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    The Adventures of Brother Cadfael

    A Collection of Chronicles

    by Ellis Peters ...
    Narrated by Sir Derek Jacobi ...

    Abridged

    17 hours 45 min

    This collection of recordings about Brother Cadfaelóa Benedictine monk and amateur sleuth in the 12th centuryóare performed here by the ideal actor. Sir Derek Jacobi, who portrayed Cadfael in several television adaptations, captivates listeners with his renderings of Monk's Hood, Saint Peter's Fair, The Heretic's Apprentice, The Potter's Field, The Summer of the Danes, and Brother Cadfael's ... Read more

    $135.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Guidelines for Open Pit Slope Design in Weak Rocks

    Edited by Derek Martin, Peter Stacey ...
    Weak rocks encountered in open pit mines cover a wide variety of materials, with properties ranging between soil and rock. As such, they can provide a significant challenge for the slope designer. For these materials, the mass strength can be the primary control in the design of the pit slopes, although structures can also play an important role. Because of the typically weak nature of the ... Read more

    $165.99 CAD

  • A Very Simple Mind

    On Tour

    by Derek Forbes ...
    The long-awaited autobiography by Derek Forbes, the Simple Minds legend known for his iconic spine-rattling bass riffs which we recognise in many Simple Minds' songs. This is his story. Derek Forbes started his musical career as a lead guitarist but soon changed to bass guitarist. He wrote and co-wrote many of Simple Minds' earliest classics. Derek Forbes won an Ivor Novello Award for 'Outstanding ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Monk's Hood

    by Ellis Peters ...
    Narrated by Derek Jacobi ...
    Series series Chronicle of Brother Cadfael

    Abridged

    2 hours 51 min

    It's Christmas, and a local visiting dignitary suddenly takes ill immediately following his decision to bequeath his manorial estate to the abbey. Luckily, the abbey boasts the services of the herbalist Brother Cadfael, who hurries to the man's bedside, only to be confronted with two surprises: the man's wife is Richildis—whom Cadfael loved before he took his vows—and the poison is monk's-hood oil ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Brother Cadfael's Penance

    by Ellis Peters ...
    Narrated by Derek Jacobi ...
    Series series Chronicle of Brother Cadfael

    Abridged

    3 hours 6 min

    While Brother Cadfael has bent Abbey rules, he has never broken his monastic vows—until now. Word has come to Shrewsbury of a treacherous act that has left 30 of Empress Maud's knights imprisoned during England's dynastic war between two grandchildren of William the Conqueror. All have been ransomed except Cadfael's secret son, Olivier. Conceived in Cadfael's soldiering youth and unaware of his ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    The Heretic's Apprentice

    by Ellis Peters ...
    Narrated by Derek Jacobi ...
    Series series Chronicle of Brother Cadfael

    Abridged

    3 hours 1 min

    Heresy, murder, and the contents of a mysterious treasure chest challenge Brother Cadfael—12th-century herbalist, sleuth, and sometime cupid—in his 16th chronicle.In the summer of 1143, William of Lythwood arrives at the Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul, but it is not a joyous occasion—he's come back from his pilgrimage in a coffin. William's body is accompanied by his young attendant ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Computational Science – ICCS 2026

    26th International Conference, Hamburg, Germany, June 29 – July 1, 2026, Proceedings, Part I

    Edited by Philipp Neumann, Michael J. Puma, Michael H. Lees, Derek Groen, Jack J. Dongarra, Peter M. A. Sloot ...
    Series Book 1 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    The two-volume set LNCS constitutes the main proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2026, which took place in Hamburg, Germany, during June 29 – July 1, 2026.The 59 full papers and 35 short papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 177 submissions. The conference is focusing on recent developments in scalable scientific ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • 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

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Potter's Field

    by Ellis Peters ...
    Narrated by Derek Jacobi ...
    Series series Chronicle of Brother Cadfael

    Abridged

    3 hours

    During the ploughing of the Potter's Field, the Brothers unearth the grisly remains of a woman's body. Rumors had it that the wild, beautiful Welsh woman had gone away with a lover, returning to her homeland, but now it seems as if she had been murdered. With the arrival of a young monk fleeing from the devastating civil war in East Anglia, the mysteries surrounding the corpse start to multiply. ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    St. Peter's Fair

    by Ellis Peters ...
    Narrated by Derek Jacobi ...
    Series series Chronicle of Brother Cadfael

    Abridged

    2 hours 42 min

    In the summer of 1139, there is a pause in the civil war racking the country. St. Peter's Fair attracts merchants from across England and beyond, promising to bring some much-needed gaiety to Shrewsbury—that is, until the dead body of a wealthy merchant is found in the river Severn. Brother Cadfael offers to help the merchant's lovely niece uncover the murderer, but as he searches for the killer, ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Computational Science – ICCS 2026

    26th International Conference, Hamburg, Germany, June 29 – July 1, 2026, Proceedings, Part II

    Edited by Philipp Neumann, Michael J. Puma, Michael H. Lees, Derek Groen, Jack J. Dongarra, Peter M. A. Sloot ...
    Series Book 2 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    The two-volume set LNCS constitutes the main proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2026, which took place in Hamburg, Germany, during June 29 – July 1, 2026.The 59 full papers and 35 short papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 177 submissions. The conference is focusing on recent developments in scalable scientific ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • The Collins Class Submarine Story

    Steel, Spies and Spin

    by Peter Yule, Derek Woolner ...
    A unique and outstanding military and industrial achievement, the Collins class submarine project was also plagued with difficulties and mired in politics. Its story is one of heroes and villains, grand passions, intrigue, lies, spies and backstabbing. It is as well a story of enormous commitment and resolve to achieve what many thought impossible. The building of these submarines was Australia's ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD