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"When someone you love dies, the grief rock shows up Sometimes grief can feel like a heavy weight you are carrying around. It can be difficult to explain how you feel or know how you will cope carrying the grief rock around. This gentle story explores how grief is filled with all the love we have for someone who was important in our lives. Perfect to open up the conversation on difficult feelings, the book also includes a short guide for adults with...

In the Pryor Mountains, ranging along the state line between Montana and Wyoming, there lives a band of wild horses descended from the original Spanish horses brought over by the Conquistadors. This is the extraordinary photographic journal of the three years Pomeranz spent studying, admiring, and photographing these magnificent animals.

The photographs of David Plowden, David McCullough once said, "confer a kind of immortality on certain aspects of American civilization before they vanish." In this, his nineteenth book on the American scene, David Plowden, as usual "one step ahead of the wrecking ball," again turns to a part of American culture that was once commonplace but is now in danger of being lost or, at best, forever transformed. With his photographs of barbershops, general...

Lesser known than the gold and silver mines of Western lore, Southern Colorado's extensive coal mines fueled the engines for Western industrialization in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Of the numerous companies operating the mines, the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I) was king. With a total of 62 mines, the majority of them in Colorado's Las Animas, Huerfano, and Fremont Counties, CF&I ruled the lives of countless miners in company towns...

Grandma Bear believes that heaven is always around, especially when Little Bear is there.

Ming Miao tells her kittens about the antics of one of their ancestors, Sagwa of China, that produced the unusual markings they have had for thousands of years.

This photographic essay explores the history and technology of filmmaking, including how a set is built, how stunts are performed, how special effects are achieved, and how films are edited.

While on a camping trip with Uncle Louie, two young mice named Angelina and Henry become lost in the woods until the "fit and fearless" Angelina saves the day.

"The revised edition of Colorado: A History in Photographs portrays Colorado's history in images taken from the frontier era to the present, all accompanied by a vivid, updated, and expanded narrative." "Presenting a broad view of countless aspects of life in Colorado and including 270 black-and-white photographs, this book will inform, entertain, and inspire all those who delight in learning more about the history of the Centennial State."--BOOK...