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This gentle picture-book lullaby is a celebration of the plants and animals of the Prairies and the Plains and a meditation on the sacred, ancestral connections between Indigenous children and their Traditional Territories.

Black and white images taken at the turn of the 20th Century provide a gorgeous, nostalgic view of Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Western New York, and beyond.

This 100-word children's book is written for 1 to 4-year-olds and invites them to "find" the hidden black bear in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. With a rhyming narrative, the book takes readers on a journey through iconic locations such as Elkmont, Cades Cove, Ramsey's Cascades, The Sinks, Clingmans Dome, and more. The short text is designed to be a quick read for sleepy parents in a camper or an interactive search for all the wildlife and botanical life that is infused in the illustrations. It is an engaging and interactive book that young readers will love.

In the wolf pack of Abingdon, young Abbi is growing up and time has come for her to take a position of leadership. The Wolf Crystal's "Choosing Ceremony" determines which juvenile wolves will compete in the Leadership Challenges.Abbi is the smallest of her cousins, but does she have the strength, experience, instincts, and compassion to be a contender?Her fellow contenders, along with migrating geese, the ghosts of Sinking Spring Cemetery, Glow and the Screen Heads' 7Sisters of technology test Abbi's ideas of her place in the community and the connection of all living creatures. With the help of her friends Daniel, Crow, Butterfly, and Sparky, Abbi competes in the Leadership Challenges. Growing up is tough and becoming a leader is tricky. How will she face her doubts and fears?

Kim finally feels at home after too many broken hearts. Steph needs to heal after the abrupt end of her marriage. Reuniting brings a whirlwind of memories. But unseen forces swirl around them. Will they find the strength to survive, together?

Archaeological data from the Late Archaic, 4000-2000 years ago, in the Western Great Lakes are examined to understand the production and movement of copper and lithic exchange materials, access to and benefits from exchange networks, and social changes accompanying the development of extensive, continental scale, exchange systems of interaction ...

"At the heart of Jeff Hardin's inventive seventh collection Watermark, a devotional, philosophical faith seeks "to know what can't be known," to step into, as if a sanctuary, "some deeper / deep / than what our words / can touch." In each poem, his meditations stitch back through a visible, vertical phrase-a whispered prayer, a "watermark"-that serves not only to anchor thought but also to align and to re-align the purpose of thought within "this bent and broken world." Borne from Frost, Dickinson, Rilke, Whitman, and others, these phrases bind us and bless us at a time "when it seems the words / to enter others' lives / are disappearing." In an age in which it is increasingly difficult to "sort out what is true," Hardin's poems invite us to wake to the mystery all around us, to time's revelatory unfolding, and to how our minds might find healing, if not communion, if only we listened intently enough to hear "the intercessions / made on our behalf.""--

From the Introduction: "There is not a successful deer hunter in the world who has not come up with his own peculiar methods -- some of them secret, some not -- for beating the long odds of killing a deer. The Ojibwa Indians of the Great Lakes figured out they could attract deer by smoking wild aster in a pipe, the smell of which was like the scent of a deer's hooves. Other tribes -- such as the Choctaws and Cherokees in the Southeast -- would carry skinned-out deer heads on their belts, which they could wear over their heads whenever they needed to make a stalk (this is no longer an advisable, or legal, technique). They used decoys and calls, and they knew that banging a pair of antlers together could summon a buck during the rut. In this book we have tried to compile some of the best information and most interesting pieces written about deer in Sports Afield since the magazine was founded in 1887. There were not as many deer to hunt back then, but over the last quarter century deer populations have boomed in nearly every state but Alaska and Hawaii, and so have the articles written about them. Many of these pieces originally appeared in the Sports Afield Almanac, which was introduced by Editor Ted Kesting in 1972; others appeared as departments or short features. All told, more than 250 deer hunters contributed, making this, we hope, a very unique look at what is now America's favorite game animal. Some of the contributors-like Dwight Schuh and Peter Fiduccia, Tom McIntyre and Ted Kerasote-are what we would call pros. They have hunted, studied and written about deer all their lives. Others are just guys who wanted to share a couple of their best deer-hunting secrets. Do not be surprised if you turn up some contradictory views. There's more than one way to shoot, skin, and cook a deer; but it may be that the best way of all is the one you have to figure out on your own." "This is the finest book on whitetail hunting that I have seen." -- Larry Myhre, Sioux City Journal