The Zorba Anthology of Love Stories
A treasure of 31 stories (and passages from novels) all about the wild joys, the heartbreaking sorrows, the wonderful comedy, and the delightful mysteries of Love. Romantic love is the main theme of these tales, but other varieties of Love are explored: erotic love, motherly love, brotherly love, spiritual love, and friendship.
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The Ithaca Manual Of Style
Most traditional style guides are mere reference books with thousands of rules about SPUG: spelling, punctuation, usage, grammar. Our guide is not about the fanatic obsession with correctness. In a lively style, The Ithaca Manual illuminates how professional writers write with precision, power, and grace.
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Zenlightenment!
Mind-Opening Insights about Love, Life, and Happiness
Edited by Michael Pastore. Illustrated. Revised edition for 2007.
Zenlightenment ! is a feast of wise sayings, electrifying passages, and remarkable remarks. Each one points the
way to happiness, self-knowledge, compassion, and inner peace. This expanded 2nd edition features more than
400 immortal thoughts from more than 120 authors, including 56 original, never-published-before gems of
Eastern wisdom by Hokkumeboshi and Ming Li.
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Thoreau Bound
A Utopian Romance in the Isles of Greece
Novel for adults, in two volumes. Paperback.
“Thoroughly enchanting! A joyful, bawdy, Rabelaisian comedy about the beauty, complexity, and mystery of human
relationships. D. H. Lawrence, a rebel like O. Thoreau, wanted to call his novel Lady Chatterly’s Lover, ‘Tenderness.’
Tenderness between women and men is the rare and exquisite essence of this book.”
—BookLovers Review
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The Traveler's Zenlightenment!
Mind-Opening Insights about Love, Life, and Happiness
Edited by Michael Pastore. Illustrated. New in 2007.
This is the pocket-sized edition of our popular book, Zenlightenment!, containing all the words and illustrations of the larger-sized book. The Traveler's Zenlightenment! is a feast of wise sayings, electrifying passages, and remarkable remarks. Each one points the
way to happiness, self-knowledge, compassion, and inner peace.
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Kids Play Games
101 Active Games for Cool Kids
by Michael Pastore
Kids Play Games contains 110 activities and active games, for children ages 6 to 17, and for grownups supple of body and
young at heart.
Clear instructions for playing many classic games are included (from Capture the Flag to Prisoner’s Base)
as well as 36 original games invented by the author, published here for the first time. Kids love these games!
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Lark's Magic
a comic novel for children by Michael Pastore
Paperback, 224 pages.
Lark’s Magic is the story of the four wildest and cleverest kids to romp through the pages of a book since Tom
Sawyer, Tom Brown, Alice (of Wonderland) and Huck Finn. Here you will meet Brains, the boy-genius; Zerp,
a stick of dynamite on legs; Larquest Nova, who wears a mask to hide a shocking secret; and PDQ, the world’s
luckiest nincompoop. Mingled with all the fun are the great themes: the value of reading; the meaning of friendship; beauty in the world of nature; and finding courage to follow your own
true heart.
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New Techniques in Child Maintenance
by Michael Pastore
Child Maintenance is the work of keeping a child in optimum condition: giving the child the physical and
emotional nourishment that she needs so that she will be able to love, to learn, to play, to appreciate Nature, to create,
and to think soundly. This book explains how adults can stop punishing children, and instead discover more life-enhancing
and creative methods to relate with kids. A balanced blend of thought-provoking ideas and practical advice.
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The Job of Writing —
Rae Foley on Writing
by Elinore Denniston
Edited by Charles Elliott
Elinore Denniston lays out, without waste or bombast, the experience of a lifetime of writing – as a translator, ghost writer and widely read mystery writer. Her passion for the written word, its power and importance to the human condition, is evident from the first page of this book to the last. This last book is, more than anything, a word of encouragement and advice to one who would be a writer. It honestly faces the difficulties and challenges of the writer It is a song at once of passion and pragmatism.
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The Ugly Answer Book —
Brief Answers to the 101 Problems in You're Ugly and Your
Mother Dresses You Funny
204 Pages, Paperback pocket-sized, 4.25" x 6.88"
ISBN: 978-0-927379-95-3
The Ugly Answer Book contains no questions, but
all the brief answers to the popular paperback You're Ugly and
Your Mother Dresses You Funny. It tells WHIRL (What Happened
In Real Life) -- how the parents and child-care workers actually
reacted and responded. The book also contains a 6-Step C.A.R.I.N.G.
strategy for responding to problematic behavior.
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Anna the Adventuress
by E. Phillips Oppenheim
272 Pages, Paperback book, 6" x 9"
ISBN: 978-0-927379-18-2
"You were born for great things," he said ... "For great passions, for great accomplishments..."
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The Curious Quest of Ernest Bliss
by E. Phillips Oppenheim
232 Pages, Paperback book, 6" x 9"
ISBN: 978-0-927379-66-3
Ernest Bliss is 25 years old, handsome, very rich and very bored with the luxuries that define his superficial lifestyle. When a selfless doctor refuses to shake Bliss’s hand, the young hero grasps an unpleasant truth about himself. Now Bliss must discover if he has the pluck, ingenuity, and inner strength to transform his life.
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Also in Paperback
Our Top-Selling Books About Working With Kids
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You're Ugly and Your Mother Dresses You Funny
by Michael Pastore
Punishment wounds children, a caring response transforms and heals. That is the great theme of this lively and practical book,
written for everyone who works with children: parents, grand-parents, teachers, and child-care workers. Learn how to nourish the hearts and minds of children, and how to respond non-aggressively, sincerely,
and creatively whenever your children misbehave. Drawn from life, all 101 problems in this book really happened!
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Dynamite Counselors Don't Explode!
by Michael Pastore
Here in one lively volume is everything you need to know about effectively managing the modern child in day-care, afterschool
programs, and summer camps. The 20 chapters are packed with practical ideas, techniques, and games that you
can work with as soon as you open the book. Now in its third printing, Dynamite Counselors! has been used in youth
programs, summer camps, and university courses throughout the USA.
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Zen In the Art of Child Maintenance (and other tales)
by Michael Pastore
Zen In The Art of Child Maintenance is the story of the meeting between the beautiful Zenobia
Goldbottom (Zen), and the world’s most difficult 9-year-old: a wildly aggressive boy named Zerp. This
captivating tale vividly shows the reader how to respond creatively and lovingly to the misbehaving child.
The book also includes an illuminating Introduction by the author (The Secret of Being With Children), and two more tales: Fudge Unicorns, Chocolate Kangaroos (How to Help the Aggressive Child); and Sunrises and Starry Nights (Sharing the Wonders of Nature with Kids).
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