A SHEPHERD'S SONG - Tecno-Libro

Tom Shepherd is anything but a hero. . A senior physics major at Three Rivers University in Pittsburgh, he just wants to make some easy cash. . On the last Sunday in November, he arrives to sell the Christmas season s hottest toy, So Big Sammy, for three times its retail price to a buyer. However, a snafu lands him in the middle of a bone marrow drive benefitting four-year-old Christo Davidson, who has leukemia. . When everyone there including the media covering the event-assumes that Tom has come to give the toy to the sick child, Tom has no choice but to give it away. Lauded by the media as a hero and bestowed with the nickname The Good Shepherd, Tom finds himself an overnight celebrity. . As a toy scalper and liar, he knows he s unworthy of the praise, but when Gloria Davidson, a fellow student and Christo s relative, seeks out Tom to thank him for being so kind to her little cousin, Tom, bewitched by her beauty, embellishes his character and li