{"product_id":"2940032988151","title":"Beyond Paradise","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"How would you like to go to paradise?\" asks Louise Keller's father, a Baptist minister who has accepted a position as a missionary on the small island of Panay. Fourteen-year-old Louise, a writer of poetry who chafes at small-town life, is eager for the change. But the new experiences Louise has dreamed of soon turn nightmarish: when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, the war, which had seemed so far away, rapidly threatens their island existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis unusual first novel is based on true accounts of the imprisonment of American citizens in Japanese detention camps in the Philippines during World War II.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJane Hertenstein will donate a portion of her royalties for this book to help build houses for residents of Smokey Mountain, a large garbage dump in Manila where hundreds of people live under scraps of metal and cardboard.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jane Hertenstein","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47076936548592,"sku":"2940032988151","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940032988151_p0.jpg?v=1763662969","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940032988151","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}