{"title":"Amanda Desiree","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"webster-paperback","title":"Webster - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Desiree has elevated the documentary-style ghost-story genre to unique heights.\" -\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the summer of 1974, in a derelict Rhode Island mansion called Trevor Hall, a team of scientists taught American Sign Language to a chimpanzee. They affectionately christened their subject \"Smithy.\" His official name was Webster. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Smithy Project ended in tragedy, some believing that a dark presence inside Trevor Hall had been disturbed. Webster was acquired by CSAM, a research lab in California run by the iron-fisted Manfred Teague. CSAM had a reputation for sullen staff, gloomy conditions, and cruel experiments. Despite this, two of Webster's original researchers, Jeff Dalton and Ruby Cardini, followed him west, determined to look after their friend. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut another entity followed the chimp as well, and in the waning years of the 1970s, \"Webster\" became synonymous with a menagerie of inexplicable events, strange social movements, curious legal cases, and chilling courtroom testimonies. All were haunted by the question left unanswered at Trevor Hall: Had Webster not only bridged the gap between man and animal, but between this world and the next?","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67786190913759,"sku":"9781950301621","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/zCGolY51dR9781950301621.webp?v=1790697152"},{"product_id":"innocent-paperback-3","title":"Innocent - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSolicitor Gerald Braddon doesn't know what to make of his newest client, the brooding, bitter, contentious heiress Flora Benson. Doubtless, her strangeness stems from her troubled past. Shortly after Flora and her older brother were orphaned, Miles died under mysterious circumstances while in their governess's care at their uncle's country estate. Meanwhile, young Flora was whisked away to recuperate from an illness, never to know her brother's true fate. The loss has haunted her ever since. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow grown and with new resources at her disposal, Flora engages Gerald to investigate Miles's death. The search for answers leads them back to Bly House, an uncanny place that exercises a dark influence over its visitors. There, Gerald discovers the world is not as steady and predictable as he has always believed, and Flora confronts forgotten and suppressed terrors from her childhood. Alternating between the present-day investigation and Flora's eclectic youth, including her early years in India and a tumultuous adolescence at an English boarding school, \u003cem\u003eInnocent \u003c\/em\u003ereveals unexplored facets of familiar characters and challenges a well-known narrative.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing inspiration from Henry James's classic novella, \u003cem\u003eThe Turn of the Screw\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as popular film adaptations like \u003cem\u003eThe Innocents\u003c\/em\u003e (1961) and \u003cem\u003eThe Nightcomers\u003c\/em\u003e (1971), \u003cem\u003eInnocent\u003c\/em\u003e offers fresh chills and suspense for new readers and fans of the source material alike.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67921728504031,"sku":"9798235123243","price":28.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Vct0Xq97Pz9798235123243.webp?v=1791136295"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/amanda-desiree.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}