{"product_id":"juniper-town-pat-jameson-9781478784999","title":"Juniper Town","description":"\"Juniper Town\" is the story of a small high desert 1950s town that parallels the growth of young Steve White with the mission of two influential men from the East, Robert Pruitt, a banker, and Axel Baker, an attorney. During his school years young Steve experiences, a bullying nemesis, a secret puppy love for the girl next door, a cold-hearted mother who loves his older brother more, a friend tormented by the abuse of a priest, angst about the Russians and nuclear war, and average grades and talents amidst the backdrop of this nostalgic, quintessential American era. Likewise, Pruitt and Baker pursue their task, sponsored by a powerful, quasi-secret society from the East, to establish effective yet subtle control of the town's economy and credit, press, labor force, and politics, in a seamless conspiracy of manipulation. Opposing them is the owner of the local lumber mill, J. T. Holbrook, heretofore the town's most powerful, wealthy, and influential citizen, and Conn Sol, a mysterious new realtor in town some people refer to as 'Ameran, ' an allegedly non-human race which possesses unusual physical and emotional strengths. \"Juniper Town\" develops through the interaction of Steve White and his young friends: Dred Sol, Conn Sol's Ameran son; Bill Bone, Steve's life-long nemesis; Darlene Dickinson, Steve's unfulfilled love; Jackie Robinson, Steve's disillusioned Negro friend; Kenny Young, the abused altar boy; Gary Sanders, the loud mouth wise guy; with the adult players in the story: Robert Pruitt and Axel Baker, co-conspirators who install local nice guy Marion Strutt as their lackey mayor; J. T. Holbrook, the lumber king knocked down to size by blackmail; Conn Sol, the Ameran operator whose task is to derail Pruitt and Baker; Virl Saeger, Steve's cowboy friend and mentor; Skip Sanders, shady lumber salesman at the mill; Mary White, Steve's mother who struggles to endure the death of her oldest son Chuck in Korea; the Negro Robinsons and Crowes, the\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pat Jameson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1478784997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478784999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Outskirts Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/18\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 524\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.05d","brand":"Pat Jameson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46795370922239,"sku":"9781478784999","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_89199237-392f-4e0d-832e-3ca1a6a5059e.jpg?v=1744947395","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/juniper-town-pat-jameson-9781478784999","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}