Fiction Books Collection November 29, 2025 EPUB

Mon May 11, 2026 2:50 am

Beasts of the Sea by Iida Turpeinen

General:

Name: Beasts of the Sea by Iida Turpeinen
Format: epub
Size: 4.44 MB

Book:

Title: A Merry Little Irish Christmas
Author: Caroline Grace-Cassidy
Language: English
Year: 2025
Subjects: Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Short Stories
Publisher: Bonnier Books UK
ISBN: 9781840226560
Total pages: 1312 str.

Description:

"Turpeinen matches the heights of Andrea Barrett" in this sweeping and intimate tale about a fateful encounter between man and nature spanning three centuries and linked by a long-extinct denizen of the northern oceans (Publishers Weekly starred review).

In 1741, thirty-two-year-old naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller joins Captain Bering's Great Northern Expedition to scout out a sea route from Asia to America. Plagued with hardships, captain and crew never reach their goal, but they do make a unique discovery, a gentle giant that will be named for the young explorer who described it: Steller's sea cow.

In 1859, the governor of the Russian territory of Alaska sends his men to recover the skeleton of the massive marine mammal rumored to have vanished a hundred years before. Two years later, a revered Helsinki professor hires a talented illustrator-a woman!-to make precise drawings of a set of bones sent...