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Buttercup the Bigfoot
by Douglas ReesA fiercely funny picture book from author Douglas Rees and illustrator Isabel Muñoz about the fantastic friendship between a little girl and a creature out of legend.When Willa Cathcart Wilmerding, the bravest girl in the world, is told she must stop her nightly tradition of howling at the moon, she decides to run away. High in the mountains, she meets Buttercup the Bigfoot, a friend unlike any other!Willa and Buttercup do everything together. They leap up and down the mountains, soar over mighty crevasses, and make each other crowns of flowers—but their favorite thing to do is climb a high peak and HOWL at the moon.This playful story of friendship, freedom, and ferocity will have picture book readers eager for a Bigfoot friend of their very own.
Butterfield 8
by John O'Hara Lorin SteinThe bestselling novel that became an Oscar-winning film starring Elizabeth Taylor about New York's speakeasy generation A masterpiece of American fiction and a bestseller upon its publication in 1935, BUtterfield 8 lays bare with brash honesty the unspoken and often shocking truths that lurked beneath the surface of a society still reeling from the effects of the Great Depression. One Sunday morning, Gloria wakes up in a stranger's apartment with nothing but a torn evening dress, stockings, and panties. When she steals a fur coat from the wardrobe to wear home, she unleashes a series of events that can only end in tragedy. Inspired by true events, this novel caused a sensation on its publication for its frank depiction of the relationship between a wild and beautiful young woman and a respectable, married man.
Butterflies Belong Here: A Story of One Idea, Thirty Kids, and a World of Butterflies
by Deborah HopkinsonButterflies Belong Here is a powerful story of everyday activism and hope.In this moving story of community conservation, a girl finds a home in a new place and a way to help other small travelers.This book is about the real change children can make in conservation and advocacy—in this case, focusing on beautiful monarch butterflies.• From Deborah Hopkinson and Meilo So, the acclaimed team behind Follow the Moon Home• An empowering, classroom-ready read• The protagonist is a girl whose family has recently immigrated to the United States.I know what to look for: large black-and-orange wings with a border of small white specks, flitting from flower to flower, sipping nectar. But though I looked hard, I couldn't find even one. I wondered if monarch butterflies belonged here. I wondered if I did, too.Butterflies Belong Here is proof that even the smallest of us are capable of amazing transformations.• Equal parts educational and heartwarming, this makes a great book for parents and grandparents, as well as librarians, science teachers, and educators.• Those interested in beautiful butterflies and everyday activism will find this lovely book both motivating and inspiring.• Perfect for children ages 5 to 8 years old• You'll love this book if you love books like Thank You, Earth: A Love Letter to Our Planet by April Pulley Sayre, The Honeybee by Kirsten Hall, and Greta and the Giants: Inspired by Greta Thunberg's Stand to Save the World by Zoë Tucker
Butterflies for Kiri
by Cathryn FalwellKiri, a Japanese American girl who loves to draw and paint, tries to use the origami set she received for her birthday. Includes instructions for making an origami butterfly.
Butterflies for Kiri
by Cathryn FalwellA Japanese American girl grows creatively and, with perseverance, masters the art of making an origami butterfly. Includes instructions.Kiri loves to make things. When she receives an origami set for her birthday, she can't wait to try making a butterfly, just like the one Auntie Lu had made. Kiri chooses a bright purple paper and carefully follows the steps, but the paper tears after just four folds. Her beautiful paper is ruined! Disappointed but not discouraged, Kiri continues to practice making origami butterflies. Then one beautiful spring day in the park Kiri is inspired to make a picture of what she sees, and her creative and colorful solution turns out to be more rewarding than she could have imagined. Butterflies for Kiri is a gentle testament to a child's determination and creativity, and like Kiri, children will be inspired to make their own origami butterflies. Easy-to-follow instructions are provided at the end of the story.
