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  These Old Shades

  IF YOU LOVE BRIDGERTON, YOU'LL LOVE GEORGETTE HEYER!'A rollicking good read that will be of particular joy to Bridgerton viewers ... the permanent glister of scandal [...] ties the whole thing together' INDEPENDENT'[My] generation's Julia Quinn' ADJOA ANDOH, star of Bridgerton, in RED'One of my perennial comfort authors. Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' JOANNE HARRIS__________________________Leonie Bonnard is being drawn into a twenty-year-old feud.Justin Alastair, the Duke of Avon, is a reprehensible rake with an axe to grind. Decades ago the Comte de Saint-Vire did something unforgivable and ever since Justin has been lying in wait to settle the score.When Justin meets Leon, a street urchin with a striking resemblance to his nemesis, he aims to use him as a pawn in his plans for revenge on the Comte. Except Leon is in fact Leonie, a beautiful young ingénue who may just steal Justin's heart.Can Leonie win the Duke's affection, or will his need for revenge overcome them both?__________________________'Léonie, hot-tempered and very much her own woman, is one of Heyer's best female leads [...] The novel remains a witty, vivid page turner' MELANIE REID'Elegant, witty and rapturously romantic' KATIE FFORDE'Utterly delightful' GUARDIAN'Absolutely delicious tales of Regency heroes. . . Utter, immersive escapism' SOPHIE KINSELLA'Georgette Heyer's Regency romances brim with elegance, wit and historical accuracy, and this is one of her finest and most entertaining ... Escapism of the highest order' DAILY MAIL'If you haven't read Georgette Heyer yet, what a treat you have in store!' HARRIET EVANS'Georgette Heyer is unbeatable.' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

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  Laugh Factory Vol. 27 of All Access with Dom Irrera, Hörbuch, Digital, 71min

  Jeremy Hotz educates the audience about dogs, long-term relationships, and genitalia. Then, Jo Koy clears up the difference between Mexicans and Asians. And he shares the Michael Jackson impression he joyously performed in his youth. Dom and club owner Jamie Masada talk about the principles of good comedy. Also, Darwin Hines tells it like it is in L.A. - as a driver, a drug dealer, and a black person. Jeremy Hotz Originally from Ottawa, Canada, Jeremy performed at the local Yuk Yuks Comedy club on amateur night, and the club owner loved him. Although Jeremy believes he hasn't gotten his "big break", in 1997 he performed at the Montreal Comedy Festival. He received a standing ovation after his debut performance at the festival's prestigious gala, and he has performed there nearly every year since. Jeremy has appeared on TV and in the feature films My Favorite Martian (with Elizabeth Hurley) and Speed 2 (with Sandra Bullock and Jason Patrick). Jo Koy Recently named as one of the "10 Comics to Watch" for 2007 by Daily Variety, Jo Koy began stand-up comedy in 1996 at a comedy club in Las Vegas. He has become one of the most requested comedians at Catch a Rising Star, a signature show at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino. A talent coordinator from Los Angeles spotted Koy and landed him his first television appearance on a nationally syndicated show, BET's Comic View. Aside from touring nationwide, he is a regular performer at the Laugh Factory. Darwin Hines With his no-holds-barred, take-no-prisoners style of tell-it-like-it-is comedy, no segment of society is spared from Darwin Hines' caustic barbs and wicked observations. Darwin's strength and virtue is that his ultimate purpose and point is to draw a straight line to the absurdity and pointlessness of the very prejudices he so incisively skews. Explicit Language Warning: You must be 18 years or older to purchase./p Language: English. Narrator: Jo Koy, Jeremy Hotz, Darwin Hines. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/pf/lafa/070911/pf_lafa_070911_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Mediation and Atonement of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 501min

  Two years into his term as President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, John Taylor published Mediation and Atonement. As President of the Church, John Taylor was the Lord's senior apostle on the Earth, and therefore possessed the same authority and responsibility as all other prophets, ancient and modern, to be a witness of Jesus Christ as the Savior and Redeemer of the world. Thus, the significance of John Taylor's Mediation and Atonement is not only that it is the first book-length treatment of the Atonement by a General Authority of the Church, but that it is the testimony of a modern prophet regarding the most transcendent act of grace in time and eternity. This is the fundamental purpose of every prophetic undertaking, to provide witness to others of the reality of the Lord Jesus Christ and His redemption of the world, to thereby igniting in them faith in the Lord and His redemption, and with faith ignited to put them in a position to prophesy themselves to others of the same things. This is precisely the purpose of John Taylor's Mediation and Atonement, to provide witness, ignite faith, and engender prophesying of the Lord and His redemption. And inspiring faith in others sufficient to cause them to prophesy themselves is as essential to the Lord's plan of redemption as His redeeming acts. As Amulek observed so incisively, only unto him that has faith unto repentance is brought about the great and eternal plan of redemption (Alma 34:16). In other words, the entire plan of redemption rests on whether others receive and accept prophetic witness and become themselves witnesses of the Lord's redemption. As you listen to John Taylor's Mediation and Atonement, we hope that you receive his prophetic witness of the Lord's sublime act of redemption and can come to prophesy of its reality and supreme importance. In other words, we hope that you come closer to becoming a prophet of the Lord's atonement. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dave Croft. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/111558/bk_acx0_111558_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Hammer (eBook, ePUB)

