Toews, Miriam
Summary: Life in Winnipeg didn't go as planned for Knute and her daughter. But living back in Algren with her parents and working for the longtime mayor, Hosea Funk, has its own challenges: Knute finds herself mixed up with Hosea's attempts to achieve his dream of meeting the Prime Minister--even if that means keeping the town's population at an even 1500. Bringing to life small-town Canada and all its...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOEToews, Miriam
Summary: Fight Night is told in the unforgettable voice of Swiv, a nine-year-old living in Toronto with her pregnant mother, who is raising Swiv while caring for her own elderly, frail, yet extraordinarily lively mother. When Swiv is expelled from school, Grandma takes on the role of teacher and gives her the task of writing to Swiv's absent father about life in the household during the last trimester...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOEToews, Miriam
Summary: Between 2005 and 2009, in a remote religious Mennonite colony, over a hundred girls and women were knocked unconscious and raped, often repeatedly, by what many thought were ghosts or demons, as a punishment for their sins. As the women tentatively began to share the details of the attacks -- waking up sore and bleeding and not understanding why -- their stories were chalked up to 'wild female...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2004
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Summary: One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years, each of these women, and more than a hundred other girls in their colony, has been repeatedly violated in the night by demons coming to punish them for their sins. Now that the women have learned they were in fact drugged and attacked by a group of men from their own community, they are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Toews 2019Summary: Do nothing. Stay and fight. Or leave. In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023