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Doubt. Noise. Addiction.

by Richella de Vries ...

Doubt. Noise. Addiction is a literary fiction short story indicating the ethical dilemmas around a new gene therapy, CRISPR. It follows the story of a clinical researcher, Rose. The story shows the thin line between good and bad, right and wrong and how vulnerable people actually can be. Step into Rose's world, her thoughts and her actions and experience how the future can change so rapidly. ... Read more

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Doubt. Noise. Addiction is a literary fiction short story indicating the ethical dilemmas around a new gene therapy, CRISPR. It follows the story of a clinical researcher, Rose. The story shows the thin line between good and bad, right and wrong and how vulnerable people actually can be. Step into Rose's world, her thoughts and her actions and experience how the future can change so rapidly.
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Surrender on Demand

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by Nadia de Vries ...

Translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey ...

"Get ready to fall in love with De Vries's playful pen and unrelenting view of mankind. Surrender on Demand is gorgeous and strange and somehow familiarly human, Dickens in a sharp modern jacket." --Yael van der Wouden, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The SafekeepA biting tale about class and destiny from the Netherlands--told through an endearing antihero named Shellfish.We all went to the ... Read more

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"Get ready to fall in love with De Vries's playful pen and unrelenting view of mankind. Surrender on Demand is gorgeous and strange and somehow familiarly human, Dickens in a sharp modern jacket." --Yael van der Wouden, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The SafekeepA biting tale about class and destiny from the Netherlands--told through an endearing antihero named Shellfish.We all went to the
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Without a Stitch in Time

A Selection of the Best Humorous Short Pieces

by Peter De Vries ...

"The range of his performance is hard to equal. . . . De Vries produces something that is more than brilliant entertainment." — New York TimesHarking from the golden age of fiction set in American suburbia—the school of John Updike and Cheever—this work from the great American humorist Peter De Vries looks with laughter upon its lawns, its cocktails, and its slightly unreal feeling of comfort. ... Read more

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"The range of his performance is hard to equal. . . . De Vries produces something that is more than brilliant entertainment." — New York TimesHarking from the golden age of fiction set in American suburbia—the school of John Updike and Cheever—this work from the great American humorist Peter De Vries looks with laughter upon its lawns, its cocktails, and its slightly unreal feeling of comfort.
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Big City Bees

by Maggie de Vries ...

Illustrated by Renne Benoit ...

Vivid writing and luminous art combine to tell a modern story that introduces young readers to the wonders of bees For city kids like Sophie and Matthew, growing pumpkins is a big thrill.But they're worried. They know they need bees to make their pumpkins grow. But will the bees find their garden? Are there even bees in the city?So one day, Grandpa and the children set out to look for bees. They ... Read more

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Vivid writing and luminous art combine to tell a modern story that introduces young readers to the wonders of bees For city kids like Sophie and Matthew, growing pumpkins is a big thrill.But they're worried. They know they need bees to make their pumpkins grow. But will the bees find their garden? Are there even bees in the city?So one day, Grandpa and the children set out to look for bees. They
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To the Ends of the Earth

Mary Gaunt, Pioneer Traveller

by Susanna de Vries ...

Travel writer, explorer and novelist.'Gaunts never give up', the motto of Mary's ancestor, Prince John of Gaunt (1340-1399) was quoted by Mary's father, William Gaunt, to his children.In the 1880s, Mary Gaunt was one of the first women admitted to Melbourne University. Miss Gaunt's desire to study law was denied since male academics believed women incapable of studying 'difficult' subjects. In ... Read more

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Travel writer, explorer and novelist.'Gaunts never give up', the motto of Mary's ancestor, Prince John of Gaunt (1340-1399) was quoted by Mary's father, William Gaunt, to his children.In the 1880s, Mary Gaunt was one of the first women admitted to Melbourne University. Miss Gaunt's desire to study law was denied since male academics believed women incapable of studying 'difficult' subjects. In
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Hedge-Rider: Witches and the Underworld

by Eric De Vries ...

Hedgerider: Witches and the Underworld is a re-interpretation of (Hedge-)Witchery. Drawing from an extensive historical, folkloric and mythological body it re-attributes and re-defines Witchery as a Heathen Cult centred around the journey to the Underworld and contact with the Unseen. With the insights into Cosmology, Philosophy and Practice this book provides a working body of Heathen Witch-lore, ... Read more

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Hedgerider: Witches and the Underworld is a re-interpretation of (Hedge-)Witchery. Drawing from an extensive historical, folkloric and mythological body it re-attributes and re-defines Witchery as a Heathen Cult centred around the journey to the Underworld and contact with the Unseen. With the insights into Cosmology, Philosophy and Practice this book provides a working body of Heathen Witch-lore,
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Rabbit Ears

by Maggie De Vries ...

