"The Soul Speaks" is the first book from La Maestra Publications celebrating the triumph of the human spirit. This collection of real-life stories told by people who have come from all over the globe, eventually landing in inner-city San Diego, builds awareness by exposing readers to what "reality" is for people with different backgrounds, cultures and beliefs. Each shares their experience about suffering through oppression, poverty and tragedy, living in survival mode, and finally finding the will and determination to escape, starting over and thriving in their new community, having paid an...