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|  | | Ghost Swamp Blues
When Lillian Green witnesses her older brother lynch a man, she chooses to remain silent.
Nothing is black or white in the murky town of Alderman, North Carolina, no matter how much the human and ghostly residents of the former Idyllic Grove Rice Plantation would like it to be. In 1949, fourteen-year-old Lillian Green witnesses the unthinkable. Her choice to remain silent about what she saw ripples into the swamps surrounding her family's home, awakening the ghost of Roberta du Bois, former rice plantation mistress, who had drowned herself in those waters in 1859. Roberta and Lillian forge a bond based on shame, silence, and an impenetrable loneliness. When Hannah, Lillian's dau | |  | | Lost Fathers: How Women Can Heal from Adolescent Father Loss
Learn to work through the unique challenges women face who lost their fathers due to death, abandonment, divorce, or incarceration using writing exercises.
What are the long-term ramifications for adolescent girls who lose one of the most important relationships in their life? Every year an estimated one million teen girls experience the death of their fathers. Countless more lose their fathers to divorce, addiction, incarceration or abandonment. Many helpful resources exist for teen girls dealing with such a devastating loss, but until now there hasn't been an authoritative guide for adult women to turn to in understanding how their behaviors and relationships may be shaped by losing their father at such a pivotal developmental stage. | |  | | The Writing Warrior: Discovering the Courage to Free Your True Voice
Learn to deepen your relationship with your writing by releasing your desire for results, practicing self-observation without judgment, and cultivating absolute vulnerability.
All writers are faced at some point with feelings of self-consciousness and self-doubt about their work. In this invaluable guide, Laraine Herring offers advice to writers who want to become more comfortable with their writing, face their inhibitions, and gain the confidence to release their true voice. Utilizing the breath, a vigorous movement practice designed to break up stagnation with the body and the mind, and writing exercises aimed both at self-exploration and developing works-in-progress, Herring offers a clear path to writing through illusion. Learn how to remove obstacles | |  | | Writing Begins with the Breath: Embodying Your True Voice
Deepen your relationship to yourself and to your writing by deepening your breath.
In this distinctive guide to the craft of writing, author Laraine Herring shows us how to tune into our bodies and connect with our emotions so that our writing becomes an expression of our full beings, rather than just an intellectual exercise. With warmth and wisdom, Herring offers a path to discovering "deep writing"—prose that is unique, expressive, and profoundly authentic. Lessons and imaginative exercises show you how to: stay with your writing when your mind or body starts to pull you away; explore the five senses in your writing; and approach your writing wi |
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Breaking Out
by Bob Brink
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 A teenage boy struggling with the coming-of-age issues of sexuality, religion, and peer approval is overwhelmed, but soldiers on. After several years, he comes to understand the family forces that have left him so deeply troubled, and the process of |
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