{"product_id":"2940013167872","title":"Black Pomegranate","description":"BLACK POMEGRANATE, Jewel of the Tropics, is the story of Alfred Hobson, a nerdy associate professor at a small undistinguished college in California, and sensual Catarina Perez Valdez, one of the zany citizens of a quirky Central American republic. Cat enlists Hobson in a desperate quest to help her father regain his rightful position as \"el presidente,\" by recovering the fabulous Black Pomegranate, a giant ruby that's the symbol of political power in Granada Negra.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEver since reading the Saturday Evening Post serial \"The Mouse That Roared,\" David W. Cowles has been enthralled by tales of tiny third-world nations and banana republics, real or fictional. In BLACK POMEGRANATE, Cowles captures the spirit and flavor of movies such as \"Romancing the Stone,\" \"Moon over Parador,\" and \"The In-Laws\" (the original film). Some readers say many passages are even funnier than the restaurant scene in \"When Harry Met Sally.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBLACK POMEGRANATE is a romantic adventure, a sexy fairy tale, a tongue-in-cheek laugh-aloud slapstick comedy, a thriller, a page-turner--and thoroughly delightful reading.","brand":"Event Horizon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145603858672,"sku":"2940013167872","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013167872_p0.jpg?v=1763577279","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013167872","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}