When a Bear Loves a Woman

When a Bear Loves a Woman
Author: Lily Cahill
Publisher: Nameless Shameless Women
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2016-08-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

One thought haunted him: Grace refused to give her love to him, just like fate promised in his vision all those years ago. He was truly destined to be alone. Bret Hart’s life is in freefall. He just quit his band, the Wild Harts, and walked out on his brothers without telling them where he was going. Now, he’s rambling across Texas under an assumed name, taking odd jobs and the occasional performing gig, trying to avoid the painful truth that haunts him: he has no fated mate. When he meets Grace Lopez, he thinks he’s drawn to her because she’s got a big heart and luscious curves, until Grace tells him the truth: she’s a fellow shifter, and their families are at war. Grace Lopez has spent her whole life in a dusty Texas town, trying to keep her family’s dilapidated bar from collapsing completely. She wanted to be a musician, once, but she lost any chance when her parents died, leaving her in charge of her willful teenage brother. When she meets sexy Bret Hart, he stirs up the dreams she thought were dead, and all the desires she tried so hard to kill. She’s been promised to the head of her wolf shifter clan, but the only man she wants is a secret bear shifter…and a secret rockstar. Grace and Bret’s families are battling for control of the shifter world, and everyone wants them to choose a side. But what if they chose each other instead? Wild Harts: Rockstar Shifters tells the saga of the four sexy Hart brothers as they make their mark in the music world while fighting to defend their shifter family. These four brothers sometimes don’t see eye to eye, but they always have each other’s backs. And when they meet their fated mates, there’s nothing that can stop them from taking what’s theirs. If you like rockstar bad boys with a wild side, you’ll love this series!

My Boyfriend is a Bear

My Boyfriend is a Bear
Author: Pamela Ribon
Publisher: Oni Press
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2018-04-17
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1620104873

The delightful story of Nora who, after a succession of terrible boyfriends, finds a much happier relationship with a 500-pound American black bear. Bear meets girl. Nora has bad luck with men. When she meets an (actual) bear on a hike in the Los Angeles hills, he turns out to be the best romantic partner she's ever had! He's considerate, he's sweet, he takes care of her. But he's a bear, and winning over her friends and family is difficult. Not to mention he has to hibernate all winter. Can true love conquer all?

The Woman Who Married the Bear

The Woman Who Married the Bear
Author: Frank Henry Kaash Katasse
Publisher:
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2017-10-02
Genre: Bears
ISBN: 9781946019080

When a woman is carried off by killer whales, her husband embarks on a journey to get her back. Aided by friends he meets along the way, the man follows her trail across the bottom of the sea to the Killer Whale House. Find out what happens to Nanasimgit and K¿uljáad in this ancient Haida story. This book is part of Baby Raven Reads, an award-winning Sealaska Heritage program for Alaska Native families with children up to age 5 that promotes language development and school readiness. Baby Raven Reads was awarded the Library of Congress's 2017 Literacy Awards Program Best Practice Honoree award.

In the Eye of the Wild

In the Eye of the Wild
Author: Nastassja Martin
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2021-11-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1681375869

After enduring a vicious bear attack in the Russian Far East's Kamchatka Peninsula, a French anthropologist undergoes a physical and spiritual transformation that forces her to confront the tenuous distinction between animal and human. In the Eye of the Wild begins with an account of the French anthropologist Nastassja Martin’s near fatal run-in with a Kamchatka bear in the mountains of Siberia. Martin’s professional interest is animism; she addresses philosophical questions about the relation of humankind to nature, and in her work she seeks to partake as fully as she can in the lives of the indigenous peoples she studies. Her violent encounter with the bear, however, brings her face-to-face with something entirely beyond her ken—the untamed, the nonhuman, the animal, the wild. In the course of that encounter something in the balance of her world shifts. A change takes place that she must somehow reckon with. Left severely mutilated, dazed with pain, Martin undergoes multiple operations in a provincial Russian hospital, while also being grilled by the secret police. Back in France, she finds herself back on the operating table, a source of new trauma. She realizes that the only thing for her to do is to return to Kamchatka. She must discover what it means to have become, as the Even people call it, medka, a person who is half human, half bear. In the Eye of the Wild is a fascinating, mind-altering book about terror, pain, endurance, and self-transformation, comparable in its intensity of perception and originality of style to J. A. Baker’s classic The Peregrine. Here Nastassja Martin takes us to the farthest limits of human being.

The Woman Who Married a Bear

The Woman Who Married a Bear
Author: Tiffany Midge
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2016-03-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0826356532

Winner of the Kenyon Review Earthworks Prize for Indigenous Poetry, Midge deftly weaves Plains Indian myths into the present day and seeks to define love, the nature of desire, and identity in the twenty-first century. The book includes a series of poems, each titled “Considering Wakatanka,” that weave together the themes throughout the book. The Woman Who Married a Bear showcases the wholly individual voice of a talented poet.

