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"- Det här som jag säger nu är mycket känsligt. Ni måste lova att inte sprida uppgifterna vidare." David, Johannes och Carina sitter på ett möte inför Västsaharakonferensen när de hör nyheten. Agenten Ali från den marockanska säkerhetstjänsten har hoppat av och tagit kontakt med Polisiaro. Han har ett viktigt avslöjande att förmedla på konferensen: han kan bevisa att högt uppsatta officerare i den marockanska säkerhetstjänsten organiserar och tjänar stora pengar på narkotikasmuggling. Men alla är inte lika entusiastiska över situationen.

Júlia ha tornat a Barcelona per preparar un documental sobre Salvador Dalí, però les ombres del passat es despleguen davant seu amb una força insospitada. De Nova York a Barcelona per retrobar la passió i els secrets de Dalí Després de viure més de vint anys a Nova York, la Júlia ha decidit retornar a Barcelona. L'excusa és la preparació d'un documental sobre la vida de Salvador Dalí, però tan bon punt arriba, les ombres del passat i un torrent de sensacions noves es despleguen davant seu amb una força insospitada.

Kaylee’s thesis project could get her killed. She’s determined to move forward with it anyway, especially after finding and meeting Mama C and her band of homeless young people. As Kaylee gets more deeply embroiled in the lives of this makeshift family, she realizes her thesis isn’t what’s important, but the real lives and broken families of those living on the streets. And she wants to help. Within the despair of homelessness and all that comes with it, Mama C sparks hope in countless others who thought they’d lost it. Can Kaylee help keep that spark going?

Once the top dog, Danny Mckay has walked away from his old gangland life. He’s on the straight and narrow now, looking forward to settling down and living a quiet life. But trouble seems to follow Danny. And when his own family is caught up in a shocking event, Danny is dragged back into the gangland world, hell-bent on revenge. Danny’s determined to make someone pay, but the rules are different this time around—old friends are enemies, and Danny doesn’t know who he can trust.

Keema is back, and dirtier than ever. After oddly maneuvering her way out of the blood bath she left behind in Arizona, Keema is up to her old tricks again. Between sex, greed, and murder, it’s almost impossible to escape from the hood life she’s grown accustomed to. From one scam to the next, she finally comes up with a new hustle that rains money and is sure to give her the riches she thinks she deserves. That is until someone from her past emerges, sending her into mental shock. The stakes become high as Keema fights for her life, still with her mind on her money.

After surviving another attempt on her life, Keema Newell proves that a true hustler never dies. As a ghetto superstar and queen of the streets, she struggles to put the pieces of her life back together, while trying to tame her now notorious daughter, Treasure. Money, murder, and mayhem comes from every angle as Keema finds herself in a viscous web of deceit, tearing apart the lives of everyone she comes in contact with—ultimately making her fair game for her ruthless enemies. Little does she know, her own daughter has plans to step in and take over the throne.

When Libby Nicholls arrives in London, broken-hearted and with her life in tatters, the first person she meets on the bus is elderly pensioner Frank. He tells her about the time in 1962 he met a girl on the number 88 bus with beautiful red hair just like her own. They made plans for a date, but Frank lost the ticket with her number written on it. For the past sixty years, he's ridden the same bus trying to find her. Libby is inspired by the story and, with the help of an unlikely companion, she makes it her mission to continue Frank's search.

Virginia träumt von einem Leben in Berlin, doch aus Rücksicht auf ihre alleinerziehende Mutter – süchtig nach Schlaftabletten und der Liebe ihrer Tochter – beginnt sie ein Studium in deren Nähe. Beim Besuch einer feministischen Hochschulgruppe trifft sie auf Gleichgesinnte, junge Menschen, die sich für eine diverse Gesellschaft einsetzen. Obwohl sie alle mit eigenen Herausforderungen kämpfen, entsteht schnell eine tiefe Freundschaft. Und dann wäre da noch der Jurastudent Benedict, der seine Selbstzweifel durch überehrgeizige Leistung kompensiert.

After the defeat of the rival Gordon and Thompson families, the Blood Brothers' reputations as feared lieutenants of the McVay clan are firmly established. The Gallowburn has become an untouchable stronghold in their capable hands. However, danger rears its head in another form—Jamie’s deadliest foe, Cameron Abernethy. Still fighting to be released from prison, Cameron decides to use the Lawson family, the Blood Brothers’ biggest rivals, to discover his daughter's whereabouts.

