In long-ago China, as a young princess prepares to leave her parents' kingdom to travel to far-off Khotan where she is to marry the king, she decides to surreptitiously take with her a precious reminder of home.

In this story of intrigue and romance; Portland detective, Kyle Morrell and a modern day samurai geisha, Aiko, take on the city's corrupt underworld. Aiko and Kyle's chance encounter occurs when the detective tries to save the geisha from her injuries during a shoot-out with Masato, Aiko's master. Together and separately, Aiko and Kyle must overcome personal demons as they make their way through the gauntlet of the Shanghai Tunnels and escape from...

An unusual princess and her amazing pet find themselves in the middle of a great mystery that turns out to be very tasty. With colorful illustrations and easy-to-read text, this book inspires young children to eat healthy vegetables. With amazing illustrations by Tamara Antonijevic, the author Roberto Piacentini Filho invites the reader to the fairy world of "Liechtenstein" to follow princess Kiara and her butterfly Quillis in a quest to decipher...

The Ferocious Night Wolf known in his other life as Reverend Jackson Addy was tamed by the Beautiful Red Butterfly who goes by the name, Miss Irene Hudson a very successful business woman. But very unfortunate for the Night Wolf his first sight and heartbeat of love was towards Irene Hudson whom was also living a double standard life and was a bitter Arch Rival of the Night Wolf in the world of Theft. A Story unravelling two people living in double...

On the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, to catch a pair of grimace butterflies, a pair of grey moths, a pair of white pink butterflies and a pair of red butterfly butterflies and wasps, poison bee, silkworm worms, poisonous snakes, centipedes and frog, and you ground them into powder. After three days, they are drenched with boiling water, and add some women's hair, fingernails, menstrual blood poisonous bacteria and mandragora...

On the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, to catch a pair of grimace butterflies, a pair of grey moths, a pair of white pink butterflies and a pair of red butterfly butterflies and wasps, poison bee, silkworm worms, poisonous snakes, centipedes and frog, and you ground them into powder. After three days, they are drenched with boiling water, and add some women's hair, fingernails, menstrual blood poisonous bacteria and mandragora...

On the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, to catch a pair of grimace butterflies, a pair of grey moths, a pair of white pink butterflies and a pair of red butterfly butterflies and wasps, poison bee, silkworm worms, poisonous snakes, centipedes and frog, and you ground them into powder. After three days, they are drenched with boiling water, and add some women's hair, fingernails, menstrual blood poisonous bacteria and mandragora...

"An explosive novel about the chaos of revolution, Glory centres around the unexpected fall of Old Horse, a long-serving leader of a fictional African country, and the drama that follows for an unruly nation of animals on the path to true liberation. Inspired by the unexpected fall by coup, in November 2017, of Robert Mugabe--Zimbabwe's president who took office in 1980 and...never left--Bulawayo's bold, vividly imagined novel shows a country imploding,...

"Colorful or dull. Wings up or wings down. Active at night or prefers daylight. Is it a butterfly or a moth? Look inside to learn how these beautiful insects are alike and how they differ."--

"This book shows the importance of bat houses, bird houses, and butterfly shelters and how building these simple structures can save the lives of endangered species. Readers will also explore the importance of butterfly gardens and how they provide food and shelter for some of Earth's most fragile and beautiful creatures"--