La Dame du lac perdu

Pellinor is a rather listless young man, but, since he stands to inherit the family fortune, his grandfather has charged him with their ancestral quest: to find and kill the Wandering Beast. Taking up the challenge, Pellinor meets Nimue, a young lady of the lake, and together they embark on adventures that will lead (unbeknown to them!) to the banishment of banality, the re-enchantment of the world, and, most importantly, the discovery of their own place in it—which far outweighs the expectations that have been placed upon them.

Did you know that less than half of women bleed the first time they have sexual intercourse? And that it is medically impossible to tell whether a woman is a virgin or not? In fact, have you ever asked yourself why women used to have to be virgins when they married?

Drawing on her own experience, journalist and novelist Élise Thiébaut gives an account of the concept of virginity that combines sociological, historical, and cultural considerations.

Sailing home from the land of Qâ, Thorgal, Aaricia and Jolan find themselves caught in the middle of the conflict between the Water People and the Forest People. Their respective deities are now unleashed, and nothing can stop the chaos of war. Except, perhaps, an arrow carved from the Tree of Life, fired at the fearsome Wendigo. To save the pregnant and wounded Aaricia, Thorgal has no choice but to take sides and once again compromise himself in the madness of mankind.

Paloma, Céleste, Sierra, Apolline… Without Chélonia’s impetus, without her desire to bring them together, it’s certain that these young girls would still be holed up in their corners, prey to their demons. The club “des Mal-Barrées”, with its rather pessimistic name, is in fact the best thing that ever happened to them: the end of Paloma’s loneliness, Céleste’s new-found confidence, Sierra’s calmed anger, Apolline’s new-found self-confidence…

But what does the seemingly self-confident Chélonia really gain from these life-saving friendships?

What if Charles Perrault had been inspired to write his famous tales by young people with incredible stories? What if the man of letters had been their teacher, before putting his stories down on paper? These are the very stories that will live on through the centuries, still read today.

In a subtle interweaving of wonder, humor and anachronisms, here is an astonishing encounter that magnifies Perrault’s work.

Tired of living alone with her teenage daughter, Nana Miller suddenly takes off on a mini-break to Copenhagen, the fairytale city. Her arrival there coincides with an almost surreal incident: the discovery, right in the city center, of the body of a mermaid. The country is in turmoil, and a national day of mourning is declared. The airport is closed, the streets are deserted, and people shut themselves indoors. Nana is cut off, far from her daughter, without knowing how long for. Confined to an almost deserted hotel, she meets Thyge Thygesen and, like amateur detectives, they investigate the cause of the crisis. Spotting a rather shady character hanging around the site where the mermaid was unearthed, they follow him… only to find themselves caught up in a story too big for either of them to handle.

From the pen of Jean Van Hamme, this fourteenth volume features several short stories drawn by an outstanding panel of artists. For this opus, Jean Van Hamme is accompanied by Philippe Xavier, Iouri Jigounov, Joël Callède, Gontran Toussaint, Mikaël and Alain Henriet.

Unlike its thirteen predecessors, this volume doesn’t focus on a single character, but sweeps up a much wider horizon of the XIII saga…

Nature opens a door into an invisible world—sometimes magical, often symbolic, combining the foundations of science with primitive beliefs that inspire both hope and fear. An understanding of Nature is the essence of human thought, and our complex relationship with Nature is at the root of all sacred rites, myths, and religious doctrines.

Third and final volume in the adventures of our teenage heroes, lost on the edge of the universe. Created by talented scriptwriter Richard Marazano ( Le Monde de Milo, S.A.M., Le complexe du chimpanzé…) and drawn by Ingo Römling, the illustrator of the Star Wars Rebels series.

Cave paintings have always fascinated us. Who created them, long before the invention of writing? How did those people live? Why did they create these images? And how did they acquire their skills, their ability to evoke powerful emotions through their paintings, which have lost none of their freshness and intensity over the millennia?

“Painting with Lions” tells the story of Elle, from her birth to her death, and the tribe of hunter-gatherers in which she became one of those who depicted the souls of animals on the walls of caves.

Although Fabien Grolleau has clearly referred to the latest scientific research, he has also created a prehistoric adventure story, delicately and poetically illustrated by Anna Conzati in her first graphic novel for Dargaud, and with an introduction by renowned historian Marylène Patou-Mathis, author of “L’homme préhistorique est aussi une femme” (Prehistoric Men Were Women Too).