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Los tipos malos en supermalos (tipos malos, Los)
by Aaron BlabeySOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!¡Por algún motivo extraño, los Tipos Malos han adquirido SUPERPODERES! Pero puede que sus poderes sean, en fin, defectuosos. Tal vez solo puedan hacer cosas como que sus pantalones exploten en público. No precisamente lo que uno llamaría habilidades heroicas.Defectuosos o no, los Tipos Malos tienen trabajo que hacer. Con el Dr. Mermelada listo para destruir el mundo, ¡el Sr. Lobo, el Sr. Culebra, el Sr. Piraña y el Sr. Tiburón tienen finalmente la oportunidad de ser (super) héroes! Y esta vez puede que reciban algo de ayuda...The Bad Guys have strangely acquired SUPERPOWERS! But their powers might be, well, defective. They can only do things like blow their own pants off in public. Not exactly what you'd call hero-caliber skills.Defective or not, the Bad Guys have a job to do. With Dr. Marmalade ready to destroy the world, Mr. Wolf, Mr. Snake, Mr. Piranha, and Mr. Shark finally have their chance to be (super)heroes! And this time, they may just get some help...
Los tipos malos en ¡¿ustedes-creen-que-él-saurio?! (tipos malos, Los)
by Aaron BlabeySOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!"Ojalá hubiera tenido estos libros de niño. ¡Divertidísimos!". -- Dav Pilkey, creador del Capitán Calzoncillos y Hombre PerroPueden parecer tipos malos, pero estos aprendices de héroe están realizando buenas acciones... ¡te guste o no! Esta serie ilustrada de la lista de libros más vendidos del New York Times es perfecta para los seguidores de Hombre Perro y el Capitán Calzoncillos.Los tipos malos volaron por el espacio exterior, regresaron a la Tierra y se las arreglaron para aterrizar exactamente en el lugar correcto... pero exactamente en el MOMENTO equivocado. ¿¡¿Quién hubiera pensado que las cápsulas de escape alienígenas podían viajar en el tiempo?!? ¡Ahora están 65 millones de años atrás en el pasado y tienen que evitar ser devorados por los dinosaurios y arreglar la máquina del tiempo rota si quieren regresar antes de que un malvado alienígena destruya el planeta!Esta edición súper especial incluye un divertidísimo cuento acerca de la carrera del malvado Dr. Mermelada al estrellato, ¡además de juegos, preguntas y más!"I wish I'd had these books as a kid. Hilarious!" -- Dav Pilkey, creator of Captain Underpants and Dog ManThey may look like Bad Guys, but these wannabe heroes are doing good deeds... whether you like it or not! This New York Times bestselling illustrated series is perfect for fans of Dog Man and Captain Underpants.The Bad Guys have flown through outer space, made it back to Earth, and managed to land in exactly the right place... but exactly the wrong TIME. Who knew alien escape pods were capable of time travel?!? And now that they're 65 million years in the past, they must avoid being eaten by dinosaurs and fix their broken time machine if they ever want to get back home before an evil alien destroys the whole world!This super special edition also includes a hilarious original short story following evil Dr. Marmalade's quest for superstardom, quizzes, games, and more!
Los tratados del W.C
by Gabriel Sanchez García-Pardo¡Los tratados definitivos para domar padres, por los profesores Piedra, Papel y Tijera! Pedro, Paloma y Tiago están hartos de que sus padres no les dejen hacer lo que quieren. Para colmo, se mudan a otra ciudad. ¡Y sin avisar ni nada! Los tres hermanos deberán poner en práctica sus mejores técnicas para intentar que todo vuelva a la normalidad. Y, de paso, ¿por qué no montan una escuela de domadores de padres clandestina? ¡Sus compañeros de clase van a flipar con sus tácticas infalibles!¿Quieres conocerlas?
