Bear Publications: 106 books

Heart's Kindred was published during WW I, but it is a peace book, climaxed with a scene in which women present their view of war at a peace gathering. The hero, who has left his California mine to enlist in some army, any army, hears the women and realizes that killing is not the chief end of man. Those...

Heart's Kindred was published during WW I, but it is a peace book, climaxed with a scene in which women present their view of war at a peace gathering. The hero, who has left his California mine to enlist in some army, any army, hears the women and realizes that killing is not the chief end of man. Those...

"Drag" Harlan is a tough cowboy vigilante. After learning about a gold mine from a dying man, he seeks his daughter as well as the gold. He falls in love with her, but the same gang that shot the old man is after the gold. Charles Alden Seltzer (15 August 1875–February 1942) was...

Riders of the Purple Sage is a Western novel by Zane Grey, first published by Harper & Brothers in 1912. Considered by many critics to have played a significant role in shaping the formula of the popular Western genre, the novel has been called "the most popular western novel of all time." The...

Santa Claus's Helper: Livingstone has reached a pinnacle in his life. He is finally worth 7 figures, yet his bottom line requires that he cut back on charities this year at Christmas time. Business is business, after all. But success makes him surly and his accomplishment soon feels anti-climatic....

Published in 1900, this book follows the adventures of intrepid sixteen-year-old Dean Dunham as he travels to find his fortune and tries to solve the mystery of his uncle's robbery. A classic novel loaded with action and adventure. Horatio Alger, Jr. (January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899) was...

Fame and Fortune is the second volume in Alger's "Ragged Dick Series." Ragged Dick is now known as Richard Hunter, and he and his friend Henry Fosdick move into a new, slightly more expensive boarding house. After securing their room and moving their belongings from their old dwelling, Richard...

Frank's Campaign, written in 1864, centers around fifteen-year-old Frank Frost, who, in a patriotic gesture, offers to postpone his schooling in order to tend the farm after his father enlists in the Union army. Frank organizes a marching and drilling corps of the area boys, hence the book's title,...

The Birds' Christmas Carol is a novel for the whole family by Kate Douglas Wiggin written and published in 1887 and illustrated by Katharine R. Wireman. The story is about Carol Bird, a Christmas-born child, who as a young girl is unusually loving and generous, having a positive effect on everyone...

Nat Nason, a poor country boy with a strong desire to better his condition leaves the country after a quarrel with his miserly uncle - and strikes out to the big city to find his fortune. Nat's eyes open as he sees the difference between life in a quiet country place and in a great bustling city. He...

This is one of Thornton Burgesses' "Boy Scout Books." This first one features Walter, a scout who has never been to camp. He and his fellow scouts experience lots of adventures and come to meet and appreciate people who have different background than their own. The book has 15 images....

In publishing "Ben, the Luggage Boy," Alger said that it is in all essential points a true history, the particulars of the story having been communicated to him by Ben himself. In particular, the circumstances surrounding the boy's running away from home and adopting the life of a street...

California Joe, the Mysterious Plainsman, was born Moses Embree Milner in Stanford, Kentucky, on May 8, 1829. He was a colorful character. Although he owned a fast horse that he raced, mostly he rode an army mule which was superior to the horse over rough country. Heavily bearded, long-haired and...

Milt Dale is The Man of the Forest. Living alone in a camp in the wilderness called Paradise Park, he prefers the company of bears, cougars, and wolves to that of the surrounding ranchers and troublemakers. But one day he overhears a conversation that changes his life and convinces him to leave his...