{"title":"Jessica Therrien","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"oppression-hardcover","title":"Oppression - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElyse knows what it means to keep a secret. She's been keeping secrets her whole life. Two, actually. First, that she ages five times slower than average people, so that while she looks eighteen years old, she's well over eighty. Second, that her blood has a mysterious power to heal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Elyse, these things don't make her special. They make life dangerous. After the death of her parents, she's been careful to keep her secret as closely guarded as possible. Now, only one other person in the world knows about her age and ability.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOr so she thinks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElyse is not the only one keeping secrets. There are others like her all over the world, descendants of the very people the Greeks considered gods. She is one of them, and they have been waiting for her for a long time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome are waiting for her to put an end to centuries of traditions that have oppressed their people under the guise of safeguarding them. Others are determined to keep her from doing just that. But for Elyse, the game is just beginning-and she's not entirely willing to play by their rules.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50269290037471,"sku":"9780998309842","price":40.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/SWNLdFRVdjhhWmdqMzlmQkJ4N3h3UT09.webp?v=1781927790"},{"product_id":"carry-me-home-hardcover","title":"Carry Me Home - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A riveting page-turner...Jessica Therrien broke my heart into a million pieces--and then put it back together again. This book will haunt and uplift readers long after they turn the last page.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e -KAT ROSS, best-selling author of The Midnight Sea\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e CARRY ME HOME is a fictional novel inspired by the true story of a teenage girl's involvement in several Mexican gangs in San Jose and Los Angeles. The members of her crew call her, Guera, Spanish for \"white girl\" and it doesn't take long for her to get lost in their world of guns and drugs.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e * * *\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Lucy and Ruth are country girls from a broken home. When they move to the city with their mother, leaving behind their family ranch and dead-beat father, Lucy unravels.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e They run to their grandparents' place, a trailer park mobile home in the barrio of San Jose. Lucy's barrio friends have changed since her last visit. They've joined a gang called VC. They teach her to fight, to shank, to beat a person unconscious and play with guns. When things get too heavy, and lives are at stake, the three girls head for LA seeking a better life.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e But trouble always follows Lucy. She befriends the wrong people, members of another gang, and every bad choice she makes drags the family into her dangerous world. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Told from three points of view, the story follows Lucy down the rabbit hole, along with her mother and sister as they sacrifice dreams and happiness, friendships and futures. Love is waiting for all of them in LA, but pursuing a life without Lucy could mean losing her forever.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Ultimately it's their bond with each other that holds them together, in a true test of love, loss and survival.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50269290201311,"sku":"9780998309880","price":40.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/QkhVaUNySG5FMStFVWt0TGlFVzljdz09.webp?v=1781927792"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/jessica-therrien.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}