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"AÂ fresh new perspective that will be a true revolution to
readers and will open new lines of
discussion on . . . the importance of the
city of New Orleans for generations to come." —Dr. Michael
White, jazz clarinetist, composer, and Keller Endowed Chair at
Xavier University of LAÂ Â An untold authentic
counter-narrative blues history and the first written by an African
American blues artist 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
present facts to disprove such myths.  This book is
the first to argue the blues began as a cosmopolitan art form, not
a rural one.  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.  Expecting these findings to be controversial
in some circles, King has buttressed his conclusions with primary
sources and years of extensive research, including a sojourn to
West Africa and interviews with surviving folklorists and blues
researchers from the 1960s folk-rediscovery epoch.  New
Orleans, King states, was the only place in the Deep South where
the sacred and profane could party together without fear of
persecution, creating the blues. Â
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Christopher Thomas King Hood
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The book of peace that will open doors to new realities. Written in
poetry form, short stories, a book of spells, bringing back old
folk heroes Robin Hood and little Miss Riding Hood, along with
shamans, angels, wizards and magicians. Questioning the way of life
and its current state of affairs, whilst creating an opening for
the reader to question their own mind and existence. The reader
will be left with a personal choice as they enter a new future.
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Borders (Paperback)
Thomas King; Illustrated by Natasha Donovan
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R387
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From two celebrated Indigenous creators comes a powerful graphic
novel about a family caught between nations. Borders is a
masterfully told story of a boy and his mother whose road trip from
Alberta to Salt Lake City is thwarted at the border when they
identify their citizenship as Blackfoot. Refusing to identify as
either American or Canadian first bars their entry into the US, and
then their return into Canada. In the limbo between countries, they
find power in their connection to their identity and to each other.
This much-anthologized story has been adapted into a gripping
graphic novel by award-winning artist Natasha Donovan. A
beautifully told tale with broad appeal, Borders resonates deeply
with themes of identity, justice, and belonging.
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Borders (Hardcover)
Thomas King; Illustrated by Natasha Donovan
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Borders is a masterfully told story of a boy and his mother whose
road trip is thwarted at the border when they identify their
citizenship as Blackfoot. Refusing to identify as either American
or Canadian first bars their entry into the US, and then their
return into Canada. In the limbo between countries, they find power
in their connection to their identity and to each other. Borders
explores nationhood from an Indigenous perspective and resonates
deeply with themes of identity, justice, and belonging.
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
fi lling your shopping cart with goodies is not quite the same
thing as actually paying for them. The trickster is tricked and
goes back to his cabin in the woods -- somewhat subdued -- though
nothing can keep Coyote down for long. Correlates to the Common
Core State Standards in English Language Arts:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.4 Describe how words and phrases (e.g.,
regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm
and meaning in a story, poem, or song.
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Coyote Tales (Hardcover)
Thomas King; Illustrated by Byron Eggenschwiler
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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, Old Woman and the animals
sing to the moon each night. Coyote attempts to join them, but his
voice is so terrible they beg him to stop. He is crushed and lashes
out - who needs Moon anyway? Furious, Moon dives into a pond,
plunging the world into darkness. But clever Old Woman comes up
with a plan to send Moon back up into the sky and, thanks to
Coyote, there she stays. In Coyote's New Suit, mischievous Raven
wreaks havoc when she suggests that Coyote's toasty brown suit is
not the finest in the forest, thus prompting him to steal suits
belonging to all the other animals. Meanwhile, Raven tells the
other animals to borrow clothes from the humans' camp. When Coyote
finds that his closet is too full, Raven slyly suggests he hold a
yard sale, then sends the human beings (in their underwear) and the
animals (in their ill-fitting human clothes) along for the fun. A
hilarious illustration of the consequences of wanting more than we
need. Key Text Features table of contents illustrations Correlates
to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.5 Describe the overall structure of a story,
including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the
ending concludes the action.
Thomas King is a writer of lyrical, comic poignancy, and a
best-selling author in Canada. Of his latest novel, Newsday wrote,
"Thomas King has quietly and gorgeously done it again". Truth &
Bright Water tells of a summer in the life of Tecumseh and Lum,
young Native-American cousins coming of age in the Montana town of
Truth, and the Bright Water Reserve across the river in Alberta. It
opens with a mysterious woman with a suitcase, throwing things into
the river -- then jumping in herself. Tecumseh and Lum go to help,
but she and her truck have disappeared. Other mysteries puzzle
Tecumseh: whether his mom will take his dad back; if his
rolling-stone aunt is home to stay; why no one protects Lum from
his father's rages. Then Tecumseh gets a job helping an artist --
Bright Water's most famous son -- with the project of a lifetime.
As Truth and Bright Water prepare for the Indian Days festival,
their secrets come together in a climax of tragedy, reconciliation,
and love.
A retelling of the Christopher Columbus story from a Native point
of view turns this tale on its ear! Coyote, the trickster, creates
the world and all the creatures in it. She is able to control all
events to her advantage until a funny-looking red-haired man named
Columbus changes her plans. He is unimpressed by the wealth of
moose, turtles and beavers in Coyote's land. Instead he is
interested in the human beings he can take to sell in Spain. 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 the culture of
the reporter. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in
English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.7 Use illustrations
and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or
events. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.3 Describe how characters in a story
respond to major events and challenges. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.6
Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters,
including by speaking in a different voice for each character when
reading dialogue aloud. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.3 Describe
characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or
feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence
of events
"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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My Lala (Hardcover)
Thomas King, Charlene Chua
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Thomas King was a social worker in Vermont for two decades,
beginning in 1979 and ending in 1999. Mr.King was awarded for his
casework by the Governor of Vermont and received other awards for
his work with children and families. He worked in five districts
and was a supervisor, child protective worker, juvenile worker,
resourse coordinator and investigator. He graduated from Adelphi
University with a major in psychology and intered the USAF where he
was gestalt therapist.
This multi-authored book brings together new work, from a wide
range of disciplinary vantages, on pre-Christian religion in the
Celtic-speaking provinces of the Roman Empire. The chapters are the
work of international experts in the fields of classics, ancient
history, archaeology, and Celtic studies. It is fully illustrated
with b&w and colour maps, site plans, photographs and drawings
of ancient inscriptions and images of Romano-Celtic gods. The
collection is based on the thirteenth workshop of the F.E.R.C.AN.
project (fontes epigraphici religionum Celticarum antiquarum),
which was held in 2014 in Lampeter, Wales.
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