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Felix's meteoric rise to the top has brought him much, but it also cost him dearly. Rachel has left him. His shareholders keep demanding ever more from him. Desperate, horrified, the young man is losing himself - but even that he is not allowed: Simon, the father of the HSE himself, puts him back on the right track by force. Because, in the public's eyes, Felix is a success story, hope... And for the HSE, he's the future of finance.

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Yoko, Vic and Pol are in Switzerland, testing a new civilian jet plane. At the end of their contract, they suddenly find out that they've unknowingly been preparing a mission for Japanese Intelligence. During World War Two, the Imperial Army had tested a colossal cannon, that was later thought destroyed - but massive calibre shells have now been delivered to an arms trafficker in a small Asian country. It's up to Yoko to locate the terrible weapon...

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Romane has gone to Brazil, hoping to renew contact with Delphis, her dolphin friend, and find an explanation to the ongoing attacks by sea mammals against human ships and ports. Meanwhile, Brahim and Kruger continue their investigations in Mozambique. But their enemies, the white supremacists who still run Algapower, and their terrorist allies from the American White Army, know they're being hunted, and have no intention of being stopped again. A fight for the future of several species begins... The conclusion to this sequel to Mermaid Project. Ages 12+

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Romane Pennac's niece has been kidnapped in Paris. Her genetic makeup, inherited from the experiments conducted on her mother - and Romane - in her youth, make her a perfect candidate for Algapower's hybridisation experiments. Hell bent on rescuing her and putting an end to the corporation's actions, El Malik and Pennac attempt a daring raid on Algapower's Rio laboratory. But when things go wrong, they'll find some very strange allies indeed...

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In Venice, a boating accident leads to the discovery of a 400 year old text bearing the signature 'W.S.' and promising the truth about the 'Shakespeare mystery'. That very night, someone tries unsuccessfully to steal the precious document. The discoverer, Marquis Stefano Da Spiri, decides to send a copy of the document to a specialist of the Bard in London for stylistic authentication. As for the original, he entrusts it to an old comrade in arms from WW2: Captain Francis Blake...

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"The Bluecoats" is a humorous comic-book series starring Sergeant Chesterfield and Corporal Blutch, soldiers in the Union army during the Civil War. Our two heroes are captured by the Confederates and taken to Robertsonville prison camp, from which Blutch and the Sergeant try to escape five times. The camp commandant despairs, and Chesterfield and Blutch make a final attempt. "Robertsonville Prison" was inspired by the Andersonville prison camp situated in Georgia, which operated from mid-1863 to mid-1864.

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Even as the sea blockade by the Union Navy slowly strangles the South, the picket ships begin to mysteriously blow up one after another. Lincoln, worried that the war could stretch on too long if the Rebels are resupplied, orders that the Confederates' secret weapon be identified. That means sending spies to Charleston, though, in the heart of the enemy's territory. And who will be the two unlucky fools the brass entrusts with such a dangerous mission...?

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In the 23rd Century, the humans and the Sandjarrs are allowed to join an inter-galactic multi-racial organisation set up 8,000 years before. The humans are seen as a belligerent, underdeveloped race by the other members of the organisation and had been kept out of it until now. The Sandjarrs had stayed out of interplanetary politics until a war between themselves and the humans broke out. Now Caleb, a human, and Mezoke, a Sandjarr, are paired up and trained as special agents to keep the intergalactic peace. This is a controversial and historic alliance, and a lot of people are watching them. Their first mission is to keep war from breaking out between humans and Javlodes on the planet Senestam.

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Yakari discovers a colony of beavers busy building their dam. There we find Thousand-mouths, the short-tempered building site boss; Dam-of-Wood, the smiling old wise man; Wooden-Bed, the sleepyhead; Double-Tooth, the eternally inspired sculptor...and last but not least Little Lime Tree, a lively kid. While they are bathing, this infernal little beaver disappears. Yakari will find him.

