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1) Hush
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Toswiah finds her life changed when her family enters the witness protection program.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When professional house-sitter Lila Emerson witnesses a murder/suicide from her current apartment-sitting job, life as she knows it takes a dramatic turn. Suddenly, the woman with no permanent ties finds herself almost wishing for one. Artist Ashton Archer knows his brother isn't capable of violence--against himself or others. He recruits Lila, the only eyewitness, to help him uncover what happened. Ash longs to paint her as intensely as he hungers...
Pub. Date
[2013], c1994
Language
English
Description
The Jehovah's Witnesses are a fast-growing, media-shy religious sect that believe that Armageddon is rapidly approaching. Its members find fulfillment in their tight-knit community and in church activities, including the extensive proselytizing required by the faith. Children raised as Jehovah's Witnesses are often torn between the rewards of conforming to its laws and the freedoms of a secular world. This program focuses on the pressures adolescents...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Why do people sometimes intervene in acts of violence, but not so in others? The horrifying case of two-year-old James Bulger, murdered by two older children, threw into light this very confronting aspect of human behavior. Seen distressed by an estimated 38 people, no one intervened. Why? Why will an individual raise an alarm when alone, but not when sitting with a group of strangers? This is a fascinating and lucid look at the Bystander Effect,...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"She had the perfect life. She had the perfect cover. She was the perfect witness. Until they found her. From the blockbuster bestselling author of the Eve Duncan novels comes a new, stand alone thriller about a woman with a photographic memory who has lived her life in the Witness Protection Program. What she once saw put her entire family in jeopardy and now, years later, her cover is blown. She's on the run, and the lives of those she holds dear...
8) Out of death
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A retired forest ranger tries to help a woman after she witnesses a crime.
10) Fake ID
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Description
"An African-American teen in the Witness Protection Program moves to a new town and finds himself trying to solve a murder mystery when his first friend is found dead"--
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When her grandmother and guardian suffers a stroke, twelve-year-old Poppy Parker's life turns upside down--but when she witnesses a murder and has to go into witness protection with Detective Brannigan's mother it becomes hard to believe she will ever find a way home, let alone save Gunner, a beautiful German shepherd with an uncertain future.
12) Blue heaven
Author
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Annie and her younger brother William escape into the Idaho woods, pursued by the murderers whose killings they witnessed and a group of dirty cops seeking to prevent the youngsters from revealing what they know.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
Thirteen-year-old Nikki Demere is an orphan and a kleptomaniac, making her the perfect girl to portray the Trevors' daughter in witness protection, but she soon learns that the biggest threat to her new family's security comes from her own past.
14) In the woods
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
It should have been just another quiet night on the farm when Logan witnessed the attack, but it wasn't. Something is in the woods. Something unexplainable. Something deadly. Hundreds of miles away, Chrystal's plans for summer in Manhattan are abruptly upended when her dad reads tabloid coverage of some kind of grisly incident in Oklahoma. When they arrive to investigate, they find a witness: a surprisingly good-looking farm boy. As townsfolk start...
16) Edge: a novel
Author
Language
English
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Description
When Washington D.C. police detective Ryan Kessler is targeted by "lifter" Henry Loving, he and his family are immediately put under government protection. Assigned to the Kesslers is protection officer Corte: uncompromising, relentlessly devoted to protecting those in his care and a brilliant game strategist. As the "lifter" closes in on his prey, Corte must decide whether to protect his charges, or expose them to a killer in the name of personal...
17) The ideal man
Author
Series
Buchanan novels (Julie Garwood) volume 9
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Author
Series
Marshall Grade novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Ex-undercover cop Marshall Grade is hiding out in New York City when he learns that federal agent Lucas Cohen has survived a kidnapping. Cohen was Marshall's ticket into witness protection, and his captors have a simple question: where's Marshall now? Marshall's undercover work gave him a long list of enemies, and the enemy in this case is a corrupt businessman named Dexter Vine. Vine's almost broke, in debt to people even worse than himself, and...
Author
Series
Cyrus Haven novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Who is Evie, the girl with no past, running from? She was discovered hiding in a secret room in the aftermath of a terrible crime. Her ability to tell when someone is lying helped Cyrus crack an impenetrable case ... Now, the closer Cyrus gets to uncovering answers about Evie's dark history, the more he exposes Evie to danger, giving her no choice but to run. Ultimately, both will have to decide if some secrets are better left buried and some monsters...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"Daniel leads a rich life in the university town of Athens, Georgia. He's got a couple close friends, a steady paycheck working for a regional airline, and of course, for a few glorious days each Fall, college football tailgates. He considers himself to be a mostly lucky guy, despite the fact that he's suffered from a horrible illness since he was a small child, one that has left him unable to speak or to move without a wheelchair. Largely confined...
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