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A Truce That Is Not Peace. by Toews, Miriam.;
In 'A Truce That is Not Peace', Miriam Toews tells her own story for the first time. It is a very personal and unconventional exploration of why she has written the books she has, and the discovery that all have been grounded in her grief over the suicide of her beloved sister and her dad. Toews lives in Toronto, ON.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement;
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Swing low : a life / by Toews, Miriam,1964-;
Subjects: Toews, Melvin C.; Depressed persons; Elementary school teachers;
© c2000., Stoddart Publishing,
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A complicated kindness : a novel / by Toews, Miriam,1964-author.;
Subjects: Teenage girls; Fathers and daughters; Maternal deprivation; Problem families; Mennonites;
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All my puny sorrows / by Toews, Miriam,1964-author.;
Elfrieda, a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, happily married: she wants to die. Yolandi, divorced, broke, sleeping with the wrong men as she tries to find true love: she desperately wants to keep her older sister alive. But Elf's latest suicide attempt is a shock: she is three weeks away from the opening of her highly anticipated international tour. Can she be nursed back to "health" in time? Does it matter? As the situation becomes ever more complicated, Yoli faces the most terrifying decision of her life.
Subjects: Fiction.; Sisters; Suicidal behavior; Sisters.; Suicidal behavior.; Roman.; Amerikanisches Englisch.;
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Women talking : a novel / by Toews, Miriam,1964-author.;
"A major work by one of our most beloved and esteemed writers, the novel is based on real events that happened between 2005 and 2009 in a remote Mennonite community where more than 100 girls and women were drugged unconscious and raped in the night by what they were told were "ghosts" or "demons." Women Talking is an imagined response to these real events. It takes place over 48 hours, as eight women hide in a hayloft while the men are in a nearby town posting bail for the perpetrators. They have come together to debate, on behalf of all the women and children in the community, whether to stay or leave before the men return. Taking minutes is the one man invited by the women to witness the conversation--a former outcast whose own surprising story is revealed as the women talk. By turns poignant, furious, witty, acerbic, tender, devastating, and heartbreaking, the voices in this extraordinary novel are unforgettable."--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Mennonite women; Women; Rape victims;
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Fight night / by Toews, Miriam,1964-author.;
Set in Toronto, 'Fight Night' by Miriam Toews unspools the pain, love, laughter, and above all, will to live a good life across three generations of women in a close-knit family. Toews lives in Toronto, ON. From the author of 'Women Talking', 'A Complicated Kindness', and 'All My Punny Sorrows'. Book Club.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Grandmothers; Women; Mothers and daughters;
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All my puny sorrows [videorecording] / by Gadon, Sarah,1987-actor.; McGowan, Michael,1966-film director,screenwriter.; Pill, Alison,1985-actor.; Winningham, Mare,actor.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Toews, Miriam,1964-All my puny sorrows.; Mongrel Media,film distributor.;
Alison Pill, Sarah Gadon, Mare Winningham.Based on the 2014 international best-selling novel by Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows is the poignant story of two sisters, one a concert pianist obsessed with ending her life, and the other a writer who, in wrestling with this decision, makes profound discoveries about her herself.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Female friendship; Mentally ill women; Sisters; Suicidal behavior;
For private home use only.
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Women talking [videorecording] / by Buckley, Jessie,1989-actor.; Foy, Claire,1984-actor.; Gardner, Dede,film producer.; Ivey, Judith,1951-actor.; Kleiner, Jeremy,film producer.; Mara, Rooney,actor.; McDormand, Frances,film producer,actor.; Polley, Sarah,screenwriter,film director.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Toews, Miriam,1964-Women talking.; Orion Pictures,presenter.; Plan B Entertainment,production company.; Universal Studios, Inc.,publisher.;
Jessie Buckley, Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Judith Ivey, Ben Whishaw, Frances McDormand.The women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling their reality with their faith. Though the backstory, we see a community of women come together to figure out how they might move forward together to build a better world for themselves and their children. Stay and fight or leave. They will not do nothing.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: PG-13; for mature thematic content including sexual assault, bloody images, and some strong language.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Conspiracies; Female friendship; Man-woman relationships; Mennonite women; Rape victims; Religious communities;
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Endling : a novel / by Reva, Maria,author.;
"In the absurdist literary tradition of George Saunders comes the debut novel of a writer who is "bang-on brilliant" (Miriam Toews) and "bright, funny, satirical, relevant" (Margaret Atwood), chronicling the exploits of three Ukrainian women and one very endangered snail through the travails of foreign invasion, unlikely romance, capitalist exploitation, and nail-biting survival. Ukraine, 2022. Nastia and her sister, Solimaya, are entangled in the booming bridal industry, getting paid to entertain Western men who've come to Ukraine on "Romance Tours" to find their dream woman. Yeva is a loner and a maverick scientist who's tried, and failed, to breed specimens from the region's dwindling snail population in her mobile lab. Nastia's obsession with finding her absent mother--a flamboyant protester who disappeared after years of public opposition to the romance tours--leads her to embark on the journey of a lifetime across hundreds of miles along with three angry women, a truckful of kidnapped bachelors, and Lefty, a rare snail with one last shot at perpetuating his species. This journey, and these dreams, come to a screeching halt as Russia invades. In a stunningly ambitious and achingly raw metafictional spiral, Endling brilliantly balances the comedic stakes set in motion by the plot while drawing on Reva's personal experiences as a Ukrainian expat, forced to witness the hostilities from afar while tracking her family's delicate dance of survival behind enemy lines. As fiction and real life combine on the page, Reva probes the hard truths of war: What is it like to leave behind one's home and possessions? Conversely, what is it like to stay and continue with the mundanities of life and work under military occupation? For those of us witnessing from overseas: how does our sense of reality change? Can normalcy and security be restored, or have they always been an illusion? Endling is a tour de force from an author on the cutting edge of fiction, telling a story of love, loss, humour, and devastation that only she could tell."--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Satirical fiction.; Novels.; Mail order brides; Russian Invasion of Ukraine, 2022; Sisters; Women biologists;
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