Valerian & Laureline (english version) - Volume 8 - Heroes of the Equinox

Author: Pierre Christin
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1849188742
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
Every 100 years or so, the infertile people of Simlanne send their champions to the sacred island of Filene, where the best among them, chosen via a series of tests, will find and bring back the next generation. This cycle, though, the local heroes seem to fail repeatedly, and the aging Simlannians have sent for heroes from other worlds. Valerian, chosen to represent Earth, will have to overcome the tests and his competitors in a dangerous odyssey...

Valerian

Author: Jean-Claude Mézières
Publisher: Valerian: The New Future Trilogy
ISBN: 9781596878341
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
."..Valerian and his beautiful, sharp-witted and sharp-tongued partner, Laureline, live adventures set against visually stunning backgrounds: complex architectural inventions, futuristic machines, otherworldly landscapes, and odd-looking aliens..."--Amazon.com.

Valerian & Laureline (english version) - Volume 18 - In Uncertain Times

Author: Pierre Christin
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1849184755
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 66

Book Description
The (false?) gods of Hypsis are once again interfering with Human history. Tired of their lower status among their peers, the trinity in charge of planet Earth opens communications with megacorporation Vivaxis at the end of the 20th century – an occurrence Valerian and Laureline’s allies report to the two ex-agents. But to what end did the Hypsians initiate such a contact? And who is the mysterious Sat who, from the depths of Point Central, also endeavours to meddle with Human affairs?

Valerian et Laureline (english version) - Volume 16 - Hostages of Ultralum

Author: Pierre Christin
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1849184666
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 66

Book Description
Valerian and Laureline take a break from adventuring and go on a cruise, but Valerian feels uncomfortable among the idle and the powerful. He’s not bored for long, though, because when a quartet of mercenaries board the cruise ship to kidnap the son of the Caliph of Iksaladam, they end up taking Laureline as well. With the almighty Caliph offering a massive reward for his son’s return, Valerian’s quest to rescue his girl is suddenly hindered by every bounty hunter in the galaxy...

The Arena

Author: Fabien Velhmann
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1849189862
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 58

Book Description
Captured by a mysterious army just as they escaped a Campton overrun with ‘zombie’ children, Dodzi’s group, along with what’s left of the Clan of the Shark, discover an entire civilisation, ruled over by children who have been in the In-Between-World for a long, long time. Strict rules, a caste system, bizarre superstitions... All new obstacles for the group to overcome – although Saul is being treated like a messiah. And over it all hangs the threat of the sinister Midnight Child...

Western Plainchant

Author: David Hiley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198165729
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 764

Book Description
Plainchant is the oldest substantial body of music that has been preserved in any shape or form. It was first written down in Western Europe in the eighth to ninth centuries. Many thousands of chants have been sung at different times or places in a multitude of forms and styles, responding to the differing needs of the church through the ages. This book provides a clear and concise introduction, designed both for those to whom the subject is new and those who require a reference work for advanced study. It begins with an explanation of the liturgies that plainchant was designed to serve. It describes all the chief genres of chant, different types of liturgical book, and plainchant notations. After an exposition of early medieval theoretical writing on plainchant, Hiley provides a historical survey that traces the constantly changing nature of the repertory. He also discusses important musicians and centers of composition. Copiously illustrated with over 200 musical examples, this book highlights the diversity of practice and richness of the chant repertory in the Middle Ages. It will be an indispensable introduction and reference source on this important music for many years to come.

Green Arrow Vol. 9: Old Tricks

Author: Mike Grell
Publisher: DC Comics
ISBN: 1401283829
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
Mike Grell’s defining run on the Emerald Archer concludes here in GREEN ARROW VOL. 9: OLD TRICKS. Oliver Queen’s New Year’s bash is in full swing when an arrow strikes him from the rooftops. A mysterious archer from Ollie’s past has come for his head. With the return of Shado, and the aid of Dinah Lance and Marianne, they will have to scour the Seattle Underground to uncover the truth. With tension growing between Dinah and Oliver after his kiss with Marianne, will surviving the archer be enough to keep them together? Collecting issues #73-80 and Grell’s origin story, GREEN ARROW: THE WONDER YEAR #1-4.

Chatelet Station

Author: Pierre Christin
Publisher: 9th Cinebook
ISBN: 9781849182447
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Valerian, shot to death in an Indian fortress. Valerian, dead in 19th century London. Valerian, gunned down in San Francisco's Chinatown - And Laureline, paired up with an unpleasantly arrogant historian from Galaxity, forced to witness every demise of the man she loves on a succession of re-enacted pieces of human history. A very strange case that will take the two spatio-temporal agents to the limits of their endurance as they hunt down the mysterious architect of the false Earths.

The Empire of a Thousand Planets

Author: Pierre Christin
Publisher: 9th Cinebook
ISBN: 9781849180870
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 47

Book Description
Exploring Syrte, the capital planet of a system of one thousand worlds, agents Valerian and Laureline must decide whether this decaying empire poses any danger to Earth.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; Volume 7

Author: Edward 1737-1794 Gibbon
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781017277586
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
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