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In 1982, when he was just three years old, Samir was abandoned by his mother on the beach of El Saler. She blindfolded him and said: Don't move, I'll come right away. But she never did. No one knew why she did not return and that child ended up in a juvenile center with no other identity than his name and a handful of memories. Samir grew up among orphans and disinherited from the world, but with the determination to have a chance in life. Thirty years after his mother left him on that beach, Samir is no longer a helpless child, but a captain of the Valencia Judicial Police. However, his past ...

La figura de Tolstói, compleja y polifacética, fascinó tanto a sus contemporáneos como fascina hoy a quien se acerca a sus obras. Los testimonios reunidos en este volumen nos descubren al escritor, asceta y pensador moral, pero también al melómano, cuya predilección por la más abstracta de las artes encierra algunas claves de su pensamiento sobre la creación y la vida. Cada uno de los textos reunidos refleja un aspecto de la personalidad desmesurada y fascinante de este hombre capaz de inspirar una sincera admiración en quien lo trató, como las teselas que dibujan, pieza a pieza,...

***Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Time, The Washington Post, Harper's Bazaar, Entertainment Weekly, Marie Claire, Bustle, BuzzFeed, Parade, Goodreads, Fortune, and BBC*** - Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and microaggressions, she's thrilled when Harlem-born and bred Hazel starts working in the cubicle beside hers. They've only just started comparing natural hair care regimens, though, when a string of uncomfortable events elevates Hazel to Office Darling, and Nella is left in...

Bravo ernærer sig som alfons i den kriminelle underverden i 70’ernes Milano, der er præget af beskidt kriminalitet, lyssky forretninger, søvnløse nætter og mafia. Italien er ramt af terror, og i Rom har De Røde Brigader kidnappet den italienske politiker Aldo Moro. Da Bravo møder den smukke Carla tager hans liv en drejning, og han planlægger en exit fra sin løbebane. Men han suges hurtigt ind i et blodigt og mafi astyret spil, hvor han skal vise sig at være en central brik og en jaget mand. I sit forsøg på at komme helskindet ud af sit mørkeste mareridt, mens nettet strammes om ...