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Deacon King Kong

a novel
Tells the story of what happens to the witnesses after a fumbling, cranky old church deacon, known as Sportcoat, shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in South Brooklyn and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range, in 1969.
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The adventures of Tom Sawyer

The adventures of a mischievous boy named Tom Sawyer living along the Mississippi River in the early nineteenth century.
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When I was Joe

Ty is forced to change his identity after he witnesses a murder and is put into a witness protection program, but his new popular image appeals to a girl at his new school who has a secret of her own and his accomplishments as a runner draw unwanted attention.
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Shadowlands

Rory, a girl in witness protection, thinks the serial killer she turned in has found her and is killing people around her, but as she investigates, she discovers a dark, disturbing truth about her new hometown.

How it went down

When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson dies from two gunshot wounds, his community is thrown into an uproar. Tariq was black. The shooter, Jack Franklin, is white. In the aftermath of Tariq's death, everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events line up. Day by day, new twists further obscure the truth. Tariq's friends, family, and community struggle to make sense of the tragedy, and to cope with the hole left behind when a life is cut short. In their own words, they grapple for a way to say with certainty: This is how it went down.

When I was Joe

Ty is forced to change his identity after he witnesses a murder and is put into a witness protection program, but his new popular image appeals to a girl at his new school who has a secret of her own and his accomplishments as a runner draw unwanted attention.

Don't look behind you

Seventeen-year-old April finds her comfortable life changed forever when death threats to her father, a witness in a federal case, force her family to go into hiding under assumed names and flee the pursuit of a hired killer.
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Luna de miel

Nora Sinclair is a woman with a deadly appetite, especially for those men who are attracted to her and FBI agent John O'Hara must stay on guard in his investigation of her hidden and unexplained past.
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Fakie

Alex Miller and his mother have moved from one place to another and changed their identities repeatedly since his testimony put a man in prison, but he really puts himself to the test when he decides to pose as a skateboarder in Virginia Beach.

Vanish

Fourteen-year old Simone is a key witness in a parental abduction investigation.

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