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Tidal

Amanda Hocking · 347 pages

With Penn and Lexi determined to kill Gemma and replace her with another siren, Gemma, aided by Harper and Daniel, must delve into her enemies' mythical past and darkest secrets in a last-ditch effort to protect all that she holds dear. With Penn and Lexi determined to kill her, Gemma must delve into her enemies' mythical past and darkest secrets in a last-ditch effort to protect all that she h

Mermaids and SirensCursesYoung AdultParanormal
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To Kill a Kingdom

Alexandra Christo · 344 pages

Mermaids and SirensCursesYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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Deep Betrayal

Anne Greenwood Brown · 335 pages

"As dead bodies start washing ashore, Lily and Calder realize someone's on a killing spree--and they fear it's either Calder's mermaid sisters or Lily's father."--

Mermaids and SirensWater and RiversYoung AdultParanormal
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Inland

Kat Rosenfield · 382 pages

Callie Morgan has long lived choked by the failure of her own lungs, the result of an elusive pulmonary illness that has plagued her since childhood. A childhood marked early by the drowning death of her mother--a death to which Callie was the sole witness. Her father has moved them inland, away from the memories of the California coast her mother loved so much and toward promises of recovery--and

Mermaids and SirensWater and RiversYoung AdultParanormal
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Beautiful Chaos

Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl

CursesYoung AdultParanormalFirst Person Narrator
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Whirl

Emma Raveling · 248 pages

Seventeen-year-old Kendra Irisavie is an ondine, a water elemental caught in the middle of an ancient war. The Aquidae are immortal dark demons who will stop at nothing to destroy the fragile balance of the Elemental world.

Mermaids and SirensWater and RiversYoung AdultFantasy
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Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits

Robin McKinley · 269 pages

What magical beings inhabit earth’s waters? Some are as almost-familiar as the mer-people; some as strange as the thing glimpsed only as a golden eye in a pool at the edge of Damar’s Great Desert Kalarsham, where the mad god Geljdreth rules; or as majestic as the unknowable, immense Kraken, dark beyond the darkness of the deepest ocean, who will one day rise and rule the world.  These six tales fr

Mermaids and SirensWater and RiversYoung AdultFantasy
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The Goddess Test

Aimee Carter · 298 pages

Eden, Michigan, high school student Kate Winters strikes a bargain with Henry, Greek god of the underworld, if he'll cure her dying mother of cancer. The bargain she strikes with him is a grim one, but the full enormity of what she has undertaken--"live forever or die trying"--is not revealed until it's too late to recant.

CursesYoung AdultFirst Person NarratorParanormal
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The Mermaid of Black Conch: A novel

Monique Roffey · 240 pages

Mermaids and SirensCursesFantasyFemale Lead
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The Book of Speculation

Erika Swyler · 376 pages

"Simon Watson, a young librarian on the verge of losing his job, lives alone on the Long Island Sound in his family home--a house, perched on the edge of a bluff, that is slowly crumbling toward the sea. His parents are long dead, his mother having drowned in the water his house overlooks. His younger sister, Enola, works for a traveling carnival reading tarot cards, and seldom calls. On a day in

Mermaids and SirensCursesFirst Person NarratorParanormal
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Tempest Rising

Tracy Deebs · 344 pages

Mermaids and SirensYoung AdultFirst Person NarratorFantasy
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Dark Water

Tricia Rayburn

When seventeen-year-old Vanessa reunites with her biological mother, she faces the dilemma of a siren's existence, that in order to survive she must endanger the lives of those she loves most.

Mermaids and SirensYoung AdultParanormalFantasy
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The Mermaid's Daughter

Ann Claycomb · 451 pages

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Daughter of the Siren Queen

Tricia Levenseller · 364 pages

Alosa's mission is finally complete. Not only has she recovered all three pieces of the map to a legendary hidden treasure, but the pirates who originally took her captive are now prisoners on her ship. Still unfairly attractive and unexpectedly loyal, first mate Riden is a constant distraction, but now he's under her orders.

Mermaids and SirensYoung AdultFirst Person NarratorFantasy
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Real Mermaids Don't Hold Their Breath

Helene Boudreau · 231 pages

When her mermaid mother is missing, Jade, who is afraid of the ocean, must come up with a plan to get her back on dry land.

Mermaids and SirensYoung AdultFirst Person NarratorFantasy
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Skin of the Sea

Natasha Bowen · 336 pages

Mermaids and SirensYoung AdultFirst Person NarratorFantasy
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The Mermaid's Mirror

L.K. Madigan · 320 pages

Lena has lived her whole life near the beach, walking the shore, breathing the salty air, swimming in the cold water, and watching the surfers rule the waves. As her sixteenth birthday approaches, Lena vows to learn to surf. Her father forbids it. But something Lena can’t identify at first—an ancient, powerful magic—keeps drawing her to the water. One day, she finally catches sight of it: a beauti

Mermaids and SirensYoung AdultParanormalFantasy
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Of Poseidon

Anna Banks · 331 pages

Galen, prince of the Syrena, is sent to land to find a girl he's heard can communicate with fish. He finds Emma and after several encounters, including a deadly one with a shark, Galen becomes convinced Emma holds the key to his kingdom. Galen, the prince of Syrena, is sent to land to find a girl who communicates with fish. He finds Emma and after several encounters, including a deadly one wit

Mermaids and SirensYoung AdultFirst Person NarratorFantasy
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Atlantia

Ally Condie · 318 pages

Mermaids and SirensYoung AdultFirst Person NarratorFantasy
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The Mermaid's Sister

Carrie Anne Noble

Mermaids and SirensFirst Person NarratorYoung AdultFantasy
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Torment

Lauren Kate

CursesYoung AdultParanormalFirst Person Narrator
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Rhapsodic

Laura Thalassa · 422 pages

Callypso Lillis is a siren with a very big problem, one that stretches up her arm and far into her past. For the last seven years she's been collecting a bracelet of black beads up her wrist, magical IOUs for favors she's received. Only death or repayment will fulfill the obligations. Only then will the beads disappear. Everyone knows that if you need a favor, you go to the Bargainer to make it

Mermaids and SirensFirst Person NarratorParanormalFantasy
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Soul Song

Marjorie M. Liu · 336 pages

M'cal, a merman, has a voice with the immense power to uplift or destroy, but only the love of the beautiful Kitala Belle can release him from his enslavement at the hands of a witch using him for evil.

Mermaids and SirensCursesParanormalFemale Lead
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Wisteria

Adalyn Grace · 419 pages

CursesYoung AdultFirst Person NarratorParanormal
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