Most Popular Books by Thomas King

When his mom, who always wanted to be an actress, won’t let him watch her perform in The Little Foxes, the narrator’s dad must sneak him into the show. A Short History of Indians in Canada, Thomas King’s bestselling collection of twenty tales, is a comic tour de force, showcasing the author at his hilarious and provocative best. With his razor-sharp observations and mystical characters, including the ever-present and ever-changing Coyote, King pokes a sharp stick into the gears of the Native myth-making machine, exposing the underbelly of both historical and contemporary Native-White relationships. Through the laughter, these stories shimmer brightly with the universal truths that unite us. HarperCollins brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperCollins short-stories collection to build your digital library.

Milton Friendlibear and his grandfather investigate the links between the Indian Act of 1875 and Star Trek. A Short History of Indians in Canada, Thomas King’s bestselling collection of twenty tales, is a comic tour de force, showcasing the author at his hilarious and provocative best. With his razor-sharp observations and mystical characters, including the ever-present and ever-changing Coyote, King pokes a sharp stick into the gears of the Native myth-making machine, exposing the underbelly of both historical and contemporary Native-White relationships. Through the laughter, these stories shimmer brightly with the universal truths that unite us. HarperCollins brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperCollins short-stories collection to build your digital library.

From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of Sufferance and Indians on Vacation Can a reality TV show solve a cold case? When a TV producer asks Thumps to assist with an episode about a local woman from a wealthy family whose death was ruled “misadventure,” he is reluctant to get involved. Then the producer dies in the exact same manner, and Thumps finds himself solving two cases. The crew of Malice Aforethought, a true-crime reality-TV show, 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. But then Nina dies in the exact same place and in the exact same way as Trudy. Are the two deaths related? Or are there two murderers on the loose in Chinook? Thumps uses Nina’s Malice Aforethought files to try to fit the pieces of the puzzle together, and in the process discovers that the producer had already started work on another case that is close to Thumps’s heart: the Obsidian murders.

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From the bestselling author of The Back of the Turtle and The Inconvenient Indian comes a wry and irreverent mystery Thumps DreadfulWater has never liked surprises—even the good ones are annoying. So it’s no shock that a string of seemingly random occurrences is causing Thumps some real discomfort. First Noah Ridge, the Red Power Native activist, arrives in Thumps’ sleepy town of Chinook. Then the body of a retired FBI agent turns up at the local Holiday Inn. In the background hovers the ghostly presence of Lucy Kettle, second-in-charge of the Red Power movement, a tough woman in a tough place until her disappearance years ago. Now the sheriff wants Thumps to trade in his photography gig for a temporary cop beat. And it won’t be over, Thumps soon realizes, until everyone’s dead—or famous. Hailed by critics in his first appearance, Cherokee ex-cop Thumps DreadfulWater is back in rumpled but razor-sharp form, doing his laconic, comic best to avoid trouble—and catch the bad guys. Bestselling writer Thomas King has penned a second entertaining DreadfulWater mystery, injected with the author’s characteristic dry wit and biting social commentary.

Jeremiah Camp, a.k.a. 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 and has come away from the abyss with no hope for himself or for the future. So Jeremiah does what any intelligent, sensitive person would do. He runs away. Goes into hiding in a small town, at an old residential school on an even smaller Indian reserve, with no phone, no Internet, no television. With the windows shut, the door locked, the mailbox removed to discourage any connection with the world, he feels safe at last. Except nobody told the locals that they were to leave Jeremiah alone. And then his past comes calling. Ash Locken, head of the Locken Group, the multinational consortium that Jeremiah has fled, arrives on his doorstep with a simple proposition. She wants our hero to formulate one more forecast, and she's not about to take no for an answer. Before he left the Locken empire, Jeremiah had created a list of twelve names, every one a billionaire. The problem is, the people on the list are dying at an alarming and unnatural rate. And Ash Locken wants to know why. A sly and satirical look at the fractures in modern existence, Sufferance is a bold and provocative novel about the social and political consequences of the inequality created by privilege and power--and what we might do about it.

Thomas King signe un premier recueil de poésie. Soixante-dix-sept fragments où 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.

«Les histoires sont des inventions merveilleuses. Et dangereuses.», affirme Thomas King. Dans Histoire(s) et vérité(s). Récits autochtones, l’auteur explore comment les histoires et les contes façonnent nos perceptions. À travers la littérature et l'histoire, la religion et la politique, la culture populaire et la contestation sociale, King propose une réflexion inédite sur notre relation envers les peuples autochtones. L’Indien «réel», affirme l’auteur, ne ressemble guère à la figure du «sauvage», tirée des représentations entretenues par les Blancs nord-américains. Avec un esprit critique bien aiguisé, Thomas King démontre que les histoires sont la clé et, sans doute, le seul espoir pour se comprendre. Il nous oblige à les écouter... pour mieux appréhender les réalités de notre monde.

Reclus dans une réserve autochtone, Jeremiah Camp, alias l'oracle, est rattrapé par son passé quand les milliardaires dont il prédisait l'avenir commencent à mourir. Romancier, nouvelliste et scénariste.

Martian Fever is about life on Mars from the year 2025 and beyond. Although the Red Planet has a hostile atmosphere made up of mostly carbon dioxide, Mankind will terraform it to contain breathable air. The ice which exists on the poles will be used for water and rocket fuel. But, what kind of a society will exist on Mars? The human desire for power and wealth will determine how we treat one another. With limitless supplies of rare and precious metals on Mars, the race will be on. Greedy for the gold and silver, people on Earth will swarm to Mars like another California Gold Rush. Will they discover that alien beings reside there and don't want Earthlings on their planet? Generations of children born into the Miller family possess a rare and valuable gift that is passed on from generation to generation. Precognitive visions allow some family members to see into the future and change the outcome of future events. How will this change the future? Sammy Miller and the crew of the spacecraft Pioneer 1 are pathfinders to the future on Mars. What they find upon arrival there will traumatize all Mankind! What will happen back on Earth after millions of people leave the ailing planet? The beautiful Earth with fresh, crisp air to breath and clear, delicious water to drink. Will it burn up in the hell of global warming or be rescued from that plight? No one can predict the future. Or can they? Will Mankind destroy another planet or change his ways? Martian Fever will answer that question. Thomas King Author

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 wayward son of Claire Merchant, head of the tribal council and DreadfulWater's sometimes lover. Smart and savvy, blessed with a killer dry wit and a penchant for self-deprecating humour, DreadfulWater just can't manage to shed his California cop skin. Before long, he is deeply entangled in the mystery and has his work cut out for him.

This publication has been dated by the address given for T. King on the slip-case: 18 Wilmot Street, Brunswick Square. Another version of this book was published in 1833. This later version is recorded as: "Decorations for windows and beds: consisting of 100 fashionable designs for upholstery work, with the varieties of the present style, divided into parts. On eighty plates and conveniently small for the pocket". The later version also has some variations in the titles of the parts. Like many of King's pattern books this seems to be a composite of plates on different papers, printed at different times, some plates numbered and others not - and not in numbered order.

Description: This farce is an adaptation of 'Le Légataire Universel' by Jean-Francois Regnard. The play follows Martin, a servant who impersonates a dying man in order to achieve financial gain.