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1) Watcher
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Watcher throws away the rules regarding disabilities in crime fiction. Teri is a hero that we can all relate to as she fights her own battles with Multiple Sclerosis and the mysterious man that wants her dead. Teri is a watcher. A silent witness to the lives of others. Robbed of her strength and mobility by a devastating disease, she is confronted with a crime so vicious it forces her to choose between her own safety and a woman she's never met....
2) Watcher
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"I knew one thing – I wasn't going to be rotting in that place for the rest of my life. I was getting out of there. That place turned people into the living dead. In that neighbourhood, it was hard to hear anything that didn't carry the sound of defeat." Sixteen-year-old Porter Delaney has his future figured out, but his nice, neat plans are shaken when a man he believes may be his father suddenly appears in his Toronto neighbourhood. Porter knows...
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Dreamhouse Kings volume 2
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IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
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Twelve-year-old David and his family search for their kidnapped mother in the many different time period portals of their home, but when a stranger appears and tries to force them to sell the house, their desperation reaches new heights.
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"The secret town of Rockton has seen some rocky times lately; understandable considering its mix of criminals and victims fleeing society for refuge within its Yukon borders. Casey Duncan, the town's only detective on a police force of three, has already faced murder, arson, and falling in love in the several months that she's lived there. Yet even she didn't think it would be possible for an outsider to locate the town and cause trouble in the place...
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She is lost on an alien planet. He said he'd help her get home. He lied.
Jessica's plane develops engine trouble over the dry Australian inland-and crashes in thick, unfamiliar rainforest.
A group she thinks is a search party shows up, but it consists of large-eyed not-quite people who kill all survivors except Jessica and a long-haired hippie named Brian.
No one is going to come to rescue her. In fact, they're not even on Earth.
While the pair wrestle...
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American Girl history mysteries volume 9
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IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
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In 1865, while helping her family keep their Virginia farm going through the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Cassie meets a Confederate deserter and a Yankee prisoner of war and tries to discover who has been stealing from the farm.
8) The watcher
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Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2014.
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IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
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Kidnapped by her own mother, a Nazi spy, teenaged Wendy is transported from Maine to wartime Berlin, where she secretly supports the resistance movement and learns a family secret.
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"Pearl Jenkins is a nobody. She was a woman who lived as a hermit in the woods. One day, she's nowhere to be found, and all that's left behind is a pool of blood and a child no one knew existed, raised completely off the grid and in the grip of Pearl's manic paranoia. Kateri Fisher is used to being an outsider. Now, she's the only female detective in the tiny upstate New York town of Spring Falls, where everyone knows everyone, but no one will talk....
11) The watcher
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After two of his high-rise neighbors are murdered in their apartments, Samson Segal, a would-be good Samaritan with a fondness for spying on the other residents, comes under intense suspicion as the possible killer.
12) The watcher
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Lily Gullick, an avid bird watcher who's also been spying on her neighbors, sees something suspicious through her binoculars and soon her elderly neighbor is found dead. Can Lily really trust everything she sees?
13) Watcher
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IFC Midnight
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[2022]
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As a serial killer stalks the city murdering young women, an actress who just moved to Bucharest with her boyfriend notices a mysterious stranger constantly watching her from across the street. In a foreign country where she does not speak the language and under the scrutiny of this stalker, her life quickly becomes tense and insufferable, but she finds no one to believe her.
14) The Watcher
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PENANCE COMES IN MANY FLAVORS BUT SPYING ON THE DEVIL SHOULDN'T BE ONE OF THEM.
In penance for sins committed millennia ago, Penemue, a fallen angel, has watched over James Rucker and Lucifer Morningstar aka the Devil, since the beginning of their existence.
Now, Penemue is called to a new mission, to secure his role as an ambassador between Heaven and Earth, and help Rucker write Lucifer's memoir. To do this, he must take on human form. New job,...
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IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
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In early twentieth-century New York, as thirteen-year-old Sacha Kessler, the Inquisitor's apprentice, faces enemies old and new that threaten him and his family, he changes his mind about learning magic.
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A police lieutenant in Fascist Spain finds his new assignment a threat to his family in this novel in the Edgar Award–winning series. Spain, 1940: Potes, a remote northern mountain village, is Carlos Tejada's first independent Guardia Civil command. He soon discovers that this "promotion" is a mixed blessing. The villagers are unwelcoming. He and his pregnant wife, Elena, have no place to live but the jail and his own men seem strangely hostile....
17) The Watcher
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The Watcher is a sexy, pulse-pounding romantic suspense from USA Today bestselling author Bella Jewel!
NOW YOU SEE HER...
Seven years ago, Marlie Jacobson was kidnapped by a serial killer-and lived to tell about it. But, it was actually her mother who told the story, in a bestselling book that made Marlie famous. Today, she's known as the girl who slayed a killer. The one who got away. Now, there's just one thing Marlie wants to get away from: her...
18) Watchers of time
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Inspector Ian Rutledge mysteries volume 5
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Charles Todd brings his classic mystery series to a new level of intensity and intrigue. The year is 1919, and Ian Rutledge is a fragile yet courageous former soldier searching for his place in a post-war world. Now a Scotland Yard detective, Rutledge is called upon to probe a murder in the small Norfolk town of Osterley- but he soon discovers that the crime may be connected to one of the greatest disasters of all time.
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As hybrid vampire/faery Lotus's journey has taken her from solving the vampire-committed murders in Denver to Las Vegas, she begins to learn a lot more about herself and the evil vampire of a father who has been searching for her for years. She has to make a decision on whether she's going to run from Vlad or search for him and confront him as he continues to terrorize her dreams. She wonders if finding him will lead her to her faery mother, or if...
20) Watcher Reborn
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Book 3 of the 8-Book Dark Angels Completed Series.
Duty. Honor. His brothers. That's all he has.
As the mystical scribe of their dysfunctional family, Danel's divine gift doesn't allow him to forget anything: not how humanity mistreated him as an orphaned slave, not how Zander contributed to his humiliation, not how he was bound to a life of servitude and now-with the loss of his dagger hand-has no way to contribute. When his obsession with coffee...