John Mcdonnell: 32 books

Book Six of the Rose Of Skibbereen series takes the story from the year 2000 to the present. Rosalie Morley, great-great granddaughter of the original Rose of Skibbereen, is a socially awkward 19 year old living in New Hope, PA. She meets Perry Lukens, an ambitious young man who's on the move...

Book Two of the wacky adventures of Larry The Alien, who came to Earth to conquer it but ended up tending bar for a guy named Murphy. Larry gets anxiety attacks and changes into things like a six foot tall pink rabbit, a walrus, and a chimpanzee. He lives with a dysfunctional family and has many funny...

Are you tired of Twitter? Frazzled from Facebook? Here's a humorous look at the social networking craze. This funny poem pokes holes in the "Everybody must be on Facebook" mania that has gripped us all. Also included: three bonus poems that take a lighthearted look at birthdays, messy houses, and the Philadelphia Phillies baseball team.

He came from Outer Space to make you laugh! This book has the first eight stories in the popular Web series about a timid, shape-shifting alien named Larry, and his friends at Murphy's bar. Featuring the hilarious Edna, who has a dicey relationship to reality. If you like humor that's a combination...

The beginning of a family saga about Rose Sullivan, an Irish girl who comes to Philadelphia in 1880 and finds love, heartache, loss, and unexpected joy during the tumultuous years around the turn of the century. She marries an Irish mystery man named Sean McCarthy, who has a violent past and a secret...

Lauren Summers never forgot her first kiss, and when she goes back to the place where it happened, 30 years later, she gets stuck in a tree 30 feet in the air. She is saved by a handsome stranger with flashing blue eyes named Tom Connell. Then the man who gave her that first kiss, Jimmy Vance, shows...

The fourth book in the Rose Of Skibbereen saga, this one follows the family through the turbulent 1960s. The main character is Rosie Morley, granddaughter of Rose Sullivan Morley, who came from Ireland to Philadelphia in 1880 at the start of Book One. Rosie is a mercurial personality, a gifted singer...

Book Five of the Rose Of Skibbereen series covers the 1980s and 90s, as Rosie Morley opens a bar and restaurant in New Hope, PA, and meets a handsome futurist named Jack Caldwell. He believes in the promise of the future, while she hears psychic promptings from the past. This story encompasses violence...

A beloved character from Book One of “Rose Of Skibbereen”, Mary Driscoll now has a book of her own. Her story is one of passion, betrayal, theft, bootlegging, murder and love, starting at the turn of the 20th century, racing through the Roaring Twenties, and ending in the Great Depression. Mary...

The stories in this book are sweet, sentimental, and they tug at the heartstrings. From a mother who's saying goodbye to her only son as he goes off to college, to a father trying to make contact with his daughter as he's dying of cancer, to an old man who is saying goodbye at the grave of a silent...

Alice lives in a nursing home, but one day she steals a car and drives off in a blizzard. She doesn't know where she's going, and she winds up parked in front of a diner that reminds her of her youth. Inside, she meets people who seem to be from her childhood. Is it real, or a dream? This is a story...

Addressing the full range of curricular and instructional issues that face professionals working in middle school, high school, and post-high school programs, Successful Transition Programs: Pathways for Students With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Second Edition is the most relevant...

What key issues and challenges affect the lives of people with severe disabilities today's and what should tomorrow's professionals do to address them? Aligned with the core values and agenda of TASH, this visionary text prepares professionals to strengthen supports and services for people with disabilities...

Aligned with the Association for Positive Behavior Support’s Standards of Practice, this graduate-level text is an authoritative PBS primer for professionals preparing for work in educational and community-based settings. More than 60 leading scholars present the critical skills and knowledge...