Unti Temple Hill Picture Book #1

Unti Temple Hill Picture Book #1
Author: HarperCollins Canada, Limited
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2021-10-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9780062957177

Business leader, actor, and Baby2Baby ambassador Jessica Alba and Baby2Baby co-CEOs Kelly Sawyer Patricof and Norah Weinstein deliver the important message of giving back from an early age through this tender and delightful story. Tiana loves her teddy bear, Bach. She doesn't mind that he's a little worn and somewhat torn. So when her mother suggests she make room for a new bear, Tiana can't believe her ears! Will Tiana have to lose the one bear she really loves? Or will she find room in her heart for two? Find out in this endearing tale--brought to life by Alicia Más's imaginative illustrations--about a young girl who learns the importance of letting go and giving back.

The Bear

The Bear
Author: Andrew Krivak
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-02-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1942658710

From National Book Award in Fiction finalist Andrew Krivak comes a gorgeous fable of Earth’s last two human inhabitants, and a girl’s journey home In an Edenic future, a girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. They possess a few remnants of civilization: some books, a pane of glass, a set of flint and steel, a comb. The father teaches the girl how to fish and hunt, the secrets of the seasons and the stars. He is preparing her for an adulthood in harmony with nature, for they are the last of humankind. But when the girl finds herself alone in an unknown landscape, it is a bear that will lead her back home through a vast wilderness that offers the greatest lessons of all, if she can only learn to listen. A cautionary tale of human fragility, of love and loss, The Bear is a stunning tribute to the beauty of nature’s dominion. Andrew Krivak is the author of two previous novels: The Signal Flame, a Chautauqua Prize finalist, and The Sojourn, a National Book Award finalist and winner of both the Chautauqua Prize and Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He lives with his wife and three children in Somerville, Massachusetts, and Jaffrey, New Hampshire, in the shadow of Mount Monadnock, which inspired much of the landscape in The Bear.

The Woman Who Married the Bear

The Woman Who Married the Bear
Author: Barbara Alice Mann
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2023-11-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0197655440

Stories of the primordial woman who married a bear, appear in matriarchal traditions across the global North from Indigenous North America and Scandinavia to Russia and Korea. In The Woman Who Married the Bear, authors Barbara Alice Mann, a scholar of Indigenous American culture, and Kaarina Kailo, who specializes in the cultures of Northern Europe, join forces to examine these Woman-Bear stories, their common elements, and their meanings in the context of matriarchal culture. The authors reach back 35,000 years to tease out different threads of Indigenous Woman-Bear traditions, using the lens of bear spirituality to uncover the ancient matriarchies found in rock art, caves, ceremonies, rituals, and traditions. Across cultures, in the earliest known traditions, women and bears are shown to collaborate through star configurations and winter cave-dwelling, symbolized by the spring awakening from hibernation followed by the birth of "cubs." By the Bronze Age, however, the story of the Woman-Bear marriage had changed: it had become a hunting tale, refocused on the male hunter. Throughout the book, Mann and Kailo offer interpretations of this earliest known Bear religion in both its original and its later forms. Together, they uncover the maternal cultural symbolism behind the bear marriage and the Original Instructions given by Bear to Woman on sustainable ecology and lifeways free of patriarchy and social stratification.

Bear and Wolf

Bear and Wolf
Author: Daniel Salmieri
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 27
Release: 2020-05-25
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1592703399

A New York Times Editors' ChoiceA Capitol Choices Book of 2019A Brain Pickings Best Children's Book of 2018Winter 2017 – 2018 Kids Indie Next Pick!A Fatherly Best Children's Book of 2018Selected for exhibition in the 2018 Society of Illustrators Original Art show "Just found the book we'll gift to every child we know!"—PBS "Stunning, serene and philosophical"—Maria Russo, The New York Times "Hushed and lovely, this is a picture book to calm and inspire."—Meghan Cox Gurdon, The Wall Street Journal Bear and Wolf become unlikely companions one winter's evening when they discover each other out walking in the falling snow; they are young and curious, slipping easily into friendship as they amble along together, seeing new details in the snowy forest. Together they spy an owl overhead, look deep into the frozen face of the lake, and contemplate the fish sleeping below the surface. Then it's time to say goodbye: for Bear to go home and hibernate with the family and for Wolf to run with the pack. Daniel Salmieri's debut as author/illustrator is a beautifully rendered story of friendship and the subtle rhythm of life when we are open to the world and to each other.

Dear Bear

Dear Bear
Author:
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
Total Pages: 44
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780876148396

Katie is afraid of the bear that lives under the stairs in her house, until they exchange letters and she finally gets to meet him.