Haytham al-Aswad is a young boy like any other, growing up in the Syrian town of Deera: he plays soccer, hangs out with his friends, and is studying for an upcoming test. But when the revolution breaks out and people take to the streets to protest the brutal regime of Bashar al-Assad, Haytham suddenly goes from kicking the ball to dodging bullets. His activist father is forced into exile, and the rest of the family eventually join him in France, where Haytham’s new life as a refugee brings its own set of challenges. An engrossing, first-hand account of one of the most devastating political and humanitarian crises in recent history.
L’Ordre des Pierres
On board Captain Singh’a Rough’a’s vessel, Valerian and Laureline finally make it to the Great Void, the unexplored empty space right at the very end of the universe. During their ongoing search for the lost Earth, the pair comes face to face with the Wolochs, a race of terrifying stone monsters.
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L’Ouest le vrai
Much to Stern’s consternation, the small town of Morrison is preparing to celebrate Christmas, far from the gunfights that are commonplace in the Wild West—a West that is becoming tamer by the day. But the town is about to welcome a member of the real West: Colorado Cobb, a gentleman gunslinger whose adventures are a novelist’s dream, but which have earned him a number of enemies. After tracking him down, a few vengeful gunmen will trigger a bitter chain of events, and the community caught in the crossfire will be forced to pick a side.
Le Patient 302
In the conclusion of this suspenseful and chilling tale of Nazis, human experiments, and world domination, Jeremy Corbin and his two special agent sidekicks find themselves trapped in an underground scientific facility where the Consortium and its evil scientists have devised a plan to force their Aryan Superman program onto all of humanity… at the cost of approximately five billion lives. To prevent this cataclysm, they will have to face threats they never expected, from both past and present.
La Sale Guerre
Captain Yann Calec is still far from home, in French Indochina, amidst the upheaval of simmering war. He’s out to shed some light on the mysterious circumstances surrounding his estranged father’s death and the subsequent disappearance of the elder Calec’s mistress Ha Tu. In his quest, Yann encounters a cast of colorful characters: a former war correspondent, a beguiling nightclub hostess, and his own enigmatic comprador. When a possible lead winds up dead, Yann and Souên the hostess team up to untangle a web of lies and cover-ups that only leads them deeper into the politics and history of a troubled nation.
Acte 2
Oxana still hasn’t recovered her memory, but she’s found so much more! Friends and a dream: to become a dancer in the prestigious Grand Theater company. Meanwhile the school director, Mr. Aster, with assistance from the treacherous Ludwig, will stop at nothing to get his hands on the mysterious medallion that is the key to Oxana’s enigmatic past. Fortunately, Oxana can count on the support of Aria and Mrs. Iris, and also the man in white, whose identity has yet to be revealed…
Les Courriers du désert
1924, near Paris. Josef has settled down with Adèle… but still dreams of flying. Yet even with his new pilot’s license, he lacks the experience that will make the airlines take him seriously. Bored and frustrated, he accepts a job with a flying circus, standing in for an injured pilot. Though extremely dangerous, and despite Adèle’s objections, he sees this as a chance to rack up some flying time—and as a first step toward becoming a professional pilot. His goal is to join the new airmail service run by Latécoère, later to become famous as Aéropostale. Its owner plans to extend the service from Toulouse to Dakar—a project fraught with danger… and excitement!
Le Guide mondial des records
Egg-balancing, hotdog-eating, baton-twirling—these are a few of the records people try to break in order to find themselves included in the World Book of Records. For those who make into the book, Paul Baron, a judge at the publication, is a hero. For others, whose dreams he denies, he’s a villain. After one man’s plan to achieve renown is destroyed, Paul learns that the man may have lost everything else, but he hasn’t lost hope—the hope of joining other record-breakers in the book. But the record the man hopes to break is terrible, and Paul unfortunately has a role in his project.
“The art in this volume crosses the line excellently, between a gorgeously realistically rendered world and the slightly caricatured facial features that we often see in European comics.” Down the Tubes
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June l’infiniment bon
Life is good again for Lenny June, legal attaché to the Terran delegation on the developing planet of Mayam. After all, he’s bested his scheming former boss the ambassador, ditched an intergalactic cartel’s deadly hit woman out in the forbidden wastelands, and gotten away with the priceless relic they were all after: the ancient head of a dead god. But then… who is trying to kill him? Why did the diplomatic core decide not to promote him, and instead, send out a new ambassador… with Lenny’s fiancée? And could it be that head isn’t actually as dead as he thought?