Butterflies in Bucaramanga
by Tanna Patterson-ZTanna Patterson-Z's fictionalized account of the 1998 kidnapping of Canadian diamond driller Edward Leonard by the leftist guerrilla forces of Colombia guides readers deep into the physical and political terrain of a beautiful but dangerous country that remains off-limits to the casual traveller. Butterflies in Bucaramanga is the story of a man caught in the collision between Western corporate imperatives and revolutionary politics – and whose unlikely obsession with the beautiful blue morpho butterfly proves the key to his survival, and his reunion with his family back home in British Columbia.
Butterflies in My Stomach (Fountas & Pinnell LLI Red #Level N)
by Kate McGovernAs an eight grader, Christine Kornacki performed the lead role in her the grade school stage production of Hamlet. Getting on stage in front of a crowd sounds scary. But sometimes facing your fears can change your life.
Butterflies in November (Books That Changed the World)
by Auður Ava ÓlafsdóttirA novel of love, friendship, and self-reinvention: &“I can&’t remember the last time I was so enchanted . . . zany, surprising, full of twists and turns&” (Ann Hood, author of The Knitting Circle and Something Blue). A translator of Icelandic, the unnamed young woman who narrates Butterflies in November is perhaps more at home in the world of language than the actual world. After a day of being dumped—twice—and accidentally killing a goose, she yearns to escape from the chaos of her life. Instead, her best friend&’s four-year-old deaf-mute son is unexpectedly left in her care. But when the boy chooses the winning numbers for a lottery ticket, the two set off from Reykjavik along Iceland&’s Ring Road on a journey of discovery. Along the way, they encounter black sand beaches, cucumber farms, lava fields, flocks of sheep, an Estonian choir, a falconer, a hitchhiker, and both of her exes desperate for another chance. What begins as a spontaneous adventure will unexpectedly and profoundly change the way she views her past and charts her future. Longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.</
The Butterflies of Grand Canyon
by Margaret ErhartSet against the backdrop of the brooding and sensual canyon, a young woman's heart awakens and a decades-old mystery is solved When Jane Merkle arrives in the tiny town of Flagstaff, Arizona, with her much older husband on a summer day in 1951, she hasn't any idea that her life is about to change forever. After all, one of Jane's favorite sayings is "When in Rome, remember that you're from St . Louis. " But over a summer spent with her sister-in-law, Dotty, and Dotty's lepidopterist husband, Oliver, in a village perched on the rim of the Grand Canyon, Jane discovers her latent ability with a butterfly net and her attraction to a handsome young ranger. Meanwhile, an unidentified skeleton is found on the premises of one of the village's most cantankerous citizens. With the help-and hindrance-of a colorful cast of historical characters, including an eccentric botanist who moonlights as an amateur sleuth, the murder mystery that has haunted the town for years is solved. In her latest novel, set in the quintessential landscape of the Southwest, Margaret Erhart weaves history, science, and an intimate knowledge of the human heart to tell a fast-paced tale. .
The Butterflies of Memory
by Ian WatsonIan Watson is one of the finest writers of SF and fantasy stories, and Butterflies of Memory is his 10th collection, a selection of stories that are by turns serious and playful, and always wildly imaginative... In the title story, what if mobile phones were to become truly mobile, flying about like butterflies? 'An Appeal to Adolf' tells of gay sailors on a Nazi battleship many kilometres long during a Second World War unfamiliar to us; 'Lover of Statues' of an enigmatic alien visiting the only statue of Satan in the world, in Madrid - while in the bubbling stew of faiths which is Jerusalem a doorway opens to reveal capricious godlike beings. And just suppose that Jules Verne undertook an actual journey to the centre of the Earth. Closer to home, in a Midlands town, a man who seems to have suddenly popped into existence tries to discover who and what he is. 'Hijack Holiday', written a year before 9/11, presciently if bizarrely anticipates events akin to those on that fateful day.
