Author: Majia Comella
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1504328507
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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You are invited to join Marin and her exuberant sister Gen on vacation in Cornwall, where they attend a seaside wedding. During their stay, Marin is acutely aware of the mysterious people who staff the old resort where the wedding is held. She is particularly drawn to Geoffrey, who challenges her to feel her emotions and overcome fear. In the process, Marin discovers an ancient world that coexists with the modern one in this remote and scenic land.
Author: Nancy Sakaduski
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996805230
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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A storm has hit coastal Delaware and washed a young mermaid named Nibi across land and into Rehoboth Bay, separating her from her family, friends, and ocean home. Terra, a little girl who lives nearby, is afraid of the water, so she misses out on swimming with her friends and wading in the bay to collect shells. The two discover each other, become friends, and find a way to solve their problems together.The Mermaid in Rehoboth Bay is a story that celebrates the beauty of the sea and tidal areas, and depicts two strong female characters who are able to confront their fears and achieve their goals on their own. Great care has been taken to depict realistic, age-appropriate children that readers will identify with. The story addresses themes of friendship, girl-empowerment, respect for differences, love of nature, and overcoming fears to achieve your goals.
Author: Salima Alikhan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781478868156
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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It's not easy being the weirdest kid in fourth grade. Soraya finds her escape reading comic books about a space superhero who saves the day. But everything changes when Soraya's class goes on a field trip to an aquarium. Is that really a mermaid in the big tank, talking to Soraya and asking for her help? Can Soraya rise to the occasion and save the day like her superhero idol?
Author: Nunziatina Isgrò
Publisher: Youcanprint
ISBN: 8827868488
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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A book appropriate to primary school kids, supported by beautiful drawings by Cristina Sottile , translated into English by Sam Palella, telling the story of baron Tallone who wants to take possession of a gorgeous bay, that is the Mermaids Bay, aka "Ngònia" to the citizens of Milazzo, Milazzesi, because "he hates people gathering in Summer, lovers who are fond of themselves and the children playing on the beach. In summary he hates people's joy which he unfortunately does not share in." Mermaids are standing in the way of his desire of possession, they come into play to safeguard the freedom of accessing to such a beautiful and unpolluted place. A fable aiming at educating to develop respect for nature and your neighbour, furtherly it draws the moral, money cannot buy really anything!!!
Author: Ventura, Varla
Publisher: Weiser Books
ISBN: 1578635454
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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From Homer's Odyssey to Pirates of the Caribbean, Mermaids have fascinated popular culture for centuries. Among the Mermaids is an enchanting collection of classic stories, facts, and tales of mermaids from around the world that will thrill every lover of this romanticized mythological creature. Compiled by Book of the Bizarre author and Magical Creature devotee Varla Ventura, Among the Mermaids includes turn of the century tales of merfolk from Bret Harte, T. Crofton Croker, and W.B. Yeats, along with tantalizing trivia, facts, first-hand accounts, and speculations about mermaids in popular culture. Some facts about the fluid and the fair from the book: Many people believe today that early explorer sightings of mermaids were manatees. (Scurvy + many days away from your lady = a blubbery creature looking supple and bodacious.)Blackbeard, the fierce and terrible pirate, was afraid of his crew being lured into a watery grave by mermaids, so he ordered his ships to avoid certain areas reputed to have a high number of mermaid sightings.Since 2009, the town of Kiryat Yam, Israel has offered a prize of $1 million dollars to anyone who can prove the mermaid off their coast is real. The prize remains unclaimed.
Author: Carlton Mellick Iii
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781621050889
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"Mermaids are protected by the government under the Endangered Species Act, which means you aren't able to kill them even in self-defense. This is especially problematic if you happen to live in the isolated fishing village of Siren Cove, where there exists a healthy population of mermaids in the surrounding waters that view you as the main source of protein in their diet. The only thing keeping these ravenous sea women at bay is the equally-dangerous supply of human livestock known as Food People. Normally, these "feeder humans" are enough to keep the mermaid population happy and well-fed. But in Siren Cove, the mermaids are avoiding the human livestock and have returned to hunting the frightened local fishermen. It is up to Doctor Black, an eccentric representative of the Food People Corporation, to investigate the matter and hopefully find a way to correct the mermaids' new eating patterns before the remaining villagers end up as fish food. But the more he digs, the more he discovers there are far stranger and more dangerous things than mermaids hidden in this ancient village by the sea."--Page 4 of cover.
Author: Lydia Millet
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393245632
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 183
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"Hilariously funny…Lydia Millet’s novels raise the bar for boldness." —Rene Steinke, New York Times Book Review In this “comic masterpiece” (Salon), honeymooners Deb and Chip—our opinionated, skeptical narrator and her cheerful jock husband—befriend a marine biologist who discovers mermaids in a coral reef. As a resort chain swoops in to exploit the shy creatures, the newlyweds unite with other adventurous vacationers to stop the company from turning the reef into a theme park. Mermaids in Paradise is Lydia Millet’s most fun book yet, tempering the sharp satire of her early career with the empathy and subtlety of her more recent novels and short stories.
Author: Mary Birk
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781535171304
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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A LIBRARY JOURNAL SELF-e TOP BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR 2016 Suspecting that his estranged wife is having an affair with a famous artist from a renowned American art dynasty, Scottish Superintendent Terrence Reid, heir to a whiskey fortune and Scottish title, travels to the small California seaside town of Bodega Bay to try to win her back-only to discover that her lover's six-year-old daughter has just been kidnapped. Anne, a talented historic garden designer, doesn't know whether to bless or curse the luck that had her husband show up on her doorstep just as disaster strikes the Grainger Art Colony. Moving on after he left her was hard, but she'd done it with Andrew Grainger's help. When Anne and her lover become the FBI's chief suspects, Reid, compelled to exonerate the woman he still loves, steps in to investigate-and in the process, uncovers a shocking web of deceit and danger.
Author: Michelle Tea
Publisher: McSweeney's
ISBN: 1938073827
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 333
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Everyone in the broken-down town of Chelsea, Massachussetts, has a story too worn to repeat—from the girls who play the pass-out game just to feel like they're somewhere else, to the packs of aimless teenage boys, to the old women from far away who left everything behind. But there’s one story they all still tell: the oldest and saddest but most hopeful story, the one about the girl who will be able to take their twisted world and straighten it out. The girl who will bring the magic. Could Sophie Swankowski be that girl? With her tangled hair and grubby clothes, her weird habits and her visions of a filthy, swearing mermaid who comes to her when she’s unconscious, Sophie could be the one to uncover the power flowing beneath Chelsea’s potholed streets and sludge-filled rivers, and the one to fight the evil that flows there, too. Sophie might discover her destiny, and maybe even in time to save them all.
Author: Robert D. San Souci
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481409905
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Storyteller say, This happened oncet upon a time, on a little island off the coast of South Carolina. A girl named Sukey lived with her ma and new step-pa. Sukey called her step-pa "Mister Hard-Times." Every day, while he watched, she hoed the weeds in the garden and every day, she sang: Mister Hard-Times, Since you come My ma don't like me, My work never done. But one morning, when her step-pa wasn't looking, Sukey ran away to her secret hiding place by the sea and unwittingly called up Mama Jo, a beautiful black mermaid. The adventures that followed changed her life forever. In this dream-woven story, artfully retold by Robert D. San Souci from an American folktale, a poor girl finds her wishes answered not by treasure, or the sea's magic, but by goodness and love.
