The Arkansaw Bear

The Arkansaw Bear
Author: Albert Bigelow Paine
Publisher:
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2009-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781409980209

Albert Bigelow Paine (1861-1937) was an American author and biographer best known for his work with Mark Twain. He was a member of the Pulitzer Prize Committee and wrote in several genres, including fiction, humour, and verse. Paine was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts and moved to Bentonsport, Iowa at the age of 1. He later moved to St. Louis, where he trained as a photographer, and became a dealer in photographic supplies in Fort Scott, Kansas. He wrote several children's books, the first of which was published in 1898. He went on to write about his travelling adventures, including The Tent Dwellers, written about a trout fishing trip to Nova Scotia. Other works by him: The Boy's Life of Mark Twain (1916), Mark Twain: A Biography, 3 volumes (1917), Mark Twain's Letters, 2 volumes (1917), A Short Life of Mark Twain (1920), Mark Twain's Speeches (1923) and Life and Lillian Gish (1932).

Go Down, Moses

Go Down, Moses
Author: William Faulkner
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2011-05-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307792145

“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.” —William Faulkner, on receiving the Nobel Prize Go Down, Moses is composed of seven interrelated stories, all of them set in Faulkner’s mythic Yoknapatawpha County. From a variety of perspectives, Faulkner examines the complex, changing relationships between blacks and whites, between man and nature, weaving a cohesive novel rich in implication and insight.

Big Bear, Small Mouse

Big Bear, Small Mouse
Author: Karma Wilson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2016-11-29
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1481459724

Even the smallest readers can have big fun with Bear in this sweet introduction to opposites from the New York Times bestselling creators of Bear’s New Friend. Bear is big, big, big, and mouse is small, small, small but these friends stick together through all the highs and lows! Join Bear and mouse as they spot all the opposites in their little glen. Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman team up again to bring the youngest Bear fans a delightful concept book that begs to be read out loud.

Pinnell and Talifson, Last of the Great Brown Bear Men

Pinnell and Talifson, Last of the Great Brown Bear Men
Author: Marvin H. Clark
Publisher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1980
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN:

Details the lives of Bill Pinnell and Morris Talifson, fur farmers in Montana, gold miners during the Great Depression, and renown Kodiak brown bear hunters.

Bigby Bear

Bigby Bear
Author: Philippe Coudray
Publisher: Humanoids, Inc.
Total Pages: 105
Release: 2019-02-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1643378740

A series of vignettes on imagination, science, mathematics, and the life of our planet...shared from the perspective of a curious bear and his furry, forest-dwelling friends!

Before Mark Twain

Before Mark Twain
Author: John Francis McDermott
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780809321919

A collection of thirty-seven stories, reprints from diaries and journals, and other materials published prior to the days of Mark Twain that depict Mississippi River life.