title: Bear (New Canadian Library)
author:  Marian Engel 
description: After five years buried like a mole amid the decaying maps and manuscripts of an historical institute, Lou is given a welcome field assignment: to catalogue a nineteenth-century library, improbably located in an octagonal house on a remote island in northern Ontario. Eager to reconstruct the estate?s curious history, she is unprepared for her discovery that the island has one other inhabitant: a bear.<br /><br />Lou?s imagination is soon overtaken by the estate?s historical occupants, whose fascination with bear lore becomes her own. Irresistibly, Lou is led along a path of emotional and sexual self-discovery, as she explores the limits of her own animal nature through her bizarre and healing relationship with the bear.<br /><br />A daring and compelling novel, Marian Engel?s <i>Bear</i> won the Governor General?s Award for 1976.
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  # Need to Bear
  
  
  Heart of The Bear Book Four
  
  
  Lily Marie
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright, 2016
  
  
  All Rights Reserved.
  
  
  
  
  
  No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without
  written permission of the author, except for use in any review. This is a work
  of fiction. The names, characters, locales, and events are either pure
  invention or used fictitiously, and all incidents come from the author’s
  imagination alone.
  
  
  
  
  
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