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Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits

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Little Knife

Leigh Bardugo · 32 pages

A young girl's beauty causes discord in her small town, but her father's solution may prove far more dangerous. ***Little Knife*** is a companion story to the third book of the Grisha Trilogy, ***Ruin and Rising***, and the stories ***The Witch of Duva*** and ***The Too-Clever Fox***.

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The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest

Jeffrey Ford, Charles de Lint, Tanith Lee, Jane Yolen, Katherine Vaz, Patricia A. McKillip, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Carol Emshwiller, Midori Snyder, Gregory Maguire, Emma Bull, Carolyn Dunn, Kathe Koja, Neil Gaiman, M. Shayne Bell, Delia Sherman, Bill Lewis, Michael Cadnum · 396 pages

A collection of stories and poems by a variety of authors relating to the Green Man and other myths of the forest.

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Fathom

Cherie Priest · 384 pages

While the survivors of an ancient band of monsters plot revenge against a human race that prompted their exile, unwilling heroine Nia emerges from a frozen sanctuary and prepares to intervene in coastal Florida.

Mermaids and SirensWater and RiversOcean and ShipsAtmospheric
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The Ivory and the Horn

Charles de Lint · 352 pages

Nature SpiritsShort StoriesAtmosphericLyrical Prose
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Rusalka

C.J. Cherryh · 373 pages

Nature SpiritsWater and RiversMermaids and SirensAtmospheric
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The Complete Fairy Tales

Hans Christian Andersen · 286 pages

Sixteen tales including "Little Claus and Big Claus," "Father's Always Right," and "The Goblin and the Grocer."

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The Changeling Sea

Patricia A. McKillip · 139 pages

The sea has taken everything away from Periwinkle; it has drowned her fisherman father and left her mother barely able to cope. So Periwinkle, a chambermaid at the inn of a small fishing village, decides to hex the sea. It works surprisingly well, disrupting the sea queen's magic. A chained sea monster appears from the depths, and the king's melancholy son, Kir, nearly drowns trying to get to the

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The Mermaid of Black Conch: A novel

Monique Roffey · 240 pages

Mermaids and SirensOcean and ShipsAtmosphericLyrical Prose
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Genius Loci: Tales of the Spirit of Place

Seanan McGuire, Ken Liu, Alethea Kontis, Wendy N. Wagner, Scott Edelman, Laura Anne Gilman, Vivienne Pustell, Thoraiya Dyer, Heather Clitheroe, Haralambi Markov, B. Morris Allen, Caroline Ratajski, K.C. Norton, J. Daniel Batt, Gemma Files, Mercedes M. Yardley, Ken Scholes, Katie Cord, Andy Duncan, Z · 476 pages

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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

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Sailor Twain: Or: The Mermaid in the Hudson

Mark Siegel · 399 pages

"One hundred years ago. On the foggy Hudson River, a riverboat captain rescues an injured mermaid from the waters of the busiest port in the United States. A wildly popular--and notoriously reclusive--author makes a public debut. A French nobleman seeks a remedy for a curse. As three lives twine together and race to an unexpected collision, the mystery of the Mermaid of the Hudson deepens" -- from

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The Mermaid's Sister

Carrie Anne Noble

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Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

Neil Gaiman · 400 pages

This is a duplicate. Please update your lists. See https://openlibrary.org/works/OL679359W.

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Merrow

Ananda Braxton-Smith · 236 pages

Enduring whispers about her absent mother's alleged merrow origins after her father drowns, twelve-year-old Neen questions her identity as she becomes increasingly torn between the worlds of the sea and her island home.

Mermaids and SirensAtmosphericLyrical ProseFantasy
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Tales from Earthsea

Ursula K. Le Guin · 320 pages

In this final episode of "The Earthsea Cycle", the widowed Tenar finds and nurses her aging friend, Sparrowhawk, a magician who has lost his powers.

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Fire

Robin McKinley, Peter Dickinson · 271 pages

Master storytellers Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson, the team behind Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits, collaborate again to create five captivating tales incorporating the element of fire.In McKinley's "First Flight," a boy and his pet foogit unexpectedly take a dangerous ride on a dragon, and her "Hellhound" stars a mysterious dog as a key player in an eerie graveyard showdown. Dickinson intr

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The Tempest

William Shakespeare · 144 pages

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Diving Belles

Lucy Wood · 223 pages

Along Cornwall's ancient coast, the flotsam and jetsam of the past becomes caught in the cross-currents of the present and, from time to time, a certain kind of magic can float to the surface... Straying husbands lured into the sea can be fetched back, for a fee. Magpies whisper to lonely drivers late at night. Trees can make wishes come true - provided you know how to wish properly first. Hous

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Chime

Franny Billingsley · 361 pages

In the early twentieth century in Swampsea, Wales, seventeen-year-old Briony, who can see the spirits that haunt the marshes around their town, feels responsible for her twin sister's horrible injury until a young man enters their lives and exposes secrets that even Briony does not know about.

Nature SpiritsAtmosphericLyrical ProseFantasy
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Ripple

Mandy Hubbard

Mermaids and SirensWater and RiversFantasyYoung Adult
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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

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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

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The Crossing of Ingo

Helen Dunmore · 367 pages

Sapphy and her brother Conor have been called to take part in an ancient and dangerous coming-of-age ritual, but Ervys and his followers are determined to stop them.

Mermaids and SirensOcean and ShipsAtmosphericFantasy
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The Fierce Reads Anthology

Anna Banks, Leigh Bardugo, Jennifer Bosworth, Emmy Laybourne, Marissa Meyer · 148 pages

This anthology includes short stories from five fierce young adult authors! Inside, you'll find a magical mermaid tale from Anna Banks, a fantastical Russian-influenced story from Leigh Bardugo, an electric thriller from Jennifer Bosworth, a post-apocalyptic drama from Emmy Laybourne, and a cybernetic fairytale from Marissa Meyer.

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