Rene: 426 books

As an educator, I was always puzzled how little we do to promote science among young people. Is it possible to entertain while teaching scientific facts? The answer is in A Pair of Wings for Christmas, where I try to explain the principles of flight in a framework of fantasy. Let me if I succeeded!

What is hatred? What is baseless hatred? And how does this basic human emotion affect our relationships, our communities, and our world? In this fascinating study, pharmacological researcher Rene H. Levy looks through a scientific, sociological, and religious lens at the causes and effects of baseless...

The impact of Nixon's visit to China 40 years ago has been enormous and mainly beneficial.It may be the time to re-examine what actually happened at Watergate.Nixon was a favorite son of Yorba Linda and the Thirty-seventh President of the US.He was re-elected with 60.7 per cent of the vote beating...

The most interesting thing about Caty is she wasn’t murdered. The second most interesting thing about her is she doesn’t know why… Nine years after surviving a mysterious kidnapping, Caty Foster still can’t remember how she walked away unharmed, or why her best friend Madison Porter...

After captivating readers in The Child Finder, Naomi—the investigator with an uncanny ability for finding missing children—returns, trading snow-covered woods for dark, gritty streets on the search for her missing sister in a city where young, homeless girls have been going missing and turning...

Poetry and prose transports the reader from the sun-drenched rural porch at sunset of Wind Song to a as far as a dank east coast alley way of "Early Mourning Singers and all the delights in between. The author artfully presents an exploration of our humanity from our affections and devotions...

Dawn was one of those girls all the other girls envied. She had so much self confidence. Of course in my eyes, her confidence wasn't "self" confidence at all. She did not earn her confidence. She saw the favor in other people's eyes and translated that into a stockpile of confidence. Her...

Curious about how Alsop Architects managed to construct that flying, translucent rectangle at the Ontario College of Art and Design? Wonder about the sustainability of the Genzyme Building? The saying "the truth is in the details" reveals an essential quality of architectural design. How...

Journalist Rene Denfeld explains why her generation has become alienated from the women's movement, maintaining that the actions of the movement's current leadership have actually encouraged a return to the kind of sexual repression and political powerlessness challenged by feminists in the 1970s....

James Daniel Nelson first hit the streets as a teenager in 1992. He joined a clutch of runaways and misfits who camped out together in a squat under a Portland bridge. Within a few months the group-they called themselves a "family"-was arrested for a string of violent murders. While...

Deep in the Shrouded Wood, on her way to her granny’s cottage, Rosetta is ambushed by an unseen force. Soon after, she finds herself plagued by strange dreams—visions of a large wolf and a seductive woman beckoning her. Not knowing what to do with these dreams and the odd changes happening...

While deployed overseas, his mission classified, the heartfelt letters Maximus writes are the only bits of communication Liberty receives during the year he is away.  Her memories of him, along with a box full of letters, become her most prized possessions—that and the life growing inside her....

A standalone short story.  Joseph and Serafina are cabaret musicians with ambitions to play in front of the king of Tirerre. When Joseph acquires a noble patron, their star seems to be on the rise, but a mysterious stranger has taken an interest in them, and not everything is as it seems. 

In this his fifth book of poems, Caribbean-American poet, Rene A. Martin continues his explorations of themes both profound (the meaning of human existence) and diverting (how our seemingly intelligent species yet manages to display such absurdity). Ultimately, the poetry is an attempt to look into,...