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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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In a small seaside town a little girl is found alone; a woman arrives for her, and authorities release the pair, believing it to be an innocent case of a toddler running off. A man is found bludgeoned and left for dead in his apartment; the discovery of children's toys raises more questions than answers. Gazing into Gregor's apartment, Ruby discovers his secret family: his unusually silent daughter and his mentally unstable wife, Constance, who insists...
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"The Gales are an amazing family, the aunts will strike fear into your heart, and the characters Allie meets are both charming and terrifying." -#1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris
Alysha Gale's cousin Charlotte is a Wild Power, who allies herself with a family of Selkies in a fight against offshore oil drilling. The oil company has hired another of the Gale family's Wild Powers, the fearsome Auntie Catherine,
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"Hundreds of years ago, the Selkies made a deal with the sea witch: they would have the sea for as long as she allowed it, and when the time came, she would call in all their debts at once. Many assumed that day would never come. Those people were wrong. When the Luidaeg--October "Toby" Daye's oldest and most dangerous ally--tells her the time has come for the Selkies to fulfill their side of the bargain, and that Toby must be a part of the process,...
6) Selkie
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When a greedy oysterman captures a selkie--a seal that turns into a girl--a boy outwits him and returns her to the sea and wins her reward.
7) The turning
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Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 385 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Aran has never truly fit in with his selkie clan. He was born in his human form, without a pelt to transform him into a sleek, strong seal. Each day he waits, left behind while his selkie family explores the deep ocean. What if his pelt never comes?" --
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Publisher
Gollancz, an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group Ltd
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
215 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A tale of love, loss, and revenge, against a powerful backdrop of adventure on the high seas and drama on land. The Blue Salt Road balances passion and loss, love and violence, and draws on nature to weave a mythology around a nameless, wild young man. Passion drew him to a new world, and trickery has kept him there -- without his memories, separated from his own people. But as he finds his way in this dangerous new life, he learns that his notions...
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Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 21 cm
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English
Description
During the summer of 1988, Allie Jo, whose family runs an antebellum Florida hotel, meets Chase, who is staying there with his father, and they become friends when they discover a mysterious teenager hiding on the grounds of the hotel.
10) The Folk Keeper
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Language
English
Description
Orphan Corinna disguises herself as a boy to pose as a Folk Keeper, one who keeps the Evil Folk at bay, and discovers her heritage as a seal maiden when she is taken to live with a wealthy family in their manor by the sea.
11) Troll Mill
Author
Series
Troll trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Peer Ulfsson witnesses the disappearance of his neighbor's wife, rumored to be a seal-woman, he must help protect the baby she leaves behind from trolls, a witch, and other creatures.
12) The golden city
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Series
A Golden city novel volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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"For two years, Oriana Paredes has been a spy among the social elite of the Golden City, reporting back to her people, the sereia, sea folk banned from the city's shores.... When her employer and only confidante decides to elope, Oriana agrees to accompany her to Paris. But before they can depart, the two women are abducted and left to drown. Trapped beneath the waves, Oriana's heritage allows her to survive while she is forced to watch her only friend...
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Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
90 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Fiona takes a nostalgic journey back to the islands of Scotland and to the home of her grandparents. Filled with longing for the island life, Fiona happily leaves the smoky city to which in the last four years she has been exiled, believing that the old ways of the islanders are more sound than the hectic enterprises of her parents. And it is here in the Western isles in a mist of fantasy, lore, and possibility, she reclaims from the...
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Whidbey Island saga volume 2
Language
English
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Fifteen-year-old Jenn McDaniel's life on Whidbey Island becomes more complicated and her relationships with old and new friends take strange turns, partly due to the arrival of a woman researching a strange black seal.
15) Song of the sea
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 minutes) : sound, color ; 12 cm
Language
English
Description
When Saoirse and Ben's mother mysteriously disappears into the ocean, the two children go on an epic journey to find out the truth about her, and in the process, discover mystical secrets about both their mother and Saoirse herself. The film takes inspiration from the mythological Selkies of Irish folklore, who live as seals in the sea but become humans on land.
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Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Scotland, 1906. A mysterious object discovered inside an ancient castle calls Maximilian Haywood, the new Duke of Olympia, and his fellow researcher Emmeline Truelove, north to the remote Orkney Islands. No stranger to the study of anachronisms in archeological digs, Haywood is nevertheless puzzled by the artifact: a suit of clothing, which, according to family legend, once belonged to a selkie who rose from the sea in ancient times and married the...
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English
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Fledgling Water Master Mari Prothero rebels against her expected arranged marriage at age eighteen until she learns that her family's magical heritage is actually protected by these unions. This story combines East of the Sun and West of the Moon, as well as Tam Lin, with the Selkie of Sul Skerry. We'll see Nan and Sarah (from Wizard of London) as adults, coming into their own, and Grey and Neville, of course!
Author
Series
A Golden city novel volume 2
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Series
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Deeply depressed Olivia, whose parents are divorcing, is ripe for manipulation. And swimming star Blake is looking for someone just like her. Although her friend tries to warn her, Olivia falls for his ploys and accepts an invitation to go to the Adirondack resort camp of Lake Endor with him and his family. But all is not as it seems at the hundred year old resort. Not only does Olivia discover that Blake is not the guy she thought he was, there...
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English
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"Fifteen-year-old Morgan has a secret: She can't wait to escape the perfect little island where she lives. She's desperate to finish high school and escape her sad divorced mom, her volatile little brother, and worst of all, her great group of friends...who don't understand Morgan at all. Because really, Morgan's biggest secret is that she has a lot of secrets, including the one about wanting to kiss another girl. Then one night, Morgan is saved from...
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