Los tres avatares
by Hache HaackMÁS ALUCINANTES Y APOCALÍPTICAS AVENTURAS DE HUGO HAACK, MUNDIALMENTE CONOCIDO COMO HACHE HAX Vuelta al año 2050. La Tierra sigue en ruinas y HAX no puede salvarla solo. Por suerte, muy pronto conocerá a dos nuevos aliados: Markus y Nora. ¿Conseguirán recuperar el control de OKupante y acabar con el caos? ¿Cómo lo harán esta vez? Avatares, videojuegos imposibles y códigos indescifrables. ¿Logrará HAX salir vivo de esta?
Los trolls cabezudos (Serie Bat Pat #Volumen 9)
by Roberto Pavanello¡No puedes perderte la novena aventura del murciélago detective Bat Pat y los hermanos Silver: Leo, Martin y Rebecca! ¡¡¡HOLA!!! SOY BAT PAT.OS VOY A CONTAR UNA HISTORIA QUE OS PONDRÁ LOS PELOS DE PUNTA...¿ESTÁIS PREPARADOS? ¿Os suena un lugar llamado Cabo Norte? Está en Escandinavia, a orilla del mar Glacial Ártico (¡BRRR!, ya tengo frío solo de pensarlo), y es precisamente el lugar donde el señor Silver nos propuso que pasáramos las vacaciones de verano. ¡Adiós tranquilidad! Viajando en autocaravana con Leo, Martin y Rebecca, teníamos todos los números para acabar en la boca del lobo, o... mucho PEOR: ¡En la boca de un troll horripilante!
Los visitantes (Agencia Lockwood #1)
by Jonathan StroudLucy, George y Anthony forman la Agencia Lockwood. Su misión: nada menos que hacer frente a una epidemia de fantasmas que están sembrando el pánico en Inglaterra Desde que se desató «el Problema» las Islas Británicas han sido poco a poco invadidas por los Visitantes, es decir, fantasmas, espectros y demás manifestaciones del otro mundo. Aunque solo se manifiestan de noche y son totalmente imperceptibles para los adultos, pueden llegar a ser peligrosos de verdad. Las Agencias de Investigación y Control Psíquico son las encargadas de luchar contra estas inquietantes presencias. La agencia Lockwood & Co. es de lo más peculiar: no es una de esas agencias súper modernas con sede en el centro de Londres, sino más bien de las pequeñas y destartaladas. Sus únicos integrantes son la intrépida agente Lucy Carlyle, que tiene el don de detectar espectros; Anthony Lockwood, el carismático propietario de la agencia; y George..., bueno, George es George. Los tres chicos tienen talento y están preparados para enfrentar cualquier desafío y resolver todos los misterios. Y, aunque tienen sus diferencias, están de acuerdo en lo más importante: los adultos son un estorbo y van a tener que resolver su misión sin su ayuda. Aunque no va a ser nada fácil porque, en asuntos de fantasmas, ¿quién puede estar seguro del todo? Rick Riordan, eminencia en el género, ha dicho... «Esta novela te mantendrá leyendo hasta bien entrada la noche, y luego querrás dejar las luces encendidas... ¡Añade Los Visitantes a tu lista de libros que hay que leer!» Y la prensa afirma... «El queridísimo autor de la trilogía «Bartimeo» regresa con una serie nueva de cazafantasmas adolescente. No va a decepcionar a los fans; pues encontrarán fantasmas feroces, giros ingeniosos y unos protagonistas estupendos.» The Bookseller
Los zombis atléticos (Serie Bat Pat #Volumen 11)
by Roberto PavanelloUndécima entrega de las apasionantes aventuras del murciélago detective Bat Pat y los hermanos Silver: Leo, Martin y Rebecca. ¡¡¡HOLA!!! SOY BAT PAT.OS VOY A CONTAR UNA HISTORIA QUE OS PONDRÁ LOS PELOS DE PUNTA...¿ESTÁIS PREPARADOS? A Leo le acaban de dar una noticia de miedo: a partir de ahora, y por orden expresa del médico, tendrá que apuntarse a hacer deporte después de clase. ¿El objetivo? Ponerse en forma, ¡evidentemente! Pero lo que nadie le ha dicho todavía es que, además de sudar como un pollo, en los entrenos hará unos amiguitos de lo más horripilante...
