Rakuten Kobo

Skip side bar filters

The Strange Case of Dr. Couney

How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies

by Dawn Raffel ...

“A mosaic mystery told in vignettes, cliffhangers, curious asides, and some surreal plot twists as Raffel investigates the secrets of the man who changed infant care in America.”—NPR, 2018's Great ReadsWhat kind of doctor puts his patients on display? This is the spellbinding tale of a mysterious Coney Island doctor who revolutionized neonatal care more than one hundred years ago and saved some ... Read more

Was $13.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD

Also available as: Audiobook

“A mosaic mystery told in vignettes, cliffhangers, curious asides, and some surreal plot twists as Raffel investigates the secrets of the man who changed infant care in America.”—NPR, 2018's Great ReadsWhat kind of doctor puts his patients on display? This is the spellbinding tale of a mysterious Coney Island doctor who revolutionized neonatal care more than one hundred years ago and saved some
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook
Boundless as the Sky

by Dawn Raffel ...

Dawn Raffel's Boundless as the Sky is a book of the invisible histories that repose beneath the cities we inhabit, and the worlds we try to build out of words. The first of its two parts, stories of real and invented cities, some ancient, some dystopian, is a response to Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. The second part comes together into one narrative, taking place in a single city—Chicago—on a ... Read more

$14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Dawn Raffel's Boundless as the Sky is a book of the invisible histories that repose beneath the cities we inhabit, and the worlds we try to build out of words. The first of its two parts, stories of real and invented cities, some ancient, some dystopian, is a response to Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. The second part comes together into one narrative, taking place in a single city—Chicago—on a
... Read more
In the Year of Long Division

by Dawn Raffel ...

A collection of sixteen short stories provides an extraordinary journey into the human soul that explores the uneasiness of individuals as they cope with experiences outside of themselves. ... Read more

$9.99 CAD

A collection of sixteen short stories provides an extraordinary journey into the human soul that explores the uneasiness of individuals as they cope with experiences outside of themselves.
... Read more
Best Microfiction 2025

Best Microfiction, #7

by Meg Pokrass, Gary Fincke, Dawn Raffel ...

Series Book 7 - Best Microfiction
The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer. Co-edited by award-winning microfiction writer/editor Meg Pokrass, and Flannery O'Connor Prize-winning author Gary Fincke, the anthology features Dawn Raffel serving as final judge, five essays & other insights, and eighty-one of the world's best very short short stories. ... Read more

$9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer. Co-edited by award-winning microfiction writer/editor Meg Pokrass, and Flannery O'Connor Prize-winning author Gary Fincke, the anthology features Dawn Raffel serving as final judge, five essays & other insights, and eighty-one of the world's best very short short stories.
... Read more
Carrying the Body

A Novel

by Dawn Raffel ...

Elise, a young woman with a mysteriously ill son, returns to her childhood home years after running away with a lover. Now destitute, she begins to search for an object hidden somewhere in the house, which has been in a state of disrepair since her mother's untimely death. Her father, who fled political terror in in his youth, is frail and often dreaming. So it falls to Elise's older sister, who ... Read more

$12.99 CAD

Elise, a young woman with a mysteriously ill son, returns to her childhood home years after running away with a lover. Now destitute, she begins to search for an object hidden somewhere in the house, which has been in a state of disrepair since her mother's untimely death. Her father, who fled political terror in in his youth, is frail and often dreaming. So it falls to Elise's older sister, who
... Read more
Further Adventures in the Restless Universe

by Dawn Raffel ...

Dawn Raffel's stories are like prismatic drops of rain, hanging from the edge of a roof or sliding down a windshield, reflecting an entire world within. The language of motherhood, of adulthood, of childhood - the language of family and individual - has never been like this. Sly and probing, with the sting of precision and pain.” -Susan StraightIn Dawn Raffel's Further Adventures in the Restless ... Read more

$8.99 CAD

Dawn Raffel's stories are like prismatic drops of rain, hanging from the edge of a roof or sliding down a windshield, reflecting an entire world within. The language of motherhood, of adulthood, of childhood - the language of family and individual - has never been like this. Sly and probing, with the sting of precision and pain.” -Susan StraightIn Dawn Raffel's Further Adventures in the Restless
... Read more
Audiobook

The Strange Case of Dr. Couney

How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies

by Dawn Raffel ...

Narrated by Erin Bennett ...

Unabridged

6 hours 28 min

“A mosaic mystery told in vignettes, cliffhangers, curious asides, and some surreal plot twists as Raffel investigates the secrets of the man who changed infant care in America.”—NPR, 2018's Great ReadsWhat kind of doctor puts his patients on display? This is the spellbinding tale of a mysterious Coney Island doctor who revolutionized neonatal care more than one hundred years ago and saved some ... Read more

$23.00 CAD

Also available as: eBook

“A mosaic mystery told in vignettes, cliffhangers, curious asides, and some surreal plot twists as Raffel investigates the secrets of the man who changed infant care in America.”—NPR, 2018's Great ReadsWhat kind of doctor puts his patients on display? This is the spellbinding tale of a mysterious Coney Island doctor who revolutionized neonatal care more than one hundred years ago and saved some
... Read more

Also available as: eBook

Audiobook

18 Tiny Deaths

The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics

by Bruce Goldfarb ...