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15.00 800x600 On an interstellar cruise ships, a mysterious individual in fullenvironmental suit is working hard to get to Earth. On Earth, meanwhile,another person in a spacesuit is exploring a nuclear reactor on behalf of itsowners. That second man is Valerian, and since the disappearance of Galaxity,he's been forced to make a living by putting his advanced knowledge andequipment to good use. But what he's discovered inside the plant is extremelyworrisome...Normal 0 21 false false false FR X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4

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Maria, Emilio, the governor and her right-hand man have fled Puerto Blanco. On the small island where they're hiding, they've been shocked to discover the Barracuda! But its captain is no longer onboard, and they'll have to venture inland to find him - despite the indigenous tribes who live there. Raffy, meanwhile, wasn't lucky enough to escape, and he is still in the hands of the Spanish forces and the new governor: his former lover and ex-prostitute Keen-Flame?

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Billy's family is a perfectly normal one. Dad, Mom, some cousins, a tortoise - and of course the best dog in the world, Buddy! Oh, true, the cocker spaniel is too smart for everyone's good sometimes, and occasionally triggers disasters or raids the fridge. But that's a small price to pay for a loyal companion who'll always be there to cheer you up and give you a good laugh!

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XIII has freed a country, exposed a traitor, reunited with his wife and found his father. As he deals - somewhat against his will - with the aftermath of the revolution in Costa Verde, Sean Mullway recounts for him his family's history: Irish immigrants, remorseless Mafiosi, Mexican gold, and three silver watches. New answers will also bring new questions and a whole new set of potential enemies just as old ones come back to the fore.

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A general amnesty puts the Daltons back on the streets, something Lucky Luke isn't happy about. And, to make it worse, they seem to have become model citizens. It's all an act, though, and it doesn't take long for the stupidest quartet in the West to be back behind bars. Luke is already riding off into the sunset - But he's not counting on a riled-up Apache tribe that attacks the penitentiary where the Daltons are locked up -

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Several months after their adventures in Antarctica, Blake and Mortimer are back in England. Still somewhat shaken after his ordeal, the professor is ordered by his doctor to get some rest. In typical Mortimer fashion, he decides to spend his holidays in Africa - looking for a lost civilisation! Accompanied by Nastasia Wardynska and an old flame of his, he begins tracking down a culture that is older than any ever recorded-but someone is dogging their every step -

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Wyoming, 1868. Ambrosius Van Deer has come to Fort Laramie to meet Jess Chisum, a young man who claims he's found Van Deer's nephew Eddie. Ten years before, Edwyn Van Deer disappeared after his family was killed in a Lakota raid. Proof of his identity: a silver watch with a portrait of his parents. But fate has other plans than a happy family reunion, and the events of that day will set in motion a tragedy 15 years in the making.

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Two of Largo's employees have been killed in his headquarters in New York. His friend Charity has been kidnapped in the middle of the Piazza San Marco. His only lead is a mysterious message: Beware of the Doge - As the bodies start piling up, Largo - aided by the beautiful Domenica - turns the Serenissima upside down to find the young woman and unravel the truth before it is too late. Balls, duels, boat chases, revenge - Ah, Venice!

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Mark and Kim are sent to Betelgeuse to look for survivors of the spacecraft crash that killed 3,000 people seven years earlier. They do find survivors, among them Tazio Menegaz and Colonel Logan, who tell them the colonisers had been divided over whether the Lums (indigenous creatures) are as intelligent as humans. If they are, the humans would have been forced to abandon their colonising enterprise according to UN laws. Kim decides to investigate for herself.

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After inadvertently thwarting a convict''s escape attempt, Rin Tin Can flees the penitentiary and ends up with two sheep herders who are being targeted by wool thieves. The robbers, Giuseppe and Aldo, are actually looking for a specific sheep skin tattooed with a treasure map, in order to post their father''s bail. Unwittingly - as usual - Rin Tin Can becomes first the accomplice of the two not-too-bright brothers, then their ''godfather''...

