Books published by publisher Dramatic Publishing Company

A FASTPITCH SOFTBALL BOOK FOR GIRLS or THE GIRL IN YOU --- Toni Evans The crack of the bat creates drama on the diamond and in a girls fastpitch softball league the drama can bleed off the field and into the lives of the players, coaches, parents, and fans. With fast-paced fastpitch action, the umpire screams "PLAY BALL" and the games begin, merging the real world of young 10 - 13 year old females with their competitive spirit and passion for winning fastpitch softball games.Imagine their emotions with egos flying as the dust settles. Will their pain and their joy finally merge with their dream and provide the determination they need to bring home the ultimate prize? Can they deal with the most important issue that derails so many teams and surprise us all?

At the beginning of our family trip, I had complained about having to go to Mexico, especially for an entire summer. And going to summer school? No way. Why would anyone want to go to school and drive hundreds of miles to get there? Summertime was for sleeping late, eating lots and swimming, you name it, anything but school. I didn’t want to learn about a whole new country.Back then, in 1965, I knew nothing about Mexico. What would I discover? What would occur there? Would I even like it there?Without leaving the comfort of your own home, come along and experience this colorful tour of Mexico. Read through the pages of "Chronicles of an American Schoolgirl Mexico 1965" and enjoy your journey Mexico!

Cast: 12m., 18w. (smaller with doubling.) "Hi, Teach!" are the first words to greet attractive Sylvia Barrett. There's a special happiness in walking into the still-empty classroom and for the first time writing her name on the blackboard. Students pour into the classroom—cautious, testing, challenging. Simultaneously, there's a blizzard of paperwork, warnings, contradictory orders, indecipherable instructions. Frantic, Sylvia begins to fear she doesn't even understand the language. An experienced teacher translates: "Keep on file in numerical order" means throw in wastebasket. "Let it be a challenge" means you're stuck with it. "Interpersonal relationships" means a fight between kids. And "It has come to my attention" means you're in trouble. Soon Sylvia finds herself the most involved person in the school—involved in the start of a romance and in a near war with a discipline-over-everything administrator, but, most of all, involved in the unexpected, sometimes heartbreaking problems of her students. The simple stage arrangement makes the play easy to produce and serves to convey a sense of the whole school. One critic said, "Seldom has a humorous work been at the same time so important."

Current scientific studies show that most people with type 2 diabetes can reverse the disease by eating a plant-based diet and making other healthy lifestyle changes. The Kick Diabetes Cookbook provides a blueprint for what to eat to defeat diabetes and offers 100 quick-and-easy recipes that are delicious and satisfying. Diabetes authority Brenda Davis, RD, outlines an action plan for including more foods that help regulate blood glucose levels and avoiding foods that send those levels skyrocketing. She clarifies why not all carbohydrates promote diabetes, explains how plant-based protein reduces diabetes risk, and illustrates why a whole-foods, plant-based diet is naturally low in fat and sodium. Coauthor Vesanto Melina, MS, RD, provides nourishing fare that ranges from tempting comfort food to sinful-tasting treats. Information on composing nutritious meals and cooking beans and grains is included, along with a sample weeks menu. Each recipe is accompanied by a complete nutritional analysis.

Winner of the VegNews 2015 VEGGIE AWARDS for Cookbook of the Year.Included as a Best Cookbook of 2015 by Powell's Books. Why wait for a trip to your favorite Ethiopian restaurant? Import the delicious flavors of Ethiopia right to your own kitchen! Kittee Berns explains this cuisine through easy to follow recipes, so you can savor authentic Ethiopian food without ever leaving home. Discover how to source and use the tantalizing seasonings and savory ingredients that are the foundation of these unique dishes.Kittee introduces the holy trinity of Ethiopian cooking: a berbere spice blend, injera (the fermented sourdough staple), and ye qimem zeyet, a veganized clarified butter. Armed with these basics, you'll be ready to dazzle your family and friends with many of the popular dishes found on veggie combo platters in restaurants all over North America. From saucy wots, spicy stews, and succulent stir-fries to traditional injera-based dishes and fusion foods that blend these unique seasonings into a range of family favorites, fans of this cuisine will be thrilled. Recipes are almost entirely gluten- and soy-free, or can be made so with easy adaptions.You'll also find tips on tools and equipment to time-saving techniques and menu suggestions. Just pull up a mesob (a traditional woven stand or basket), perch your platter on top, and get ready to party Ethiopian style!

According to the author's foreword this book covers: "outfitting, making camps, dressing and keeping game and fish, camp cookery, forest travel, how to avoid getting lost, and what to do if one does get lost, living off the country, what the different species of trees are good for (from a camper s viewpoint), backwoods handicrafts in wood, bark, skins and other raw materials, the treatment of wounds and other injuries, and some other branches of woodcraft that may be of service when one is far from shops and from hired help.[Note: this pre-1923 book has been converted from its original format and may contain an occasional defect from the conversion process or from the original publication.]

