Marguerite: 486 books

Book cover of A Lexicon of Terror

A Lexicon of Terror

Argentina and the Legacies of Torture, Revised and Updated with a New Epilogue

by Marguerite Feitlowitz
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011

Tanks roaring over farmlands, pregnant women tortured, 30,000 individuals "disappeared"--these were the horrors of Argentina's Dirty War. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year and Finalist for the L.L. Winship / PEN New England Award in 1998, A Lexicon of Terror is a sensitive and unflinching...
Book cover of Water Is Thicker than Blood

Water Is Thicker than Blood

An Augustinian Theology of Marriage and Singlehood

by Jana Marguerite Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008

This book considers how homes, households, and domestic life are related to the Church. Early theologies glorified the monastic lifestyle as a way to transcend earthly attachments in favor of supernatural goods. Contemporary thinkers have seen that functioning marriages and families themselves can...
Book cover of Free to Leave, Free to Stay

Free to Leave, Free to Stay

Fruits of the Spirit and Church Choice

by Jana Marguerite Bennett, Melissa Musick Nussbaum
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009

Our known world, the world of twenty-first century Americans, is shaped and defined by consumer choice. The premise of consumer choice is that somewhere the perfect fit between product and purchaser exists. In the books on changing traditions the consumerist tone prevails--fundamentalists looking...
Book cover of Le scommesse sono chiuse
by Marguerite Labbe
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 25, 2014

Basta una sola notte con Ash Gallagher perché Eli Hollister si convinca di aver finalmente trovato l’uomo giusto al momento giusto; fortuna che non ci ha scommesso sopra, perché Ash si rivela uno studente della sua classe al college locale. Eli non può negare la sua attrazione, ma adesso le cose...
Book cover of De la ville au moulin
by Marguerite Audoux
Language: French
Release Date: February 8, 2016

Book cover of Souvenirs
by Marguerite Audoux
Language: French
Release Date: February 8, 2016

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Marie-Claire

( Edition intégrale )

by Marguerite Audoux
Language: French
Release Date: April 4, 2018

À la mort de sa mère, la petite Marie-Claire, âgée de cinq ans, est placée à l'Assistance publique, séparée brutalement de sa soeur et d'un père alcoolique. Monde clos, cet orphelinat est dirigé par d'austères religieuses. Marie-Claire se réfugie souvent dans le giron de soeur Marie-Aimée,...
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Valserine

et autres nouvelles ( Edition intégrale )

by Marguerite Audoux
Language: French
Release Date: April 4, 2018

Valserine « Avant même que le jour ne fût levé, Valserine ouvrit toute grande la fenêtre, comme les matins où elle attendait le retour de son père. Elle savait bien pourtant qu’il ne viendrait pas, ce matin-là, puisque les gendarmes l’avaient emmené en prison la veille ; mais elle ne...
Book cover of Les trois pommes d’or
by Marguerite Maillet
Language: French
Release Date: June 23, 2011

Chaque année, le pommier d’un pauvre homme produit trois pommes d’or ; et chaque année, ces trois pommes sont volées. L’un après l’autre, les trois fils du pauvre homme tentent de percer ce mystère. Un renard propose à P’tit-Jean de l’aider dans sa quête ? P’tit-Jean fera-t-il confiance à ce fieffé rusé ? Trouvera-t-il la vérité ?
Book cover of Le poney et les enfants
by Marguerite Maillet
Language: French
Release Date: June 20, 2011

Des parents pauvres achètent un poney pour que leurs deux enfants n’aient pas à marcher jusqu’à l’école, qui se trouve loin de chez eux. Un jour, le petit garçon selle le poney, et tous deux s’enfoncent dans le bois, où ils rencontrent un dangereux lion. Reviendront-ils sains et saufs à la maison ?
Book cover of Haïti. De la dictature à la démocratie?
by Étienne Tassin, Bérard Cénatus, Stéphane Douailler
Language: French
Release Date: February 16, 2016

Quels moyens l’État haïtien s’est-il donné de rendre justice et de surmonter les séquelles de la dictature? Rassemblés en 2014 pour en débattre, chercheurs et militants de tous les milieux (sciences politiques, philosophie, droit, anthropologie…) en discutent collectivement, librement,...
Book cover of Integrity and the Fragile Self
by Damian Cox, Marguerite La Caze, Michael P. Levine
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018

This title was first published in 2003. What does it take to be a person of integrity? Could those who commit morally horrendous acts be persons of integrity? Is personal integrity compatible with the kinds of ambivalence and self-doubt characteristic of fragile selves and ordinary lives? This text...
Book cover of Pandora
by Marguerite Labbe
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017

Haunted by the screams of the men he murdered, ex-Marine medic Riff Khora is serving a life sentence on board a prison ship. Seeking more punishment for his crime, he strikes a deal with the corrupt Captain Vidal—an exchange of pleasure and pain—and forges a new life leading the team that surveys...
Book cover of Schimmenspel

Schimmenspel

kroniek van een Zuid-Afrikaanse missiepost

by Marguerite Poland
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 3, 2015

Zuid-Afrika, 1898. De anglicaanse pastor Walter Brownley arriveert in St. Matthias, een missiepost aan de Oostkaap. Vol twijfels over zijn roeping heeft hij Engeland verlaten, maar op St. Matthias lijkt hij zijn bestemming gevonden te hebben. Charles Farborough, de missiepriester, is een zachtaardig...
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