Ice melting has caused the oceans to swallow up vast swaths of the Earth. The ocean itself has radically changed and is now called the Nocean. The
European continent’s borders and coastlines have transformed; new cities have appeared where others have changed radically, and some of them have been abandoned for many years. A new form of government, called Systema, runs society along with the large corporations that support it. A neo-liberal dictatorship rejects those it no longer considers citizens.
Amidst it all, two young orphan girls will become modern-day Robin Hoods, helping the most needy—those whose voices have been repressed by the system.
At New Hope, two secret societies compete for control of the campus. One of
them is for boys only, but Isabella must find a way in if she wants to save her
terminally ill brother.
A dizzying dive into the heart of US student fraternities.
In 1870, a terrible storm hits the West Coast of America, killing thousands
but leaving survivors with supernatural powers. They create an organization
called The Frontier, whose aim is to put an end to the storm. Five of its members,
all ex-cons, are sent to the area to make a ritual sacrifice of all surviving
inhabitants in a bid to stop the destruction. But they are not the only ones to
have supernatural powers, and soon their plan starts to colapse.
A story covering 40 years in the lives of an African-American woman and her
daughter.
When 16-year-old Tshilanda falls pregnant, she is forced to leave her country
and give birth in the US. Suddenly alone, she is taken in by two men from very
different backgrounds: Edouard, a French diplomat, and Mike, an African-
American musician.
Brothers Martin and Jean decide to explore the Norwegian fjords. Martin has
recently become fascinated by Nordic mythology and Jean sees the trip as an
ideal opportunity to reconnect with this brother, who has become cold and distant
since the death of his daughter and separation from his wife. Autofiction
meets road trip against a backdrop of Norwegian legends and landscapes.
Back in California, Duke has reached his goal: he will finally be able to get Peg out of King’s clutches. But as soon as he takes a few steps into town he ends up behind bars, where Manolito finds him. The mystical, bloodthirsty colossus offers him a strange deal: he’ll get him out if Duke admits that they belong to the same species of demons. If Duke wants the end, he’ll have to accept the means! Because, in the end, isn’t the devil’s best weapon the Truth…?
In order to help Winston (his regimental comrade) find his niece who has disappeared in Louisiana, Josuah Flanagan has to take on the role of a rich white man whose driver Winston is. Because, in the middle of the 1950s, the South is still a land of tradition… and there is no question of Cajun cooking. The two former soldiers will have to stir up the filth lurking in the bayou mud and try their best to avoid ending up under the fangs of alligators.
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In pursuit of the thief who broke the time bubble in which they have always lived, the village children have reached the end of the forest of time. However, the woman they are looking for has passed away… several millennia ago! She has become a legend, just like Cernos, the last of the giants – whom they have just met! The present seems to have fled to the past, and the past is writing their future. And only the mysterious and fearsome Time-Eater seems to understand this infernal spiral.
The latest graphic novel from Zabus and Hippolyte is a gentle and amusing
story that is once again set at the interface between the adult world and the
world of children.
“My head is full of questions—so many that it sometimes feels like my brain is
boiling—but who can give me answers?” asks 12-year-old Romain.
What particularly bothers him is Miss Sophie’s corpulence, his teacher. He
watches her with curiosity and sympathy, sensing that something is not right,
that she is unhappy, but knows that his young mind cannot work out why. Is
she ill? What kind of life does she lead? Is she in love? Using his overactive
imagination, Romain begins to learn about life and, like an adventurous lion
cub, discovers what goes on in the adult world—a world in which it is possible
to conceal suffering and confusion and to make out, in spite of everything, that
all is well…
A profoundly intimate tale that is a worthy successor to “Incroyable !”
(Incredible!), the multi-award winning comic that is being turned into an animated
film.