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The last time we saw our friend Largo, he was orbiting our world in the company of one of his business rivals, having narrowly escaped death by asphyxiation. Who sabotaged their shuttle launch? Could it be the rival himself, Jarod Munskind? Or his wife Demetria, still on Earth? Perhaps the mysterious employers of a group of assassins currently plying their deadly trade around the edges of the W Group? The explosive conclusion to Largo's latest adventure.

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It's summer on the prairie, a hot, oppressive summer that has everyone's temper flaring. While Yakari's family, eager to find the buffalo they are tracking, has moved some distance from the other Sioux, nature suddenly unleashes its rage, and a tornado tears through the main camp. Tipis torn, supplies scattered, the tribe must now rebuild... but there are also several people missing, blown away by the twister and perhaps injured or trapped. Yakari sets out to look for them...

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Having defeated his former brothers-in-arms of the Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania, the Winged Hussars, Karlis accompanies his new companions to the Sich, the Cossack parliament. Before long, he is faced with the harsh reality that not all Cossacks want him to join their people. Indeed, while his exploits have made him a hero to many, they have also made him into a prime target for jealousy, frustration and ambition...

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Passing through the quiet little town of Rattlesnake, Luke exposes a Mexican gambler as a cheat and runs him out of town. Unfortunately, the hustler ends up in the hands of the Bluefeet Indians and manages to convince them to attack Rattlesnake. A siege begins, during which Luke will have to use all his guile and courage to keep the Bluefeet at bay until the Cavalry arrives.

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Mark and Kim, who have lost the rest of the group, are left with the wounded Ling-Li. Luckily, Alexa quickly meets up with them, and they're on their way to the sea again. But when the governor and Father Loomis catch up with them, they take them straight to the mantris. In "The Betelgeuse Planet", the second cycle takes the theme of the colonisation of space further than most sci-fi comics by looking at its ecological aspect. Leilah Nakad studies the Lums, and cute animals living on the planet Betelgeuse. Seven years earlier, she led a 3,000-strong group who was to settle on Betelgeuse. But the spaceship is still flying around, lost in space. Driss and Alexa investigate.

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Buddy is a normal 7-year-old growing up in a normal family in a normal town. His best friend is a cocker spaniel named Billy, who is not so normal: He can make himself understood by humans without words and can talk to other animals. Billy's best friend is the family's tortoise, Caroline. Together, Billy and Buddy get up to all sorts of mischief, gently tormenting those around them. The family setting is overflowing with love and tenderness, and the duo's pranks are guaranteed to make readers of all ages roar with laughter.

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The fall of the Berlin wall and the dismantling of the Soviet Empire changed the world, engendered new rivalries and started a new kind of Cold War. From Paris to Moscow, from Berlin to The Hague to New York, mafia hotshots, ex-members of the nomenklatura, powerful financial and industrial organisations, spies from all sides: all of these influential figures are involved in a political and economical warfare and the stakes are high. Alpha, a CIA agent, fights the endemic greed and corruption - even when he has to fight his own bosses.

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An American pilot is shot down at the border between North and South Korea. While his colleagues cover up the whole incident so as to avoid a diplomatic disaster, Buck Danny is in charge of bringing the pilot back to the US. In the heart of the hostile jungle, a lethal game of hide-and-seek begins. Can Buck Danny find the American pilot before the North Koreans?

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Blake and Mortimer head to the United States to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding the discovery of a 177-year-old body, which appears to have died very recently. The body is that of a Scottish major, Mortimer's forebear, who was leading a British military expedition to the US in 1777, where he was swallowed up by a strange multi-coloured light-beam shining down from the sky. Blake and Mortimer fight men in black armed with green-laser guns and soldiers emerging from the past in order to save the Earth from complete obliteration.

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Legend has it that in Baghdad the magnificent, a great and particularly dark-minded vizier, who answers to the name of Iznogoud, works on his ambition to steal the throne of Caliph Haroun al Plassid. Thus his favourite saying: 'I want to be caliph instead of the caliph!' Iznogoud, seconded by his faithful servant Wa'at Alahf, goes on vacation with the caliph...in the desert! Of course, his goal is to get rid of him by any means necessary.

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Part of a series which tells the tribulations of a young fisherman, Papyrus, and the princess Theti-Cheri, daughter of the Pharaoh Merenptha, in a very precise reconstruction of old Egypt: the XIXth dynasty. Mischievous Papyrus saves the princess, becoming her friend and protector. They plan a journey to Abou-Simbel, the princess and Papyrus face two bands of plunderers, who are after the treasure of the temple of Ramses!

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Calamity Jane saves Lucky Luke from a delicate situation. A friendship is quickly formed, and they arrive together in El Plomo...where Calamity Jane proves her strength, by winning the local saloon in an arm-wrestling match! Its ex-owner, August Oyster, is hopping mad and has only one obsession: to send her packing. During this time, Lucky Luke tries to clear up a dark affair involving arms traffic...

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Ex-agent of the secret service and colonel to Her most gracious Majesty, Sir Harold Wilberforce Clifton, has become an amateur detective. Scotland Yard consider this excellent old hand insightful as the illustrious Sherlock Holmes! Without ever losing an ounce of his British touch, he resolves complex enigmas for the police and thwarts the plans of unscrupulous crooks.

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Yakari is a little Indian, courageous and generous, whose happy life all children would like to share. Astride Little Thunder, his faithful mustang, Yakari gallops across the Great Prairie, where people and animals live in harmony and migrate according to the seasons. Endowed with the wonderful ability to talk with all the animals, Yakari comes to know their way of life and their environment.

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Kenneth Grahame's "The Wind in the Willows" is a treasure of British Literature which has already been brought to screen and now has its first ever comic book interpretation. His colourful characters, his inimitable madness and his love of nature shine through on every page and have fascinated countless readers of all ages...amongst whom was Michel Plessix, the author of this tender and lively adaptation.

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Kenneth Grahame's "The Wind in the Willows" is a treasure of British Literature which has already been brought to screen and now has its first ever comic book interpretation. His colourful characters, his inimitable madness and his love of nature shine through on every page and have fascinated countless readers of all ages...amongst whom was Michel Plessix, the author of this tender and lively adaptation.

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Miss Endicott's life as a Conciliator is off to a bad start: a strange plot is being hatched in the tunnels beneath London, her headquarters have been torched, the child whose nanny she is by day has disappeared while following her at night... and to top it all, her mother, whom everyone believed dead, has reappeared! A blessing, or a curse? Can two Conciliators together defeat the mysterious master - assuming two Conciliators could ever work together?

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Spirou and Fantasio are famous - among other things, as the official discovers of that legendary creature, the Marsupilami, one of which often accompanies them on their adventures. So when one of their conferences is cancelled in favour of a documentary film ffrom an unknown author, they are understandably irritated... until, that is, they realise the film is the very first to record the family life of wild Marsupilamis!

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Despite the assistance of Japanese Counter Intelligence Agent Suki Nishiwa, Buck and his friends were unable to gather solid proof of tycoon Yamasaki and Lady X’s plans to trigger a war between China and the United States. The only option they have now is to intercept the stealth jets during their attack run on the Chinese carrier – and theirs. But with Lady X flying the Spectres, and a typhoon coming, can they do it?

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A single card to access all the details of a man's life - personal data, medical history, bank details - now that would make everything simpler, wouldn't it? But what if the card stops working - would the person still exist within society? And in a world where births are regulated, how can children born illegally survive in said society if it doesn't even recognise they exist and won't let them have access to anything?

