Popular science writer Marion Montaigne brings us a year in the life of astronaut Thomas Pesquet. For twelve months, Montaigne followed the day-to-day to life of the French astronaut, who in 2008 became one of the lucky few selected -from among 8,000 hopefuls – to take part in the European Space Agency’s human spaceflight program. Taking us from NASA’s training center in Houston and Star City in Moscow, to the site where Soyuz rockets are launched in Baikonur (Kazakhstan), this is an entertaining and meticulously detailed account of life as a modern astronaut which also reflects on the bigger picture of human space exploration

Undertaker Jonas Crow is the most sought-after criminal in the West, despised for the massacre he was responsible for during the Civil War. As his associate, he takes on the young and puritanical English girl, Rose Prairie, who is accompanied by Lin, her housemaid. Together the trio sets off on a journey across the country, running into plenty of gruesome adventures along the way.

On the night of March the 2nd, 1953, Joseph Stalin, the Nation’s Father, the man who reigned as the absolute master of all Russians, had a stroke. He was announced dead two days later. Two days of fierce infighting for the supreme power, two days that sum up all the insanity, depravity and inhumanity of totalitarianism. Based on real events, Fabien Nury and Thierry Robin have created a dazzling book, with devastating and cruel humor and a gripping portrait of a dictatorship plunged into madness. A fascinating and well-researched graphic novel about the USSR under Stalin.

He’s got a yellow shirt and a red neckerchief, unruly locks and a sprig of grass in his mouth. He maintains law and order at the Nothing Gulch School, and he runs faster than his shadow as soon as there’s even the slightest hint of chores to be done. It’s Kid Lucky, a young cowboy knee-high to a grasshopper, always ready to discover the customs of the Wild West, and, most of all, to muck about with his buddies. This is the birth of a legend: the greatest (but still quite small) cowboy of the Wild West!

After a final epic battle, Kriss of Valnor is left for dead by the soldiers of the Empire.  However, she awakens, miraculously unharmed, in a room that is as enormous as it is strange.  She has been gathered in by the Valkyries, the legendary female warriors who conduct the souls of dead soldiers to Valhalla.  Before deciding the fate of such an unusual warrior as Kriss, the Valkyries must first judge her.  In order to save her mortal life, Kriss must tell her story to the Valkyries.  She must reveal everything about her horrifying childhood; her fierce battle for survival; and her very first murders….

“The Old Geezers” tells the story of three septuagenarians who have been friends since childhood: Antoine, Emile, and Pierrot. They have each taken different paths in life, made different choices, and started (or not) their own families. The series moves back and forth between the 50s and the present day, telling the tragic-comic tale of our time, with all of its social, political, and cultural upheavals.

Today, Katanga is a province of Congo. Here is a key moment in its turbulent history… In 1960, after 80 years spent under Belgian colonial rule, Congo declares independence. Less than two weeks later, the rich mining province of Katanga secedes. According to rumors, this secession was long anticipated by the Upper Katanga Mining Union, a Belgian company that supports and funds the Tshombe government of Katanga. Immediately after the secession, Congo and Katanga enter into a war for the dominance of mining territories, including the diamond province, Kasai. The war is followed by many civilian massacres and exoduses. The UN then intervenes and sends peacekeepers to the area, and at the same time, a ruthless horde of mercenaries are recruited and sent there to liberate occupied areas. A black servant, Charlie, changes his own fate drastically by getting his hands on a priceless treasure; $ 30 million in diamonds! Making him the most wanted black man in Katanga…

Five points of a black cotton star: one for Johanna Bolton, a student at St. Augustine’s College during World War II who would rather advance the black cause than go out to a party on a Friday night. Two for Angela Brown, who wrote a diary at the dawn of the American experiment that conceals a great secret. Three, four, and five for Johanna’s brother, Lincoln, and his two friends, sitting around at a ghost base somewhere in England, itching to fight real Nazis and prove their worth as soldiers and citizens, to their country, and the entire world…

“50 Shades of Greece” restages some of the most famous myths from Ancient Greece in the present‐day world: Zeus goes to see his lawyer to negotiate his child support payments, Icarus launches his own low‐cost airline, and Pan is investigated for his connections with a pimp… Rediscover Olympus under a new light, through our common heritage. With their clever eye and mischievous humor, Jul and Pépin bring our mythological legacy to life in a sharp and funny encyclopedia that reveals just as much about our present as our past!

This is a cruel and startling tale. In the springtime fields lies a little girl, unmoving. Is she dead? Who killed her? We’ll never know. Around her, a tiny community appears, as if they’d just stepped out of a fairytale. There’s Aurore, the Proud Woman, the Regressive Woman, the Adventurer and Prince Did-you-see me… The seasons pass and Aurore, the demi-princess, still struggles for the survival of her little world. She wants it to be the most marvelous world, right up until that winter day, when she’ll have a bitter choice to make… This is a new edition with additional material from this international bestselling graphic novel, already translated into 12 languages.

The principle of Reporter is simple: we follow a young French journalist sent all over the world to report on events that have marked contemporary history. In the first volume, he is sent to the United States in 1966 to document the movements of the civil rights of African Americans. He follows the march of Selma and witnesses the assassination of Malcolm X. The story mixes contemporary history, journalism and adventure in a novel form with a recurrent and likeable hero.