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A Field Guide to Mermaids

Emily B. Martin - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

A magical and lushly illustrated field guide to the mermaids that inhabit our ponds, streams and oceans, based on real ecological details -- with a strong environmental focus -- perfect for fans of The Magical Unicorn Society series. A glimmer of fish scales.A splash from a colorful fin.The...
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Skin of the Sea

Natasha Bowen - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A way to survive.A way to serve.A way to save.Simi prayed to the gods, once. Now she serves them as Mami Wata - a mermaid - collecting the souls of those who die at sea and blessing their journeys back home.But when a living boy is thrown overboard, Simi does the unthinkable - she saves...
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A Song Below Water: A Novel

Bethany C. Morrow - Tor Teen
Format: Hardcover

A Song Below Water is the story for today's readers -- a captivating modern fantasy about black mermaids, friendship, and self-discovery set against the challenges of today's racism and sexism. In a society determined to keep her under lock and key, Tavia must hide her siren powers....
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Sea Witch

SARAH HENNING - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

Wicked meets The Little Mermaid in the captivating origin story of the sea's most iconic villainess, perfect for fans of Heartless and Dorothy Must Die.Ever since her best friend Anna died, Evie has been an outcast in her small fishing town. Hiding her talents, mourning her loss, drowning...
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Stone Blind: A Novel

Natalie Haynes - Harper
Format: Hardcover

"Haynes is master of her trade . . . She succeeds in breathing warm life into some of our oldest stories." - Telegraph (UK) The national bestselling author of A Thousand Ships and Pandora's Jar returns with a fresh and stunningly perceptive take on the story of Medusa, the original...
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Into the Drowning Deep

MIRA GRANT - Orbit
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Mira Grant, author of the renowned Newsflesh series, returns with a novel that takes us to a new world of ancient mysteries and mythological dangers come to life. Seven years ago, the Atargatis set off on a voyage to the Mariana Trench to film a "mockumentary"...
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The Deep

Rivers Solomon - Gallery / Saga Press
Format: Paperback

Octavia E. Butler meets Marvel's Black Panther in The Deep, a story rich with Afrofuturism, folklore, and the power of memory, inspired by the Hugo Award-nominated song "The Deep" from Daveed Diggs's rap group Clipping. Yetu holds the memories for her people - water-dwelling...
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The Mermaid of Black Conch: A novel

Monique Roffey - Vintage
Format: Hardcover

This enchanting tale of a cursed mythical creature and the lonely fisherman who falls in love with her is "a daring, mesmerizing novel ... single-handedly bringing magic realism up-to-date" (Maggie OFarrell, best-selling author of Hamnet) .. "Sentence by sensuous sentence,...
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Ponyo [DVD]

Noah Cyrus - SHOUT! FACTORY
Format: DVD

From the legendary Studio Ghibli, creators of Spirited Away and My Neighbor Totoro, and Academy Award®-winning director Hayao Miyazaki, comes a heartwarming adventure, now featuring hours of new bonus features never-before-released in North America! When Sosuke, a young boy who lives...
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Luca


Format: DVD

Set in a seaside town on the Italian Riviera, a young boy experiences an unforgettable summer. Luca shares his amazing adventures with his newfound friend Alberto, but their fun is threatened by a deeply held secret: they're sea monsters from another world just below the water's...

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Song of the Sea [Blu-ray]

David Rawle - Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: Blu-ray

From the writer and director of the Academy Award®-nominated The Secret of Kells comes an enchanting fable about loss, magic and the love of family. When Saoirse and Bens mother mysteriously disappears into the ocean, the two children go on an epic journey to find out the truth about her,...
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The Shape Of Water [4K UltraHD / Blu-ray] [4K UHD]

Guillermo del Toro - 20th Century Fox
Format: Blu-ray

An other-worldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962. In the hidden high security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa is trapped in a life of isolation. Elisas life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda discover a secret classified...
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The Lure

Marta Mazurek - Criterion Collection
Format: DVD

This genre-defying horror-musical mash-up the bold debut of Polish director Agnieszka Smoczynska follows a pair of carnivorous mermaid sisters drawn ashore to explore life on land in an alternate 1980s Poland. Their tantalizing siren songs and otherworldly auras make them overnight sensations...
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