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This month we will be discussing the 2025 Adult One Book One San Diego pick "Deacon King Kong" by James McBride. 

In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known in the neighborhood as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Causeway Housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .38 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range.

This title has unlimited copies of the e-book and e-audio versions on Libby. 

You can check out a copy on your own, or inquire at the Lakeside Branch service desk.