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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

    $20.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $9.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When The Waves Break The Silence

    by M Lanen-de Vries ...
    When the body of a man is found on shore in the waters of Luing, Scotland, there is no-one to claim the body. Nobody seems to miss or have missed the man at all, even though his name is given out by the authorities. The only thing that’s claimed is the boat he’s found in, which leads to the local fishermen to have an old fight being refaught.It's not until Lily Cochrane, aspiring new journalist, ... Read more

    $20.01 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Link in the Chain

    by Judic Wynberg-de Vries ...
    The Link in the Chain chronicles the survival of a young Dutch Jewish family through the Nazi occupation of Holland from 1940 to 1945. But it is also a love story. Just days before the Germans invaded, 19-year-old Judic de Vries married Bram Wynberg, the love of her life. Together they spent the next four years in hiding, making countless life-and-death decisions, separated from their families and ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $34.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Vale of Laughter

    A Novel

    by Peter De Vries ...
    A brilliant, fiercely funny novel that ponders the eternal question: is it better to laugh or cry?Joe Sandwich is a clown. Not literally, but what else do you call an eleven-year-old who goes to church to confess his good deeds: "I did my homework without being told"? A stockbroker who gets seasick watching the market tape and claims the gross national product is "deodorants"? A father who mows ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus