Siren's Lure

Siren's Lure

Author: Frost Kay

Publisher: Renegade Publishing

Published: 2018-06-10

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 1732442002

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Life and Death are at war in the newest dark fantasy novel by USA Today Bestselling Author Frost Kay. Pirates. Sirens. Revenge. Vengeance is Lilja's middle name. That wasn't always the case, but battling evil has a funny way of changing people. Her instructions were clear: protect her people's secret at all costs and destroy anyone in her path. It was simple, really. You cross her, you die. div Life was black and white for the pirate captain until an innocent ruins everything by blundering into her life. She should've let the handsome stranger drown, he'd seen too much. But something stays her hand and she reluctantly saves the human, risking the one thing she's protected all her life. A secret that could destroy an entire race.div MERMAID lovers are ADDICTED to this pulse-pounding tale that fans of Sarah J. Maas are losing sleep over. One click now to dive into your next book obsession!


Seduction and the Secret Power of Women

Seduction and the Secret Power of Women

Author: Meri Lao

Publisher: Park Street Press

Published: 2007-10-09

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9781594772016

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An exploration of humanity’s age-old fascination with Sirens • Explains the Sirens’ half-human, half-animal bodies as a metaphor for the psychological challenge that their myth has always embodied • Fully illustrated in color with works by Rubens, Bosch, Munch, Magritte, and others Their celestial voices drove mast-lashed Ulysses nearly out of his mind with libidinous promises as they beckoned him ever-closer to paradise--or a rocky death. With womanly torsos and animal lower halves, usually birds or fish, Sirens have long been symbols of the lure of desire--the feminine, as seducer--beckoning men to mystery beyond their ken, or to disaster. This book is both a celebration of Sirens and an examination of the psychology of dichotomy--the diametrically opposed drives and inherent conflicts underlying this female archetype. Since antiquity, Sirens and their mermaid sisters have maintained an ongoing affair of the heart with humanity’s greatest writers and artists. Sirens play important roles in the classical writings of Homer and Euripides, as well as in the modern works of James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats, and many others. Matching these writings with vibrant work from such artists as Peter Paul Rubens, Hieronymous Bosch, Edvard Munch, and René Magritte, Meri Lao has created a feast for the eye. Exploring our 3,000-year-old relationship with Sirens, Lao reveals the secret of the power in their song: it is the sound of the subversive, luring us from the orderly conscious world down to the depth of the world of dreams, and the harder we try to ignore that singing, the more we desperately want to hear it.


Songs from the Deep

Songs from the Deep

Author: Kelly Powell

Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books

Published: 2020-10-27

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1534438092

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A girl searches for a killer on an island where deadly sirens lurk just beneath the waves in this “twisty, atmospheric story that grips readers like a siren song” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). The sea holds many secrets. Moira Alexander has always been fascinated by the deadly sirens who lurk along the shores of her island town. Even though their haunting songs can lure anyone to a swift and watery grave, she gets as close to them as she can, playing her violin on the edge of the enchanted sea. When a young boy is found dead on the beach, the islanders assume that he’s one of the sirens’ victims. Moira isn’t so sure. Certain that someone has framed the boy’s death as a siren attack, Moira convinces her childhood friend, the lighthouse keeper Jude Osric, to help her find the real killer, rekindling their friendship in the process. With townspeople itching to hunt the sirens down, and their own secrets threatening to unravel their fragile new alliance, Moira and Jude must race against time to stop the killer before it’s too late—for humans and sirens alike.


Grimjack

Grimjack

Author: John Ostrander

Publisher: IDW Publishing

Published: 2005-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781932382822

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IDW brings you the entire GrimJack saga, in order, starting off with the classic stories from First Comics' Starslayer, issues 10 through 18. Written and drawn by creators John Ostrander and Timothy Truman, this initial volume concludes with the 28-page crossover with Mike Grell's famed swashbuckler, Starslayer. Ostrander and Truman provide eight entirely new pages, plus unpublished art, bizarrely charming introductions, and a painted cover from Truman. This is where Cynosure begins!


