"This is a fun, highly-readable story that begs to be discussed and should be a winner with book clubs!" ( New York Times)
Dubbed "The Bugatti of Audio" by The Absolute Sound, Austrian company Ayon Audio was founded over 20 years ago and offers a complete line of high performance audio components. Ayon components combine premium design, advanced technologies and profound musicality. They're designed with future upgrades in mind, providing for emerging new technologies, up-to-date performance and preservation of investment. Naturally flowing curves and sophisticated colour schemes characterise the aesthetics of the Ayon line, offering a timeless value of understated elegance.
Besides offering one of the most extensive ranges of tube components, Ayon design and manufacture a unique range of Super Triode Power Tubes used exclusively in their own product range, which includes power and integrated amplifiers, preamps, CD players, DACs and advanced technology speaker systems.
...this wonderful integrated amp could anchor a rather long term and totally satisfying system that would leave you wanting precious little in addition. Pairing it with equal quality components could make for one happy audiophile for a lifetime. In particular a good match up is the Ayon CD-CD3sx, which I am also reviewing. I could live with the Ayon Triton III /CD3sx indefinitely in my system. This is a highly recommended unit for your auditioning. I am sure you will find it to be a great overall performer and at the price a real bargain in the land of high end audio! 
The Ayon Scorpio [Integrated Amp] delivers an incredible sound for an amplifier at this price: Sumptuous tone, weight, and delivery, with plenty of power in reserve. Sonically, the Scorpio is a luxury sedan, guaranteed to deliver comfort and sophisticated ease.”
”The Scorpio integrated reflects the principles espoused throughout the Ayon line: “We believe that the simplest circuits work best together with the shortest signal path. The shorter the signal path is, the less possibility of sonic degradation from various sources, including the wire itself.
”The newest player Ayon CD-1SX is a step forward not only in terms of construction, but also the sound. This new design completely surprised me, because it seemed to me that at this price nothing better could be produced than the previous model, the CD-1SC. 
This is instead one of the best sounding CD players you can buy. In fact, it’s so good, it makes you question the need to rip all those discs to a computer, when they sound this good. In 2013, audiophile CD replay needs a champion to fight for the cause. In the Ayon Audio CD-3s, I think we’ve found it.”
PR agent Annika Lund can spin any disaster into a win. But revamping the reputation of a notorious Swedish hockey player will take every trick in her arsenal, especially when his agent insists that convincing everyone he's no longer a playboy is top priority. And that it requires a sham relationship-with Annika playing the part of loving girlfriend. On fire in the rink and in the bedroom, Axl Hammerquist couldn't care less about being anyone's golden boy. So when his agent forces him to play nice with a new publicist, he takes satisfaction in being as much of a pain as possible. But the more time he spends getting to know Annika, the more Axl starts to think that being Mr. Nice Guy might be worth it if it gets him the girl . . .
A moving reflection on a subject that touches us all, by the bestselling author of Claire of the Sea Light Edwidge Danticat's The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story is at once a personal account of her mother dying from cancer and a deeply considered reckoning with the ways that other writers have approached death in their own work. "Writing has been the primary way I have tried to make sense of my losses," Danticat notes in her introduction. "I have been writing about death for as long as I have been writing." The book moves outward from the shock of her mother's diagnosis and sifts through Danticat's writing life and personal history, all the while shifting fluidly from examples that range from Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude to Toni Morrison's Sula. The narrative, which continually circles the many incarnations of death from individual to large-scale catastrophes, culminates in a beautiful, heartrending prayer in the voice of Danticat's mother. A moving tribute and a work of astute criticism, The Art of Death is a book that will profoundly alter all who encounter it.
The poignant, heart warming and beautifully written new standalone novel from the best-loved and original Queen of Tween, whose books are described by Jacqueline Wilson as "funny, funky, feisty - and fantastic reads!".
Listen to Marriage of Mary Russell: A short story featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes by Laurie R. King at Audiobooks.com
Laurie R. King takes readers way back in her bestselling series with this exclusive ebook short story, as Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes embark upon the riskiest adventure of their partnership: their wedding. Though she cannot entirely discount the effects of the head injuries they were both suffering at the time, Mary Russell is delighted by Sherlock Holmes's proposal of marriage. After all, they have become partners-in-crime, and she has recently come into her inheritance: what remains but to confirm the union with her mentor-turned-partner with the piece of paper? Russell's pragmatic side tells her to head straight to the registry office-until Holmes surprises her with a sentimental wish to be married in the chapel of his ancestral manor. There's just the small issue of ownership: the house is not exactly his, and he is most definitely not welcome there. Of course, such obstacles have never deterred Sherlock Holmes before, and they certainly won't keep him from concocting an elaborate scheme to evade angry dogs and armed butlers-all in the name of wedded bliss.