Books with title The water pitcher

The first book in 'The Watcher Series', begins the story of Ben, Valentina, and Jaime who seem like your typical high school Juniors living in a sleepy little New Hampshire town. But when Valentina discovers she is the unwitting pawn in an ancient game she never knew existed, the three of them must face the most difficult decisions they've ever had to make. Ben and Jaime must choose whether to alter the courses they have long been ordained to follow, or risk everyone and everything to change what they were born to be, while Valentina must face the fact that the two boys, and even her own self, are not what she's always believed them to be.***“The human mind can’t comprehend how dark and bitter its days can become. It’s a survival instinct. You roll your eyes at the scroungy man holding the placard reading The End Is Near, maybe you worry ever so slightly at Mayan calendar predictions, fret over global warming in an absent, uninvolved way, so that when it really happens, when everything really does fold in on itself you’re left stunned and unprepared. You’re left standing in the blotted out wasteland of what’s left of the world, crying about the unfairness of it all and wondering how this has happened to you. That’s humanity for you. Self-imposed blindness is its survival mechanism,” he says, solemnly. “But dark horrible things happen to people everyday. And you’d be a fool to believe they couldn’t happen to you as well.” Valentina can’t help but roll her eyes at his over the top declaration. “So we should just spend our entire lives hiding under the covers?” He flashes his big endearing smile as he wraps an arm around her and yanks the blanket over their heads. And in the end she wasn’t prepared. No one was. He’d been right, but then again he always was. And why wouldn’t he be? After all it’d been him that had orchestrated it all.

On the top of a tower, guarded by dragons, the Watcher gazes out into the horizon. While the rest of his tribe work and toil, he questions what is beyond the walls. Determined to find out, he escapes his captors to find out just what is out there. An imaginative and engaging story, The Watcher will help you see poetry in a whole new way. Escape into the world of a slave boy who dreams of something more and journey with him as he discovers what mysteries the world holds. There is more. The Watcher proves it. Discover it for yourself.

The Watcher: a chilling new serial killer thrillerLife couldn’t get much better for Hannah. She accepts her dream job in Manchester, and easily makes friends with her new neighbours.When she becomes romantically involved with her boss, she can’t believe her luck. But things are about to take a grisly turn.As her colleagues and neighbours are killed off one by one, Hannah’s idyllic life starts to fall apart. But when her mother becomes the next victim, the connection to Hannah is all too real.Who is watching her every move?Will the police discover the real killer in time?Hannah is about to learn that appearances can be deceptive.The Watcher is a suspenseful serial killer thriller that will appeal to fans of authors like; Rachel Abbot, Kathryn Croft, Jenny Blackhurst & B A Paris

In this first book of the Watcher's Quest trilogy, 15-year-old Emma has long suspected that something is not quite as it should be in her life. With her long, pale face and white hair, she looks nothing like her parents or frail younger sister. She acts nothing like them, either. While her parents happily pursue their daily routine, Emma senses danger. She knows she must watch over the family day and night -- but why, she doesn't know. Things spin out of control when Emma takes a summer job caring for an eccentric elderly neighbor and is drawn into playing a strange board game. She's suddenly plagued by surreal, frightening dreams that begin to invade her waking hours. Emma is soon hurtled from her quiet farm life into strange worlds of intrigue and terror. As she becomes a participant in a bizarre game of life and death, the mystery surrounding her is solved ? and her future decided.

This is a story that celebrates the non-conforming child. Instead of being a "doer" like most of the other kids he knows, George is a watcher. He watches television. He watches cars and trucks. He watches clouds in summer and snow falling in winter, and he watches big machines. Unfortunately, George doesn't have any friends. No one really knows him--until the day when Sarah starts choking in the school cafeteria. While everyone else turns into watchers, George turns into a hero. People realize that there's more to George than meets the eye, and while the embarrassed hero becomes a bit more outgoing, he doesn't abandon his watching.

An orphaned sea witch named Lorelei and her seagull familiar have grown up living far inland at a magic reclaimer mage's castle never having seen the beach or ocean. Gavin the apprentice sorcery recycler and supernatural estate liquidator takes over their master's trading wagon caravan after his mysterious death and sets out on a journey of discovery. A Hydromancer may work with any liquid and a chance encounter with a Squonk and its tears creates unusual magical possibilities for a water witch.