The Dragonfly Door
The Dragonfly Door

Author: John Adams

Publisher: Feather Rock Books

Published: 2013-01-02

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9781934066164

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This award-winning children’s book explores the transformation of a water nymph into a beautiful dragonfly. Follow two insects, Lea and Nym, and the struggles Nym endures when her friend disappears from their underwater home. This tender story about loss and change was written to help parents explain their views about death with children. Children may identify with Nym, who grieves the loss of her friend, and find it easier to express their unique feelings about a death after hearing the story. Through a vision or dream, Nym learns that Lea has transformed into a beautiful dragonfly above the marsh. Someday, Nym will see her friend again in this new world. Beautifully illustrated by Barbara L. Gibson, the book is cherished by parents, grandparents and teachers. It is often used to help explain death to children or to engage children in an open dialogue about death. The hardcover edition has been adapted into several theatrical performances in various communities to help children cope with the death of their classmates. The book, which includes the real lifecycle of the dragonfly, may serve many purposes, such as comforting a grieving child or providing facts about dragonflies.

Onirica: The Dragonfly's Secret
Onirica: The Dragonfly's Secret

Author: Alberto Rueda

Publisher: Babelcube Inc.

Published: 2020-03-16

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1071538322

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Albiorix Corporation continues to expand its unstoppable monopoly around the world, creating new addicts to its dream capsules every day. Struggling against her dependency, Miles Cavanagh watches his wife disappear after contemplating his death in what should have been a peaceful lake experience. Investigating, the financial manager discovers that the Onirica Project is not limited only to entertainment, but also conceals much more pernicious purposes. At the same time, Miles meets the mysterious Alissa, a member of a resistance group against the Corporation, with whom he establishes an ambitious collaboration agreement. Will they be able to find out what is behind Elisabeth Warby's disappearance? Is it connected to the strange events that Miles faces in the woods? Is someone capable of stopping the Corporation's dark plans?

The Dragonfly Diaries : The Unlikely Story of Europe's First Dragonfly Sanctuary
The Dragonfly Diaries : The Unlikely Story of Europe's First Dragonfly Sanctuary

Author: Ruary Mackenzie Dodds

Publisher: Saraband

Published: 2022-01-01

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1915089042

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Britain is home to some forty species of dragonfly, and public interest in their plight is high right now thanks to their primeval beauty, aerobatic grace and a growing realisation of their importance for water eco-systems. In 'The Dragonfly Diaries', Ruary Mackenzie Dodds shares his quirky fascination for these remarkable creatures over the 25 years he has been photographing and working with them. Combining fascinating description of the lives of dragonflies, with a diary chronicling the ups and downs of establishing Britain's first public dragonfly sanctuary, 'The Dragonfly Diaries' is a must for nature buffs and for anyone who wants to be inspired by the resolve and dedication of a man on a mission to save these critically important insects.

Madeline and the Dragonfly
Madeline and the Dragonfly

Author: Charles Meyers

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2010-09-14

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 1453563571

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Many of us deal with the lost of a love one in many ways. It is even harder for a ten year old girl. This book deals with a young girl Madeline. Who lost her father in the war and unexpectedly lost her mother six months later. What better way to help her understand and deal with her lost. Then meeting a talking Dragonfl y at a creek that nestle on her Aunt Violet and Uncle Jack farm. With the help of this Dragonfl y Skip and few of his friends. Madeline fi nds out, how family, friends and love can overcome all fears in life. That death is not the end but the beginning of life itself. This inspirational story will give you that. But, most of all. It will show you. That unconditional love is the most powerful gift we can give to each other.

Behind the Open Door
Behind the Open Door

Author: Christopher M. Hull

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 1450275532

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From action and adventure to mystery and paranormal fantasy, this collection of seven short stories explores multiple science fiction worlds. "In the Mind of a Child," waitress and psychology student Melinda Rawley finds herself in a strange world after crashing her car on rain-slicked roads in Maine. Looking for away to return home, she finds a darkness that has come over the land. Can she defeat what she does not understand? The story "Dark Sphere" takes place 4,000 years after Earth was destroyed and just over 200 million people escaped. Time has not been kind. With little in the way of supplies remaining, Aaron, the scientist; Alice, the soldier; and Mark, the mechanic, search the galaxy for a new world. They make a discovery that may save their race-or end it. "Operation Miranda" dives deep into the heart of a secret underground laboratory known as Miranda. Mac, a Special Forces agent, and Simon, a computer tech, embark on mission to find out why all has gone silent within the secret lab. The stories in Behind the Open Door journey into many and varied realms, delving into the haunting reaches of the imagination.

