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Este libro es el programa de mano del estreno en París de una pieza teatral titulada Muñequita rubia, de Pierre-Michel Wals. Contiene el texto de la obra, una nota introductoria de la directora del Teatro de las Artes, el listado de personajes y actores, algunos bocetos del vestuario y algunos anuncios publicitarios. La obra pone en escena el reencuentro de cinco amigos que en su juventud montaron el grupo musical los Peter-Pans y tuvieron un primer éxito con una canción titulada «Muñequita rubia». Ahora, veinte años después de aquello, vuelven a verse las caras. La peculiaridad de la reunión es que tres de ellos siguen vivos, han envejecido y están a punto de cumplir los cuarenta, pero los otros dos, que fallecieron hace tiempo, se presentan como fantasmas veinteañeros anclados en el pasado. El cruce de unos y otros lleva a una reflexión melancólica, divertida y desencantada sobre la vida, los anhelos y el paso del tiempo, en un territorio entre el sueño y la realidad.

When professor turned crime-fighter Brandt "Doc" Savage and his girlfriend Kira Sunlight land on a desert island in the middle of the Atlantic, they think they've found a perfect utopia. An escape from their tumultuous pasts. But they don't have long to enjoy their newfound peace before they are violently separated and dragged to opposite ends of the Earth. Doc's search for Kira takes him from the coast of Brazil to northern Europe and the jungles of the Congo, and he discovers they are entangled in a global conspiracy that is bigger he ever could have imagined.

Joan Sample is not living the life she expected. Now a widow and an empty-nester, she has become by her own admission something of a recluse. But after another birthday spent alone, she is finally inclined to listen to her sister, who has been begging Joan to reengage with the world. With Emmie’s support, Joan gathers the courage to take some long-awaited steps: hiring someone to tame her overgrown garden, joining a grief support group, and even renting out a room to a local college student. Before long Joan is starting to feel a little like herself again. Across town, Maggie Herbert works mornings as a barista, tending to impatient customers before rushing to afternoon nursing classes. She lives with her alcoholic father, ducking his temperamental outbursts and struggling to pay the household bills. But her circumstances brighten when she finds a room for rent in Joan’s home. In the unexpected warmth of her new situation, Maggie finds a glimmer of hope for a better life. But will Maggie’s budding attraction to one of her favorite customers ruin the harmony she’s only recently found with Joan? Meanwhile, what is Joan to make of the mysterious landscaper who’s been revitalizing her garden—a man who seems to harbor a past loss of his own?