{"product_id":"9781462058952","title":"Coopers Hollow: Tales from just beyond the edge of the ordinary","description":"\u003cp\u003eWelcome to Coopers Hollow. It’s not your ordinary small town.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYou’re just passing through a little Indiana town in the 1950’s when your car breaks down. What to do? Fortunately, a helpful old fellow offers to take you in hand. He’ll direct you to the service station. Show you the town. Introduce its citizens. Tell you about its history. Even buy you a beer. What do you say?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYou say yes. And with that, the talkative fellow regales you with stories about the townsfolk. Stories about ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary situations. Stories that slip just a little over the edge of your everyday world . . .A woman receives a desperate, warning phone call from herself, placed years before.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA rude, ill-tempered man is warned of his imminent death—All ten versions of it.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA little girl discovers that her wonderful special gift works in unforeseen ways.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA man pawns his soul, then later learns it has been sold. Will he take an inferior one in trade?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs children of a recently-departed grandmother reminisce about her, they make a strange discovery.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn unusual watch provides the means for a long-suffering wife to get rid of her cheating husband.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA writer promises his publisher a bestseller, then turns to a ghostwriter: One of his own characters.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTrick-or-treating kids are joined by a strange companion sporting a very realistic monster costume.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA strange radio helps a father and son even the odds against a crooked landlord and his bully son.\u003c\/p\u003e A womanizer discovers that what he thought would be a weekend love nest is really a death trap. \u003cp\u003eBy the time your storyteller has finished his ten tales, night has fallen. He guides you to the local motel, where you two sit outside enjoying the air before you turn in.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThat’s when he tells the truth about the town. And about you.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTen tales from just beyond the edge of the ordinary.\u003cbr\u003e And one final bonus tale. About you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Contact the author at jvshepherd1@aol.co\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"iUniverse, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47143760494832,"sku":"9781462058952","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781462058952_p0.jpg?v=1763675813","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781462058952","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}