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Jonathan Schork's "back yard" is an island of wildlife habitat in an ocean of mowed lawns treated with chemicals and vast expanses of concrete and asphalt. A veritable zoopark of wildlife, the author offers us in this small book a brief glimpse of the local birdlife, but so much more. With range maps, cheeky artwork, bird trivia, and nonsense verse that channels the spirit of Dr. Suess, Mr. Schork gives us his view of nature, and a volume uni...

Critical of the current trend in contemporary poetry toward "artfully formatted prose" and "futurist percussive poetry", eclectic writer and artist jonathan schork-- a self-professed classical aesthete-- offers us a rare treat: a collection of poetry with themes often influenced by contemporary politics, history, and even anthropology composed across a broad spectrum of unfashionable styles, including odes, elegies, and haiku, featuring the "i...

In a magic forest full of enchanted animals, a peculiar fox & a little girl discover each other and explore together the meaning of love, loyalty, & courage, defying social conventions & even the perilous King of the Dead.

Driven by love, loyalty, & courage, aided by an unlikely cast of characters-including three Goddesses, a witch, a wizard, and a hyena-- Inanna, an implacable young girl in Sumer, traverses the ancient near east in pursuit of a dragon whose curse has turned her parents to stone, but the final, terrifying confrontation is not what she expects.

In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king, " wrote Erasmus of Rotterdam, translating from the Greek and Roman in his Collectanea Adagiorum, published in 1500 CE. Jonathan Schork, while claiming to be no Erasmus himself, nonetheless offers us a rather fascinating compendium of esoterica-from observations about Donald Trump and U.S. Politics to Education, Cinema, and Tolkien, on to haiku and recipes for ice cream and omelettes-all adroit...

In Fearless Inanna, a young girl goes on an heroic quest to rescue her parents from a dragon's curse. Five years on, the goddess of the Small Sea summons her to meet with the great ocean goddesses Ratu-kidul, Marah, and Amphitrite, who present her with a daunting task: cross the Long Sea to the distant city of Atlantis and rescue it from another dragon, this one more daunting than the last. After a visit with her old friend, the witch Siduri, ...

In Fearless Inanna, a young girl goes on an heroic quest to rescue her parents from a dragon's curse. Five years on, the goddess of the Small Sea summons her to meet with the great ocean goddesses Ratu-kidul, Marah, and Amphitrite, who present her with a daunting task: cross the Long Sea to the distant city of Atlantis and rescue it from another dragon, this one more daunting than the last. After a visit with her old friend, the witch Siduri, ...

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Have you ever been in the toilet and so desperate to have something to read that you acquainted yourself with the ingredients of shampoo or tooth paste? The bathroom rule is a simple one, and will be understood immediately by everyone who likes to take with them something to read while they conduct their toilet: the best articles and stories are the ones one can finish in the time it takes to eliminate one's stool. Some of you are all business...

In The Love of Simon Fox, we were introduced to a fox and a little girl, how they changed each other, & what they brought to the lives of those around them. In this charming, sweet, funny followup, we learn more about some of the characters with whom we only made a glancing acquaintance the first time around. Were you curious about Peter Bear, Sanchez the Rabbit Chief, Cedric Marmot and his unlikely Friendship with Martin Badger? Jonathan Scho...

Simon Fox is a very peculiar fox: he lives alone in Elmwood Foxhall on the edge of an enchanted wood, wears a scarlet waistcoat & a top hat, & visits with his friends Edgar Owl, Alexander Raven, & others on Arthur Bear's veranda, discussing the weather & whether or not the elusive "human" is real. Penelope the girl lives with her father in a croft on the downs far from other people. When the fox & the girl discover each other one day quite by ...

Inanna lives an idyllic life with her parents in a small house by the sea, but while she's away in the City a tiny dragon sneaks into their garden & bewitches them. At the behest of a peculiarly wise heron, Inanna sets out on an arduous trek fraught with hazards to find the dragon and restore her parents to life. Aided in her quest by an unlikely collection of allies-- a wild hyena, an old trader, three Old-world Goddesses, and a witch-- the g...