Los últimos héroes (Supernormal #Volumen 4)
by Chris Smith Greg JamesLa cuarta entrega de SUPERNORMAL, la divertida serie protagonizada por Murph Cooper. Hasta ahora, Supernormal y los Supercéroes se dedicaban a salvar el mundo en secreto. Pero de repente, todo el mundo sabe quiénes son. El repelente villano Nicholas Knox le ha contado a la población que los superhéroes son peligrosos. ¡Quiere encerrarlos a todos y apoderarse del mundo! *Nota: carcajada diabólica* Murph debe desbaratar el plan diabólico de Knox. O, de lo contrario,¡EL MUNDO DE LOS HÉROES ESTARÁ CONDENADO PARA SIEMPRE!
Lose Well: False Starts, Beautiful Disasters, Public Humiliations, and Other Secrets to Success
by Chris Gethard“If anyone can get you to give your dreams an honest shot, it’s Chris Gethard, the king of somehow turning defeats into victories.” —Judd Apatow, comedian, writer, and directorA laugh-out-loud, kick-in-the-pants self-help narrative for anyone who ever felt like they didn’t fit in or couldn’t catch a break—comedian and cult hero Chris Gethard shows us how to get over our fear of failure and start living life on our own terms.Setting flame to vision boards and tossing out the “seven simple steps” to achieving anything, the host of the eponymous TruTV talk show and the wildly popular podcast Beautiful Stories from Anonymous People illustrates his personal and professional manifesto with hilarious and ultimately empowering stories about his own set-backs, missteps, and public failures, from the cancellation of his Comedy Central sitcom after seven episodes to rediscovering his comedic voice and life’s purpose on a public access channel.With his trademark wit and inspiring storytelling—a cross between David Sedaris and Jenny Lawson—Gethard teaches us how to power through our own hero’s journey, whether we’re a fifteen-year-old starting a punk band or a fifty-year-old mother of three launching an Etsy page. In the process, he shows us how to fail with grace, laugh on the way down, and as we dust ourselves off, how to transform inevitable failures into endless opportunities.“Chris speaks inspirational life truths to the outsider in all of us. A pithy road map of the antiestablishment path by which one can succeed in comedy and life” —Nick Offerman“Will change the way you think about failure. It’s funny, heartfelt, and full of advice that every creative person needs to hear.” —Hello Giggles
Loser Goes First: My Thirty-something Years of Dumb Luck and Minor Humiliation
by Dan KennedyIt all begins on Christmas morning, 1978. Dan Kennedy is ten years old and wants a black Gibson Les Paul guitar, the kind Peter Frampton plays. It will be his passport to the coolest (only) band in the neighborhood--Jokerz. He doesn't get it. Instead, his parents present him with what they think he wants most, a real-estate loan calculator (called the Loan Arranger) and a maroon velour pullover shirt with a tan stripe across the chest. It is the first of what will become a lifetime of various-sized failures, misunderstandings, comical humiliations, and just plain silly choices that have dogged this "hipster Proust of youthful loserdom," as author Jerry Stahl has so eloquently called Mr. Kennedy. Dan's hilarious and painfully awkward youth soon develops into a . . . uh . . . hilarious and painfully awkward adulthood. His first two choices for university are Yale (Lit or Drama) and Harvard (Business), so he reviews his high school transcripts and decides on Butte Community College in Oroville, California, where he studies for about four and a half weeks. We could go on here and describe in detail all of Dan's good-natured stabs at ambition, but he, himself, sums it all up quite nicely: "If you've ever tried and failed miserably at being a rock star (no guitar/talent), a professional bass fisherman, an extra in the movie Sleepless in Seattle (guy drinking martini in bar while Tom Hanks makes a phone call), a Madison Avenue advertising executive, a clerk/towel person at a suburban health club (named Kangaroo Kourts), an espresso street-cart owner and operator (in the one neighborhood of that coffee-swilling town, Seattle, where, remarkably, no one really seems to drink coffee), a dot. com millionaire, an MTV VJ, or a forest fire fighter, this book is for you. " Along the way, a few lessons are learned and we are treated to one of the most original, riotously funny, unsentimental, and offbeat memoirs in recent history. Dan's a favorite in McSweeney's and at the very popular Moth readings in New York City. We should be happy that he failed so miserably at so many things--and took notes! From the Hardcover edition.
