Patricia Shannon: 11 books

Sybil Tyler planned to coach an Olympic Swim team to Gold. Jonah Bishop is sure that he will become a great Master someday. Maybe as great as Renoir, or Da Vinci. Then Jonah is critically injured in a cruel accident, and their dreams are ripped apart. Sybil needs money, and she needs a lot of it, to support Jonah's medical bills. Desperate, she accidently stumbles on a way to get it.

“My dear, I’m afraid that the head injury was fatal.” Lara stated unemotionally.“Fatal? What are you talking about?” Kitty blustered. “Fatal means dead!”Kitty backed away, and raised her arms in protest. The two strange women watched her in silence.“Are you saying that I’m dead?...

“If you’re interested, the agency will pay you very well for every child you bring to me, no questions asked.” Mrs. Williams told her. “What do you expect me to do? Pop out a baby every year?’ Carol said jokingly. “I don’t think so!” “Of course not!” Mrs. Williams laughed for a...

The Elusive Ancestor A vicious civil war is savaging the country, threatening to destroy the very fabric of civilization. Families are torn apart. Brother is pitted against brother, and father against son, as America is divided into two regions. North and South. Young William McPherson wants no part of, what seems to him, a futile and senseless war, so he escapes.

While the characters in this story as well as the stories themselves are fictional, these types of crimes against children are not fiction! They are happening every day.What would you do if a man she met in a teen chat room raped your fourteen-year-old daughter? What if he was sentenced to probation...

Daniel McPherson is single, twenty-nine years old, and although he makes his living as a trash collector, he dreams of becoming a con man. Never mind that every scheme he has ever thought up has been doomed to failure, he is certain that this time his "can't fail idea" will succeed.When Danny...

Previously published by Cengage/Wadsworth, this popular anthology for the study of Christian ethics has been a mainstay of undergraduate courses for nearly thirty years. Shannon and Patricia Jung provide an introduction to contemporary moral issues from decidedly, yet diverse, Christian moral perspectives....

This book brings together new essays by leading cultural critics who have been influenced by the groundbreaking scholarship of Richard Helgerson. The original essays penned for this anthology evince the ongoing impact of Helgerson’s work in major critical debates including national identity, literary...

The novels of the South African writer J. M. Coetzee won him global recognition and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. His work offers substantial pedagogical richness and challenges. Coetzee treats such themes as race, aging, gender, animal rights, power, violence, colonial history and accountability,...

This book examines the political and legal challenges of regional governance of the 28 countries of the European Union and the 48 in the Council of Europe. The contributions, dilemmas, and moral hazards from this record of nearly seven decades of regional inter-governmental institutions has kept the...

A complete full-color guide to medical laboratory test selection and test result interpretation for disorders and diagnoses specific to pediatric and neonatal populations Laboratory medicine practiced at a pediatric institution has unique characteristics specific to infants and children, who...