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Quietly exploring her newfound abilities and reinventing her life, she discovers fifty is the new forty ... and there's nothing quiet about it. Connie thought last year was full of surprises. Her husband passed away only to have his spirit attach to a taxidermy beaver named Brodie. The moratorium on her family for practicing witchcraft and other psychic arts was lifted. She began seeing and communicating with ghosts. And in a unique career move, she accepted a position at a real estate agency matching haunted houses with informed buyers.Now, what was supposed to be a relaxing, business-related getaway at a quaint bed and breakfast has turned deadly. When the owner suddenly dies, Connie is stunned to find a will that was created years ago. Despite having never met before, the owner left the house, and her cat, to Connie.After an 800-mile move, she finds herself playing referee to a pair of squabbling ghost siblings, while a grumpy spirit leads her on a search for a killer who strikes close to home. All with Brodie the Beaver tagging along.It seems secrets aren't the only things buried in the basement.Spooked by the Sister is the second book in the Extra-Ordinary Midlife Mysteries series If you enjoy solving mysteries, join Connie and her friends for a little snark, a little spooky creepiness, and a lot of laughs. This book was previously published as Changing Locks by Lynn M. Stout.

She never wanted to be special. But when her best friend is possessed, can she master a sudden telepathic power and exorcise a teen spirit? Sam is perfectly happy being normal, thank you. She can't see ghosts or communicate with the dead, and she only recently made peace with their talking cat. But when a gum-smacking teen from the Eighties, possesses a friend's body, she's suddenly thrust into the neon-lit spotlight of a murder mystery with a retro twist. Just when she thinks she has a plan to find the killer and set the wise-cracking spirit free, things heat up in more ways than one. Flashes of warmth and unexpected psychic murmurs make for one dreadful investigative cocktail. Can Sam mix up an aperitif of justice for a ghostly girl lost in time? Hot Flashes and Highballs is the delightful first book in the Mystic on the Rocks midlife paranormal cozy mystery series. If you like fish out of water, spectral shenanigans, and snark for days, then you'll love Lynn M. Stout's cocktail of adventure.

Jody protects everyone. Catch a killer, defeat a demon, rescue a friend - completely in her wheelhouse.When she meets a young girl trapped in the cycle of a centuries old curse, she's ready to spring into action and drop everything to help. Until she discovers she is also in the crosshairs.Forced into introspection, she discovers the disturbing truth of her past lurking beyond the shadows. She must fight harder than ever to protect those she loves, and defy the demands of a desperate demon.Is love enough to help her escape the alluring clutches of the past in time to save the innocent souls of the present?If you enjoy twisted tales of strong women defeating evil, domestic thrillers with a touch of the paranormal, and a little humor sprinkled throughout, you'll love May Black's Again and Again. This book was previously published as Once Again. Only the author and cover have changed.

She sees murders in her sleep. She might be married to a serial killer. And now her cat is possessed…It hasn't been a good year for Dolly. The young bride thought she was making all the right decisions. Then her nightmares began playing out in real life. Alone and out of options, she accepts help from a stranger with an unusual solution. One that could either save her life or lead to a catastrophic disaster.Can she overcome her demons, real and imagined, before she loses her soul?If you enjoy twisted tales of strong women defeating evil, domestic thrillers with a touch of the supernatural, and a little humor sprinkled throughout, you'll love May Black's Silent Screams today! This book was previously published as The Unheard. Only the cover, title, and pen name have changed.

It should have perished in the fire. Instead, she's being stalked by evil.Anna still suffers from the traumas of her childhood. She takes solace from fond memories of an imaginary friend who helped guard her mind from the horrors. But when a worried voice whispers increasingly persistent warnings in her head, she fears pain is set to return with a vengeance.Unnerved by dark threats to her own daughter, Anna rips away the carefully constructed lies in a desperate search for the truth. And as the curse that's plagued her family for generations rears its head, the terrifying reality of her make-believe companion shatters her world forever.Can she trust the wounded voice or is it the ugly source of all her nightmares?Familiar Whispers is the chilling first book in the Not Safe at Home series. If you enjoy twisted tales of defeated demons, haunted houses, and psychic sisters, you'll love May Black's paranormal domestic thriller. This book was previously published as Evil Follows. Only the cover, title and author have changed.

