The London rain is lashing down as usual, but the good news is, detective Maggy has new mysteries to solve, ranging from a funeral company doing dodgy dealings in gold teeth, to a bookshop assistant lifting cash from the till. But these petty crimes pale by comparison to the mess that Maggy and her new man have got themselves into. Things take a turn for the worse when the vengeful Sheena shows up on Maggy’s doorstep…
The Cry family left Carolina for a new start, but their hard times only continue as they press on westward. From sudden storms to auto accidents, misfortune and misadventure seem to dog their every step. Meanwhile, the trail of bludgeoned bodies behind them only grows. But who’s to blame: gentle giant Milton, tormented by grisly nightmares, or his older brother Billy, whose resentment festers with every new person he meets? The pressure intensifies when two federal agents Washington to investigate. This painterly period piece and finely wrought family drama comes to a poetic conclusion.
Nino is busy… with an Easter egg hunt! No sooner does he find one than he wants to eat it… But if he does that, Ariane warns, he pretty soon won’t have any left… and that’s what’s happening with oil. We’re consuming it so fast, supplies could run out by the end of this century. So why is everyone in pursuit of this “black gold”? Ariane explains what it’s used for, how the “oil rush” started, and who the key players were in its history—a relatively short history that rapidly changed the world!
Ariane and Nino make their way down into the trenches of the First World War. Alongside the “poilus” (hairy ones, literally) they find out why these French infantrymen fought in these mazes and they learn about the terrible consequences — both material and psychological — of the disastrous, destructive event of 1914 to 1918.
Lya’s search for the truth continues as she hunts down clues about the terrible accident that left her in a wheelchair. But the case file she managed to steal from the formidable Mr. De Villegan leaves her with more questions than answers. Her only leads are an illegible signature and the name of a company: PLB, Inc. With the help of her best friend Antoine and co-worker Adèle, she’ll have to launch her own investigation into PLB, De Villegan, and his mystery client, to see what she can dig up.
While Telemachus, following the trail of his father Ulysses, is tied up in the faraway land of the Laestrygonians, the hot-headed Neoptolemus is marshaling his army of fierce Myrmidons off the coast of Ithaca, where Queen Penelope takes the lead in strategizing against the threatening fleet. In this latest chapter of the adventures of young Telemachus, the driven and impulsive young prince must use all his wits and rely on his new friends to unravel the mystery of his father’s whereabouts before a full-on war breaks out
Welcome to the wonderful world of Looniland, filled with loonicorns, cyclopes, dodos, and other fantastical creatures! Life is good in Looniville… if you’re a Pretty. Meanwhile, the Uglies do all the work and get teased and ridiculed. Until, one day, a huge storm blows through, bringing with it a mysterious illness that only seems to affect the Pretties. And in the nearby forest, a strange new creature has landed. Her name is Penelope, and no one has seen anything like her before. Where did she come from? Could she be the cause of this nefarious disease?
Frank is the story of a twenty year-old man as tall as a child, who falls for a pretty Egyptian in 1970s Fran—waaait just a minute, hold up! What happened to the cavemen (ahem, cavepeople)? To carnivorous plants? To prehistoric times? Wasn’t this a series about a kid named Frank who falls through an underground lake into the distant past, and—and… Well, what, you thought he was the only person named Frank in the world? Our rollicking series starts a brand-new arc with a brand new hero… and the same old hero, too. And cavepeople. Oh, yeah, and: DINOSAURS!!
“Django: Hand on Fire” tells the story of the youth of Django Reinhardt, a Roma raised outside Paris who would go on to be one of the most influential guitarists of all time. We follow his early years as an aimless and rebellious kid who is heading for a life of trouble until his devoted younger brother Nin-Nin convinces their mother Négros to buy him a banjo. Captivated by its possibilities and spurred by his natural talent, Django becomes obsessed with the instrument and quickly surpasses his older peers, mastering the popular bal-musette and intrigued by the new jazz coming over from the States. Soon he is playing in clubs and winning awards. He is on the verge of international success at the age of 18 when a tragedy strikes that will mark the rest of his life and career: he is badly burned in a caravan fire and spends the next years relearning how to play the guitar with only two fully-functioning fingers. This is an amazing story of perseverance and of fierce family love that is little known even to many jazz aficionados.
