A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape but the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.

The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,” are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.

Chic! It’s a great beach day for Ana Ana and the doudous! Tanning, swimming and beach games are on the agenda! But Fluffy finds the environment hostile: the sand is hot, the sun is blinding, the water is cold and there are too many insects in the tall grass. He’s decided he wants to go home. Fortunately, he can count on his cuddly friends to make his life easier and help him enjoy the beach.

The award winning, long-running international hit follows the hilarious adventures of the iconic spies Sam, Clover, and Alex, three Beverly Hills girls who were hired as secret agents by WOOHP (the World Organization of Human Protection). These spies with attitude balance life at school with international espionage, juggling top-secret missions all over the world with school classes.

Saving mankind from a dastrardly arch villain and passing that impossible algebra exam… it’s all in a day’s work for the super spies! They confront global rude behaviour wherever they find it and yet still make the prom on time!

Totally Spies has enjoyed global success and been broadcasted in over 190 countries.

School is more than ever at the center of all moral and political concerns: it starts with two frogs who intend to separate boys and girls. It continues with the Minister of Education imposing a return to full mornings of dictation seven days a week… Ducobu will need all his ingenuity to continue lazing around happily with his favorite nerdy classmate!

The first-hand experience, told with biting humor, of two tyrannies—one political, the other parental—in Algeria between 1970 and 2000. Salim Zerrouki grew up in Algiers, in an unusual building within the complex built for the 1975 Mediterranean Games. At the time, Algeria was to all intents and purposes a dictatorship, and the Games were seen as an opportunity to display the country’s achievements to the rest of the world. The ultimate in modernity, the complex was designed by the internationally renowned Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, who made it a personal rather than national statement.

In the story of his upbringing, which he tells with honesty, humility, and humor, the building in which Salim was born becomes a character in its own right, and his memories of childhood and adolescence combine to paint a personal, political, and spiritual portrait of a little-known and terrifying chapter in Algeria’s history.

A tough but touching and always amusing tale. A rare glimpse into a forgotten world.

The Larzac plateau in south-west France was the scene of a disturbance that began in 1971 and eventually involved tens of thousands of people. The reason for it was a government plan to evict local farmers in order to extend a nearby military camp—a plan that sparked a decade-long protest by people of all kinds throughout France.

Victory for the protesters in 1981 did not, however, put an end to their activism: for the next 30 years, a militant group fought for the redistribution of the land as well as forming an agricultural union and setting up networks to protect farmers—an early anti-globalization movement.

Thanks to this latterday “peasant revolt,” the Larzac plateau became a symbol of resistance that inspired several other movements and continues to resonate today in the context of the struggles for environmental protection, for rural regeneration, for “quick fix” farming techniques, and for organic food production.

After centuries of obscurantism and persecution, witches are making a loud and largely positive return to society. Witches find themselves at the heart of today’s most pressing debates, led by various ecological and feminist figures and movements. Just what is it, though, that makes a contemporary woman become, and freely identify herself as, a witch?

Eva Roussel takes us on a walk down her own path to sorcery.

The incredible story of Carlitos Moreno Rodriguez, who rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most powerful men in Barcelona in the 1960s. The prominent owner of a string of bars, the biggest printing works in Catalonia, and the highly influential daily newspaper “El Publico” was secretly involved in drug-trafficking and prostitution.

The backdrop? Barcelona under the repressive dictatorship or General Franco.

Emilie, a young Parisian actress, goes to her grandparents’ house for a weekend-long family party. Little does she know that her uncle, convicted of incest a few years earlier, is also invited. Despite the claustrophobic atmosphere, Emilie must confront her family members and force them to make a choice. Who do they want to keep by their side? The victim or the executioner?

Yuan is a Chinese truck driver who brings coal to illegal open-pit mines. He then travels far and wide to deliver his coal, hoping each time to get a better price. Yuan works with Wei, his “fixer,” who haggles with potential buyers. But one day Wei decides to kill Yuan in an attempt to steal his truck. Yuan miraculously survives, and now has only goal: to get his truck back. Without it, he has no job and no money, only shame in his wife’s and daughter’s eyes. “Les Âmes Noires” (Dark Souls) is a social thriller with an atmosphere reminiscent of the documentaries of filmmaker Wang Bing .

What builds an individual? His memories? The memories he has? The good times of the past? The bad? The adults we grew up with?

With total honesty, Gwen de Bonneval sets out to meet Gwen de Bonneval, to rediscover a childhood that wasn’t all that happy. With a moody, violent mother, an absent father and the crushing figure of a grandfather.

But the author of Dernier Atlas and Messire Guillaume is also a man of today and tomorrow, as he explores his present as a young father and the future of the world, which he sees as ecologically bleak.

An illustrated guide for parents with teenage daughters that openly addresses the issues they face. Drawing on a wide variety of data and testimonies on adolescent problems, Marie Dubois creates imagined conversations around sexuality and attitudes towards the body with both empathy and humor.

