The Bear

  • The Bear
    The Bear
    By William Faulkner

    William Faulkner's short story "The Bear" was first published in the May 9, 1942 issue of The Saturday Evening Post and is considered one of the best short stories of the twentieth century.The piece is a coming-of-age tale that weaves ...

  • The Bear: A Novel
    The Bear: A Novel
    By James Oliver Curwood

    the French translation of James Oliver Curwood's novel , which he had won as a child in a school contest and which he remembered fondly . I read it in a single afternoon , and that was it . I was amazed ! I knew I had found exactly what ...

  • The Bear
    The Bear
    By David Lee

    The bear regards David with cold, plastic eyes, climbs up on its shelf, and quickly settles into the lifeless pose one would expect from stuffed bears. Not only is this stuffed bear alive, David realizes, hes evil.

  • The Bear
    The Bear
    By Cynthia Rylant

    Newbery Medalist Cynthia Rylant brings the peaceful sounds, sights, and characters of the coast vividly to life in the eighth book of the Lighthouse Family series, in which the family meets a bear who has just woken up from hibernation!

  • The Bear: The Legendary Life of Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant
    The Bear: The Legendary Life of Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant
    By Don Keith

    Suddenly , Bryant broke toward the stage at a run , even as Jordan tried to grab his overall gallus and pull him back . “ I believe I can beat that old bear , ” Bryant announced to the crowd that milled about them .

  • The Bear: War
    The Bear: War
    By John Kerr

    The center fielder signaled and raced back for the fence. Bixby tagged first and went for second. The center fielder stood with his glove ready. Suddenly, a gust of wind blew across the field. It stopped the ball's ascent and drove it ...

  • The Bear
    The Bear
    By Andrew Krivak

    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.

  • The Bear: Short Story
    The Bear: Short Story
    By William Faulkner

    Look for more titles in the HarperCollins short-stories collection to build your digital library.

  • The Bear: the Rising
    The Bear: the Rising
    By John Kerr

    The tales of these characters are woven as a tapestry against the backdrop of a region that became paradise for some and a dead end for others. California is the land of dreams. This is the story of those who dared to dream.

  • The Bear: A Novel
    The Bear: A Novel
    By Claire Cameron

    Lost and completely alone, they find that their only hope resides in Anna's heartbreaking love for her family, and her struggle to be brave when nothing in her world seems safe anymore. This is a story with a small narrator and a big heart.

  • The Bear
    The Bear
    By Raymond Briggs

    Tilly soon finds out that a big bear can cause big problems - he takes a LOT of looking after! But when she describes the bear's latest antics to her parents they think he's a figment of her imagination - but is he?

  • The Bear: Essentials
    The Bear: Essentials
    By Barry Gollop

    Full colour photography featuring the finest bears on the planet.

  • The Bear
    The Bear
    By James C. McElroy

    His grandparents are owners of the resort, "Bridal Veil Falls Lodge." Two lodge guests, Jaime and Petey, challenge Will's abilities as a woodsman in an effort to get him to lead them to the top of Bear Mountain.

  • The Bear: History of a Fallen King
    The Bear: History of a Fallen King
    By Michel Pastoureau

    Michel Pastoureau considers how this once venerated creature was deposed by Christianity and continued to sink lower in the symbolic bestiary before rising again in Pyrrhic triumph as the teddy bear.

  • The Bear
    The Bear
    By Andrew Krivak

    A gorgeous fable of Earth's last two human inhabitants, and a girl's journey home

  • The Bear
    The Bear
    By Claire Cameron

    Anna is five.

  • The Bear
    The Bear
    By James Oliver Curwood

    The movie The Bear was inspired by this exciting story (originally titled The Grizzly King). Thor, a mighty grizzly, and Muskwa, a motherless bear cub, become companions in the Canadian wilderness.

  • The Bear
    By James Oliver Curwood

    The Bear

  • The Bear: Water & Oil
    The Bear: Water & Oil
    By John Kerr

    Bard and Chapman crossed the main deck and entered a large room where the other members of the CDA had gathered and were enjoying cocktails. “So, Thomas, did you hit any Republicans?” Henry Huntington kidded the oil tycoon.

  • The Bear: California Dreamin'
    The Bear: California Dreamin'
    By John Kerr

    The Bear: California Dreamin’ weaves a sweeping tapestry that brings these characters and their stories to an action-packed conclusion of the epic series.