{"product_id":"new-roads-to-old-places-9798999946126","title":"New Roads to Old Places","description":"\u003cp\u003ePip Cooper, a sharp-witted teen with a flair for mischief, is sent to a strict, religious boarding school in a last-ditch effort to tame his unruly spirit. But Pip doesn't shrink-he schemes. What begins as a string of clever pranks soon collides with the violent machinery of a segregated state on the edge of change. As civil rights leaders challenge the status quo outside the school walls, Pip finds himself on a collision course with the very forces shaping Alabama's future. His rebellion, reckless at first, takes on a deeper urgency--drawing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein unlikely allies, including a Jewish housewife from New York who becomes both his conscience and co-conspirator. Set against the backdrop of a fractured south, this novel is part coming-of-age, part cautionary tale, and part tribute to the quiet power of standing up when the truth is under siege. With biting humor, sharp insight, and deep empathy, New Roads to Old Places asks what it means to do the right thing--especially, when the world around you says to look the other way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNorris, Phillip E.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Phillip graduated from the University of Alabama with an undergraduate degree in Communication and a Master's degree in Social Work. He then earned degrees in Education and Applied Behavioral Science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and he was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University. He is the recipient of the Rush Silver Medal award from the American Psychiatric Association, a legislative citation from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and he wrote a syndicated series for the Los Angeles Times. He was the President of the South Alabama Institute and the Director of the University of South Alabama Baldwin County, a regional campus of the University of South Alabama, for 25 years.","brand":"Portals Press LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51890565579026,"sku":"9798999946126","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d55f3d5c-6448-4b68-adce-2a1d29aa289a.jpg?v=1768915840","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/new-roads-to-old-places-9798999946126","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}