{"product_id":"9781973611394","title":"Prisoner of Hope","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book is based on a true story about a boy born into a poor and uneducated family in 1913.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe young man felt unwanted, unloved and had hope for a better life.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eOften feeling imprisoned by his circumstances, he remained hopeful.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eHe sought to find answers about the existence of God. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe adults he questioned never gave him a satisfactory answer.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eHis life was full of physical, emotional and mental abuse.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eHis journey to find hope led him to many adventures including a home with some bootleggers, a five-year stay as a deckhand and cook on a barge on the Mississippi River from the ages of 12-17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHis suicide attempt was miraculously interrupted by a phone call .\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThis book will make you think. Sometimes it will bring tears to your eyes and other times make you laugh.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIt is a story of hope filled with tragedy and triumph.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIt begins in a town on the Mississippi River and you will enjoy meeting the people in the book.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eYou will be amazed at the events that transpire in his life from birth to death.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAt the end of his life, he was chesrished by many.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WestBow Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137414611184,"sku":"9781973611394","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781973611394_p0.jpg?v=1763670024","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781973611394","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}