Michel Michel: 4109 books

In the final years of the American Civil War, a young farm girl finds her world torn apart when a vicious attack leaves her homeless and orphaned. Donning the uniform of a Confederate soldier, she joins the army, posing as a man, in hopes of locating the raiders who killed her parents. Now living...

Michel Faber's short stories are markedly diverse-the voice of each is so distinct that the book reads like an anthology of different writers. But Faber's radically inventive style fastens all fifteen stories into a compelling collection deserving of the high praise it garnered in the United Kingdom....

From The New York Times best-selling author of The Crimson Petal and the White, Michel Faber’s The Fire Gospel is a wickedly funny, acid-tongued, media-savvy picaresque that delves into our sensationalist culture. Theo Griepenkerl, a Canadian linguistics scholar, is sent to Iraq in search of artifacts...

Deft and lyrical, this paperback edition of Michel Faber's collection of stories is his first since his auspicious debut, Some Rain Must Fall. It has sealed his reputation as one of Britain's most daring and original authors. Acclaimed for his pitch-perfect prose and brilliant characterisation, Faber...

What do you get when a nineteenth century spiritualist corpse and a zombie fanatic walk into a psychiatric hospital? A zombie movie marathon!Zombie Zeitgeist is a collection of twelve short works of fiction that take the reader on a unique and twisted ride through the zombie apocalypse. Focusing...

Nous livrons des bruits récoltés en passant au tamis la clameur du monde. Bruits de l’enfance, bruits de la vie, bruits de la mort, bruits des pas, bruits des rêves, bruits des langues, bruits du désir, bruits du silence, bruits du soleil… Voix fragiles, peuplées de rivières, de vies cheminant...

Quatre nouvelles signées du " maître du trompe-l'œil " : T'en souviens-tu, mon Anaïs?, L'Armoire normande, Vie de grenier, Une fugue au paradis. Voilà treize jours qu'Ariane a posé ses valises dans cette villa de la Côte d'Albâtre. Pour elle et sa fille de trois ans, une nouvelle...

In this book a gathering of exceptional thinkers from the sciences and the humanities engage a common theme: In what ways do language, and storytelling in particular, deal with ethics in science, in literature, or in other art forms? Evelyn Fox Keller, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Mieke Bal, and Roald Hoffmann...

The Essays of Montaigne, Complete by Michel de Montaigne.

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.

Après le succès remporté par le recueil de nouvelles « Crimes à la librairie », le directeur de la publication, Richard Migneault, comme un criminel non repenti, récidive. Il a invité dix-sept autres auteurs à investir un lieu de culture, de lecture et de recherche différent, pour y mettre...