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"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...
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"Barbie stars as the beautiful butterfly fairy Mariposa...always daydreaming and studying the stars, Mariposa feels like she doesn't fit in with the other fairies of Flutterfield. But when the queen is poisoned, Mariposa must use her special knowledge to decode the celestial map and find the cure--before it's too late!"--Cover back.
4) Dark storm
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South Shores volume 6
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"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,...
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Merriweather and Royston mystery volume 1
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Miss Merula Merriweather is not like other women her age: instead of hunting for a husband at balls and soirees she spends her time in a conservatory hatching exotic creatures. As the Royal Zoological Society won't accept a woman's accomplishments, she has her uncle Rupert take credit for her achievements. But at a zoological lecture, the guest of honor dies after contact with one of Merula's butterflies, and Merula's uncle is arrested for murder....
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"Is there such a thing as an anti-social butterfly? If there were, Greta Oto would know about it -- and totally relate. An entomologist, Greta far prefers the company of bugs to humans, and that's okay, because people don't seem to like her all that much anyway -- with the exception of her twin brother, Danny, though they've recently had a falling out. So when she lands a research gig in the rainforest, she leaves it all behind. But when Greta learns...
8) Clyde
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"When Clyde the bear decides to ditch his safe and peaceful life in Cubville and head off for the mean streets of Grizzly City, he learns--with the help of a reformed juvenile delinquent butterfly--that the Bad Life isn't always so great, and there's something to be said for helping your friends and family even though that really does kind of stink a little"--Page 4 of cover.
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Widowed architect Hugo Grey is stunned. His late great-aunt has bequeathed her house to Alice Walters--a complete stranger!--with the stipulation that Alice must recruit Hugo's services to help convert the house into a butterfly center. Clearly his great-aunt knew something he doesn't, because he and Alice clash over everything, which makes his attraction to the captivatingly feisty and beguiling butterfly expert even harder to ignore...
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Upon the death of her beloved Tio Urbano, who has taught her that monarch butterflies are the souls of the dead, young Lupita gains a deeper understanding of Dia de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead, as it is observed in rural Mexico. Includes glossary of Spanish terms and facts about the Day of the Dead.
19) Butterfly boy
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A boy and his grandfather joyfully watch a gathering of butterflies in this story set in Mexico.