Download or read book Urban Mermaid written by Howard Parsons and published by Moonlight Garden Publications. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since Penelope Tench was in grade school, she knew there was no one living on Colony Island she was interested in choosing as a mate. There were feral boys-merfolk who lived in the ocean-but they were not a viable choice. Penelope could only spend three days at sea before wanting to return home to her warm bed and a hot meal. She wanted to find a mate and have a family someday, like most females, with or without scales, but as she grew up, her chances lessened, as there seemed to be only one option left-and mermaids were strongly advised not fall to in love with humans. After graduating with a degree in Finance, she began living a very lonely and isolated life in the city and shut out her family and friends. Even though she had a job lined up, she felt there was no future for her-anywhere. While spending a day in the ocean, Penelope lay under a dock contemplating her life. She was about to return to the city, catch a flight to the desert, and end things, when a human male walked out on the pier. Instead of hiding, she popped above the surface, gave him a scare, and then proceeded to chat with him for a bit before disappearing underwater. She'd enjoyed herself so much, she decided she would stick around a bit longer. Penelope reported for her new job the next morning, and found her temporary desk was right next to the Assistant Comptroller, Peter MacPherson. They immediately recognized each other from the previous day, and although she wanted to flee, a series of circumstances kept her at the company. Peter assured her he'd keep her secret safe, and subsequently volunteered to make her weekend swims enjoyable again by handling all the logistics-motels, meals, and safe and secure drop-offs and pick-ups. Over the next couple months, Penelope began enjoying being a mermaid again. Then, following a knock-down, drag-out debate with herself, she realized she had feelings for Peter, and decided she would go out in a blaze of glory and get into bed with a human.
Download or read book Kissed by Fire Mermaid and Dragon shifter paranormal romance urban fantasy in Scotland written by Michelle Fox and published by Trans Media Publishing LLC. This book was released on with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes when you break a curse, you open old wounds. Caught up in the supernatural slave trade, mermaid Mila Sealight needs saving, not promises of undying love from a cursed dragon. But allies are scarce, making a down-on-his-luck fire breather her only hope. When dragon Niall MacTeine boards the slaver boat with his brothers, he knows they are going to save people, he just never expected to be rescued himself. He's been cursed a long time and has started to give up hope. Everything changes when Niall is thrown overboard while fighting the slavers and Mila gives him the 'kiss of the sea' to save him from drowning. That's when it hits him—she's the key to his freedom. But breaking the curse that locks him in his human form requires trust and an open heart. Neither of which Mila gives lightly. Niall will have to prove he's worth the risk in order to claim his fated maiden. And he will pay the ultimate price in the process. This is book 2 in the Maidens series but it stands alone. You'll have more fun if you read book 1 Kiss the Dragon (which was a USA Today bestseller) but it's not required. For anyone who enjoys: paranormal romance, fantasy romance, urban fantasy, shifter romance, bear shifters, dragons, Scotland, Highlands, Scottish, steamy romance, shifters, alpha heroes, alpha shifters, myth, mythology, love story, werewolf, werewolf romance, action adventure, vampire, witch, demon, devil, psychic, shapeshifter, alpha, vampires, vampire series, shapeshifter werewolf romance, fantasy, lycan, mate bond, vampire, vampire romance, immortal, vampire slayer, fae, Laurel K. Hamilton, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Christine Feehan, Gena Showalter, K.F. Breene, Shannon Mayer, Ruby Dixon, JR Ward, J.R. Ward, Ilona Andrews, Patricia Briggs, Vampire Diaries, Twilight, Crave, Tracy Wolff, The Vampire Diaries, Bella Forrest, A Shade of Vampire, Harry Potter, witch, wizard, fated mates, Vampire Academy, Vampire Knight, werewolf books, werewolf romance, shapeshifters, House of Dragons, How to Train a Dragon, Eragon, ACOTAR.
Download or read book Stormy Seas Free Mermaid Pirate Urban Fantasy written by Michelle Fox and published by Trans Media Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to my crazy mermaid life, taking on salvage dives to pay the bills. It’s part Underworld, part Pirates of the Caribbean, and always a huge pain in the gills Let's get our tentacles straight up front. I don’t want to dive for anyone to begin with. But if I dive and get stiffed? I will come for you. Bernie McKay thinks he doesn’t have to pay. Well, school isn’t just for fishes. I’ve got a lesson or two the cocky alpha needs to learn. If only the vampires and pirates would leave me alone long enough to deliver it. Weak doesn’t survive long in the sea and I left weak behind a long time ago. Watch out, Bernie. This wave I'm making? It's just for you. A short free urban fantasy featuring one very pissed off mermaid who’s cranky AF. For anyone who enjoys: paranormal romance, fantasy romance, urban fantasy, shifter romance, mermaids, pirates, bear shifters, dragons, Scotland, Highlands, Scottish, steamy romance, shifters, alpha heroes, alpha shifters, myth, mythology, love story, werewolf, werewolf romance, action adventure, vampire, witch, demon, devil, psychic, shapeshifter, alpha, vampires, vampire series, shapeshifter werewolf romance, fantasy, lycan, mate bond, vampire, vampire romance, immortal, vampire slayer, fae, Laurel K. Hamilton, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Christine Feehan, Gena Showalter, K.F. Breene, Shannon Mayer, Ruby Dixon, JR Ward, J.R. Ward, Ilona Andrews, Patricia Briggs, Vampire Diaries, Twilight, Crave, Tracy Wolff, The Vampire Diaries, Bella Forrest, A Shade of Vampire, Harry Potter, witch, wizard, fated mates, Vampire Academy, Vampire Knight, werewolf books, werewolf romance, shapeshifters, House of Dragons, How to Train a Dragon, Eragon.
