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Welcome! Here you will find paperback books published by Zorba Press.
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.

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.

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21st Century Solitude (Reading Copy)
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A novel by Michael Tobias, published by Zorba Press.
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Summer Camp Jobs USA (paperback 2010)
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Summer Camp Jobs USA: How to Find Your Job, Get Your Job and Love Your Job. Edition 2010. This is the paperback with 204... More > pages - 30,000 words. 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. You’ll also learn about 20 websites that will jumpstart your job search; how to prepare for the job interview; and how to increase your chances for success.The book’s 25 lively chapters provides 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. An ebook edition for $ 4 (in PDF and EPUB) is available from the Zorba Press website: http://www.Zorba.us < Less
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Zenlightenment
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Zenlightenment! Mind-Opening Insights about Love, Life and Happiness. ...Here is a feast of wise sayings, electrifying... More > 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. < Less
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Traveler's Zenlightenment!
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Here is a feast of wise sayings, electrifying passages, original haiku and remarkable remarks, each one pointing the way to... More > 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".
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The Ugly Answer Book
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The Ugly Answer Book contains no questions, but all the brief answers to the popular paperback You're Ugly and Your Mother... More > 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. < Less
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New Techniques in Child Maintenance
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Child Maintenance is the work of keeping a child in optimum condition: giving the child the physical and emotional... More > 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. < Less
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Curious Quest
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Ernest Bliss is 25 years old, handsome, very rich and very bored with the luxuries that define his superficial lifestyle.... More > 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. < Less
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Anna The Adventuress
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"You were born for great things," he said ... "For great passions, for great accomplishments. Will you find your destiny, I... More > 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. < Less
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A Christmas Carol
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A Christmas Carol and Other Stories by Charles Dickens.

This classic story of hope and laughter stars Ebenezer Scrooge, a... More > 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. < Less
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Kids Play Games
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Kids Play Games contains 110 active games and activities for children ages 6 through 17, and for grownups who are supple of... More > 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. < Less
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