Books with title Butterflies of the sea

It is November 25, 1960, and the bodies of three beautiful, convent-educated sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. El Caribe, the official newspaper, reports their deaths as an accident. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Raphael Leonidas Trujillo's dictatorship. It doesn't have to. Everyone knows of Las Mariposas - "The Butterflies." Now, three decades later, Julia Alvarez, also a daughter of the Dominican Republic and long haunted by these sisters, immerses us in a tangled and dangerous moment in Hispanic Caribbean history to tell their story in the only way it can truly be understood - through fiction. In this brilliantly characterized novel, the voices of all four sisters - Minerva, Patria, Maria Teresa, and Dede - speak across the decades, to tell their own stories - from hair ribbons to gunrunning to prison torture - and to describe the everyday horrors of life under Trujillo's rule. The Butterflies were extraordinary women. Minerva, once the object of the dictator's desire, had dared to publicly slap his face. Devout Patria found her calling to the uprising through the church. Alluring - and vain - Maria Teresa joined in pursuit of romance. Only Dede, the practical one, the most diligent in her duty to family and tradition, kept apart. And only she survived to see that their names were remembered. Now, through the art and magic of Julia Alvarez's imagination, the martyred Butterflies live again. And Dede joins them as a heroine of equal courage.

Maybe it's because his mother was a teacher. Or maybe it's because he has spent most of his life in classrooms as a wide-eyed first grader, as a college student, a seminarian, and now as a visiting writer in residencies across the country. But there's something about school that infuses the work of Donald Davis. Collected here are his all-time favorite school stories. Whether we're traveling around the world with Miss Daisy, the fourth grade teacher who was integrating arithmetic, geography, and English before the term “whole language” ever surfaced; watching in awe as a classmate conjugates verbs in Miss Vergilius Darwin's Latin class; or driving a school bus and learning about segregation - Davis shares his characteristic wit, thoughtfulness and wisdom.

There comes an exciting time in everyone's young life when their world suddenly opens up before them, and the discoveries begin. Join Federico, the content little caterpillar, as he is witness to his own transformation and to a new outlook on his world and its inhabitants. His joy and delight are contagious as he takes in the beauty that, with the right eyes, can be found anywhere we look.The story is filled with amazingly colorful illustrations.Is is an easy book to read and to be recommended for children of 2 to 5 years." dazzling use of color", Agora Gallery, New York about Martins artMartin Musselmann was born in Germany in 1967. Martin has been captivated from his early years by nature. Having grown up in Peru its nature would influence him for the rest of his life. After becoming an civil engineer and a painter his spirit of traveling and his art took him to many countries such as United States, Sweden, Canary Islands, Argentina, Brazil, Myanmar, Egypt, Morocco, etc. He supports conservation projects in the Peruvian Amazon.

Set during World War One, Breaking of the Butterflies is the story of Captain Dillon Reed, who joins the fledgling Military Foot Police of the British Army aftera successful career as a Detective in the Metropolitan Police. Dillon is asked to investigate the death of a potential Victoria Cross winner, Private Skelton, it is in the early stages of the investigation that he is confronted with the murder of the Brigadier who ordered the original investigation. As the death of the Brigadier occurs in French Municipal Territory, Dillon is obliged to engage the services of an Inspector of the Police Nationale of the French Interior Ministry, one Guy Audedert.After a tense beginning to the relationship where egos and national prejudices clash, an uneasy truce is reached as they begin working together to uncover why the two men were murdered. Their investigation brings them into conflict not only on the battlefield but also in the slums of Paris and the streets of London. Dillon Reed is led through the terror of the trenches where the first clues as to why Private Skelton was killed emerge. Establishing links to the perpetrators proves difficult as they are adept at dispensing with potential witnesses before Dillon can get to them, until all the pieces of the jigsaw come together after an incident at the Opera in London when he is home on leave. Dillon reluctantly returns to the front to continue his work of enforcing the Army's rules of engagement thinking that he has uncovered the truth only to find there is yet another level of culpability which he has overlooked. The final showdown on a cold October morning in No Mans Land exposes just howfar up the echelons of command the conspiracy extends…

BOOK 3 - Jump on your magic carpet and join Sara and Smiley as they fly with the butterflies in a brain-boosting adventure for your child! Shhhh… This whimsical adventure is actually a cleverly disguised right-brain photographic memory/speed reading lesson! This story playfully prepares the right and left hemisphere for learning. It includes all 7 steps of our Wink: Right Brain Education program:• Step 1: Alpha Wave Relaxation• Step 2: Eye Exercises• Step 3: PhotoEyeplay• Step 4: Mental Imaging• Step 5: Observation Training• Step 6: Memory Linking• Step 7: Photographic Memory and Speed ReadingRead aloud to a classroom of students or one-on-one with your child.

Agnes and Honey have always been best friends, but they haven’t always been so different. Agnes loves being a Believer. She knows the rules at the Mount Blessing religious commune are there to make her a better person. Honey hates Mount Blessing and the control Emmanuel, their leader, has over her life. The only bright spot is the butterfly garden she’s helping to build, and the journal of butterflies that she keeps. When Agnes’s grandmother makes an unexpected visit to the commune, she discovers a violent secret that the Believers are desperate to keep quiet. And when Agnes’s little brother is seriously injured and Emmanuel refuses to send him to a hospital, Nana Pete takes the three children and escapes the commune. Their journey begins an exploration of faith, friendship, religion and family for the two girls, as Agnes clings to her familiar faith while Honey desperately wants a new future.

Agnes and Honey have been best friends for as long as they can remember. But everything is about to change, from their friendship to the only home they’ve ever known: a religious commune called Mount Blessing. Agnes loves being a believer and following the rules of the commune, but Honey has started to rebel. Then, when Agnes and Honey experience the outside world (on the run, no less), their friendship is tested further. After all, when everything you’ve ever known turns out to be a lie, how do you find the truth? A powerful story of faith, doubt, abuse, and above all, friendship.