Rakuten Kobo

Shopping Cart

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

- Includes eBooks
  
  Includes audiobooks
  
  Includes 30 hours of listening time
  
  No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
  
  Get 1 credit every month for the audiobook of your choice
  
  No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
  
  Includes eBooks
  
  Includes audiobooks
  
  Includes 30 hours of listening time
  
  No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
  Audiobook
  by ,
  
  Available:
  
  . No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions.
  
  Pre-order
  1 audiobook monthly
  
  + FREE 30-day trial
  
  Special Offer
  
  Get 1 credit every month to exchange for an audiobook of your choice
  
  *No commitment, cancel anytime
  
  FREE

itemsitem

Includes eBooks

Includes audiobooks

Includes 30 hours of listening time

No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions

Get 1 credit every month for the audiobook of your choice

No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions

Includes eBooks

Includes audiobooks

Includes 30 hours of listening time

No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
Audiobook
by ,

Available:
. No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions.

Pre-order
1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Special Offer

Get 1 credit every month to exchange for an audiobook of your choice

*No commitment, cancel anytime

FREE

Recommended For You

Skip side bar filters

Audiobook

Audiobook

You Are Not Your Past

An Inspirational Journey

by Charlene Green ...

Narrated by Charlene Green ...

Unabridged

50 min

You Are Not Your Past is a biography of author Charlene Davis growing up against all odds, being a product of her environment, and mentally and spiritually evolving into the person she envisioned herself becoming. Her story is a true testimony to the fact that when life gives us experiences, it’s designed for us to grow and learn. Throughout are self-help tips to help anyone start applying the ... Read more

$10.99 CAD

You Are Not Your Past is a biography of author Charlene Davis growing up against all odds, being a product of her environment, and mentally and spiritually evolving into the person she envisioned herself becoming. Her story is a true testimony to the fact that when life gives us experiences, it’s designed for us to grow and learn. Throughout are self-help tips to help anyone start applying the
... Read more
The 2nd Shift Playbook

A Black Woman's Guide to Navigating Work, Life, and Everything In Between

by Allison Mathews Allen, Charlene Green ...

In this groundbreaking book, accomplished professionals Drs. Charlene Green and Allison Mathews share intimate stories, hard-earned wisdom, and practical strategies for Black women balancing demanding careers with family life and personal wellbeing. Drawing from their own experiences and those of other successful Black women, they tackle the unique challenges of working the "2nd shift" - managing ... Read more

$20.99 CAD

In this groundbreaking book, accomplished professionals Drs. Charlene Green and Allison Mathews share intimate stories, hard-earned wisdom, and practical strategies for Black women balancing demanding careers with family life and personal wellbeing. Drawing from their own experiences and those of other successful Black women, they tackle the unique challenges of working the "2nd shift" - managing
... Read more
Connecticut Bootlegger Queen Nellie Green

by Tony Renzoni ...

Known as the "Queen of the Rumrunners on the East Coast," Nellie Green led a captivating life full of bootlegging adventures. Nellie fearlessly stood up to all those who tried to stand in her way, receiving respect and financial support from many influential people. She built an underground empire in a business world dominated by men. Her rumrunners were men of intrigue who assumed aliases such as ... Read more

$17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Known as the "Queen of the Rumrunners on the East Coast," Nellie Green led a captivating life full of bootlegging adventures. Nellie fearlessly stood up to all those who tried to stand in her way, receiving respect and financial support from many influential people. She built an underground empire in a business world dominated by men. Her rumrunners were men of intrigue who assumed aliases such as
... Read more

Sin in the Second City

Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul

by Karen Abbott ...

Step into the perfumed parlors of the Everleigh Club, the most famous brothel in American history–and the catalyst for a culture war that rocked the nation. Operating in Chicago’s notorious Levee district at the dawn of the last century, the Club’s proprietors, two aristocratic sisters named Minna and Ada Everleigh, welcomed moguls and actors, senators and athletes, foreign dignitaries and ... Read more

$15.99 CAD

Step into the perfumed parlors of the Everleigh Club, the most famous brothel in American history–and the catalyst for a culture war that rocked the nation. Operating in Chicago’s notorious Levee district at the dawn of the last century, the Club’s proprietors, two aristocratic sisters named Minna and Ada Everleigh, welcomed moguls and actors, senators and athletes, foreign dignitaries and
... Read more
Prohibition

Thirteen Years That Changed America

by Edward Behr ...

From the bestselling author of The Last Emperor comes this rip-roaring history of the government’s attempt to end America’s love affair with liquor—which failed miserably. On January 16, 1920, America went dry. For the next thirteen years, the Eighteenth Amendment prohibited the making, selling, or transportation of “intoxicating liquors,” heralding a new era of crime and corruption on all levels ... Read more

$16.99 CAD

From the bestselling author of The Last Emperor comes this rip-roaring history of the government’s attempt to end America’s love affair with liquor—which failed miserably. On January 16, 1920, America went dry. For the next thirteen years, the Eighteenth Amendment prohibited the making, selling, or transportation of “intoxicating liquors,” heralding a new era of crime and corruption on all levels
... Read more
Strange and Obscure Stories of New York City

Little-Known Tales About Gotham's People and Places

by Tim Rowland ...