Proves that shareholder primacy has no basis in law or economics and does not deliver better bottom - line results. Suggests better ways to think about shareholders and their relationship to corporations Written by one of America's most distinguished legal scholars, Executives, investors, and the business press routinely chant the mantra that corporations are required to ''maximize shareholder value.'' The results have been disastrous. ''Shareholder primacy'' thinking causes corporate managers to focus myopically on short - term earnings reports at the expense of long - term performance; discourages investment and innovation; harms employees, customers, and communities; and causes companies to indulge in reckless, sociopathic, and socially irresponsible behaviors. It's the kind of thinking that led directly to the recent worldwide economic collapse. Jack Welch, once a shareholder primacy true believer, has famously called it ''the dumbest idea in the world.''Lynn Stout proves that there is in fact no legal obligation for corporations to maximize shareholder value - scholars, lawyers, and corporate officers just assumed there was. Nor, she demonstrates, is maximizing shareholder value the optimal economic model - that's just another unproven assumption, one that is conceptually muddled and, Stout shows, unsupported by the actual evidence on what drives good corporate performance.As if this wasn't enough, Stout also shows how shareholder primacy actually hurts individual investors by obscuring their real, diverse, human interests in the name of serving a hypothetical, homogeneous, abstract, and conscienceless shareholder. Stout looks at new theories that better serve the needs not only of actual human beings who invest but of corporations and society as well. ''Calm, careful, plainspoken, and relentless argumentation that peels away the distracting layers of abstract mumbo jumbo to expose the lunacy of the underlying theory for all to see. Lynn Stout does the world a great favor in exposing shareholder value theory for what it is: flawed and damaging.'' - Roger Martin, Dean, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, and author of Fixing the Game.

Top Cornell law professor Lynn Stout and her coauthors Tamara Belinfanti and Sergio Gramitto offer a visionary but practical proposal to provide a guaranteed minimum income--it not only avoids creating a new government program or increasing taxes, but also gives the entire citizenry more influence in the economy.Corporations have a huge influence on the life of every citizen--this book offers a visionary but practical plan to give every citizen a say in how corporations are run while also gaining some supplemental income. It lays out a clear approach that uses the mechanisms of the private market to hold corporations accountable to the public. This would happen through the creation of what the authors call the Universal Fund, a kind of national, democratic, mega mutual fund. Every American over eighteen would be entitled to a share and would participate in directing its share voting choices. Corporations and wealthy individuals would donate stocks, bonds, cash, or other assets to the fund just like they do to other philanthropic ventures now. The fund would pay out dividends to its citizen-shareholders that would grow as the fund grows. The Universal Fund is undoubtedly a big idea, but it is also eminently practical: it uses the tools of capitalism, not government, to give all citizens a direct influence on corporate actions. It would be a major institutional investor beholden not to a small elite group of stockholders pushing for short-term gain but to everyone. The fund would reward corporations that made sure their actions didn't harm people, communities, and the environment, and it would enable them to invest in innovations that would take more than a few months to pay off. Which is another reason corporations would donate to the fund--they could be freed from the constant pressure to maximize their quarterly share price and would essentially be subsidized for doing good. The authors demonstrate that our current economic rules force corporations to be shortsighted and even destructive because for most large investors, nothing matters but share price. The Universal Fund is designed to be a powerful positive balancing force, making the world a better place and the United States a better nation.

Contemporary law and public policy often treat human beings as selfish creatures who respond only to punishments and rewards. Yet every day we behave unselfishly--few of us mug the elderly or steal the paper from our neighbor's yard, and many of us go out of our way to help strangers. We nevertheless overlook our own good behavior and fixate on the bad things people do and how we can stop them. In this pathbreaking book, acclaimed law and economics scholar Lynn Stout argues that this focus neglects the crucial role our better impulses could play in society. Rather than lean on the power of greed to shape laws and human behavior, Stout contends that we should rely on the force of conscience. Stout makes the compelling case that conscience is neither a rare nor quirky phenomenon, but a vital force woven into our daily lives. Drawing from social psychology, behavioral economics, and evolutionary biology, Stout demonstrates how social cues--instructions from authorities, ideas about others' selfishness and unselfishness, and beliefs about benefits to others--have a powerful role in triggering unselfish behavior. Stout illustrates how our legal system can use these social cues to craft better laws that encourage more unselfish, ethical behavior in many realms, including politics and business. Stout also shows how our current emphasis on self-interest and incentives may have contributed to the catastrophic political missteps and financial scandals of recent memory by encouraging corrupt and selfish actions, and undermining society's collective moral compass. This book proves that if we care about effective laws and civilized society, the powers of conscience are simply too important for us to ignore.