The Butterflies of Memory
by Ian WatsonIan Watson is one of the finest writers of SF and fantasy stories, and Butterflies of Memory is his 10th collection, a selection of stories that are by turns serious and playful, and always wildly imaginative... In the title story, what if mobile phones were to become truly mobile, flying about like butterflies? 'An Appeal to Adolf' tells of gay sailors on a Nazi battleship many kilometres long during a Second World War unfamiliar to us; 'Lover of Statues' of an enigmatic alien visiting the only statue of Satan in the world, in Madrid - while in the bubbling stew of faiths which is Jerusalem a doorway opens to reveal capricious godlike beings. And just suppose that Jules Verne undertook an actual journey to the centre of the Earth. Closer to home, in a Midlands town, a man who seems to have suddenly popped into existence tries to discover who and what he is. 'Hijack Holiday', written a year before 9/11, presciently if bizarrely anticipates events akin to those on that fateful day.
Butterfly
by Rochelle AlersBeauty has a price…From her first high-heeled step onto a Paris runway, supermodel Seneca Houston has been a sensation. Ever since, she's been surrounded by couture clothes, glittering celebrities—and the constant glare of the paparazzi. She's become muse to designer Luis Navarro, who christens her Butterfly. Now, at thirty-three, Seneca wants the only thing that seems out of reach—a husband, children and a normal life.When her agent offers his secluded villa as a hideaway, Seneca finds both tranquillity and Dr. Eliot Rollins, a renowned plastic surgeon who is quickly captivated by the intelligent woman behind the breathtaking face. But when Seneca decides to retire from modeling, there are repercussions she never expected. Some people want Butterfly to stay trapped in the spotlight, even if it destroys her. Surrounded by tabloid scandal, grasping relatives and friends with hidden agendas, Seneca wonders if anything can be trusted—even her own heart….
Butterfly (Orphans #1)
by V.C. AndrewsAll she wanted was to be someone's little girl...Fate made her a lonely orphan, yearning for the embrace of a real family and a loving home. But a golden chance at a new life may not be enough to escape the dark secrets of her past...
Butterfly
by Ashley AntoinetteButterfly is the first novel in an all new series by New York Times bestselling author Ashley Antoinette!“Run away from the boy that gives you butterflies, he's going to break your heart.” Morgan Atkins had been told that phrase ever since she was a little girl and still she allowed herself to fall for the boy that made her heart flutter. After losing her first love, Morgan is terrified to love again. She's settled for a comfortable life with a respectable man. She has everything. She's living in the lap of luxury and although she's comfortable, she's bored out of her mind. When a ghost from her past blows into town, she finds herself entangled in an illicit affair. It's wrong, but she can't fight the butterflies he gives her and honestly, she doesn't want to. She can't hide the natural attraction she feels and soon, she's so deep involved that she can no longer tell where the boundary between right and wrong lies. Her heart is telling her one thing, but her head is saying another. Morgan Atkins has always been a spoiled girl and she tries to have it all, but when she's forced to choose between a good man and a bad boy, someone will end up hurt. Someone just may end up dead. Morgan Atkins has been through more tragedy than one girl can bear. Will she weather this storm? Or will the ultimate heartbreak ruin her for good?
Butterfly
by Marguerite Bennett Arash Amel Antonio Fuso Stephano SimeoneButterfly is one of Project Delta's deep cover agents, no birth certificate, no social security number, a complete ghost. When her cover is blown and she is set up for a murder she did not commit, she is unknowingly led to her father’s doorstep, a man she thought died 20 years ago. Codenamed Nightingale, her father was once a member of the very same Project Delta, a spy in the violent aftermath of the Cold War, and believes they are behind her set-up. Trained to trust nothing and no one, Butterfly must decide whether to seek answers with the Project, or believe the man who betrayed her years ago.