Download or read book Secrets of the Mermaid written by Catherine Stine and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Indigo Rain, a beautiful but lonely mermaid. Regretful of a dark past, she has vowed to remain alone and research ancient merfolk tribes. When she unearths a seabed burial site that even she cannot identify, she shares this with a High Council merfolk historian. But she keeps one shocking secret to herself.Bay Finley is the flirty, dashing Royal merfolk Keeper assigned to teach Indigo on Pyreshore, a glamoured city of supernaturals tasked with keeping invaluable knowledge alive. Indigo thinks Bay is a know-it-all. She also thinks he's dangerously handsome. He's engaged to Abigail Torrent, a Royal, unlike Indigo, but he's spending time with Indigo in the lab?Indigo has three quests:Uncover the mystery of the burial tablet, resist falling in love, and never, ever reveal her biggest secret, even to the Keepers.Some secrets heal, some kill. Other secrets change life as we know it.10 books, 10 authors, 10 keepers, 1 shared world. Read in any order!
Download or read book The New Urban Gothic written by Holly-Gale Millette and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-17 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores global dystopic, grotesque and retold narratives of degeneration, ecological and economic ruin, dystopia, and inequality in contemporary fictions set in the urban space. Divided into three sections—Identities and Histories, Ruin and Residue, and Global Gothic—The New Urban Gothic explores our anxieties and preoccupation with social inequalities, precarity and the peripheral that are found in so many new fictions across various media. Focusing on non-canonical Gothic global cities, this distinctive collection discusses urban centres in England’s Black Country, Moscow, Detroit, Seoul, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Singapore, Dehli, Srinigar, Shanghai and Barcelona as well as cities of the imaginary, the digital and the animated. This book will appeal to anyone interested in the intersections of time, place, space and media in contemporary Gothic Studies. The New Urban Gothic casts reflections and shadows on the age of the Anthropocene.
Download or read book Experiencing Networked Urban Mobilities written by Malene Freudendal-Pedersen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experiencing Networked Urban Mobilities looks at the different experiences of networked urban mobilities. While the focus in the first book is on conceptual and theory-driven perspective, this second volume emphasizes the empirical investigation of networked urban mobilities. This book is a resource for researchers interested in the field to gain easy access and overviews of different themes and approaches represented in the mobilities paradigm.
Download or read book Kent Urban Legends written by Neil Arnold and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do motorists pick up a phantom hitchhiker on Blue Bell Hill during stormy nights? Does Satan appear if you dance round the Devil's Bush in the village of Pluckley? Do big cats roam the local woods? And what happens if you manage to count the 'Countless Stones' near Aylesford?For centuries strange urban legends have materialised in the Garden of England. Now, for the first time, folklorist and monster-hunter Neil Arnold looks at these intriguing tales, strips back the layers, and reveals if there is more to these Chinese whispers than meets the eye.Folklore embeds itself into a local community, often to the extent that some people believe all manner of mysteries and take them as fact. Whether they’re stories passed around the school playground, through the internet, or round a flickering campfire, urban legends are everywhere. Kent Urban Legends is a quirky and downright spooky ride into the heart of Kent folklore.
Download or read book Wood Nymph Seeks Centaur written by Francesca Lia Block and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Navigating the world of dating can be like wandering an enchanted forest, full of creatures with peculiar habits and baffling behavior. In Wood Nymph Seeks Centaur, Francesca Lia Block provides a guide to this often-treacherous terrain, classifying all those mystifying men and women into various types of mythical forest fauna-Fauns and Werewolves, Mermaids and Banshees. After answering questions to determine your own type, you can learn to identify others-with the help of illustrations from artist Fumi Nakamura. By reading up on the various types' favorite activities, likely professions, sexual preferences, and parenting styles, you'll gain insight into compatible creatures. If you're a Wood Nymph (like Block), you could get your heart broken by a fickle Satyr, but if you can track down the strong, soulful Centaurs of the forest, you just might be on the path to true love. Clever and insightful, Wood Nymph Seeks Centaur is an invaluable guide for any dating creature.