Werewolves and other shifters aren't real. Right?Wolf's ManWhen a gorgeous woman attempts to car-jack Detective Nate Rollins to escape the two men hunting her, his life changes. Forever.After he gets her away from the gun-toting men chasing her, he considers arresting her. First, he wants answers. Answers she's forbidden to give him.Now, creatures he never knew existed are after them both.But Nate has a secret even he doesn’t know. A secret that throws them both into more danger.His old life is over. Can he survive his new one?Is he ready for the truth?Wolf's ClaimWhen human-raised Nate mates with Janelle and becomes Alpha to the Texas Ranch Wolf Pack, he knows his life will change. He just doesn't know how much...Then the Were Council decrees death to an entire panther shifter clowder for crimes their dead Queen committed. As a cop, Nate defended helpless people.When the new Queen asks Nate for sanctuary, he can't turn her away.It isn't easy combining a pack of wolves and a clowder of panthers when both sides fear the other. Especially when Lycos, ancient King of Were appears...Wolf's MissionThe president's life depends on the rescue of a werewolf...Huntsmen capture a werewolf's daughter to force him to commit treason.To prevent the president's assassination, and war, Nate, a powerful Alpha, and his foster-brother Eli, a human changeling werewolf, must save her. With just two days to rescue her and stop the Huntsmen's dire plan, the two werewolves, rush to rescue her. For two centuries, the Huntsmen are only stories that frighten young werewolves. But the Huntsmen are real...And if they succeed, a human/shifter war may erupt. Eli and Nate strive to prevent the war the Huntsmen are attempting to start. If not, the future may be drenched in the blood of innocents.Wolf's HuntsmanHuntsmen intend to take over the U.S. government. Nate and Eli, both elite soldiers and Royal Alpha werewolves, strive to assert their dominance over all shifters to safeguard them from this hidden foe.Events culminate in the discovery of a plot so insidious, so catastrophic that it will poise all shifters on the brink of annihilation and thrust humankind into perpetual servitude.Wolf's TrustEvil must be contained. Compromised Huntsmen must die...When a Huntsman is captured by werewolves, the Huntsman Triumvirate sends Zoe to kill the compromised hunter and destroy the pack.But Zoe learns the Huntsmen aren't the saviors of humankind she believes them to be. Will she follow her heart to help the pack in their efforts to stop the Triumvirate?Or will she blindly follow orders to destroy the pack?Wolf's ReignNate never wanted to be king.But not even kings get everything they want.Duty prevails.Rogue vampires have built an army of Huntsmen to destroy the shifters, leaving humanity vulnerable to enslavement. Nate’s first royal duty is to save the were - and humanity - from this evil scourge. Nate is already struggling to control the half-wolf, half-human Lycos within him when it rejects his mate. Now Nate must protect his family from himself. If he can save his family from the Lycos... If he can get all the shifters to accept him as their king...If he can save humanity from the Huntsmen...Maybe, just maybe, he can be the king he was born to be.Werewolves, werepanthers, werelions, vampires, and more!The Texas Ranch Wolf Pack series is a clean paranormal romance."

Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife... But as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the family home, she just wanted to belong. Now she believes her clients deserve no less. A woman who sleeps among rubbish she has not put out for forty years. A man who bled quietly to death in his loungeroom. A woman who lives with rats, random debris and terrified delusion. The still life of a home vacated by accidental overdose. Sarah Krasnostein has watched the extraordinary Sandra Pankhurst bring order and care to these, the living and the dead - and the book she has written is equally extraordinary. Not just the compelling story of a fascinating life among lives of desperation, but an affirmation that, as isolated as we may feel, we are all in this together.

Winner of the VegNews 2015 VEGGIE AWARDS for Cookbook of the Year. Why wait for a trip to your favorite Ethiopian restaurant? Import the delicious flavors of Ethiopia right to your own kitchen! Kittee Berns has demystified this cuisine so you can savor authentic Ethiopian food without ever leaving home. Discover how to source and use the tantalizing seasonings and savory ingredients that are the foundation of these unique dishes.Kittee introduces the holy trinity of Ethiopian cooking: a berbere spice blend, injera (the fermented sourdough staple), and ye qimem zeyet, a veganized clarified butter. Armed with these basics, you'll be ready to dazzle your family and friends with many of the popular dishes found on veggie combo platters in restaurants all over North America. From saucy wots, spicy stews, and succulent stir-fries to traditional injera-based dishes and fusion foods that blend these unique seasonings into a range of family favorites, fans of this cuisine will be thrilled. Recipes are almost entirely gluten- and soy-free, or can be made so with easy adaptions.You'll also find tips on tools and equipment to time-saving techniques and menu suggestions. Just pull up a mesob (a traditional woven stand or basket), perch your platter on top, and get ready to party Ethiopian style!

"A celebration of family life in the context of the thousand natural shocks that it is heir to in modern times." ―Book WorldAthena and Dexter Fox lead a contended family life. Dexter is gregarious and opinionated. Athena runs an ordered household. They live in Bunker Street with their sons, Arthur and Billy. Billy's autism is a focus for their attention and efforts, yet life is fairly peaceful.But the arrival of Dexter's old friend Elizabeth, with her three charismatic companions, reveals the existence of a different world. One in which contingency and choice play a far greater role. The collision between these worlds will test everything that has held the Fox family together.In this powerful story, painted on a small canvas and with a subtle musical backdrop, Helen Garner acknowledges the magnitude of everyday decisions and their consequences.The Children's Bach is Garner's second novel. It won the SA Premier's Literary Award. First published in 1984, to critical acclaim, it has never before been available in the United States.Helen Garner writes novels, stories, screenplays, and non-fiction. In 2006 she received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature. In 2016 she won a prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize for her non-fiction. Her book of essays, Everywhere I Look, won the 2017 Indie Book Award.Ben Lerner is an American poet, novelist, essayist, and critic. He has been a finalist for the National Book Award, and is currently a MacArthur Fellow.