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Language
English
Description
"Set on a secluded island off the British coast, The Women of Pearl Island is a moving and evocative story of family secrets, natural wonders and a mystery spanning decades. When Tartelin answers an ad for a personal assistant, she doesn't know what to expect from her new employer, Marianne, an eccentric elderly woman. Marianne lives on a remote island that her family has owned for generations, and for decades her only companions have been butterflies...
4) Dark storm
Author
Series
South Shores ; 6
Language
English
Description
"Forensic psychologist Claire Markwood has experienced her share of disaster. But nothing could prepare her for her sister, Darcy, going missing. Claire rushes to the butterfly sanctuary where Darcy has been working, prepared to do what she does best--work the clues. But her sister, along with her car and some of the sanctuary's rarest species of butterflies, has seemingly vanished without a trace. Amid a flurry of mysterious leads and dead ends,...
Author
Publisher
Alcove Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Greta Oto, an entomologist, prefers the company of bugs to humans, and people don't seem to like her much, with the exception of her twin brother, Danny, though they recently had a falling out. When she lands a research gig in the rainforest, she leaves them all behind. When Danny suffers an aneurysm, Greta abandons her research and hurries back to the Midwest to be there for him. Coming home means confronting what she left behind, including her...
13) Becoming Charley
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Unlike all the other caterpillars Charley sometimes wonders what it would be like to be a fawn or a waterfall, so when the day comes to form her chrysalis, Charley must decide who she will become.
15) Hi, butterfly!
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[1983]
Language
English
Description
A young boy chases an elusive butterfly through country fields,city streets, and, even, into his own house.
16) The butterfly
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1977]
Language
English
Description
Describes the fluttery path of an orange butterfly on a sunny summer day.
17) All pupa'ed out
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Squirt and Shimmer care for a pet caterpillar, and even though it requires a lot of work, the end result is worth it.
18) A mother's wish
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A young girl and her mother both make secret wishes on butterfly wings, and learn years later that the legend of the butterfly is real and that both of their wishes have come true.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books Ireland
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Horace Winter has lived an unexceptional life. Ever since that long-ago day, when the Very Bad Thing happened, he prefers to spend time with his butterfly and moth book instead of with other human beings. But when Horace retires from his job as assistant bank manager and, he struggles to adjust to a life without routine, he receives a devastating prognosis and is forced to confront the life he has (or hasn't) led. As he does, he meets Amanda. and...
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