Riding peacefully along a western trail, Lucky Luke is suddenly
ambushed by an unknown assailant. After a quick gunfight, the cowboy
loses his mysterious attacker, but happens upon a lone wagon beset by
Apache raiders. Another quick fight later, Luke is surprised to find
that the occupants of the wagon are three lovely young women! Three
sisters on their way to start a new life, and who all find the
lonesome cowboy ... quite interesting.
Prudence Endicott is the daughter of London's Conciliator - the voice
and hope of the little people. Will she be able to pick up the torch
after her mother dies? Volume 1 of 2. After many years abroad,
Prudence Endicott is back in England to bury her mother. Hired as a
nanny by a wealthy London family, the young woman immediately begins
to spend her nights in the more popular neighbourhoods ... For Miss
Endicott is now the new Conciliator, she who helps the poor and the
humble to solve their problems when society ignores them. A difficult
task - especially as something sinister appears to be brewing
underneath London ...
Prudence Endicott is the daughter of London's Conciliator - the voice
and hope of the little people. Will she be able to pick up the torch
after her mother dies? Volume 2 of 2. 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?
In the skies of France during the Great War, a red-painted fighter is
chasing a British SPAD. The relentless German pilot eventually wounds
his opponent mortally, and lands near the downed Briton to watch him
die, confessing his delight in war and victory. Ten years earlier, a
young Manfred Von Richthofen is attending a military academy in
Berlin when, during an incident with classmates, he comes to realise
he has an unnatural gift...
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...
Separated by a temporal shift phenomenon, the human survivors are together again. But where some, such as Marie and Alex, have only spent a few weeks on their new planet, for the others it's been six years! Six years they've spent with the Holorans, fellow castaways belonging to a felinoid race, one of whom Marie had rescued from hostile aliens. The Holorans have a plan: to use the very quantum anomalies that cause those temporal jumps in order to leave the planet.
The fierce Cossacks have long lived as a free people, but in the 17th
century, the king of Poland-Lithuania wants to end that freedom. A
young deserter from the hussars is caught in the nascent conflict.
The first volume of a great historical saga. 1634, Ukraine. Karlis, a
young Winged Hussar of Poland-Lithuania, sickened by the carnage of
war, deserts. To wash their honour, the men of his old unit hunt him
mercilessly, while two people secretly observe the pursuit. They are
Cossacks, from a people of freedom-loving warriors ... and it is with
them that Karlis will eventually find refuge. But if he left his
regiment, it's also because of the last orders he was given, which he
refused to follow: the king of Poland-Lithuania wants the Cossacks
disarmed ...
Now rid of Prince John's henchman, William, Marian and their friends
are finally free to relax a little. Their respite is short, however.
A judge known for his integrity and doggedness has been dispatched to
Nottingham by the regent to investigate the recent trouble, and from
the town's very bowels, drawn by the rumours about the theft of the
royal treasure, another gang of brigands emerges, their hearts and
intentions far less pure than those of the `Merry Men' allied with
the Hood ...
While Agnes is in Europe to visit family, Trent is given a somewhat unusual mission: to escort a woman to her father's home. Mrs Taylor has left her husband - a man that alcohol turns horribly violent - and is now taking their son to safety at his grandfather's - a former senator. Tasked with protecting them, Trent takes a liking to young Jeremy, and begins to dream of his own Little Trent with Agnes - until the father tracks them down...
The Delphs are an artificial species who depend entirely on an
extremely rare substance, that not only allows them to live and
reproduce, but also fuels their creative talents - for the Delphs are
the most sought-after storytellers in the galaxy. They call upon
Galaxity to find a new source of it, as their own is exhausted. The
problem is, the only available deposit is on 21st century Earth, and
the agents on station ... are still going to high school!
Martha Shoebridge has the best job in the world: she helps women give
birth. But when this workaholic obstetrician meets the handsome
senator from Delaware, William Sheridan, her heart leaps ... and her
life is changed forever, for the world she enters then is without
mercy. Political ambitions trump all; everyone lies, everyone tries
to manipulate someone, everyone schemes. So begins the slow descent
into hell that will eventually put her in XIII's path ...
Betty Barnowsky's life, after crossing path with danger-magnet XIII,
eventually reached calmer waters and a happy ending when she married
Armand, the French aristocrat. But it wasn't smooth sailing all the
way! After all, before playing supporting character to the amnesiac
and becoming a marquise, Betty was a member of the elite SPADS in her
own right - a unit corrupted by its traitorous commander McCall, and
which General Carrington wants to clean up thoroughly ...
