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Fourteen-year-old Luce has had a tough life, but she reaches the depths of despair when she is assaulted and left on the cliffs outside a grim Alaskan fishing village. She expects to die when she tumbles into the icy waves below but instead undergoes an astonishing transformation: she becomes a mermaid. A tribe of mermaids finds Luce and welcomes her in. All of them, like her, are lost girls who surrendered their humanity in the darkest moments of their lives.

In this audiobook, 71+10 New Science Activities, the author has taken up the simple facts and principles of Science, such as: Air Force, Pressure, Weight, Emulsification, Osmosis, Gravity and Motion, Rotation, Types of Energy, Vibrations, Good and Bad Conductors of Electricity, Experiments with Magnets, Light and Sound for children, and presented them in a very simple and lucid language for the listeners – particularly the school kids who can easily perform these activities at home or school, of course with the help and able guidance of their parents, elders or teachers.

Dalla magica penna di Ursula K. Le Guin, la trilogia iniziata con «Gifts. Doni» continua con una storia di crescita e resistenza. Quando il popolo degli Ald conquistò la splendida città di Ansul, tutte le biblioteche vennero distrutte. La lettura e la scrittura furono vietate, punibili con la morte. Il Mastrodivia, ultimo custode della memoria collettiva, fu imprigionato e torturato per anni. Per la diciassettenne Memer, figlia delle violenze di quell'invasione, Ansul è casa e rifugio. Quando il narratore Orrec e sua moglie Gry giungono in città, le cose iniziano a cambiare.

Isis, the daughter of a charlatan psychic, can see ghosts - including that of her dead little sister, Angel. Gray is the son of a UFO-chasing conspiracy theorist. The two teenagers meet when their parents start dating. After a reluctant start, a friendship develops, and Isis confesses her secret ability to Gray. But when Isis' mum joins an elite psychic society run by charismatic Philip Syndal, Isis discovers there are sinister intentions beneath Philip's charm, and she and Gray find themselves in grave danger.

After parting ways with her troubled mermaid tribe, Luce just wants to live peacefully on her own. But her tranquility doesn’t last long: She receives news that the tribe is on the verge of collapse and desperately needs her leadership. The tribe’s cruel queen wants Luce dead. Dorian, the boy Luce broke mermaid law to save, is determined to make her pay for her part in the murder of his family. And while the mermaids cling to the idea that humans never suspect their existence, there are suddenly ominous signs to the contrary.

Acht Auserwählte. Eine magische Welt. Ein Schicksal. Durch mysteriöse Portale aus ihrem Zuhause gerissen, landen acht Jugendliche in einer anderen Welt. Gezeichnet vom Krieg und Zerstörung steht diese kurz vor dem Untergang. Als prophezeite Reisende müssen sie ihr auferlegtes Schicksal akzeptieren und den freien Völkern den lang vergessenen Frieden zurückbringen. Wird es ihnen gelingen, die Sehnsucht nach ihrer eigenen Heimat zu verdrängen, um die uralte Prophezeiung zu erfüllen?