Sirena

Sirena

Author: Donna Jo Napoli

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780590383899

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The gods grant immortality to the mermaid Sirena when she rescues a human man from the sea and they fall in love, but his mortality creates great conflict between love and honor when he is called to defend Greece in the Trojan War.


The Siren

The Siren

Author: Kiera Cass

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2016-01-26

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 0062392018

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#1 New York Times bestseller A sweeping stand-alone fantasy romance from Kiera Cass, author of the bestselling, beloved Selection series. Kahlen is a Siren—bound to serve the Ocean by luring humans to their watery graves with her voice, which is deadly to any human who hears it. Akinli is human—a kind, handsome boy who’s everything Kahlen ever dreamed of. Falling in love puts them both in danger… but will Kahlen risk everything to follow her heart? This star-crossed YA romance is sure to captivate readers who grew up loving The Little Mermaid or fans of Jennifer Donnelly’s Waterfire Saga. Originally self-published, The Siren has been completely rewritten for this edition. Don’t miss The Betrothed, a glittering royal romance sure to captivate Kiera Cass’s legion of loyal readers and lovers of courtly intrigue alike!


Rebel's Blade

Rebel's Blade

Author: Frost Kay

Publisher:

Published: 2017-03-14

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9780692859131

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Secrets. Rebellion. War. Sage never meant to get caught. Everything that made sense went up in flames around her. Nothing was blank and white.


Siren Sisters

Siren Sisters

Author: Dana Langer

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-01-03

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1481466860

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"Lolly Salt's three sisters are sirens--young women who lure ships to their doom--and as Lolly's 13th birthday approaches she's about to become one too. But when it becomes clear that someone in town knows the Salt girls secret, Lolly sets out to learn how this happened to her family and if she can prevent it"--


Wake

Wake

Author: Amanda Hocking

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Published: 2012-08-07

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1429956585

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Fall under the spell of Wake—the first book in an achingly beautiful new series by celebrated author Amanda Hocking—and lose yourself to the Watersong. Gorgeous. Fearless. Dangerous. They're the kind of girls you envy; the kind of girls you want to hate. Strangers in town for the summer, Penn, Lexi and Thea have caught everyone's attention—but it's Gemma who's attracted theirs. She's the one they've chosen to be part of their group. Gemma seems to have it all—she's carefree, pretty, and falling in love with Alex, the boy next door. He's always been just a friend, but this summer they've taken their relationship to the next level, and now there's no going back. Then one night, Gemma's ordinary life changes forever. She's taking a late night swim under the stars when she finds Penn, Lexi and Thea partying on the cove. They invite her to join them, and the next morning she wakes up on the beach feeling groggy and sick, knowing something is different. Suddenly Gemma is stronger, faster, and more beautiful than ever. But her new powers come with a terrifying price. And as she uncovers the truth, she's is forced to choose between staying with those she loves—or entering a new world brimming with dark hungers and unimaginable secrets.


The Odyssey

The Odyssey

Author: Homer

Publisher: Standard Ebooks

Published: 2020-02-08T01:55:23Z

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13:

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The Odyssey is one of the oldest works of Western literature, dating back to classical antiquity. Homer’s epic poem belongs in a collection called the Epic Cycle, which includes the Iliad. It was originally written in ancient Greek, utilizing a dactylic hexameter rhyme scheme. Although this rhyme scheme sounds beautiful in its native language, in modern English it can sound awkward and, as Eric McMillan humorously describes it, resembles “pumpkins rolling on a barn floor.” William Cullen Bryant avoided this problem by composing his translation in blank verse, a rhyme scheme that sounds natural in English. This epic poem follows Ulysses, one of the Greek leaders that brought an end to the ten-year-long Trojan war. Longing for home, he travels across the Mediterranean Sea to return to his kingdom in Ithaca; unfortunately, our hero manages to anger Neptune, the god of the sea, making his trip home agonizingly slow and extremely dangerous. While Ulysses is trying to return home, his family in Ithaca is also in danger. Suitors have traveled to the home of Ulysses to marry his wife, Penelope, believing that her husband did not survive the war. These men are willing to kill anyone who stands in their way. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.