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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

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Green Library: 26 Classic Books to Enrich Your Botanical Knowledge

    How to Know the Ferns, Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians, A Synopsis of the British Mosses, Texas Honey Plants, Trees of Indiana, etc.

    by S. Leonard Bastin, Huron H. Smith, Charles C. P. Hobkirk, Henry A. Gleason, Charles Emerson Sanborn, Ernest E. Scholl, Marie Carmichael Stopes, Mrs. Loudon, G. F. Scott Elliot, Charles Clemon Deam, Alphonse de Candolle, Annie Lorrain Smith, Robert H. Mohlenbrock, E. E. Nuuttila, Wilbur R. Mattoon, George D. Fuller, Robert B. Miller, C. B. Webster, Jacob Levison, A. B. Brooks, George Francis Atkinson, Lorin Low Dame, Henry M. Brooks, Edward Step, K. Rangachari, C. Tadulinga Mudaliyar, Hugo de Vries, Daniel Trembly MacDougal, Frances Parsons, Charles Otis, Norman Taylor, Maxwell Masters, Julius Sachs, Isaac Bayley Balfour ...
    The Green Library: 26 Classic Books to Enrich Your Botanical Knowledge is an enlightening collection that traverses the vast terrain of botanical literature, offering readers a kaleidoscope of insights into the world of plants. This anthology brings together an eclectic mix of styles, from descriptive botanical treatises to narrative-rich expeditions into plant life, and showcases the critical ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Go Your Own Way

    Women Travel the World Solo

    Edited by Faith Conlon, Ingrid Emerick, Christina Henry de Tessan ...
    There is nothing quite like hitting the road by yourself to awaken your senses, sharpen your mind, and build your confidence. In twenty-three beautifully crafted essays, women recount the thrills of traveling solo.Despite threat-assessment levels and airport-security hassles, women of all generations are traveling more freely and independently than ever before. In that go-for-it spirit, Go Your ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Tents of Wickedness

    A Novel

    by Peter De Vries ...
    A masterwork of literary parody about a suburban Samaritan and the poet he seeks to inspireAfter the wild adventures of Comfort Me with Apples, Chick Swallow has found domestic peace in Decency, Connecticut, accepting his fate as a middle-class husband and father and the author of an advice column in the local newspaper. His hard-won contentment is about to disappear like warm water down a bathtub ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Let Me Count the Ways

    A Novel

    by Peter De Vries ...
    The sins of the father are hilariously visited on the son in this witty and profound novel about the meaning of it allStanley Waltz is a Polish American piano mover and pugnacious atheist married to a born-again believer. His heroes are H. L. Mencken and Clarence Darrow, and if he confuses "illusion" with "allusion" and thinks a certain style of egg is "bedeviled," that does not mean his reasoning ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Diamonds and War

    State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine

    by David De Vries ...
    The mining of diamonds, their trading mechanisms, their financial institutions, and, not least, their cultural expressions as luxury items have engaged the work of historians, economists, social scientists, and international relations experts. Based on previously unexamined historical documents found in archives in Belgium, England, Israel, the Netherlands, and the United States, this book is the ... Read more

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  • The Patient Equation

    The Precision Medicine Revolution in the Age of COVID-19 and Beyond

    by Glen de Vries ...
    How the data revolution is transforming biotech and health care, especially in the wake of COVID-19—and why you can’t afford to let it pass you byWe are living through a time when the digitization of health and medicine is becoming a reality, with new abilities to improve outcomes for patients as well as the efficiency and success of the organizations that serve them. In The Patient Equation, Glen ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Thirteen: Stories of Transformation

    by Adrienne J. Odasso, Tais Teng, Fiona Moore, Richard Bowes, Jennifer Giesbrecht, David Tallerman, Lyn McConchie, Liz Argall, Julie C. Day, Grá Linnaea, Christie Yant, Rik Hoskin, Marc Levinthal, Richard Thomas, Gregory L. Norris, Alex Dally McFarlane, Juli Mallett, Fran Wilde, Andrew Penn Romine, A. C. Wise, George Cotronis, Daryl Gregory, Amanda C. Davis, Jetse de Vries, Cat Rambo, M. David Blake, Rebecca Kuder, Claude Lalumière ...
    The thirteenth Tarot card is Death, and he is a symbol not of the end, but of transformation and rebirth. This is the genesis and root of Thirteen: Stories of Transformation. The twenty-eight authors of this collection are voices—new and old—who are not afraid to explore what comes next. Whether it be a life after death, a life without love, a life filled with hunger, or the life shared by a ghost ... Read more

    $7.99 USD 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 USD

  • The New American Handbook of Letter Writing

    Second Edition

    by Mary A. De Vries ...
    In today’s fast-paced, computer-based world, it’s more important than ever to communicate efficiently—and effectively. This comprehensive guide addresses common correspondence dilemmas and includes over 260 model messages to help you master all forms of written communication—personal or business, modern or traditional. Perfect for home or office use, this extensively indexed handbook is an ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Desert Queen

    The lives and loves of the shameless, reckless, undaunted Daisy Bates

    by Susanna De Vries ...
    The Queen of the Never Never as never seen before!In the 1890s, when a woman's role was seen as marrying well and raising a family, Daisy Bates reinvented herself from humble governess to heiress-traveller and 'woman of science'. She would become one of the best-known and most controversial ethnologists in history, and one of the fi rst people to put Aboriginal culture on the map. Born into tough ... Read more

    $7.99 USD