Rakuten Kobo

Skip side bar filters

The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World

The Twin Towers, Windows on the World, and the Rebirth of New York

by Tom Roston ...

An "engrossing" history of the restaurant atop the World Trade Center "that ruled the New York City skyline from April 1976 until September 11, 2001" ( Booklist, starred review).In the 1970s, New York City was plagued by crime, filth, and an ineffective government. The city was falling apart, and even the newly constructed World Trade Center threatened to be a fiasco. But in April 1976, a quarter ... Read more

$14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Also available as: Audiobook

An "engrossing" history of the restaurant atop the World Trade Center "that ruled the New York City skyline from April 1976 until September 11, 2001" ( Booklist, starred review).In the 1970s, New York City was plagued by crime, filth, and an ineffective government. The city was falling apart, and even the newly constructed World Trade Center threatened to be a fiasco. But in April 1976, a quarter
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook
The Writer's Crusade

Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five

by Tom Roston ...

Series series Books About Books
The story of Kurt Vonnegut and Slaughterhouse-Five, an enduring masterpiece on trauma and memoryKurt Vonnegut was twenty years old when he enlisted in the United States Army. Less than two years later, he was captured by the Germans in the single deadliest US engagement of the war, the Battle of the Bulge. He was taken to a POW camp, then transferred to a work camp near Dresden, and held in a ... Read more

$13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Also available as: Audiobook

The story of Kurt Vonnegut and Slaughterhouse-Five, an enduring masterpiece on trauma and memoryKurt Vonnegut was twenty years old when he enlisted in the United States Army. Less than two years later, he was captured by the Germans in the single deadliest US engagement of the war, the Battle of the Bulge. He was taken to a POW camp, then transferred to a work camp near Dresden, and held in a
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook
Audiobook

The Writer’s Crusade

Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five

by Tom Roston ...

Narrated by Jim Frangione ...

Unabridged

6 hours 56 min

The story of Kurt Vonnegut and Slaughterhouse-Five, an enduring masterpiece on trauma and memoryKurt Vonnegut was twenty years old when he enlisted in the United States Army. Less than two years later, he was captured by the Germans in the single deadliest US engagement of the war, the Battle of the Bulge. He was taken to a POW camp, then transferred to a work camp near Dresden, and held in a ... Read more

$16.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Also available as: eBook

The story of Kurt Vonnegut and Slaughterhouse-Five, an enduring masterpiece on trauma and memoryKurt Vonnegut was twenty years old when he enlisted in the United States Army. Less than two years later, he was captured by the Germans in the single deadliest US engagement of the war, the Battle of the Bulge. He was taken to a POW camp, then transferred to a work camp near Dresden, and held in a
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World

The Twin Towers, Windows on the World, and the Rebirth of New York

by Tom Roston, Jayme Mattler ...

Narrated by Richard Ferrone ...

Unabridged

13 hours 6 min

The remarkable story of a restaurant on top of the world—built by a legend, destroyed in tragedy—and an era in New York City it helped to frameIn the 1970s, New York City was plagued by crime, filth, and an ineffective government. The city was falling apart, and even the newly constructed World Trade Center threatened to be a fiasco. But in April 1976, a quarter-mile up on the 107th floor of the ... Read more

$22.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Also available as: eBook

The remarkable story of a restaurant on top of the world—built by a legend, destroyed in tragedy—and an era in New York City it helped to frameIn the 1970s, New York City was plagued by crime, filth, and an ineffective government. The city was falling apart, and even the newly constructed World Trade Center threatened to be a fiasco. But in April 1976, a quarter-mile up on the 107th floor of the
... Read more

Also available as: eBook

Audiobook

The Poets & Writers Complete Guide to Being a Writer

Everything You Need to Know About Craft, Inspiration, Agents, Editors, Publishing, and the Business of Building a Sustainable Writing Career

by Kevin Larimer, Mary Gannon ...

Narrated by Samantha Desz ...

Unabridged

14 hours 39 min

The definitive source of information, insight, and advice for creative writers, from the nation’s largest and most trusted organization for writers, Poets & Writers.For half a century, writers at every stage of their careers have turned to the literary nonprofit organization Poets & Writers and its award-winning magazine for resources to foster their professional development, from writing prompts ... Read more

$29.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

The definitive source of information, insight, and advice for creative writers, from the nation’s largest and most trusted organization for writers, Poets & Writers.For half a century, writers at every stage of their careers have turned to the literary nonprofit organization Poets & Writers and its award-winning magazine for resources to foster their professional development, from writing prompts
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

Mobsters, Madams & Murder in Steubenville, Ohio

The Story of Little Chicago

by Susan M. Guy ...

Narrated by Emily Durante ...

Unabridged

5 hours 34 min

This true crime history chronicles more than a century in the life of a small Midwestern city with an outsized reputation for violence and vice.Gambling, prostitution, and bootlegging have been going on in Steubenville for well over century. In its heyday, the city's Water Street red-light district drew men from hundreds of miles away, as well as underage runaways. The white slave trade was ... Read more

$15.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

This true crime history chronicles more than a century in the life of a small Midwestern city with an outsized reputation for violence and vice.Gambling, prostitution, and bootlegging have been going on in Steubenville for well over century. In its heyday, the city's Water Street red-light district drew men from hundreds of miles away, as well as underage runaways. The white slave trade was
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

One Writer's Beginnings

by Eudora Welty ...

