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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
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jason Bennett is a suburban dad who owns a court-reporting business, but one night, his life takes a horrific turn. He is driving his family home after his daughter's field hockey game when a pickup truck begins tailgating them, on a dark stretch of road. Suddenly two men jump from the pickup and pull guns on Jason, demanding the car. A horrific flash of violence changes his life forever. Later that awful night, Jason and his family receive a visit...
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...
6) Out of death
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A retired forest ranger tries to help a woman after she witnesses a crime.
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Appears on list
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.
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"There's something sinister under the surface of the idyllic, suburban town of Wesley Falls, and it's not just the abandoned coal mine that lies beneath it. The summer of 1995 kicks off with a party in the mine where six high school students witness a horrifying crime that changes the course of their lives. The six couldn't be more different. Maddy, a devout member of the local megachurch. Kelly, the bookworm next door. James, a cynical burnout. Casey,...
11) Edge: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
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...
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...
13) The ideal man
Author
Series
Buchanan novels (Julie Garwood) volume 9
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
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...
17) Dangerous lies
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After witnessing a murder, high school senior Stella Gordon is sent to Nebraska for her own safety where she chafes at her protection, but when she meets Chet Falconer it becomes harder for her to keep her guard up, and soon she has to deal with the real threat to her life as her enemies are actually closer than she thinks.
19) Sister act
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
In this comedy a nightclub singer is forced to take refuge from the mob in a convent. While there she turns the convent choir into a soulful chorus complete with a Motown repertoire. The sudden celebrity of the choir jeopardizes her identity.
20) Brink of death
Author
Series
Hidden faces series volume 1
Pub. Date
©2004
Language
English
Description
The noises, faint, fleeting, whispered into her consciousness like wraiths passing in the night. Twelve-year-old Erin Willit opened her eyes to darkness lit only by the dim green nightlight near her closet door and the faint glow of a street lamp through her front window. She felt her forehead wrinkle, the fingers of one hand curl as she tried to discern what had awakened her. Something was not right . . . Annie Kingston moves to Grove Landing for...
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