Chomiak, Stacey
Summary: "An artist's captivating and quirky illustrated coming-of-age memoir of surprising first love, coming out, and coming to embrace her queer Christian identity"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beaming Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 CHOSummary: A dark comedy set in Winnipeg during the Great Depression, where a beer baroness organizes a contest to find the saddest music in the world. Musicians from around the world descend on the city to try and win first place--a $25,000 prize.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE SADSummary: This "Nature of Things" program reveals how agriculture, hydro practices, sewage run-off, flooding and marsh destruction is devastating Lake Winnipeg. As a direct result of human activity, an excess of chemical nutrients in the lake is causing massive algae blooms. The green sludge washing up on the lake's shores threatens the natural ecosystems underlying it. Learn what some are doing to help...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Hoffman, Wayne (Wayne Adam)
Summary: Who was behind the brutal murder of my great-grandmother? wondered Wayne Hoffman, a New York City-based journalist and novelist. The crime wasn't just a family legend--it made headlines across Canada in 1913--but her killer had never been found. In THE END OF HER, Hoffman meticulously researches this century-old tragedy, while facing another: his mother's decline from Alzheimer's. Weaving back...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Heliotrope Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 HOFPlett, Casey
Summary: Wendy Reimer is a thirty-year-old trans woman in Winnipeg who comes across evidence that her late grandfather, a devout Mennonite farmer, might have been transgender as well. At first she dismisses the revelation, but as she and her friends struggle to cope with the challenges of their increasingly volatile lives Wendy is drawn to the lost pieces of her grandfather's past.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2018
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PLEGaffigan, Jim
Contents: disc 1, Canadian American. Best audience -- Saskatchewan -- Moose -- Lethbridge & Kitchener -- Halifax-Donair -- Poutine -- Ottawa -- Tim Hortons & Canadian tire -- The Caesar cocktail -- Canadian youth hockey -- Measure differently -- Polite Canadians -- British Columbia -- Saint John/St. John's fiasco -- Northwest territories & Nunavut -- Newfoundland -- Manitoba & Winnipeg -- Ontario &...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Comedy Dynamics 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN GAFRobertson, David
Summary: "Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brought together in a foster home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They each feel disconnected, from their culture and each other, and struggle to fit in at school and at their new home -- until they find a secret place, walled off in an unfinished attic bedroom. A portal opens to another reality, Askí, bringing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Canada 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ROBVermette, Katherena
Summary: "In the fourth volume of A Girl Called Echo, Echo Desjardins resumes her time travel and learns more about Métis history in Canada, including the "road allowance" land set aside by the crown, and the former community known as "Rooster Town" in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She also witnesses the trial of Louis Riel in Regina, Saskatchewan."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HighWater Press 2021