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When a suspended animation pod with a child inside washes ashore on an isolated island of Vinea, Khany is dispatched to investigate - and takes Yoko along with her. The trail leads Khany to a strange tower that emerges from the water at regular intervals. But by the time Yoko follows suit, Khany has disappeared, the tower begins to sink again, and a mysterious, angel-faced Vinean is about to be shot by men who appeared from beneath the waves.

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Several new chapters of Valerian and Laureline's adventures - but are they flashbacks, or ... ? After the events of The Time Opener, Valerian and Laureline reverted to childhood, and are now living with Mr Albert on 21st century Earth. But in a universe where time travel is a reality, words like 'after' or even 'now' can be somewhat ... hazy, and elsewhere, in other times, our young but nonetheless adult agents are still working tirelessly to maintain a galactic peace threatened as always by greed and the thirst for power.

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Twenty years have passed since the survivors of the Corsair crash emerged from the jungle - but they're suddenly dropping like flies. Rafalowski, the cowardly pianist, vanishes. Miss Taylor, the nanny, drowns. Draillac, who was 12 at the time of the accident, is kidnapped and believed dead... One by one, someone is trying to eliminate the survivors.

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Among all the things that make Gomer such a lovable rascal, there are two that are instantly recognisable: his car, and his goofophone. His old lemon, favourite target of the constabulary and every pedestrian's nightmare, is responsible for half the pollution in town - as well as many of the more... exotic accidents. The rest of the latter are mostly the result of the terrible 'musical' instrument put together by Gomer - stiff competition for the Trumpets of Jericho!

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Beyond the Arctic Circle, in the freezing cold and never-ending night, the Mounties do their duty and try to resist the creeping assaults of madness and depression. One evening,Trent, alone at his remote outpost, hears a call for help. He finds a couple of Natives, dead of exposure, along with ... a very much alive baby! Reluctantly turned into a polar nurse, the sergeant must leave his shelter - unequipped to cater to its new occupant - to find her a new family...

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A year has passed since the Los Angeles riots, but Ian is still being hunted by the Pentagon. Extremely hostile treatment by the media has also made him a favoured target of a majority of American citizens. Tracked down by an ambitious reporter, the android gets in touch with an eccentric billionaire who promises to tell him what the Nome is - that super-powerful artificial entity with whom he seems to have a mysterious bond... A merciless cascade of new revelations follows.

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In the near future, a prototype of artificial intelligence-controlled robot joins an elite military Search & Rescue team. To prove himself, he'll have to demonstrate his skills and abilities... and his humanity. Intelligent Artificial Neuromechanoid... Ian. It's the name of the newest recruit in Team 21 of the SRS - the 'Special Rescue Section'. Ian is an android, impossible to tell from a human being with the naked eye, and his creators claim that he's controlled by a true artificial intelligence - capable of learning, adapting, and even of experiencing emotions. Not every member of the team is happy about their new partner, but their higher-ups aren t giving them a choice - and the mission comes first...

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To prepare for Besson's upcoming film, here's the complete collection of Valerian and Laureline's adventures in English at last – including one unpublished volume, a longer cut of another, and a lot of details on the collaboration between the director and the authors! This first volume of the collection contains books 1 and 2 of the series: The City of Shifting Waters – in its original two-part, 9 pages longer format – and The Empire of a Thousand Planets. It also includes book 0, Bad Dreams, translated into English for the first time: the very first adventures of our two heroes, published after City and retroactively numbered. Finally, linking the volumes of this collection together, a long, exclusive interview with the authors and director Luc Besson is illustrated with new art as well as numerous sketches, studies and photographs from the latter's upcoming big-screen adaptation.

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It's been two years now since Thorgal and his family left the north to look for some hypothetical country where men might live in peace and harmony. They are sailing along a deserted and inhospitable stretch of land when Aaricia and the children convince Thorgal that enough is enough. But before they have a chance to turn around, they come across two strange characters who seem fascinated with Thorgal, and that night their boat is mysteriously torched...

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