Sea Creatures
Here are some suggestions for your Summer Book Bingo NW 2023 category: Sea Creatures. Annotations from NoveList, unless otherwise attributed.
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Thirsty Mermaids
Masquerading as humans to find more wonderful shipwreck wine, three tipsy mermaids party at a seaside tourist trap before discovering the next morning that they do not know how to return to their natural forms.
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How to Speak Whale
Drawing from his experience as a naturalist and wildlife filmmaker, the author, who survived a whale encounter, examines how scientists and start-ups around the world are decoding animal communications and what the consequences of such human interaction could be.
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The Mountain in the Sea
Humankind discovers intelligent life in an octopus species with its own language and culture, and sets off a high-stakes global competition to dominate the future.
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World of Wonders
A collection of short non-fiction essays about the natural world, including comb jellies, narwhals, whale sharks, octopuses, and ribbon eels.
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Life Between the Tides
A journey into the wonderment of a tidal inlet. Memoirist, historian, and nature writer Nicolson brings capacious erudition and acute sensitivity to his intimate investigation of the ebb, the flow, and the teeming variety of life in tidal pools. Like William Blake, who saw the world in a grain of sand, Nicolson sees the universe, and humans’ meaning within it, in that liminal, ever changing habitat. (Kirkus)
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The Mermaid of Black Conch
In this Costa Award–winning novel, the discovery of a mermaid makes waves on a fictional Caribbean island. (Kirkus)
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Post York
Set in New York City after the melting of the polar ice caps, an independent loner along with his cat and only friend, navigates the flooded city as he tries to live another day... But everything changes when he encounters both a mysterious woman and a trapped blue whale. Will they be each other's salvation . . . or destruction? (Publisher)
Format: Graphic Novel
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The Brilliant Abyss
An investigative foray into the world of deep-sea waters with a veteran marine biologist... [Scales] examines many of its miraculous denizens, such as the “bone-eating snot flower,” found off the coast of Sweden; the ultra-black fish; and gossamer worms, which “wriggle elegantly in tight pirouettes through the water.”... Scales offers crisp, engaging prose, linking everything together in an accessible, entertaining manner. (Kirkus, starred review)
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The Dolphin House
A woman navigates life in 1960s America, finding her way while interacting with dolphins in a scientific-research project. (Kirkus)
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The Deep
The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underwater society—and must reclaim the memories of their past to shape their future in this brilliantly imaginative novella inspired by the Hugo Award–nominated song “The Deep” from Daveed Diggs’s rap group, Clipping (Publisher)
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