The Coffee Trader is an “historical financial thriller” which sounds impossibly dull, but isn’t. The novel takes place in 1659 Amsterdam, a bustling international center of business and home to the first commodities exchange. Miguel Lienzo is a clever trader who recently lost everything on sugar ... [Continue Reading]
When a Toy Dog Became a Wolf and the Moon Broke Curfew… By Hendrika de Vries
A WWII Memoir When a Toy Dog Became a Wolf and the Moon Broke Curfew… is a moving memoir about the author’s childhood in Amsterdam, during and in the immediate aftermath of the war. Although the Germans invaded and occupied the Netherlands in 1940, little Hendrika, born in 1937, was too young to ... [Continue Reading]