Loserpalooza: A Get Fuzzy Treasury (Get Fuzzy #9)
by Darby ConleyOn the Media calls Darby Conley "the most successful cartoonist of the new generation." --National Public Radio* More than one million Get Fuzzy books have been sold-and the three most recent books have been New York Times best-sellers. Loserpalooza is the third treasury, collecting strips from New York Times best-sellers Say Cheesy and Scrum Bums.Loserpalooza is Darby Conley's latest look at the interspecies antics of his wildly popular characters Bucky, Satchel, and Rob. At the center of this not-so-warm-and-fuzzy arrangement is Rob Wilco, a single, mild-mannered ad exec. Bucky is Rob's temperamental, buck-toothed Siamese cat with a penchant for mischief, a hatred of ferrets, and a love of rubber bands. Satchel is a sweet but naive shar-pei-yellow-Lab mix who haplessly ends up on the receiving end of Bucky's wayward schemes. An entertaining critique on popular culture and a bona fide hit, Get Fuzzy was named Best Comic Strip of the year in 2002 by the National Cartoonists Society and now appears in more than 400 newspapers worldwide.
Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America
by Scott AdamsFrom the creator of Dilbert and author of Win Bigly, a guide to spotting and avoiding loserthink: sneaky mental habits trapping victims in their own bubbles of reality. If you've been on social media lately, or turned on your TV, you may have noticed a lot of dumb ideas floating around."We know when history will repeat and when it won't.""We can tell the difference between evidence and coincidences.""The simplest explanation is usually true."Wrong, wrong, and dangerous!If we're not careful, loserthink would have us believe that every Trump supporter is a bigoted racist, addicts should be responsible for fixing the opioid epidemic, and that your relationship fell apart simply because you chewed with your mouth open.Even the smartest people can slip into loserthink's seductive grasp. This book will teach you how to spot and avoid it--and will give you scripts to respond when hollow arguments are being brandished against you, whether by well-intentioned friends, strangers on the internet, or political pundits. You'll also learn how to spot the underlying causes of loserthink, like the inability to get ego out of your decisions, thinking with words instead of reasons, failing to imagine alternative explanations, and making too much of coincidences.Your bubble of reality doesn't have to be a prison. This book will show you how to break free--and, what's more, to be among the most perceptive and respected thinkers in every conversation.
Losing It
by Alan CumynSometimes those who have the most seem bent on throwing it away. Meet Bob Sterling, a comfortable middle-aged professor, a specialist in the life of Edgar Allan Poe, married to a former student with whom he has a young son. In the space of a week his family, marriage, career, sanity, and life are brought to the brink of ruin in the aftermath of a trip he makes with a student, the intense young poet Sienna Chu, who tweaks into florescence a long-harboured, secret sexual fetish. Then add to the mix the misadventures of his wife's mentally failing mother, a shy night prowler, and Sienna's explosive techno-junkie roommate. Poignant and gritty, tantalizingly erotic, Losing It is a high-wire act that plays out as a delicious blend of darkness and humour as it embraces the surprising emotional connections that are made in the midst of life's madness.From the Hardcover edition.
