{"product_id":"2940151145879","title":"Embers in the Ashes (Of History and Indifference): You can see the stars.","description":"in 1993 an historian wrote:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"... The lynching was especially atrocious: Two young black men were seized, dragged into the woods, and there chained to trees and tortured to death with blowtorches while a howling crowd of whites cursed and taunted them. Photographs were made of the dead bodies....\" (K.S. Davis)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis historical novel – ground-breaking in its emotional and graphic intensity – portrays the impact of that atrocity (1937) on two empathetic boys who didn't taunt, but secretly snapped pictures of the living, screaming victims (ironically, one given FDR's surname) – and desperately tried to stop it! Two against 500 (some came by school bus). After failing, they fled in despair – but with their Brownie Eagle Eye. Now on a compelling mission – because they'd been 'Ou t T h e r e .'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShattered, then galvanized, by the failures and heart-breaks of Book I, 'Einstein' Brian and 'Maestro' Marcus become avenging angels in Book II, sworn to strike 'Preacher-Creature Cecil' and his 'henchmen from hell' with the swords of retribution, self-defense, and 'un-Southern' justice. Kids no more, they begin to act like God: 'Somebody has to...!'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith images of brutality preserved in camera, conscience, and nightmares, they write to Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt, and accept their invitation to dinner at the White House. Re-committed to the most profound 'what-if' of the Twentieth Century, the boys mutually pledge themselves to a daunting 'rendezvous with destiny.' And a Time Capsule ticket to 5,000 years into the future from Albert Einstein....","brand":"FriesenPress","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47068955214064,"sku":"2940151145879","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940151145879_p0.jpg?v=1764006764","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940151145879","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}