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Sadia wishes life in high school was as straightforward as a game of basketball. Fifteen-year-old Sadia Ahmadi is passionate about one thing: basketball. Her best friend Mariam, on the other hand, wants to get noticed by the popular crowd and has started de-jabbing, removing her hijab, at school every morning. Sadia's mom had warned her that navigating high school could be tricky. As much as she hates...

A stark and honest memoir of thirty-five years spent in Canada’s prison system. Born and raised in Toronto’s Regent Park, Edward Hertrich left high school in grade eleven to start working. A year later, he started dealing drugs in earnest, beginning a criminal career that resulted in him being incarcerated for thirty-five of his next forty years. In Wasted Time, Hertrich describes his time behind bars....

Czym zajmowali się klawiszowcy, doliniarze, lipkarze? Kto był najsłynniejszym kasiarzem II RP? Czy Tata Tasiemka to polski Al Capone? Kto stał za kradzieżą klejnotów w krakowskim hotelu Grand? Lata 20., lata 30. fascynują nas nie od dziś. To nie tylko blichtr kabaretów, high-life kawiarni Ziemiańska czy gwiazdy pokroju Bodo lub Ordonki. Nieodłącznie towarzyszyły im też postaci i obrazy z mrocznego,...