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"Shakespeare, a master craftsman, pulls the narrative string and his beguiling story is complete, as intricate and miraculous as a ship in a bottle." - Los Angeles Times Book Review
"His mastery shines through his characters..." - Time Out Chicago
"…quiet and moving…trouble, as ever, is in the offing, and when it arrives, Shakespeare allows it to run its natural course without dipping into melodrama. Expertly crafted, the novel illuminates love's...
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"How did a nineteenth-century dressmaker revolutionize science? Jeanne Power was creative: she wanted to learn about the creatures that swim beneath the ocean waves, so she built glass tanks and changed the way we study underwater life forever. Jeanne Power was groundbreaking: she solved mysteries of sea animals and published her findings at a time when few of women's contributions to science were acknowledged. Jeanne Power was persistent: when records...
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Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
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2014.
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"Who lives at the seashore? Shine a light behind the page and see ... Explore a tidal pool up close and you will find a small world filled with great surprises! From jewel-like sea anemones to spiky sea urchins, the hidden wonders of this amazing habitat will be revealed"--Publisher.
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A tale of high adventure and derring-do set in the same Victorian-style world as the acclaimed The Court of the Air and The Rise of the Iron Moon. The isolated island of Jago is the only place Hannah Conquest has ever known as home. Encircled by the magma ocean of the Fire Sea, it was once the last bastion of freedom when the world struggled under the tyranny of the Chimecan Empire during the age-long winter of the cold-time. But now this once-shining...
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Pierre Tallet's discovery of the Red Sea Scrolls-the world's oldest surviving written documents-in 2013 was one of the most remarkable moments in the history of Egyptology. These papyri, written some 4,600 years ago, and combined with Mark Lehner's research, changed what we thought we knew about the building of the Great Pyramid at Giza.
Here, for the first time, the world-renowned Egyptologists Tallet and Lehner give us the definitive account of...
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Bloomsbury Natural History, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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2016.
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"Our seas are host to an extraordinary variety of plant and animal life, but much of it remains mysterious and great imagery is surprisingly hard to find. Alex Mustard is one of the world's leading underwater photographers and his images are so crisp and immediate that the animals seem to swim out of the water towards you. The text addresses the issue of change in the oceans along with tales of oceanography, marine life and human history in the seas...
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In a realm of warring kingdoms, a young princess must decide whether to follow her family into centuries of enslavement, greed and bloodshed or to risk everything for freedom.
A new merman slave catches her eye, forcing Demelda to make the boldest decision of her life. She had always felt like an outsider, but his unmistakable presence leads her to question everything she knows about court, the rulers of the realm and ultimately herself. Will she...
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Brown Books Kids
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[2021]
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"The sea-with its unknowable depths, its far-reaching horizons, and its sparkling surface-holds some in fascination, others in fear. But one thing can't be denied by either beholder of the water: it is home to an array of species we can't even begin to know the extent of. But as for the underwater creatures of the past, who have been extinct for millions of years, we can make an attempt at learning all of them. With The Secrets of Ancient Sea Monsters,...
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"In 1860, Alexander Ferguson, a newly ordained vicar and amateur evolutionary scientist, takes up his new parish, a poor, isolated patch on the remote Scottish island of Harris. He hopes to uncover the truth behind the legend of the selkies--mermaids or seal people who have been sighted off the north of Scotland for centuries. He has a more personal motive, too; family legend states that Alexander is descended from seal men. As he struggles to be...
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