At last, Lucius Murena has returned to the palace. His memory is fragile still, but the drugs Lemuria had been administering are gradually fading, as are Nero’s doubts about his friend’s involvement in the plot against him. The secrecy surrounding the identity of the Hydra, that most formidable warrior, nonetheless unnerves the emperor, who is plagued by increasingly frequent delusions that are slowly driving him to the brink of madness. As Nero’s grip on reality wavers, he offers Tigellinus, his ambitious henchman, full powers.

San Francisco, 1967. Kim, a young detective fresh out of police academy, teams up with Ulysses Ford, a jaded cop at the end of his career, and finds herself investigating a series of brutal murders connected with satanism, as the two of them plunge into a maelstrom of black masses and satanic rites… A thriller loosely based on the story of Anton LaVey, the controversial Frisco citizen who founded the Church of Satan, that reveals the Summer of Love also to have been a “summer of hate.”

A love story between two schoolkids, Kyonosuke and Akira, in a little village in the Japanese countryside. Kyonosuke has had a skin graft to his face, leaving it permanently scarred, and has to put up with constant bullying, while Akira, his classmate, is beaten by her father for saying she wants to be a girl. When they meet and fall in love, they decide to escape their toxic environments. But are they strong enough to accept each other, and themselves, as they are?

You can learn to be stupid and nasty! There’s even a school for it. A school where all the values we know in our human world are reversed: it’s forbidden to raise your finger in response, to study at home at night or to arrive at school on time. The little monsters who attend this school take full advantage of this situation, except Boloss, an intelligent, delicate and sensitive little monster, who just can’t abide by these rules, which seem a little unnatural to him. He would so much like to be a good boy and learn to read and write…

London in the early 20th century. Fascinated by history and the natural sciences, teenager Anna persuades her step-father, a famous archeologist, to take her with him on his latest mission—to Belize. As he looks for a lost Mayan temple, she discovers a country with an excitingly different culture; and, with the help of Tikal, a young Belizean, she tries to foil the plans of a group of antiquities traffickers.

In the first great adventure of her life, Anna must search within herself for reserves of courage, resourcefulness, and humility. Is the expedition in fact nothing other than a journey of self-discovery?

Sven is the son of a Viking navigator. Tanka is the son of a Native American chief. Since the family of one has built its village on the American lands of the other, cultures have collided! But not for Sven and Tanka, who understand each other from the moment they meet. Together, they discover their differences, the wilderness and even the spirits of nature.

In Victorian Britain, Christopher lives with his father and little sister Mary in a country village. When his mother dies giving birth to Mary, and his sister is carried off into the night by a terrifying creature, Christopher must summon all his courage to try to save her. With the help of Morrigan, the local madwoman, he sets out to find Mary and together they journey down into to the Kingdom Beyond, a supernatural world inhabited by the souls of the dead… There, everything is strange and frightening, and Christopher must overcome his fears, acquire new skills, make new friends, and learn about love, trust, and what it really means to be brave.

Louise lives a quiet life, mostly alone and busy with her studies. Then, one winter’s day, she meets the woman in the apartment next door—a little old lady with bundles of energy, a constant smile on her lips, and endless stories to tell. Stories of ice skates and woolly scarves, of the power of love and the meaning of flowers, of growing up and learning to ride a bike… Month by month as winter gives way to spring, the two women enjoy sharing their present lives and past memories—memories that become less and less clear…

Camille is eleven years old. He moved to Rennes at the start of spring break. He’s not looking forward to his new school. He’s not looking forward to his new class either. But his new hobby might just change his mind: he’s started growing radishes, noting his observations in a notebook every day… Nature has its share of surprises and beautiful encounters in store for him.

Spring is here, so there’s no question of staying cooped up indoors: the Couzz go for a walk. But when Mamoush and the gang stumble across a lost sheep, the walk quickly turns into an adventure! But don’t panic, the solution is never far away. A passing bookmobile takes them to the nearest farm…

A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape but the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.

The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,” are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.

A Catalan family who fled the Spanish Civil War in 1938 is separated upon arrival in France. The mother and daughter are sent to a camp in Argeles, the father to a camp in Angouleme, from where he is then deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp. In 1975, the daughter, Angelita, is urgently summoned to her mother’s bedside in Barcelona, a city where the latter was never supposed to return after the war. Forty years of family life must be rewritten, as Spain witnesses the last days of the dictatorship (General Franco died in November 1975).Inspired by the family story of the illustrator, Eduard Torrents, and narrated by Denis Lapière(Le Tour de Valse).

The adventures of Elle, the young woman with multiple personalities, may be over, but that doesn’t mean she’s going to leave our lives. In fact, she’ll be inviting herself in them on a daily basis, thanks to this notebook that allows users to record the details of their own lives, wherever their emotions may take them. For we all have something of Elle in ourselves, in that no two days are ever the same… An invitation to write, this Carnet Elles is sure to delight the many fans of the best-selling series.