The Lobster League is a moving exploration of money, memory, and human behavior served alongside steaming bowls of lobster bisque. Drawing inspiration from his work advising high-net-worth families, financial advisor Scott MacKenzie gathers an eclectic mix of clients for a private weekly lunch series known as the Lobster League. Around the table, in a cozy corner of Gloucester, Massachusetts, MacKenzie uses intimate, character-driven stories to illuminate the deeper forces that sh...

Before the rise of private homes as we now understand them, the realm of personal, private, and local relations in England was the parish, which was also the sphere of poverty management. Between the 1740s and the 1790s, legislators, political economists, reformers, and novelists transferred the parish system’s functions to another institution that promised self-sufficient prosperity: the laborer’s cottage. Expanding its scope beyond the parameters of literary history and previous studies ...

“A sophisticated novel that breaks and swells the heart. A sure-footed excavation into the nuances of everyday terror—the kind that turns devotion into despair, trust into treachery, love into loss. Its pull is irresistible.” — Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and author of Song of Solomon“Quietly absorbing . . . the slow pileup of events takes on unexpected, if mild urgency . . . wholly original and convincing.” — New Yo...

Reclusive movie star Jessica Lessing is finally coming out of hiding—to confront her father, a con man who has been selling her out to the paparazzi for years. On her four-day road trip to Las Vegas, she encounters three unexpected allies—Vivian, a teenager with newborn twins; Lynn, a dog shelter owner living in isolation on a ranch in rural Nevada; and Dana, a fearless ex-military bodyguard wrestling with secrets of her own. As their fates collide, each woman will find a chance at redempt...

Cette fois il la regarde. Et d'une façon qui risque de leur attirer des ennuis à tous les deux.Lael Ramsay est fan du groupe de rock And Then depuis ses 14 ans. Enfin, plutôt du chanteur du groupe, Brad Snyder.Depuis qu'elle les a vus en concert, elle sait qu'elle veut travailler dans la musique. Son père, le patron du label Ramsey Records, qui les produit, ne souhaite pas de ce monde-là pour elle, qu'il juge trop dépravé.L'été de ses 21 ans, Lael che...

This book investigates how state responsibility can be determined for the wrongdoing of non-state actors. Every day, people, businesses and societies around the world pay a price arising from interactions between states and non-state actors. From insurrections that attempt to create new governments, to states arming belligerent proxies operating overseas, to companies damaging natural environments or providing suspect services, the impact of such situations are felt in numerous ways. They ...

One of the first new interpretations of West Virginia’s origins in over a century—and one that corrects previous histories’ tendency to minimize support for slavery in the state’s founding.Every history of West Virginia’s creation in 1863 explains the event in similar ways: at the start of the Civil War, political, social, cultural, and economic differences with eastern Virginia motivated the northwestern counties to resist secession from the Union and seek their i...

A collection of seven short stories set in the Outlander universe, never before published together, including two original stories and featuring beloved character Jamie Fraser. BESEIGED: Protagonist is Lord John Grey, a secondary character in the Outlander novels and a main protagonist of the Lord John novels, Diana's related series (Never before published) A FUGITIVE GREEN: Protagonist is Hal Grey, John's brother (Never before published) VIRGINS: Protagonists are Jamie Fraser at age 19, a...

The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Citizenship Behavior provides a broad and interdisciplinary review of state-of-the-art research on organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs), and related constructs such as contextual performance, spontaneous organizational behavior, prosocial behavior, and proactive behavior in the workplace. Contributors address the conceptualization and measurement of OCBs; the antecedents, correlates, and consequences of these behaviors; and the methodol...

Key FeaturesBook DescriptionThis book is for architects, architectural technicians, and construction professionals who are familiar with 2D CAD programs such as AutoCAD Lite, or have some exposure to a 3D BIM package such as Revit. No experience with ArchiCAD is required. If you want to learn the skills needed for architectural drawing production in the real world, then this book is for you.What you will learnAcquaint yourself with var...

Whether addressing HIV/AIDS, the policing of bathroom sex, censorship, or anti-globalization movements, John Greyson has imbued his work with cutting humour, eroticism, and postmodern aesthetics. Mashing up high art, opera, community activism, and pop culture, Greyson challenges his audience to consider new ways that images can intervene in both political and public spheres.Emerging on the Toronto scene in the late 1970s, Greyson has produced an eclectic, provocative, and award-win...

A Collection of HorrorsA Zimbell House AnthologyChasing the promise of freedom, wealth, or fame, many will play the game, but none will win. In The Dead Game, the lines between the real and the imaginary, the dead and the living blur together, as competitors, motivated by greed, curiosity, or survival, compete for their prizes. When players' arrogance, vanity, or disregard for the rules begins to emerge, a roll of the dice, a click of the mouse, or even a childish prank or ...