Books with author Rene Martin

Featuring your favorite Disney characters, these bestselling storybook collections have been completely redesigned with all new covers, gilded pages, newly edited text, and a classic new look with over 250 illustrations€”including full-page artwork from the Disney archives. Join your favorite Disney Princesses and their friends in this newly reworked collection. With even more stories dedicated to Cinderella, Snow White, and the most popular Princesses, little girls are sure to delight in this collection.

Seventeen-year-old Zander Hua has grown up hearing his parents argue about the environment. His dad, Mike, just wants to enjoy his life as a deep-sea fisherman, but his mom, Gloria, detests how the fishing industry damages reefs in our already dying oceans. When he is ten, his parents divorce and Zander splits his time between his mom’s world of environmental activism and his dad’s world of sailing, fishing, and survival shows. The summer after Zander’s junior year, his dad invites him to sail from Seattle to Hawaii. A retired software exec from Seattle has hired Mike to help him transport his luxurious 80 ft sailing yacht—along with some indigenous artifacts including an antique Makah dugout canoe—to his summer home in Hawaii. Zander begs to let his girlfriend, Jenna come along, and she brings her cat, Mr. Jackson. The trip goes well at first, but something is very odd about the boat’s owner. He scares Jenna and gets on Zander’s nerves. One night, midway between Los Angeles and Hawaii, Zander is suddenly pushed overboard by an unknown hand, and the yacht sails away. After nearly drowning, he discovers that the old canoe and the cat have also been tossed overboard. He crawls inside the canoe and eventually realizes he is in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. No stranger to the irony that the stuff he needs to survive is the same stuff that’s killing our oceans, Zander sets about collecting plastic garbage that just might save his life and allow him the chance to find out what happened to his dad and Jenna.

The line separating flesh from spirit can be elusive….Teenaged altar boy Jonah Gregory’s faith is strong, even if some of his beliefs are unconventional. Jonah is certain Christ is gay, like him, and he knows the devotion he feels is mutual. His plans to become a priest are called into question when he meets Rusty Naylor, the closeted son of a famous romance novelist. Not only is Rusty attractive and charming, he could be Jesus’s twin. Jonah is torn between the calling of his soul and the desires of his body—a distinction that grows more and more muddled since Jonah can’t look at Rusty without imagining the Lord, and vice versa. Worse yet, Jonah feels caught in a tug-of-war between them.As Jonah struggles to determine the course of his life, he’s aided by his parents, Rusty’s famous mother, a surly Father from Brooklyn, and the two men who hold sway over his heart: Rusty and the Lord.

Early learners reading edition. Build your child's confidence in their reading ability with these early readers books! Beautiful full colored images that draw your child's attention and keeps it as they turn the pages to explore more. This early learning book also comes with a comprehension check at the end to help your child build the skill of retaining information.