Largo Winczlav a hérité, en même temps que du nom Winch, d'une fortune colossale. Mais d'où vient-elle ? Qui a construit cet immense empire ? Quels sacrifices furent nécessaires ? Premier tome d'une saga familiale en trois volumes.
1848. Dans le Monténégro occupé par les Ottomans, le jeune docteur Vanko Winczlav est l'un des meneurs d'une révolte populaire. Trahi, recherché par les autorités, il fuit les Balkans pour les Etats-Unis en compagnie d'une refugiée bulgare, Veska, qu'il épouse pour lui permettre d'entrer légalement à New York. C'est le début d'une saga familiale mouvementée dans un pays neuf, lui-même en proie à de grandes transformations ...
Les Mondes d'Aldebaran : une saga cosmique qui décrit les premiers pas souvent difficiles de l'humanité sur de lointaines planètes. Entre diversité des créatures extraterrestres et complexité des rapports humains, de la science-fiction à l'état pur ! Premier tome de la sixième série.
Après trois années d'études et d'entrainement, voilà Marie officiellement devenue membre des Forces Spéciales de l'ONU. Mais à peine a-t-elle eu le temps de fêter son diplôme qu'un évènement stupéfiant l'oblige à partir pour sa première mission : un vaisseau extra-terrestre d'origine inconnue vient de se mettre en orbite autour de la Terre. Aucun contact n'étant établi avec les occupants, Marie et son équipe sont chargés d'entrer à bord et d'enquêter...
Les Mondes d'Aldebaran : une saga cosmique qui décrit les premiers pas souvent difficiles de l'humanité sur de lointaines planètes. Entre diversité des créatures extraterrestres et complexité des rapports humains, de la science-fiction à l'état pur ! Deuxième et dernier tome de la sixième série.
Une première tentative pour pénétrer dans le vaisseau-monde et entrer en contact avec les humains qui s'y trouvent s'est soldée par un échec quand l'équipe d'exploration a été contaminée par de dangereux nanorobots. Mais l'organisme de Marie, transformé par la Mantrisse, a pu les éliminer, et elle et Kim, également immunisée, prennent la décision de faire un nouvel essai ... avant que les autorités Terriennes ne détruisent l'immense appareil, la menace robotique qu'il contient ... et ses mystérieux passagers humains.
Alors qu'il chemine tranquillement sur les pistes du Far West, Lucky Luke est soudain pris pour cible par un mystérieux assaillant. Ayant perdu de vue son agresseur après un échange de coups de feu, il tombe soudain sur un chariot attaqué par une bande d'Apaches. Ceux-ci une fois mis en fuite, quelle n'est pas la surprise de Luke de découvrir, dans le chariot, trois jolies jeunes femmes ! Trois soeurs en route vers une nouvelle vie, et que le cowboy solitaire ne laisse pas indifférentes...
Twenty years after the events of Treasure Island, Lady Vivian Hastings knocks on Dr Livesey's door. Her hated husband has sent word from the Amazon: He has found the fabled city of Guiana-Capac, and his brother is to sell the entire domain to pay for an expedition, dispossessing Vivian in the process. So the lady has come to seek the one man who can help her: Long John Silver.
Le Neptune s'est lancé dans son long voyage. Lady Vivian compte sur son associé Long John Silver pour prendre le contrôle de l'expédition. Mais Silver n'a pas assez d'hommes pour s'emparer du navire, et le Capitaine Hastings se méfie de lui. Dans le monde étriqué d'un navire en pleine mer, les tensions montent ; les trahisons menacent. La mort frappera avant l'arrivée en Amazonie, et c'est un acte de barbarie quotidienne qui plongera le Neptune dans un tourbillon de violence.
As the main body of the Antares expedition faces a catastrophic situation and seems doomed to failure, Kim's little group is still trying to establish contact with whoever kidnapped her daughter Lynn. But the fanatic Jedediah is still there, causing dissension and creating obstacles. Only Kim's strength of character, her determination to find her daughter, and her special bond with the alien Sven - Lynn's father - can still save them all...