After the icy North, Thorgal and his companions now face the
oppressive heat of the Middle East. On the road to Bag Dadh, the
reluctant hero has got dangerously close to the bewitching Saluma,
who tells him the story of the Red Mages - the very same who
kidnapped his son Aniel. It doesn't take long for Thorgal to realise
that he isn't mixed up in a simple crime, but rather in political
machinations that could determine the future of the entire, sprawling
megalopolis!
Ever the wilful rebel, Wolfcub has decided to go all the way to Bag
Dahd to find her father Thorgal, when an old friend of the family
suddenly pays her a visit: Tjahzi the Dwarf, whose people have just
been enslaved by the Dark Elves. Behind this war between the denizens
of the other worlds hides a very real threat to humans, for it's the
entire celestial order that Lolth, the queen of the Dark Elves, wants
to overthrow by going after the sacred tree Yggdrasil ...
Chicago, the Seventies. Life is tough when you're an orphan in the streets - and even more so if you're black. Little Jones, 10, doesn't even know her real name. All she has is a brother who flirts with the Black Panthers, a streak of cunning and determination a mile wide, and a dream: that of some day enlisting into the Army. A chance encounter with war hero Major Whittaker will change her life forever...
Jean-Baptiste Poulain is back in Paris when the Countess of Almedia invites him to join her salon in Andalusia. Her offer is too good to refuse, and they're soon on their way to San Fernando by sea. During a storm, they narrowly avoid a collision with a drifting ship, the Providence. When they go aboard the derelict, all they find are corpses - and yet Jean-Baptiste is convinced he'd seen a survivor...
XIII, Jones and Betty Barnowsky escaped the deadly trap set by Colonel McCall. Lost in a hostile jungle, they must now make their way back to America. And they must be quick: In Washington, every ally the fugitives ever had has been arrested in preparation for the conspirators' master stroke, coinciding with a general exercise of all American armed forces: Operation Full Red. Suddenly, XIII's quest becomes a last-ditch fight for the freedom of an entire nation.
Colonel Amos is the head of the FBI's Counterterrorism Division. His current investigation sends him on the trail of an agent of Mossad - Israeli intelligence. The ensuing operation - a joint FBI/CIA effort - will prove to be a difficult one. Not only because of the agent's skill, or because the colonel and his CIA counterpart Giordino don't get along, but also because before coming to the USA, Samuel Amos was a founding member of Mossad...
Isère, on the marches of France. A regiment of dragoons enters a seemingly deserted village to find several badly mangled bodies and evidence of an attack by a wild animal. Survivors speak of a massive beast with almost human eyes, of a werewolf... The thing's trail leads over the border with the Duchy of Savoy, and the commander of the dragoons takes a small detachment, in civilian clothes, after it. With them is his cousin: Jean-Baptiste Poulain...
Wayne Shelton has a sad duty to fulfil: give the heirs of his deceased team members their share of the pay for the disastrous Khalakjistan mission. But the solemnity of the task is quickly shattered: two hitmen attempt to shoot him in South America, then a bomb is placed under his car in the USA... Who exactly placed such an extravagant price on Shelton's head? And who's the mysterious biker trailing him?
A year has passed for the community of survivors. Ian and his team
are still making dangerous forays to the ravaged surface in search of
food and medicine, forced to go ever further each time. But one day,
just as they're about to be killed by one of the exterminator robots
that constantly patrol the city, they're saved by an old acquaintance
not even Ian still hoped to see again: SAM, the strange robot that
seems to want to protect the boy...
Acre, 1291. The last Crusader city in the Holy Land is about to fall. Two Knights Templar, obeying the grandmaster's orders, manage to escape the invading Muslim army on the order's last ship. New York City, nowadays. During the unveiling of an exhibition of some of the Vatican's treasures, four men disguised as Templars attack the Metropolitan Museum and steal several artefacts, including a centuries-old decoder - a loss that horrifies the Church.
The investigation onto the museum raid continues, but it's a difficult one. One of the four `knights' has already died in his - guarded - hospital room, and FBI Agent Reilly is unknowingly engaged in a race to find the other thieves before the mysterious assassins trying to eliminate them. Meanwhile, young archaeologist Tess Chaykin is following up the Templar lead - one that the FBI considers too far-fetched to be worth looking into...
Life has never been dull for Billy and his dog Buddy, but ever since the circus arrived in the neighbourhood, it's been getting better and better. There are crocodiles, ostriches, penguins, elephants... There's little Vittorio and his pet chameleon... And of course, Caroline the tortoise and Buddy's dog friends are still here. Oh, yes, quite the merry gang all right - and one who occasionally drives Billy's parents mad!