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Given to the Sea

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Sea Spell

Jennifer Donnelly · 396 pages

Serafina prepares Ling, Neela, Becca and the rest of the Black Fins for war, to stop the Volneros from seizing the mer realms. But only when sea sisters Ava and Astrid find the remaining two talismans will the combined power of all six be strong enough to stop the devastating attack on the underworld. No charm will protect Ava as she faces the murderous Okwa Naholo spirits that lie deep within the

Mermaids and SirensOcean and ShipsYoung AdultFantasy
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Tangled Tides

Karen Amanda Hooper · 324 pages

Mermaids and SirensOcean and ShipsYoung AdultMultiple POV
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Undertow

Michael Buckley · 378 pages

A sixteen-year-old girl is caught in an epic clash of civilizations when a society of undersea warriors marches out of the ocean into modern-day Coney Island. A sixteen-year-old girl is caught in an epic clash of civilizations when a society of undersea warriors marches out of the ocean into modern-day Coney Island. The plot contains profanity, sexual references, and graphic violence.

Mermaids and SirensOcean and ShipsYoung AdultFantasy
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Tempest Rising

Tracy Deebs · 344 pages

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Skin of the Sea

Natasha Bowen · 336 pages

Mermaids and SirensOcean and ShipsYoung AdultFantasy
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To Kill a Kingdom

Alexandra Christo · 344 pages

Mermaids and SirensOcean and ShipsYoung AdultMultiple POV
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Perchance to Dream

Lisa Mantchev · 355 pages

Bertie, who is blessed with word magic, and her fairy sidekicks, seek to save Nate, who has been kidnapped by the Sea Witch, but Bertie is torn between Nate and Ariel, an air spirit who loves Bertie enough to die for her.

Mermaids and SirensOcean and ShipsYoung AdultFantasy
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Daughter of the Pirate King

Tricia Levenseller · 336 pages

A 17-year-old pirate captain intentionally allows herself to get captured by enemy pirates in this thrilling YA adventure.

Mermaids and SirensOcean and ShipsYoung AdultFantasy
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Waterfell

Amalie Howard · 364 pages

Disguised as a human teen while waiting for the day she can claim her birthright as heir to her murdered father's undersea kingdom, Nerissa Marin is challenged to a battle to the death by her family's betrayer when she comes of age.

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Born of Water

A.L. Knorr · 372 pages

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Captivate

Vanessa Garden · 278 pages

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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

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Lorali

Laura Dockrill · 340 pages

Looking after a naked girl he found washed up under Hastings pier isn't exactly how Rory had imagined spending his sixteenth birthday. But more surprising than finding her in the first place is discovering where she has come from. Lorali has rejected life as a mermaid, and become human. But along with Lorali's arrival, and the freak weather suddenly battering the coast, more strange visitors begin

Mermaids and SirensOcean and ShipsYoung AdultMultiple POV
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An Ember in the Ashes

Sabaa Tahir · 464 pages

"Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution"--

Young AdultMultiple POVFantasyProphecy
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Fathomless

Jackson Pearce

Celia, who shares mental powers with her triplet sisters, finds competition for a handsome boy with Lo, a sea monster who must persuade a mortal to love her and steal his soul to earn back her humanity.

Mermaids and SirensYoung AdultMultiple POVFantasy
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Bay of Sighs

Nora Roberts · 420 pages

"Mermaid Annika is from the sea. Her purity and beauty are breathtaking, along with her graceful athleticism, as her five new friends discovered when they retrieved the fire star. Now through space and time, traveler Sawyer King has brought the guardians to the island of Capri, where the water star is hidden. And as he watches Annika in her element, he finds himself drawn to her joyful spirit. But

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Monstrous Beauty

Elizabeth Fama

In alternating chapters, tells of the mermaid Syrenka's love for Ezra in 1872 that leads to a series of horrific murders, and present-day Hester's encounter with Ezra's ghost that reveals her connection to the murders and to Syrenka.

Mermaids and SirensOcean and ShipsYoung AdultFantasy
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The Reader

Traci Chee · 453 pages

"Set in a world where reading is unheard-of, Sefia makes use of a mysterious object to track down who kidnapped her aunt Nin and what really happened the night her father was murdered"--

Ocean and ShipsYoung AdultMultiple POVFantasy
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Lucy

Kathryn Lasky

When seventeen-year-old Lucy's father, a minister, gets a prestigious summer position in Bar Harbor, Maine, her mother determines to find a rich husband for her daughter but Lucy is fascinated by the sea and a handsome ship-builder.

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Dark Reflections

Kai Meyer

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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 SirensYoung AdultFantasySeries Starter
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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 SirensOcean and ShipsYoung AdultFantasy
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The Silver Siren

Chanda Hahn · 322 pages

Every journey has an end. Unable to find the answers she sought in Skyfell, Thalia, Joss, and Kael travel to Haven with a prisoner in tow. An attack on the road waylays their plans, and Thalia finds herself traveling alone with Kael to the hidden sanctuary of the SwordBrothers. But war is on the horizon and the Raven is amassing his army. This time, the target is not Calandry, but the Sirens of Si

Mermaids and SirensYoung AdultFantasyLove Triangle

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