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Undertaker Jonas Crow is the most sought-after criminal in the West, unanimously hated for the massacre he committed during the War of Secession. Due to her discovery of his true identity, and due to her face that is as beautiful as he is hard-hearted, Jonas takes on the young and puritanical English girl, Rose Prairie, as his associate. Together they manage the 'Wandering Undertaker'. Thanks to Jonas, Rose discovers within herself the makings of a true undertaker. Lin, her housemaid, originally the owner of a brothel in Shanghai, never leaves her side. Together the trio crosses the United States, running into plenty of death-related adventures along the way. As Jonas says, 'death never comes alone'.

A humorous Victorian-era set social fable told in pure Dickensian tradition. Follow the titular pair of street orphans on adventures far and wide. London, 1887. While the British Empire is at its peak, and influences the majority of the world, most of London still lives amid poverty, disease, and crime. Basil and Victoria are two of the thousands of orphaned street urchins who survive by hustling, selling rats, and sleeping on the docks. Helped by Cromwell, their faithful bulldog, the trio travel from the mean streets of Whitechapel to exotic distant lands, meeting famous, and infamous, historical and literary figures along the way, as they lovingly bicker and squabble the entire time !

Golden City floats on the ocean, shielded from the overpopulation and from the violence that reigns over the continent. Only the wealthiest can live there and, as such, Harrison Banks appears to be among one of the privileged...
But when his wife's plane crashes mysteriously, Banks must start a perilous investigation in an unknown territory and embark on a descent into hell...

What happens to our loved ones when they die? No more funerals, because now we recycle! In an exuberant and swarming big city, Charlie, an employee at Eternal Recycle, is the best in his field: finding a use for your body after you die. But one day, a boy calls and asks him what has happened to his mother's soul. Charlie is used to handling the bodies, but who takes care of the souls? To answer that question, he sets out on an investigation into the very heart of death and love...

An attack by man or beast? Secret army nuclear tests? An avalanche? Or temporary insanity? What really happened on the slopes of "Dyatlov Pass" on the night of February 1, 1959, that resulted in the deaths of nine experienced mountaineers?

Dive into the magical, epic world of Arthurian Britain in this tale pieced together from long-forgotten manuscripts, and join in the adventures of Sivar, the most mysterious Knight of the Round Table.

Once upon a time, high up in the snowy mountains, in a cozy cabin with her grandmother, lived a little girl whom everyone called Pickhead. Because she was never without her miner's pick, and because, well, she was pigheaded. Not the nicest way to say it, but once she's made up her mind to do something, there's no stopping her. A little determination and a lot of gumption take the indefatigable Pickhead across the continent and all the way to the Bayou to see her tap-dancing sister perform. That's the plan, at least, unless some poachers have something to say about it...

The young Indiana is a product of her time - submissive and bound by societal conventions - but despite the many obstacles in her path, notably her controlling husband Colonel Delmare and the charming Raymon de Ramière, she will find her way to love and most importantly, freedom. This adaptation of George Sand's seminal novel Indiana captures the compelling and at-the-time scandalous feminist drive of the original.

Call on her when nightmares become a reality! In an obscure world gripped by terror, our worst nightmares have come to life, becoming monsters that resemble humans. Faced with this threat, the Epeires corps, an armed wing of the Ordo-Sancti, a powerful religious group, becomes for a ray of hope in a world of darkness. By vanquishing the creatures coming from their own dreams, the Epeires awaken within themselves remarkable occult abilities. They're able to free those who are imprisoned in their own nightmares and destroy the powerful beasts that have been terrorizing them with magic spells. Arane Heos, a cold and dispirited woman, is a member of the Epeires. A skilled swordswoman, she has slain more beasts than anyone can remember. But a burdensome secret, one that she has only confided to her friend Bastione, is going to put them on a collision course with the zealots of the Ordo-Sancti.

The aging Sigmund Freud reflects upon the torments of age, the mouth cancer he suffers due to his cigar addiction, and the rise of Nazism.
In 1923, Sigmund Freud, 67 years old and an inveterate cigar smoker, discovers that he has mouth cancer, a truth long hidden from him by doctors. Despite his diagnosis, Freud survived 15 more years, convinced the cigars that were slowly destroying him increased his productivity and gave him control over himself.
At the same time, a different sort of cancer was consuming Europe. In 1933, Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany, annexing Freud's home country of Austria five years later. His books burning upon fascist pyres and his peers concerned for his life, Freud had no choice but to leave Vienna for London, his final home.
With accuracy and sobriety, Suzanne Leclair and William Roy reveal a raw and nuanced portrait of the father of psychoanalysis in his last days. Here, the controversial figure is shown in all his contradictions and weakness, a reflection of our own fears and trials in facing age and death.

