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  • Marie Antoinette

    Teen Queen to Guillotine

    An intimate biography revealing Marie Antoinette’s complex life, personal struggles, and dramatic fall from Versailles to the guillotine.A seemingly endless parade of books, films and television shows have kept Marie Antoinette in the spotlight for over two centuries since her execution in October 1793. For many, she is the ignorant embodiment of foolish, careless, decadent excess, and a deserving ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • To The Scaffold

    The Life of Marie Antoinette

    "[A] smoothly written biography" of the misunderstood eighteenth-century French queen executed during the revolution ( Publishers Weekly )."An extraordinary life. . . . Ms. Erickson gives us a likable, empathetic women and broadens our understanding of her." — The New York Times Book ReviewOne of history's most misunderstood figures, Marie Antoin... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Tulip Eaters

    In a riveting exploration of the power the past wields over the present, critically acclaimed author Antoinette van Heugten writes the story of a woman whose child's life hangs in the balance, forcing her to confront the roots of her family's troubled history in the dark days of World War II…It's the stuff of nightmares: Nora de Jong returns home from work one ordinary day to find her mother has ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Summer Places: A Boxed Set

    Three Complete Novels

    A Note From the Author:Nantucket. Martha's Vineyard. Newport. Magical names, all three of them, because they call forth images of ocean-swept beaches, rose-covered cottages, seafaring Captains' stately homes, and all of the laid-back charm that islands can bring. Is there anyone who hasn't wanted, if only for the length of a vacation, to live on one?In BELOVED, set on Nantucket, unemployed Boston ... Read more

    $9.85 CAD

  • The Prada Plan

    Series Book 1 - The Prada Plan
    Disaya Morgan’s infatuation with money knows no limits, and she will do anything to get it. When she is accepted into a New York organization known as The Elite, she is under the impression that she will be a high paid model, but soon realizes that she’s stepped into a world of sex and lies.She is befriended by Leah, the headmistress of The Elite, and together they make more money than they can ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Complete BY THE SEA Series Boxed Set

    Series series BY THE SEA
    In the tradition of Upstairs, Downstairs and Downton Abbey, BY THE SEA is a four-book series that sweeps from the Gilded Age through the Gatsby Era's Roaring Twenties and then on to the Great Depression, culminating nearly a century later in Newport, Rhode Island, wealthy and alluring "City by the Sea." Set against a backdrop of mansions, the glorious America's Cup Yacht Races, and new money, the ... Read more

    $9.85 CAD

  • Guilty Gucci

    The Red Bottom Bandits may be the world's most fashion-forward gang of masked outlaws. They're the talk of D.C. for their daring robberies and fly gear. And their latest caper is penned by Ashley Antoinette (of Ashley & JaQuavis) at her sultry, streetwise best.When the innocent, naïve Gucci recognizes ringleader Sunny Raegan during a holdup, that's her "in" with the Bandits. Knowing she's got a ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Moth to a Flame

    In the little city of Flint, MI, the good die young and the people left standing are the grimiest of characters. With reign over the city's drug trade, Benjamin Atkins made sure that his precious daughter, Raven, was secluded from the grit that the city had to offer. But when Raven's young heart gets claimed by Mizan, a stick-up kid in search of a come-up, there's nothing Benjamin can do about ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Marie Antoinette

    ". . . [A] behind-the-scenes peek at Versailles . . . and an account of a fraught mother-daughter relationship. . . . [A] graceful guide . . ." - The New York Times. This fascinating and poignant collection of letters between Marie Antoinette, the doomed dauphine and future queen of France, and her mother, Maria Theresa, archduchess of Austria and queen of Hungary and Bohemia, provide a revealing ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Midwife of Venice

    by Roberta Rich ...
    Narrated by Antoinette LaVecchia ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 6 min

    Hannah Levi is renowned throughout Venice for her gift at coaxing reluctant babies from their mothers-- a gift aided by the secret " birthing spoons" she designed. But when a count implores her to attend to his wife, who has been laboring for days to give birth to their firstborn son, Hannah is torn. A Papal edict forbids Jews from rendering medical treatment to Christians, but the payment he ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Marie-Antoinette

    The Making of a French Queen

    by John Hardman ...
    This "wonderfully gripping biography" digs beneath the famous legend to present a nuanced and revealing portrait of a serious-mined monarch (Allan Massie, Wall Street Journal).As the last Queen of France before the French Revolution, Marie-Antoinette was mistrusted and reviled in her own time, while today she is portrayed as a lightweight incapable of understanding the events that engulfed her. ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lost King of France

    How DNA Solved the Mystery of the Murdered Son of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette

    "Cadbury lays out in fascinating detail the historical mystery of the royal heir . . . and uses modern science to try to solve it." — The Wall Street JournalIn 1793, when Marie Antoinette was beheaded at the guillotine during the French Revolution, she left her adored eight-year-old son, Louis Charles, imprisoned in the Temple Tower. Far from inheriting a throne, the orphaned boy-king had to ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD