In the 1950s, Abraham Okimasis becomes the first Indian ever to win the Trapper's Festival Dog Sled Race and, as tradition dictates, he is kissed by the festival's beautiful Fur Queen. Nine months afterward, Abraham's wife Mariesis...
Manitoba Collection
In the Manitoba Collection, you will find titles about, featuring, or written by an author from Manitoba. We have gathered these collections together in the hopes of making it easier to find content that highlights the stories unique to the provinces and territories across Canada. If you know of a book that should be included in this collection, let us know!
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Author(s):Highway, TomsonSummary: - Author(s):Saint-Pierre, Annette, Gutknecht, Marlene, Bissonnette, Louis, Laxson, HowardSummary:
Roman social rempli de suspense. Lucie est rejetée du milieu scolaire, familial et, plus tard du milieu social. Au lieu de faire naître en elle l’amertume, la vie lui façonne un vrai cœur de femme.
- Author(s):Chicoine, JeanSummary:
Depuis le village Osborne au centre-ville de Winnipeg, Jean Chicoine s’enfonce une fois de plus dans la forêt du langage. Comme dans son premier roman, les galaxies nos voisines, l’écriture constitue le véritable éros de ce roman qui...
- Author(s):Toussaint, IsmèneSummary:
Manitoba, 1928. Gabrielle atteint l'âge où elle doit choisir un métier pour gagner sa vie et satisfaire aux exigences de la modeste famille dont elle est la benjamine. Comme ses soeurs aînées, elle se tourne vers l'enseignement,...
- Author(s):Toussaint, IsmèneSummary:
Manitoba, 1929. Après la mystérieuse disparition de Jean, son soupirant, Gabrielle vit les émois d'un premier amour dans les bras de Roderick Beauchemin. Mais voilà qu'une tempête déferle sur la plaine. Confrontée à la solitude...
- Author(s):Taillefer, Jean-MarieSummary:
L'auteur nous raconte sa jeunesse dans son petit village natal francophone dans l'ouest du Canada. C'est un ouvrage autobiographique qui a pour but de faire ressortir les nuances culturelles de la vie en petit village francophone à l'...
- Author(s):Léveillé, J.R.Summary:
Angèle rencontre Ueno Takami. Comme prédestinés, ils se remarquent d’abord dans une galerie d’art, puis se retrouvent au parc ou à l’imprimerie, chez Rinella, où Ueno confectionne un livre d’art. Leur relation prend très vite une...
- Author(s):Langston, LauraSummary:
Baba had made Lesia a promise: just remember the flower is not always open, but if your effort is true, your rewards will be sweet. Fifteen-year-old Lesia treasures those words as she and her family leave Baba in their Ukrainian...
- Author(s):Lewycky, DennisSummary:
In May 1919, 30,000 Winnipeg workers walked away from their jobs, shutting down large factories, forcing businesses to close and bringing major industries to a halt. Mounted police and hired security, at the behest of the ruling class,...
- Author(s):Hartson, Tamara, Sheldon, IanSummary:
This handy book will help you find out what's making those tracks in the snow or mud in your backyard, or out in the woods. Using the detective key, you will be able to identify 66 different mammals found in Manitoba by their...
- Author(s):Bezener, Andy, De Smet, KenSummary:
Manitoba's 145 most commonly seen birds are profiled in this beautifully illustrated book. Each account includes a description of the bird's key features for quick identification in the field, as well as the bird's song, habitat,...
- Author(s):Smid, GwenSummary:
Zip and zoom with Mary, a mischevious yet particularly practical eight-year-old with a magical atlas. Marvellous critters, such as a flying bison named Bou, help Mary as she searches for the Golden Boy's torch that has been carried off...
- Author(s):Berens, WilliamSummary:
Because the elderly chief wanted his visitor to understand the Ojibwe world, and because Hallowell was deeply interested in his subject matter and was such a good listener, Berens freely related his dreams and other stories about...
- Author(s):Urry, JamesSummary:
Mennonites and their forebears are usually thought to be a people with little interest or involvement in politics. Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood reveals that since their early history, Mennonites have, in fact, been active...
- Author(s):Brooks, MarthaSummary:
In 1981, sixteen-year-old Sally McLean is in a car full of teenagers when it plunges through the ice to the bottom of Mistik Lake. Sally is the only survivor. Many years later, Sally's teenaged daughter, Odella, is left wondering...
- Author(s):Racine, Darrell, Lakevold, DaleSummary:
Misty Lake tells the story of a young Metis journalist from Winnipeg who travels to a Dene reserve in Northern Manitoba to conduct an interview with a former residential school student. What Mary imparts in her interview will change...
- Author(s):Mowat, FarleySummary:
- Author(s):Ali, KazimSummary:
Ali's lyrical, hypnotic storytelling takes us on an unlikely journey to a place that only now exists in his childhood memories: a remote industrial community in the boreal forest of Northern Canada. I was mesmerized by the voice of...
- Author(s):Unger, AndrewSummary:
Timothy Heppner is a frustrated ghostwriter struggling to make ends meet in Edenfeld, a small Mennonite community bulldozing its way towards modernity--if it's old, it has to go! A member of the Preservation Society but desperate to...
- Author(s):Duguay, Louise, Stewart, S.E.Summary:
In the first part of the twentieth century few women in western Canada had careers as artists—Pauline Boutal had three: 23 years as a fashion illustrator for the Eaton’s catalogue for the graphic design company, Brigden’s of Winnipeg,...
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