Bøker av Rod Martinez

When a local high school student is murdered, his friends rally together to find his killer, but they get help from an unexpected source - their dead friend - who is having issues himself as he struggles with existing between life and death, trying to figure the origin of a ring that has supernaturally attached itself to his finger and glows bright amber, and fighting an unseen adversary who wants to bring him back where he belongs - dead. All of these are intertwined with each other, he just doesn't know it.

THRE3: A Collection of three spellbinding short stories by Rod Martinez:DANGERSTREET: 15 year old Jon Torres discovers the fine line between reality and fantasy in a computer game he's created...with gastly results.MR. MOORE: A young child thinks back of his relationship with Mr. Moore, a friend in the neighborhood, who has just passed away.THE SECRET PLACE: Ten year old Andy Meeks struggles to find the Secret Place, a place he'd learned from his grandfather with a man who heals with mystical powers... he runs against time as he tries to save his grandfather from a slow painful death.

Whether you like American History or not, you will find a wealth of stories and facts to be shared that could spark conversation or debate at any party. This book covers a vast array of presidential trivia and facts, making it a fun read for kids and adults alike.

How do you fight a powerful deadly storm that has your name written on it? Florida High School Junior Timothy Chapman had lost members of his family all throughout his childhood. One by one they died off until all that were left were him and his uncle. It wasn't natural causes, or crime or sickness that took them - they were each killed by a hurricane in different years. Timothy has finally come to realize that storms and his family don't mix, and after careful review - he's come to find out the supernatural reason why this is happening and it's nothing he can control. There is no escaping the next landfall. This revelation comes at a terrible time, because his uncle is sick... and a storm is brewing out in the Gulf of Mexico and headed straight for him. Can he survive the deadly onslaught coming his way?

"Could you be friends with someone you really didn't like?" Danielle lived the kind of life that most girls only dreamed about. She was called Princess at home and she was treated like a princess by everyone, except Heather in school. These two fifth graders didn't get along and didn't see anything alike, but Danielle's missing tiara would play an important role in proving that a princess and a 'commoner' could learn to get along through even the worst of differences. As it turns out, each of these girls will come to know that they need each other and that everyone around them will have to accept this friendship.

The Hulk, Sinatra, Pretty Boy - nicknames of three friends in the small Florida town of Cobra Lake. "Sinatra" is Olivia Kelly, cute, smart, talented and driven; "Pretty Boy" is Devin Yau, funny, athletic and addicted to CSI TV shows; "The Hulk" is Cassie Saunders and Cassie has a secret, and she promised herself she'd always keep it to herself. The eleven year old African-American elementary student has a mark on her wrist, it looks like a tattoo and she hides it by covering it with her watch, a watch that doesn't even work anymore. Cassie is the daughter of a very important man in town, but she wasn't born with the mark that looks like a cobra, it mysteriously appeared one day... the day her grandmother died. Bessie Saunders was a very well loved and known person in this small town, her death touched everybody. The three friends are on a mission to find out how she died and the only clue is the mark on Cassie's wrist.