Books with author Rodriguez Art

Nick Knowles has a hard time understanding people. She's got an IQ over 200 with a memory like a tape recorder, and yet expressions and social cues have always been a mystery to her. Anger however, anger and hatred, she knows very well. Ever since she lost her eye by her mother's own hand, she's known exactly what those toxic emotions feel like. Nick is surrounded by them every day after all, and at seventeen, she'd growing tired of it. She's tired of pretending to be stupid, tired of the beatings, tired of the lies, and tired of her own inability to do anything to change things. That's when her old friend, Lucas Tsutaya shows up. Nick hasn't seen him in five years now. Too much has changed for her to even consider being his friend again. All she needs is her friend Vicky and her violin. She doesn't need someone looking into her life and finding out her secrets. But Lucas has a way about him that makes his voice just as beautiful as the violin she plays. Nick knows she's making a mistake, but for the first time in her life, she wonders if friendship and emotions are a mistake worth making.

Snow Richards is a shy seventeen year old girl. She's always kind of blended into the background, although she's never had a problem with that. Her life has been the opposite of easy in every way. Her mother died in a car accident when she was ten and Snow became the mother of the family. She cared for her father when they found out he had cancer and practically raised her brother younger brother Rain. Now she needed a job to keep them afloat as medical bills suffocated them. Finally she found one as a maid for a wealthy family: the Johnson's. Snow just wanted a job, but she was surprised by their caring son Ryan and how sweet he was to her. The whole family practically took her in. She doesn't want them to get too close though. Her burdens were her own. But when they keep trying to edge their way in, how will she handle it? How much more could she carry before she finally shattered like glass?(A short novella less than 30,000 words)

Love her or loathe her, millions of people across America are "mad about" Martha Stewart. This fabulous unauthorized paper doll book shares all of the fun without requiring any of the fuss or mess. This winter there will be no more hours of slaving to replicate a Martha Stewart Christmas; just get out the scissors and it will be a snap, with exquisitely rendered cutouts of the famous gengerbread house, the gloriously prepared turkey with all the trimmings, the handmade house decorations, and more. Full color.