

9 hours 55 min

As a commercial fisher in Nova Scotia in the early 1990s, Raymond Rogers experienced the collapse of Canada’s East Coast fishery first-hand. Afterward, while preparing to leave the province to find work elsewhere, Rogers noticed a lone gravestone across the road from his home in Shelburne County that commemorates the life of Donald McDonald, a crofter from the Isle of Lewis in Scotland, who ... Read more

$29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Also available as: eBook

As a commercial fisher in Nova Scotia in the early 1990s, Raymond Rogers experienced the collapse of Canada’s East Coast fishery first-hand. Afterward, while preparing to leave the province to find work elsewhere, Rogers noticed a lone gravestone across the road from his home in Shelburne County that commemorates the life of Donald McDonald, a crofter from the Isle of Lewis in Scotland, who
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

The Writer's Library

he Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives

by Nancy Pearl, Jeff Schwager ...

Narrated by Nancy Pearl, Jeff Schwager, Xe Sands, Dominic Hoffman, Eileen Stevens, Piper Goodeve, Andrew Eiden, Lameece Issaq, Rick Adamson0, JD Jackson1, Ryan Do2, Emily Woo Zeller3, Richard Ford4, Luis A. Urrea5, Vendela Vida6, Laurie Frankel7, Siri Hustvedt8, Timothy Andrés Pabon9 ...

Unabridged

11 hours 21 min

Performed by Nancy Pearl, JeffSchwager and a multi-cast that includes book contributors Luis Alberto Urrea,Siri Hustvedt, Laurie Frankel, Vendela Vida, and Richard Ford. The Writer’sLibrary audiobook also features real conversations with Michael Chabon,Ayelet Waldman, and Laila Lalami.With a Foreword by Susan Orlean, t****wenty-three of today's living literary legends, including Donna Tartt, Viet ... Read more

$28.99 USD

Performed by Nancy Pearl, JeffSchwager and a multi-cast that includes book contributors Luis Alberto Urrea,Siri Hustvedt, Laurie Frankel, Vendela Vida, and Richard Ford. The Writer’sLibrary audiobook also features real conversations with Michael Chabon,Ayelet Waldman, and Laila Lalami.With a Foreword by Susan Orlean, t****wenty-three of today's living literary legends, including Donna Tartt, Viet
... Read more

Audiobook

Writing to Save a Life

The Louis Till File

by John Edgar Wideman ...

Narrated by Roger Guenveur Smith ...

Unabridged

7 hours 29 min

A major literary figure tells “a searching tale of loss, recovery, and déja vu that is part memoir and what-if speculation, part polemic and exposé” (The Washington Post) about two generations of one family—civil rights martyr Emmett Till and his father, Louis—shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award.Emmett Till took a train from his home in Chicago to visit family in Money, ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

A major literary figure tells “a searching tale of loss, recovery, and déja vu that is part memoir and what-if speculation, part polemic and exposé” (The Washington Post) about two generations of one family—civil rights martyr Emmett Till and his father, Louis—shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award.Emmett Till took a train from his home in Chicago to visit family in Money,
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

Water Tossing Boulders

How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools inthe Jim Crow South

by Adrienne Berard ...

Narrated by Moe Egan ...

Unabridged

6 hours 5 min

A generation before Brown v. Board of Education struck down America’s “separate but equal” doctrine, one Chinese family and an eccentric Mississippi lawyer fought for desegregation in one of the greatest legal battles never toldOn September 15, 1924, Martha Lum and her older sister Berda were barred from attending middle school in Rosedale, Mississippi. The girls were Chinese American and ... Read more

$20.00 USD

Also available as: eBook

A generation before Brown v. Board of Education struck down America’s “separate but equal” doctrine, one Chinese family and an eccentric Mississippi lawyer fought for desegregation in one of the greatest legal battles never toldOn September 15, 1924, Martha Lum and her older sister Berda were barred from attending middle school in Rosedale, Mississippi. The girls were Chinese American and
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

The Secret Token

Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke

by Andrew Lawler ...

Narrated by David H. Lawrence XVII ...

Unabridged

14 hours 23 min

*National Bestseller*A sweeping account of America's oldest unsolved mystery, the people racing to unearth its answer, and the sobering truths--about race, gender, and immigration--exposed by the Lost Colony of RoanokeIn 1587, 115 men, women, and children arrived at Roanoke Island on the coast of North Carolina. Chartered by Queen Elizabeth I, their colony was to establish England's first foothold ... Read more

$22.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

*National Bestseller*A sweeping account of America's oldest unsolved mystery, the people racing to unearth its answer, and the sobering truths--about race, gender, and immigration--exposed by the Lost Colony of RoanokeIn 1587, 115 men, women, and children arrived at Roanoke Island on the coast of North Carolina. Chartered by Queen Elizabeth I, their colony was to establish England's first foothold
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

The Most Dangerous Book

The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses

by Kevin Birmingham ...

Narrated by John Keating ...