The Butterfly
by Ray FullerThe wild wood can be beautiful in the dappled light of a summer’s day. But it can also be a very scary place especially when there may be goblins about, up to no good! What lies in wait for a weak and fragile butterfly, just on the point of emerging from her winter home? Her destiny is to seek a mate. But for this she must learn to fly and then take off into the unknown. Danger may be hidden in the shadows. Or it may come from the air, or from on the ground, or from behind any tree. So it’s no surprise she insists on remaining in her winter home! Can the sun help her overcome her fear? Can she gain the strength to take off and fly? And what strange and terrifying experiences may lie in wait for her? On her journey she makes friends with the sun and the flowers and a bee called Alf. But can they save her? And will she ever find her mate?
Butterfly
by Kathryn HarveyBOOK ONE OF THE BUTTERFLY TRILOGY From New York Times bestselling author Kathryn Harvey comes an arousing, passionate story of three women's hidden desires and the place called Butterfly, where dreams are kept and where fantasies come to life. Above an exclusive men's store on Rodeo Drive there is a private club called Butterfly, where women are free to act out their secret erotic fantasies. Only the most beautiful and powerful women in Beverly Hills are invited to join: Jessica, a lawyer who longs for the days when men were men, and women dressed to please them; Trudie, a builder who wants a man who will challenge her--all of her--with no holds barred; and Linda, a surgeon, who uses masks to unmask the desires she hides even from herself. But the most mysterious of them all is the woman who created Butterfly. She has changed her name, her accent, even her face to hide her true identity. And now she is about to reveal everything to realize the dream that has driven her since childhood--the secret obsession that will carry her beyond ecstasy, or destroy her and everyone around her.
Butterfly (Butterfly #Volumen 1)
by Kathryn HarveyUna historia de venganza dura y conmovedora. Primera entrega de la trilogía Butterfly. En Rodeo Drive, sobre una tienda de ropa masculina muy exclusiva, existe un club privado donde las mujeres más bellas y ricas de Los Ángeles pueden ver realizadas sus fantasías eróticas. Por ejemplo, Jessica, una abogada que suspira por aquellos días en que los hombres eran hombres y las mujeres se vestían para complacerlos; Trudie, una constructora que necesita un hombre que la rete sin poner límites; Linda, una cirujana que usa máscaras para desvelar deseos que oculta incluso a sí misma. O la más misteriosa de todas ellas: la fundadora del club, capaz de cambiar su nombre, su acento y su cara para ocultar su identidad, y que en este momento está a punto de descubrirse para hacer realidad el sueño que ha guiado sus pasos desde la infancia, esa obsesión secretaque la llevará más allá del éxtasis, o a la destrucción...
Butterfly
by Ute Hütten Julie OyangVor der Kulisse des Zweiten Weltkriegs und des Kriegs zwischen China und Japan (1931-1945) handelt die Geschichte von der fatalen Liebe zwischen einer verheirateten chinesischen Frau und einem jungen japanischen Soldaten. Die fantastische Erzählung ist jedoch nicht so simpel, wie die Beschreibung ihres Inhalts suggeriert. In den 1940er Jahren, an einem Sommertag, an dem gewundenen Ufer des magischen, ewigen Janktsekiang-Flusses, trifft eine Frau einen jungen Fremdling, in den sie sich verliebt. Aber er kann sie nicht lieben, und sie könnte ihn nicht lieben wenn sie wüsste, warum er in ganz China nach ihr gesucht hat, um ihr ein dunkles Geheimnis zu erzählen ... Butterfly ist eine eindringliche Liebesgeschichte, Romeo und Julia des Orients. Das moderne Märchen erforscht Leidenschaft jenseits aller Verbote und Liebe, die bis an ihre Grenzen belastet wird, um schließlich sogar den Tod zu besiegen. Vor dem Hintergrund heikler historischer und sozialer Themen, wie dem Nanking-Massaker, wird die Frage gestellt, was ist Liebe? Wo findet man Erlösung inmitten all der Herzlosigkeit der Menschheit? Sind wir fähig, zu lieben, etwas, das man häufig als selbstverständlich hinnimmt? Vielleicht ist die Liebe weder einfach noch immer angenehm, und statt dessen sogar unmenschlich. Am Ende müssen die Helden eine Metamorphose durchmachen, um am Ufer des Jangtsekiang wiedervereinigt zu werden, an dem sie sich sieben Jahrzehnte zuvor zum ersten Mal getroffen hatten. Hier ein Fragment: "Die Tokioter halten den Aoyama-Friedhof aus der Meiji-Ära für den schönsten Ort der Hauptstadt. Während der Tagesstunden verschafft ein Hauch der Räucherstäbchen an den Gräbern entlang der kolossalen Glasgebäuden an der Straße ein mildes, undurchdringliches Aussehen und vermischt sich harmonisch mit dem schwachen Duft von Blumen und den unterschwelligen Aromen frischen Gebäcks. Die Besucher des Friedhofs sahen einen alten Mann mit gemessenem Schritt und unauffälliger Erscheinung i
