Books with author christopher mark stokes

On a street that never feels the warmth of the sun and where it never stops raining… there stands a house with a dark past. On a wet Saturday morning the house comes alive, and the trees begin throwing stones at young Trevor and his best friend Crumb. Soon after they are thrust into an adventure which sees them trying to uncover the answers that they need in order to lift the curse on the evil house. Will they stop it in time… or will the house become strong enough to wreak havoc upon the residents of Terror Street?

As a kid, Christopher Marley was afraid of bugs. But after his travels took him to farflung parts of the world inhabited by amazing insects, his fear gave way to fascination. The variety of forms and colors in the insect world is almost endless. Did you know that beetles alone account for nearly a quarter of all animal species on Earth? So Marley began collecting beetles, bugs, butterflies, and other insects, arranging them into stunning works of art such as the one shown here. Its art with a purpose: if more people experience the incredible beauty of these creepycrawly critters, perhaps they will not be so squeamish about them (and will be less likely to squish them, too!). Who knows? Maybe these stickers will help lead you, like Christopher Marley, to a lifetime of learning about the amazing world of insects! 8 page softcover book with more than 200 reusable paper stickers (99 different designs) featuring photographs of insects by Christopher Marley. Includes a diagram identifying all the insects.

Children Beware! Halloween is coming, and so are the Monsters…and they want your sweets!Halloween is nearly upon us, and at midnight, all the monsters of the Halloween world, from Dracula to Frankenstein, will wake up for their yearly tricks and treats (mainly tricks)The Midnight Monsters want your sweets, and they are going to do whatever they can to get their hands on those sticky treats.But the monsters need to be quick, and eat the sweets they find, because once midnight passes, the monsters will vanish for another year. Will the monsters get those sweets?There is only one way to find out, and its by reading this colorful and spooky Halloween story.

Radical environmental groups throughout the world, militantly committed to defending the ecology, are growing in size and influence. In this country, activists engage in ecological civil disobedience and "ecotage"-- the sabotaging of equipment to prevent ecological damage-- in the struggle to preserve wilderness lands. These ecoteurs have gone beyond traditional conservation concerns to a new philosophy-- Deep Ecology, or biocentrism-- that calls into question not only the wisdom, but the legitimacy of humanity's domination of nature. In "Green Rage", Christopher Manes has written a brilliant defense of radical environmentalism, challenging the ethics of modern industrial society and asserting the right of the natural world to blossom, evolve, and exist for its own sake.

A Thrilling and Suspenseful tale for children who are lovers of spooky stories. On a street that never feels the warmth of the sun and where it never stops raining… there stands a house with a dark past. On a wet Saturday morning the house comes alive, and the trees begin throwing stones at young Trevor and his best friend Crumb. Soon after they are thrust into an adventure which sees them trying to uncover the answers that they need in order to lift the curse on the evil house. Will they stop it in time… or will the house become strong enough to wreak havoc upon the residents of Terror Street?

From author Christopher Mark Stokes; the one behind the bestselling bonfire safety book, Bernie Sparks and Rocky the Rocket, comes this new spooky monster book for the younger audience. A book that is sure to give every child a fun and illustrated rhyming experience. "They're in the wind, They're in the rain... and They're under your bed!" Have you ever wondered what the rain is made of? Or have you ever thought, why does the wind blow? Well the answers to these questions and more come in the form of monsters. These monsters however, are not ones you have seen before; these monsters are strange, these monsters are oddballs… and they are everywhere!

Strange things happen when you start wondering about things. If you're a really curious young mermaid like Libby, who wants to know everything and anything, you might learn that the whole Atlantic Ocean is stuck inside a water tower. And that legs sprout from your tail once your scales dry off completely. Oh, and that your parents might not have a clue. But most of all: that the world is far more than it seems and filled with wonders--if you're brave enough to look for them.Christopher Mari was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and educated at Fordham University. His essays, fiction and nonfiction have been published in The Absent Willow Review, Citizen Culture Magazine, Current Biography, the Fordham Literary Review, Issues and Controversies, and U.S. Catholic, among other periodicals. America will publish another of his essays shortly.

Children Beware! Halloween is coming, and so are the Monsters…and they want your sweets! Halloween is nearly upon us, and at midnight, all the monsters of the Halloween world, from Dracula to Frankenstein, will wake up for their yearly tricks and treats (mainly tricks). The Midnight Monsters want your sweets, and they are going to do whatever they can to get their hands on those sticky treats. But the monsters need to be quick, and eat the sweets they find, because once midnight passes, the monsters will vanish for another year. Will the monsters find those sweets? There is only one way to find out, and its by reading this colourful and spooky Halloween story. Suitable for ages 2+

A stream of consciousness narrative, M. Christopher, intertwines his personal story, a teenager growing up in the 1990's, describing the difficulties in being raised by a single mother with deep insecurities for the future.Large swaths of America are becoming a failing state, resembling a third world country. Conservatives and liberals alike must come to agreement that there are two major issues; that the richest people in America, the investment and financial class, including the upper 10%, are crushing 10s of millions of Americans’ ability to make an honest living and creating inequalities so vast that the middle class is on the verge of extinction. They are simply transferring wealth from the masses into their own hands rather than creating new wealth. And two; a growing cancer of immorality of a majority of American society is a selfish, opportunistic, winner-take-all, free-for-all for money and resources. Is this just the behavior of inherent and natural human nature and Capitalism? Or the economic result of an Earth with dwindling finite resources in an age of ever growing Greed?There is a class extermination going on in America and it comes down to political bargaining power. The events going on in the world today from the micro societal level, all the way up to the macro global level are creating a future that is not only unsustainable but is questionable whether civilization will survive the next several decades. The current trajectory we are on looks bleak; with most people being dead broke, indentured debt servants. The debate should be on the table with all potential solutions laid out – or do we risk going blindly into the future, entertaining and breeding ourselves to a slow extinction as we unravel the ‘progress’ of three thousand years of human civilization? The power of economic herd behavior and self-fulfilling prophecies could potentially snowball society into a total collapse or perhaps with our standard of living greatly reduced, a vast majority of society will live in huge crowded metropolis’ with nothing but a small apartment and our Smartphones for entertainment. It is both fascinating and exciting to live in these times – never before has the potential for failure been so great and the repercussion even greater. The enclaves for the Elite are set up around the world, from China’s giant prefabricated and over-invested Ghost Cities to Dubai – further separating the thriving class from the societal decay they helped create through the control of finance and labor through the highly technologically advanced stock market – the greatest transfer of wealth the world has ever experienced continues to take place. We have the choice as to whether the future will be worth living in – do we care enough to work together to make that future better or will we continue on the selfish path that will destroy us all? From megacities of the future, to religion, capitalism, and the environment; as someone who has personally experienced extreme injustice, I discuss the stress humanity is facing as we approach and breach the limits to growth on planet Earth from a critical view of both sides of the political spectrum. Nobody is immune from critical analysis in this book, including myself. Critical analysis, admitting our flaws and failures, is the only way we can fix them. This is a matter of human justice and of our species’ survival. We are being crushed by a rigged system of ever complex laws, taxes and anti-competitive monopolies. The only word the ultra-wealthy understand is ‘more’ and they won’t stop until they have it all, at which point they will go after each others’ throats. The only end result of our current system is going from the Plutocracy (rule by the rich) that we are in, to a corporate dictatorship run by an aristocracy (rule by one large extended family). The more power concentrates into the hands of a few, the more corrupt America, China, and other powerful countries become.