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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 SirensOcean and ShipsLove TriangleYoung Adult
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Skin of the Sea

Natasha Bowen · 336 pages

Mermaids and SirensOcean and ShipsYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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Tangled Tides

Karen Amanda Hooper · 324 pages

Mermaids and SirensOcean and ShipsYoung AdultFantasy
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Given to the Sea

Mindy McGinnis · 356 pages

"Khosa is destined to be sacrificed to the sea and struggles to understand her destiny as the kingdom comes under attack and the ocean threatens to destroy them all"--

Mermaids and SirensOcean and ShipsLove TriangleYoung 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

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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The Tail of Emily Windsnap

Liz Kessler · 208 pages

For as long as she can remember, twelve-year-old Emily Windsnap has lived on a boat. And, oddly enough, for just as long, her mother has seemed anxious to keep her away from the water. But when Mom finally agrees to let her take swimming lessons, Emily makes a startling discovery - about her own identity, the mysterious father she's never met, and the thrilling possibilities and perils shimmering

Mermaids and SirensOcean and ShipsFantasySeries Starter
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Deep Blue

Jennifer Donnelly · 360 pages

Serafina, daughter of Isabella, Queen of Miromara, has been raised with the expectation - and burden - that she will someday become ruler of the oldest civilization of the merfolk. On the eve of the Dokimí ceremony, which will determine if she is worthy of the crown, Sera is haunted by a strange dream that foretells the return of an ancient evil. But her nightmare is forgotten the next day as she

Mermaids and SirensOcean and ShipsYoung AdultFantasy
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Fish Out of Water

MaryJanice Davidson · 280 pages

Mermaids and SirensOcean and ShipsLove TriangleFemale Lead
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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.

Mermaids and SirensOcean and ShipsYoung AdultFantasy
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Captivate

Vanessa Garden · 278 pages

Mermaids and SirensOcean and ShipsYoung AdultSeries Starter
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To Kill a Kingdom

Alexandra Christo · 344 pages

Mermaids and SirensOcean and ShipsYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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The Siren

Kiera Cass · 331 pages

"You must never do anything that might expose our secret. This means that, in general, you cannot form close bonds with humans. You can speak to us, and you can always commune with the Ocean, but you are deadly to humans. You are, essentially, a weapon. A very beautiful weapon. I won't lie to you, it can be a lonely existence, but once you are done, you get to live. All you have to give, for now,

Mermaids and SirensOcean and ShipsYoung AdultFantasy
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Ingo

Helen Dunmore · 319 pages

As they search for their missing father near their Cornwall home, Sapphy and her brother Conor learn about their family's connection to the domains of air and of water.

Mermaids and SirensOcean and ShipsSeries StarterFantasy
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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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Wake

Amanda Hocking · 320 pages

Mermaids and SirensLove TriangleYoung AdultFantasy
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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.

Mermaids and SirensOcean and ShipsYoung AdultFantasy
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Atlantia

Ally Condie · 318 pages

Mermaids and SirensOcean and ShipsYoung AdultFantasy
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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 ShipsLove TriangleYoung Adult
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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 AdultSeries Starter
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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

Mermaids and SirensOcean and ShipsFantasyFemale Lead
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Forgive My Fins

Tera Lynn Childs · 333 pages

Lily Sanderson has a secret, and it's not that she has a huge crush on gorgeous swimming god Brody Bennett, who makes her heart beat flipper-fast. Unrequited love is hard enough when you're a normal teenage girl, but when you're half human, half mermaid, like Lily, there's no such thing as a simple crush.Lily's mermaid identity is a secret that can't get out, since she's not just any mermaid—she's

Mermaids and SirensYoung AdultSeries StarterFirst Person Narrator

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