By Ann Weisgarber
From the writer of the private historical past of Rachel Dupree, shortlisted for the Orange Award for brand new Writers and longlisted for the Orange Prize.
1900. younger pianist Catherine Wainwright flees the trendy city of Dayton, Ohio within the wake of a poor scandal. Heartbroken and dealing with destitution, she unearths herself outstanding up correspondence with a youth admirer, the lately widowed Oscar Williams. In desperation she concurs to marry him, but if Catherine travels to Oscar's farm on Galveston Island, Texas—a thousand miles from home—she reveals she is little ready for the lifestyles that awaits her. The island is distant, the elements sweltering, and Oscar's little boy Andre is grieving difficult for his misplaced mom. And even though Oscar attempts to thrill his new spouse, the secrets and techniques of the previous take a seat uncomfortably among them. in the meantime for Nan Ogden, Oscar's housekeeper, Catherine's surprising arrival has come as an outstanding surprise. For not just did she promise Oscar's first wife...
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For their part, the new family owners wanted to be guaranteed adequate information in shareholders' meetings and proper representation on the board of directors. This required both the shareholders and the board to adopt new systems for nomination and functioning. A Portuguese family ownership was composed of six shareholders (two founders and four children), none of whom held a majority. They had three companies and operated in different industries: wine, real estate, and tourism. With three managing owners leading different businesses and ownership becoming more fragmented in the next generation, the family agreed to create a family holding company that controlled the three operating units, and to assign the three subsidiary presidents higher equity stakes in the companies they managed.
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