Download or read book Hunter and the Mystery of the Missing Bear written by C. A. Jameson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's a mystery in Christmastown. Griz is missing, and Hunter and the Penguin Detective Agency are on the case! Join them as they visit many animal friends during their investigation. Each animal provides a clue to help Hunter and his penguin pals. Will Hunter find Griz and solve the mystery of the missing bear? This delightful story makes a great gift for any child, but especially for a "Hunter" because he is the star of this book, and his name is featured throughout. Note that this book is available with many other popular names! COMPANION BOOKS: Hunter and the Christmas Bell & Hunter and the Mystery of the Missing Bear Coloring Book AND Hunter and the Christmas Bell.
Download or read book Pippa Parvin and the Mystery of the Missing Wellies written by D.Z. Mah and published by WorkHorse Productions, Inc.. This book was released on with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your cousin, Pippa, cannot find her wellies. She'll need those rubber boots the next time it rains, and so she must solve the mystery of where they've gone. She'll want YOUR help to decide where to look and how. See if you can figure out how someone would sneak up to the cottage and swipe a pair of wellies without being seen. More importantly, who would do such a thing? See if you can solve the mystery before Pippa does!
Download or read book The Case of the Twin Teddy Bears written by Carolyn Keene and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1993-12 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The owner of a toy and teddy bear shop where Bess is working during the Christmas rush is robbed of his prized collection of antique bears.
Download or read book Animal Novel The Last War Elephant written by ouping guo and published by ouping guo. This book was released on with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seekers 2 Great Bear Lake written by Erin Hunter and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-02-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Destiny has brought them together. . . . Young black bear Lusa has left the comfort of the zoo, determined against all odds to make her way in the wild. It is there that she encounters grizzly cub Toklo and a mysterious changeling named Ujurak. Once united, the cubs find themselves on a journey toward a mystical place—if only they knew where. Meanwhile, separated from her family, polar bear cub Kallik trusts her intuition to lead her on a path traveled by many bears before her. At last the four cubs meet at the sacred Great Bear Lake, a place of peace and healing where bears gather to celebrate the longest day. But all is not harmonious. Danger lurks beneath the calm surface of the lake, and only if they put aside their differences and truly come together will the young bears have any chance of surviving the harsh realities of the wild.
Download or read book Pippa Parvin and the Mystery of the Missing Pencil written by D.Z. Mah and published by WorkHorse Productions, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a plain, boring pencil to most people, but you've had it for ages. It's your lucky pencil, but now it's missing. What's worse, your cousin Pippa sees you crying over it. But she doesn't laugh. She sees this as a new mystery to solve, and she needs your help. The werefoxes are on the move again, this time to track down that missing pencil! Pippa needs YOU to decide where to look and what order to collect clues. See if you can solve the mystery of who has your missing pencil before Pippa does?
Download or read book Gladly the Cross Eyed Bear written by Ed McBain and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-30 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lainie Commins, a freelance designer of children's toys, hires attorney Matthew Hope for a lawsuit against her old employers, Brett and Etta Toland. At stake are the lucrative rights to Gladly, a teddy bear with crossed eyes and corrective lenses. It's a straightforward case--until Brett Toland is shot in the throat aboard his luxury yacht and Lainie becomes the chief suspect.
Download or read book Correspondence from the End of the Universe Vol 2 written by Menota and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FAR FROM HOME Marko is a young Russian who was suddenly teleported to the Bureau of End Management, an organization responsible for keeping space operating smoothly. Frustrated by being forcibly selected as staff, Marko attempts to escape back to Earth where his partner awaits but fails spectacularly. As Marko decides to make the best of his new “mission,” his heart is swayed by encounters with planets and aliens beyond imagination.
Download or read book In the Eye of the Wild written by Nastassja Martin and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Pippa Parvin and the Mystery of the Missing Quill Pen written by D.Z. Mah and published by WorkHorse Productions, Inc.. This book was released on with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a priceless artifact disappears, a play-date becomes an investigation. You and Pippa are at your friend, Robert’s, manor house when his family discovers that an antique quill pen is missing. Robert's great-great-great grandfather cut the quill himself and presented it to your great-great-great grandfather, his loyal game warden. You, Pippa, and Robert are all heartbroken at its loss. But Pippa’s on the case, and she needs your help. Will you question witnesses first, or try to decipher a cryptic piece of paper left in the quill’s place? Pippa will follow your lead. See if you can crack the case before Pippa does!
Download or read book Village of the Ghost Bears written by Stan Jones and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth Nathan Active mystery Alaska State Trooper Nathan Active must figure out what connects a dead hunter on a remote Arctic lake with a year-old fatal plane crash in the Brooks Range and an arson at the Chukchi Recreation Center. That fire killed eight people, including the police chief and the town’s basketball star. Active’s investigation leads him to a lucrative polar-bear poaching operation and a brother and sister with an intense bond from a village famous for twins, polar bears, and schizophrenia.
