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Author: Catherine Hapka Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers ISBN: 0307976386 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 114
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Lindy doesn't want to move to the bug house. That's what she calls her family's new beachfront house on stilts. She misses her best friend and her life back in Chicago. But her feelings change during a storm when Lindy hears a cry for help . . . from a mermaid! Are there really mermaids in Lindy's backyard? And if so, what can one clumsy girl do to help them? Fans of Hamster Magic and The Very Little Princess books will love this heartfelt and accessible Stepping Stones fantasy.
Author: Catherine Hapka Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers ISBN: 0307976386 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 114
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Lindy doesn't want to move to the bug house. That's what she calls her family's new beachfront house on stilts. She misses her best friend and her life back in Chicago. But her feelings change during a storm when Lindy hears a cry for help . . . from a mermaid! Are there really mermaids in Lindy's backyard? And if so, what can one clumsy girl do to help them? Fans of Hamster Magic and The Very Little Princess books will love this heartfelt and accessible Stepping Stones fantasy.
Author: Katie Roseborough Publisher: Mascot Books ISBN: 9781645436409 Category : Languages : en Pages : 38
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What would you do if you found a mermaid swimming in your pool?! Run away? Try to catch her? Or maybe jump in and join her? Let your imagination run wild as you dive into this underwater adventure full of fun and surprises.
Author: Philip Hayward Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 0861969251 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 218
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The representation of aquatic people in contemporary film and television—from their on-screen sexuality to the mockumentaries they’ve inspired. Mermaids have been a feature of western cinema since its inception and the number of films, television series, and videos representing them has expanded exponentially since the 1980s. Making a Splash analyses texts produced within a variety of audiovisual genres. Following an overview of mermaids in western culture that draws on a range of disciplines including media studies, psychoanalysis, and post-structuralism, individual chapters provide case studies of particular engagements with the folkloric figure. From Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid” to the creation of Ursula, Ariel’s tentacled antagonist in Disney’s 1989 film, to aspects of mermaid vocality, physicality, agency, and sexuality in films and even representations of mermen, this work provides a definitive overview of the significance of these ancient mythical figures in 110 years of western audio-visual media.
Author: Steven Millhauser Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0385351607 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 280
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Martin Dressler: sixteen new stories—“spellbinding, masterly, sublime” (The New York Times Book Review)—that delve into the secret lives and desires of ordinary people, alongside retellings of myths and legends that highlight the aspirations of the human spirit. Beloved for the lens of the strange he places on small town life, Steven Millhauser further reveals in Voices in the Night the darkest parts of our inner selves to brilliant and dazzling effect. Here are stories of wondrously imaginative hyperrealism, stories that pose unforgettably unsettling what-ifs, or that find barely perceivable evils within the safe boundaries of our towns, homes, and even within our bodies. Here, too, are stories culled from religion and fables: Samuel, who hears the voice of God calling him in the night; a young, pre-enlightenment Buddha, who searches for his purpose in life; Rapunzel and her Prince, who struggle to fit the real world to their dream. Heightened by magic, the divine, and the uncanny, shot through with sly and winning humor, Voices in the Night seamlessly combines the whimsy and surprise of the familiar with intoxicating fantasies that take us beyond our daily lives, all done with the hallmark sleight of hand and astonishing virtuosity of one of our greatest contemporary storytellers.
Author: Publisher: Kadokawa Gempak Starz Sdn Bhd ISBN: 9673851409 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 162
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It's hard to resist the siren callof the sea- and near impossible if you're a member of the X-Venture Xplorers! Jellyfish, pirates and assorted nautical naughtiness are no barrier reef to our team, and neither is time travel! A sinister circus is the key to their salvation, where the discovery of a mermaid egg sparks a scramble for victory! How will the team navigate through this murky mystery, and will they triumph in their travels to track ddown the truth? Flip a fin and come on in as we solve this MERMAID MYSTERY!
Author: Erika J. Wiese Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1456863657 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 179
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Erika, a young girl, walking along a deserted beach, finds an injured and dying mermaid, carries her home, and nurses her back to health. Once her body is whole again, Maari, the mermaid is able to turn herself into a human girl. When she gets homesick, Erika and her Dad take her home to the island of Tiki-roa. Several years later Erika returns to Tiki-roa. They often play at the girls secret lagoon, in a cave of the ancient Maoris, and on Skull Mountain, where they encounter a huge flightless moa bird, and find a cave with pirates treasure of pearls. At the end of her stay Erika meets Maaris mother, the mermaid Cyrena, and her father, Jupiter, mighty ruler of all the oceans. In gratitude for saving their daughters life they bestow upon Erika the power to turn herself into a mermaid.
