Kramik la canaille

In a futuristic Paris, robots have evolved into sentient beings whose rights are being revoked due to the perceived threat they pose to human society. But not everyone has turned their backs on these so-called mechas. When the cherish bot Karel and down-on-her-luck Elle meet in the subway, they soon become friends, and something more… But a robot resistance is forming, and the two of them are dragged unwittingly into the chaos. Not only that, but Karel’s programmed life expectancy is mysteriously decreasing… Will they be able to stop the countdown, and steer clear of both the robot rebels and human police?

The Vietnam War is going strong, and Peter Hopper, sick of bombing civilians, decides to desert his post in the United States Air Force. Sent to Laos, he is soon riddled with debt and forced to work unofficially for the CIA. His comrade-in-arms, Bob Janssen, on the other hand, remains faithful to the war effort. When on a mission to show two journalists around the military base, Bob discovers that a warehouse clerk has been murdered under suspicious circumstances. He then teams up with the journalists on an investigation that soon overwhelms them…

Brash, young Telemachus continues his search for his father on the Island of Aeaea, where the witch Circe entertains him and his friends with banquets full of fresh, roasted pork. Circe’s daughter, Cassiphone, has her own reasons for joining Mac and his friends as they look for Ulysses, and she knows just where to go: Hades, the land of the dead, in search of the seer Tiresias, who can show them the way. So Telemachus and his growing band of friends head off across Terra Incognita, in the hope of finally catching up with his father.

Olive spends much of her days in the elaborate dream world that she has created, escaping the tedium of her boarding school. It is her private space where no one can bother her. Until one day when an astronaut named Lenny appears, crashing into the water in his space capsule. Olive’s surprise deepens when she realizes that Lenny exists in real life, and a desperate search is underway to locate him following a failed reentry. With the help of her new friend Charlie, Olive will have to sift through the clues quickly in order to find Lenny and save his life. And when the girls decide to spend Christmas at Olive’s house, they find a key to the mysteries of her dream world in the most unexpected of places: right at home.

After the devastating fire that destroyed Moscow and drove out Napoleon’s troops, what can the French general possibly do next? He had originally planned to continue all the way to Asia. For a man wrapped up in his dreams of greatness, it is quite simply out of the question to go back to France at this point. But winter’s on its way, and each attempt to move forward results in death by the thousands.