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Con veintiocho años, pero aún instalada en casa de sus padres, Wendolin Kramer adora los cómics, se cree Súper Chica y, desde un despacho improvisado en su cuarto, fantasea con convertirse en detective privado por las calles de una Barcelona fantasmal. Todo cambia cuando llama a su puerta un caso real, que, sin embargo, no le queda muy claro. ¿Por qué le piden que averigüe dónde se encuentra un día preciso el escritor Francis Dómino? ¿Y qué relación existe entre él y la autora superventas Vendolin Woolfin? Parodia de novela negra, con innumerables referencias a la cultura pop, esta historia no solo ha consagrado a Laura Fernández como una de las voces más originales de nuestras letras, sino que sigue fascinando con sus personajes impredecibles, sus diálogos desternillantes y su inagotable imaginación narrativa.

Un nuevo desafío para el detective Cupido «Uno de esos autores que, sin apenas hacer ruido, ha logrado encaramarse a lo más alto de la novela negra española actual.» José Belmonte, La Verdad Cuando en Breda desaparece una joven llamada Wendy Paraíso, la policía propone al detective Ricardo Cupido que lidere la investigación. El rastro de la joven se perdió tras la filtración de un vídeo sexual en el que ella tenía relaciones con un futbolista. Este grabó el encuentro, pero fue otra persona quien lo difundió en las redes de forma anónima. Si Cupido es un investigador muy metódico, Wendy, por su parte, siempre ha sido caótica, olvidadiza y voluble. No permanece demasiado tiempo en ningún lugar, y lo cierto es que se mete en problemas constantemente. En el pasado, Wendy tuvo una hija a la que abandonó en Breda con sus abuelos tras la muerte de su pareja. Y hacia ellos se dirige Cupido para iniciar sus pesquisas.

Flavia de Luce has taken on the mentorship of her odious moon-faced cousin Undine, who has come to live at Buckshaw following the death of her mother. Undine’s main talent, aside from cultivating disgusting habits, seems to be raising Flavia’s hackles, although in her best moments she shows potential for trespassing, trickery, and other assorted mayhem. When Major Greyleigh, a local recluse and former hangman, is found dead after a breakfast of poisonous mushrooms, suspicion falls on the de Luce family’s longtime cook, Mrs. Mullet. After all, wasn’t it she who’d picked the mushrooms, cooked the omelet, and served it to Greyleigh moments before his death? “I have to admit,” says Flavia, an expert in the chemical nature of poisons, “that I’d been praying to God for a jolly good old-fashioned mushroom poisoning. Not that I wanted anyone to die, but why give a girl a gift such as mine without giving her the opportunity to use it?”

2014: At a dinner for close friends and colleagues, renowned poet Francis Blundy honors his wife’s birthday by reading aloud a new poem dedicated to her, ‘A Corona for Vivien’. Much wine is drunk as the guests listen, and a delicious meal consumed. Little does anyone gathered around the candlelit table know that for generations to come people will speculate about the message of this poem, a copy of which has never been found, and which remains an enduring mystery. 2119: Just over one hundred years in the future, much of the western world has been submerged by rising seas following a catastrophic nuclear accident. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost. In the water-logged south of what used to be England, Thomas Metcalfe, a lonely scholar and researcher, longs for the early twenty-first century as he chases the ghost of one poem, ‘A Corona for Vivian’. How wild and full of risk their lives were, thinks Thomas, as he pores over the archives of that distant era, captivated by the freedoms and possibilities of human life at its zenith. When he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the elusive poem’s discovery, a story is revealed of entangled loves and a brutal crime that destroy his assumptions about people he thought he knew intimately well.

Orphaned at just thirteen in a still-segregated Washington, D.C., George Raveling was introduced to a relatively unpopular sport—basketball—in high school. The rest, as they say, is history. Raveling went on to become one of the winningest coaches of all time, a mentor to legendary athletes, and a confidant of the sport’s greatest coaches, including Bob Knight and John Wooden. He convinced Michael Jordan to collaborate with Nike on the Air Jordan. He led the 1984 U.S. men’s Olympic team to their ninth gold medal. He even once owned the original, handwritten copy of Dr. King’s most famous speech after an unlikely stint as a bodyguard during the famous March on Washington. Here, Coach Raveling tells the story of his extraordinary ascent, sharing incredible behind-the-scenes stories of his days working with the best in the game. But this book is more than a memoir—it’s a manual for life that presents surprising methods for harnessing your potential from a man who shaped the careers of so many legends. Raveling imparts lessons learned from his grandmother, his long career in basketball, and his lifelong habit of reading—to which he credits all his success.

Years before Dorothy and her dog crash-land, another little girl makes her presence known in Oz. This girl, Elphaba, is born with emerald-green skin—no easy burden in a land as mean and poor as Oz, where superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or overcome the natural disasters of flood and famine. Still, Elphaba is smart, and by the time she enters Shiz University, she becomes a member of a charmed circle of Oz’s most promising young citizens. But Elphaba’s Oz is no utopia. The Wizard’s secret police are everywhere. Animals—those creatures with voices, souls, and minds—are threatened with exile. Young Elphaba, green and wild and misunderstood, is determined to protect the Animals—even if it means combating the mysterious Wizard, even if it means risking her single chance at romance. Ever wiser in guilt and sorrow, she can find herself grateful when the world declares her a witch. And she can even make herself glad for that young girl from Kansas.

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