{"product_id":"9781466852297","title":"Beyond Coincidence: Amazing Stories of Coincidence and the Mystery Behind Them","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEver wonder what the odds are of being struck by lightning? \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOr winning the lottery? \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOr meeting someone from \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimbuktu\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e with the same middle name as you?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBEYOND COINCIDENCE recounts and analyzes over 200 amazing stories of synchronicity, the likes of:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaura Buxton, age ten, releases a balloon from her back yard. It lands 140 miles away in the backyard of another Laura Buxton, also age ten.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo sisters in Alabama decide, independently, to visit the other. En route, their identical jeeps collide and both sisters are killed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA British cavalry officer was fighting in the last year of World War One when he was knocked off his horse by a flash of lightning. He was paralyzed from the waist down. The man moved to Vancouver, Canada where, six years later, while fishing in a river, lightning struck him again, paralyzing his right side. Two years later, he was sufficiently recovered to take walks in a local park when, in 1930, lightning sought him out again, this time permanently paralyzing him. He died soon after. Four years later, lightning destroyed his tomb.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47143926825200,"sku":"9781466852297","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466852297_p0.jpg?v=1769891490","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466852297","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}