  An art auction house employee helps a Russian oligarch sell his prized collection, ensnaring himself in a dangerous romance and an even more treacherous political plot. It's 2013, and much of the world still reels from the global economic collapse. Yet in the auction rooms of London, artworks are selling for record-breaking prices. Seeking a place in this gilded world is Martin, a junior specialist at a prestigious auction house. Martin spends his days catering to the whims of obscenely wealthy clients and his nights drinking in grubby pubs with his demoralized roommate. However, a chance meeting with Marina, an old university friend, presents Martin with a chance to change everything. Pursuing distraction from her failing marriage and from a career she doesn't quite believe in, Marina draws Martin into her circle and that of her husband, Oleg, an art-collecting oligarch. Shaken by the death of his mother and chafing against his diminishing influence in his homeland, Oleg appears primed to change his own lifeand perhaps to relinquish his priceless art collection long coveted by London's auction houses. Martin is determined to secure the sale and transform his career. But his ambitions are threatened by factors he hasn't reckoned with: a dangerous attraction between himself and Marina, and half-baked political plans through which Oleg aims to redeem himself and Russia but which instead imperil the safety of the oligarch and all those around him. Hammer is a riveting, ambitious novelat once a sharp art world exposé, a tense geopolitical thriller, and a brooding romancethat incisively explores the intersection of wealth, power, and desire.

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  The Partition (eBook, ePUB)

  A thrilling new story collection from acclaimed writer Don Lee exploring Asian American identity, spanning decades and continents
"The Partition is flat-out brilliant: a witty, kaleidoscopic tear through questions of race and identity in America today by a writer who has wrought luminous fiction from these issues for years. Don Lee's collection offers vivid, entertaining proof that ethnicity is never straightforward or easyno matter who we are, or where we stand." Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad"Whatever you're hiding from may find you in a Don Lee story. But this isn't a warning. The Partition is, again and again, about Asian Americans in ways we don't always admit we need, a collection about how we alternately cheat and show up for each other and ourselves. And the whole time, there's a canny, shrewd love, guiding us the way through." Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical NovelTwenty-one years after the publication of his landmark debut collection Yellow, Don Lee returns to the short story form for his sixth book, The Partition.The Partition is an updated exploration of Asian American identity, this time with characters who are presumptive model minorities in the arts, academia, and media. Spanning decades, these nine novelistic stories traverse an array of cities, from Tokyo to Boston, Honolulu to El Paso, touching upon transient encounters in local bars, restaurants, and hotels.Culminating in a three-story cycle about a Hollywood actor, The Partition incisively examines heartbreak, identity, family, and relationshipsthe characters searching for answers to universal questions: Where do I belong? How can I find love? What defines an authentic self?

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  Hammer

  An art auction house employee helps a Russian oligarch sell his prized collection, ensnaring himself in a dangerous romance and an even more treacherous political plot. It's 2013, and much of the world still reels from the global economic collapse. Yet in the auction rooms of London, artworks are selling for record-breaking prices. Seeking a place in this gilded world is Martin, a junior specialist at a prestigious auction house. Martin spends his days catering to the whims of obscenely wealthy clients and his nights drinking in grubby pubs with his demoralized roommate. However, a chance meeting with Marina, an old university friend, presents Martin with a chance to change everything. Pursuing distraction from her failing marriage and from a career she doesn't quite believe in, Marina draws Martin into her circle and that of her husband, Oleg, an art-collecting oligarch. Shaken by the death of his mother and chafing against his diminishing influence in his homeland, Oleg appears primed to change his own life—and perhaps to relinquish his priceless art collection long coveted by London's auction houses. Martin is determined to secure the sale and transform his career. But his ambitions are threatened by factors he hasn't reckoned with: a dangerous attraction between himself and Marina, and half-baked political plans through which Oleg aims to redeem himself and Russia but which instead imperil the safety of the oligarch and all those around him. Hammer is a riveting, ambitious novel—at once a sharp art world exposé, a tense geopolitical thriller, and a brooding romance—that incisively explores the intersection of wealth, power, and desire.

