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  • Shadow of the Guillotine

    by Jack Falworth ...
    The French author Restif de la Bretonne lived through the ten years of the French Revolution. Restif was a simple man who had little interest in politics, but he was unable to avoid becoming involved in the terrible events of those years.At the beginning of the Reign of Terror, the Marquis de St Croix asks Restif to look after his teenage daughters, Elise and Paulette. The Marquis and his wife ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Guillotine

    Narrated by Elisabeth Ashby ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 4 min

    The Menu meets Ready or Not in this dark tale of opulent luxury and shocking violence from the New York Times bestselling author of Bloom.Thrift fashionista Dez Lane doesn't want to date Patrick Ruskin; she just wants to meet his mother, the editor-in-chief of Nouveau magazine. When he invites her to his family's big Easter reunion at their ancestral home, she's certain she can put up with his ... Read more

    $26.10 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Etched in Stone

    Rise of the Guillotine, #1

    Series Book 1 - Rise of the Guillotine
    The year is 1987, when Ava Martel, a history aficionado, and her best friend Carri, set sail to explore the world. They are on a journey seeking adventure, but their endeavor is met with calamity, and it concludes the loss of everything and everyone she loves.Ava inexplicably finds herself catapulted back in time to pre-revolutionary France where she discovers that her survival has come ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ramage And The Guillotine

    by Dudley Pope ...
    Series Book 10 - Ramage
    As France recovers from her bloody Revolution, Napoleon is amassing his armies for the Great Invasion. News in England is sketchy and the Navy must prepare to defend the land from foreign attack. Lieutenant Ramage is chosen to travel to France and embark upon the perilous quest of spying on the great Napoleon. His mission is to determine the strength of the French troops - but his discovery will ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Typewriter and the Guillotine

    An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII

    by Mark Braude ...
    **ONE OF KIRKUS'S 20 BEST BOOKS OF JANUARYONE OF BOOK PAGE'S TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE MONTHThe "endlessly compelling" (NYT Book Review) untold story of a trailblazing Paris correspondent for The New Yorker, who sounded the alarm about the rise of fascism in Europe while becoming enmeshed in the sensational case of a German serial killer stalking the streets of the French capital on the eve of WWII.**In ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Classic Collection of Baroness Emmuska Orczy. Novels, Short Stories. Illustrated

    The Scarlet Pimpernel, Sir Percy Leads the Band, Sir Percy Hits Back, The Way of the Scarlet Pimpernel, Mam’zelle Guillotine and others

    "The Classic Collection of Baroness Emmuska Orczy" presents a captivating array of novels and short stories from the esteemed author, highlighting her iconic tales of adventure, romance, and intrigue. At the forefront of this anthology is "The Scarlet Pimpernel," Orczy's timeless masterpiece that follows the exploits of Sir Percy Blakeney, a dashing English aristocrat who leads a secret double ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • The Guillotine and the Gunsmoke Trilogy

    by tobii ...
    To stop a blood-soaked revolution, a reborn duchess strikes a deal with the very man who executed her.In her first life, Duke's daughter Celine de Vallière knelt at the guillotine as a starving, enraged populace bayed for noble blood. Even though she had fought tirelessly to reform the corrupt aristocracy and save the dying land, she lost her head at the command of Leonhardt de la Roche—the ... Read more

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  • Guillotine Bride, Vol. 1 (manga)

    I’m just a dragon girl who’ll destroy the world.

    Series Book 1 - Guillotine Bride (manga)
    Rinne Irako, a girl with the potential to bring the world to ruin, has been sentenced to death. But on the way to the guillotine, a sudden incident sends her crashing down to earth—right in the path of Ryuunosuke Dazai, a boy who’s eager to help save Rinne and the world. All he has to do...is marry her?! ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • When the Guillotine Fell

    The Bloody Beginning and Horrifying End to France's River of Blood, 1791–1977

    by Jeremy Mercer ...
    The true story of the last criminal to be executed by the device notoriously associated with the French Revolution's Reign of Terror.How long did the guillotine's blade hang over the heads of French criminals? Was it abandoned in the late 1800s? Did French citizens of the early days of the twentieth century decry its brutality? No. The blade was allowed to do its work.In 1974, Hamida Djandoubi ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Slow Guillotine

    A Novel

    Series series Zero Street Fiction
    Winner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize in FictionSlow Guillotine follows three broke weirdos whose collective desire to make and think about art is constantly interrupted by their art-industry-adjacent minimum-wage jobs. Throughout the novel, the three friends’ day jobs in a failing independent bookstore, a sterile gallery in downtown Manhattan, and miscellaneous living rooms across the Long Island ... Read more

    $24.19 CAD

  • The Meiji Guillotine Murders

    by Futaro Yamada ...
    Translated by Bryan Karetnyk ...
    Series series Pushkin Vertigo
    **A classic Japanese mystery —a pair of sleuths investigate a series of bloody murders in 19th century TokyoA captivating locked room murder mystery perfect for fans of Stuart Turton and Janice Hallett**Japan, 1869. A time of reform and rebellion.Detectives Kazuki and Kawaji are assigned to investigate a series of seemingly impossible murders. Together with the help of a mysterious shrine maiden, ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD