Welcome! Here you will find books and ebooks by Michael Pastore, Dorothee Krahn, Rae Foley, and Michael Tobias.
Michael Pastore, our editorial director, is a novelist and non-fiction writer who lives in Ithaca, New York.
He has written and edited more than 20 books (11 paperbacks, and 10 PDF ebooks), many about working caringly and creatively with children, all currently available fom the Zorba Press website. Pastore's articles, essays, and interviews — about literature, sustainable living, children and childhood, and humanizing technology — have appeared in more than two dozen print publications nationwide.
As an expert in electronic publishing and the Internet, Pastore's words and photo were featured in an article in the New York Times newspaper on April 9, 2001. During the summer of 2000, he was contracted by a leading technology corporation to lead a team that developed a comprehensive online examination about the world of publishing: books, magazines, newspapers, and ebooks. In Spring 1999, one of his books was mentioned in the prestigious Times Literary Supplement.
Pastore lives in Ithaca, New York, with his library of more than 7,000 of the world's best books. About the importance of literature he writes: "Why read? ... The best books give us timeless hours of portable joy, expand our empathy and imagination, remind us of our past, bring hope to our future, caution us to live wisely, empassion us to seize the moment, show us ideals embodied in heroes and heroines, inspire us to be great lovers and rebels, give us courage to dare to be ourselves, corroborate our most sublime feelings, and point the way to deeper meaning in our everyday lives."
Pastore has recently completed a 100,000-word novel for adults (a comedy titled A Glorious Existence), and is now working on a new novel, a short book about Erich Fromm, and longer nonfiction works about Creativity and Love.
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Download: $2.00 50 Benefits of Ebooks is a lively introduction to the brave new worlds of ebooks and electronic publishing. This revised edition (now 50,000 words) is 25% larger than the March edition, contains new chapters, and features an inspiring Afterword by Michael S. Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg. Written for a wide audience — from ebook newcomers to experts — in 28 chapters, the book explores 5 essential aspects of ebook reading, writing and publishing: A. Benefits of Ebooks and Paper Books; B. Reading Ebooks; C. Ebooks for Authors & Publishers; D. The Value of Reading; and E. The Education of An Ebooklover. Ebook newcomers will find all the basics here. Ebook experts can debate and debunk the author’s wild predictions for the rosy and thorny future of ebooks, by reading the essay, “Publishing Ebooks: Ten Tremendous Trends in 2009.” Authors will discover tips and resources for ebook publishing. Library professionals will enjoy the book’s glossary, Index, and links to leading ebook sites.
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Download: $2.00 50 Benefits of Ebooks is a lively introduction to the brave new worlds of ebooks and electronic publishing. This revised edition (now 50,000 words) is 25% larger than the March edition, contains new chapters, and features an inspiring Afterword by Michael S. Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg. Written for a wide audience — from ebook newcomers to experts — in 28 chapters, the book explores 5 essential aspects of ebook reading, writing and publishing: A. Benefits of Ebooks and Paper Books; B. Reading Ebooks; C. Ebooks for Authors & Publishers; D. The Value of Reading; and E. The Education of An Ebooklover. Ebook newcomers will find all the basics here. Ebook experts can debate and debunk the author’s wild predictions for the rosy and thorny future of ebooks, by reading the essay, “Publishing Ebooks: Ten Tremendous Trends in 2009.” Authors will discover tips and resources for ebook publishing. Library professionals will enjoy the book’s glossary, Index, and links to leading ebook sites.
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Download: $1.00 This is the UPGRADE edition for buyers of the March 2009 edition, and for all senior citizens. ... 50 Benefits of Ebooks is a lively introduction to the brave new worlds of ebooks and electronic publishing. This revised edition (now 50,000 words) is 25% larger than the March edition, contains new chapters, and features an inspiring Afterword by Michael S. Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg. Written for a wide audience — from ebook newcomers to experts — in 28 chapters, the book explores 5 essential aspects of ebook reading, writing and publishing: A. Benefits of Ebooks and Paper Books; B. Reading Ebooks; C. Ebooks for Authors & Publishers; D. The Value of Reading; and E. The Education of An Ebooklover. Ebook newcomers will find all the basics here. Ebook experts can debate and debunk the author’s wild predictions for the rosy and thorny future of ebooks, by reading the essay, “Publishing Ebooks: Ten Tremendous Trends in 2009.” Authors will discover tips and resources for ebook publishing.
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Download: $1.00 This is the UPGRADE edition for buyers of the March 2009 edition, and for all senior citizens. ... 50 Benefits of Ebooks is a lively introduction to the brave new worlds of ebooks and electronic publishing. This revised edition (now 50,000 words) is 25% larger than the March edition, contains new chapters, and features an inspiring Afterword by Michael S. Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg. Written for a wide audience — from ebook newcomers to experts — in 28 chapters, the book explores 5 essential aspects of ebook reading, writing and publishing: A. Benefits of Ebooks and Paper Books; B. Reading Ebooks; C. Ebooks for Authors & Publishers; D. The Value of Reading; and E. The Education of An Ebooklover. Ebook newcomers will find all the basics here. Ebook experts can debate and debunk the author’s wild predictions for the rosy and thorny future of ebooks, by reading the essay, “Publishing Ebooks: Ten Tremendous Trends in 2009.” Authors will discover tips and resources for ebook publishing.
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Print: $18.00 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 of Style illuminates how professional writers write with precision, power, and grace.
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Print: $20.00 Here, dear Reader, you will find 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.
This book contains 28 selections by great storytellers from many lands, including Chekhov, Mansfield, Balzac, Dostoyevsky, Mary Shelley, Tolstoy, Hesse, Yezierska, E. M. Forster, Selma Lagerlöf, Marguerite Audoux, Maupassant, Hawthorne, Melville, Casanova, and many more. Also included are an Introduction by the editor, and 3 original pieces by Charles Elliott, Michael Pastore, and the novelist O. Thoreau.
The stories printed here — in addition to being immensely entertaining — are filled with profound insights about the most essential of all the arts: the art of loving
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Print: $18.00 Here is a feast of wise sayings, electrifying passages, original haiku and remarkable remarks, each one pointing the way to happiness and inner peace. The 400-plus immortal thoughts include more than 50 original never-published-before gems of Eastern wisdom by Hokkumeboshi and Ming Li.
This new 2007 edition contains every word and every illustration in its larger-sized big brother, Zenlightenment!
Page count: 232 pages. The book is a pocket-sized paperback, 4.25" x 6.88".
Price: $ 18 plus shipping.
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Print: $18.00 Zenlightenment! Mind-Opening Insights about Love, Life and Happiness. ...Here is a feast of wise sayings, electrifying passages, original haiku and remarkable remarks, each one pointing the way to happiness and inner peace. The 400-plus immortal thoughts include more than 50 original never-published-before gems of Eastern wisdom by Hokkumeboshi and Ming Li.
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Print: $20.00 A comic novel in two volumes. O. Thoreau has more problems than Hamlet. To find his authentic self he needs solitude — yet everywhere he wanders women flutter and fall around him like October leaves. With sixty books in his pack and fifty bucks in his pocket, the wanderlusting Thoreau saunters through the heart of modern Greece. Here he encounters a dozen extraordinary women and men, each one who has left the beaten path to search for a more glorious existence. In the middle of his journey, Thoreau discovers a hilarious Utopia, a community ruled by women where sex is celebrated, love is taught, nothing is forbidden and anything goes. ... Thoreau Bound explores the problems and themes of love, eros, and the search for an authentic and meaningful life. The era of Don Juans and the exploitation of women is ending; a new model of human relationships is about to dawn. In the utopias of the future, women and men will relate as equal partners, nourishing each other with the utmost passion and sincerity.
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Print: $20.00 A comic novel in two volumes. O. Thoreau has more problems than Hamlet. To find his authentic self he needs solitude — yet everywhere he wanders women flutter and fall around him like October leaves. With sixty books in his pack and fifty bucks in his pocket, the wanderlusting Thoreau saunters through the heart of modern Greece. Here he encounters a dozen extraordinary women and men, each one who has left the beaten path to search for a more glorious existence. In the middle of his journey, Thoreau discovers a hilarious Utopia, a community ruled by women where sex is celebrated, love is taught, nothing is forbidden and anything goes. ... Thoreau Bound explores the problems and themes of love, eros, and the search for an authentic and meaningful life. The era of Don Juans and the exploitation of women is ending; a new model of human relationships is about to dawn. In the utopias of the future, women and men will relate as equal partners, nourishing each other with the utmost passion and sincerity.
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Print: $18.00 A comic novel for children ages 9 to 99. ... 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 Huckleberry 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 children's friendships; the relationship of kids to the world of nature; and finding courage to follow your own true heart.
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"Lark's Magic is a modern children's classic which will be read and reread for its Dickens-like characters, its outrageous humor, and its celebration of the playful world of childhood."
—Booklovers Review
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Print: $18.00 Kids Play Games contains 110 active games and activities for children ages 6 through 17, and for grownups who are supple of body and young at heart. The book’s philosophy is simple: Children learn by playing, and the essence of childhood is active and imaginative play.
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Print: $18.00 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, and to think soundly. For the health and happiness of children and childhood everywhere, adults need to stop punishing children, and instead discover more life-enhancing and creative methods to connect to kids.
Written for parents, teachers, — and everyone who works with children — this book offers a lively blend of thought-provoking ideas and practical advice.
• Find responses to misbehavior that are caring and calm
• Give up the cycle of punishing, threatening, and yelling at kids
• Understand what misbehavior is, and why children misbehave
• Transform problems into opportunities that deepen your rapport with the child
• Prevent misbehavior by nourishing the child's creativity
New for 2007, the book contains 27 chapters, sample problems, and a comprehensive Index.
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Print: $18.00 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. (You’ll need to buy or borrow You’re Ugly and Your Dresses You Funny for The Ugly Answer Book to make sense.). These books help parents, caregivers — and everyone who works with children — to cultivate positive, caring, and creative relationships with kids.
For each of the 101 problems, the book contains:
• Brief and insightful comments about each problem
• W.H.I.R.L. (What Happened In Real Life) --- how the parents or caregivers actually reacted and responded in these 101 situations;
Also included is oOur 6-Step C.A.R.I.N.G. strategy for responding to all varieties of problematic behavior.
New in paperback for 2007, The Ugly Answer Book is the latest in our line of fine books about how to work with children without using force, rewards, or punishments.
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Print: $25.97 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. She began writing as a translator in New York City in the 1930s, and wrote under the pen name of Dennis Allen, and later of Rae Foley, creating a dedicated following of those who appreciate well-plotted, carefully crafted mysteries without the debris of four letter words and pointless violence.
This book is, more than anything, a word of encouragement and advice to one who would be a writer.
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Print: $14.97 This vivid, moving, and beautifully written story depicts the life and struggles of a Jewish girl in Germany (and later, England) during the late 1930s and the beginnings of World War II. Every word is true.
Author Dorothee E. Krahn writes:
"Much has been written about the Holocaust. People like Eli Wiesel have described the atrocities in all their gory detail. My purpose in this story was to draw attention to a somewhat different aspect: The erosion of a protective judiciary, and the gradual disappearance of the free press, all which eventually led to the total loss of personal liberties and with that, ultimately, of personal responsibilities. 'We followed orders' —- let it be a warning for our times."
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Download: $5.00 This is a bi-lingual edition of the great modern classic beloved by millions of readers worldwide! The German and English versions are placed on the same page, side by side.
In the year 1911, Hesse traveled to the East with the goals of seeing India, and finding enlightenment and inner peace. Hesse climbed mountains in Ceylon, but never reached the mainland of India itself. That journey planted the seeds for Hesse's great novel, where each one of the outward adventures represents a voyage into "the timeless realm of the spirit."
Also included in this volume is a chronology of Hesse's life and works, compiled by Michael Pastore.
Our eBook, in the versatile PDF format (for PCs and Macs), allows readers to print pages, search the entire document instantly, and view and read at different text sizes.
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Print: $18.00 Summer Camp Jobs USA is packed with detailed information about how to land the best jobs at American summer camps. The book explains how to look for the jobs, how to apply for the jobs, and how to match your unique skills, personality, and interests with the camp that is just right for you.
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Download: $1.00 This is the ebook version (in PDF format) of our paperback book. All the content in the paperback - all 204 pages - is included in the ebook! The ebook will be offered in 2 formats: PDF and ePub. This is the PDF version.
Summer Camp Jobs USA is packed with detailed information about how to land the best jobs at American summer camps. The book explains how to look for the jobs, how to apply for the jobs, and how to match your unique
skills, personality, and interests with the camp that is just right for you.
The book's 25 lively chapters provide more than a dozen games kids love to play; advice for preventing homesickness; and a checklist for making your camp sustainable. High-school students have a chapter devoted to their job needs; and international staff seeking USA employment will find useful advice.
The book has a companion web page with updates and free resources, here: http://www.SummerCampJobsUSA.com
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Download: $1.00 This is the ebook version (in ePub format) of our paperback book. All the content in the paperback - all 204 pages - is included in the ebook! The ebook will be offered in 2 formats: PDF and ePub. This is the ePub version. Summer Camp Jobs USA is packed with detailed information about how to land the best jobs at American summer camps. The book explains how to look for the jobs, how to apply for the jobs, and how to match your unique skills, personality, and interests with the camp that is just right for you. The book's 25 lively chapters provide more than a dozen games kids love to play; advice for preventing homesickness; and a checklist for making your camp sustainable. High-school students have a chapter devoted to their job needs; and international staff seeking USA employment will find useful advice. The book has a companion web page with updates and free resources, here: http://www.SummerCampJobsUSA.com
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Print: $20.00 A Christmas Carol and Other Stories by Charles Dickens.
