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Author: Alison Luchs
Publisher: Harvey Miller
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781905375455
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book focuses on the conceptions of artists who made marine hybrids inventions of Renaissance Venice and Padua. The chapters deal with sea-hybrid imagery in book decoration; tomb monuments; church decoration; centers of political activity and private homes.--Publisher.
Author: Silas Knight
Publisher:
Published: 2011-11
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780615516745
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBernard is a lonely man with an obsession for words, a dead-end job, and a slight case of invisibility. Petty thievery helps him pass the time, but it all changes when a random visit to the doctor informs him that he has less than one month to live. Bernard, scrambling to find his life's purpose before it expires, crosses paths with Vida, a beautiful fire juggler, and Maya, her mysterious companion. They embark on an adventure of epic proportions in a world of vagabonds, street hustlers, and mermaids, each step bringing them closer to understanding their true connection and reaching Bernard's inevitable liason with Death. Vida: The beautiful runaway who glimpses souls. Maya: The punk lover who's more than she seems. Bernard: The genius kleptomaniac with a minor case of invisibility. Their lives entwine in "Mermaids of Venice" A modern fable of gods and street performers.
Author: Kai Meyer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-10-02
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 143910879X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Venice, magic is not unusual. Merle is apprenticed to a magic mirror maker, and Serafin—a boy who was once a master thief—works for a weaver of magic cloth. Merle and Serafin are used to the mermaids who live in the canals of the city and to the guards who patrol the streets on living stone lions. Merle herself possesses something magical: a mirror whose surface is water. She can reach her whole arm into it and never get wet. But Venice is under siege by the Egyptian Empire; its terrifying mummy warriors are waiting to strike. All that protects the Venetians is the Flowing Queen. Nobody knows who or what she is—only that her power flows through the canals and keeps the Egyptians at bay. When Merle and Serafin overhear a plot to capture the Flowing Queen, they are catapulted into desperate danger. They must do everything they can to rescue the Queen and save the city—even if it means getting help from the Ancient Traitor himself.
Author: Holly Webb
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2016-02-11
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 1408327651
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn enchanting tale of magic, mermaids and adventure for readers aged 9 and up - from bestselling author, Holly Webb. Venice is faced with terrible danger . . . Can the friendship between a young girl and a mermaid save the city? Lady Mia doesn't want to believe in magic, even though her cousin, the princess, is the most magical ruler Venice has ever known. But when Mia meets a mermaid called Ara, it is impossible for her to deny her destiny any longer. The two friends must work together to save their home - but will their combined magic be enough to defeat the Talish invaders? The Magical Venice books are all share the same beautiful setting, but can be read as standalone stories. The series includes: The Water Horse, The Mermaid's Sister, The Maskmasker's Daughter, and The Girl of Glass. Discover more by Holly Webb with her Rose and Lily series - also filled with magical adventures.
Author: Alberto Toso Fei
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 252
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michelle Lovric
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2010-12-23
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 144400414X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt's the beginning of the 20th century; the age of scientific progress. But for Venice the future looks bleak. A conference of scientists assembles to address the problems, among whose delegates are the parents of twelve-year-old Teodora. Within days of her arrival, she is subsumed into the secret life of Venice: a world in which salty-tongued mermaids run subversive printing presses, ghosts good and bad patrol the streets and librarians turn fluidly into cats. A battle against forces determined to destroy the city once and for all quickly ensues. Only Teo, the undrowned child who survived a tragic accident as a baby, can go 'between the linings' to subvert evil and restore order.
Author: Julia Mendenhall (College teacher)
Publisher: Queer Film Classics
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781551525648
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Queer Film Classic on the 1987 feminist love story by director Patricia Rozema.
Author: Melissa Broder
Publisher: Hogarth
Published: 2019-02-05
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1524761567
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION “Bold, virtuosic, addictive, erotic – there is nothing like The Pisces. I have no idea how Broder does it, but I loved every dark and sublime page of it.” —Stephanie Danler, author of Sweetbitter Lucy has been writing her dissertation on Sappho for nine years when she and her boyfriend break up in a dramatic flameout. After she bottoms out in Phoenix, her sister in Los Angeles insists Lucy dog-sit for the summer. Annika's home is a gorgeous glass cube on Venice Beach, but Lucy can find little relief from her anxiety — not in the Greek chorus of women in her love addiction therapy group, not in her frequent Tinder excursions, not even in Dominic the foxhound's easy affection. Everything changes when Lucy becomes entranced by an eerily attractive swimmer while sitting alone on the beach rocks one night. But when Lucy learns the truth about his identity, their relationship, and Lucy’s understanding of what love should look like, take a very unexpected turn. A masterful blend of vivid realism and giddy fantasy, pairing hilarious frankness with pulse-racing eroticism, THE PISCES is a story about falling in obsessive love with a merman: a figure of Sirenic fantasy whose very existence pushes Lucy to question everything she thought she knew about love, lust, and meaning in the one life we have.
Author: Thea Stilton
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2017-11-28
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 1338159275
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Thea Sisters are headed to Venice, Italy! They'll be there for the Carnival, an annual festival that's famouse for its elaborate masks. They mouselets love exploring the city's bridges and canals, and seeing the beautiful costumes mice wear to Carnival celebrations. But a mysterious thief strikes while they are there! Can they catch and unmask him before the festival ends?
Author: Michelle Lovric
Publisher: Hachette Children's Group
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781444009040
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLike Cornelia Funke, Michelle Lovric is a master story-teller of sweeping fantasies, this one about a friendship between two girls, one rich, one poor, whose worlds collide as they fight to save Venice from a dangerous stranger called Fogfinger.
