As a single mom and the sole proprietor of Token Creek's general store, Jessie lives day to day with her hands full and her heart broken. When the husband who abandoned her returns to town claiming he's a man changed by faith, he sets out to prove his commitment and his love.
The remarkable Margaret Hardenbroeck Philipse arrived in New Amsterdam from Holland in 1659, and promptly built an empire of trading ships, furs, and real estate. Zimmerman deftly traces the astonishing rise of Margaret and the Philipse women who followed her.
Thirty-year-old techie Dewey Pellicano is trying to make a go of Quilter Paradiso, the quilt shop she inherited from her mother. But she's facing a patchwork of problems - fierce competition, an uncooperative employee (who also happens to be Dewey's sister-in-law) and, oh yes, a dead body in the alley. Dewey pins her hopes on the store's huge 20th ...
Sugar Maple looks like any Vermont town, except that it's inhabited by warlocks, vampires, and witches. Chloe Hobbs is a sorcerer's daughter in search for Mr. Right--and she's found him in Luke MacKenzie, a cop investigating Sugar Maple's very first murder.
As a professional Scottish dancer, Liss MacCrimmon has performed strathsprays and reels, jigs and Highland flings until a knee injury cuts her career short. Returning to her hometown of Moosetookalook, Maine, she decides to help her aunt run her Scottish emporium. But when murder rears its ugly head in the idyllic, quiet village, Liss will have to ...
From the author of "American Mafioso" comes the story of the Brown brothers, leading slave merchants of Providence, Rhode Island, during the time of the American Revolution.
Miriam Beckstein has gotten in touch with her roots and they have nearly strangled her. A young, hip, business journalist in Boston, she discovered (in "The Family Trade") that her family comes from an alternate reality, that she is very well-connected, and that her family is a lot too much like the mafia for comfort. In addition, starting with ...
In 1461, the mysterious enigmatic Nicholas is in Florence. Backed by none other than Cosimo de' Medici, he will sail the Black Sea to Trebizond, last outpost of Byzantium, and the last jewel missing from the crown of the Ottoman Empire. But trouble lies ahead. Nicholas' step-daughter - at the tender age of thirteen - has eloped with his rival in ...
Things are going badly for the Clan in this new SF novel of the Merchant Princes, the immensely popular series by Charles Stross. Locked in a vicious civil war for control over the kingdom of Niejwein, their army is bottled up inside a fortress under siege in two parallel universes at once. Duke Angbard, the Clan's leader, has been laid low by a ...
Erotic, lush with detail, the fourth book in the House of Niccolo series embraces the complexity of the Renaissance as it tells of Nicholas's trip to Africa, where he learns firsthand of the brutality and grandeur of the Dark Continent. Map.
Eudora Welty's first novel (1941) tells the saga of Rosamund, the daughter of a plantation owner in Mississippi, who falls in love with a bandit chief named Jamie Lockhart, seeing him as a means of escape from her cruel stepmother and ineffectual father. More magical and less introspective than Welty's later works, THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM is based ...
POWER AND PROFIT, a history of commerce in the Middle Ages, focuses on the effects in the 1300s of the previous century's commercial revolution, which saw innovations in banking and credit, manufacturing, transport, and commercial organization. The author, former professor of European history at Cambridge, has compiled his work on trade and ...
This novel, the last of Dunnet's House of Niccolò series, begins with Nicholas de Fleury in Edinburgh after a four-year absence. He swiftly becomes involved in intrigues at the court of King James, including both spying for the crown and a friendship with the king's maverick brother. In addition, though he and his wife, Gelis, are finally reunited ...
After a knee injury forces professional Scottish dancer, Liss MacCrimmon to give up her life of performing strathspreys, reels, jigs and Highland flings, she returns to her hometown of Moosetookalook, Maine, where she runs a Scottish Emporium. With one solved murder case under her dance belt, Liss has no idea she's about to spiral into another.. ...
International in scope, this series of non-fiction trade paperbacks offers books that explore the lives, customs and thoughts of peoples and cultures around the world. This text presents a history of Jewish families who built great department stores.
Datini, a fourteenth-century Florentine merchant banker, provides us with one of the great success stories of the Middle Ages. He left behind the entire archive of his business - over 150,000 letters, some 500 ledgers and accounts books, and a mass of personal and business documents that Iris Origo tracked down, translated, selected, and made ...
With the opening of sea routes in the fifteenth century, groups of men and women left Portugal to establish themselves across the ports and cities of the Atlantic or Ocean Sea. They were refugees and migrants, traders and mariners, Jews, Catholics, and the Marranos of mixed Judaic-Catholic culture. They formed a diasporic community known by ...
By the middle of the eighteenth century the merchants were dominant figures in the northern American colonies, powerful economically, politically, and socially. But in New England this preeminence had not been present in the first years of settlement; it had been achieved in the course of three generations of social development as the merchants ...
John Nelson was an entrepreneur born in the mid 17th century, a man, in Johnson's words, 'operating ahead of the government and settled society from which he came', one who 'responded to conventions and conditions derived from several different and often competing cultures'. In the case of Nelson, this meant operating in England and France in ...
The Swahili are one of the best known of the peoples of Africa. Living along the East African coast, they acted as commercial middlemen, exchanging the commodities of continental Africa, such as gold, copper, slaves, ivory, skins and timber with the luxury items of the classical, oriental and Islamic worlds. They were central participants in a ...
"Immigrant and Entrepreneur" examines the life of German immigrant and successful businessman Caspar Wistar. Wistar arrived in Philadelphia in 1717 with nearly no money; at the time of his death in 1750, his wealth outstripped that of the contemporary elite more than threefold. Through this in-depth look at an immigrant's path to achieving the ...
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