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John Yunker

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John Yunker is an award-winning author of essays, short stories, plays and novels focused on the complex and often conflicted relationships between humans and animals.

He is co-author (with Midge Raymond) of the mystery Devils Island.

He is author of the novels The Tourist Trail and Where Oceans Hide Their Dead. And he's co-founder (with Midge Raymond) of Ashland Creek Press, a publisher devoted to environmental and animal literature.

His plays have been produced by theaters in Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, New York, Oregon and Washington DC. The full-length play Meat the Parents was a finalist at the Centre Stage New Play Festival (South Carolina) and semi-finalist in the AACT new play contest. Species of Least Concern was a finalist in the ...more

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	The Tourist Trail 3.63 avg rating — 499 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Among Animals: The Lives of Animals and Humans in Contemporary Short Fiction (Among Animals, #1) by John Yunker (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Diane Lefer (Goodreads Author), Jean Ryan (Goodreads Author) 4.01 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Where Oceans Hide Their Dead (Across Oceans, #2) 4.33 avg rating — 39 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Think Outside the Country: A Guide to Going Global and Succeeding in the Translation Economy 4.42 avg rating — 24 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Writing for Animals: New perspectives for writers and instructors to educate and inspire 4.30 avg rating — 23 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond Borders: Web Globalization Strategies 4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2002	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Among Animals 2: The Lives of Animals and Humans in Contemporary Short Fiction (Among Animals, #2) by John Yunker (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sascha Morrell, JoeAnn Hart (Goodreads Author) 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Savvy Client's Guide to Translation Agencies: How to find the right translation agency the first time really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Art of the Global Gateway: Strategies for Successful Multilingual Navigation 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Among Animals 3: The Lives of Animals and Humans in Contemporary Short Fiction (Among Animals, #3) by John Yunker (Goodreads Author), Nadja Lubiw-Hazard (Goodreads Author), Diane Lefer (Goodreads Author) 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Welcome to Devils Island

In 2018, Midge and I visited Maria Island, a small island off the coast of a much-larger island, Tasmania.

That trip inspired a novel. A mystery. An eco-mystery, to be more specific. One inspired by the Tasmanian devils.

I’m so excited to see this book out in the world. And we too will be getting out into the world, visiting Portland, Seattle, St. Lous and San Diego in the months ahead. For a li

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Across Oceans (2 books)
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War and Peace

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Great Short Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky

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“I trust everyone. I just don’t trust the devil inside them.”
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“For himself, then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more convenient shape for processing.”
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