The Canadian fur trade started over 500 years ago because of men's fashion hats - and the demand to make it out of beaver fur. In 1670, the Hudson's Bay Company was launched as a fur-trading company and given exclusive rights to over 40% of Canada's lands. What followed was amazing tales of intrigue, courage, murder, coincidences and quirky characters.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11524.33 | Fiction literature | 15 August 2011
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And the Deep Blue Sea
When the S.S. Leonard hauled Harry Goddard out of the freezing waters of the Pacific, he thought his troubles were over--but he was dead wrong. For what appeared to be a cruise ship enroute to the Philippines turned out to be the board on which a lethal game was being played--a game of international intrigue, double deception, and multiple murder, where the stakes were sex and power and the price of one wrong move was certain death.
Catherine Coulter’s fast-paced FBI novels featuring married agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich have rocketed up the New York Times bestseller lists and garnered millions of fans. Coulter’s heady blend of action and intrigue, her "complex plotting and likable characters" (Publishers Weekly), grow more intoxicating with each book — and reach new heights in Blindside.
Cain, author of the film noir masterpieces, Double Indemnity and Postman Rings Twice, has in Butterfly composed his sexiest novel, a tale of incest and intrigue which starred Pia Zadora in the fine feature film.
Stacy Schiff is that rare combination: a first-rate historian and a brilliant storyteller. Using a wide range of sources, she spins straw into gold, conjuring the world of Ptolemaic Egypt in full vibrant color, and returning the voice of one of the most powerful, fascinating, and maligned women in history. Cleopatra is impossible to put down. Her palace shimmered with onyx and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world.
