{"product_id":"c-j-browns-diamonds-in-the-rough-paperback","title":"C.J. Brown's Diamonds in the Rough - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRon Nichols\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 13-year-old C.J. Brown learns that she'll be spending her entire summer away from her friends - isolated - in a small town in central Arkansas, she is utterly despondent. But as she begins meeting some of the rural village's residents, C.J. discovers she possess a strange and remarkable gift. And when she befriends an eccentric, 8-year-old rock hound, she soon finds herself being led headlong into the dark and foreboding bowels of the earth.As a greedy corporate geologist seeks to remove the residents of the small town from their land - in order to acquire the perfect water source for her client's factory - explosive charges are set off in one of the area's nearby caves. With that blast, C.J. and her unlikely companion must count on each other to escape from their would-be death trap - just as they appear to have discovered a remarkable cache of \"Diamonds in the Rough.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRon Nichols is a former journalist-turned-marketing-communications professional. C.J. Brown's Diamonds in the Rough is his second novel for young adults. He and his family (wife, daughter and two dogs), reside in North Carolina.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 266\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 04, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48709412749561,"sku":"9781937273811","price":22.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/j8UG87N5-w9781937273811.webp?v=1784923811","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/c-j-browns-diamonds-in-the-rough-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}