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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...
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The secret to happiness is to be yourself. Unless you can be a mermaid. Then be a mermaid!
If you're ready to trade legs for fins, Be a Real-Life Mermaid shows how to shell-ebrate your inner sea siren. Professional mermaid Virginia Hankins teaches you how to be a stylish aqua-babe and embody the confidence of a water goddess.
Part craft book, part manifesto with a splash of fun, this book has everything needed to complete your mermaid transformation,...
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In a two-player game of deceit, victory comes at the highest cost . . . When Brittany Martin's aunt was killed and her savings stolen, investigators lost the suspects in Costa del Sol, a region known for harboring thieves and modern day pirates. Brokenhearted and furious, Brittany is determined to track the suspects herself, and has zeroed in on a man she considers to be the prime suspect: Flynn Colby. Handsome and wealthy, Flynn moves about the...
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Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Every day, more and more people fleeing war in the north show up at Kyung Tak and her family's house on the southeastern shore of Korea. With nowhere else to go, the Taks' home is these migrants' last chance of refuge "before falling into the sea," and the household quickly becomes crowded, hot, and noisy. Then war sirens cry out over Kyung's city too, and her family and their guests take shelter underground. When the sirens stop, Kyung is upset--she...
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"H Is for Hawk meets Joan Didion in the Pyrocene in this arresting combination of memoir, natural history, and literary inquiry that chronicles one woman's experience of life in Northern California during the worst fire season on record. Told in luminous, perceptive prose, The Last Fire Season is a deeply incisive inquiry into what it really means-now-to live in relationship to the elements of the natural world. When Manjula Martin moved from the...
7) La Odisea
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Serres
Pub. Date
[2021]
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Español
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Un álbum para descubrir las aventuras fantásticas del astuto Ulises contra monstruos y dioses de la mitología griega. Ulises, el rey de la isla de Ítaca, sale de Troya para volver a casa, pero los dioses no van a ponérselo nada fácil... Antes de reunirse con su familia, a Ulises le espera un viaje emocionante y lleno de peligros, aventuras, monstruos y magia.
A lovely picture book to discover Odysseus' fantastic adventures as he faces storm...
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Noemi Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Narrates the first- generation Mexican American girl, tracking the experiences of cultural displacement, the inheritance of generational trauma, sexist and racist violence, sexual assault, economic struggle, and institutional racism and sexism that disproportionately punishes brown girls in crisis. Narrated by a speaker in mourning marked as an at- risk juvenile, psychologically troubled, an offender, expelled and sent to alternative school for adolescents...
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