Humanity migrates to a new planet, the secrets of which Kim Keller will have to unravel.
After the failure of the Betelgeuse colonisation mission, Kim is back on Earth, where she is an increasingly popular figure. Meanwhile, advance scouts on planet Antares have witnessed some distressingly strange events. Worried about the future of this new mission, the sponsors of the Antares project call upon Kim to accompany the first colonists, offering legal amnesty for Alexa and Mark in exchange. It's the beginning of a new adventure for the young woman and her friends.
Kim's mission to the other Antares planet - the one from which came the mysterious beam that took her daughter - is underway, and the young woman desperately wants to believe she will find her missing child. One amongst her team has no shortage of faith, though: the insufferable Jedediah Thornton is convinced they are going to meet an advanced alien civilisation. And he will stop at nothing to ensure humanity's representative is a man of proper morals...
The Antares mission is underway. Kim, her daughter and her companions are on board the interstellar ship that carries the would-be colonists. Conditions are far from ideal, though. The fanaticism and bigotry of a large number of the passengers, all members of the project leader's sect, are putting everyone on edge. As well, there are rumours of substandard equipment for the expedition. By the time they reach Antares, Kim and her friends are already disillusioned... and the worst is yet to come.
Kim's group, still stranded halfway across Antares, must get back to the base camp through a journey filled with deadly encounters. Meanwhile, at the base camp, a trip to the neighbouring planet-source of the strange ray that vaporised Kim's daughter-is being organised. The prospect of meeting an intelligent species, though, drives the religious fanatics in charge to clamp down on any person or activity deemed rebellious. As if a hostile world isn't enough, the colonists have brought their own worst enemy with them...
Bad luck, shoddy equipment and hostile fauna have stranded Kim and her companions thousands of miles from the Antares expedition's base camp. Abandoned to their fate by the fanatical leaders who cannot abide Kim's independent streak, wracked by internal
Every week we pile our rubbish out on the pavement. We go to work and when we return it's gone. Like magic!
The reality is anything but, of course. Trashed, Derf Backderf's follow-up to the critically acclaimed, award-winning national bestseller My Friend Dahmer, is a working man's epic. An ode to the crap job of all crap jobs-but anyone who has ever been trapped in a soul-sucking gig can relate to this tale. Trashed takes place after Derf graduates high school, when he and his childhood pals find themselves working as garbagemen in their Midwestern hometown. Together they clean the streets of pile after pile of stinking garbage, overcoming the unique difficulties of each season and battling small-town bureaucrats and nuisances, all while trying to decide what they want to do with their lives.
Interspersed are non-fiction pages that detail the history of trash, the staggering volume of garbage that is produced every day, the nuts and bolts of how our trash is disposed of beyond curbside recycling and what happens to it once it's removed from our houses, our streets and our office buildings.
Inspired by Derf's own experiences, Trashed (like My Friend Dahmer) is a hilarious, stomach-churning, in-depth examination of this vast, unknown world, taking readers to a place they have never been before, in a way that only Derf, and comics, can.
The most anticipated graphic novel of 2024, concluding the story of young Karen Reyes, the most inspiring «monster» in contemporary fiction.
Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late '60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two is the eagerly awaited conclusion to one of the most acclaimed graphic novels of the past decade. Presented as the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes as she tries to solve the murder of her beloved and enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold.
In Book Two, dark mysteries past and present continue to abound in the tumultuous and violent Chicago summer of 1968. Young Karen attends a protest in Grant Park and finds herself swept up in a police stomping. Privately, she continues to investigate Anka's recent death and discovers one last cassette tape that sheds light upon Anka's heroic activities in Nazi Germany. She wrestles with her own sexual identity, the death of her mother, and the secrets she suspects her brother Deez of hiding. Ferris's exhilarating cast of characters experience revelations and epiphanies that both resolve and deepen the mysteries visited upon them earlier. Visually, the story is told in Ferris's inimitable style that breathtakingly and seamlessly combines panel-to-panel storytelling and cartoon montages filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster mag iconography.
