Montaigne: 135 books

Queen Walmar Seburbia is determined to kill six heroes she has foreseen can destroy her. Three are in one universe; three are in another. Her weapon is a powerful Vortex Cannon, and her ammunition is none other than the Muse itself, who goes by the name Zappee. She has weaponized Zappee, filling the...

The adventure begins ... Included in this download are the first three novels of Melody and the Pier to Forever: MELODY AND THE PIER TO FOREVER: BOOK ONE Melody Singleton is a bright 13-year-old girl who loves math, classical music, her mom, her best friend Yaeko, and her dog....

The Imaginariverse, the source of all imagination in the Multiverse, has been taken over by an evil queen named Walmar Seburbia. Her plan? To destroy six potential heroes in two different universes who could thwart her intention to rule forever. She traps the Conductor of Dreams, the spark...

The search for one's calling takes great patience and courage. Choosing that calling, once it becomes apparent, takes even more. Pursuing a calling is a deadly enterprise, for it will inevitably claim one's life. It allows for no other choice. Rejected and abused by her parents, Elizabeth...

Looking past the end of one’s nose is very difficult. The rules are set up to punish those who do. In every moment, the chance to choose. If I never hear the cries, or see the suffering, did they really happen? If I turn my back, does the sun ever really set? If I live in that infinitely circumscribed realm forever, have I really lived at all?

A dramatic chronicle of Antarctica's penguins that bears witness to climate changes that foreshadow our own future The towering mountains and iceberg-filled seas of the western Antarctic Peninsula have for three decades formed the backdrop of scientist Bill Fraser's study of Adélie penguins....

Les animaux parlent tout comme l'homme. Montaigne confère à la communication animale une pleine valeur de langage : « Qu'est-ce autre chose que parler, cette faculté que nous leur voyons de se plaindre, de se réjouir, de s'entr'appeler au secours, se convier à l'amour, comme ils font par l'usage de leur voix ? »

The Essays of Michel de Montaigne are contained in three books and 107 chapters of varying length. They were originally written in Middle French and were originally published in the Kingdom of France.

In the summer of 1996, award-winning journalist Fen Montaigne embarked on a hundred-day, seven-thousand-mile journey across Russia. Traveling with his fly rod, he began his trek in northwestern Russia on the Solovetsky Islands, a remote archipelago that was the birthplace of Stalin's gulag. He ended...

Les Essais sont l'oeuvre majeure de Michel de Montaigne, à laquelle il consacre un labeur d'écriture et de réécriture à partir de 1572 continué pratiquement jusqu'à sa mort.

The city comes and goes slowly and haltingly. The trolley seems in no particular hurry: it’s like a great earthworm creeping over saturated soil, stopping to inspect morsels of rotting food. The stops aren’t identical, but they may as well be. The people aren’t identical, either. But they, too,...

"The unexamined life is not worth living." So said Socrates, or so the legend goes. Well, he was right. In these short essays, I look at the big L, Life. Since no one lives in a vacuum, there is much inside these pages for everyone, from health and happiness to pursuing one's...

Obituaries and funerals are always the same. It does not matter if the deceased was a great man or a monster; those eulogizing him will proclaim the same thing: that he was an awesome guy, a loving father, and a valued member of the community. Few people question any of it, especially surviving relatives....

"À treize ans que je sortis du collège, j'avais achevé mon cours (comme ils l'appellent), et à la vérité sans aucun fruit que je pusse à présent mettre en compte.)" Publié pour la première fois en 1580, De l'institution des enfants est l'un des textes les plus célèbres des Essais....