Mykala Brach refuses to sit by and watch the bear shifter she loves fall victim to some warped science experiment. When she attempts to save him from her fiancée, her close friends become her enemies and long-held secrets are brought to light. Now she must choose whether to trust the people she grew up with or the growing connection she feels with this handsome stranger. As Knox begins to heal, his desire for the lovely Mykala grows. The only way to protect her is to mark her as his, but a human like Mykala would never survive the shifter ritual . . . or will she? As he learns more about her past, her true identity comes into question. Now they must uncover the truth before their enemies ignite a human-shifter war and destroy everything they both hold dear. Note: This is part two in a five-part e-serial.

Striking photography of the polar regions and fauna found there.

For several years, social psychologist Daniel M. Wegner has been investigating the inability to control thoughts. Drawing on the most recent breakthroughs in this area of research, this is an illuminating explanation of just how human minds work and of the glimmerings of madness in all people.

With a new introduction on Werner Herzog’s film entitled The Grizzly Man Timothy Treadwell, self-styled “bear whisperer” dared to live among the grizzlies, seeking to overturn the perception of them as dangerously aggressive animals. When he and his girlfriend were mauled, it created a media sensation. In The Grizzly Maze, Nick Jans, a seasoned outdoor writer with a quarter century of experience writing about Alaska and bears, traces Treadwell’s rise from unknown waiter in California to celebrity, providing a moving portrait of the man whose controversial ideas and behavior earned him the scorn of hunters, the adoration of animal lovers and the skepticism of naturalists. “Intensely imagistic, artfully controlled prose . . . behind the building tension of Treadwell’s path to oblivion, a stunning landscape looms.”—Newsday

I've been my grizzly bear's prisoner for close to a decade.He's full on feral.For almost ten years, I haven't felt cool air in my lungs or felt rough dirt under my feet.The vicious monster keeps me trapped inside while he terrorizes the forest we live in, trying to kill anyone who enters.Until one day, she steps into our territory and everything changes.I get myself out and taste freedom for the first time in way too long.And sharing it with my mate just makes it that much sweeter.But my grizzly bear is a vengeful beast.He's simmering below the surface.And when he manages to fight and claw his way out...Nobody will be safe.Including my mate.Like your alphas obsessed to the core and insatiable for more? Adrian Bowen is a dominant Over-The-Top grizzly bear shifter who will have you roaring! This is book three in the The Alpha's Obsession series. These books can be read in any order, are SAFE, with no cheating, and a furry HEA guaranteed. Enjoy!

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.

More adventures await The Bear's Song's Little Bear and Papa Bear. When the bears seek warmth from their chilly perch atop the Paris Opera House, Little Bear is mistaken for a toy bear and whisked away . . . to a tropical island! Papa Bear sets out on a frenzied journey to find Little Bear, traveling to a bustling wharf, beneath a sea brimming with coral and mermaids, onto a busy beach, and all the way to a sun-drenched island. As in The Bear's Song, Little Bear is featured in every spread. Will Papa Bear—and the reader— find him? Children and parents alike will savor Chaud's lush, detail-rich illustrations and the sweet story as well as the book's bonus seek-and-find elements. Plus, this is the fixed format version, which will look almost identical to the print version. Additionally for devices that support audio, this ebook includes a read-along setting.

She’s always been his. Now he just needs to convince her of that. Maddie: I’ve been working for years to save up enough to get out of this small town and away from my mom. Now that I’m about to turn eighteen, it’s finally my chance to make my escape. Except, when I come home late one night from my shift, I realize that my money is gone. Now I’m scrambling. I can’t stay here any longer, but my chance to escape was just stolen from me. So, I do the only thing that I can. I put myself up for auction. Jonas: I’ve always wanted Maddie. I know that as a shifter, I’m only meant to love my fated mate and that it’s too soon to know if Maddie is mine, but that doesn’t stop me from hoping that she’s meant to be mine. When I find out that she’s trying to sell her virginity, I panic. I buy her before anyone else can. Now, I’ve got my maybe mate right where I want her, but this isn’t how I wanted it to happen. When I find out that she plans to leave, I'm left scrambling. I need to convince her that she's meant to be with me. I just hope that it’s not too late. These Alpha shifters are about to fall HARD! Come to the small town of Aspen Ridge, Alaska, and get ready to watch these swoon-worthy wolf and bear shifters fall in love with their fated mates!

In 1951, Meyer Levin’s wife gave him a copy of The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, which had just been published in France. Levin was already a successful writer in his mid-forties, searching for a way to bear witness to his experiences as a war correspondent in Europe. In Anne Frank’s diary, he found the voice he had been waiting for. The Obsession, widely regarded as one of Meyer Levin’s finest works, is a candid account of his struggle to bring his version of Anne Frank’s diary to Broadway. Levin’s adaptation, begun with the support of Anne’s father, Otto, was eventually deemed ‘unstageworthy,’ and he was supplanted by non-Jewish writers. To Levin, it was a clear case of sanitizing Anne’s story in favor of mass appeal. He battled for his version in courtrooms and out, but the fallout nearly destroyed both his family and his career. In recounting the mania that gripped him for twenty years, Levin spares neither himself nor others. Like all his best work, this extraordinary memoir encompasses larger themes—the nature of Jewishness, the price of assimilation, the writer’s obligation to himself and to his subject, and the search for identity and purpose. "The Obsession is an autobiographical account by one of America's best contemporary novelists of his twenty-year agonizing enslavement to an idea. ... It is a dramatic book, beautifully written, with suspense, sensational revelations, the striking changes of pace and focus, and relentless seeking after the meaning of the obsession." - Sage Journal Publications

Why We Root: Mad Obsessions of a Chicago Sports Fan is a collection of Jack M Silverstein's sportswriting, including pieces from 1999 to 2023 that reveal the sports-fan mindset and show readers why we root for our teams. This collection of eighty-one articles is organized based on a fan's emotional journey—from learning the game, to knowing the game, to emotional heartbreak, and eventually to celebrating championships. Included in the book are Silverstein's real-time articles on many of the best known Chicago sports events of the early 21st century, including: the White Sox, Blackhawks, and Cubs breaking winning their first championships after massive droughts; the Bears reaching, and losing, the Super Bowl; the rise and fall of saviors-to-be Derrick Rose and Jay Cutler; the Chicago Sky winning the 2021 WNBA championship; the Blackhawks' famed "17 seconds" championship; the Bears' agonizing "double doink"; and the Cubs' horrific Bartman game, retold from multiple perspectives in multiple years, including ten years later by pitcher Mark Prior and catcher Paul Bako. Also included are Silverstein's look back at the Bulls-Pistons rivalry of the 1990s, the 1995 Northwestern Wildcats Rose Bowl team, and Michael Jordan's flu game.