In 1826, Curtis, Maryline, Mike, Peter, and Lydia, five elite recoverers recruited by the top-secret Alcibiades organization, travel to Venice and Paris in search of the last clues they need to lead them to a treasure buried in the Arctic Circle. They find themselves in another battle of wits, racing against their rival, Edinger, and being pursued by a mysterious and well-armed Frenchman. All three crews are heading towards a hostile, icy terrain that holds a terrifying secret. The price of pulling off this mission runs the risk of being terribly high…
Les Cousins Dalton
Verdict
The Alter Ego theory has been a source of controversy for the last three years. Is it a sham or a groundbreaking scientific discovery? The scientific polemic turns into a thriller when our main characters become the targets of assassination attempts. Who’s behind these attacks? What exactly are they hoping to achieve? It all kicks off. While Miep is prepared to do anything to avenge Teehu, Delia finds herself in a race against time. Along with Gail and the Simorg scientists, Camille calls a conference to discuss their latest extraordinary discovery: it’s not only humans that are connected, but all living creatures. But which version of the truth will humanity accept? Who will pass the final verdict?
”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
La Sirène Gourmande
Muchacho tome 2
It’s a time of grumbling rebellion and brooding revolution. Gabriel de la Serna, the teenage son of a well-to-do family, has gone into hiding. He fled, limping, into the forest. He had come to San Juan, a little village nestled in the mountains, to paint the Passion of the Christ. There he came to understand the passion of the villagers, the country folk, all victims of military repression. Nourished by a sense of divine justice, he begins to understand the villainy of those in power and their cronies. When he’s eventually taken in and treated by the guerillas camped out in the forest, he lies about his family name and swaps his pencils and paint brushes for firearms. As he gazes beyond the surface and deeper into the depths, Gabriel also discovers his own humanity, made of flesh and desires…
Mémé Bonbon
El Comandante Yankee
This is the true story of William Alexander Morgan, the Yankee Comandante, an idealistic young American who found fame fighting in the Cuban Revolution. The blond American didn’t speak a word of Spanish, but he felt his rightful place was among the guerilleros of the Escambray Mountains, fighting to bring down dictator Fulgencio Batista. Morgan was among Havana’s liberators in 1959, an act that led FBI director Edgar Hoover to strip him of his American citizenship. There was a time when Morgan was international front-page news, on a level with Che Guevara. Yet “el comandante yanqui” has largely disappeared from the history of the Cuban Revolution. Author Gani Jakupi recounts a forgotten tale from one of the greatest military and political events of the 20th century.
Calamity Jane
Wild Bill
The Civil War may be over, but fighting rages on as the United States expands to the West. The Native Americans resist this expansion as best they can, often responding to the slaughter of their people with their own waves of violence. Amidst it all, there are cynical men who see only opportunity for profit, selling the guns that accelerate the bloodshed and preying on the vulnerable, be they Native or not. James Hickok, a former Union soldier turned bounty hunter, wants justice more than rewards. And he will not stop until the men who orphaned a young girl get what they have coming—whether at the end of a noose or the end of a gun barrel.
Tout va mieux…
The communists are gone, but life is still full of challenges. Both for Poland, and for 12-year-old Marzi, the strong-willed kid finding her voice in a country undergoing radical changes. As the country faces new issues like drug abuse and AIDS, Marzi’s piercing gaze notices fraying seams in her own community. “What ever happened to solidarity? If you want help, you’d better not be different.” Marzi is a natural champion for being different: she can’t stand the new capitalist shops, or how boy-crazy her friends are becoming. Will she find a place where she can just be herself?
