The Butterfly King

"A combined history of the Hawaiian islands and the native Kamehameha butterfly up to and including current-day efforts of Hawaiʻi's Pulelehua Project, a group of professional and citizen scientists working to restore the butterfly's declining habitats and population. An Afterword with additional information, photographs, and source list is included"--

Once upon a time in a small rural town called Chagrin Falls lived a young Trans- African couple named Mike and Ashanti Ward. Mike was very tall and very darkskinned, a slim man with a deep voice.

DESCRIPTION: Adam is the director of a children's home in Timisoara, Romania, and he faces countless challenges for his children as well as his own. During the daily walk, in the park next to the office, he meets Victor, a butterfly king and they exchange impressions of the worlds in which they live. THE AUTHOR: Denis BUTA grew up for almost 20 years in orphanages in Romania in the 90's and overcame every social limitation imposed on children raised in orphanages at that time. He graduated from the Faculty of Law and a master's degree in Psychology and Sociology from the West University of Timișoara, Romania. He was the first director in Romania from the orphanage where he grew up, a position he held for almost 5 years. He lives with his wife, Diana, in Antwerp, Belgium.

The Butterfly King and Other Poems for Self Reflection rings clear with purpose - and is filled with poetry steeped in the act of self-reflection. Centered around the titular heroic epic poem, which is written entirely in rhyming couplets - the book is furthered broken down into several different sections, including nature and society, individual self-reflection, as well as love and sexuality. The poems within are designed to be poignant pauses in a chaotic world, a world often filled with fear, doubt, or injustice. This book should resonate with any who have taken the time to reflect on the world, either through lenses of light/dark, bad/good, or even self/other.

The King is allergic to fur and the Queen is allergic to feathers. What should be done for a pet in the palace?

As the discovery of a rare butterfly teaches the people of the kingdom of Mill to appreciate beauty, it also marks the start of a new age when every heart is filled with love.

An international bestseller this novel follows an unforgettable journey from the demure gentility of turn-of-the-twentieth-century England into the heart of darkness. In 1904, the young lepidopterist Thomas Edgar arrives home from a collecting expedition in the Amazon. His young wife Sophie is unprepared for his emaciated state and, even worse, his inability - or unwillingness - to speak. Sophie's genteel and demure life in Edwardian England contrasts starkly with the decadence of Brazil's rubber boom, as we are taken back to Thomas's arrival in the Amazon and his search for a mythical butterfly. Up the river, via the opulent city of Manaus - where the inhabitants feed their horses champagne and aspire to all things European - Thomas's extraordinary, and increasingly obsessed, journey carries him through the exotic and the erotic to some terrible truths. Back home, unable to break through Thomas's silence, Sophie is forced to take increasingly drastic measures to discover what has happened. But as she scavenges what she can from Thomas's diaries and boxes of exquisite butterflies, she learns as much about herself as about her husband.