Author: Megan Dunn Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited ISBN: 1776953932 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 357
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Forty, freckled and facing infertility, Megan Dunn hears the siren call that reawakens her lifelong obsession, and sets off in pursuit of mermaids. Real mermaids. From Coney Island and Copenhagen to Courtenay Place, Wellington, New Zealand, from the semiotics of 1984 romantic comedy Splash to meet-ups with top professional mermaids, her odyssey takes her fathoms deep, past the wreck and the boardwalk, as she asks the question that has plagued humans for millennia: What is it about mermaids? Diving into the caverns of her own life, Megan loses the plot but finds her voice and hears the mermaids singing. Shimmeringly intellectual and devastatingly deadpan, tragicomic and true, this is an off-the-hook tale about sex and death, mothers and daughters, women’s work and marriage, the stories we tell ourselves and the myths that define us all. ‘Her voice is so strong. It’s wonderful.’ — Lorde ‘A treasure of a memoir . . . funny, frank and moving.’ — Kim Hill ‘Observes the importance of fantasy with keen wit and an open heart’. — Pip Adam, author of Nothing to See ‘A fabulously witty adventure, written in deeply moving prose.’ — Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan or, The Whale
Author: Amanda Adams Publisher: Greystone Books Ltd ISBN: 1553653777 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 200
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From the seas of antiquity to the city streets of today, A Mermaid's Tale explores the myth and meanings of the mermaid. Beginning with Melusina, the bathing mermaid par excellence, Amanda Adams goes on to describe the seductive sirens and their honeyed songs, the powerful Arctic sea goddess Sedna, and the long-haired rusalki or Russian lore, among other legendary mermaids. As she tells their stories, she also expresses a love of the mermaid that surely no sea-bound sailor could ever match. Grounded in cultural anthropology, folklore studies, and intellectual rigor, A Mermaid's Tale also draws.
Author: Billy Guajardo Publisher: XinXii ISBN: 3987629061 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 253
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A Merman Named Stares will finally join a Sea of Creatures. He will enjoy a good swim, fresh fish for Lunch, and a Beautiful Mermaid to share his Dream within the Colony. A Blue Scaled Mermaid that he will come to care for, fight, and die in an attempt to save the Mergirl from a predator. A Mermaid Bone Crunching Meat Eating Monster. He will face many unexplored places and countless monsters. A Place Forbidden by The Gods and Goddesses that Ruled Millenniums Ago over the Sea. A Graveyard Built for Watery-Eyed Gods. That Lived Millenniums Ago. He Will Face the Dark Gods and Goddesses from another Time and Era. A Huge Graveyard of Dinosaur Remains and Prehistoric Skeletons of Huge Sea Creatures. Each will be exposed in a cloud of soft, white-colored sand. Monstrous Warrior Mermen from 1000s of years ago Lay in Rock. Some in Statuesque Form. Each on the bottom of the Dark and Dead Seas. A Story Based on a 13-foot Silvery Blue Scaled Merman with Powder Blue Eyes. And a Colony of Blue Scaled Mermaids. Mermen Colonies that live near the Ocean Floor. A Dark Scaly Demented Mermen and Mermaid Colony also Live There. Beneath the Clean, Clear, Crystal Water in the Dark, Black, and Dead Seas. Some in the Dark, Dead Mediterranean, Red, Baltic, and Black, Seas. Each Colony will fight for its survival and for its species. An Ancient Graveyard for Mighty Mermen Gods and Warrior Mermen from yesteryear, Stand on the white sand on a pedestal on the Ocean Floor. Surrounded in chalky white light dust. A current in the Sea would make the white sand rise around them. Which can only be seen when the Sea is at its calmest or turmoil. A Castle Built at the Bottom of the Sea belongs to The Gods. Gargantuan Mermen that lived Millenniums Ago. Reign in the Dark and Dead Seas. A Towering structure made of Bones of other Gods and Monsters formed the Kingdom of The Godless Gods. An Epic Novel with 100,000 words. A Fantasy Adventure, and Horror Novel.
Author: William J. Smith Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1312158107 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 248
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Young Samantha Turner is a typical middle-class teenager who's always loved the water, since she was real small, but when her mother refuses to let her go swimming in neighbors' backyard swimming-pools, she insists that her mother tell her why, but her mother is strangely reluctant to, until Samantha forces her to admit what Samantha has been suspecting for a while now; she and her mother are mermaids.Samantha eventually learns that her mother and maternal grandparents were mermaids who decided to live amongst humans on dry-land.Eventually Samantha wants to go to an upstate sleep-away camp, but her parents are reluctant to let her go, but she eventually convinces them to change their minds and it is at this sleep-away camp that Samantha meets a young boy named Bobby, who eventually informs Samantha that he is the male equivalent of a mermaid; a merman.Eventually Samantha and Bobby form a close, unshakabl
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