The Bear Book is a composite portrait of gay bearsusually big, hairy men who favor full-face beards and prefer to wear jeans and flannel shirts. This emergent social phenomenon and new sexual iconography is burgeoning across America, Western Europe, and other parts of the gay global village. The first-ever book on the gay bear phenomenon, this book offers readers a collection of first-person observations and historical and critical investigations by participant observers within and outside the bear community. This exciting book is organized in an ideologically revealing manner, including sections on history, identity, social spaces, iconography, and the bear phenomenon abroad. Because of the dialectical position of this work, it inevitably both describes and, to a lesser extent, may prescribe various parameters of this subculture-in-the-making.

A mousy librarian is called to a remote Canadian island to inventory the estate of a secretive Colonel whose most surprising secret is a bear who keeps the librarian company--shocking company.

Young readers can follow scientists as they scan the Alaskan wilderness for these magnificent creatures. Full color.

When Is a Bear Not a Bear? A Family Tale Hard times and high adventure abound when a puppy wakens in a strange forest. Quite alone and hungry, he must be resourceful and brave. Where is he? How did he get there? Little Bear makes fine friends and frightening encounters. There are difficult choices for one so young but through all of the mystery his fun loving, hopeful nature shines brightly. When the tallest man hes ever seen suddenly appears, the mystery only grows! Questions in bold type are intended for fun as well as serious thought.

Students analyze Little Bear using key skills from the Common Core. Close reading of the text is required to answer text-dependent questions. Included are student pages with the text-dependent questions as well as suggested answers.

Teddy Bear Day brings a toy children love together with learning activities. Prepare your classroom for the festivities with the bulletin board and display ideas. Children will learn the history of the popular teddy bear with an informational text. The word search, “Teddy Bear Day at School” book, art dough recipe, and creative writing pages will keep children having fun and learning.

New York Times-Bestselling Author: Asuspenseful shapeshifter tale filled with “delicious, sexy and wicked fun” (Gena Showalter, New York Times bestselling author). He's big, burly, and way smarter than your average shapeshifting bear. He's also about to get trapped by his own game. . . Lou Crushek is a reasonable, mellow, easygoing kind of guy. But once someone starts killing the scumbags he works so hard to bust, that really gets under his fur. Especially when that someone is a curvy she-tiger with a skill set that's turning Crush's lone-bear world upside down--and bringing his passion out of hibernation. . . As a member of an elite feline protection unit, Marcella Malone has no problem body-dropping anyone who hunts her kind. But Crush is proving one major pain in her gorgeous tail. The only reason she's joined forces with him is to track down the wealthy human who's got her entire species in his ruthless sights. It sure isn't because Crush's stubborn and contrary attitude is rubbing Cella in all the right ways. . . “Hilarious, sexy fun.”—Heroes and Heartbreakers “Madcap antics, snappy dialogue [and] charged love scenes.”—Publishers Weekly

This story is an account of the coming of age of a young Native American boy on a bear hunting trip in Canada. He finds himself through personal events and Spiritual awakening that he encounters. He realizes the importance of seeing and understanding the little messages the Universe gives us every day. He has many decisions to make that eventually help form the man he becomes. He carries these teachings with him throughout the rest of his life. He grows in personal strength and wisdom, through the choices me makes.