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London, 1934. Doreen Bates is working in the same office as E, an older married man. They strike up a passionate affair and Doreen records it all in her diary - secret midnight walks, countryside escapades and stolen moments of intimacy. But Doreen longs for a child with E. Despite all the taboos at the time and against the wishes of E, Doreen gets pregnant and is amazed when twins are born during the war. However, Doreen faces an uncertain future - will E ever leave his wife and join his new family?

With the urgency and passion of Ta-Nehisi Coates (Between the World and Me), the seductive storytelling of JD Vance (Hillbilly Elegy) and the historical rigor of Carol Anderson (White Rage), Kamal Al-Solaylee explores the in-between space that brown people occupy in today's world: on the cusp of whiteness and the edge of blackness.

New York City, 1972: Bobby Comfort and Sammy "the Arab" Nalo were highly skilled jewel thieves who specialized in robbing luxury Manhattan hotels. (They once robbed Sophia Loren's suite, relieving the Italian actress of over $1 million in gems.) With the blessing of the Lucchese crime family, their next plot targeted the posh Pierre Hotel - host to kings and queens, presidents and aldermen, and the wealthiest of the wealthy.

Experts believe that Brazil, the world's fifth largest country and its seventh largest economy, will be one of the most important global powers by the year 2030. Yet far more attention has been paid to the other rising behemoths: Russia, India, and China. Often ignored and underappreciated, Brazil, according to renowned, award-winning journalist Michael Reid, has finally begun to live up to its potential but faces important challenges before it becomes a nation of substantial global significance.

Historian and geopolitical expert Michael Auslin argues that far from being a cohesive powerhouse, Asia is a fractured region threatened by stagnation and instability. Here he provides a comprehensive account of the economic, military, political, and demographic risks that bedevil half of our world, arguing that Asia, working with the United States, has a unique opportunity to avert catastrophe - but only if it acts boldly.

We Sell Drugs is a study grounded in the transnational geography and political economy of the coca-leaf and coca-derived commodities market stretching from Peru and Bolivia into the United States. More than a narrow biography of one famous plant and its equally famous derivative products - Coca-Cola and cocaine - this audiobook situates these commodities within the larger landscape of drug production and consumption. Examining efforts to control the circuits through which coca traveled, Suzanna Reiss provides a geographic and legal basis for considering the historical construction of designations of legality and illegality.

The book also argues that the legal status of any given drug is largely premised on who grew, manufactured, distributed, and consumed it and not on the qualities of the drug itself. Drug control is a powerful tool for ordering international trade, national economies, and society's habits and daily lives. In a historical landscape animated by struggles over political economy, national autonomy, hegemony, and racial equality, We Sell Drugs insists on the socio-historical underpinnings of designations of legality to explore how drug control became a major weapon in asserting control of domestic and international affairs.

In late March of 1943, four commandos arrive in northern Norway with a mission of establishing a base for sabotage operations. Before they can unload their cutter, they are betrayed, as a German Schnell boat arrives and turns the quiet fjord into a battle zone. Only one man, Jan Baalsrud, surrvives the attack. This is the story of his perilous journey to freedom. Wounded, the dauntless soldier swims icy fjord waters, climbs snow-laden granite peaks, endures violent snowstorms and is hurled off a mountain by an avalanche.

For the U.S. Navy's elite team of SEALs, the mission seemed straightforward enough: to take control of a towering, 10,240-foot mountain peak called Takur Ghar, a key post in their plan to smash Taliban al Qaeda in eastern Afghanistan.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of F*ck You, 2016 by Bob A. N. Grypants, read by Bob A.N. Grypants. In the year that David Bowie died, Brexit shocked us, 'Hiddleswift' was a thing and Trump trumped, we are all asking ourselves was 2016 really the worst year ever?...

L'Iran, il Boeing abbattuto e la scommessa di Trump: Nella base degli italiani attaccata da Teheran: "La missione va avanti", di Fabio Tonacci; Satelliti, rottami e scatole nere: l'aereo ucraino e l'ipotesi missile, di Rosalba Castelletti; E per ora Donald vince la scommessa con gli ayatollah, di Federico Rampini; Dalle milizie ai missili, perché tra Iran e USA il conflitto non è finito; di Bernardo Valli; Crisi Stati Uniti-Iran, Teheran e il sogno della nuova Persia, di Gad Lerner.

Raid a Bagdad, venti di guerra Usa-Iran: Perché Trump lo ha fatto, di Federico Rampini; Americani nel mirino e confini in allarme. La miccia è accesa, di Francesca Caferri; L'incubo di una nuova guerra, di Bernardo Valli; Tensioni Usa-Iran, l'irritazione del governo: "Siamo stati tenuti all'oscuro del raid", di Tommaso Ciriaco; Usa, l'ultima crisi è con l'Europa: "Che delusione", di Federico Rampini; Conte: "Sì a una missione dell'Europa per impedire la guerra", di Stefano Cappellini.

