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(0)Thomas King
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this book, the author offers a deeply knowing, darkly funny, unabashedly opinionated, and utterly unconventional account of Indian-White relations in North America since initial contact. In the process, he refashions old stories about historical events and figures. Ranging freely across the centuries and the Canada-U.S. border, he debunks fabricated stories of Indian savagery and White heroism, takes an oblique look at Indians (and cowboys) in...
3) Coyote tales
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Two tales, set in a time when animals and human beings still talked to each other, display Thomas King s cheeky humor and master storytelling skills. Freshly illustrated and reissued as an early chapter book, these stories are perfect for newly independent readers.
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the American Indian Library Association Youth Literature Awards, Best Picture Book. Trickster Coyote is having his friends over for a festive solstice get-together in the woods when a little girl comes by unexpectedly. She leads the party-goers through the snowy woods to a shopping mall -- a place they have never seen before. Coyote gleefully shops with abandon, only to discover that filling your shopping cart with goodies is not quite...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of The Back of the Turtle; Green Grass, Running Water and The Inconvenient Indian Thumps DreadfulWater's world is turned upside down when Nina Maslow, the producer of a true-crime reality-TV show, turns up dead after working on a cold case that Thumps has spent years trying to forget. What's more, someone seems set on taunting Thumps, leaving reminders of the Obsidian murder case around town. Is it...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Can a reality TV show solve a cold case? The crew of a true-crime reality TV show, Malice Aforethought, shows up in Chinook to do an episode about the death of Trudy Samuels. Trudy's death had originally been ruled accidental, but with ratings in mind, one of the producers, Nina Maslow, wants to prove it was murder. And she wants Thumps to help. Thumps is reluctant to get involved until Nina dies in the exact same place and in the exact same way as...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Cherokee ex-cop Thumps DreadfulWater investigates the deaths of two people who worked for Orion Technologies, a company that is in the midst of developing a revolutionary method for extracting fresh water from hidden reservoirs.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollins Publisher Ltds
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Thumps DreadfulWater is a Cherokee ex-cop trying to make a living as a photographer in the small town of Chinook, somewhere in the northwestern United States. But he doesn't count on snapping shots of a dead body languishing in a newly completed luxury condo resort built by the local Indian band. It's a mystery that Thumps can't help getting involved in, especially when he realizes the number one suspect is Stick Merchant, anti-condo protester and...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
When Medicine River was published in 1990, the New York Times said of Thomas King, "He knows his territory. His first novel is economical, precise, and elegant." Now King returns with his totally fresh voice - carefully controlled, yet without artifice - to present a complex web of character, myth, folklore, and contemporary and universal experience. Green Grass, Running Water is the story of five Blackfoot Indians in the town of Blossom and its nearby...
Author
Series
Thumps DreadfulWater mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Thumps DreadfulWater has to figure out who is trying to kill Red Power Native activist Noah Ridge as well as determine who is responsible for other people winding up dead.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Gabriel returns to Smoke River, the reserve where his mother grew up and to which she returned with Gabriel's sister. The reserve is deserted after an environmental disaster killed the population, including Gabriel's family and the local wildlife. Gabriel, a brilliant scientist working for DowSanto, created GreenSweep and indirectly led to the crisis. Now he has come to see the damage and to kill himself in the sea. But as he prepares to let the...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Meet Bird and Mimi. The brilliant new novel from one of Canada's foremost authors. Inspired by a handful of old postcards, sent by Uncle Lenny nearly a hundred years before, Bird and Mimi attempt to trace the steps of Mimi's long-lost uncle and the family medicine bundle he took with him to Europe. By turns witty, sly and poignant, this is the unforgettable tale of one couple's holiday trip to Prague. The often grumpy Bird and optimistic Mimi and...
15) Medicine River
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1990
Language
English
Description
A nature photographer returns to Medicine River, a small Albertan town. Interspersed among the tales of Medicine River are the memories of his childhood and the years that eventually lead him back home.
16) My Lala
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A rambunctious little girl takes ownership of her little universe."--
17) Borders
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A boy and his mother refuse to identify themselves as American or Canadian at the border and become caught in the limbo between nations when they claim their citizenship as Blackfoot.
Author
Series
Thumps DreadfulWater mysteries volume 6
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishersLtd
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
From the #1 bestselling author of Indians on Vacation, Sufferance, and 77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin Thumps DreadfulWater has finally found some peace in small-town Chinook since the pandemic. Sure, his beloved cat is still missing and his relationship with Claire is more than uncertain, but at least he can enjoy some relaxation from the comfort of his home. And now that the local businesses are starting to open their doors again, everything can...