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  The Trayvon Generation (eBook, ePUB)

  *Named one of TIME magazine's Most Anticipated Titles of 2022* From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author and poet comes a galvanizing meditation on the power of art and culture to illuminate America's unresolved problem with race. In the midst of civil unrest in the summer of 2020 and following the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, Elizabeth Alexander-one of the great literary voices of our time-turned a mother's eye to her sons' and students' generation and wrote a celebrated and moving reflection on the challenges facing young Black America. Originally published in the New Yorker, the essay incisively and lovingly observed the experiences, attitudes, and cultural expressions of what she referred to as the Trayvon Generation, who even as children could not be shielded from the brutality that has affected the lives of so many Black people. The Trayvon Generation expands the viral essay that spoke so resonantly to the persistence of race as an ongoing issue at the center of the American experience. Alexander looks both to our past and our future with profound insight, brilliant analysis, and mighty heart, interweaving her voice with groundbreaking works of art by some of our most extraordinary artists. At this crucial time in American history when we reckon with who we are as a nation and how we move forward, Alexander's lyrical prose gives us perspective informed by historical understanding, her lifelong devotion to education, and an intimate grasp of the visioning power of art. This breathtaking book is essential reading and an expression of both the tragedies and hopes for the young people of this era that is sure to be embraced by those who are leading the movement for change and anyone rising to meet the moment.

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  Run And Hide

  THE FIRST NOVEL IN TWENTY YEARS BY THE AWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF AGE OF ANGER'A spectacular, illuminating work of fiction' JENNIFER EGAN'Terrific . . . elegantly written, incisively observed, and deeply satisfying to read' KAMILA SHAMSIE'A book that demands to be read and rewards reading' MOHSIN HAMID_____________________Arun knows there is only way out of this small railway town. He is about to enrol in the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, determined to make something of himself. But once there, he meets two friends who are prepared to go to unimaginable lengths to succeed.In just a few years, Arun's friends become the success stories of their generation. In private planes and expensive cars, from New York to Tuscany, they play out their Gatsby-style fantasies.In reality, someone is about to pay for their many transgressions, but who exactly will it be? Will it be Arun? Will it be Alia, a female writer and influencer, who is piecing together the story of a global financial scandal?Run and Hide is a novel about a group of friends in an age of upheaval and breakdown; it is a story for our times._____________________'Pankaj Mishra returns to fiction after two decades with a gripping and remarkable novel - his best work yet. It captures the trajectory of our time through insights and moments that are startling, pure, and have a strange inevitability' AMIT CHAUDHURI'Pankaj Mishra kept us waiting 20 years for a new novel, and it becomes apparent, as soon as you pick up Run and Hide, that time has honed one of our greatest writing talents. The narrative draws you in more keenly than any boxset and the prose shimmers with wisdom. Marvellous' SATHNAM SANGHERA'A profound, extraordinarily written, and devastating exploration of the ways the personal is always already the political. Unforgettable' NEEL MUKHERJEE'It is the coup de literature our demented age needs from one of the finest, bravest writers we have' JUNOT DIAZ

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  Hybrid Financial Instruments, Double Non-Taxation and Linking Rules (eBook, ePUB)

  Hybrid Financial Instruments, Double Non-taxation and Linking Rules Felix Daniel Martnez Laguna Hybrid financial instruments (HFIs) are widespread ordinary financial instruments that combine debt and equity features in their terms and design and may lead to double non-taxation across borders. This important book provides a deeply informed and critical analysis and guide to the ';linking rules' developed to combat double non-taxation stemming from HFIs within the framework of the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting project of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the anti-avoidance initiatives of the European Union (EU). These complex rules have now become essential in international taxation. The book deals incisively with crucial theoretical and practical issues as the following: Economic and legal reasons for financing business activity through debt instruments, equity instruments and/or HFIs. Qualification of financial instruments from different perspectives such as economics, corporate finance, corporate law, financial accounting law, regulatory law and tax law and their interrelation. The concept of double non-taxation as a mere outcome of parallel exercises of sovereignty by different states and the role it plays within the international debate. The concepts of tax planning, tax avoidance and the misleading concept of aggressive tax planning within a tax competition international scenario and their relation with HFIs. Comprehensive policy, legal and technical detail and explanation of the linking rules proposed by the OECD (i.e., BEPS Project Action 2) and the EU (e.g., Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive). The (in)compatibility of linking rules with existing tax treaty rules and EU primary law. The author refers throughout to relevant model convention provisions, EU case law and a vast number of references of official documentation and literature. With its detailed attention to the concept and legal nature of HFIs and double non-taxation, the critical and comprehensive analysis of the linking rules developed by the OECD and the EU, this provocative book allows to reconsider the legality of these linking rules and will quickly become a much-used problem-solving resource for policymakers, tax practitioners, tax authorities and tax academics. This book allows to rethink whether linking rules relate to a solution or create actual legal issues.

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  Atlases & Astronauts

  Beautifully melodic folk-acoustic music that showcases poetic, lucid lyrics and incisively universal themes of love, longing, hope and faith. Best described as a mixture of Jon Foreman and JJ Heller.

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