Quando ripensiamo ai fatti significativi della nostra vita tutti noi ormai siamo abituati a ragionare in termini di "prima" o "dopo" l'11 settembre 2001. È un dato di fatto oggettivo: quel giorno ha diviso la storia del mondo in un "prima" ed in "dopo". Ormai quando si usa l'espressione "undici settembre" non serve più nemmeno specificare di che anno si tratti: è chiaro per tutti che ci si riferisce all'11 settembre 2001.

Giovanni Paolo II è il solo papa del Novecento che può vantare una vittoria politica, quella nel confronto con il sistema comunista. Eppure il suo è un pontificato religioso. Questa è la cifra con la quale si presenta Karol Wojtyła quando, nel 1978, con grande sorpresa di tutti, viene eletto papa. Eredita una Chiesa che, dopo il Concilio Vaticano II e il '68, sembra in declino. Ma il suo messaggio coglie nel segno: "Non abbiate paura! Aprite le porte a Cristo!".

Solo tre settimane dopo la sua morte gli eredi ordinano la liberazione di oltre un milione di prigionieri, la fine delle torture e il rispetto dei diritti degli arrestati. Solo tre anni dopo, nel 1956, denunciano al mondo che "il Massimo Genio e il Massimo Condottiero di tutti i tempi e di tutti i popoli" è stato un tiranno spietato. Passano due anni dal crollo del muro di Berlino e la sua grandiosa costruzione economica si affloscia, inerte, su sé stessa.

Den 10 mars 1969 blir en 74-årig kvinna brutalt misshandlad och därefter våldtagen och strypt. Gärningsmannen grips av polisen nästan omedelbart efter dådet. Domstolen finner honom skyldig och han överförs till sjukhus för sluten psykiatrisk vård. Exakt på dagen ett år efter denna händelse mördas en äldre kvinna i Västerås på ett sätt som i nästan varje detalj är detsamma. Hade polisen hand om samma gärningsman, eller försökte någon vilseledda dom? I Nordisk kriminalkrönika berättar poliser själva om sina mest uppmärksammade, omskakande, och svåra fall.

Början på slutet för en av Sveriges största traffickingringar blir ett telefonsamtal som kommer till kriminaljouren från en kvinnlig medarbetare vid den tjeckiska ambassaden. Hon hade blivit kontaktad av en kvinna som berättat att hennes dotter hölls inlåst i närheten av Stockholm. Med ambassadtjänstepersonens hjälp lyckas svensk polis finna huset, och de tre unga kvinnorna som fanns inlåsta i ett rum däri. Det före detta motellet Gyllene Ratten, beläget i Fruängen i Stockholm, var en av platserna där den internationella ligan hade fängslat unga kvinnor för att tvinga dem till prostitution.

Natten till midsommarafton 1959 har blivit ett av de mörkaste kapitlen i norsk hotellhistoria. Då lades ärevördiga Stalheim Turisthotell i Vossestrand i aska på några timmar i ett inferno av lågor. På hotellet bodde 147 gäster denna natt, samtliga utlänningar. 25 av dem omkom i katastrofen. I Nordisk kriminalkrönika berättar poliser själva om sina mest uppmärksammade, omskakande, och svåra fall. Nordisk Kriminalkrönika är ett historiskt verk. Berättelserna och samlingarna är uttryck för den samtid som de skrevs i, och kan i enstaka fall ha föråldrat eller kontroversiellt innehåll.

Måndagen den 28 november 1881 omkring klockan 19 på kvällen avlossades ett skott från gårdsplanen in genom ett fönster till gården Bessinge i Östra Salerups socken i Skåne. Skottet träffade gårdsägaren Ola Månsson i huvudet och han avled omedelbart. Den här ogärningen, som går under namnet Bessingemordet, förövades på en fastighet som numera har beteckningen Guddastad i Hörby kommun. Brottet var ett beställningsmord i ett klassiskt triangeldrama. Sammansvärjningen avslöjades tack vare ett gediget polisarbete, som innefattade ett par tidiga exempel på effektiv kriminalteknisk undersökning.

Veteran science journalist Leonard David explores the moon in all its facets, from ancient myth to future "Moon Village" plans. David offers inside information about how the United States, allies, and competitors, as well as key private corporations like Moon Express and Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin, plan to reach, inhabit, and even harvest the moon in the decades to come. Spurred on by the Google Lunar XPRIZE - $30 million for the first to get to the moon and send images home - the 21st-century space race back to the moon has become more urgent, and more timely, than ever.

From Brexit Britain to Trump's America to Orban's Hungary, liberal values are under attack. In a soaring narrative that stretches from the English Civil War to the 2008 financial crash and the rise of populism, the journalist Ian Dunt tells the epic story of liberalism, from its birth in the fight against absolute monarchy to the modern-day resistance against the new populism. This book explains the political ideas which underpin the modern world. But it is also something much more than that - it is a rallying cry for those who still believe in freedom and reason.