The Butterfly
by Patricia PolaccoEver since the Nazis marched into Monique's small French village, terrorizing it, nothing surprises her, until the night Monique encounters the little ghost sitting at the end of her bed. She turns out to be a girl named Sevrine, who has been hiding from the Nazis in Monique?s basement. Playing after dark, the two become friends, until, in a terrifying moment, they are discovered, sending both of their families into a nighttime flight.
Butterfly
by Sharon SalaThe Victim: Chaz Finelli, the celebrity photographer who snaps the juiciest photo of his career - only to be brutally murdered for the secrets his camera could expose. The Witness: China Brown, a young woman whose luck had run out long before she found herself in the wrong place at the wrong time...long before she was shot in cold blood after witnessing a murder. The Cop: Ben English, a tough-as-nails cop who's got a bizarre case on his hands - and a star witness who is making this case very personal. China Brown is alive, but barely. She doesn't want to live. She's lost the only thing that ever mattered: her unborn baby. Drawn to this lovely, fragile woman, Ben English must convince her to help him find a murderer in a scandalous case where the suspects reach into the upper echelons of Dallas society, politics and the media. And as a killer closes in, she must place her trust in one man, because her life - and her heart - depend on it.
Butterfly (Wheeler Softcover Ser.)
by Sharon SalaA woman in the wrong place at the wrong time must rely on a tough-as-nails cop in this romantic thriller from the New York Times–bestselling author. Pregnant and homeless, China Brown isn&’t a threat to anyone. But when she accidentally witnesses a murder, the killer attempts to silence her too. Although China survives, she loses the baby who meant more to her than her own life. Distraught and alone, she finds herself turning to an unlikely source of comfort. Hard-bitten Det. Ben English is on the case, and he thinks the victim—a celebrity photographer—was killed for the scandals his camera could expose. But there&’s something even more intriguing to Ben than the secrets at the heart of the crime: the star witness. Undeniably drawn to China, Ben vows to keep her safe. But as they grow closer to each other, they also grow closer to the killer. &“In a truly riveting story, Ms. Sala draws you in from the very beginning. She delivers main characters who will touch your hearts and quirky secondary characters who will intrigue you as you try to figure out whodunit.&” —RT Book Reviews
Butterfly: A Novel
by Sylvester StephensA young girl fights to overcome her past after escaping rape, bullying, and homelessness. Shante Clemmons (Butterfly) is a mature-looking, fifteen-year-old foster home reject, who is tossed into the street in the middle of the night after being falsely accused of sleeping with her foster care father. She falls asleep behind a well-lit club only to be awakened by a huge intimidating man who offers her a job as a dancer. Butterfly becomes the most popular dancer in the club until she decides that she is ready to focus on her education. The upset owner of the club demands she make due on an old debt or suffer the consequences. It ends in a physical altercation, and Butterfly flees for her life. As fate would have it, she ends up in the care of her estranged father's ex-prison cellmate, Dr. Johnny Forrester, who takes Butterfly under his roof to fulfill a promise he made to her father. With much dismay, Butterfly moves into the Forresters' home. Despite her many obstacles, she is determined to survive her senior year of high school and then go to college...but will she?