Albertosaurus This carnivorous dinosaur was a close relative of T. Rex. Alectrosaurus Few specimens of this unmarried lizard have been found. Aletopelta The first ankylosaur known to have lived in Mexico. Alioramus All we know about this tyrannosaur is based on a single skull.
Praise for The Mermaid Chair âBook clubs, start your engines. Sue Monk Kiddâs ï¬rst novel, The Secret Life of Bees, has sold three million copies since 2002. . . . Those are big shoes to ï¬ll, but Kidd acquits herself admirably with . The Mermaid Chair. . . . Both novels drip with vivid images of hot Southern afternoons, droning insects, swooping birds and
The myth of Pania of the Reef, a well known tale of MÄori mythology, has many parallels with stories of sea-people in other parts of the world. According to Dorothy Dinnerstein's book The Mermaid and the Minotaur, human-animal hybrids such as mermaids and minotaurs convey the emergent understanding of the ancients that human beings were both one with and different from animals: