“Girls, living in the country will be your chance,” her parents tell her. And so Catherine Meurisse spends her childhood outdoors. Construction all around her: an old farmhouse renovated into a home, trees planted, a garden created, dreams cultivated. They dig, they graft, they plant a rosebush “adopted” from Montaigne, a fig tree from Rabelais. They observe the tumult of the outside world: new developments in industrial agriculture, the citification of rural France… With her characteristic humor, Catherine Meurisse has composed a witty poem dedicated to the countryside where her vocation as an artist first took form. The Great Outdoors, like Lightness, her previous album, is a testament to her conviction that nature and art —everything that grows, everything that lives against all opposition— always offer us a chance.
Épisode 3
Roger, Romane’s brother, has been transferred to an Algapower lab in Brazil. Shortly afterwards, his sister, still working for Intelligence, arrives in Rio. Her new mission: to get in touch with her brother and convince him to inform the authorities about the company and its mysterious Mermaid Project. The stakes have changed for the Pennac siblings, though: among the documents retrieved during the New York mission, their names appear on a list of potential test subjects…
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Les Larmes du désert
Lenny June’s got problems. It’s one thing when your boss thinks you’re an idiot, but another when he sends two religious fanatics to murder you. And they’re not the only threat: an interstellar assassin has killed his fiancée, and is running around in her body. What are they all after? Mysterious gemstones known as Eiam’s Tears. Even as Lenny tries to figure out why they’re so valuable, the race is on by land and sea and air to Eiam country, a barren wasteland banned centuries ago after a mythical catastrophe. Still, Lenny has the element of surprise. And a monk who thinks he’s a god…
La Mémémoire
La Délégation terrienne
Lenny June is your average happy-go-lucky expat, out for a good time and a quick buck. And on Tyr Mayam, a technologically backward planet riven by religious rivalries, he has it easy. It helps that he’s quick-witted, handsome, and an exclusive member of the Galactic Confederation’s Terran delegation to a world that’s been declared an ethnologically protected zone for the next 500 years. But Lenny’s life is about to change. For one, his fiancée is due from Earth any day now. And Tyr Mayam, with its doomsday cults and competing sects, has surprises in store, buried deep in ancient history…
Une faim de renard !
Épisode 5
The Stepanerks, those strange aliens who sometimes mingle with Humans, have contacted another, as yet undiscovered, alien species that has been guarding Altair for centuries. Those guardians want to forcefully evict the Humans, who are doing terrible damage to the ecosystem. But Paul, an unwitting “guest” at their meeting, defended Humanity’s right to a second chance. It now falls to him to convince the Human colonial authorities to change everyone’s behaviour…
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Jazz Club
Norman was a talented sax player in his heyday, until he lost his musical gift seemingly overnight and fled to France. Over thirty years later, with the millennium approaching, he finds himself confronting unresolved questions, a former lover, and diehard fans who have taken obsession to a new level…
“Alexandre Clérisse’s Jazz Club is a slight work perhaps, but the bold, colourful painted artwork has a stylish quality that not only fits in very much with its jazz theme and the 60s’ period characteristics of the work, but it also represents other moods that its main character undergoes over the course of 33 years.” The Digital Fix
La Folie Gradlon
Obsessions
Asami is missing. The Tokyo police have their hands full with a serial killer, so two people set out to find her: her boyfriend, aspiring j-horror filmmaker Kotaro, and her new girlfriend, cosplayer Maiko. Trouble is, he thinks she’s shallow, and she thinks he’s a stuck-up bore. The grudging team-up is getting nowhere fast, but neither are Inspector Arakawa and his young protégé Ryohei with their case. Still, Arakawa’s been through enough darkness in his own life to know the city sometimes discloses patterns linking the most disparate events in the unlikeliest of ways. Can he perceive the pattern in time?
