Bear Publications: 106 books

This textbook develops an 18-week program designed to guide prospective students through creating their own speculative fiction story, that is, a science fiction, fantasy, or horror story. Designed for homeschoolers and small-school settings, this textbook draws on excerpts from dozens of speculative...

The name "Mythic Orbits" was simply intended to suggest both science fiction and fantasy and to identify this book in a distinctive way, along with any that follow after it in a series. Ideally this collection would include the best stories published in a particular year, but that...

This textbook develops an 18-week program designed to guide prospective students through creating their own speculative fiction story, that is, a science fiction, fantasy, or horror story. Designed for homeschoolers and small-school settings, this textbook draws on excerpts from dozens of speculative...

In a future one thousand years from now, an echo of the Victorian past thrives. A future terraformed Venus sees our era of high technology as one of innumerable dangers. Dominated by the most advanced technological society on the planet, New Berlin, the nation and city-states of Venus deliberately...

            This anthology aims to collect the best available speculative fiction short stories written by Christian authors. That’s whether the stories have openly Christian themes or characters or not, without requiring the stories to have any specific theme. (The anthology also limits itself...

A future Mars, one thousand years from now, which has collapsed back into a Medieval age was the backdrop for the 2015 short story anthology Medieval Mars. This story world idea imagined that Mars will be gifted with an even thicker atmosphere than Earth. That, coupled with Mars’ lower gravity,...

Few cities were founded by a man with the background of Dodge City's own Town President, Robert M. Wright. With a family that included a clerk of the U.S. Supreme Court, and a president of the Continental Congress, Wright came west at age 16 to make his mark on the world. He married his 13-year old...

Buffalo Bill's adult life has been the subject of many biographies and fictional historical novels. But we tend to forget that he was a boy before he became an adult. Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood fills that gap. It is one of the masterpieces by Edward Ellis, writing this time...

"Bar-20" is the story of Hopalong Cassidy before he became the "TV-Cowboy." He was a typical late-19th century cowboy, except he could rope, ride and shoot. In this book, he's nothing like the suave, quiet hero who always saves the day at the last minute. The author describes him...

The Ohio River Trilogy is a historical-fiction series about Zane Grey's ancestors which includes some of the first books Grey wrote. All three books in the trilogy were published in the first part of the 20th century, although Grey had to self-publish Betty Zane before it was finally recognized by...

Atlantic Series, by Horatio Alger, Jr., consists of four novels: 1. The Young Circus Rider tells the story of Robert Rudd who at nine years old wandering the country alone when he was offered a job as a circus rider. He accepted, and as the book opens, he is 15, and still riding circus horses....

The Young Circus Rider is the first in Alger's Atlantic Series. In the Preface, he notes that having just completed the Pacific series, the Atlantic Series is set nearer his home. Of course, most of the characters in his books lived in New York City. Robert Rudd was only nine and wandering the country...

Fairview Boys at Lighthouse Cove is the fifth book in the Fairview Boys Series. Published in 1914, it tells the story of the boys' summer-vacation adventures at the Lighthouse Cove, a resort on the seashore. While there, the boys take a small motorboat out on the ocean. Everything goes well until...

Fairview Boys and Their Rivals is the third book in the Fairview Boys Series. Published in 1912, it is full of action, adventure, and danger. Barely a page goes by without one of the Boys or someone nearby getting into a life-threatening situation. Ben Bouncer and his friends find themselves back...