This book is for the amateur astronomer who wants to know about the astrophysical nature of deep sky objects. The information is presented in a concise format and is equally valuable when used as background reading or, alternatively, at the telescope eyepiece. Β The past decades have seen an unprece
The Moorings of Mackerel Sky
β Scribed by MZ
- Book ID
- 112401686
- Publisher
- Hyperion Avenue
- Year
- 2024
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 3 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781368097444
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Debut novelist MZ marries fantasy with the everyday in her contemporary novel of a Maine lobstering town whose local myths come to life.
"Arresting, lyrical, and deeply emotional, MZ's debut will captivate readers of Alix E. Harrow's The Ten Thousand Doors of January (2019)."
βBooklist (Starred review)
"An enchanting tale of grief and hope... as powerful and sparkling as the sea."**
βEmily Jane, bestselling author of On Earth as it Is on Television**
They say Mackerel Sky was founded when Captain Burrbank first saw NimuΓ« the Mermaid and forgot the sea. Stricken by love, he moored his tall ship and made camp on the highest cliff, hoping to forever gaze upon her beauty. That camp became a settlement, the settlement a town, the town a community both blessed and cursed by their tempestuous affair.
Three hundred years later, the legend of the Mermaid and the Captain who loved her still invigorates and...
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