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        The Fourth Girl On The Left

        by Andreu Martín

        Sinopsis World War I. While the main European cities are bleeding into conflict, Barcelona is one of the great pearls of the Mediterranean. Despite its status as a neutral territory, no one ignores the fact that on the coast there are ports where they can illegally stock up on fuel and groceries, with the approval of the local authorities, and that German submarines arrive at Cape Ixent where all kinds of interests and conflicts with secret services, double agents and spies from here and there are cooked. n the heart of this Barcelona in the midst of an urban boom, with the noise of the streets, the bustle of bars, casino games and evening shows, comes Amadeu, a peasant boy fresh out of the seminar, who is looking for a dancer with whom his father had lived a strange adventure. She has only one clue: she is the fourth girl to the left of a photograph she keeps in her jacket pocket. She immediately discovers that her name is Amanda Rogent and that she is on display at Barcelona's Moulin Rouge: a whole vedet who loves to scandalize. Amadeus needs to find answers, but discovering the truth is not always the best thing that can happen to you… After titles such as Death Story, Tibidabo's Harem, Everyone Will Remember You, Harem's Favorite, You’re Going To Say I’m Crazy and Cops (the latter, signed with Joan Miquel Capell), Andreu Martín returns to "Crims.cat" with a very retrospective novel, set in the exciting Barcelona of the first decades of the twentieth century.

      • September 2019

        A busca: memórias da resistência

        by Vieira, Liszt

        A vida clandestina de um militante da luta armada contra a ditadura militar brasileira nos anos 1970. Ações armadas, congressos clandestinos, viagens sigilosas, prisão, tortura, seqüestro de diplomata, banimento, exílio. Dez anos de exílio em diversos países, Argélia, Cuba, Chile de Allende até o golpe de Pinochet, Argentina de Perón antes do golpe militar de 1976, França, Portugal. Emoção a cada página nesta biografia em que o real e o imaginário se mesclam. Muitas vezes, a realidade parece ficção, e a ficção, realidade, formando o que poderia ser chamado de autoficção histórica. Um livro fundamental para o conhecimento da resistência contra a ditadura militar no Brasil.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences

        The black sea of indifference

        by Liliana Segre / Filippo Civati

        Liliana Segre’s testimony and her political message are shared in this essay by Giuseppe Civati that reports her words and her teachings, on the occasion of her appointment as lifetime Italian Senator by Italian President Sergio Mattarella.Segre was expelled from school in 1938. She tried to flee Italy as an asylum seeker but was denied protection and was sent back. On January 30th, 1944 she was deported to Auschwitz with her father Alberto, who deceased in the concentration camp. In the last thirty years she has been promoting an extraordinary campaign against indifference and against racism in any form or aspect.Her undisputed, strong and clear words are a message for girls and boys, her «ideal grandchildren»: we must never lose our rights and respect for people.

      • Fiction

        Darknet Undercover

        by Jando / Christopher Groß

        Die junge investigative Journalistin Kira stößt auf eine Spezialeinheit, die im Darknet undercover operiert. Die Einheit versucht die wahren Identitäten von anonymen Verbrechern aufzudecken. Kira schafft es ein Teil der sogenannten „Sweeper“ zu werden. Auf der Jagd nach Verbrechern im Darknet, erfährt sie von Gefangenschaft ihres vor Jahren tot erklärtem kleinen Bruders in dem Kinderpornographiering „The Paradise“. Der abartige Ring wird von reichen und einflussreichen Leuten betrieben. Gefangen in einem Netz aus Misstrauen um Kira herum, muss sie ihre eigenen Fäden spinnen, um nicht selbst im Fadenkreuz zu landen. Trotzdem versucht sie ihrem Ziel näher kommen, um die Täter zu überführen und ihren kleinen Bruder zu befreien. Wird Kira es schaffen?

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2017

        ARAWETÉ

        A Tupi people from the Amazon forest

        by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (author), Camila de Caux (author) and Guilherme Orlandini Heurich (author)

        Result of an academic research carried out in the 1980s by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, this book was published in 1992, following an edition adapted for wider, non-specialized audiences who showed great interest in the Araweté way of life. This third edition, revised and expanded with new chapters based on recent studies, celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the pioneering research by one of the most respected Brazilian anthropologists, and, above all, retrieves the struggle of this people to survive, resist and reinvent themselves without losing their culture.

      • Fiction
        April 2018

        My old guerrilla

        by Álvaro Filho

        A narrative full of time, memories on the shoulders, rusty bodies smelling of sea air, a testimony of uncertain memories of stories. The novel 'My old guerrilla' tells the story of a exiled writer abroad who returns to hometown (Olinda), mother's request, to try to dissuade the father of the idea of ​​killing the president, who took power after a coup. Alvaro Filho teaches us that we must "silence to hear the wind," time to understand the affection of places and things, calmly swallowing discomfort, and wisdom to understand our ancestry. 'My old guerrilla' is like a reef solid melts into air, and the wind sweeping "flesh, bone, blood, paper and ink."

      • Adventure
        2019

        La Dame Chevalier and Salomon’s lost table

        by A.Z. Codenonsi

        The years is 1927 and the murder of a soldier in a military hospital in Morocco begins a chance for an extremely valuable artefact, disappeared for more than a thousand years: the Table of Salomon, King of Kings, that would give its owner the wisdom of a thousand wise men. And when the Bureau’s investigation gets to the weapon used in La Dame Chevalier’s parents’ murder, the agent decides to travel to north Africa looking for the artefact and answers. Along with the young Justine Carbonneau, both women go to the desert among a war between the empire and the Berbers, fighting for their independence. But Chevalier will have company. Mercenaries led by the mysterious organization Ostia Mithrae also

      • Fiction

        The Light in Isabel's Eyes

        by Edmée Pardo

        Four characters cross paths in a hospital: a woman about to give birth; a family facing the inexplicable death of one of their own; a man who falls ill; and a teenager persecuted among hundreds of women in an oppressive town. Their life is intertwined with secondary characters with whom they mix as they walk towards their separate destinies. In a violent city in the middle of the desert, death, birth, love, pain, and revenge are joined by the shadow of God or maybe by the shadow casted by his absence. Weaved in a net of actions that develops at full speed through a clean and poetic prose, this is a story that hurts and heals at the same time. This novel speaks of God and Spirit, of inner strength and emptiness, of solitude and communion, also of hope.

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