{"title":"Books on Sale","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"first-lies","title":"First Lies","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1rem; caret-color: #1f2124; color: #1f2124; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e16 stories of darkness and promise\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1rem; caret-color: #1f2124; color: #1f2124; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn the beginning, as in many beginnings, there were deals with the Devil, attacks by unlikely demons, ghost dogs, strange things in a cemetery, long walks home, true love and true hate and true ambivalence. Hack Hammond fought “Indestructum” for his girlfriend and the world. Denis Grey took “A Walk Down Main Street” sometime after Clinton Irving vowed there would be “No More Lonely Knights.” Angela found quite a reason to “Make It Big.” Caspar Thomas should have thought things through before “Four Hours,” and Conrad Warner should have seen it coming in “Dog Days.” And everyone just stared at “The Obelisk.” In the beginning, there were \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFirst Lies \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e….\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1rem; caret-color: #1f2124; color: #1f2124; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSome of these stories have appeared in minor publications both on- and off-line. Though early work and rough, many of the tales here are genuinely good. Others are decent, but several are truly drivel. Read at your own caution.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Terry F. 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But what would be worse? Finding nothing, or finding everything?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1rem; caret-color: #1f2124; color: #1f2124; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-sanitized-data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-sanitized-data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIf you love paper books, you’ll love the page-turning cautionary tale of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-sanitized-data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBibliomania\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Terry F. 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