Losing It: A Novel
by Emma RathboneA hilarious novel that Maggie Shipstead calls "charming... witty and insightful," about a woman who still has her virginity at the age of twenty-six, and the summer she's determined to lose it--and find herself."A candid yet funny take on just what desire and love mean." -The MillionsJulia Greenfield has a problem: she's twenty-six years old and she's still a virgin. Sex ought to be easy. People have it all the time! But, without meaning to, she made it through college and into adulthood with her virginity intact. Something's got to change. To re-route herself from her stalled life, Julia travels to spend the summer with her mysterious aunt Vivienne in North Carolina. It's not long, however, before she unearths a confounding secret--her 58 year old aunt is a virgin too. In the unrelenting heat of the southern summer, Julia becomes fixated on puzzling out what could have lead to Viv's appalling condition, all while trying to avoid the same fate.Filled with offbeat characters and subtle, wry humor, Losing It is about the primal fear that you just. might. never. meet. anyone. It's about desiring something with the kind of obsessive fervor that almost guarantees you won't get it. It's about the blurry lines between sex and love, and trying to figure out which one you're going for. And it's about the decisions--and non-decisions--we make that can end up shaping a life.From the Hardcover edition.
Losing Joe's Place (Point)
by Gordon KormanJason and his two friends are about to have the ultimate summer experience, because they've just taken over Jason's cool older brother Joe's apartment for the summer. Now all they have to do is just say no: No parents. No rules. No problems. Right? Wrong. And Jason's brother hasn't even found out what happened to his apartment. Yet.
Losing Me
by Sue MargolisThe "compulsively readable" (Susie Essman, actress, Curb Your Enthusiasm) author of Best Supporting Role delivers a new novel of one woman who's stretched so thin, she almost disappears...Knocking on sixty, Barbara Stirling is too busy to find herself, while caring for her mother, husband, children, and grandchildren. But when she loses her job, everything changes. Exhausted, lonely, and unemployed, Barbara is forced to face her feelings and doubts. Then a troubled, vulnerable little boy walks into her life and changes it forever.
Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir
by Christopher BuckleyIn twelve months between 2007 and 2008, Christopher Buckley coped with the passing of his father, William F. Buckley, the father of the modern conservative movement, and his mother, Patricia Taylor Buckley, one of New York's most glamorous and colorful socialites. He was their only child and their relationship was close and complicated. Writes Buckley: "They were not - with respect to every other set of loving, wonderful parents in the world - your typical mom and dad." As Buckley tells the story of their final year together, he takes readers on a surprisingly entertaining tour through hospitals, funeral homes, and memorial services, capturing the heartbreaking and disorienting feeling of becoming a 55-year-old orphan. Buckley maintains his sense of humor by recalling the words of Oscar Wilde: "To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose both looks like carelessness." Just as Calvin Trillin and Joan Didion gave readers solace and insight into the experience of losing a spouse, Christopher Buckley offers consolation, wit, and warmth to those coping with the death of a parent, while telling a unique personal story of life with legends.
Lost
by Bob StaakeIn this paneled picture book, join a small girl on her hilarious and surprising search for her lost cat--and watch as she helps her neighbors, who have also lost their pets, along the way!Where, oh where is Kitty? She's not upstairs... not in her litter box... not at her food bowl. Hmm...There's only one thing to do: find this lost cat.As the cat's owner roams town in hopes of finding her pet, she discovers she's not the only one missing their beloved animal. There's also a lost dog...a lost bird...even a lost giraffe!Join the search party in this almost wordless story that celebrates helping our neighbors and gently reminds us that what is lost can always be found.
Lost & Found
by Brooke DavisAn irresistible debut novel about the wisdom of the very young, the mischief of the very old, and the magic that happens when no one else is lookingMillie Bird, seven years old and ever hopeful, always wears red gumboots to match her curly hair. Her struggling mother, grieving the death of Millie's father, leaves her in the big ladies' underwear department of a local store and never returns.Agatha Pantha, eighty-two, has not left her house--or spoken to another human being--since she was widowed seven years ago. She fills the silence by yelling at passersby, watching loud static on TV, and maintaining a strict daily schedule.Karl the Touch Typist, eighty-seven, once used his fingers to type out love notes on his wife's skin. Now that she's gone, he types his words out into the air as he speaks. Karl's been committed to a nursing home, but in a moment of clarity and joy, he escapes. Now he's on the lam.Brought together at a fateful moment, the three embark upon a road trip across Western Australia to find Millie's mother. Along the way, Karl wants to find out how to be a man again; Agatha just wants everything to go back to how it was.Together they will discover that old age is not the same as death, that the young can be wise, and that letting yourself feel sad once in a while just might be the key to a happy life.
Lost & Found
by Brooke DavisAn irresistible debut novel about the wisdom of the very young, the mischief of the very old, and the magic that happens when no one else is lookingMillie Bird, seven years old and ever hopeful, always wears red gumboots to match her curly hair. Her struggling mother, grieving the death of Millie's father, leaves her in the big ladies' underwear department of a local store and never returns.Agatha Pantha, eighty-two, has not left her house--or spoken to another human being--since she was widowed seven years ago. She fills the silence by yelling at passersby, watching loud static on TV, and maintaining a strict daily schedule.Karl the Touch Typist, eighty-seven, once used his fingers to type out love notes on his wife's skin. Now that she's gone, he types his words out into the air as he speaks. Karl's been committed to a nursing home, but in a moment of clarity and joy, he escapes. Now he's on the lam.Brought together at a fateful moment, the three embark upon a road trip across Western Australia to find Millie's mother. Along the way, Karl wants to find out how to be a man again; Agatha just wants everything to go back to how it was.Together they will discover that old age is not the same as death, that the young can be wise, and that letting yourself feel sad once in a while just might be the key to a happy life.
Lost & Found
by Brooke DavisAn irresistible debut novel about the wisdom of the very young, the mischief of the very old, and the magic that happens when no one else is lookingMillie Bird, seven years old and ever hopeful, always wears red gumboots to match her curly hair. Her struggling mother, grieving the death of Millie's father, leaves her in the big ladies' underwear department of a local store and never returns.Agatha Pantha, eighty-two, has not left her house--or spoken to another human being--since she was widowed seven years ago. She fills the silence by yelling at passersby, watching loud static on TV, and maintaining a strict daily schedule.Karl the Touch Typist, eighty-seven, once used his fingers to type out love notes on his wife's skin. Now that she's gone, he types his words out into the air as he speaks. Karl's been committed to a nursing home, but in a moment of clarity and joy, he escapes. Now he's on the lam.Brought together at a fateful moment, the three embark upon a road trip across Western Australia to find Millie's mother. Along the way, Karl wants to find out how to be a man again; Agatha just wants everything to go back to how it was.Together they will discover that old age is not the same as death, that the young can be wise, and that letting yourself feel sad once in a while just might be the key to a happy life.
Lost & Found: When everything is falling apart, sometimes all you need is a friend
by James Gould-Bourn'Hits that sweet spot between being properly funny and gut-punchingly emotional' - SunRonnie has resigned himself to a life of loneliness.His life in the crumbling seaside town of Bingham-on-Sea never seemed that bad, but since the loss of his father, the highlights of Ronnie's solitary days include manning the lost property office at the bus station where he works, and plaguing his local GP with increasingly outlandish ailments. Forgotten or underestimated by all those around him, Ronnie is lost, and he's not expecting to be found.But when a chance encounter leads Ronnie to reluctantly foster Hamlet, an unwanted stray dog, his empty days begin to fill with all manner of new responsibilities and experiences.Can these two lost souls help each other to find a new lease of life?'Reading it made me want to dance. An absolute gem of a book' - Katie Marsh
Lost Along the Way: A Novel
by Erin DuffyA fresh, funny, and insightful novel about what it really means to be “friends forever” from the acclaimed author of Bond Girl and On the Rocks.All through childhood and adolescence, Jane, Cara, and Meg swore their friendship would stand the test of time. Nothing would come between them, they pledged. But once they hit their twenties, life got more complicated and the BFFs began to grow distant. When Jane eloped with her slick, wealthy new boyfriend and didn’t invite her oldest friends to the ceremony, the small cracks and fissures in their once rock-solid relationship became a chasm that tore them apart.Ten years later, when her husband is arrested and publically shamed for defrauding his clients, Jane realizes her life among the one percent was a sham. Penniless and desperate, deserted by the high-society crowd who turn their surgically perfected noses up at her, she comes crawling back to her childhood friends seeking forgiveness. But Cara and Meg have troubles of their own. One of them is trapped in a bad marriage with an abusive husband, while the other can't have the one thing she desperately wants: a baby. Yet as much as they’d love to see Jane get her long overdue comeuppance, Cara and Meg won’t abandon their old friend in her time of need.The story of three friends who find themselves on a laugh-out-loud life adventure, Lost Along the Way illuminates the moments that make us, the betrayals that break us, and the power of love that helps us forgive even the most painful hurts.
