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Plett, 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 Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PLE

Van Rooy, Michael

Summary: Wanting to settle down to a quiet life with his wife and baby, recovering addict and reformed thief Montgomery Haaviko foils a robbery in his home and is subsequently targeted by a vengeful crime boss and a suspicious police sergeant.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VAN

Summary: A "docu-fantasia" about the city of Winnipeg, the hometown of the director, Guy Maddin.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Entertainment 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE MY

Savage, Ann

Summary: Through re-enactments and portrayals of both real and imagined events, filmmaker Guy Maddin takes viewers on a surreal tour of Winnipeg, the city he has lived in his entire life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Distribution 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE MY

Summary: 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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Mattick, Lindsay

Summary: A woman tells her young son the true story of how his great-great-grandfather, Captain Harry Colebourn, rescued and learned to love a bear cub in 1914 as he was on his way to take care of soldiers' horses during World War I, and the bear became the inspiration for A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: J CD Fiction Mattick 2016

Mattick, Lindsay.

Summary: A woman tells her young son the true story of how his great-great-grandfather, Captain Harry Colebourn, rescued and learned to love a bear cub in 1914 as he was on his way to take care of soldiers' horses during World War I, and the bear became the inspiration for A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E Mat

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 COL
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MAT

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE Caldecott Mattick 2015

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC MAT

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MAT

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MAT

Mattick, Lindsay

Summary: "An imagining of the real journey undertaken by the extraordinary bear, from her early days in the Canadian forest to her travels with the Veterinary Corps across the country and overseas, all the way to the London Zoo, where she met Christopher Robin Milne and inspired the creation of Winnie-the-Pooh"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MAT

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