Teresa Gomez did what it took to leave the game behind, but did the game leave her? Blood in, blood out! And that is regardless of the reason! A maze of urban drama continues for the girls of the 187-Fresh Girls Crew. Love, life, and relationships don't show favors because you get it going on—as the saying goes!

Precious: A young troubled teen who becomes tremendously infatuated with sex by secretly viewing her mother's sexcapades and triple x movies. After getting caught reenacting what she sees, she runs away from home and seeks refuge in the streets of East Hammond, IN, where she becomes vividly exposed to the rugged street life. Cuz: A focused hustler who's recently released from serving a five year sentence. Cuz places Precious under his wings, but only if she agrees to earn her keep by any means necessary. On their rise to power they encounter Shree, LaToya, Sonya, and Neicey.

Cashmere, a rising R&B star, is left wondering if his girlfriend Jeda's secret will destroy the love that connects soul mates. In the midst of her facing her demons, she makes a decision that will change their lives forever. Mason "Mase" Cotton's skills on the court almost guarantees him a million-dollar NBA contract, but will his situationship with Qwana, a married woman, cost him the very thing he loves? While his cousins are caught up in their relationships, Kareem's main focus is getting money. All money is not good money, and he soon finds out by the blood left on his hands.

Maggie is fine. She’s doing really good, actually. Sure, she’s broke, her graduate thesis on something obscure is going nowhere, and her marriage only lasted 608 days, but at the ripe old age of twenty-nine, Maggie is determined to embrace her new life as a Surprisingly Young Divorcée™.

Punk pushes both the rules of writing and the dominant ideas and expectations of our society. Thrown into the world of punk rock in the early 1990s, this novel follows the intertwining lives of a wandering reject and the people he meets as he learns of his fathers’ unexpected death. It explores themes of social structure and religious indifference through the eyes of this disenfranchised man living from one high to the next. The story takes place over a few hot summer days in Edmonton, Alberta.

Cuatro personajes inmersos en la apocalíptica modernidad de una gran urbe verán cómo se cruzan sus destinos. Un taxista viudo que no supera la pérdida de su mujer, un médico desencantado, una prostituta africana aferrada a la vida y una vieja científica protagonizan esta novela urbana, sobre un trasfondo vertiginoso de asesinos en serie, amas sadomasoquistas un tanto estrafalarias y pequeños prodigios.

Cammie, a dancer in her thirties, has just landed her first part in a show since coming to New York City. Yet the tug of familial obligations and the guilt of what she sacrificed to be there weigh down her dancing feet. Cammie’s lover, Tom, an older piano player, came to the city as a young man in the 1980s with a story eerily in tune with Cammie’s own. Through their triumphs and failures, both learn the fleetness of glory, the sweetness of new love, and how a dream come true isn’t cherished until it’s passed.

Un día de otoño de 1686, una joven de dieciocho años llama a la puerta de una casa señorial en el barrio más acomodado de Ámsterdam. Nella Oortman se ha trasladado del campo a la ciudad para convivir con su marido, Johannes Brandt, un hombre maduro y distinguido comerciante que habita en la mansión en compañía de su hermana soltera y rodeado de fieles servidores.

Jess is a single mother to two teenage children, and although life can be tough, she’s just about keeping things together. But when her landlord asks her to move on so he can sell the house they’re living in without warning, Jess’ worries take on a whole new meaning. As Jess struggles to regain her footing, cracks begin to appear in other areas of her life, and suddenly she feels she’s failing at everything.

1974. La Muna és una nena òrfena d’onze anys que treballa a Bombai i no pot oblidar la seva germana petita, de qui la van separar. La Sita té sis anys i, sense altres records que els dels orfenats de Nasik i Bombai, on ha crescut, somia tenir uns nous pares. En Solomon, un nen etíop de vuit anys, viu a Addis Abeba i descobreix que el seu món està canviant sense entendre per què. Les vides d’en Solomon, la Muna i la Sita coincidiran trenta anys després entre Addis Abeba, Mumbai i Barcelona, més enllà de destins i cultures, passats comuns i futurs imaginats.

"Ich heiße Niu. N und I und U." Ein Neustart in New York. Die Hoffnung auf bessere Zeiten. Doch die Vergangenheit reist mit. Aber dann kommt Niu... Carmen und Thomas sind gerade erst nach New York gezogen. Sie haben große Pläne für ihr neues gemeinsames Leben. Doch dann lernen sie unabhängig voneinander Niu kennen. Wie zufällig taucht sie immer wieder auf: in der U-Bahn, im Coffee Shop, an der Brooklyn Bridge. Beide verfallen schnell Nius Bann und beginnen, ihr bisheriges Leben zu hinterfragen.