No family, no connections, anti-establishment, womanizer, wanderer, iconoclast and fighter, he inherits at age 26 the W Group, which is worth $10 billion.

The nation of Norlandia is in conflict with its powerful rival Austradia. The eminent Professor Marduk is tasked by the High Council of Norlandia with militarising a major scientific discovery: the U Ray. However, doing so will require finding a deposit of Uradium, the ore needed to power the ray. And the only known deposit is in an unexplored volcanic archipelago. An expedition is quickly put together, but in the shadows, the Austradian intelligence services are waiting for the moment to act ...

THE LEGENDARY STORY OF KNIGHT ROLAND'S SWORD. Charlemagne crushed the Saxons and felled their pagan idol, Yrminsull. The price to pay was heavy: Ambroise, bearer of the sword Durandal, perished in the confrontation. The legendary blade must go to his grandson, Roland de Bretagne. Roland is too young, Durandal is then entrusted to a mysterious warrior from distant Iceland.
The years pass and the situation in the country deteriorates. Roland understands that only Durandal can give him the power to restore order...

Monsters come out at night. Since the sun disappeared behind mysterious clouds, our world has been plunged into permanent darkness. Our resources are becoming increasingly scarce. Outside, creatures are multiplying and hunting us. Our only chance of survival is to hide and remain... silent.

If there were a prize for the best pet, dogs would win, no contest. Sure, a crocodile, tiger, or hippopotamus would be cool, but who wouldn't want their own little puppy to cuddle, love... and train? It's going to take some patience, and this little Nunuche isn't going to make the job easy!

While in a coma after a devastating car crash, an eleven-year-old musician named Melody mentally drifts into a world that hovers between life and death, where she meets a strange, fascinating woman who tells her that she can remain in the realm of the living so long as she agrees to accept a series of missions. Back in the real world, a fully recovered Melody is stunned to discover that when she sets out to complete the assignments given to her, she will be doing them... in the body of her twenty-year-old self

The year 1910 marks the first time the Tour de France, only seven years young, will include a section through the high mountain passes of the Pyrenees. The weather is awful. The routes are perilous. The rules are still a work in progress. Nutrition? Safety? These racers didn't even have derailleurs. They barely had gears. In a genuinely superhuman feat of determination and endurance they rode through literal blood, sweat, mud, snow, starvation, tears, and utter despair to make the Tour de France what it is today: a contest of colossi, a clash of titans, a tour... of giants.

When the good ship St. Nicholas sailed from the port of Piraeus, none among its crew knew this trip would be their last. Nor could anything have prepared them for the nightmarish creature that rose from sunless depths to claim them. Worst of all, no one had instructed them how to answer the creature's question: "Is He Alive?"In this stunning work, Dimitris Vanellis and Nikolas Kourtis craft a modern tale of terror on the high seas, based on one of the scariest legends in Greek folklore.

The year is 432 B.C., and the 87th Olympiad is about to begin. Through the tender story of Lydia and Kallias, we'll be guided through Elis, city of the ancient Olympic Games. We'll take a stroll through the sacred grove of Olympia, with its hallowed Temples and Treasuries, and we'll see the Prytaneion, the Pelopion, and the Bouleuterion. We'll learn all about the games and the religious ceremonies and cultural events which took place in parallel to the athletic contests. We'll talk to artists and philosophers of the day, getting a better sense of the Olympic spirit, where it came from, and how it resonates still at the modern-day Olympics. A perfect way to prepare for the upcoming 2024 Games in Paris!

Not only was it the worst marathon in Olympic history, but you would be hard-pressed to find another event that was as scandalously bad as the 1904 marathon. This is no slight on (most of) the men who competed, because it would seem as if the race were bad by design: the organizer of the Games, James E. Sullivan, wasn't looking for the glory of competition and sportsmanship at his games, but rather evidence of white supremacy. Deprived of water, running under a blazing sun on dusty, hilly roads: it's a miracle that fourteen of the initial thirty-two competitors even completed the event. The story of this race and the athletes who took part is ludicrous, unedifying, and a terribly good time.