Download or read book Juli n Is a Mermaid written by Jessica Love and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an exuberant picture book, a glimpse of costumed mermaids leaves one boy flooded with wonder and ready to dazzle the world. While riding the subway home from the pool with his abuela one day, Julián notices three women spectacularly dressed up. Their hair billows in brilliant hues, their dresses end in fishtails, and their joy fills the train car. When Julián gets home, daydreaming of the magic he’s seen, all he can think about is dressing up just like the ladies in his own fabulous mermaid costume: a butter-yellow curtain for his tail, the fronds of a potted fern for his headdress. But what will Abuela think about the mess he makes — and even more importantly, what will she think about how Julián sees himself? Mesmerizing and full of heart, Jessica Love’s author-illustrator debut is a jubilant picture of self-love and a radiant celebration of individuality.
Download or read book Merpeople written by Vaughn Scribner and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People have been fascinated by merpeople and merfolk since ancient times. From the sirens of Homer’s Odyssey to Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid and the film Splash, myths, stories, and legends of half-human, half-fish creatures abound. In modern times “mermaiding” has gained popularity among cosplayers throughout the world. In Merpeople: A Human History, Vaughn Scribner traces the long history of mermaids and mermen, taking in a wide variety of sources and using 117 striking images. From film to philosophy, church halls to coffee houses, ancient myth to modern science, Scribner shows that mermaids and tritons are—and always have been—everywhere.
Download or read book The Urban Generation written by Zhen Zhang and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-28 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVAn anthology that explores film works by the "urban generation,"--filmmakers who operate outside of "mainstream" (officially sanctioned) Chinese cinema -- whose impact has been enormous./div
Download or read book An Urban History of The Plague written by Karen Jillings and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a medical, economic, spiritual and demographic crisis, plague affected practically every aspect of an early modern community whether on a local, regional or national scale. Its study therefore affords opportunities for the reassessment of many aspects of the pre-modern world. This book examines the incidence and effects of plague in an early modern Scottish community by analysing civic, medical and social responses to epidemics in the north-east port of Aberdeen, focusing on the period 1500–1650. While Aberdeen’s experience of plague was in many ways similar to that of other towns throughout Europe, certain idiosyncrasies in the city make it a particularly interesting case study, which challenges several assumptions about early modern mentalities.
Download or read book Fathom written by L. L. Standage and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than anything, eighteen-year-old Olivia Owens wants to win a marine biology scholarship, escape her broken home life, and enjoy a drama-free summer in La Jolla, California. But when she agrees to pose as a mermaid for her photographer best friend Samantha, she never dreamed what kind of trouble it would bring.Why would a crazy red-headed lady give Olivia a clam that glows on the inside? And why does the ritzy CEO Doran Linnaeus think Olivia-and the clam in her possession-are the keys to turning his failing theme park into an earth-shattering phenomenon?It takes some serious spy skills for Olivia and Samantha to discover the truth: mermaids aren't just a fairytale. Dangerous, dark, and suspicious, the vengeful denizens of the deep will do anything to keep their secret safe-even accept help from humans.In order to keep herself and Samantha alive, Olivia has to team up with the merpeople and a band of mysterious strangers. She must find the courage to do whatever it takes to stop Linnaeus from exposing and exploiting earth's deepest secret, all while convincing Samantha that flirting with a merprince is a terrible idea?and protecting her own heart in the process. Fathom is a modern fantasy adventure that takes place in San Diego, California. The story is filled with mystery, danger, friendship, and broody mermaids. A fast-paced read for anyone who enjoys modern fairytale re-imaginings, suspense, action, and romance.
Download or read book Gloucestershire A Celebration written by Paul Nicholls and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2024-06-15 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning collection of photographs celebrating Gloucestershire, which capture the life of the county.
Download or read book Fodor s Argentina written by Laura M. Kidder and published by Fodors Travel Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailed and timely information on accommodations, restaurants, and local attractions highlight these updated travel guides, which feature all-new covers, a two-color interior design, symbols to indicate budget options, must-see ratings, multi-day itineraries, Smart Travel Tips, helpful bulleted maps, tips on transportation, guidelines for shopping excursions, and other valuable features. Original.
Download or read book The Mermaid s Secret written by Katie Schickel and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When she, on her 23rd birthday, catches a wave that transforms her into a mermaid, Jess Creary becomes reborn into a confident, powerful predator with superhuman strength, but back on land, her relationship with Captain Matthew heats up and so does her search for the truth about her sister's death.
Download or read book Few Urban Thoughts written by Avro Mukerji and published by Booksclinic Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-19 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have mostly spent my life in cities, so the expression of my thoughts are perhaps more urban in nature. Presenting some of those thoughts in the form of poems through this book. Hope you will like it. Feel free to share your feedback on the book at [email protected]