Unabridged

14 hours 22 min

"A great story--how modernism brought down the regime of censorship--told as a great story. Kevin Birmingham's imaginative scholarship brings Joyce and his world to life. There is a fresh detail on nearly every page."--Louis Menand, Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Metaphysical ClubFor more than a decade, the book that literary critics now consider the most important novel in the English ... Read more

$17.50 USD

Also available as: eBook

"A great story--how modernism brought down the regime of censorship--told as a great story. Kevin Birmingham's imaginative scholarship brings Joyce and his world to life. There is a fresh detail on nearly every page."--Louis Menand, Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Metaphysical ClubFor more than a decade, the book that literary critics now consider the most important novel in the English
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

Garbage Land

On the Secret Trail of Trash

by Elizabeth Royte ...

Narrated by Elizabeth Royte, Jennifer Aquino ...

Unabridged

11 hours 44 min

Out of sight, out of mind ... Into our trash cans go dead batteries, dirty diapers, bygone burritos, broken toys, tattered socks, eight-track cassettes, scratched CDs, banana peels.... But where do these things go next? In a country that consumes and then casts off more and more, what actually happens to the things we throw away?In Garbage Land, acclaimed science writer Elizabeth Royte leads us on ... Read more

$27.99 USD

Out of sight, out of mind ... Into our trash cans go dead batteries, dirty diapers, bygone burritos, broken toys, tattered socks, eight-track cassettes, scratched CDs, banana peels.... But where do these things go next? In a country that consumes and then casts off more and more, what actually happens to the things we throw away?In Garbage Land, acclaimed science writer Elizabeth Royte leads us on
... Read more
Audiobook

Remembered

by Yvonne Battle-Felton ...

Narrated by Yvonne Battle-Felton ...

Unabridged

9 hours 2 min

It is 1910 and Philadelphia is burning.The last place Spring wants to be is in the run-down, colored section of a hospital surrounded by the groans of sick people and the ghost of her dead sister. But as her son Edward lays dying, she has no other choice.There are whispers that Edward drove a streetcar into a shop window. Some people think it was an accident, others claim that it was his fault, ... Read more

$19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Also available as: eBook

It is 1910 and Philadelphia is burning.The last place Spring wants to be is in the run-down, colored section of a hospital surrounded by the groans of sick people and the ghost of her dead sister. But as her son Edward lays dying, she has no other choice.There are whispers that Edward drove a streetcar into a shop window. Some people think it was an accident, others claim that it was his fault,
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

The Last Outlaws

The Lives and Legends of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

by Thom Hatch ...

Narrated by James C. Lewis ...

Unabridged

9 hours 52 min

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid—as leaders of the Wild Bunch, they planned and executed the most daring bank and train robberies of the day, with a professionalism never before seen by authorities. For several years at the end of the 1890s, the two friends, along with a revolving cast who made up their band of thieves, eluded local law enforcement and bounty hunters, all while stealing from the ... Read more

$17.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid—as leaders of the Wild Bunch, they planned and executed the most daring bank and train robberies of the day, with a professionalism never before seen by authorities. For several years at the end of the 1890s, the two friends, along with a revolving cast who made up their band of thieves, eluded local law enforcement and bounty hunters, all while stealing from the
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

Infamy

The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

by Richard Reeves ...

Narrated by James Yaegashi ...

Unabridged

10 hours 11 min

A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICEBestselling author Richard Reeves provides an authoritative account of the internment of more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese aliens during World War II“Highly readable … [A] vivid and instructive reminder of what war and fear can do to civilized people.”—Evan... ... Read more

$25.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICEBestselling author Richard Reeves provides an authoritative account of the internment of more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese aliens during World War II“Highly readable … [A] vivid and instructive reminder of what war and fear can do to civilized people.”—Evan...
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

The Past

A Novel

by Tessa Hadley ...

Narrated by Antonia Beamish ...

Unabridged

11 hours 1 min

The “supremely perceptive writer of formidable skill and intelligence (New York Times Book Review) turns her astute eye to a dramatic family reunion, where simmering tensions and secrets come to a head over three long, hot summer weeks.“Deliciously precise. . . . Built in a Chekhovian manner, handily assembling the grown members of an extended family and their offspring under one roof.”—New York ... Read more

$28.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

The “supremely perceptive writer of formidable skill and intelligence (New York Times Book Review) turns her astute eye to a dramatic family reunion, where simmering tensions and secrets come to a head over three long, hot summer weeks.“Deliciously precise. . . . Built in a Chekhovian manner, handily assembling the grown members of an extended family and their offspring under one roof.”—New York
... Read more

Also available as: eBook

Rakuten Kobo

eReaders

Apps

Accessories

What is Kobo Super Points?

Reward Yourself

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Recommended For You

Top Series in United States

Life Writing

The Writer's Library

Rough and Plenty

The Writer's Library

People who read these also enjoyed

Writing to Save a Life

Water Tossing Boulders

The Secret Token

The Most Dangerous Book

Garbage Land

Remembered

The Last Outlaws

Infamy

The Past

eReaders

Apps

Accessories

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Recommended For You

Top Series in United States

Life Writing

Show:

People who read these also enjoyed