Marilyn Monroe, a name known to every generation! Whether sublime, touching, or pathetic, she personified the fantasies of the secret world of Hollywood. But behind the glittering myth was a woman whose life was anything but charmed. It is this singular life, from her turbulent childhood, via her tumultuous love life and her proximity to the highest spheres of society, to her tragic final days, that the authors have retraced here in vivid detail. Full of humor, the “Stars of History” collection offers a fresh new look at the legends of cinema.
Ultimatum
The groundbreaking revelations that drew Camille and Miep together are yet to be fully brought to light. The two young women present an ultimatum to Urasawa and the billionaire Grynson. However, they fail to take into account the huge financial and logistical power at Urasawa’s disposal, that is from now on inherently linked to Noah, son of the president of the United States, whether he likes it or not. Noah appears to have lost all reason, having become obsessed with the power and profit that U-Tech’s findings could bring him. It’s a disaster waiting to happen…
”Series creator Pierre-Paul Renders has gone deep for this story, and between you and me I’d love to get a look at his notebook. How he and co-writer Denis Lapiere are able to tell such detailed stories, each lining up next to and often intertwined with the five other books, is nothing short of a miracle” The Pullbox
Justicier malgré lui
Le baptême du feu
Life among the cavefolk isn’t easy. Everything they do is gross, from eating raw meat to skipping showers. Thirteen year-old Frank, lost in their strange world and cut off easy pizza and other modern conveniences, tries to invent fire, but his good intentions might just blow up in his face. For one, smoke inhalation can be deadly. Who’d have thunk proper ventilation was so vital to cave living? Then there’s that rival clan, plotting to develop a firearm… Throw in a tribe of bloodthirsty bunnies that kill with cuteness, and you’ve got another zany, zippy adventure in prehistoric times.
Les gens honnêtes – Intégrale
Today, Philippe is celebrating his birthday. 53-years-old already. He has a nice
house, grown-up children, a gregarious mother and a fantastic new bicycle. It’s
a nice, simple, honest life. But Philippe’s boss throws a spanner in the works
when he informs him that he’s making Philippe redundant. Philippe, a collateral
victim of globalization, goes under and loses everything, even the roof over
his head. But this plunge into the core of himself enables him to see others in
a new way. Honest people are anything but commonplace.
Carnet de Bill
À la recherche d’Ulysse
Ulysses, mythical hero and king of Ithaca, left years ago to fight in the Trojan War. He never came home. His son, Telemachus, an impatient and immature prince who is as clumsy as he is ambitious, decides to go looking for him. On the way, he meets the hot-headed princess Polycaste, who helps him in his perilous adventure full of vengeful gods and terrifying monsters. Will the winds be favorable to them?
L’homme qui est entré dans mon lit
Maggy’s got a new man, a new case to solve… and a nice little jackpot of 15,000 pounds. Problem is, the means by which she got said jackpot were perhaps not entirely above board. So, in spite of this sudden change in the wind, Maggy has to act just like nothing ever happened. Most of all, so as not to raise any suspicions in Sheena. Bent cop though she may be, she’s still a cop, all the same…
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Les enfants des autres
Madrid, winter of 1956. Franco’s fascist dictatorship controls the press and maintains the fiction of an idyllic nation. Faced with the Regime’s attempts to cover up the country’s most sordid crimes, two journalists from the crime beat, the jaded veteran Emilio Sanz and the young and intrepid Léon Lenoir, seek to reveal the truth. Confronted by a wave of unexplained murders, the duo sets out to uncover the dark secret connecting them, buried in a cruel past. Brilliantly written and illustrated by Teresa Valero, Sanz and Lenoir’s investigation plunges us headfirst into an era and society as dark and as violent as it is full of hope. A bracing journalistic thriller revealing the lengths the Francoist regime was willing to go to in its attempts to stifle any form of dissent.
