Thomas King
1) Coyote Tales
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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. In Coyote Sings to the Moon, Coyote is at first the cause of misfortune. In those days, when the moon was much brighter and closer to the earth, Old Woman and the animals would sing to...
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Mimi e Bird são um casal indígena: ela Blackfoot, ele Cherokee. Os dois viajam pela Europa seguindo a rota dos cartões-postais enviados por Leroy Bull Shield, tio de Mimi, depois dele ter sido retirado de sua reserva indígena para se tornar atração em um show de faroeste. Ao partir, Leroy havia levado a bolsa Crow, um importante artefato da família, e é com o argumento de recuperá-la e descobrir o paradeiro do antepassado que Mimi e Bird...
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En éliminant le sous-bois qui gêne le passage d'un oléoduc, la multinationale Domidion provoque un déversement mortel sur la cte de la Colombie-Britannique. Dorian Asher, le PDG, s'amuse à oublier son divorce et son mal-être par des dépenses somptuaires. Le chercheur Gabriel Quinn, responsable de la catastrophe, retourne s'enfermer près de la réserve de sa mère, désormais condamnée. Il y rencontre des survivants : Mara Reid, peintre ayant...
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Le livre:
Jeremiah Camp, alias l'oracle, a le pouvoir de voir au cœur de l'humanité. Après avoir prédit l'avenir au profit des riches et des puissants, Jeremiah Camp, dégoûté, fait vœu de silence et décide de se cacher du monde dans l'ancien pensionnat d'une réserve autochtone.
Or, son passé au sein du consortium multinational, le Groupe Locken, ne tarde de le rattraper. Quand les milliardaires figurant sur une liste que Camp avait créée...
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Premier recueil de poésie du grand écrivain autochtone Thomas King
Traduit par Jonathan Lamy
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Thomas King signe un premier recueil de poésie. Soixante-dix-sept fragments o alternent mythes réactualisés, commentaires politiques, tranches de vie et traits d'humour. Le tout porté par la puissance tellurique et le style iconoclaste de ce grand écrivain autochtone.
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Quand je me sens frustré,
je vais à la rivière
lancer des pierres
dans...
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These two stories from master storyteller Thomas King are now available bundled together as an audiobook!
In Coyote Columbus Story, Thomas King uses a bag of literary tricks to shatter the stereotypes surrounding Columbus's voyages. In doing so, he invites children to laugh with him at the crazy antics of Coyote, who unwittingly allows Columbus to bring about the downfall of her human friends. And he makes the point that history is influenced by...
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“One Good Story, That One” is a collection steeped in native oral tradition and shot through with Thomas King's special brand of wit and comic imagination. These highly acclaimed stories conjure up Native and Judeo-Christian myths, present-day pop culture, and literature while mixing in just the right amount of perception and experience.
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xvi, 287 pages ; 22 cm
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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 film...
11) Thyme Travelers
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A surprise inheritance. A derelict mansion. His own time portal. Then, poof-All gone
In 1985, Jack Thyme is a young teacher at an exclusive prep school in Portland, Oregon. When his aunt dies suddenly, the terms of his grandfather's trust kick in. In less than 48 hours, he is in a small Virginia town he didn't know existed, meeting with a bunch of lawyers about an inheritance from a man he never knew. What the lawyers don't tell him-probably don't...
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360 pages ; 24 cm
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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...
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306 pages ; 24 cm
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"Jeremiah Camp, aka The Forecaster, can look into the heart of humanity and see the patterns that create opportunities and profits for the rich and powerful. Problem is, Camp has looked one too many times, has seen what he hadn't expected to see, has come away from the abyss with no hope for himself or for the future. So, he does what any intelligent, sensitive person would do. He runs away. Goes into hiding in a small town, at an old residential...
16) Borders
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171 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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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.
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Cette anthologie est une plongée dans la culture et dans l'imaginaire des Premières Nations, des Métis et des Inuits.
C'est aussi l'esquisse d'une pensée autochtone par les Autochtones. Pour un vivre-ensemble, pour échanger et établir la relation, commençons par découvrir la profondeur de ces histoires et de ces univers.
Anthologie dirigée par Marie-Hélène Jeannotte, Jonathan Lamy et Isabelle St-Amand
Traduction de Jean-Pierre Pelletier
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