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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

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Non/Normative Faith

    Queering Religious Scripts, Politics, Practices, and Institutions

    Edited by Katharina Wiedlack, Tegiye Birey, Patrick de Vries ...
    Series Book 11 - Queering Paradigms
    This is anthology brings together scholarly studies, creative writing, and images to critically discuss, question, and celebrate spirituality and religion from a queer perspective. The chapters closely analyse religious practices, scriptures, and institutions from a variety of perspectives and disciplines. They discuss religious teaching and care as spaces for queer community, showcasing the many ... Read more

    $86.79 CAD

  • 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

  • Kidnapping Mr. Heineken

    A critically acclaimed international bestseller

    by Peter R de Vries ...
    Translated by Andrew M. Bergman ...
    It was the perfect crime ... until they got away with it. Now available for the first time in English, the prize-winning bestseller that inspired the film starring Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Kwanten and Sam Worthington.The year is 1983. Ronald Reagan is president, Michael Jackson is doing the Moon Walk and The Police's 'Every Breath You Take' is topping the charts. A group of childhood friends decide ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • 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

    $17.59 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

  • 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

  • The Mackerel Plaza

    A Novel

    by Peter De Vries ...
    An irresistible comedy about faith, desire, and middle-class morality from the man described by Kingsley Amis as "the funniest serious writer to be found on either side of the Atlantic"Pity the poor reverend Andrew Mackerel of the People's Liberal Church of Avalon, Connecticut. His is the first split-level church in America, a bastion of modern thought and sophisticated virtue, yet even his ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Positional Therapy in Obstructive Sleep Apnea

    Edited by Nico de Vries, Madeline Ravesloot, J. Peter van Maanen ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is the most prevalent sleep disordered breathing disorder. It has become apparent that in more than half the patients with OSA, the frequency and duration of apneas are influenced by body position. To treat patients with Position Dependent OSA (POSA), positional therapy can be considered for preventing patients from sleeping in the worst sleeping position. Treatment ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • The Blood of the Lamb

    A Novel

    by Peter De Vries ...
    This autobiographical novel of family tragedy by the author of Slouching Towards Kalamazoo "moves deftly from manic hilarity to manic fury, and back again" ( Newsday).The most poignant of Peter De Vries's novels, The Blood of the Lamb is also his most personal. It follows the life of Don Wanderhop from his childhood in an immigrant Calvinist family living in Chicago in the 1950s through the loss ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Persuasive Technology: Development and Implementation of Personalized Technologies to Change Attitudes and Behaviors

    12th International Conference, PERSUASIVE 2017, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 4–6, 2017, Proceedings

    Edited by Peter W. de Vries, Harri Oinas-Kukkonen, Liseth Siemons, Nienke Beerlage-de Jong, Lisette van Gemert-Pijnen ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Persuasive Technology, PERSUASIVE 2017, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in April 2017.The 23 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 85 submissions. The papers are grouped in topical sections on health(care), monitoring, and coaching; personality, personalization, and ... Read more

    $83.29 CAD

  • The Tunnel of Love

    A Novel

    by Peter De Vries ...
    A comic novel of ambition and infidelity in the suburbs by "the funniest serious writer to be found either side of the Atlantic" (Kinglsey Amis).Harking from the golden age of fiction that skewered the middle-class American dream—the school of John Updike and John Cheever—this novel by the author of Slouching Towards Kalamazoo looks with laughter upon the lawns, cocktails, and creature comforts of ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus