{"product_id":"stranger-things-suspicious-minds-the-first-official-stranger-things-novel-9781984819604","title":"Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds: The First Official Stranger Things Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER - If you think you know the truth behind Dr. Brenner's experiments at Hawkins Laboratory, prepare to have your mind turned Upside Down in the first official \u003ci\u003eStranger Things\u003c\/i\u003e novel--\"the prequel story that fans have been waiting for\" (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIt's the summer of 1969, and the shock of conflict reverberates through the youth of America. As a student at a quiet college campus in the heartland of Indiana, Terry Ives couldn't be farther from the front lines of Vietnam or the protests in Washington. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut the world is changing, and Terry isn't content to watch. When word gets around about an important government experiment in the small town of Hawkins, she signs on as a test subject for the project, code-named MKULTRA. The remote lab, deep in the woods, contains a mystery Terry is determined to uncover. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBehind the walls of Hawkins National Laboratory--and the piercing gaze of its director, Dr. Martin Brenner--lurks a conspiracy greater than Terry could have ever imagined. To face it, she'll need the help of her fellow test subjects. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmid the rising tensions of the new decade, Terry Ives and Martin Brenner have begun a different kind of war--one where the human mind is the battlefield.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGwenda Bond\u003c\/b\u003e writes YA and children's fiction, among other things. Her novels include the Lois Lane series (\u003ci\u003eFallout, Double Down, Triple Threat\u003c\/i\u003e), which brings the iconic comic book character front and center, and the Cirque American series (\u003ci\u003eGirl on a Wire, Girl Over Paris, Girl in the Shadows\u003c\/i\u003e), about daredevil heroines who discover magic and mystery lurking under the big top. She and her husband, Christopher Rowe, also co-write a middle-grade series, The Supernormal Sleuthing Service. Bond's nonfiction writing has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times, Publishers Weekly, Locus, \u003c\/i\u003e and many other publications. She has an MFA in writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She lives in a hundred-year-old house in Lexington, Kentucky, with her husband and their unruly pets. There are rumors she escaped from a screwball comedy, and she might have a journalism degree because of her childhood love of Lois Lane.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Random House Worlds","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50607811756306,"sku":"9781984819604","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ec0f7077-25de-4572-a798-852560b1b430.jpg?v=1732314219","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/stranger-things-suspicious-minds-the-first-official-stranger-things-novel-9781984819604","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}