A collection of plays for young people, reflecting the ethnic diversity of the American landscape

From celebrated New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Rick Bragg, comes a poignant and wryly funny collection of essays on life in the south. Keenly observed and written with his insightful and deadpan sense of humor, he explores enduring Southern truths about home, place, spirit, table, and the regions' varied geographies, including his native Alabama, Cajun country, and the Gulf Coast. Everything is explored, from regional obsessions from college football and fishing, to mayonnaise and spoonbread, to the simple beauty of a fish on the hook. Collected from over a decade of his writing, with many never-before-published essays written specifically for this edition, My Southern Journey is an entertaining and engaging read, especially for Southerners (or feel Southern at heart) and anyone who appreciates great writing.

No one begins life as a mom. Before you have children, you are an amazing combination of friend, daughter, confidant, visionary, encourager, and thinker. You start out in life using your gifts and abilities in a surprising variety of settings. Then you have children and the role of mom–as wonderful as it is–seems to consume you. It’s easy to lose your identity when others see you as a mom and little else. What happened to the artist, the team-builder, the organizer, the entrepreneur, the leader–the person you’ve lost touch with? In Mama’s Got a Fake I.D., Caryn Dahlstrand Rivedeneira helps moms like you reclaim the person God made you to be. God still wants to use you in ways that let your gifts, passions, and personality shine. This inspiring and practical guide will show you how to break free from false guilt, learn a new language to express your true identity, and follow God’s lead in sharing who you really are. God wants you to discover who he made you to be–in your family and beyond. It’s time to reveal the woman who got hidden behind all that mom.

Are you a survivor of childhood sexual abuse? Have you experienced sudden and tragic loss that left you angry and empty inside? Do bad relationships follow you everywhere you go?As a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, victim of sudden and traumatic loss, and expert on bad relationships, Pastor Sabrenah knows all about the impact of trauma and how it shapes behaviors. She transformed herself from a victim to a successful advocate for children and families. However, with all her successes, she still struggled with building trusting relationships. Always attracting the same type of people. Those who required a lot of energy, having the appearance of strength and stability on the outside but severely bruised and hurt on the inside. Toxic relationships were like a magnet she couldn't resist. If this sounds like you, you're probably asking yourself, "Why do I keep ending up with this or that type of relationship?" For Sabrenah, it's called the rescuer's syndrome. Unknowingly, she found herself in situations with a compulsion to rescue others even at the detriment of denying her own needs. It's like a bad habit that's hard to break. Some might call that an addiction. That's what trauma does. It affects who you are until you open your heart and mind to become someone different.

This detailed account of Rose's journey to America highlights her hopes, dreams, fears and realities. She is so grateful for all those her who helped her especially when she arrived in the United States as a young lady and showing her the beauty of living in San Francisco. In this book, Rose Rinaldi describes growing up in the small town of Verbicaro in southern Italy and her journey to the United States. She thanks her parents and family and friends for helping along the way and with their support, love and guidance to become the person she is today.

The Mocking Tree, masterfully written tales of intrigue and retribution are shared featuring curious characters of depth and substance. This series of suspenseful short stories offers readers imaginative twists and turns encouraging them to wonder what is around the next corner. These stories leave their audience lost in time, anxiously turning pages in search of answers to the fate of their favorite hero or villain. A work of fiction for the ages that documents crime, violence and the American existence in the most colorful of ways. Once again author Cam Rascoe artfully paints pictures of humanity through entertaining prose of consequence, The Mocking Tree.

When her father left Japan, his mother told him never to return: there was no future there for him. Shinji Sato arrived in California determined to plant his roots in the Land of Opportunity even though he could not become a citizen. He and his wife started a farm and worked in the fields together with their nine children. At the outbreak of World War II, when Kiyo, the eldest, was 18, the Satos were ordered to Poston Internment Camp. Though they had lived the US for two decades and their children were citizens, they were suddenly uprooted and imprisoned by the government.