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.

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.

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.

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…

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!

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.

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?

Taho-the-Quick, a poacher, has an encounter with the animal totem of his people, the dragon queen, who entrusts him with the dangerous mission of carrying her egg to her dragon brothers up in the mountains. On his journey, Taho-the-Quick will not only have to fight enemies but also join forces with unexpected allies, including the mysterious White Claw, a warrior with unparalleled skills. The survival of the dragon species and that of a whole people will depend on their partnership.

France—the early 21st century. A young student must complete a corporate job shadowing internship. Thanks to a cousin on his father’s side, also of Greek descent, he gets a foot in the door at a famous consulting firm. He will soon discover the true face of office life. The intern’s name: Kevin Plato. From Nietzsche the director of human resources, to Foucault the video-surveillance monitor, to Teresa of Ávila the executive secretary, and many, many more, Plato dives headfirst into the world of work… philosopher style.