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  • My Sister, the Serial Killer

    A Novel

    by Oyinkan Braithwaite ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN THRILLER OF THE 21ST CENTURY • ONE OF TIME'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE •“A taut and darkly funny contemporary noir that moves at lightning speed, it’s the wittiest and most fun murder party you’ve ever been invited to.” —MARIE CLAIREKorede’s sister Ayoola is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Cursed Daughters

    A Novel

    by Oyinkan Braithwaite ...
    **A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK • A young woman must shake off a family curse and the widely held belief that she is the reincarnation of her dead cousin in this wickedly funny, brilliantly perceptive novel about love, female rivalry, and superstition from the author of the smash hit My Sister, the Serial Killer (“A bombshell of a book . . . Sharp, explosive, hilarious.” —The New ... Read more

    Was $16.99 CAD Now $13.99 CAD

  • A Flight of Saints

    by Elizabeth Braithwaite ...
    What kind of a friend are you?Are you a good friend? A jealous friend? Or perhaps you have a jealous friend, or a friend you wouldn’t trust with a secret. Friendship, the complex, messy kind, is the beating heart of A Flight of Saints, the debut novel by Elizabeth Braithwaite.In it, young Sister Lucia recounts the story of how she and four other novices escape the abuse and enforced silence of the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-1989

    The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89

    by Rodric Braithwaite ...
    The story of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan is well known: the expansionist Communists overwhelmed a poor country as a means of reaching a warm-water port on the Persian Gulf. Afghan mujahideen upset their plans, holding on with little more than natural fighting skills, until CIA agents came to the rescue with American arms. Humiliated in battle, the Soviets hastily retreated. It's a great ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Night We Stole the Mounties' Car

    by Max Braithwaite ...
    Max Braithwaite has the unique capacity to be both tender and caustic – both nostalgic and uncompromisingly honest. He is also one of Canada’s few original humorists. All these qualities are present in his latest bittersweet recollections of life on the Prairies during the early Thirties. It was a time of depression and drought; but for Max, a young schoolteacher, it was also a time for courtship ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Honorary White

    by E. R. Braithwaite ...
    Acclaimed author E. R. Braithwaite ( To Sir, With Love) chronicles the brutality, oppression, and courage he witnessed as a black man granted "Honorary White" status during a six-week visit to apartheid South AfricaAs a black man living in a white-dominated world, author E. R. Braithwaite was painfully aware of the multitude of injustices suffered by people of color and he wrote powerfully and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Airgunner's Companion

    A Field Guide to Hunting with Air Rifles

    by J. D. J. Braithwaite ...
    Being an effective hunter with a modern precision air rifle requires; - being suitably well informed about the intended quarry species, - have a wealth of knowledge concerning different hunting methods, - a detailed understanding of how their air rifle performs, and know how to maximise its attributes to optimise efficacy in the field, and - a level of proficiency in shooting an air rifle. The ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Spaceships Over Glasgow

    Mogwai, Mayhem and Misspent Youth

    by Stuart Braithwaite ...
    Born the son of Scotland's last telescope-maker, Stuart Braithwaite was perhaps always destined for a life of psychedelic adventuring on the furthest frontiers of noise in MOGWAI, one of the best loved and most ground-breaking post-rock bands of the past three decades.Modestly delinquent at school, Stuart developed an early appetite for 'alternative' music in what might arguably be described as ... Read more

    Was $9.99 CAD Now $4.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Why Shoot the Teacher

    by Max Braithwaite ...
    Set in the Saskatchewan prairies during the Depression, Why Shoot the Teacher is the Canadian classic that tells the story of a young man’s first collision with reality: an ill-paid teaching assignment in an isolated country school. This autobiographical novel is riotous, grim, candid, and infinitely entertaining. While it is perhaps Braithwaite’s best-loved book, it is also a vivid evocation of ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $10.99 CAD

  • Never Sleep Three in a Bed

    by Max Braithwaite ...
    A book as rollicking and exuberant as the boyhood pleasures and perils it recalls, Never Sleep Three in a Bed combines humour and realism in a nostalgic but unsentimental journey into Max Braithwaite's—and Canada's past. From the pinnacle of his remarkable writing career, the popular author and humorist casts a perceptive eye over the world he shared with his family and friends in western Canada ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Chromatographic Methods

    by A. Braithwaite ...
    Series series History (R0)
    In recent years the techniques of chromatography have progressed rapidly. However, the aims and objectives of the First Edition, as quoted below, are just as relevant today as they undoubtedly were in 1963. 'The various methods of separating mixtures which are grouped under the general name chromatography are now well known and widely used. Since the inception of chromatography as a column ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Community-Based Participatory Health Research, Second Edition

    Issues, Methods, and Translation to Practice

    Edited by Daniel S. Blumenthal, MD, MPH, Ralph J. DiClemente, PhD, Selina Smith, PhD, MDiv, Ronald L. Braithwaite, PhD ...
    ìCommunity-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) has become the preferred model for conducting research in communities. Most scientists who conduct such research now recognize that working in partnership with the community is preferable, and more ethical, than conducting research on a communityÖ. As Surgeon General of the United States, I direct a number of programs aimed at encouraging Americans to ... Read more

    $95.99 CAD