Books for easily bored readers

La vuelta al mundo en 80 días

Julio Verne • 2018

Phileas Fogg ha apostado una gran suma de dinero a que es capaz de dar la vuelta al mundo en 80 días, gracias a los distintos medios de locomoción de su época. Una aventura en la que habrá momentos de humor, de peligro, de acciones heroicas e incluso de amor. Una historia que surge inspirada por la Revolución Industrial, en la que inventos como el ferrocarril, el barco de vapor o el telégrafo estaban cambiando el mundo a una velocidad nunca imaginada. Y en la que su protagonista decide embarcarse en un viaje frenético por el simple hecho de que es posible hacerlo.

Fear Is Just a Word

Azam Ahmed • 2023

<b>A riveting true story of a mother who fought back against the drug cartels in Mexico, pursuing her own brand of justice to avenge the kidnapping and murder of her daughter—from a Pulitzer Prize–winning global investigative correspondent for <i>The New York Times</i><br><br>“Azam Ahmed has written a page-turning mystery but also a stunning, color-saturated portrait of the collapse of formal justice in one Mexican town.”—Steve Coll, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of <i>Directorate S</i><br><br><b>LONGLISTED FOR THE MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WRITING • </b>A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: <i>New Yorker, The Economist, </i>Chicago Public Library</b><br><br><i>Fear Is Just a Word</i> begins on an international bridge between Mexico and the United States, as fifty-six-year-old Miriam Rodríguez stalks one of the men she believes was involved in the murder of her daughter Karen. He is her target number eleven, a member of the drug cartel that has terrorized and controlled what was once Miriam’s quiet hometown of San Fernando, Mexico, almost one hundred miles from the U.S. border. Having dyed her hair red as a disguise, Miriam watches, waits, and then orchestrates the arrest of this man, exacting her own version of justice.<br><br>Woven into this deeply researched, moving account is the story of how cartels built their power in Mexico, escalated the use of violence, and kidnapped and murdered tens of thousands. Karen was just one of the many people who disappeared, and Miriam, a brilliant, strategic, and fearless woman, begged for help from the authorities and paid ransom money she could not afford in hopes of saving her daughter. When that failed, she decided that “fear is just a word,” and began a crusade to track down Karen’s killers and to help other victimized families in their search for justice.<br><br>What do people do when their country and the peaceful town where they have grown up become unrecognizable, suddenly places of violence and fear? Azam Ahmed takes us into the grieving of a country and a family to tell the mesmerizing story of a brave and brilliant woman determined to find out what happened to her daughter, and to see that the criminals who murdered her were punished. <i>Fear Is Just a Word</i> is an unforgettable and moving portrait of a woman, a town, and a country, and of what can happen when violent forces leave people to seek justice on their own.

The cat who sang for the birds

Lilian Jackson Braun • 1998

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll • 1865

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll. A young girl named Alice falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. It is seen as an example of the literary nonsense genre. One of the best-known works of Victorian literature, its narrative, structure, characters and imagery have had huge influence on popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre.

Wicked

Gregory Maguire • 1995