Narrated by Nan McNamara ...

Unabridged

8 hours 35 min

The story of a woman whose ambition and accomplishments far exceeded the expectations of her time, 18 Tiny Deaths follows the transformation of a young, wealthy socialite into the mother of modern forensics...Frances Glessner Lee, born a socialite to a wealthy and influential Chicago family in the 1870s, was never meant to have a career, let alone one steeped in death and depravity.Yet she ... Read more

$28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

The story of a woman whose ambition and accomplishments far exceeded the expectations of her time, 18 Tiny Deaths follows the transformation of a young, wealthy socialite into the mother of modern forensics...Frances Glessner Lee, born a socialite to a wealthy and influential Chicago family in the 1870s, was never meant to have a career, let alone one steeped in death and depravity.Yet she
... Read more
Audiobook

Through Two Doors at Once

The Elegant Experiment That Captures the Enigma of Our Quantum Reality

by Anil Ananthaswamy ...

Narrated by René Ruiz ...

Unabridged

7 hours 36 min

One of Smithsonian's Favorite Books of 2018One of Forbes's 2018 Best Books About Astronomy, Physics and MathematicsOne of Kirkus's Best Books of 2018The intellectual adventure story of the "double-slit" experiment, showing how a sunbeam split into two paths first challenged our understanding of light and then the nature of reality itself--and continues to almost 200 years later.</str... ... Read more

$23.99 CAD

Also available as: eBook

One of Smithsonian's Favorite Books of 2018One of Forbes's 2018 Best Books About Astronomy, Physics and MathematicsOne of Kirkus's Best Books of 2018The intellectual adventure story of the "double-slit" experiment, showing how a sunbeam split into two paths first challenged our understanding of light and then the nature of reality itself--and continues to almost 200 years later.</str...
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

The Beginning or the End

How Hollywood - and America - Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

by Greg Mitchell ...

Narrated by Rick Adamson ...

Unabridged

9 hours 9 min

Soon after atomic bombs exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, MGM set out to make a movie studio chief Louis B. Mayer called "the most important story" he would ever film: a big budget dramatization of the Manhattan Project and the invention and use of the revolutionary new weapon.Over at Paramount, Hal B. Wallis was ramping up his own film version. His screenwriter: the novelist Ayn Rand, ... Read more

$27.99 CAD

Also available as: eBooks

Soon after atomic bombs exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, MGM set out to make a movie studio chief Louis B. Mayer called "the most important story" he would ever film: a big budget dramatization of the Manhattan Project and the invention and use of the revolutionary new weapon.Over at Paramount, Hal B. Wallis was ramping up his own film version. His screenwriter: the novelist Ayn Rand,
... Read more

Also available as: eBooks
Audiobook

The Time of Their Lives

The Golden Age of Great American Book Publishers, Their Editors, and Authors

by Al Silverman ...

Narrated by Tom Weiner ...

Unabridged

13 hours 33 min

In this love song to book publishing, Silverman offers a fascinating chronicle of the industry’s golden age, an era that began after World War II and lasted for over three decades. Relying on the eyes, ears, and memories of more than 120 notable publishing figures, including Alfred Knopf, the Doubleday fathers and sons, and the Thornhills of Little, Brown and Company, the author offers an intimate ... Read more

$31.99 CAD

Also available as: eBook

In this love song to book publishing, Silverman offers a fascinating chronicle of the industry’s golden age, an era that began after World War II and lasted for over three decades. Relying on the eyes, ears, and memories of more than 120 notable publishing figures, including Alfred Knopf, the Doubleday fathers and sons, and the Thornhills of Little, Brown and Company, the author offers an intimate
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

The Ascent of Humanity

Civilization and the Human Sense of Self

by Charles Eisenstein ...

Narrated by Steve Wojtas ...

Unabridged

27 hours 26 min

The author of The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate selfOur disconnection from one another and the natural world has mislaid the foundations of science, religion, money, technology, economics, medicine, and education as we know them. It has fired our ... Read more

$59.99 CAD

Also available as: eBook

The author of The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate selfOur disconnection from one another and the natural world has mislaid the foundations of science, religion, money, technology, economics, medicine, and education as we know them. It has fired our
... 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 Canada

Best Microfiction

The Strange Case of Dr. Couney

Boundless as the Sky

In the Year of Long Division

Best Microfiction 2025

Carrying the Body

Further Adventures in the Restless Universe

The Strange Case of Dr. Couney

People who read these also enjoyed

18 Tiny Deaths

Through Two Doors at Once

The Beginning or the End

The Time of Their Lives

The Ascent of Humanity

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 Canada

Best Microfiction

Show:

People who read these also enjoyed