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Bloomsbury presents Blood Gun Money by Ioan Grillo, read by Shawn Compton. From the author of El Narco and Gangster Warlords, a searing investigation into the enormous black market for firearms, essential to cartels and gangs in the drug trade. Guns from America reach more than 130 countries...

Cradled in the Arms of Compassion is at once a narrative of psychological transformation and a spiritual autobiography that details the survivor’s journey. Rogers shows how he found recovery through a combination of reflective retreats, therapy, creative expression, and an extraordinary application of imaginative meditation that spiritual seekers and practitioners will find utterly fascinating.

Port Talbot, 1958. A town of smoke and steel, sea air and shift work, terraced streets and quiet watchfulness. It is the kind of place where people do not simply live alongside one another, they notice one another. They notice who is tired, who is drinking more than usual, who has started keeping strange hours, and who is carrying the kind of tension that does not belong to ordinary life. In a town like this, privacy is never absolute. The streets are close, the routines are known, and the town itself behaves like a witness—silent, patient, and rarely fooled for long.

Mitt under brinnande krig skickas en grupp finska soldater långt in bakom Röda armens linjer. Deras uppgift är att skära av järnvägstransporter till stridsplatserna. Sammanhållningen är stark men uppdraget livsfarligt och påfrestningarna enorma. Långt ifrån alla kommer att återvända hem. Trots de svåra förhållandena lyckas man spränga en järnvägsstation och uppehålla fienden. Men när vapenvilan väl utlyses befinner sig patrullen fortfarande i fält och utmaningarna fortsätter.

L'opération Mincemeat (littéralement "chair à pâté") était un plan britannique organisé par le Système Double Cross durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. L'opération doit convaincre les Allemands de leur interception de documents hautement confidentiels qui détaillaient avec précision les futurs plans d'invasion des Balkans et de la Sardaigne, afin d'éloigner de la Sicile - véritable objectif des Alliés - les troupes allemandes.

Bloomsbury presents Blood Gun Money by Ioan Grillo, read by Shawn Compton. “An eye-opening and riveting account of how guns make it into the black market and into the hands of criminals and drug lords.” –Adam Winkler From the author of El Narco and winner of the Maria Moors Cabot Prize, a...