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Derrick Barnes, Kansas City-based author of the children’s book series “Ruby and the Booker Boys,” has finished his new novel “We Could Be Brothers.” Barnes posed for a portrait with his three boys, Ezra, 10, lower right, Solomom, 6, left and Silas, 4, upper right. DAVID EULITT/The Kansas City Star