De Montaigne: 117 books

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.

Anurag de Bouchard is on a mission. He's waited half his lifetime for this moment. At last he can light the beacon that will spread the news across the whole of Aquanus: The Apprentice has come. All across the vast, dangerous waters of that ocean world, thousands of revolutionaries are...

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....

He's a thirty-fifth-century hippie named Random Chance. He lives in a spacegoing RV that looks like a sea turtle. He loves ancient rock n' roll music. He christened his ship The Pompatus of Love. The deep space between the planets of the solar system is his home. He's got friends, most...

I've written free-verse poetry off and on my entire life. In 2004, my partner shared a download of UltraFractal 3 with me, and since then I've regularly created fractals as well. I've got well over five hundred now; this volume features twenty-four of my favorites. Often while creating fractals I'm...

For too long I accepted the herd’s definition of perfection. For too long I ate quickly, and the food wasn’t real. For too long I ignored the call out my window. I was trying to be just like everyone else, after all.

From the 100-part Penguin Great Ideas series comes a rumination on relationships, courtesy of one of the most influential French Renaissance philosophers.   Michel de Montaigne was the originator of the modern essay form; in these diverse pieces he expresses his views on friendship, contemplates...

Otoro Queril is feared by his fellow Tracluse. As an executioner for Necrolius Anaxagorius' Imperium, it's Otoro's job to kill those poor souls brought to his chopping block, and to do it as efficiently and quickly as possible. No one in the Imperium does it better. Otoro Queril does not tire....

What came first, the shadow or the leaf it falls upon, the sunlight or the pain? Painted yellow, what calls, and what echoes, and what cries through the valley; And what strains the surface of things when joy surges and the depths reach up, and the wet sand dries and blows unseen to the dune ... And what settles over my head, misty and mysterious, indivisibly fine ...

How to push on? I don’t really know. Like her, the world wishes me gone. There is so much work yet. I pound the keys with one hand, the other thrust up, middle finger extended. She reproves me, but I know deep down she feels the same way. I can feel it. Momentum and energy.