Download or read book Ice Hunter written by Joseph Heywood and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a brilliant debut to a thrilling series, Grady Service gets news that his nemesis, the head of an incestuous clan of poachers, is to be released from prison. But something even more sinister is afoot in the Mosquito Wilderness. Service must call upon his every reserve to track, stalk, and capture the “ice hunter.” MEET GRADY SERVICE: former Marine, renowned tracker, conservation officer, and the last person any errant hunter wants to cross. In Ice Hunter—the first of a series of mysteries set in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and celebrated for its intricate plots and outrageously unforgettable characters—Service defends his turf with the tenacity of a bear and the wisdom of an ancient. He shuns all creature comforts and consumerism and is most at home stalking the Mosquito Tract, his self-designated wilderness. Times are not easy for Service. As the summer season opens, he gets news that his nemesis, the despicable leader of an incestuous clan of poachers, is to be released from prison. But something even more sinister is afoot—something that inspires untold greed, involves giants of industry and politics, and renders human life dispensable. Service must call upon his every reserve to track, stalk, and capture the “ice hunter.” Full of grit and wilderness lore, Ice Hunter pulls you in and won’t let you go.
Download or read book Seekers 5 Fire in the Sky written by Erin Hunter and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spirits dance like fire in the sky. . . . The three cubs—Kallik, Toklo, and Lusa—along with their shape-shifting companion, Ujurak, stand on the edge of the sea-ice under the blazing Northern Lights. The land has come to an end, but the bears' journey is far from over. Now they must put their trust in Kallik's paws, as she feels the ice pulling her out toward the ocean. Life on the ice is more difficult than the bears imagined. While Kallik struggles to remember her polar bear roots, Toklo bristles in the unfamiliar territory and Lusa gets weaker by the day; black and brown bears don't belong on the ice. Meanwhile, Ujurak learns firsthand what lurks beneath the whorls and bubbles of the ice, and what he discovers will change everything. Just when it seems like they'll never survive in the frozen wilderness, a mystical encounter with a bear spirit assures them that all will be well. But this strange vision leads to even more questions, and ultimately it might tear the bears apart—this time for good—as the next steps of their journey come into focus.
Download or read book Bear written by Robert Greenfield and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of the reclusive and mysterious Grateful Dead benefactor and renowned LSD chemist without whom the counterculture would never have been born.
Download or read book Not an Alphabet Book The Case of the Missing Cake written by Eoin McLaughlin and published by Candlewick. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow Bear from A to Z as he hunts for a cake thief in a hilarious alphabet book crossed with a whodunit. There has been a terrible crime, Bear tells us. Someone has STOLEN a delicious chocolate cake! Bear sets off to find the culprit, questioning characters and compiling clues from A to Z. Among the suspects: a gingerbread man (G) with a bite out of his head, a kite (K) that may be above the law, and an octopus (O) with grabby tentacles. But — hold on — are those crumbs on Bear’s page? Is that frosting on his face? Looks like our narrator is a little unreliable! And it appears our culprit might be the one that Bear wants readers to suspect the least of all. . . . Author Eoin McLaughlin’s sly, cheeky humor takes the alphabet book to inventive new heights, while best-selling illustrator Marc Boutavant’s smart and striking graphic-style art matches the irreverent tone. Young ABC learners and older fans of funny stories will laugh out loud at Bear’s uproarious “investigation” and his anything-but-usual suspects.
Download or read book Sing with the Heart of a Bear written by Kenneth Lincoln and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining contemporary poetry by way of ethnicity and gender, Kenneth Lincoln tracks the Renaissance invention of the Wild Man and the recurrent Adamic myth of the lost Garden. He discusses the first anthology of American Indian verse, The Path on the Rainbow (1918), which opened Jorge Luis Borges' university surveys of American literature, to thirty-five contemporary Indian poets who speak to, with, and against American mainstream bards. From Whitman's free verse, through the Greenwich Village Renaissance (sandwiched between the world wars) and the post-apocalyptic Beat incantations, to transglobal questions of tribe and verse at the century's close, Lincoln shows where we mine the mother lode of New World voices, what distinguishes American verse, which tales our poets sing and what inflections we hear in the rhythms, pitches, and parsings of native lines. Lincoln presents the Lakota concept of "singing with the heart of a bear" as poetry which moves through an artist. He argues for a fusion of estranged cultures, tribal and émigré, margin and mainstream, in detailing the ethnopoetics of Native American translation and the growing modernist concern for a "native" sense of the "makings" of American verse. This fascinating work represents a major new effort in understanding American and Native American literature, spirituality, and culture.
Download or read book The Bear written by Andrew Krivak and published by Bellevue Literary Press. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