Narrated by Eudora Welty ...

Unabridged

3 hours 1 min

The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner’s timeless lectures that became a New York Times bestselling classic regarded as a “profound and priceless as guidance for anyone who aspires to write” (Los Angeles Times).Born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi, Eudora Welty shares details of her upbringing that show us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her ... Read more

$14.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner’s timeless lectures that became a New York Times bestselling classic regarded as a “profound and priceless as guidance for anyone who aspires to write” (Los Angeles Times).Born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi, Eudora Welty shares details of her upbringing that show us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

Hell Put to Shame

The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery

by Earl Swift ...

Narrated by Mark Deakins ...

Unabridged

12 hours 22 min

"Hell Put to Shame is a powerfully unsettling portrait of both the single most savage episode in the long decades of savagery inflicted by white southerners on their Black neighbors in the 20**th** century—and the methodical process that followed to erase those crimes from America’s collective memory." —Douglas A. Blackmon, author of Slavery by Another Name, winner of the Pulitzer PrizeFrom the ... Read more

$28.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

"Hell Put to Shame is a powerfully unsettling portrait of both the single most savage episode in the long decades of savagery inflicted by white southerners on their Black neighbors in the 20**th** century—and the methodical process that followed to erase those crimes from America’s collective memory." —Douglas A. Blackmon, author of Slavery by Another Name, winner of the Pulitzer PrizeFrom the
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

How Baseball Happened

Outrageous Lies Exposed! The True Story Revealed

by Thomas W. Gilbert ...

Narrated by George Newbern ...

Unabridged

10 hours 38 min

The fascinating, true, origin story of baseball—how America’s first great sport developed and how it conquered a nationBaseball’s true founders don’t have plaques in Cooperstown. The founders were the hundreds of uncredited amateurs—ordinary people—who played without gloves, facemasks, or performance incentives in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Unlike today’s pro athletes, they ... Read more

$19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Also available as: eBook

The fascinating, true, origin story of baseball—how America’s first great sport developed and how it conquered a nationBaseball’s true founders don’t have plaques in Cooperstown. The founders were the hundreds of uncredited amateurs—ordinary people—who played without gloves, facemasks, or performance incentives in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Unlike today’s pro athletes, they
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

The Truth and Other Stories

by Stanislaw Lem ...

Narrated by David Aaron Baker ...

Unabridged

14 hours 11 min

Of these twelve short stories by science fiction master Stanislaw Lem, only three have previously appeared in English, making this the first “new” book of fiction by Lem since the late 1980s. The stories display the full range of Lem’s intensecuriosity about scientific ideas as well as his sardonic approach to human nature, presenting as multifarious a collection of mad scientists as any reader ... Read more

$25.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

Of these twelve short stories by science fiction master Stanislaw Lem, only three have previously appeared in English, making this the first “new” book of fiction by Lem since the late 1980s. The stories display the full range of Lem’s intensecuriosity about scientific ideas as well as his sardonic approach to human nature, presenting as multifarious a collection of mad scientists as any reader
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

The Big Sea

An Autobiography

by Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad ...

Narrated by Dominic Hoffman ...

Unabridged

10 hours 38 min

Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade--Harlem and Paris. In Paris he was a cook and waiter in nightclubs. He knew the musicians and dancers, the drunks and dope fiends. In Harlem he was a rising young poet--at the center of the "Harlem Renaissance."Arnold Rampersad writes in his ... Read more

$20.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade--Harlem and Paris. In Paris he was a cook and waiter in nightclubs. He knew the musicians and dancers, the drunks and dope fiends. In Harlem he was a rising young poet--at the center of the "Harlem Renaissance."Arnold Rampersad writes in his
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

A Slave in the White House

Paul Jennings and the Madisons

by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor, PhD ...

Narrated by Kevin Kenerly, Judith West ...

Unabridged

10 hours 43 min

Paul Jennings was born into slavery on the plantation of James and Dolley Madison in Virginia, later becoming part of the Madison household staff at the White House. Once finally emancipated by Senator Daniel Webster later in life, he would give an aged and impoverished Dolley Madison, his former owner, money from his own pocket, write the first White House memoir, and see his sons fight with the ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

Paul Jennings was born into slavery on the plantation of James and Dolley Madison in Virginia, later becoming part of the Madison household staff at the White House. Once finally emancipated by Senator Daniel Webster later in life, he would give an aged and impoverished Dolley Madison, his former owner, money from his own pocket, write the first White House memoir, and see his sons fight with the
... 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

Books About Books

The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World

The Writer's Crusade

The Writer’s Crusade

The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World

People who read these also enjoyed

The Poets & Writers Complete Guide to Being a Writer

Mobsters, Madams & Murder in Steubenville, Ohio

One Writer's Beginnings

Hell Put to Shame

How Baseball Happened

The Truth and Other Stories

The Big Sea

A Slave in the White House

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

Books About Books

Show:

People who read these also enjoyed