The Dragonfly's Question
The Dragonfly's Question

Author: Darcy Hitchcock

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2009-03-06

Total Pages: 135

ISBN-13: 0557054095

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TO CREATE A POSITIVE AND SUSTAINABLE FUTURE, WE MUST FIRST ENVISION IT. This book is great way to teach sustainability concepts to employees and citizens. This novella and discussion guide covers a wide range of topics including distributed energy, smart growth, toxics, urban ag, local currencies, sustainable investing, homelessness, etc. This is wrapped in a sweet father-daughter story set 8 years in the future. Read it to understand how to shape our future or just read it for fun. Give it to your friends and family to help them understand where the world is headed. Also available as a Kindle book. *******

The Path of the Dragonfly
The Path of the Dragonfly

Author:

Publisher: Writers Exchange E-Publishing

Published: 2018-09-24

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 1925191672

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Shak is anything but a simple soldier with a clear-cut mission in life. He's consumed with the relentless need for revenge against a man who was once his best friend. But that obsession is far from his only. Shak can't forget he'd abandoned two helpless children during a battle. Though the deed that he can't forgive himself for happened in the past, far from changing, he can't get past it...until his grandmother, a witch, offers him the chance to redeem the dishonorable act. Those same children he'd left to their fate are in dire straits. To rescue them, he must travel to the mysterious and treacherous Crystal Valley and then find a way to get them back where they belong. Further complicating his life, the Crystal Valley holds a secret that threatens two armies, and Shak alone can save them. With an unequivocal mission staring him in the face, he discovers his enemy is close by--actually following him--and vengeance could at last be his. At a crossroads, he has no choice but to determine which task he'll undertake... and which to give up forevermore.

Ceres Storm
Ceres Storm

Author: David Herter

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2001-12-09

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780812571103

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The human race has settled the solar system and expanded out among the stars. In this bizarre, mysterious, and colorful future, the solar system-and indeed human civilization itself-were transformed by nanotech storms. At their height, they swept across the planetary surfaces changing everything in their path. Young Daric has been raised in an isolated enclave on Mars, the clone of a fearsome ruler from the distant past. His identity discovered, the boy is kidnapped and dragged to the quarantined Earth, in search of his progenitor's fabled technologies. Daric escapes and begins a quest across the solar system to discover his fate-which may be the reconquest of a fallen empire.

Allmen and the Dragonflies
Allmen and the Dragonflies

Author: Martin Suter

Publisher: New Vessel Press

Published: 2018-05-08

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1939931592

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“In the honorable vein of elegant, gentleman thieves, comes Allmen, the colorful protagonist of Suter’s beautifully observed, deliciously fun novel” (Noah Charney, author of The Museum of Lost Art). Johann Friedrich von Allmen, a bon vivant of dandified refinement, has exhausted his family fortune. Forced to downscale, Allmen inhabits the garden house of his former Zurich estate, attended by his Guatemalan butler, Carlos. When not reading novels by Balzac and Somerset Maugham, he plays jazz on a Bechstein baby grand. Allmen’s fortunes take a sharp turn when he meets Jojo, a stunning blonde whose lakeside villa contains five Art Nouveau bowls created by renowned French artist Émile Gallé and decorated with a dragonfly motif. Allmen, seeking to pay off mounting debts, absconds with the priceless bowls and embarks on a high-risk, potentially violent bid to cash them in. This is the first of a series of humorous, fast-paced detective novels devoted to a memorable gentleman thief who, with his trusted sidekick, Carlos, creates an investigative firm to recover missing precious objects. “A rollicking good time . . . Bestselling Swiss author Martin Suter may have a classic on his hands in this contemporary crime novel, the first of a series featuring the memorable character of Johann Friedrich von Allmen, gentleman thief.” —The Winnipeg Free Press “Suter combines sleight-of-hand suspense with stunning art and slightly worn Old World elegance to create a smartly entertaining read . . . A classy puzzler.” —Library Journal “The dark charms of Suter’s novel are irresistible from the first pages.” —Joshua Max Feldman, author of Start WithoutMe

King and the Dragonflies (Scholastic Gold)
King and the Dragonflies (Scholastic Gold)

Author: Kacen Callender

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2020-02-04

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 133812935X

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A 2021 Coretta Scott King Honor Book! Winner of the 2020 National Book Award for Young People's Literature! Winner of the 2020 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry! In a small but turbulent Louisiana town, one boy's grief takes him beyond the bayous of his backyard, to learn that there is no right way to be yourself. FOUR STARRED REVIEWS! Booklist School Library Journal Publishers Weekly The Horn Book Twelve-year-old Kingston James is sure his brother Khalid has turned into a dragonfly. When Khalid unexpectedly passed away, he shed what was his first skin for another to live down by the bayou in their small Louisiana town. Khalid still visits in dreams, and King must keep these secrets to himself as he watches grief transform his family. It would be easier if King could talk with his best friend, Sandy Sanders. But just days before he died, Khalid told King to end their friendship, after overhearing a secret about Sandy-that he thinks he might be gay. "You don't want anyone to think you're gay too, do you?" But when Sandy goes missing, sparking a town-wide search, and King finds his former best friend hiding in a tent in his backyard, he agrees to help Sandy escape from his abusive father, and the two begin an adventure as they build their own private paradise down by the bayou and among the dragonflies. As King's friendship with Sandy is reignited, he's forced to confront questions about himself and the reality of his brother's death. The Thing About Jellyfish meets The Stars Beneath Our Feet in this story about loss, grief, and finding the courage to discover one's identity, from the author of Hurricane Child.