{"product_id":"9781450085885","title":"The Devils Punchbowl","description":"THE JOKE  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eLuke Webster, Pepper O'Brien Rodriguez, and Benny Steinbeck,  \u003cbr\u003eseniors at Del Norte High, plan what they consider a perfect joke to pull on  \u003cbr\u003etheir girls. But, as sometimes happens, jokes backfire, and they meet an  \u003cbr\u003eunknown entity in the local graveyard, on a dark foggy night.  \u003cp\u003eBEAUTIFUL GIRLS  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eGraduation looms just around the corner and, their girls, still mad  \u003cbr\u003eabout the gross joke in the graveyard, refuse to have anything to do with them,  \u003cbr\u003eso they spend their last day of school alone.  \u003cbr\u003eThat night at their senior prom, Benny and Lily are an instant hit,  \u003cbr\u003ewhen they sing a special song they have composed. The evening ends in happiness,  \u003cbr\u003ethe girls forgive them for their bad joke.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE DEVILS PUNCHBOWL  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eBackpacking into a rough, craggy wilderness area, they hike 4,800  \u003cbr\u003efeet up along an extremely arduous switchback trail to the awesome beauty of  \u003cbr\u003ea lake . . . a glacial cut cirque set deep within the Siskiyou National Forest  \u003cbr\u003eWilderness Area, The Devils Punchbowl.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE CAVERN  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eReturning to the fissure they had discovered the year before, they  \u003cbr\u003estruggle through long crevices, narrow passages and ancient underground  \u003cbr\u003ewaterways to find the immense cavern still brilliantly lit by a mysterious  \u003cbr\u003eunknown source; explore a cave filled with stone tablets, examine a robot and  \u003cbr\u003ediscover a spaceship.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eALIENS  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eIn nervous anticipation and excitement they explore the spaceship  \u003cbr\u003eand surrounding caves and caverns . . . until subtly moving shadows form in  \u003cbr\u003ethe entrance to a hall they have dubbed the weird corridor. Billowing inward,  \u003cbr\u003eits undefined edges hover, vague and fuzzy within a darker mass, and meshing,  \u003cbr\u003ebecame part of the ship's wall. Deep, within its entrance choked with layered  \u003cbr\u003estacks of moving clouds, a void forms. A black hole.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Xlibris Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154802065648,"sku":"9781450085885","price":9.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781450085885_p0.jpg?v=1763837215","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781450085885","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}