{"product_id":"2940011051838","title":"Twin Beeches: An Illinois Love Story","description":"\u003cp\u003eA story by a person who loves Illinois. Twin Beeches relives the recent past in rural America with a strong story about a girl growing up in a farming town with a mysterious disappearance in its past. Martha Jo Gonsalves, the daughter of a pipeline worker husband and local business woman wife, finds challenges wherever she looks and sees how local people respond to and overcome them. Tragedy is a constant companion in Woodland, and having the grit to continue and to prosper is the measure of the people there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEddie, oldest son of a moonshiner, and Buddy, heir to the biggest and best farm in the area, find themselves sharing a cell in the country jail, both sent there by the crooked judge who grew up hunting and fishing with Eddie's father. A hoard of money provides Eddie with the ability to break away from the moonshiner's life if he is willing to take the chances he must to gain it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd, always in the background, the idea that the town's leading citizen in 1950 who disappeared might just be found someday and the mystery solved.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paul Schoaff","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47158352445680,"sku":"2940011051838","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940011051838_p0.jpg?v=1763900722","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940011051838","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}