Lost Among the Stars: Eleven Tales
by Paul Di FilippoA genre-bending collection of speculative fiction from the acclaimed author of the Steampunk Trilogy—with an introduction by Robert Silverberg. Horror, alternative history, science fiction, and fantasy—nothing is off limits when you possess an imagination as vast as Paul Di Filippo&’s. In this collection of stories featuring ancient goddesses, the new social media elite, and hermetic cities, he&’ll take you on a wild ride through plausible pasts and far-flung futures. In &“Ghostless,&” a medium learns that ghosts are drawn to—and can alleviate—sadness, so she becomes a matchmaker to both spirts and mortals in need. Flash fiction published in Nature magazine, &“Wavehitcher&” shows how surfing goes high-tech—and long-distance—with smartsuits that desalinate water, pulsed magnets to repel sharks, and seines that catch and processes krill into a nutritious paste. An expert in industrial metabolics focuses on blending his superior genepool with that of his fiancée&’s to save the human race from idiocracy, until a kidnapping in Colombia shows him the folly of his arrogance in &“Adventures in Cognitive Homogamy.&” These stories will whet your appetite for more fantastical Di Filippo, and thankfully, Lost Among the Stars delivers. Praise for Paul Di Filippo &“Di Filippo is like gourmet potato chips to me. I can never eat just one of his stories.&” —Harlan Ellison &“Di Filippo is the spin doctor of SF—and it is a powerful medicine he brews.&” —Brian Aldiss, Hugo Award–winning author of Hothouse &“Vibrant, nervy, and full of gloriously wiggy language, Ribofunk is anything but the same old stuff.&” —The Philadelphia Inquirer
Lost Empress
by Sergio De La Pava"Ambitious, affecting, intelligent, plangent, comic, kooky and impassioned. I've read a lot of novels this year, between judging the Man Booker prize and the Granta Best of Young British Novelists, and I've yearned for this kind of exuberant, precise fiction" Stuart Kelly, Guardian on A Naked SingularityIt would take something huge to put Paterson, New Jersey on the map.But Nina Gill is determined to do just that. She is the daughter of the ageing owner of the Dallas Cowboys and the well-kept secret to their success. Shocked when her brother inherits the team, leaving her with the Paterson Pork, New Jersey's only Indoor Football League franchise, she vows to take on the N.F.L. and make her new team the pigskin kings of America.Meanwhile, Nuno DeAngeles - a brilliant criminal mastermind - contrives to be thrown into Rikers Island prison to commit one of the most audacious crimes of all time. Now he's on the inside, he has two good reasons to get out. But how does a person of culture go about breaking out of the penal system when the whole of the land of the free is addicted to keeping him in it?Without knowing it, or ever having met, Nina and Nuno have already had a profound effect on each other's lives. As his bid for freedom and her bid for sporting immortality reach crisis point, their stories converge in the countdown to an epic conclusion. Thrilling, touching, insightful and shockingly hilarious, De La Pava's extraordinary novel gets under the skin and into the minds of a vast cast of characters from the fringes of society - immigrants, exiles and outsiders.