The 1948 crime film The Naked City (later a television show) ended with this iconic line There are eight million stories in the naked city.” Things have not changed either before or since: every era and neighborhood is full of true tales and legends about which even residents are likely to be unaware. Strange And Obscure Stories Of New York City takes the reader on a breathtaking tour of the five ... Read more

$16.99 CAD

The 1948 crime film The Naked City (later a television show) ended with this iconic line There are eight million stories in the naked city.” Things have not changed either before or since: every era and neighborhood is full of true tales and legends about which even residents are likely to be unaware. Strange And Obscure Stories Of New York City takes the reader on a breathtaking tour of the five
... Read more
One-Night Stands with American History

Odd, Amusing, and Little-Known Incidents

by Richard Shenkman, Kurt Reiger ...

Respect yourself in the morning -- read One-Night Stands with American History!This collection of little-known facts and anecdotes is American history with the boring parts left out. Richard Shenkman and Kurt Reiger have uncovered numerous stories about hoaxes, inventions, secrets, and rare incidents -- many involving the most famous and powerful people in America.President U. S. Grant was ... Read more

$11.99 CAD

Respect yourself in the morning -- read One-Night Stands with American History!This collection of little-known facts and anecdotes is American history with the boring parts left out. Richard Shenkman and Kurt Reiger have uncovered numerous stories about hoaxes, inventions, secrets, and rare incidents -- many involving the most famous and powerful people in America.President U. S. Grant was
... Read more
Killings

by Calvin Trillin ...

True stories of sudden death in the classic collection by a master of American journalism“Reporters love murders,” Calvin Trillin writes in the introduction to Killings. “In a pinch, what the lawyers call ‘wrongful death’ will do, particularly if it’s sudden.” Killings, first published in 1984 and expanded for this edition, shows Trillin to be such a reporter, drawn time after time to tales of ... Read more

$14.99 CAD

Also available as: Audiobook

True stories of sudden death in the classic collection by a master of American journalism“Reporters love murders,” Calvin Trillin writes in the introduction to Killings. “In a pinch, what the lawyers call ‘wrongful death’ will do, particularly if it’s sudden.” Killings, first published in 1984 and expanded for this edition, shows Trillin to be such a reporter, drawn time after time to tales of
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook
Bath Massacre

America's First School Bombing

by Arnie Bernstein ...

"With the meticulous attention to detail of a historian and a storyteller's eye for human drama, Bernstein shines a beam of truth on a forgotten American tragedy. Heartbreaking and riveting."---Gregg Olsen, New York Times best-selling author of Starvation Heights"A chilling and historic character study of the unfathomable suffering that desperation and fury, once unleashed inside a twisted mind, ... Read more

$15.99 CAD

"With the meticulous attention to detail of a historian and a storyteller's eye for human drama, Bernstein shines a beam of truth on a forgotten American tragedy. Heartbreaking and riveting."---Gregg Olsen, New York Times best-selling author of Starvation Heights"A chilling and historic character study of the unfathomable suffering that desperation and fury, once unleashed inside a twisted mind,
... Read more
Autobiography of a People

Three Centuries of African American History Told by Those Who Lived It

by Herb Boyd ...

Autobiography of a People is an insightfully assembled anthology of eyewitness accounts that traces the history of the African American experience. From the Middle Passage to the Million Man March, editor Herb Boyd has culled a diverse range of voices, both famous and ordinary, to creat a unique and compelling historical portrait:Benjamin Banneker on Thomas JeffersonOld Elizabeth on spreading the ... Read more

Was $18.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD

Autobiography of a People is an insightfully assembled anthology of eyewitness accounts that traces the history of the African American experience. From the Middle Passage to the Million Man March, editor Herb Boyd has culled a diverse range of voices, both famous and ordinary, to creat a unique and compelling historical portrait:Benjamin Banneker on Thomas JeffersonOld Elizabeth on spreading the
... Read more
Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges into the Presidency

by Bathroom Readers' Institute ...

Series series Uncle John's Bathroom Reader
Three cheers for the red, white, and bloopers . . . A US treasury of gaffes, goofs, and weird White House trivia!If they advertised the job opening for President of the United States, the ad would be pretty short. The only basic requirements are to be a natural-born American citizen and at least thirty-five years old. Now you can learn about some of the successful applicants in this special "Chief ... Read more

$2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Three cheers for the red, white, and bloopers . . . A US treasury of gaffes, goofs, and weird White House trivia!If they advertised the job opening for President of the United States, the ad would be pretty short. The only basic requirements are to be a natural-born American citizen and at least thirty-five years old. Now you can learn about some of the successful applicants in this special "Chief
... Read more
Stupid American History

Tales of Stupidity, Strangeness, and Mythconceptions

by Leland Gregory ...

Series series Stupid History
New York Times Bestseller: Welcome to the land of the free, the home of the brave—and, apparently, the dumb, bizarre, and gullible . . .Did you know that . . .*John Tyler was on his knees playing marbles when he was informed that Benjamin Harrison had died and he was now president of the United States*For reasons still unknown, Texas congressman Thomas Lindsay Blanton, a Presbyterian Sunday ... Read more

$14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

New York Times Bestseller: Welcome to the land of the free, the home of the brave—and, apparently, the dumb, bizarre, and gullible . . .Did you know that . . .*John Tyler was on his knees playing marbles when he was informed that Benjamin Harrison had died and he was now president of the United States*For reasons still unknown, Texas congressman Thomas Lindsay Blanton, a Presbyterian Sunday
... Read more

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

“charlene green”

You Are Not Your Past

The 2nd Shift Playbook

Connecticut Bootlegger Queen Nellie Green

People who read these also enjoyed

Sin in the Second City

Prohibition

Strange and Obscure Stories of New York City

One-Night Stands with American History

Killings

Bath Massacre

Autobiography of a People

Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges into the Presidency

Stupid American History

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

“charlene green”

Show:

People who read these also enjoyed