Kaya is adopted, multiracial, grieving the death of her father—and carrying a painful secret. Feeling ill at ease with her family and in her own skin, she runs away repeatedly, gradually disappearing into a life of addiction and sex work. Meanwhile, her sister, Beth, escapes her own troubles with food and a rediscovered talent for magic tricks. Though both girls struggle through darkness and pain, ... Read more

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Kaya is adopted, multiracial, grieving the death of her father—and carrying a painful secret. Feeling ill at ease with her family and in her own skin, she runs away repeatedly, gradually disappearing into a life of addiction and sex work. Meanwhile, her sister, Beth, escapes her own troubles with food and a rediscovered talent for magic tricks. Though both girls struggle through darkness and pain,
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Slouching Towards Kalamazoo

A Novel

by Peter De Vries, Derek De Vries ...

Series series Phoenix Fiction
The classic American coming of age novel of a precocious young man and the lessons learned from his tutor by "a masterly entertainer and social satirist" ( The New York Times).It is 1963 in an unnamed town in North Dakota, and Anthony Thrasher is languishing for a second year in eighth grade. Prematurely sophisticated, young Anthony spends too much time reading Joyce, Eliot, and Dylan Thomas but ... Read more

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The classic American coming of age novel of a precocious young man and the lessons learned from his tutor by "a masterly entertainer and social satirist" ( The New York Times).It is 1963 in an unnamed town in North Dakota, and Anthony Thrasher is languishing for a second year in eighth grade. Prematurely sophisticated, young Anthony spends too much time reading Joyce, Eliot, and Dylan Thomas but
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Shine

An Anthology of Optimistic Science Fiction

by Jetse De Vries ...

A collection of near-future, optimistic SF stories where some of the genre's brightest stars and most exciting new talents portray the possible roads to a better tomorrow.Shine shows that positive change is far from being a foregone conclusion, but needs to be hard fought, innovative, robust and imaginative. Let's make our tomorrows Shine.Featuring orginal stories by Alastair Reynolds, Kay Kenyon, ... Read more

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A collection of near-future, optimistic SF stories where some of the genre's brightest stars and most exciting new talents portray the possible roads to a better tomorrow.Shine shows that positive change is far from being a foregone conclusion, but needs to be hard fought, innovative, robust and imaginative. Let's make our tomorrows Shine.Featuring orginal stories by Alastair Reynolds, Kay Kenyon,
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Reuben, Reuben

A Novel

by Peter De Vries ...

Suburban absurdity meets good old American despair in this acclaimed novel by "the funniest serious writer to be found on either side of the Atlantic" (Kingsley Amis).Harking from the golden age of fiction set in American suburbia—the school of John Updike and Cheever—this work from the great American humorist Peter De Vries looks with laughter upon its lawns, its cocktails, and its slightly ... Read more

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Suburban absurdity meets good old American despair in this acclaimed novel by "the funniest serious writer to be found on either side of the Atlantic" (Kingsley Amis).Harking from the golden age of fiction set in American suburbia—the school of John Updike and Cheever—this work from the great American humorist Peter De Vries looks with laughter upon its lawns, its cocktails, and its slightly
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The Cat's Pajamas and Witch's Milk

by Peter De Vries ...

Twin tales of middle-class hilarity and despair from the writer who was dubbed "America's preeminent comic novelist" by the New York TimesWhen college professor Hank Tattersall sees his former flame, Lucy Stiles, at a campus concert, it sets off a chain reaction that results in one of the funniest and most unforgettable exit scenes in American literature—involving a locked door, an alcoholic dog, ... Read more

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Twin tales of middle-class hilarity and despair from the writer who was dubbed "America's preeminent comic novelist" by the New York TimesWhen college professor Hank Tattersall sees his former flame, Lucy Stiles, at a campus concert, it sets off a chain reaction that results in one of the funniest and most unforgettable exit scenes in American literature—involving a locked door, an alcoholic dog,
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Eye of the Firestorm

The Namibian - Angolan - South African Border War - Memoirs of a Military Commander

by Roland de Vries ...

For his exploits and astuteness, Roland de Vries has rightfully been called the ‘Rommel of the SADF’. In this forthright, warts-and-all but compassionate autobiography he recounts the fascinating story of the transformation of a small, colonial army into, pound-for-pound, the best fighting force on the planet."Eye of the Firestorm" could be used to enhance the teaching within the military, ... Read more

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For his exploits and astuteness, Roland de Vries has rightfully been called the ‘Rommel of the SADF’. In this forthright, warts-and-all but compassionate autobiography he recounts the fascinating story of the transformation of a small, colonial army into, pound-for-pound, the best fighting force on the planet."Eye of the Firestorm" could be used to enhance the teaching within the military,
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