This classic story of hope and laughter stars Ebenezer Scrooge, a greedy miser who feels no kindness or compassion for other human beings. His one and only interest in life is to accumulate more wealth. One evening, before Christmas, Srooge meets the terrifying ghost of Jacob Marley, his former business partner who died seven years ago. "I am here to-night to warn you," says the chain-dragging and tormented Marley, "that you have yet a chance and a hope of escaping my fate." ...
When Dickens wrote this story he "wept and laughed, and wept again," as he walked the streets of London all through the night.
Other stories included here are "The Chimes"; "A Cricket on the Hearth"; "The Battle of Life"; and "The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain".
This special edition of the book contains all the text in the original edition, a brilliant
Introduction by John Cowper Powys, and an insightful Afterword by Michael Pastore.
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Print: $18.00 "You were born for great things," he said ... "For great passions, for great accomplishments. Will you find your destiny, I wonder, or go through life like so many others — a wanderer, knocking ever at empty doors, homeless to the last? Oh, if one could but find the way to your heart."
Annabel Pellissier, frightened and confused, allows Sir John Ferringhall to believe that she is her sister, Anna. The deception grows, and Anna is forced to bear the burden of her sister's Paris reputation: that of being a coquette. Endless complications ensue when both sisters return to London. This is one of Oppenheim's most intriguing love stories, about one brave woman's quest to find love without sacrificing her integrity.
This is the Complete and Unexpurgated Boston Edition that contains 77,000 words. This special edition of the book contains all the text in the original edition, and an essay about Oppenheim by Michael Pastore.
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Print: $18.00 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.
This Zorba Press Classics edition of the book contains all the text in the original edition (published in 1919, the same year as another self-quest novel, Siddhartha), an illustration (the one and only) from the orginal book, and an essay about Oppenheim by Michael Pastore.
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Download: FREE This 4-page ebooklet describes 30 benefits of ebooks. Links to other resources will be included in future editions.  Download for Free |
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Download: $7.50 This vivid, moving, and beautifully written story depicts the life and struggles of a Jewish girl in Germany (and later, England) during the late 1930s and the beginnings of World War II. Every word is true.
Author Dorothee E. Krahn writes:
"Much has been written about the Holocaust. People like Eli Wiesel have described the atrocities in all their gory detail. My purpose in this story was to draw attention to a somewhat different aspect: The erosion of a protective judiciary, and the gradual disappearance of the free press, all which eventually led to the total loss of personal liberties and with that, ultimately, of personal responsibilities. 'We followed orders' —- let it be a warning for our times."
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Print: $20.00 50 Benefits of Ebooks is a lively introduction to the brave new worlds of ebooks and electronic publishing. The book -- all 50,000 words -- contains 28 chapters, in 5 areas: Benefits of Ebooks; Reading Ebooks; Ebooks for Authors and Publishers; The Value of Reading; and Resources for Learning More. This is the paperback edition of the work, which is 372-pages, and pocket-sized (4.25" x 6.88"). Before you buy our paperback, be aware that we are offering the same content in ebook form, for 2 dollars. The ebook contains all the same content as the paperback -- except the paper. This is the paperback book; the book is also available as an ebook in two formats: EPUB and PDF. If you prefer these other ebook formats, please visit the Zorba Press Lulu storefront, by clicking the author's name under the title of the book.
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Download: $7.95 This is an ebook in the format PDF.
Michael Tobias is the author of 40 books, and creator of more than 100 films. This breathtaking novel, The Adventures of Mr Marigold, first published several years ago in New Zealand, and illustrated by the great nature photographer Craig Potton, will now be published for the first time as a downloadable PDF ebook. Writes electronic publishing guru Michael Pastore, “This is a thrilling event, and globally significant, for literature, for the environmental movement and for electronic publishing. In every sense an epic, this extraordinary novel comprises more than 1,800 pages with 625,000 words. The book is larger than Tolstoy’s War and Peace, and almost three times the size of Melville’s Moby Dick.”
Michael Tobias -- global ecologist, author, and filmmaker -- received the “Courage of Conscience Award” in 1996 for his commitment to animals; and the Parabola Focus Award (2004) for his lifetime body of work.
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