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Joyce Shaughnessy
The author lives in West Texas with her husband, Dennis, who is a physician. They have two daughters and four granddaughters.Joyce has written and published five adult books and one children's book. She has also written several short stories which are included in the anthology series, GIANT TALES, published by Professor Limn Books. Joyce has edited the fourth in the series of GIANT TALES and has written two of the short stories. This book will be available in summer, 2014.
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New Release!
BOOK 4 in the Giant Tales series is scheduled for release in July
"The Blessing Way" by Joyce Shaughnessy - Kate Eagle Feather finds out it is her destiny to help save Tom's life.
In 'The Blessing Way,' a young mother and yenene or healer, watches wildfires race through her Navajo reservation, saves the life of the tribal chief, and brings them all through 'the blessing way'."
- Joyce Shaughnessy
To learn more, go to: https://www.facebook.com/gianttales
In the near future, a great earthquake triggered a worldwide lava storm, destroying over half of the trees on Earth. Action, drama, and apocalyptic adventure flow from twenty-three short stories where the theme is My Brother's Keeper, written by twenty-three talented authors. Characters find out if life will ever be the same.
Written by twenty-three talented fiction writers from Writers750.com: Schuldt, Shaughnessy, Freed, Alexiou, Stafford, White, Lemon, Boggia, Dutton, Harkins, Stein, Bond, Clarke, Lacy, Reynolds, and Parker all return with more Giant Tales. New authors include Hamrick, Scavitto, Baskerville, Willett, Davis, Drew, and Tozer.
Written by twenty-three talented fiction writers from Writers750.com: Schuldt, Shaughnessy, Freed, Alexiou, Stafford, White, Lemon, Boggia, Dutton, Harkins, Stein, Bond, Clarke, Lacy, Reynolds, and Parker all return with more Giant Tales. New authors include Hamrick, Scavitto, Baskerville, Willett, Davis, Drew, and Tozer.
Her Majesty, Queen Craggy Crocodile of Reptile Land, sends Mr. Grumpy Lizard to meet four happy cousins, Hattie, Emi, Erin, and Katie Human. Come along for the fun as the four giggling cousins become the Official Ambassadors of Happiness in Reptile Land. Boys and girls alike will be enraptured by the lifelike reptiles and funny monkey. It is a fun read for all ages.
Gryffon Master: Curse of the Lich King
(Crystal Sword Chronicles)
(Volume 1)
by H. M. Schuldt, Christian Freed,
Joyce Shaughnessy, Randall Lemon
& Lynette White
In a place far away, there is a strange world of trolls and liches and other mysterious creatures. Two adventurers, Ragnar and Ahmad, have found themselves mysteriously transported into this dangerous jungle world. Ragnar Olafson, a Viking, and Ahmad Ibn Fazzat, a Persian, must work together to fulfill a destiny to rid the inhabitants of evil and return to their own homelands.
Ragnar is aided by two dwarves, Karlo and his young apprentice, Kerr. Finally the companions come face to face with the greatest danger of all, the evil black dragon, Barrel. Can Ahmad and the Gryffon Riders return in time to save them?
A remarkable work from five authors, Gryffon Master brings you a creative story packed with action and thrills.
No doubt it will leave an incredible understanding that there is a warrior in all of us.
The Unsurrendered
by Joyce Shaughnessy
Filipino-American armed forces were sadly under-prepared for war when Japan attacked both Pearl Harbor and the Philippines in December 1941. A spontaneous resistance movement sprang up throughout the islands among Filipino civilians of all ages and sexes, and among the American and Filipino soldiers who remained unsurrendered or who escaped imprisonment after the falls of Bataan and Corregidor.
American military intelligence agent Jacob Martin and Carla Santos, his Filipina wife joined The Unsurrendered as it slowly assumed control over more of the existing, rival guerrilla units on Mindanao and trained them to harass the Japanese. Their group grew even larger with thousands of patriotic male and female Filipinos, many of whom were enraged by the Japanese atrocities.
Blessed Are The Merciful: Our Forgotten Soldiers
by Joyce Shaughnessy
Tragedy strikes…Nine hours after the Pearl Harbor bombing, the Japanese attacks the Philippines, starting a war against the United States that was to last four years. Despite the horrors of war, Elton and Susan fall in love. The American soldiers fight desperately for six months on the Bataan Peninsula, with the Army nurses at their side, rendering aid when possible. Finally, dying of starvation and disease, the Army discovers that the United States cannot send any supplies or men to fight the Japanese because they are committed to the European campaign first. They realize there is no escape from the Japanese. The Army ultimately must surrender.
Elton is forced to walk the Death March and to witness horrifying atrocities during the rest of the war at Camp O’Donnell, Cabanatuan, and on the Hell Ships, where Americans are murdered by Japanese cruelty and neglect. Susan is interred at Santo Tomas and secretly aids the Filipino Guerilla movement. Following his escape from a Hell Ship, Elton rejoins the frontlines with the Sixth Army Rangers in the operation to free Cabanatuan Prison Camp behind Japanese lines. And still their love survives…
Although this is a work of fiction, Blessed Are the Merciful involves the inhumanity and terrible consequences of war. It is a story about what happens to ordinary people when they are caught in extraordinary times. In understanding what happens when war is waged, people can strive toward the goal so that history does not repeat itself.
A Healing Place
by Joyce Shaughnessy
A Healing Place is an historical novel based on the Great American Depression and WWII in the Philippines. Evicted from their Oklahoma farm, Amos and Molly and their three children are forced to find a new place to live. They find their healing place in Texon, Texas, a small oil camp just east of Rankin. It has everything they’ve been looking for, especially a welcoming community. Then when WWII is on the horizon, their son-in-law is in the Army in the Philippines when Japan attacks, forcing the men and women there to finally surrender. America is supplying the European front of the war first, and the Pacific is left without enough food, medicine, ammunition, or men to fight. The men are forced to walk the Bataan Death March, and Jed eventually finds himself in Cabanatuan prison camp. Addie, his wife, stays in Texon with her family. Jed finds his healing place in the power of prayer.
TEXAS GOLD has the honor of being included in the White House Library by Mrs. George W. Bush.
Big things happen in Texas, but there's nothing quite like a West Texas tornado, especially to a small child living through it for the first time. I was just four years old and I remember my father waking me in the middle of the night, wrapping me in a blanket and picking me up in his strong arms.
That's the way it was in Texon, neighbors helping each other as if we were all one big family. We were poor, but we didn't know it; everyone was poor. Growing up in a Texas oil camp was an experience.
Everywhere we looked there were oil rigs and the smell of oil. The noise and hum the pumps made as they pulled oil to the tanks were, at first, horrid. But one day I just didn't hear them anymore and, strangely enough, I miss them. Yes, Texon was more than the smell of an oil camp. It was such a special place that I would wish many times that I could have lived there forever.
Many of you know what I mean about the place you grew up, don't you? Now, TEXAS GOLD brings a remarkable Texon back to life.
This book is currently out of print.
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