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The Inconvenient Indian is at once a “history” and the complete subversion of a history - in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be “Indian” in North America. Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, this book distills the insights gleaned from that meditation, weaving the curiously circular tale of the relationship between non-Natives and Natives in the centuries since the two first encountered each other.

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 justificam suas andanças pelo mundo.

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’ voyages. In Coyote Solstice Tale, 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.

All prior histories on the blues have alleged it originated on plantations in the Mississippi Delta. Not true, says author Chris Thomas King. In The Blues, King presents facts to disprove such myths. For example, as early as 1900, the sound of the blues was ubiquitous in New Orleans. The Mississippi Delta, meanwhile, was an unpopulated sportsman’s paradise - the frontier was still in the process of being cleared and drained for cultivation. Moreover, this book is the first to argue that the blues began as a cosmopolitan art form, not a rural one.

The Dressing Drink is a cocktail that you will need to experience. Thomas King Flagg's Memoir is a captivating blend of old money, classic Hollywood, and family secrets that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Society's latest attempt to create unity among the diverse people of the world was to create one government, one unified race of people. Integral—and without which, this goal could not be accomplished—was the Leaving. Well-intentioned but fatally flawed and cruel at its inception. A state-mandated and tightly controlled expulsion of all children at the age of eighteen from their homes. Their destinations only known by the state. Their goodbyes to their family and friends are final.

A poverty-stricken girl develops a strange ability that makes her family rich, but at a terrible price. A grieving attorney teams up with a terrifying mythological force to prove that justice reaches beyond the grave. And a police officer discovers that a quiet little antique store is ground zero for an invasion of horrific creatures, hiding in plain sight….

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