Books with title The Butterfly's Daughter

Once there was a time when the people of the earth did not have to tend the fields, for the Sun's daughters—Maize, Pumpkin, and Red Bean—walked among them, leaving lush crops wherever they stepped. But then headstrong Maize disobeyed her mother and was trapped by cold, lonely Silver, and the Sun vowed not to touch the earth again until Maize was returned. How the tiny pewee bird saved Maize and kept the people from starving is eloquently told in this tale, which, though based on an Iroquois legend, parallels the Greek myth of Persephone and Demeter. The lovely, unusual images in the text are dramatically complemented by R. Gregory Christie's masterful paintings. Afterword.

The thrilling third novel from multiaward nominated author Adam Brookes is paranoid, tense spy fiction at its very finest.Meet Pearl Tao: an American girl with a lethal secret.Pearl longs for the life of a normal American teenager: summers at the pool, friends, backyard barbecues in the Washington DC suburbs. But she is different.Her gift for mathematics means overprotective parents and college sponsorship from a secretive technology corporation. And now, aged nineteen, she is beginning to understand what her parents intend for her. The terrifying role she is to play.Her only hope of escape lies with two sidelined and discredited spies: Trish Patterson and Philip Mangan. Finding out the truth about Pearl will be the biggest mission they'll ever undertake.

Abby is strong, independent, and up for a promotion. She is also the estranged daughter of an aging ceramic artist. Years have passed since Abby fled the home of her youth and a past she would rather forget. Now a call from a cousin and the ghost of a promise made to her dying mother have compelled a return to Willow Lake and her father. Abby loves her father, and he loves her, yet there is a long buried rift between the two, and they must together face the failures of their misspent relationship. With the help of new romance Mitch Carlson, Abby searches the past and herself to discover what she needs, to make herself whole. * * * * *

Ever 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.